redvbooks Chapter 377 The First Appearance of the Black Death Emperor
Chapter 377 The First Appearance of the Black Death Emperor
Chapter 377 The Black Death Emperor Makes His First Appearance (Happy New Year!)
In the quiet room at the Justice League base.
These rooms are designed for guests and are fully equipped with all the necessary amenities. The interior space is larger than that of many hotel rooms.
At this moment, Bain was sitting cross-legged in the center of the large bed, serene and detached.
He had a shaved head, and his muscular, burly body was dressed in a training uniform that resembled a monk's robe. He looked like a character straight out of an American kung fu movie like "Kung Fu Panda" or "Jackie Chan Adventures".
And that is indeed the case. Bane is now almost treating the three powers of red, green, and black as martial arts, and has even started a sect in the Himalayas. If it weren't for Chen Tao and the evil power of the corrupt black coming to him, given Bane's trend of recruiting so many disciples, he might have been asked to be named the Sorcerer Supreme in a few hundred years.
This is also why Chen Tao came to find Bane. Compared to Chen Tao, who spends all his time doing this or that or immersing himself in the laboratory, Bane, who is single-mindedly studying the three powers, is a master in using the power of the Corrupted Black. Chen Tao's amateurish level is simply incomparable.
"This matter... is very important... I need your help again, after all, we're brothers."
Hearing Batman's matter-of-fact tone, Bane let out a long sigh of relief.
Bane then made Batman break out in a cold sweat with a single sentence.
"I went to get Damian's DNA and compared it with my DNA. I received the comparison report a few hours ago."
bang bang dong!
Ah... Although Chen Tao had long known that Bane would eventually discover his trick of using the "brotherly relationship" between Batman and Bane, which had been proven false in the comics, to coerce Bane into helping him, he never expected it to happen at this awkward moment.
"So we're not brothers at all. And the father I've been searching for isn't Thomas Wayne."
Bane said, and he noticed that Batman across from him remained silent.
What is Chen Tao doing?
Chen Tao was rushing to tamper with the databases of research institutions worldwide capable of performing DNA comparisons.
In the comics, Batman already owns shares in these research institutions. He planted a virus in their databases, so anyone who tries to compare Batman's and Bruce Wayne's blood for DNA will ultimately find that Batman and Bruce Wayne are not the same person.
However, as Chen Tao became increasingly unlike a human, this DNA comparison lost its meaning. Chen Tao also felt that this matter was not very important, so he gradually put it out of his mind and never mentioned it again.
Therefore, after Damian appeared, he also subconsciously ignored classifying Damian Wayne's bloodline into an incomparable category.
However, the error was corrected in a short time. A few minutes later, the staff of the research institution discovered that there was an error in their previous test and called Bain to inform him that he had a DNA test report that had been accidentally reversed.
However, what he needed to do now was to buy time and prevent Bain from leaving in anger.
"I need your help, Bain." He took a deep breath and said, "This time it's about..."
He was about to say a few more words and wait for the call, but Bain answered him directly:
"Okay, I'll help."
……Um?
Chen Tao looked at him with some confusion, unable to figure out what the other party was up to.
"I said I'd help you out, Batman, but you have to do me a favor too," Bane said.
Chen Tao felt a little embarrassed, and he began to pray that the research institution wouldn't call Bain now.
Bane was also a little embarrassed, as this was the first time he had asked Batman to do something for him; it was like a young woman getting married for the first time.
However, Bain quickly put aside the chaotic thoughts in his mind and refocused his attention on the important matter at hand.
"The Black Rot," Bane said. "The Black Rot is being devoured. Every night I hear the wailing of the Council of Rot. The Black Rot is about to spiral out of control, Batman. We've all seen the Council of Totem, the Red of All Beings, and the Council of Trees, the Green of All Beings. The Black Rot has its own Council of Rot, but now they're almost all dead, their power being drained by a dangerous enough monster..."
Bain said, "You have too little power over the Corruption Black, perhaps only a tiny bit... This prevents you from seeing the truth."
"Anton Akane..." Chen Tao uttered the name in a low voice, and the matter was quite simple: Akane was the mastermind behind the major DC event "The Arrival of the Corrupt Country".
"You know that name? It seems you have a deeper grasp of the Corruption than I thought." Bain glanced at Chen Tao with some surprise, then continued, "Arkan murdered a large number of members of the Corruption Council and imprisoned the rest. The power of the Corruption has surged again, like the tides rising during the tides."
As things stand, although Akane has already plundered enough power from within the Black Decay, if he wants to achieve complete dominion over the Black Decay, there is still one obstacle he must overcome, and the name of that person is…”
"Bane." x2
Chen Tao and Bain gave the answer in unison.
Chen Tao rubbed his head.
He understood what was going on. In fact, the expansion of the Decaying Black had been going on for quite some time. Hundreds of years ago, the power of the Decaying Black had already far surpassed that of the other two forces, Red and Green, and had begun to subvert the balance between the forces of nature.
But at that time, the Corruption Council was still suppressing the Corruption. At that time, Akane was at most a spokesperson for the Corruption, a relatively important one, but not even a general spokesperson like Swamp Monster or Life Lord Maxim.
At that time, he was just one of the strongest representatives besides the general representative, similar to the red-faced bat among all living beings and the green poison ivy among all living beings.
Over the centuries, he killed all those within the Corrupt Council who could challenge his power, gradually pushing the Corrupt Council to a point where it could no longer be contained.
According to the original comic's progression, by this time, the corrupt council, which had been raising a tiger that was now a threat, should have been completely destroyed by Akane. Akane would then take charge in the Black Corruption, spending his days at home meticulously planning the "Descendants of Corruption" event, and then unleash a massive wave of destruction all at once.
But now that Bane is another living representative of the Corruption, Akane has failed to gather all the power of the Corruption and thus has failed to eliminate all the Corruption Councils. This is a complete chain reaction that has led to the current strange standoff within the Corruption.
"I need your help to weaken Arkansas. A battle between us is inevitable," Bane said. "I can't help you. This is a battle for the power of the Corrupted Black, and unless I'm willing to give up what I now control of all the Corrupted Black's power, this battle is unavoidable."
Moreover, even if they give up, the outcome will still be very ugly.
"I see."
Chen Tao said.
He took a deep breath: "The unchecked expansion of the Corrupted Black will also cause many problems, and I will handle this matter."
"Hmm." Bain nodded, then continued, "There's something else. I have a vague feeling that Arkansas has distributed his power to two people—which is terrifying in a way, because it's something that the representative of the power of decay and darkness could never do."
Bain is right. Even a powerful representative of the Green of All Things, like the Swamp Monster, cannot simply replace the Council of Trees to share the power of the Green of All Things with anyone out of thin air, unless it is forcibly obtained through physical science (such as using the Human-faced Bat Potion to force the Red of All Things to grant it power).
"But he still managed to do it, which means that Arkansas has successfully usurped a portion of the power of the Corrupted Council. He can now freely share the power of the Corrupted Black with anyone he wants."
I don't know right now who exactly was granted fiefdoms by Arkansas, but you must know this.
Bain wanted to say something more, but Chen Tao suddenly interrupted him.
"No matter what new spokesperson Anton Akane appoints, I believe his first target will definitely be you."
"Yes, Batman, he..."
"And you will definitely be able to defeat them."
Chen Tao said:
"That's what I believe."
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"Anton Akane?"
Mongo sat in his room, listening to the constant rumble of cannons outside the war fortress, interspersed with screams of the wounded, or the hysterical laughter of the Yellow Lanterns as the cannons were fired.
The fierce attack on Planet OA has been going on for several days. During this time, Mongo has been thinking about killing Senesto and then plundering all his property and power.
But he still needs Sinestro, just as Sinestro needs him.
When they are separated, they are too weak and need to rely on an organization to exert their own powerful strength.
Although he and Seneca haven't fallen out yet, both ambitious individuals know that once OA is conquered and they no longer have a common goal, their rivalry, even if it doesn't erupt immediately, will quickly become a constant occurrence.
When the time comes, it will be a life-or-death struggle over who will be able to control Parallax. Neither Sinestro nor Mongo will tolerate the other standing above them and lording it over them.
Therefore, for Mongo, being able to make more preparations before the battle begins is always more advantageous for him.
At this moment, half of his yellow body began to rot and stink, oozing a fishy yellow pus. Correspondingly, insect compound eyes appeared in his eye sockets, and two or three huge limbs extended directly from his back with a muffled groan from Mongo, then made a metallic clanging sound on the ground.
"you……"
Mongo held his head, feeling the power shared with him by the storm of death. He instinctively sensed the name of the master of this power.
In that endless, decaying blackness... a huge figure sat there like a statue, his whole body in the purplish-red hue of a corpse that had just died, like a giant, toothy frog carcass with its skin peeled off.
"You...you...are very good...good..."
Fragmented messages echoed in Mongo's mind, then the name appeared: "Destroy...destroy...Bane..."
The sound was so evil and overwhelming that it made Mongo tremble all over.
He was convinced that he had connected with one of the most powerful energies in the universe, and that he had sensed its essence: complete, corrupt death.
This power can bring death to Sinestro... If he controls death itself, then what does Sinestro have to worry about?
Having only briefly come into contact with the essence of the Rotten Black, Mongo had already grasped dozens of simple uses within it.
He had always known that Sinestro might be able to influence the entire Sinestro Legion through the Yellow Lantern Ring, but the Rotten Black could turn all the Legion members directly into rotting corpses under his control. Even if the Yellow Lantern Ring was powerful, if the ring's owner was controlled, it probably wouldn't be able to exert any significant power on its own, which would greatly weaken Sinestro's power.
Then, coupled with the assassination attempt by the Death Storm...
However, the power of the decaying darkness wasn't free; it came at a price. Despite being separated by vast distances and with only sporadic communication, in that pitch-black space of consciousness, Mongo could clearly sense the conditions offered by Anton A. Kane:
Destroy Bane.
Bane, who is that? It sounds like an earthling's name, as memorable as Hal Jordan.
But none of this concerns him. Mongo just wants to gain more power; he has no interest in getting involved in the disputes between the person who gave him power and others.
He only needed to complete the mission. As long as he could kill the other party, he didn't care about breaking the other party's neck and exchanging more power with that being named Anton Acaen.
The problem is that he doesn't know where the target is.
So he silently thought to himself: Where is Bane? Where is Bane? How do I kill him...?
However, Mongo quickly froze.
Because within that space of consciousness, he sensed another powerful darkness invading this place.
The force was so immense that it was like an elephant trying to squeeze itself into a room, causing the whole house to groan. Then the elephant stopped its futile efforts and was about to leave when it saw someone chisel a large hole in the wall next to it.
So the elephant, through the broken doorway, put half of its trunk...
It reached in.
Mongo, however, read the complete name of that being:
Black Death Emperor.
(End of this chapter)