The Laughing Bat did not wait for the answer to this casual mantra, and instead raised a new question:
"[I remember that only one person can preside over this 'resurrection ceremony', why are you all here? Huh?]"
"..."
The members of the "Dark Knights" looked at each other but said nothing, as if they were waiting for others to speak first.
Finally, the only female member, the "Drowned Soul", who was wearing a diving suit with lots of seaweed hanging on it, responded: "Why do you think it is? It's not because we have just been 'resurrected'."
"[Hiss——]" The Laughing Bat bared its teeth and made a noise like a deflated balloon: "[I asked you to try to occupy those avatars brought out from the 'Ocean Planet'. If I don't let you occupy them,
Take action directly.】”
The Dark Knights looked at each other again.
"[This is the 'Almighty Universe' where the creation goddess 'Perpetua' lives. Don't take over the 'Dark Multiverse' set of rules of conduct,]" the Laughing Bat bared its teeth: "[In'
Over there, you destroy a single universe, gain power, and go to the next universe. But here, if you threaten the 'timeline', that 'Ministry of Magic' will arrive in time and kill you.
Even if you succeed in destroying the timeline, the result will only be thrown back into the subspace, which is contrary to our purpose, so we must find an opportunity that allows us to reasonably appear in the 'sacred timeline', rather than——】"
"We didn't take action," the "Uncompassionate Iron Fist" who wore a golden crown and dark gold armor emitted a faint black light interrupted him: "When we tried to occupy those incarnations with strange names, we were directly attacked by unknown people.
Someone was killed."
"[...Can someone kill you who don't exist yet?]" The Laughing Bat asked doubtfully.
The members of the Dark Knights looked at him and then at the cauldron next to them.
"[I'm different from you, the 'person in character' and the 'Galaxy Railroad Administrator' themselves don't exist," the Laughing Bat glared at them: "[And they can only kill two of me.
times, don’t even think about finding me again after that.】"
The Dark Knights responded with silence.
"[Wait, you just said 'I don't know who'?]" The Laughing Bat turned his head: "[You don't even know who killed me? How can you let me change reality to help you?]"
"Actually, I saw it," said the "Red Death" who was wearing a red tights with a bat cracked open by lightning on his chest: "It's 'Alan Scott'."
"[The first Green Lantern?]" The Laughing Bat touched his chin: "[I have always been curious, why we have destroyed the Green Lantern Corps in so many worlds, but we have never seen this legendary figure come to the rescue. It turns out he is
It comes from the higher-dimensional 'omnipotent universe', which makes sense.】"
"Is this the time to study history?!" The Dawn Lantern, wearing a dark green tights with a Green Lantern Corps logo split horizontally on his chest, said anxiously: "Your plan has failed!"
"[Oh?]" The Laughing Bat turned his face: "[It seems that as a 'traitor' of the Green Lantern Corps, you have been hit a bit hard? Let me guess? Do you think that Green Lantern can become so strong?
Shouldn't you have broken the ring in the first place? It's a pity that even if you hadn't broken it in the first place, your parents wouldn't have survived.】"
"What the hell -" "You didn't." "Shut up." "You're talking like you have parents."
There was a commotion in the Dark Knights, and they engaged in a wave of internal strife that hurt the enemy a thousand times and hurt themselves a thousand times.
"[Are you done arguing? Don't forget the purpose of our coming to the Almighty Universe,]" The Laughing Bat threw a card, interrupting the quarrel of everyone present: "[As long as we can seize the power of the 'Creation Goddess', we can use it to
To reshape the multiverse, you can have as many parents as you want.】"
The members of the Dark Knights all stared, looking like they wanted to rebut but didn't know what to say.
"[Moreover, my plan did not fail, it was just temporarily frustrated,]" the Laughing Bat grinned: "[Do you still remember what my plan was?]"
"Your plan is," the extremely strong "Destroyer" with layers of horns on his body said: "Occupy the incarnation of the demon god who was watched by the [Instrument of Desire] and died, and then use it as a bridge to occupy the still alive
The remaining incarnations will obtain a 'reasonable identity' that appears in the 'Almighty Universe', so as not to be noticed by the Creation Goddess and directly obliterated."
"[Look, the first step has been successfully completed,]" the Laughing Bat reached out and pointed at the Dark Knights in front of him: "[Contestants from the real dimension, ghosts from the past, and even the God of Thunder who practices favoritism, since those incarnations can accommodate them,
It can also accommodate you. Although this accommodation and occupation 'does not exist', you all already have reasonable identities - powerful and evil souls of unknown origin, and as one of the organizers, Alan Sco
It makes sense that that guy would exorcise the evil soul that would affect the fairness of the game after occupying the avatar.】"
"Speak as if that is part of your plan," said the "killing machine" whose body was completely mechanically transformed and whose eyes were flashing with bright green light: "How are you going to solve the problem once we try to contact those incarnations?
The problem of being eliminated?”
"[When plan A doesn't work, you have to use plan B naturally. You didn't format your brain when you transformed yourself, right? This is Batman's basic skill.]" The Laughing Bat raised his hand and moved it on his temple.
"..." The killing machine clenched its fists tightly, hesitated to speak, took half a step forward and then took it back: "So, what is the solution?"
"[You should have seen the 'World Tree', right?"" Laughing Bat pointed in the void: "[After being killed in battle, the Asa Protoss will return to the World Tree, and then be reborn in the 'Hall of Valor'. In this process,
When they are inside the 'World Tree', they 'do not exist', which is equivalent to being in 'subspace'.】"
"Oh?" "So..." "I seem to have thought of it."
Even though he has joined the Dark Knights and regards destroying the multiverse as his mission, Batman is still Batman. When prompted, he quickly understood the meaning of the Laughing Bat.
"[Yes, that 'Lord of Asgard' opened the 'Hall of Valor' to the other two contestants during this ridiculous competition. Although it is impossible for us to go to the Hall of Valor to be reborn, since we have
After replacing those 'eliminated contestants', it will still be no problem to 'enter the World Tree'. By then, as long as there is a problem with the World Tree itself,]" The Laughing Bat closed his hands and opened them violently: "[We will
Suddenly, as the 'enemy of the competition arrangement', he appears in the real dimension of the omnipotent universe. Even if we kill all those players, the organizer of the event will not care about it.】"
"Hmm... it sounds very similar," the drowned soul asked, "but how do you guarantee that something will happen to the World Tree?"
"[Of course that's because...]"
The Laughing Bat conjured a collapsing "tower" card at his fingertips:
