Chapter 4534: Blackest Night (End)

Nekron did not invade the universe by opening a channel on a physical level; at least, the channel had not yet opened, and he could not fully descend. The reason he was constrained by energy was that he had chosen to use a rule-based channel.

It was similar to how Barbatos could influence Cat Getan through the Dark Power because Batman was the source of darkness. As long as he was in Cat Getan, darkness would pour in endlessly. This was the power of the rule level; simply put, it was a setting.

Nekron was the same. Wherever there was death, he possessed a certain degree of control. He could transmit his power along the traces of death, but such transmission was very limited. It was like how Barbatos could not directly control Batman with his Dark Power but had to find someone to open the door first.

Following the traces of death to arrive naturally meant he had to leave along the traces of death. But just as he was about to leave, he could not find the traces of death.

It was impossible for there to be a place without death in this world. Moreover, he did not just master the rule of death; similar evolution and decay could also be used. But there was nothing here; it was like a vacuum.

This was too abnormal. Nekron had never encountered such a situation before. He could naturally perceive that the Earth had changed locations, but he had not expected that those lunatics who pushed the Earth would dare to place their home in such a dangerous place. Where on earth was this?

Not long after, the curse lurking beneath the coast ended its manifestation cycle. Just like a real total solar eclipse, it came silently and left silently. The sea surface returned to calm, and the darkness would also end.

But just as Brainiac felt, after the total solar eclipse ended, the Earth did not return to the embrace of the warm sun. The sunlight was gone, replaced by a faint blue light that illuminated the globe equally; it had no temperature, but it was bright enough.

Brainiac did not know what this was, nor could he explain it. So he could only announce that this was another disaster. And people had already adapted; they had survived the eternal night, so having a little light now was not bad.

Thus, the Earth returned to normal. Now, the ones who were anxious, besides Brainiac who was eager to figure out the situation, were Nekron.

But just as he was exploring the surrounding situation, an incredible situation occurred—the channel to the Unliving Realm opened.

Nekron had been making efforts toward this, and there had been some results. The door from the Unliving Realm to the reality universe already had cracks. And for some unknown reason, just a moment ago, the door was suddenly blown away, and the channel opened so easily.

Nekron felt not a shred of joy. He had fully realized the sinister nature of human nature, but this was only what he thought, because this was far from the upper limit of humanity.

Soon, the power Nekron left on Earth, which was the consciousness that controlled Hugo, became the marker at the other end of the channel. The channel entrance opened above the Earth and arrived in this space filled with blue light.

The abnormality was finally discovered by the master of this realm. When the tall figure of the Titan appeared at the hole, the heart that Nekron had been holding finally died.

These crazy humans, this Justice League that had completely burned out their brains, these irresponsible masters of the planet, in order to send him to Darkseid, had actually driven the Earth directly into the Apokolips realm!

Darkseid obviously also saw the Earth. His level of shock should be on par with Nekron's, and the expression on his face could basically be summarized as "Is there something wrong with the way I got out of bed today?"

Nekron believed that Darkseid was definitely doubting whether he was hallucinating, but he could only think in despair that human imagination was more terrifying than hallucinations. Was this a strategy that intelligent life could come up with?

But soon, Nekron realized that humans might really have the wisdom to close the door. Because in the current situation, the Earth's predicament would not be worse than that of either Nekron or Darkseid.

Now, the channel to the Unliving Realm opened within the Apokolips realm. This meant that Nekron's true body could rush out to beat up Darkseid, and Darkseid's true body could also rush over to beat up Nekron. As for why they had to beat each other up, it was of course because they were both dark monarchs who had the final say; one mountain was destined not to tolerate two tigers.

Darkseid could not allow Nekron to rush into his home to throw a tantrum at any time, and Nekron could never allow Darkseid to peek at his old home at any time. They had to end this awkward situation. But the most awkward part was that the channel was not opened by either of them; they didn't even know how to close it. The meaning of the Earth's existence might be to stare at them and not let them close the channel.

Then why couldn't they join forces to beat up the Earth? Because the Earth actually had no irreconcilable contradictions with them. It would not stay here forever, nor could it go to the Unliving Realm, and it posed no fundamental harm to them.

Of course, the Earth itself was a supreme treasure. Darkseid certainly wanted to keep it; after all, how could he not eat a treasure delivered to his door? Beating Nekron did not delay him from trapping the Earth, and the Apokolips realm could indeed trap the Earth and not let the other party leave easily.

But at this moment, the shield on this planet that was glowing with a faint green light suddenly began to slowly show mysterious characters. Just after seeing the beginning, Darkseid waved his big hand and threw the Earth out.

These crazy humans were using their own home planet as a screen to play the Anti-Life Equation. Darkseid really wanted the Anti-Life Equation, but he absolutely could not let Nekron know about this thing.

Nekron himself was already the spokesperson for death, and he mastered part of the Anti-Life rules. What he could do using the Anti-Life Equation was far more than Darkseid, who was still in the material universe. If the price of obtaining an artifact was to copy one for a powerful enemy, then Darkseid would rather not have it.

Batman was just an ordinary person, and his life form limited his power ceiling. Darkseid often used this trick to deal with him, but he didn't expect that one day he would also be limited by his life form. Compared to rule-based life forms like Nekron, his utilization rate of power was not high enough, and there was too little he could do.

The Earth was like the ball in Zuma, spat out by the Apokolips realm with a "quack." However, the Earth had no intention of leaving; it just squatted next to the Apokolips realm, looking like it was watching the fun.

And the bigger fun was yet to come—the Batmen had arrived.

This explained why the Earth didn't leave. Because the Battleworld multiverse channel was not an absolute coordinate of the universe, but a relative coordinate of the Earth, bound to the Earth. Wherever the Earth was, they would teleport to. This way, when the Batmen came through the channel, what was in front of them was the Apokolips realm.

This made the nerves of both Darkseid and Nekron tense up. No one knew what these dark guys wanted to do. Logically speaking, they should help one to eliminate the other, but based on their understanding of Batman, it was more likely that Batman wanted to wipe them all out at once.

Both of them had suffered huge losses at the hands of Batman. Darkseid had directly caused the loss of an Apokolips planet, and Nekron had been directly expelled from the universe he first chose. In this situation, it seemed there was no other way but to join forces.

But they really didn't have any basis of trust between them. The previous preliminary cooperation was just an expedient measure. Still the same sentence, they were both dark monarchs in their respective fields, and no one would be willing to take a step back first.

Thus, a weird three-legged confrontation situation was formed. Nekron's individual was strong enough, Darkseid occupied the home field advantage, and Batman was eyeing them like a tiger.

Nekron might already regret the farce he caused himself. When the first link of the plan didn't go smoothly, he should have had a premonition, withdrawn his power to lurk, and waited for the opportunity to start over.

Darkseid was more like an innocent victim. Although he also secretly helped Nekron, hoping that he could stir up trouble in the multiverse. What he wanted was for Nekron and Batman to both suffer, and for him to be able to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, rather than letting his own home become a gladiatorial arena for multiple parties.

The Batmen also revealed a hurried and busy air. Certain anger and helplessness made them look like they were here to clean up the mess, and they couldn't be called winners who had planned everything and were just waiting for this day.

What was very weird was that they all sensed each other's forced helplessness, and then realized that there must be a bastard troublemaker among them who led the situation step by step to what it was now. Perhaps it was not to see who lost or who won, but more like an equal revenge on everyone who dared to make them work overtime, including Nekron who invaded the universe, Darkseid who stirred up the situation, and even Batman who was just defending himself.

"You seem to not care at all." Arkham Batman looked at the Main Universe Batman and said, "Even though this completely disrupted our plan and made the steady investigation and counterattack plan you formulated completely useless."

"I already had a premonition when the Nekron chose this universe," the main universe Batman said, quite calmly. "You cannot expect a mysterious entity that has spent years in a lifeless realm to understand what a nine-to-five schedule is. And if he does not respect labor laws, then the Justice League, which respects labor laws more than anyone else in the entire multiverse, will certainly strike him with a heavy fist."

"Then what about us?!" the Adventure Batman couldn't help but complain. "We didn't make them work overtime!"

"But we are working overtime ourselves," the main universe Batman said. "This will be viewed by them as scabbing. Meaningless, excessive involution makes them look like lazy people who don't work hard."

"Aren't they???" the Adventure Batman raised his voice. "You mean to say our job of defending the multiverse should also include weekends?? Why doesn't he go and tell those who are invading the multiverse..."

At this point, his voice came to an abrupt halt. The Batmen in the room also fell silent, because they all realized that the Justice League of this universe seemed to be doing exactly that.

They implement their labor philosophy by simultaneously beating up their opponents and their teammates—you may invade the multiverse, or you may resist a multiverse invasion, but please do so within the designated hours of a workday. Otherwise, we will definitely strike with a heavy fist to defend the legitimate interests of laborers, and equally make every outlaw who scorns labor laws suffer a terrible fate.