What bad intentions could Batman have?.

In the melting pot of the world.

At this time, the place was in a mess.

The rampage of Superboy-Prime and Parallax Demon Hal almost turned the World Forge, the nest that Barbatos had painstakingly built, into ruins. If the World Forge itself had not been a workbench for forging the universe, even this place would have been demolished.

At this time, Barbatos, who had finally banished Parallax Demon Hal and Superboy-Prime, was crawling in the inner layer of the furnace, breathing heavily in the rock layer above the magma that was still surging due to the aftermath of the battle.

Under him, countless dark multiverse legions that had been beaten to pieces were slowly recovering.

A Cheetah version of Wonder Woman… a Gigantamax version, a Minotaur version… a version of Hal the Green Lantern with a mouth full of sharp teeth, and a Bane with his head and mask fused together and a huge mouth… a Crimson Flash with fangs bulging and fused to his suit…

Of course, the most numerous one is the clown dragon swaying beside Barbatos.

These legions of the Dark Multiverse were temporarily recruited by Barbatos from their respective Dark Multiverses. Each of them is weaker than the members of the Dark Knights, but their power should not be underestimated.

They all destroyed their own universes. They are monsters born by absorbing the essence of the entire dark multiverse. For example, the Leopard Wonder Woman can even confront the Wonder Woman of the main universe for a short time in the main storyline of "Dark Nights: Metal". Barbatos has a whole bunch of such monsters.

Barbatos recruited them to increase his powers against Parallax Mohal and Superboy-Prime, and once the creatures of the Dark Multiverse were destroyed, they were able to be resurrected by Barbatos' power.

To a certain extent, they have become one with Barbatos. They have accepted Barbatos' power and are deeply bound to it. They are the extension of Barbatos' strength and will. As long as Barbatos is not dead, even monsters like Superboy-Prime and Parallax Hal, who are powerful enough to almost shake the super-time stream, cannot kill them completely. At most, they can be temporarily dispersed.

Under Barbatos's feet, the members of the Dark Knights were also recovering from their injuries. Their strength was stronger than that of ordinary members of the Legion, such as Cheetah and Wonder Woman, so their recovery was naturally a little slower - but if Barbatos was willing to speed up the process, they should have been able to recover immediately, but it was obvious that Barbatos was not in the mood to do so at this time.

The Anti-Monitor Dragon is the slowest to recover. He is stronger than the Dark Knights and was mainly responsible for stopping Superboy-Prime. As a result, he was almost blown up. This is by no means an adjective. The Anti-Monitor Dragon is repairing the fist mark on his body left by Superboy-Prime, and the fist mark is surrounded by a circle of exploded flesh and blood.

However, since his body was more intact than that of the Dark Knights, the repair process was slightly faster than that of the Dark Knights.

The Anti-Monitor Dragon looked grim. He wanted to curse at Barbatos, but he couldn't say a word.

Barbatos simply hooked his finger and the Anti-Monitor Dragon was forced to swim obediently to the lower level of the World Forge.

Barbatos was panting heavily. In order to send the two monsters that Batman brought to his side back to where they belonged, he mobilized all the forces at hand and was beaten up badly.

Although he was not seriously injured, this level of energy consumption was bound to affect his plan to accumulate strength, and in turn affect the realization of his dream of invading the main universe.

Although Barbatos didn't show it, he was already thinking about how to take revenge on Batman, or at least make up for his losses as much as possible.

Barbatos's thoughts were interrupted when he noticed something. He raised his head and saw a dark blue portal opened not far away, and the Laughing Bat walked out of it.

He held a brain sealed in a strange transparent device, which looked like a light bulb suspended in mid-air. Extending from the brain were countless red veins that looked like meridians and lightning, suspended in mid-air.

That’s right, the Anti-Monitor’s astral brain, the reward that the Anti-Monitor had promised Barbatos. It was worth it that Barbatos suspended the Laughing Bat’s mission and temporarily sent him to fetch this thing as quickly as possible.

"Oh, great master, great Lord Barbatos! I have retrieved the Anti-Monitor's astral brain for you, with the highest respect and admiration! And I have also confirmed the exact location of the Monitor in the area given to us by the Anti-Monitor. As long as you capture him, everything will be easy."

Barbatos was not in a good mood. For this giant dragon entrenched in the dark multiverse, all the benefits he had swallowed were what he deserved, and all the losses he had suffered were unbearable humiliation.

He will never be happy about what he has already got, but will always be angry about what he should have got but lost.

He accepted the stellar brain presented to him by the Laughing Bat, and then unceremoniously ordered his servant to leave.

"Prepare everything I need for my descending power, Laughing Bat. Once you are ready, I will take action against the Watcher."

Generally speaking, when Barbatos is in a good mood or urgently needs Laughing Bat to do something, he will call Laughing Bat "my favorite knight".

(Note: This corny name that makes Barbatos look like a little princess is indeed the original words of Barbatos in Metal Volume 6.)

But what if you are in a bad mood like now?

That means calling him by his first name.

Barbatos thought for a moment, then continued:

"Take your Dark Knights with you. I will assign you some members of the Dark Multiverse Legion. You must do this quickly and don't give the Watchers time to react and escape. I think you should..."

He stopped talking to the Laughing Bat halfway through, and then waved at the Laughing Bat.

"Anyway, you should start preparing with your people, and don't stay in the World Crucible. I will contact you later to explain the important points on what to do. As long as you can extend my power, everything will be over."

Without waiting for the Laughing Bat to say anything else, he waved his hand and teleported the Laughing Bat, along with all the members of the Dark Knights and the Dark Multiverse Legion, out of the World Crucible without even a word. They were like a chamber pot that was thrown away after use.

Barbatos then turned and poked his head into the void: "What kind of freak are you?"

"Oh, Lord Barbatos, it really breaks my heart when you say that."

Then Barbatos heard a voice coming from the void. The voice was somewhat similar to that of the Laughing Bat, equally perverted, twisted and crazy. Barbatos was familiar with this kind of madman.

"Let me introduce myself. I'm Emperor Clown. I just discovered the super time stream and this interesting reality. This makes me so happy. Hahahaha, hahahaha, hahahahaha!"

"If you can't control your ugly laughter, then I don't think there's any need for us to continue talking," said Barbatos.

In fact, he didn't care about the Emperor Clown's laughter. No matter how the other party laughed, Barbatos, who was used to the laughter of the Laughing Bat, would not find it offensive. However, he just suppressed the other party when they met for the first time and tried to take the lead in the subsequent conversation. Unfortunately, this subconscious technique was completely like winking at a blind man in front of the laugher.

Barbatos had also been planning to give it a try, but he soon realized that it was useless.

"Oh, calm down, Lord Barbatos. I came here with real sincerity this time, trying to negotiate a perfect deal that both of us can accept."

Barbatos heard the Emperor Joker say: "Just think about it, we can give them a brand new hybrid headache, hit them at the critical moment, and give these childish fools a real cosmic crisis."

"Just thinking about this is making me cum."

"Empty words can't take anything away from me." Barbatos said, "There is a line between madness and stupidity, and you are crossing it. I know what you want to do. You want to use a promise that can never be fulfilled in exchange for my great help in helping you gain a foothold in the real timeline. But I have to tell you that this is wishful thinking. If you still can't say anything..."

"What? To ask you something? Oh no, of course not. I wouldn't be so direct, like having sex without foreplay."

Then Barbatos heard the Emperor Clown say: "I don't know if you know what I mean... I am different from those unfortunate people who need your help. There is an essential difference between me and them."

Barbatos realized what the other party was saying.

Indeed, that's right.

The Anti-Monitor is a demon who swallowed billions of positive matter universes upstream of the hypertime stream, but in the current timeline, he is just an astral brain.

Hal the Parallax Demon was so powerful during Zero Hour that he could flatten and round the timeline, but Hal the Green Lantern in the current timeline is just a powerful Green Lantern.

Superboy-Prime has also declined in the current timeline. After "Final Crisis: Legion of Three Realms", he returned to the Origin Universe. His energy was no longer as strong as before due to traveling through the multiverse. He even fought with several Black Lantern corpses that invaded the Origin Universe during "Blackest Night". After returning to the main world again, he was even more shamefully sealed on the Origin Wall by Supergirl and Superboy.

The Superboy-Prime who beat up all the heroes on Earth under the sun no longer exists in the current timeline.

(Note: Superboy-Prime's power was not restored until the "Death Metal" period, and then he delivered a shocking punch to the Dark Knight transformed by the Batman Who Laughs!)

But the Emperor Clown is different.

"My power was stolen from the troublemakers in the fifth dimension. But in the current timeline..."

"The Troublemaker still retains the powerful strength of a fifth-dimensional being. Therefore, you can project more power from upstream to the current timeline through the connection of the super-time stream."

Barbatos said, "But do you think this can impress me? Even if every old thing in your history still exists in the reality before us, you can't violate the restrictions of the super time flow and timeline and bring the power of the past history to the present without scruples."

He said, "You are just bluffing. The Troublemaker has already taken back his power. Through the super-time stream, the impact you can have on reality is stronger than that of Parallax Mohal and others, but it is also limited."

"Oh, that's true, but it was enough for me to recruit strong enough followers on my own." Then he heard Emperor Joker say: "Guess who I recruited? The three clowns in the Batman universe that you hate the most, and the three versions of myself in that parallel universe!"

"I gave them a little power to change reality. It's not strong, but it's enough for me to do many things. Including allowing me to come to reality without your help. How about it? Oh, dear, you won't insist on me appearing in front of you in person before you are willing to discuss cooperation with me, right? I thought we could confirm our relationship earlier."

"...How can I cooperate with you?" asked Barbatos.

"It's very simple. You want to invade the main universe. That's easy. It's such a simple thing. I'll help you." said the Emperor Clown.

Barbatos did not trust the other party. This kind of unreasonable help was mostly a trap, but then he heard the next sentence of the Emperor Clown:

"Of course, as a reward, after you completely dominate the entire multiverse, you have to give me fresh universes for me to play with for free! Everyone says that the Joker has no purpose, but from the beginning to the end, I have only one purpose, and that is to have fun and have fun! You have to provide me with fresh universes for me to play with regularly, this is the basis of our transaction!"

This is in line with the Joker's playful personality, and this request puts Barbatos at ease. The other party has needs, and this is the basis for cooperation.

This is the Joker's goal.

He thought to himself.

↑This is about remembering to eat but not to be beaten.

But in short, now that Barbatos has accepted Emperor Clown's seemingly logical reason, the basis for their cooperation has been reached under the leadership of Emperor Clown.

"But all this can only work if you can come to reality without my help." Barbatos warned the Emperor Clown: "If you can't even do this, then everything is off the table."

Although he said this, Barbatos himself knew that once at the critical moment, injecting his own energy into the Emperor Clown in order to achieve the purpose of controlling the opponent would be something he would do without hesitation.

But now the Emperor Clown hasn't really taken any action, and Barbatos hasn't really taken any action either, so the two of them still look quite close.

temporary.

Oh, by the way, there is another clown secret that Barbatos doesn't know:

The longer the Joker holds the power of the Troublemaker, the more adept he will become at using it.

Before the big mess caused by the Batman of the Dark Multiverse that shook the entire multiverse, the Emperor Joker was like an iron rod stuck in a concrete road. His future and ending had been welded and solidified, so at a certain point in time he would lose the power of a troublemaker and would be unable to continue to learn the changes that this power brought him.

But now that the road is being renovated, the Emperor Clown... has briefly gotten a chance to take a break from the previous timeline.

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The Laughing Bat expressionlessly took off the headset he used to eavesdrop on the conversation between Barbatos and Emperor Clown.

The exchange has ended and the situation is not optimistic.

Only God knows how much he paid to be able to explore this conversation.

For such a long time, he had been hiding under Barbatos' nose.

Then the Laughing Bat let out a long sigh and stopped laughing.

He looked at the other Dark Multiverse Batmen and the Dark Multiverse Legion around him with disgust.

Compared to the mission assigned to him by Barbatos, there is another thing that is more important to him now...

Disrupt the pace of the Emperor's clown's arrival in reality.

Barbatos regarded him as an ant, and it was with his consent that the Emperor Clown returned from the super time stream.

Barbatos didn't consider him, the Laughing Bat, at all, so only he, the Laughing Bat, considered it himself.

He could never tolerate that disgusting, repulsive, and abominable thing reappearing in front of him. It would drive him crazy...hahaha, hahaha...

So in order to prevent a bigger pile of shit from hitting him in the face, he may now have to work with the pile of shit that's already there.

The Batman Who Laughs decides to try and connect with the previous Batman of the Dark Multiverse who thwarted Barbatos.