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Chapter 2364

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Spider-Man stood on a desolate land.

As far as the eye could see, it was all scorched earth. The city only had broken walls and ruins. Countless smoke and dust drifted over from behind the hills. Flags of various colors were scattered all over the ground, no longer as bright as in the past.

Spider-Man walked down the hill slowly and found two corpses near a cave. They were wearing armor with exquisite carvings, but they had been dead for a long time. The corpses were not rotten, just lifeless.

Spider-Man took off their armor and found that one of them died from a sword through the chest, and the other had his abdominal cavity cut open. But one common point was that the wounds on the corpses were not fatal. What was truly fatal was the powerful power that was still flowing in their bodies and had not dissipated.

It was a kind of power that Spider-Man didn't often come into contact with, but knew something about—divine power.

Having been here for two days, Spider-Man hadn't found any complete cities or buildings on this land, only corpses, corpses, and more corpses. They all died from various wounds, and their surroundings were full of traces of combat.

Having walked for two days without walking out of the battlefield, Spider-Man understood that this universe was even more special and dangerous than he imagined. No wonder that mysterious existence in the fog sent him here.

Humans often had wars. Spider-Man understood this better than anyone else. People survived in struggles, but in fact, humans cooperated more often. They relied on cooperation to live until now.

But this universe obviously only had wars left. Without external interference, no normal human society could develop into this state. There must be another culprit behind the endless wars.

The appearance of divine power wouldn't be a coincidence. Spider-Man understood that two days and two nights of walking brought him closer to the center of this battlefield. At the beginning, those who died on the periphery were ordinary soldiers, who died of wound infection and turned into white bones normally.

But now two corpses that didn't match appeared in front of him, with traces of divine power remaining on their bodies. And judging from the patterns on the armor, they should come from the same god system.

"Stop! Who are you?!"

The panicked shout came from behind Spider-Man. He turned his head and saw a warrior holding a spear, panicked. His arm was injured and had been bleeding, and divine power that couldn't be dispelled was also entangled in the wound.

Spider-Man immediately raised his hands to indicate that he had no malice and said: "Sorry, I just came here and don't know what's going on. Can you tell me?"

Hearing him speak English, the warrior was stunned for a moment, and said somewhat trance-like: "You are human? You wouldn't be from the Twilight Plains, would you? That subordinate of the pointed ears?"

Spider-Man keenly captured the keyword. He looked at the warrior, but his gaze fell on the wound on his arm. He said: "You are injured? Let me bandage it for you first."

The warrior was stunned again. He turned to look at his arm and then said: "No, I don't need bandaging. This little injury will be fine soon. I'm looking for my companions. They were scouting over here, but didn't reply to the message as promised. Did you see them?"

What exceeded Spider-Man's expectation was that this warrior was exceptionally friendly. Theoretically, people wouldn't trust others so easily on the battlefield, but it seemed that this warrior had no defense against Spider-Man because he thought he was Batman's subordinate?

"I saw two corpses." Spider-Man's head tilted to the side and said: "Just at the foot of the hill over there. You can go and see if they are your companions."

The warrior ran away immediately, but soon came back somewhat frustrated. He said: "Yes, they are both dead. May the Sea God bless them, they will eventually return to the embrace of the sea."

"Are you a god race?"

"Of course." The warrior nodded and said: "This place was originally a battlefield for the god race. You shouldn't have come here. But since you are already here, hurry back to your boss. Ares is looking for you guys all over the world."

At this time, Spider-Man walked towards the warrior. Although there was no stress reaction for the time being, he still took two steps back cautiously. Spider-Man said: "I have a way to treat your wound. Come here."

The warrior hesitated a bit. He looked at Spider-Man and said: "Your human medicine is useless to me, and this is divine power left by those lunatics under Ares. Even the Moon God is hard to dispel it. You'd better..."

Spider-Man stretched out his hand towards the warrior. A thick fog surrounded his arm. When his hand touched the arm armor covered with blood, the blood stopped flowing, and the wound healed.

The warrior looked at his arm in shock, but he still took a few steps back, looked at Spider-Man and said: "You are not human. Who are you? Who is your main god?"

"He... it's hard for me to say, and I'm not even sure if he is a god. But anyway, can you tell me about the current situation? Even if it's for the sake of me helping you treat it."

"If you want to scout for information, you've found the wrong person." The warrior spread his hands and said: "The Sea God was only pulled here. We are not good at fighting on land, and we can't even adapt to our legs well."

The warrior pushed open his faceplate. Only then did Spider-Man see that there were scales on his cheeks and ears, and his eyes were deep blue flashing with waves.

"I don't know when the war started. Anyway, I've been fighting since I was born." The two sat on a dirt pile nearby, and the warrior said: "The ocean is fighting inside, and it's fighting outside. Your human countries are fighting, and the god kingdoms are fighting."

"But not long ago, Ares launched a war against the human countries. Humans of course wouldn't sit still and wait for death. They have been resisting, among which that guy called Batman is exceptionally strong. Even the Sea God said he is the most powerful warrior on land."

"However... you also know, heroes have a hard time passing the beauty pass. I heard that Batman participated in this war for Diana. You should know Diana, right? That princess of the Amazons. She is a demigod. I heard she is quite beautiful."

"Ares found that the resistance he encountered was a bit too strong, so he started to pull in other gods. And because wars were breaking out everywhere, the god position of the God of War was war, and other gods relied on Ares, so they had to participate in the war."

"However, most of them are not very willing to deal with Batman. Just like my main god basically sends a few people out to scout every day and that's it. Ares has urged a few times, but they are all relatives, so it's hard to persuade them."

"About two years ago, Ares was blocked in the Twilight Plains by Batman and Diana together. Of course, it can't be entirely their credit. Some strange, powerful guys among humans also participated."

"In short, Ares suffered a loss. He was trapped there for a long time. I heard that he recently found a way to break through..."

"What way?"

"How would I know? I'm just a scout. But I think he must have found a way, otherwise he wouldn't have suddenly proposed a battle after being deadlocked for so long."

"Battle? Battle who? Batman?"

"Yes, the location is in the Twilight Plains. I heard that several main gods are rushing there. Maybe they want to take advantage. After all, they don't think highly of Ares. In case Batman kills Ares, they can go and pick up his artifacts."

"When did they agree to fight?"

"Uh, probably two or three days ago. The date here is not very clear, but I feel it's been a while."

Spider-Man stood up immediately and said: "Better find a safe place to stay. I suspect it won't be safe anywhere here soon."

After saying goodbye to the warrior, Spider-Man ran towards the direction he pointed, but didn't forget to pass through the thick fog to the huge black sun first, asking him to lend more power to himself.

Although he hadn't come into contact with Batman much, Spider-Man had heard a lot about Batman's great name. Besides seeing other Spider-Men discussing it on the Spider APP, he had also asked the black sun for information on various Batmen.

To sum it up in one sentence, if Batman is even a little bit human, he wouldn't look so unlike a human at all.

The severe situation finally made Spider-Man understand why the black sun sent him here.

After the old Earth of the Marvel main universe and the Earth-1 of the DC universe merged, the main universe Amazing Spider-Man who moved with the old Earth 616 almost never went back.

It wasn't that he didn't want to go back, mainly because he hadn't been idle at all since he was fished back by that black sun. He ran errands in this universe for a while, and sent letters in that universe for a while. This was all fine, after all, he could return to the Fog Realm at any time and wouldn't be in any danger.

But this was the first time he saw a god who pressed his believer's head to make him study, and wouldn't let him leave until he finished learning. After several months of memorizing, Spider-Man felt that he was probably the Spider-Man most proficient in occultism among all universes.

This was also why he could identify the divine power in their bodies the first time he found those two corpses. Although he was evaluated as not very talented, he still learned the method of simply manipulating the fog.

Covering the fog on his eyes allowed him to see the flow of energy. Judging the nature of the energy based on the ripples of the flow, as for dispelling, there was no need to dispel at all. This kind of fog basically ate all kinds of energy. It didn't refuse anyone. It only needed the fog to come into contact with the energy, whether it was divine power or any other power, it would disappear directly.

So Spider-Man's recent life was either running errands or self-studying in the Fog Realm. Occasionally returning to Earth was just to take a look from afar to ensure that the order in New York was as usual.

However, two and a half days ago, Spider-Man received a huge knowledge package sent by the black sun, which could be called the largest he had ever received. It described in detail the knowledge about the god races of various universes.

Spider-Man knew that this must be a big job, but he didn't expect this job to be so big. He actually came directly to a universe where Batman led humans to fight against the god race.

Where should he start saving? Spider-Man thought while having a headache. He didn't even care whether the black sun asked him to save it or not.

In fact, he had long discovered that this god he served, let's call him a god for now because there was no better term to refer to him, didn't seem to have any clear purpose in what he did.

He didn't necessarily have to do anything when he asked Peter to go somewhere. Peter could just find a hotel and sleep until dawn. Sending something, the things sent also seemed to have nothing to do with this matter. It didn't matter if it was robbed or lost halfway, and it didn't even matter if Peter didn't go to send it. It seemed that the other party was only interested in sending him.

So Peter developed a habit. He went wherever the black sun asked him to go, and everything else was according to his own ideas. So far, this mysterious god hadn't expressed any opinion, neither affirming nor opposing.

Peter had a strange feeling, as if the black sun was also very interested in what he would do. He didn't care whether things were good or bad, only whether it was interesting.

Peter looked into the distance and shook his head at the devastated scene. He knew he had to stop this war, because no matter what, blood and death shouldn't be the main theme of any universe.

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