Chapter 196 : Perpetua!
[The maniacal laughter abruptly ceased!]
[His crazed, smug gaze vanished, replaced by unparalleled astonishment!]
[Before his eyes, the Joker and Batman stood side by side!"
Can water and fire truly coexist?
Every observer knows otherwise!
The Joker and Batman are as incompatible as water and fire!
Like opposite ends of a magnet!
Destined never to touch unless crushed into oblivion!
Yet now, the inconceivable has come to pass!
The Joker has allied with Batman!
In the Batcave, Bruce addressed the clown seated on the ground with an air of strangeness!
Logic dictates that such a union is utterly impossible in any reality!
Yet the footage depicts the complete contrary!
Kamar-Taj!
Deadpool clutches his head in disbelief, the very fabric of the concept shaken to its core!
"It's madness, the mouse acting as bridesmaid to the cat!"
Strange remained speechless, unable to grasp the bizarre metaphor!
Moreover, shouldn't you be the epitome of madness in all realms!?
DC's primary universe!
Even Lucifer inquired with a bewildered expression:
"Father, did you orchestrate this as well?"
God shook his head:
"I merely annulled one future, allowing events to unfold into another timeline!
"It does not override individual will!"
In essence, all of this is the original desire of the Joker!
["You bring disgrace upon clowns everywhere!"]
[The wounded laughter's taunts sparked anger!]
[Yet it was Joker's gleeful laughter that met his gaze 🙂
["Fool, I do as I please.. la la la)
[The next moment, the battle reignites!]
[Joker and Batman stand united, launching their assault on the Maniac!)
[With the addition of the Dionysian factor in Joker and Batman empowered by the tenth metal, the tide shifts against the injured laughter!]
[Inside Batcave, the sound of fighting is growing fainter and fainter!)
[At last, Maniac was interrupted by Joker's index finger, and then his neck was twisted by Batman!]
(This time, everyone's laughter was accounted for as they met their demise!)
[Perhaps, from the moment of his transformation, he would never have envisioned that Batman and Joker could one day fight side by side!]
"And, 1+1>2)
"Ring.."
"It seems the verbose Batman won't be having good fortune!"
In that moment, the clown jubilantly raised his hands and cheered, as if he had secured the victory!
But Batman wasn't celebrating!
In his view, such a triumph couldn't be replicated, even if the Dark Knights weren't rewarded!
Unless God intervened once more!
Yet, if The Batman Who Laughs didn't obliterate all universes and instead subjugated or tainted them, it remained uncertain whether God would still intervene!
Humans needed self-salvation rather than relying on a God!
[The scene continues, unfurling even after the demise of The Batman Who Laughs!)
[The world's crucible, the weapon forged from the fourth metal piercing through Barbatos' chest!)
[Other Dark Knights also met their end under the blessing of the tenth metal Aquaman, Superman, and others!"
[Subsequently, the rescued members of the Overwatch United Justice League saved all those once consumed by Barbatos!"
[Furthermore, the devastation caused by the Dark Knights was rectified, the Challenge Mountain returned to its original stance, and tranquility was restored!!)
[And Barbatos was bound at the depths of the dark multiverse by chains crafted by the Watcher himself, compelled to reignite the world forge and await the return of the true artisan!"
"Cough, another happy ending!"
"Even though the villain takes center stage in this video, the ending is still absurd!"
"How sorrowful!!"
In Sanctuary II, Thanos's eyes gleam with mockery!
This scorn is not just directed at the Dark Knights, but also at myself!
The world always seems rigged in favor of the righteous, how unjust!
But in the next moment, the scene shifts once more!
[The invaded world expands even further!]
(And on the fringes of the normal and dark multiverse, a colossal wall emerges!)
[So vast, it encompasses everything!]
[And suddenly, a fissure appears in this wall for reasons unknown!]
[In the next instant, a golden silhouette, a figure cloaked in gray, and a streak of emerald green and crimson burst forth!]
Off-screen, countless viewers shiver uncontrollably!!
Those few apparitions just now, their momentary presence seems to freeze everything in place!
Incredibly potent!
Unfathomably mighty!
Their ephemeral aura is more daunting than Barbatos himself!
"In the Batcave, even the Joker falls silent at this moment!
Superman, who's been lauded, is no longer brimming with confidence!
And Batman's gaze betrays weariness!
He's puzzled by this world's anomalies, by the existence of such dread-inducing beings!?
Must one truly rely on divine intervention for everything?
And just then, the laughter that sets his heart pounding resurfaces!
[In the darkness, the maniacal laughter of the deceased echoes once more!]
[In the next instance, the darkness is pierced by a pair of colossal golden eyes dominating the sky!]
[They're brimming with galaxies, with divinity, and with lingering resentment!]
["Hehe, am I the one you've resurrected?"]
["And who might you be?"]
[The form of The Batman Who Laughs slowly coalesces from the void. Rather than fear, he expresses curiosity!]
[The next instant, a resplendent female voice resounded!]
["My name is Perpetua... You may address me as the Goddess of Destruction!"]
Off-screen, countless intelligent beings from DC World 0.7 were utterly dumbfounded!
Even the formidable Lucifer of the main universe!
"Father, who... who is she!?" Lucifer gulped, his voice hoarse with apprehension!
He sensed that the energy emanating from her was not only boundless but also profoundly formidable!
God sighed, never anticipating that the world's secrets would be laid bare to such an extent!
In this moment, he chose not to conceal anything, and spoke forthrightly:
"Perpetua."
"She was originally of the divine lineage, hailing from a family of creation gods, and emerged as a goddess of creation!"
"However, the evolution of the multiverse necessitates the self-sacrifice of the creator gods to sustain its energy!"
The very next moment, God's words sent shivers down Lucifer's spine!
He listened intently as God continued slowly:
"And this is the destiny ordained by higher-dimensional gods for the creator gods!"
"A god even I am unfamiliar with!"
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