Chapter 4105: MU: The Super-Body Event (193)

Sometimes, the term "the Dao is simple" has a simpler explanation: many times, a fight that looks flashy is nothing more than two sides unable to do anything to each other, forced to trade long-range energy blasts. Whenever one can get into close quarters, the best means of attack is simply to punch the opponent directly. As long as it is a sentient being with a brain, once the central core suffers an attack, it will be stunned for two seconds.

Nightmare Darkseid is exactly like this. He never expected that the Mechanical Overlord Iron Man would come up and punch him right away. Such a plain and unadorned straight punch carried the force of ten thousand jun. With one punch, his nasal bone almost flew out from the back of his head.

Darkseid was indeed stunned for two seconds, and it was precisely within these two seconds that the power of the Divine Will invaded the Nightmare Power on a massive scale. Countless threads calculated countless methods in an instant, beginning to continuously construct simulations to find a way to break through.

Every kind of power in the world has the concept of "computational power." For instance, there is a fixed value for the reality that a certain amount of Scarlet Power can manifest at any given moment; the Scarlet Witch cannot break through this fixed value. The dreamscape shaped by a unit of Dream Power is also limited and cannot expand without an upper limit. This is a law of the universe.

Whether it is Scarlet Power or Dream Power, if used against ordinary sentient beings, the restriction is virtually non-existent. Even if you bring in more people to dream, it is impossible to break through their computational limits because the upper limit is simply too high. Nightmare Power is the same.

However, just because ordinary sentient beings cannot break through their limits does not mean the Divine Will cannot. As mentioned before, the Divine Will follows another path of electronic life: infinite expansion until reaching a nearly infinite number of threads.

With so many threads increasing and iterating infinitely, it can almost exhaust the computational power of other forces in an instant. If one uses Scarlet Power to deal with it, and the reality that Scarlet Power can manifest is N, then the Divine Will can always expand to N+1 threads until the opponent's computational power is blown out. This is the most powerful aspect of the Divine Will; even the strongest Venom is no match for him.

The moment he clashed with the Divine Will, Darkseid felt it: every sub-body created by the Divine Will was guiding the Nightmare Power, creating endless nightmares. Even if nightmares have a cooldown period and a limit to their quantity, the sub-bodies can repeatedly enter to refresh the limit, and the number of sub-bodies is almost infinite. The power required to weave nightmares for them is terrifying; even the World Origin Power cannot withstand such consumption.

Nightmare Darkseid hurriedly mobilized his power. He knew that without the protection of Nightmare Power, he could not face this group of monsters in the multiverse. Don't forget, besides the Divine Will, there was still Adam waiting for him on the side.

It was precisely because he was preoccupied with guarding against multiverse-level existences and was paralyzed by the ghosts Nick brought in, thinking that the humans were still tirelessly exploring the Nightmare Dimension, that he relaxed his defense on that side.

Just at this moment, Thor made his move.

In the very center of the Nightmare Dimension, in a space of total darkness without any light, a point of light suddenly appeared. It first collapsed inward and then suddenly erupted. In the center of the singularity explosion, which approximated a cosmic Big Bang, a thunderbolt carrying a primordial aura tore through the darkness. In the most dazzling light was the figure of Thor holding his long spear high.

Just within this tiny crack, a spear that was silver all over suddenly pierced in. Odin's Gungnir flew in and quickly began searching for the enemy's figure within the Nightmare Dimension.

Nightmare Power constantly coiled around it, seemingly interfering with Gungnir's "must-hit" attribute. And if it were just Gungnir, its "must-hit" attribute would be on the same level as the Nightmare Power. However, before throwing this spear, everyone had already reinforced it.

One of Legion's personalities, the terrifying giant spider "Weaver," possessed the power to modify probability. He wrapped the silk he spat around the tip of Gungnir, further strengthening its "must-hit" attribute. This was also equivalent to a fusion of origin powers. If it were just a fusion of two powers, it would only be on par with the Nightmare Power. However, among the superheroes, there was more than one who could modify probability; the Iron Demon God could too.

The Iron Demon God followed the third path of electronic life, but because his essence was not considered electronic life, other electronic life forms could not imitate him, so it could not be considered a viable path. However, this did not shake his power in the slightest, which was: extremely strengthening the logic of emotional life until penetrating the essence of cosmic logic, and then, like a cosmic administrator, directly editing cosmic data.

Although he could not yet reach the level of a cosmic administrator and the data he could edit was very limited, as long as he made moves at key points, he could completely possess power not inferior to the gods. And this time, the Iron Demon God directly modified Gungnir's data, which was equivalent to another reinforcement of the "must-hit" attribute.

Gungnir, having stacked three layers of "100% must-hit" attributes, was already higher in status than the Nightmare Power. With an unstoppable momentum, it flew toward the master of the Nightmare Power, Nightmare Darkseid. No power could interfere with it, and its speed was extremely fast.

Only one person could keep up with its speed, and that was Barry, who could move unimpeded through the Nightmare Power by relying on the Dark Force within the Speed Force. He chased behind Gungnir and constantly used his special Speed Force to cut through space. This not only further reduced the stability of the Nightmare Dimension but also opened up a "vacuum pipeline" within the Nightmare Power.

Such an action is equivalent to: wanting to pass a thread through a piece of plasticine. Without changing the shape of the plasticine, both are soft, so it is difficult for the thread to pass through directly, as it is easily stuck inside the plasticine. But if you tie a needle to the front of the thread and use the needle to pierce through the plasticine, then drag the thread over, it becomes much easier.

Gungnir was that needle, and the vacuum pipeline created by Barry was equivalent to that thread. Using Gungnir's "must-hit" attribute to stick the needle to the target point, and then having Barry strike a power pipeline from outside the dimension to the target location. In this way, everyone's power could strike Darkseid directly.

And outside the dimension, in the empty cosmic space, a temporary base was built. But this base was not built to house superheroes, but for Reed's brand-new invention—the Antimatter Cannon.

This cannon integrated a series of super-spec weapons, such as the super-large caliber electromagnetic main gun on human starships, the super-high-speed particle collider used in Reed's laboratory, and the solar cannon built by Anatoly for communication. The materials used were an alloy made of molten steel, vibranium, and magic-immune Nth metal. The caliber alone was about the size of the moon.

The booster used magic energy compressed based on the magic gemstone magic power compression technology provided by Arkham Batman. The projectile fired was an M'Kraan Crystal wrapped in antimatter energy, adopting a combination of energy and live ammunition.

No sooner said than done. Just as Nightmare Darkseid was busy mobilizing power to deal with the Divine Will, a long spear carrying peerless momentum flashed from afar. The next second, it pierced straight into Darkseid's chest.

Darkseid felt the danger in the last second, so he condensed Nightmare Power to block his chest for defense. The nearly solidified Nightmare Power reduced Gungnir's final kinetic energy, and only the tip of the spear pierced into Nightmare Darkseid's chest.

The damage caused to the New God's body was minimal. But then, Barry followed closely. He did not directly attack Nightmare Darkseid but used his final power to completely shred the space around Darkseid. This also meant that the energy pipeline was completely opened.

"Fire!!!!"

Reed Richards let out a roar, and the cannon's muzzle suddenly lit up. The crystal, adjusted to the appropriate size by Pym particles, was pushed out at an extremely high initial velocity by magic power. The dense antimatter energy protected the crystal from being eroded or blocked by the Nightmare Power, crashing straight into Darkseid's face.

Being hit by a moon-sized, antimatter-filled, indestructible planet originating from the beginning of creation was equivalent to hitting the jackpot for Darkseid. Life clearly did not intend to let him off this time. With just this one hit, the incredibly solid Nightmare Power shield he had constructed shattered suddenly.

This was not the end. The crystal's primary job was to open a passage. The moment the crystal landed, a teleportation passage was opened. The Scarlet Witch, Franklin, Legion, Manhattan Batman, Evil God Batman, Super-Body, and a series of powerhouses mastering the cosmic origin appeared before Nightmare Darkseid and attacked him simultaneously.

For a moment, red, green, yellow, and blue colors erupted at the same point, intertwining with the black Nightmare Power, looking like an overturned paint box. And in this collision, many similar powers began to fuse, turning into a more powerful force.

The computational power of the Nightmare Power itself had already been consumed a lot by the Divine Will, and due to the excessive mobilization of energy, the Nightmare Dimension also began to become fragile. These expanding chaotic forces were tearing the Nightmare Dimension apart from the inside.

The demise of a dimension might be silent or earth-shattering. From the perspective of an observer, it was just another place in the universe where a black hole was collapsing endlessly. However, the countless violent energies in the shattered dimension tore everything apart, including the superheroes who had exhausted all their power due to their all-out attack. Instantly, several white lights lit up, and everyone returned to Battleworld at the same time.

Nightmare Darkseid's physical body naturally could not survive. However, just like the superheroes who lost their physical bodies in the previous war but retained their spiritual bodies, Darkseid's spiritual body survived by utilizing the special attributes of Nightmare Power.

The Nightmare Dimension had shattered, but Nightmare Power possessed a portion of the power of Dream Power, so Nightmare Darkseid could naturally enter the Dream Dimension. The moment his physical body shattered, he used Nightmare Power to connect to Dream Power, allowing his spiritual body to arrive in the Dream Dimension.

He certainly knew that Doctor Strange of Dream Power was in the dreamscape, but the other party had previously drained almost all the Dream Power in the Dream Dimension and poured it into his body, so he should not have fully recovered yet. Therefore, as long as he found a place to hide as soon as possible, the other party could not search for him throughout the entire Dream Dimension.

Just as Darkseid was fleeing in a panic, a familiar figure descended before him; it was none other than Prince Hal of the Emeralds.