rpbooks Chapter 490 SS-Class Female Batman: Drowned Vengeful Spirit
Chapter 490 SS-Class Female Batman: Drowned Vengeful Spirit
Chapter 490 SS-Level Female Batman: Drowned Soul (5000-word long chapter)
"Huh? Me?"
boom!
Aquaman Arthur's expression changed. He swung his Aquaman Trident, seemingly trying to strike Anton Arkansas, who suddenly lunged at Batman. However, a heat vision beat him to it, burning the kryptonite sheath on his trident to ashes.
"you……"
Before Arthur could utter a single word, General Zod, who charged at him like a cannonball, slammed him into the air and sent him flying.
"You may have met Kryptonians before... but I bet Kal-El (Superman's Kryptonian name) would never kill you—"
Lost in thought, Arthur was left wide open and instantly punched in the face by Zod, leaving him covered in blood.
The two men started from the bottom and smashed through the basement like a block of tofu, dozens of meters deep, before leaving the scene and moving to a more open space on the ground to continue their fight.
Chen Tao slowly retreated, shielding the fragile mage Mela in front of him.
He thought about it slowly.
...People always infer others' future actions based on their preconceived notions of them. They misled me by exploiting General Zod's obsession with rebuilding Krypton, and then used this opportunity to launch a sneak attack—
It's not a physical attack, but rather a choice of magical damage—the barrel theory! The amount of water a barrel can hold depends on its shortest stave, and Anton Arkansas has found the shortest stave that can inflict the greatest damage on me.
While I was wounded and weakened, I had General Zod lure Aquaman away... leaving only Mera and me.
All of this is a very wise strategy, but only if...
I am weak.
This plan doesn't seem to have been devised by Anton Akane alone. It's not that I look down on the master of the Rotten Black; his power is something even swamp monsters would find difficult to contend with.
But this development, which is so clearly directional... the fact that the Dark Multiverse will never have a good future, was deliberately presented to me in a mocking way.
Never before has a "bad development" been so blatant. The anti-surveillance must have intimidated Zod, making him realize that he was an invincible enemy, which is why Zod has yielded in this way.
But he still deliberately let Zod appear to be trying to resurrect his Kryptonian brethren, giving me the false impression that things might be resolved peacefully, before turning on him when necessary... with a slap to the face from behind with his steel gauntlet.
He was trying to damage my mind; someone wanted to induce negative emotions in me. But thankfully, anger, sorrow, disappointment, rage—all these human emotions...
It's still under my control.
Chen Tao clutched the horrifying gash in his chest. Within seconds, the gash had been wrapped with a large number of metal threads and then safely protected.
He gave the order to Mera: "Control the waters of the Lhasa Road Pool."
"I can't do it..."
Mera said, "Some kind of magic... a kind of spatial isolation?"
Under Mera's control, the water of the Lhasa Pool rose up, seemingly wanting to drench Anton Akane once again. However, the water did not harm Akane as before. Instead, it passed through Akane's body like a 3D projection.
"He sucked the entire pool of water from Lhasa Road into the decaying, dark space."
"Therefore, although this pool of green water still appears to be here, it is now a mirage."
Chen Tao remained indifferent.
That's right. If it were him, he certainly wouldn't be foolish enough to let this pool of water, which posed a threat to him, go unchecked.
Now that the self-inflicted injury ploy has been used and Batman has been harmed in the process, it is only natural to activate the previously prepared plan to remove the pool water from the battle.
Chen Tao quickly retreated.
He must leave this area first, and then find Aquaman Arthur. Of course, he'll have to take Mera with him.
The most famous ability of the Decaying Black is transformation, and this transformation is almost unmatched when the Decaying Black's power is at its peak.
In the "The Arrival of the Corrupt Kingdom" event, Anton Arkansas transformed almost every hero in the world: Wonder Woman, Superman, The Flash...
Anyone who fights him and even gets a scratch will be corrupted into a corpse. This level of contagion is comparable to that of a Black Lantern Corpse. Even a Black Lantern Corpse requires a host to wear a Black Lantern Ring to convert others, but Akainu's Corruption Black is even faster.
Although at this time, Akane's Kingdom of Corruption was not as powerful as it was after it devoured the Green Manifestation, Swamp Monster, and the Red Manifestation, Maxim, in "The Arrival of Corruption," things would become much more complicated if he were to infect Mera.
Chen Tao's face already showed some signs of being corrupted by the Black Rot. What he didn't know was that he had slightly overestimated Anton Akain. The Lord of the Black Rot did not have the ability to corrupt Chen Tao at the same time as Mera.
Because all energy is conserved, Chen Tao only saw Anton Akane corrupting others at will in the comics he read, so he subconsciously confused Akane, who had devoured both red and green natural forces, with him, who had not been able to devour them.
For Akan, the most important thing now is to corrupt or harm Batman as much as possible, so that he can weaken Batman as much as possible for the Anti-Monitors before the final battle breaks out. This is the greatest significance of this battle. It can help the Anti-Monitors increase their chances of winning and make their victory foolproof.
Mera drew moisture from the air, creating a massive water blade in mid-air, but it still couldn't stop Akane from leaping over like a skinned frog.
His appearance was ugly and disgusting, but he moved like the wind and was as fast as lightning.
Even without absorbing the red and green, his power was still not to be underestimated, far greater than his ugly appearance suggested. The water blades created by Mera and the vortex-like water spears hidden behind them did not cause any injury to Akane. Akane jumped onto Chen Tao, trying to press their battlefield into the ground:
"Batman!"
He swung his claws, tearing the nanobots on Chen Tao's chest apart:
"I'm glad you accepted my invitation, even though you've taken far too long!"
"I heard you're busy playing the role of a shepherd...some kind of savior, and you know what I mean!"
"You're just going around in circles forever, I feel so sorry for you!"
Mera saw Batman struggle violently, trying to fly upwards like a dragon, but ultimately falling to the ground like a bird with broken wings.
"Batman, what's your plan?"
Mera manipulated a water blade, incorporating kryptonite within it, and slashed fiercely at the Kryptonian corpse that was lunging at her. The corpse, which had just been pierced by Aquaman Arthur's kryptonite blade, was now rising from the ground again, like a puppet finding a new master, thanks to Anton Akai's personal intervention.
"My plan?"
Then Mera heard Batman's voice: "Find Arthur, call for help..."
"Your communications have been cut off." Anton A. Kane grinned maliciously, his hands gripping Batman's neck.
"Do you think we didn't expect this? So do you think we didn't expect you to assemble the Justice League to attack us?"
"Get out of here, Mera," Batman said. "Get to a safe place first, then I'll need you to take care of me—"
"Worried about your friends? No, of course you wouldn't do that. I know you're powered by your lackeys, and I've seen it done."
"So you must have noticed that the surrounding space is isolated by the decaying blackness, and the flow of the Speed Force is stagnant," Akane said.
He said, "Do you think the counter-surveillance agents won't take effective countermeasures after witnessing your capabilities?"
Batman was silent for a moment:
"I only drew out a small amount of the Speed Force. If I had drawn out a large amount of the Speed Force beforehand to form a torrent, this kind of obstruction wouldn't have been able to stop me."
"So you never expected we'd try to kill you from the start, and you didn't have time to establish a connection with the Speed Force in the first place, so you're completely disconnected now, Batman!"
Anton A. Kane grabbed Batman by the neck and lifted him up:
"It's no use saying anything now. Don't pass out so quickly, Batman. I want you to witness what's about to happen while you're fully conscious. I want you to watch as I tear your last resistance to shreds!"
He said, "Just like you once supported Bane in stealing my power... Once I kill you, I will kill Bane, you thieves who stole my power. I have killed countless other Agents of the Corrupted Black besides myself. You are all as despicable as my niece..."
(Note: The person Anton Arkan is referring to here is Abigail Arkan, the Queen of the Decaying Black. She is actually the true mistress of the Decaying Black of the Swamp Monster, the counterpart to the Law of All Things, and the Red of All Beings, Michaelson. Anton Arkan merely stole a large amount of the Decaying Black's power, thus surpassing his niece in strength.)
Mera's expression was rather unpleasant.
He saw Batman looking at him, and then he heard Akane's voice:
"Come on, you don't care about your teammates at all. To you, she's just a portable battery."
"I will take you to Arthur," Mera heard Batman say. "Then you will be responsible for protecting him. I will draw upon a portion of his power to help us escape this predicament..."
boom!!!
As Batman spoke, a silver-white object appeared on his body. The sharp bone spikes of the Destroyer flashed on his body for a moment. It was with this brief moment of synchronized power that Batman, carrying Akane who was holding his neck, broke through the basement ceiling and rushed into a wider battlefield. Mera hurriedly followed.
Her heart sank to the bottom. If it were just Anton A. Kane, he wouldn't have thought this way. But Anton A. Kane's words implied that the Counter-Surveillance was behind it all.
"You always display your arrogance in the wrong places. You always think you know your enemy, but you are not omniscient."
Mera heard what Akane said:
"You see, you've never taken me seriously, have you? You've never thought of me as a dangerous person, you've never thought of me as a threat, and you've never thought that General Zod might disobey your orders."
Such thoughts never crossed your poor brain. You take your victories for granted, and you always focus on those you perceive as more dangerous: the Anti-Monitor, Darkseid, Superman Supreme…”
They broke through the ground and landed on the ground. The surrounding area was a sparsely populated jungle, except for a large clearing around the building where the trees had been destroyed by the aftershocks of the battle.
Then Mera saw General Zod riding on top of Aquaman Arthur, whose face, body, and entire body were covered in blood.
His own blood.
Without a doubt, General Zod was ruthless. Just like Batman in the Dark Multiverse who initially tried to attack Superman with a Kryptonite spear but ended up having his arm severed by heat vision and had to inject himself with a destructive virus, once the Kryptonians are on guard against Kryptonite weapons, the threat they pose to them will be greatly reduced in an instant.
"Batman!"
He stared in astonishment as Batman was held in Kane's hand like a dead dog; he had expected the scene to be reversed.
Then he saw Mera rushing towards him in a swarm, and he heard his lover shouting, almost losing her mind as she used water to slash at his back. He turned around sharply and saw General Zod wielding Neptune's trident, thrusting it fiercely towards his back.
He turned his back and gripped the tip of the trident tightly. He felt the blade of the trident cutting through the flesh of his palm and making a screeching sound that sent shivers down his spine.
"Arthur! Think of something!"
Aquaman heard Batman's voice: "Think of something!"
"Aaaaaaahh ...
He roared and forcefully pushed aside General Zod's trident with brute force. Then he clenched his fist and sent General Zod flying backward in a spinning motion, shattering countless huge ancient trees like weeds.
Mera's eyes glowed blue, and she remotely summoned a large amount of water from the surrounding lakes. Kane put down the "severely injured" Batman, his face showing a solemn expression.
He seemed to have underestimated the female mage who manipulated the water. Although he used the Time Manipulation technique to ban the Pool of Lhasa Road, he could not and had not thought of bringing the water of the surrounding lakes into the spatial shield of the Corruption Black.
He hadn't expected Mera to be able to summon so much water from so far away; this water must be...
"I am Mera, and I control the waters!"
The towering water, like a tsunami, was summoned by Mera and flew high into the sky from afar. Countless streams of water, carrying large amounts of mud and sand, circled around Mera like steel cables. She stood on the waves and held the ocean current in her hand. On this battlefield with water on the ground, Mera made the most of her strengths.
The torrent of water suddenly coalesced into a massive water blade over 40 meters long, which swung fiercely towards Akane. And before that…
Mera screamed in pain. Her attention was completely focused on attacking Akane, and she didn't notice the black mist emanating from the fish and shrimp that were swept up to him by the current.
A crab that appeared to be completely controlled by the Corruption Black was hidden among the large group of normal crabs. Before Mera could react, it jumped onto her back, swung its pincers, and pierced her tough Atlantean skin in an instant, injecting the Corruption Black's black power into Mera's body.
Mera screamed and collapsed to the ground, the torrent of water vanishing in an instant.
Akane was taken aback.
Did I do this? Why didn't I prepare a backup plan like this?
He was a little confused, but when Arthur saw his wife lying there, Batman slumped like a dead dog, his eyes turned red in an instant.
He pounced on Akane like a mad tiger, but soon crashed into a man whose eyes were glowing red.
"I'm sorry," General Zod said, "I'm afraid I have no choice but to do this."
Arthur rammed his head into Zod's chest, but Zod's powerful bio-force rendered Arthur's headbutt ineffective.
With a single punch, the exhausted Arthur was struck so hard that he plowed the ground dozens of meters into the earth like an iron plow, and the ground exploded like a bomb.
He lunged back, only to be met with an even heavier punch. This time, General Zod grabbed his arm and flung his head high into the air.
Zatanna's transformation spell finally reached its limit, and Arthur's fish-headed form appeared before Zod.
Seeing that Arthur had not yet lost consciousness, General Zod threw another punch, and countless fish scales flew out like shrapnel.
"Batman...you..."
Aquaman was panting heavily; he felt he had been driven to the brink of despair.
He tried to seek Batman's help, but all he saw was Batman lying there silently, like a dead bat.
"Batman can't help you at all. He can't help anyone," General Zod said.
Then he turned to look at Akane, his gaze falling on Mera, who was already corrupted by the blackness of decay: "Not bad, a sneak attack."
Akane frowned slightly. He wanted to explain to General Zod that the crab controlled by the Black Rot was not his doing, but he couldn't understand how things had happened just now if he didn't control those Black Rot creations.
"Look at how helplessly you struggle against this inevitable outcome, defeated by the enemy you despised, like a fish dragged from the water, lying helplessly in the mud. How pathetic."
General Zod then turned his gaze to Batman, who was lying there.
"I wish Karl El could see what you look like now. You caused me unbearable pain when we first met, and you banished me back to the Phantom Zone..."
His eyes shot out a red, intense gaze, turning the spot where Batman lay into a sea of fire.
"Zord, the Anti-Monitor needs Batman's secrets and power; we can't kill him now."
"I know A.K. Kane, but you don't know Batman."
General Zod said, his mind inexplicably conjuring up the image of his superheroine mother who had poured out her heart to him, and his face darkened.
He continued:
Even if he is defeated, he will secretly plot something.
"Believe me, look at how powerless he is now, but who knows what disgusting tricks he might be planning."
For example, Superman's phlegm. General Zod tried to force himself to forget those things, but whenever Batman's conspiracy was mentioned, these past memories would replay in his mind.
"It's wiser to render him completely powerless now than to be forced to confront his schemes later..."
He added, "Smarter...and more fulfilling."
Chen Tao lay on the ground in the classic death pose of Dragon Ball Yamcha, his eyes fixed on the silver-white text on his retina:
[Warning! Warning! Anchored item detected:]
[Aquaman's shattered fish scales]
[Warning: Please immediately acquire an anchored item.]
[WARNING: This anchored item can target Batman files]
[The drowned souls of the innocent]
[Danger Level: SS-]
Damn it, after all that effort, we finally achieved our goal.
Chen Tao sat up from the ground, feeling pain all over his body.
Damn it.
He took a breath.
I really hope that what he went through so much trouble to get is useful enough.
He pressed his hand against his temple.
"Bane, it's a success. Don't let the power of the corrupting darkness corrupt Mera any further."
He turned to look at Akainu and Zod, his eyes filled with deep malice.
"Now it's time for a one-time settlement."
(End of this chapter)