Days as a Spiritual Mentor in American Comics-Chapter 5554 - 4580: Blackest Night (Final)

The Black Death Emperor does not invade the cosmos by opening a physical channel, at least not now, the channel has not opened yet, and he cannot completely descend. He is trapped by energy because he has chosen to use the rules channel.

It’s similar to how Barbados can influence Gotham through the power of darkness because Batman is the Dark Source. As long as he’s in Gotham, a constant flow of darkness will pour in. This is the power at the level of rules, in simple terms, it’s a setting.

The Black Death Emperor is the same. As long as there is death, he has a certain power of control. He can transmit his energy along the traces of death, but the transmission is very limited. Just like Barbados cannot directly use his power of darkness to control Batman; he must find someone to open the door first.

Following the traces of death naturally means walking along the traces of death. But when he tried to leave, he couldn’t find the traces of death.

It’s impossible for there to be a place without death in this world. Furthermore, he doesn’t just control the rules of death, similar evolutions and decay can be used. But here, there’s nothing, like a vacuum.

This is too abnormal. The Black Death Emperor has never encountered such a situation before. He can naturally detect that Earth has changed places, but he didn’t expect the madmen who moved Earth would dare to place their home in such a dangerous spot. Where is this place?

Not long after, the Curse Xie Kun lying dormant below the coast ended his cycle of emergence. Just like a real solar eclipse, it came silently and left silently. The sea surface restored its calm, and darkness was also about to end.

Yet, just like Brainiac felt, after the solar eclipse ended, Earth did not return to the embrace of the warm Sun. The sunlight vanished, replaced by a faint blue light illuminating the globe, not warm but bright enough.

Brainiac didn’t know what this was, nor could he explain it. Thus, he could only declare that it was another disaster. People had already adapted, having endured eternal night, now having a bit of light was already good.

Earth returned to normal. Now the ones who are anxious, apart from Brainiac eager to figure out the situation, are the Black Death Emperor.

But as he explored the surrounding situation, an incredible event occurred - the portal to the Lifeless Realm opened.

The Black Death Emperor had been striving for this, and there had been some progress. The doors from the Lifeless Realm to the Real Universe already had cracks. Somehow, moments ago, the door suddenly exploded open, the portal opened effortlessly.

The Black Death Emperor felt not a shred of happiness. He has fully recognized the sinister nature of humanity, but this was merely his assumption, as it is far from the limits of the human race.

Soon, the energy left by the Black Death Emperor on Earth, which manipulated Hugo’s consciousness, became the mark at the other end of the portal. The portal opened above the Earth, entering this space filled with blue light.

The anomaly was finally detected by the master of this realm. When the tall figure of a Titan appeared at the entrance, the Black Death Emperor’s heart, which had been hanging, finally perished.

These mad humans, this completely brain-damaged Justice League, these irresponsible masters of this planet, in order to deliver him before Darkseid, directly moved Earth into the Apocalypse Domain!

Darkseid apparently also saw Earth. His level of shock should be comparable to that of the Black Death Emperor, and his facial expression could basically be summed up as "Am I waking up differently today?"

The Black Death Emperor believes Darkseid is definitely doubting that he’s seeing an illusion, but he can only desperately think that human imagination is even scarier than illusions. Is this a strategy that wisdom life can think of? 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

But soon, the Black Death Emperor realized that perhaps humans really have the wisdom to close doors. Because in this state now, Earth is in no worse a situation than the Black Death Emperor or Darkseid.

Now, the portal of the Lifeless Realm opens within the Apocalypse Domain. This means the Black Death Emperor’s true form can rush out to fight Darkseid, and Darkseid’s true form can rush over to fight the Black Death Emperor. As for why they would fight each other, it’s naturally because they are both imposing Dark Monarchs, and a single mountain cannot house two tigers.

Darkseid cannot allow the Black Death Emperor to storm into his home whenever, and the Black Death Emperor also cannot allow Darkseid to peer into his old home whenever. They must end this awkward situation. But the most awkward part is that neither of them opened the portal, and they don’t even know how to close it. Earth exists perhaps to stare at them, preventing them from closing the portal.

So why can’t they join forces to assault Earth? Because Earth actually doesn’t have any irreconcilable conflicts with them. It won’t stay here forever, nor could it go to the Lifeless Realm, fundamentally posing them no harm.

Of course, Earth itself is a treasure. Darkseid of course wants to keep it, after all, how could one not savor the treasure delivered to their doorstep. Fighting the Black Death Emperor doesn’t hinder him from trapping Earth, and the Apocalypse Domain can indeed trap Earth, preventing the opponent from leaving easily.

But at this moment, the shield on this planet that glowed with a faint green light suddenly began to reveal mysterious characters. Just glimpsing the opening, Darkseid waved his hand and tossed Earth away.

These mad humans were using their home planet as a display screen to broadcast the Anti-Life Equation. Darkseid certainly desired the Anti-Life Equation, but he absolutely could not let the Black Death Emperor know about it.

The Black Death Emperor was already a spokesperson for death, possessing partial Anti-Life Rules. What he could achieve with the Anti-Life Equation far surpassed Darkseid still residing in the Material Universe. If obtaining the Divine Artifact meant giving a copy to a powerful enemy, Darkseid would rather not have it.

Batman is just an ordinary human, his form of life limited his maximum strength. Darkseid often used this trick against him, never expecting that one day he himself would be restrained by life forms. Compared to Black Death Emperor, a being of rules, his utilization of power was not high enough, and his capabilities were too limited.

Earth resembled that ball in Zuma, spat out by the Apocalypse Domain with a "quack" sound. However, Earth had no intention to leave, just squatting beside the Apocalypse Domain in a watching-the-show posture.

And even bigger excitement was yet to come—the Batmen arrived.

This explained why Earth didn’t leave. Because the Battleworld Multiverse channel was not an absolute cosmic coordinate but a relative coordinate bound to Earth. Wherever Earth was, they would teleport there. So, when the Batmen passed through the channel, they were directly facing the Apocalypse Domain.

This tensed the nerves of both Darkseid and the Black Death Emperor. No one knew what these darkened fellows intended to do. Logically, they should help one eliminate the other, but knowing Batman, it was more likely that Batman intended to annihilate them all.

Both of them had suffered significant losses at Batman’s hands. Darkseid directly lost an Apocalypse Star, while the Black Death Emperor was directly expelled from the first universe he chose. In such circumstances, seemingly there was no alternative but to unite.

Yet, there was no foundation of trust between them. The previous preliminary cooperation was nothing more than a makeshift arrangement. As the saying goes, they were both Dark Monarchs in their respective domains, and neither was willing to take the first step back.

Thus, a bizarre tripartite stalemate formed. The Black Death Emperor was individually strong, Darkseid held the home advantage, and Batman waited like a tiger watching its prey.

The Black Death Emperor might already regret the farce he caused. He should have anticipated something was amiss when the first step of the plan went awry, retracting power to lie low and wait for a chance to start anew.

Darkseid seemed more like an innocent victim. Although he secretly aided the Black Death Emperor, hoping he could stir trouble in the Multiverse, he wanted Black Death Emperor and Batman to suffer mutual destruction, allowing him to watch them fight from the sidelines, not turning himself into a battlefield for multifaceted contention.

The Batmen also seemed hurried, carrying a certain angry and helpless demeanor, making them appear to be cleaning up a mess, instead of calculating winners waiting for this day.

Strangely, they all sensed each other’s helplessness, then realized there was definitely a troublemaker who led the situation to this point step by step. Perhaps not to see who won or lost, but as an equal retaliation against anyone daring to make them work overtime, including the universe-invading Black Death Emperor, the chaos-stirring Darkseid, or even the purely defending Batman.

"You seem to be completely indifferent," Arkham Batman looked at Primary Universe Batman and said, "Even if this completely disrupted our plan, rendering your steadily advancing investigation and counterattack plan utterly useless."

"When the Black Death Emperor chose this universe, I already had a premonition," Primary Universe Batman was quite calm, "You can’t expect a mysterious existence dwelling in the Lifeless Realm for ages to understand the nine-to-five concept. And if he doesn’t respect labor laws, then the Justice League, which respects labor laws across the Multiverse the most, will undoubtedly strike hard against him."

"So what about us?!" Big Adventure Batman couldn’t help but complain, "We didn’t make them work overtime!"

"But we’re working overtime," Primary Universe Batman said, "This will be seen as sabotage behavior by them. Meaningless excessive internal competition might make them appear as lazybones not working hard."

"Aren’t they???" Big Adventure Batman raised his voice, "You mean our work of defending the Multiverse should have weekends off?? Why don’t they go ask those who invade the Multiverse..."

At this point, his voice came to an abrupt halt. The Batmen in the room also fell into silence because they all realized that perhaps this universe’s Justice League was indeed doing just that.

By simultaneously pounding on both their opponents and allies, they were implementing their labor philosophy—you may invade the Multiverse, you may resist Multiverse invasion, but please do so within the designated time during workdays. Otherwise, we will surely strike hard, defending the legal rights of workers, equally ensuring that every outlaw contemptuous of labor laws will meet misfortune.