Main Universe Batman looked at the distress message, somewhat surprised. They were at war now—had the other side gotten something wrong by sending a plea for help to their enemy?
But on second thought, the other side was not stupid. Asking their opponent for support would certainly get out and affect morale. Yet they had still chosen to do it, which proved that the situation might be dire.
Main Universe Batman frowned and sent Bruce a message. "How is it over there? Can Barbatos destroy those Nightmare Phantoms?"
"Destroy them? Don't joke. It would already be good enough if I could keep them trapped within that area. The power composing them is on the same level as Barbatos's Dark Force. Unless I can summon his true body here, there's absolutely no way to destroy them directly."
Bruce sounded somewhat exhausted. Of course, channeling Dark Force had not tired him out. Rather, summoning the Primal Power of another great universe across worlds had caused countless program errors to appear again. Lucifer had applied for a fifteen-day pause before barely managing to fix them. Lucifer had been so furious that he kicked Bruce straight into Eden Lake, and Bruce had only just climbed back out.
Still, Barbatos's power truly was formidable. If one of Marvel's underlying rules was "imagination," then one of DC's underlying rules was "Batman." Barbatos happened to be the primal power of Batman's dark side, and Dark Force was on the same level as Dream Power.
Bruce was currently using Barbatos's Dark Force to block the blasted-open dimensional entrance, preventing Dream Power from continuing to spill out. At the same time, he was using that Dark Force to restrain the Nightmare Phantoms, trapping them within the domain of Dark Force so they would not scatter everywhere. Otherwise, the other