Chapter 2398: The Battle of the Bats (Part 17)

"... That's how it is." Lord-Trauma sighed, "He disappeared long ago. The guy outside calling himself David isn't David himself, just the largest piece of David."

"Sounds a bit creepy." Barry shuddered and said, "David's energy was divided among the personalities. Why does it sound so much like... dismemberment?"

"You've been in Gotham too long." Harley said, then turned to Lord-Trauma and said, "I can fully understand what you're saying—that David, possessing huge energy, divided himself into many parts. But why didn't he become many 'himselves', but instead became all of you?"

Barry could clearly understand why Harley had this doubt, because they had seen a living example before: Schiller.

Schiller's situation was very similar to David's, yet opposite. Schiller couldn't be considered to have dissociative identity disorder because no matter how many there were, they were all him. But David split into different people; they didn't think they were David, nor would they cooperate.

"Why is there such a difference?"

Hearing this question, Lord-Trauma sighed and said, "We can't know his true thoughts, but perhaps it's because he felt his own existence had no meaning."

Harley and Barry looked at each other again. She looked at Lord-Trauma and said, "Something happened, right?"

"A disaster." Lord-Trauma hesitated, but finally said, "It made him feel extremely sad, so maybe he just..."

Soon the group left the house. Harley just wanted to say that the clues they had about reality were too few, when they ran into the two groups of Batman, Batwoman, and Charles who had finally arrived and successfully joined forces.

With Charles there, the group finally knew what David had experienced in reality. Charles also gave Schiller's speculation—because of that terrorist attack, David's ego first broke through the moral bottom line to kill the superego, and then because he was trapped by morality for a moment, he didn't follow his instincts, which led to him failing to save his relatives, letting the id, which represented instinct, hide away in disappointment.

Combined with the intelligence they had obtained before, the group roughly sorted out the process of David's mental development to the current chaotic situation.

First, when David was born, his spirit wasn't that stable. But this isn't rare. Many people feel that their mental problems must be caused by the surrounding environment, but in fact, some people's spirits are born less stable than others, their emotions are more sensitive, their empathy is stronger or weaker, and those above or below the standard line are more prone to mental problems.

Then, during his childhood, because his mother took him to marry his stepfather, the reorganized family meant that David didn't have a stable living environment for a long time, which made him feel more pressure. To alleviate this pressure and protect David, his brain shifted his attention to imaginary friends.

Certain personalities from toys or dreams were produced during this period, essentially products of David's mental self-protection mechanism.

And as he grew older, David's mutant ability began to gradually manifest. Perhaps at this time, he tried to divide his mental power to these imaginary friends, but because his mental state was still stable and hadn't reached the point of splitting into personalities, these personalities couldn't control his body, and the abilities naturally wouldn't be used in reality, so no one discovered his condition.

The turning point was that terrorist attack. In that terrorist attack, the tragic sight of his stepfather's death added insult to injury to David's already unstable spirit.

What was even more fatal was that David began to question his own choices. He initially chose to obey morality, but it caused evil consequences, ultimately making him deny his instincts, causing two of the superego, ego, and id to stop working.

So the disaster happened just like that. The super-strong mental energy David possessed collapsed completely because there was no administrator to manage it, and it was divided up by those personalities that had always been hidden in his heart.

The personalities that obtained this energy, on one hand, gained extremely strong superpowers, and on the other hand, because the master personality collapsed and was vacant, they could float up freely and use these abilities in reality.

However, the only good news among many bad news was that one personality obtained the largest piece of energy fragment, which was the God-mutant who controlled the body and called himself the Fifth Personality before.

Because he obtained the most energy and became the strongest, he was able to suppress all other personalities and control the body alone, not letting those other personalities float up and cause trouble.

But looking at the current situation, the David of the Fifth Personality had encountered some trouble. Lord-Trauma didn't want to say much, and Harley also knew clearly that this was probably related to the great battle that Charles saw on the grassland when he first arrived here.

"Could it be that some personalities united to try to seize control of the body?" Batwoman speculated, "Since they have their own personalities and abilities, there must be all kinds of people. Some know how to follow the rules and restrain themselves, so there must be some who are bold and reckless, regardless of anything."

"It's not impossible. And if that's the case, these two factions can't escape the blame. Charles, did you see members of these two sides during the great battle before?" Batman asked.

Charles shook his head and said, "I just took a look from a high place, but I could see that the strength of the two sides in the great battle was not high, and they were not as powerful as the ones we encountered."

"But they were numerous, right?" Harley found the key. She said, "This shows that the personalities remaining in the city now might be relatively rational. Although their views are different, what they think about is solving the problem. But that group on the grassland might..."

"I think we should find a high place to look." Barry said.

So everyone turned to look in one direction. Where else could the high point of Paris be? Of course, it was the Eiffel Tower.

Batman estimated the distance in his heart and, after communicating with Charles, said, "That place is likely the territory of the Wildfire Gang, and it is likely the location of their boss. Only listening to one side's opinion is not fair enough, so we have to go and ask their boss."

"I have no opinion, but the personalities guarding around there are a trouble."

Everyone turned to look at the Bat-Monster Car. The Bat-Monster Car narrowed his eyes and said, "Are you questioning my speed? Get in the car, I guarantee those personalities won't even see my taillights."

After Helen and Doctor Strange took Doomsday Batman away, they found a nearby room and put him down. Helen began to use her Doomsday spores to replace the virus in Doomsday Batman's body, and as she said, it took about half an hour to barely complete it.

After Doomsday Batman woke up, he didn't roar or choose to attack the people around him for the first time. Helen breathed a sigh of relief. Anyway, it was a success.

But then they faced another problem: this Batman's mentality had collapsed.

The reason was also very simple, summarized in two words—Superman.

The huge body leaned in the corner of the room, feeling that life was worse than death. Helen couldn't persuade him no matter what, and finally, she was so angry that she gritted her teeth and stomped her feet, saying, "I really don't understand this group of love-brained people!"

Doctor Strange's eyes rolled. The so-called love-brained people understand love-brained people best. He cleared his throat and said, "It's a pity, you didn't beat him when you were still on Earth, and now that you finally have the power to compete with him, you don't intend to go back. If it were me, I would definitely go back and beat him up."

Doomsday Batman's eyes lit up instantly.

Helen's eyes widened, and she immediately gave Doctor Strange a thumbs up, telling him to continue.

"But it's hard to say." Doctor Strange changed the subject and said, "If I remember correctly, Doomsday's strongest ability is evolution. You haven't been Doomsday for long, and you don't have any opportunity for evolution. I don't think it's possible for you to beat Superman."

Doomsday Batman narrowed his eyes.

"However..." Doctor Strange's tone changed again, and then said, "There are quite a few experts in this strange mental world. If you spar with them, you might be able to learn their abilities. I heard that some people can manipulate time. If you learn this skill, how can Superman be your opponent?"

Helen was bumped into a stagger by the Doomsday Batman who rushed out of the door, but she immediately gave Doctor Strange a big smile. Doctor Strange walked over and high-fived her.

It was very coincidental that Bruce, that is, Spider Batman, was being chased here by the personality who manipulated gravity.

It was very expected that Spider Batman couldn't beat this personality at all. It wasn't that his strength wasn't strong, the problem was that the other party's gravity manipulation seemed to have no upper limit, and Spider Batman wasn't a genuine Batman, couldn't think of any strategy, so he could only carry the gravity hard, and the result was that his brains were almost pressed out.

Although he was beaten to pieces in the first battle after his debut in a new identity, Spider Batman had self-knowledge. He couldn't beat him, so he couldn't fight hard, so he still had to run. As a result, he happened to meet the Doomsday Batman who was angry and slammed the door and left.

Spider Batman gestured to him and shouted again and again, the purpose was to reveal the gravity king's intelligence to him, but it seemed that the other party didn't listen at all, and rushed up with a roar.

Spider Batman continued to run backward, and bumped into Helen and Doctor Strange who were chasing out. The two sides communicated, and they knew what was going on now.

"Hurry up and stop him, the other party is very likely to crush him to death." Spider Batman's tone contained anxiety. He said, "The gravity this guy manipulates has no upper limit at all. In the end, even I couldn't stand up."

Helen suddenly widened her eyes and said, "Are you sure? No upper limit, even you... I mean, even Spider-Man can't hold it?"

Spider Batman nodded fiercely, fearing that Helen wouldn't take it seriously. Who would have thought that in the next second, Helen also let out a roar and turned into Doomsday and rushed up.

Spider Batman was dumbfounded. Doctor Strange patted him on the shoulder and said, "What's the difference between unlimited increasing pressure and pie falling from the sky for Doomsday?"

"Ah?"

Doctor Strange shook his head and said, "You will know soon."

When the two monsters, one big and one small, rushed toward the Gravity King, the Gravity King was stunned for a moment, not understanding why the rookie just now suddenly turned into a monster.

However, since the other party had already fought to his eyes, he couldn't do nothing. He started with a hundred-ton gravity to test the depth.

The Gravity King raised his hand, and the monster that was smaller and barely maintained a human shape screamed and lay on the ground.

But after a few seconds, the spikes on the smaller one began to change constantly, becoming duller but thicker, and then he also roared violently and stood up straight.

The Gravity King snorted coldly, "Come again, five hundred tons!"

Spider Batman watched with his own eyes as the Gravity King's gravity increased again and again, but after only a few seconds, the two monsters could stand up straight again, and as the gravity became stronger and stronger, the muscle tissue on the monsters' bodies became stronger and stronger at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Until the end, the Doomsday that Helen turned into rushed to the Gravity King against the pressure of unknown how many tens of thousands of times atmospheric pressure, and knocked him unconscious with a 'bang'. ===== CHAPTER 2399 =====