Tasks Beyond Counting

"It can only be done by me, or by me indirectly," Basil said.

"Fate can be repaired."

Clark, whose original destiny was intertwined with the storyline, was warned by Jor-El that when he resurrected Lana, it would cause him to lose another important person.

This was eventually proven to be true.

Lois was supposed to die, but Old Kent intervened and sacrificed himself.

Let the ripples of fate subside.

"And another thing," Basil looked at the Flash, "Is that the past will influence the present."

"Your Speed Force is exceptionally high; you have truly reached the past of this world, not some parallel world. This will lead to one thing."

"The impact of your going back in time will cause reality to collapse."

"Not division."

"The original universe is destroyed, a new timeline emerges, and the universe is reborn on the remnants of the original universe."

"You did this in a future where I don't exist."

"Your mother did survive."

"But this also led to Clark being found as an infant by Zod and having his blood drained."

"Kara was imprisoned, deprived of sunlight, and turned into a guinea pig."

"The one who survived in that alley was no longer Bruce Ron, but two other people."

"Father Thomas became Batman, a more ruthless and direct Batman who kills directly."

"Mother Martha became Joker and was insane all day long."

"Atlantis, the Amazons and humans wage war."

"You lost the Speed Force and only recovered it with Thomas's help."

In the end, you stopped yourself from wanting to change the future.

"He returned to his original world with Thomas's letter."

"The world is back on track."

Basil was not lying; this was the future he had observed in the world he had not yet reached.

A combination of the comic book "Lightning Paradox" and the movie "The Flash".

Everyone present felt a mix of emotions.

Faced with hope yet also despair, the Flash stared blankly at the Sparks of Speed Force crackling on his hands.

While in Batman form, he always spoke in a way that sounded like he had phlegm in his throat, but he unusually used his original voice, asking, "Can I... can I know the contents of the letter?"

"Yes." Basil curled his fingers and tapped the sky.

Like a burning Apokolips, a row of fiery characters appeared in the sky.

My dear son:

Regarding life, I only understand one thing.

I know that some things happen by chance, while others are caused by us.

Barry Allen has always been troubled by his past.

But since he became the Flash, he has put those unpleasant memories behind him.

He found true love, family, and friends.

Barry believes he has escaped the shadows of the past, but some people will not let him escape the harsh reality.

When Barry asked me for help, I turned him away.

I am not the protagonist of this story. I am merely a person corrupted by unbearable suffering.

I am just a person whose hands are stained with blood, yet I am called a good person.

I am a person who has no attachment to life.

Until the day I met the Flash.

Like I said, I'm not the main character in this story.

Love you, your father Thomas

Batman removes his mask, revealing himself as Bruce Ron, and gazes at everything in the sky with an almost greedy look.

He recognized it; it was his father's handwriting and tone.

Tears streamed down my face without my noticing.

Almost everyone present fell silent.

"Give."

Lex, unusually, did not gloat.

He used his finger to select the sky, then reached out and traced the sky down like a canvas, connecting it to the text on it.

Then, with a light flick of the wrist, a picture frame appeared out of thin air and mounted the drawing paper.

It was handed to Bruce.

"Thank you." Bruce, unusually, did not immediately record this bizarre scene into Luthor [Apocalypse Lex Files] in his mind, but instead accepted the painting as a precious treasure.

"Why are you all so downcast?" Lex asked, puzzled. "Clark made it very clear that he, or indirectly through him, can achieve resurrection and alter the past."

"Clark?" The Flash, Barry, looked at Basil.

"Call me Basil, that's my other name," Basil said.

"Badger? Hufflepuff?" Lex frowned. "You do enjoy tending to plants and decorating with warm yellow and black tones. But I didn't expect you to like it this much."

In the Smallville universe, Basil is known as a famous author.

According to Basil, the author of the Harry Potter series and Marvel series, who underwent some modifications.

As a die-hard Lex of Basil, Lex immediately thought of Hufflepuff in Hogwarts.

"Basil," Batman spoke first, "Is this really not going to harm anyone else's life?"

"Actually, if you can withstand the backlash of fate, you can do it yourselves too." Basil shrugged. "Save the people you want to save, fake their bodies and the traces of their deaths."

"Let the rescued people never appear in front of you again, until now."

"This is the best way to prevent the current world from collapsing."

"The backlash of fate can actually be mitigated by your immense computing power. You can collect all the information and data from before your time travel point to the present, save the people you want to save, stay in the past, and correct everything based on the collected data until you reach the day you traveled through time."

"It's a clumsy method that's 100% guaranteed to work as long as you don't make any mistakes."

"But we don't have the option to make mistakes," Batman, not too pleased. "If we fail, the existing world will collapse, and we will have essentially murdered everyone, including ourselves."

"It could even lead to the destruction of a new world."

"It is a miracle that humanity has been able to develop smoothly to this point without going extinct."

"Seventy-five thousand years ago, the highest volcano in Indonesia, Toba, created a 'volcanic winter' that swept the world."

"The Black Death, which took away almost half of the life on Earth at the time."

"USSR's Mercury Project, the America rice fever pathogen, the America space nuclear test that almost completely exposed the Earth to space, and the meteorite with a diameter of about 1.5 miles that passed by Earth 15 years ago with a high iron content of 93% at a speed of 45,415 miles per hour."

"There will be far too many world-ending crises like this in countless possible recurrences."

At this point, not only Batman, but also the Flash Superman, whose eyes had previously been shining with hope, couldn't help but sigh.

The outgoing Aquaman was a little confused. "Brother, didn't Luthor say that Basil could do it? Why don't we just ask him?"

The Flash reacted instantly, appearing in front of Basil with red and yellow lightning, looking at him like a big dog with pleading eyes.

"If it were just about resurrecting people, that would be fine," Basil said. "But..."

The smiles on the faces of the Flash, Aquaman, and Superman froze at the appearance of the word "but".

Not seeing Batman, who had put his cat-eared half-helmet back on, show the expression he wanted, Basil clicked his tongue in annoyance and continued, "It's not free."

"Just tell us what you need us to do!" The Flash, Barry, said hastily. He seemed to be a job seeker, instantly reciting the most valuable part of his resume. "I have the Speed Force!"

"You?" Basil nodded and then shook his head.

The reason for nodding is that the Flash is Barry Allen, and unlike others who consume the Speed Force, he creates it.

The first cause and origin of the Speed Force Wall that has already enveloped the entire DC Universe.

The reason for shaking his head was that Barry's development of the Speed Force was still too superficial.

It can only achieve unlimited increases in running speed, passing through walls, generating electricity supernaturally, and a certain degree of super perception— Tomoyo through the Speed Force, and also perceiving the existence of other speedsters.

Speed absorption/transfer—absorbing the kinetic energy of things to increase one's own speed, or transferring one's speed to others; accelerated healing; super thinking; flight; creating shields; creating clones; enhanced memory; super strength; infinite mass punches, etc., are skills that speedsters cannot yet do.

The essence of the ability to penetrate walls—the ability to completely control the kinetic energy of one's own molecules at the molecular level—cannot yet be used for offense.

"I've got it."

Just as the Flash was about to cry, Basil held up one finger.

Have you guys ever heard of the Justice League?

"Do the characters you write in your book really exist?" Lex reacted strongly. "Iron Man Tony Stark, Captain America Steve Rogers, and the Hulk Bruce Banner all exist!!"

"This is not scientific. I have experimented with it. The so-called quantum universe does not exist at all. The Quantum Bracelet is simply not true."

"Is this the story from outside the universe?" Death reacted more strongly because she had heard these names before, in some universes.

Just as there are Superman comics in the Marvel Universe, there are Marvel Comics in the DC World.

In some worlds, the Flash has even complained that Superman's character design is too similar to Hyperion.

They are both the last survivors of an alien race, both moved to the metropolis, both have girlfriends who are journalists, and both have similar abilities.

"The universes are all different, and the physical constants are all different." As Basil spoke, a voice entered Death's ears, "Perhaps it is information exchange between Cosmic Clusters? In many Cosmic Clusters, your worlds originated from comic book media and have borrowed from each other."

"I want to see Death." For the first time, Death felt her own human existence, and she longed to meet that similar being, who was also an abstract entity and shared the same name as her.

"Your [Quantum Bracelets ], or more accurately, the [Intercosmic Cosmic Cluster Bracelets]," Basil said, six bracelets appearing in his hand. "These don't include Lex's or Diana's."

"Lex, your share will be given to you after we get back to Smallville."

"Diana, you already have a more advanced [inter- Cosmic Cluster bracelet]."

To others, Basil's bracelets numbered only five.

The sixth thing is that it can only be seen in death.

This one is for her too.

"Don't think I'm giving away gifts," Basil said to Superman, who seemed embarrassed to accept the gift because it was too precious. "Your bracelets are mission modules. You need to complete missions to redeem rewards, including resurrection."

The Flash has already taken it and put it on his hand.

"Kill Naraku - 1000 gems".

"A monster? Not human? Whew~"

He glanced over any task with the word 'kill' in it.

"Escort Daigo to the pyramids. Fortunately, there's still an escort mission."

"Help Li Lin arrange the wedding with Evangeline, Asuna, Nokonoko, Setsuna... so many names, what? A wedding!"

"This Li Lin is at it again, coming up with ideas for Sakura and Tomoyo's three-year wedding anniversary. He's in so many worlds."

"Madoka, Akemi Homura, Yakumo Yukari, Hakurei Reimu"

"It's best if it's not just one person. I feel like he's harmed so many people. Could he be an alias of Zeus from the Multiverse?"

The Flash was making sarcastic remarks, completely unaware that the person he was criticizing was right in front of him.

To others, the Flash just seemed to be Dotty at thin air.

The bracelet disappeared as soon as it was put on.

"Only those who wear the same bracelet can see yours," Basil said. "To be precise, only those who possess my power can see them."

These tasks were actually formed in Basil's subconscious.

Actually, it can't be called the subconscious. It should be the true Giant in the void—God Basil —who is wrapped in many universes and curled up in the Book of Destiny, which is formed by the Plot Components.

For the numerous Cosmic Cluster within his body, as many as the sands of the Ganges, Basil was the will of Heaven.

Of course, there are also injustices among them.

Even though Basil enjoyed watching the fun, he couldn't help but have a compassionate heart.

He is not a champion of justice, but when disgusting people or things appear, he doesn't mind punishing evil and promoting good if it's convenient.

But for Basil, whose perception was so vast that it covered more than an infinite Cosmic Cluster, there were too many people or things.

Just as Superman can use super hearing to monitor the world and listen to all crimes would normally control his super senses, so too would Basil.

But just because he doesn't look at them doesn't mean these people or things don't exist.

Since he doesn't want to directly interfere with the world and mold it according to his wishes, turning it into a landscape in a glass bottle, the extent to which he can subconsciously guide it is also limited.

We can only guarantee that justice will ultimately prevail over evil.

Therefore, his subconscious, driven by dissatisfaction and self-restriction, began to seek a spokesperson.

The Justice League, a child's play in the Merlin Universe, has begun to venture into other universes, and its members have gradually expanded exponentially.

Therefore, in addition to his own personal matters, he also has many missions such as saving the world, killing villains, and protecting the forces of justice.

"Mission Recommendation?" The Flash noticed the small red dot next to his avatar on the panel and clicked on it.

"Help the messenger of the Behind-the-Scenes God break free from the stalemate of fate—999999999 gems?"

"Is this level of task really within my capabilities?"

His eyes were filled with disbelief.

It's worth noting that the gems he had previously glimpsed for the mission of helping King Ultraman mend the broken universe didn't number this many.

Can he really do it?

"The Speed Force," Batman reminded him. "The recommendations are all matched to our situation."

"For example, as a detective, I prevented one hundred crimes in Beika City."