novelhk Chapter 444 The Bat of Laughter Has Been Born
Chapter 444 The Bat of Laughter Has Been Born
Chapter 444 The Bat of Laughter Has Been Born
Just as Rune was concentrating on meditating and honing his magic control skills, the surrounding gravity was decreasing at an extremely rapid rate.
At this moment, who can come to the realm of dreams to save people?
Could it be Constantine? Rune only thought about it for a moment before immediately ruling out that bastard. Constantine had some conscience, knew something about the Endless Family, and was extremely intelligent. He might be able to figure out in a short time that his disappearance was related to the Nightmare.
But how to save oneself?
Come on, Rune doesn't believe this guy will come to save him. At most, Zha Kang will comfort the others.
Constantine knows a lot about nightmares, which is why he would never come over.
Could it be Dr. Fate?
But now that Doctor Fate has been controlled by Naboo again, it's even less likely that he'll come to save me.
Did the raven pay some price to get Constantine to help?
Hmph! If this scum dares to cheat Raven, Rune will make him know what it means to wish he were dead.
Before Rune could think any further, the black hole completely dissipated, and the person in front of the mage was a tall, thin, dark-haired gothic man—yes, it was Morpheus himself.
"Lu————"
He tried to say something, but was struck hard by a sudden punch from Rune. The immense magical power, combined with his powerful willpower, sent him flying, disappearing into the sky.
Interestingly, the spot where Morpheus disappeared flickered twice. Rune squinted, "If there's another sound, I'll definitely come back," that would be fun.
"Are you still angry?"
Morpheus, who had just been knocked away by Rune, appeared behind Rune with an extremely gloomy expression, and his already messy curly hair became even more disheveled.
Rune turned his head. "Why did you let me out? Did you see your older brother?"
"No." Morpheus shook his head, but he saw something unpleasant.
Morpheus had only read the middle part of the book and discovered that Rune was interfering in the fates of other superheroes.
It wasn't until Rune mentioned the future calamities that he turned to the future sections of the heroes' and villains' biographies.
He wasn't really keen on doing this, since books are far less impactful than seeing it in person, and the Nightmare didn't want to be spoiled. However, out of a sense of responsibility to protect the world, Morpheus did it anyway.
As a result, three years later, mass deaths occurred among ordinary people, superheroes, and supervillains alike.
What's even stranger is that there's a lot of garbled text in the book, some parts are blank or blacked out, and some names are even marked with question marks.
For example, there are often instances where Superman fights with another Clark Kent, whose identity is marked with a question mark. However, after reviewing all the other Supermen to date, the Nightmare has not found another counterpart that matches this experience.
Moreover, after a certain period of time, the book became completely blank, as if—
It's as if the entire DC multiverse has been destroyed.
One of the anomalies is that Rune's name does not appear in the future part of the book. The Nightmare can not only find Rune's autobiography, but also find no mention of him by other heroes in the future.
But Morpheus was certain he hadn't killed Rune. He'd merely imprisoned him in the Dream Realm, and if the future were truly so hopeless, the Nightmare would have released him long ago.
Therefore, he could only guess that Rune was the owner of some of the blank names.
Furthermore, referring to the so-called multiverse mutual aid alliance mentioned in other hero autobiographies—
"—So you think I'm the key to solving this disaster, and that's why you've come to me?" Rune asked expressionlessly.
The nightmare nodded. "Yes, this is the reward."
With a flick of his right hand, a ruby appeared in the nightmare demon's hand.
"Is it the thing I'm thinking of?" Rune raised an eyebrow, while the nightmare hummed in agreement.
Without a doubt, this is the Dream Stone, a part of Morpheus's power. This gem once created a powerful villain, Doctor Schicksal, who also appeared in later major events.
The most outrageous thing about this villain is that after losing this artifact, for some reason, he tinkered with it and created a large number of items with similar functions.
Yes, to create a divine artifact with a mortal body is simply outrageous.
The most powerful of them all is the Nightmare Stone. This artifact is so terrifying that even Dr. Schicksal himself dared not use it; he chose to place it directly at the boundary between dreams and reality.
To prevent anyone from using the stone for trouble, Rune decided to accept the Dream Stone from the Nightmare Demon. Regardless of how much power the Nightmare Demon had infused into it, it should be able to counteract the Nightmare Demon Stone.
Rune gently touched his body, and his heart peeled away layer by layer, blooming into a flower of flesh and blood. The Dream Stone was placed deep within the flower, and then everything returned to normal.
Having withstood countless magical and physical attacks, almost no matter in the universe can compare to Rune's own flesh and blood defenses, so as a safe haven for the Dream Stone, Rune's body is quite adequate.
This also temporarily suppressed Rune's urge to punch Nightmare again, since he felt obligated to help.
The Sleep Demon was somewhat stunned by Rune's actions. He hadn't expected Rune to hide the Dream Stone in this way; it was quite novel.
"Want to chat?" Rune conjured up a chair for himself.
The Sleep Demon nodded. He had done all this just to gain a deeper understanding of what the future catastrophe was all about.
Rune felt a little regretful, as Morpheus's older brother was the one with the strongest divination ability in the universe, and he had wanted to seek Morpheus's help.
Rune obtained a great deal of information from the Sleep Demon.
The blank space he mentioned in the future is most likely the period after the Dark Metal event, when the people of Peppertua will usher in a new era for the DC multiverse. At that time, the Source Wall will completely disappear, and countless new worlds will be formed as a result.
After the universe was reshaped, the old DC multiverse naturally lost its future, which is why there was a blank space. Therefore, Rune was not worried about this at all.
The mass deaths of superheroes are to be expected, and being killed by enemies whose names are not even visible is even more normal.
The power of this library is based on destiny, and destiny is a concept in the DC Universe. Within this universe, it is destiny itself—
The body possesses all the rights to interpret this concept, but what about the outside world?
Sorry, it's none of his business.
The large blank spaces, blacked-out areas, and names marked with question marks are almost certainly the Forgotten Ones outside the Origin Wall. They don't belong to this universe, so how could they be predicted?
Rune naturally shared some information with the Sandman, including the existence of the Forsaken.
"I thought the Origin Wall was binding us—" the Nightmare sighed, "but it turns out it was just protecting us."
"By the way, since you can see my memories, why did you specifically come to ask me?"
Morpheus shook his head. "I cannot access your memories; that is not my authority."
"Then why were you able to become—" Rune started to say, then swallowed his words. It seems the Bat of Laughter has already been born—