Chapter 2285: Late Autumn in Golden City (Forty-Nine)
Bruce is difficult to deal with, but Barbatos still lets him deal with him because Bruce is not the first Batman that Barbatos has come into contact with. The dark universe is full of masters.
The dark sources of DC generally present the following characteristics: they have the ability to pollute the light, but are more willing to flow to areas where dark energy is also rich. In essence, they present a kind of regional aggregation inertia, rather than outward diffusion pollution.
In other words, Barbatos wants to use dark power to pollute the light universe, not to drop dye into the water, but to push the shot put continuously, which is actually a heavy and laborious process.
Otherwise, with Barbatos's status, although he can't say that he can take down the entire light universe, it is still very easy to occupy several unimportant strongholds in the light universe itself when there is darkness.
Of course, in fact, it is because when the character of Barbatos was designed, he only had a seniority in the wisdom and ability. The editor could not explain why this character was so awesome, but he did nothing for so long before, and he was unknown, and had to wait until the Dark Knights appeared to focus on performance.
In the wisdom rating, Barbatos is not even ranked, not to mention Brainiac, and there are more than ten Batmans between him and Luthor.
In the force ranking, those transcendent beings like Barbatos and heaven and hell are basically not included in the ranking. Their personalities are relatively empty, and they always talk about the power of laws and rules. In fact, they can't beat anyone with fists and flesh. The force value is basically described in a side way.
The only relatively distinctive setting is the mental pollution, which is quite cool, but once it is put into the plot, it looks no different from ordinary brainwashing. There is no large-scale operation with pollution.
In general, the character of Barbatos is more like a design to complete the background of major events and fill in where it is lacking. Not to mention those orthodox heroes, the fashion value is not even comparable to Darkseid.
Because of this, Barbatos has placed his hopes on the entire DC comics, and even on Batman, the most fashionable hero in the entire comics world, more than once. However, due to the theory of the enrichment of the source of dark energy, most of the Batmans in the dark universe are grotesque.
Batman himself is the source and delivery port of darkness. The darkness he possesses is more like the darkness directly given by the editorial department. Then Batman in the dark universe is the concentration point of dark power.
As long as Barbatos still has dark power, it will continue to be instilled into Batman in the dark universe, but this does not make them stronger, because Batman's strongest point is his brain, and the dark power can hardly strengthen their wisdom while keeping their sanity normal.
In short, farmers only fantasize about the emperor hoeing the land with a golden hoe. Barbatos, who represents dark energy, is not very smart. How can the energy he represents strengthen a peerless genius who is above all universes?
Of course, we have to mention Laughing Maniac when we talk about this, but actually Laughing Maniac has little to do with Barbatos. Barbatos is just an old man with a ring who shows up at the end of the entire origin story.
Although nominally it is because every dark universe has been polluted by Barbatos' dark energy that Batman faces several tragedies, to be honest, the Batman who laughs has become what he is now, which is more or less related to his natural war madness, and Barbatos is not to blame.
After all, there are so many dark multiverses, and everyone is doing well but you are the one who is in trouble. Although it is a reverse trouble, it is enough to show that Barbatos is not the father of Laughing Maniac at all.
Back to Barbatos' previous plan to find the vanguard in the dark universe, he actually did find it, but the whole process of searching and selecting can be regarded as the ancient gods witnessing the diversity of human species.
Barbatos is not a human being. Although he is an intelligent life and has emotions, it is really difficult for him to understand some human behaviors.
From his perspective, Batman suddenly went crazy one day and started killing his friends and relatives, even all kinds of people who had nothing to do with him. Then the relatives and friends of the killed people came to take revenge, and the two sides fought each other.
Batman couldn't win, so he either transformed himself or others. The two sides screamed and insisted on fighting each other, and finally the whole earth was smashed to pieces, and Barbatos had to clean up the mess for them.
Otherwise, why do people say that Batman in the bright universe is the white moonlight? Barbatos wants to invade the bright universe, so he needs a plan and someone to execute it. However, making and executing plans requires wisdom and action, but most of the Batman in the dark multiverse are crazy and don't have these two things at all. But if you want to get a normal Batman, you have to invade the bright universe...
Obviously it has become a dead circle, so Barbatos is so happy about Bruce's appearance, and he entrusted him with important tasks right away, because no matter whether this guy is troublesome or not, at least he is a normal person.
Barbatos didn't even dare to use his mind to pollute Bruce. Not to mention that Bruce has an angelic status, he connected to Bruce's mind network, and it is very likely that he could call God. Just the chaos and madness in his dark attributes made him dare not take this risk. What if he made another one crazy?
Barbatos now holds Bruce in his hands for fear of dropping him, and holds him in his mouth for fear of melting him. Although it is annoying, he endures it.
So has Bruce made any achievements?
Actually, there are, but not many.
Many people may wonder why Bruce is so stubborn. Is it all useless? Are all the work reports he sent to Barbatos disguised?
This is too much to underestimate Batman. All the plans made by Bruce are not only precise and vicious, but also implemented in place and implemented thoroughly. The personnel arrangement is rigorous, the work method is scientific, and the efficiency is also full.
According to this, Barbatos should be able to reach the Bright Universe soon, but in fact, the progress bar was pushed forward and retracted, and Barbatos couldn't find any fault.
This has to mention that when the Doujie beta version was opened, Bruce went to the Doujie resident office and coincidentally met Nick Fury from Schiller's universe.
Yes, it's the same thing about SHIELD and Hydra.
However, to this day, the evil fourth power who fully exerts subjective initiative has improved and developed this system day by day, and even formed a systematic teaching system. The first beneficiary is Bruce.
Who is Bruce? He is Batman. No one in the world can understand it more quickly than him. He even transformed the plan on the basis of the evil fourth power to be more adapted to local conditions and added many details that they didn't notice.
The basis of this theory is actually to create a big game between good and evil by bringing wolves into the house, greatly increase the consumption of resources on the surface, and take this opportunity to move the five ghosts and burn the warehouse with the fire dragon, so as to divert resources for other purposes.
Then use the misappropriated resources to create more job opportunities, so that everyone is busy with things that do not exist at all. This can not only keep the evil side from doing other things, but also show that they have done a lot in front of the righteous side.
Bruce naturally follows this idea, but the good and evil are reversed. He stands on the side of the owls, and his boss is Barbatos.
Barbatos is equivalent to the Congress that approves funds, the owls are equivalent to the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Hydra is naturally the Batman of each universe to resist the owls. Of course, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, etc. are occasionally introduced to play the role of KGB.
The general operation method is to first use a very detailed and reasonable plan to point out the problems of a universe owl. All these problems are real and will be improved after receiving the budget.
These budgets will not be embezzled, but will be used in the right way. With Batman's wisdom and execution ability, the combat power of the owls can be increased by dozens of times in just a few weeks.
The members of the Court of Owls are not vegetarians. The stronger the power, the greater the ambition, and it is inevitable that they will conflict with the justice side. Barbatos also thinks so. Since under the leadership of Batman, the owls have the ability to fight against superheroes head-on, then why not?
After so many years of secretly transporting energy and pollution, he finally has the opportunity to be proud of himself. It’s okay that he couldn’t win in the past, but now he is so strong, it’s time to get back what he owed in the past.
So Barbatos and the Court of Owls have no objection to coming to the light, because in their view, it is only a matter of time before they will confront the human order society, and they can’t hide forever.
In this way, most of the Court of Owls under Bruce’s rule have come to the light and become a world-renowned terrorist organization, which naturally attracted Batman’s high attention.
Bruce used a little trick to guide Batman, making him think that the death of his parents was probably caused by the owls at the beginning - although some of them may be true, those who are not can still be guided by some clever means to make Batman misunderstand.
This is his own city, and the large-scale extreme terrorists may be his own enemies who killed his relatives. It is impossible for Batman to ignore it.
Logically speaking, this is an internal incident in Gotham, but it would be strange if Bruce would let Batman deal with it so easily. Under his leadership, the Court of Owls is extremely high-profile.
Don't worry about whether it is NAZI, Hydra, genocide, or alien conspiracy. They will make up whatever Hollywood makes them. We are evil and unrepentant. If you don't bring a company of superheroes, can you still call it justice?
As a result of such a high profile, most superheroes with a sense of justice will continue to pay attention to the situation here, and Batman will not be able to deal with the Court of Owls completely independently. Once superheroes like Superman enter the scene, it is impossible not to have a grand scene.
So the scenes of these universes have become the Court of Owls becoming the most powerful and most powerful villain on earth, and superhero organizations such as the Justice League are working tirelessly day and night to fight against them.
In the game, even though a character has become one of the human rights in the current version through a technical change, and the difficulty of the dungeon has been comprehensively strengthened, the change is equivalent to no change.
And as expected, in most cases, the character technical changes are not for any balance adjustment. The ultimate goal of the manufacturer is only one, that is, to cheat krypton.