He-El walked out of the Hall of Justice on the ground. Tour groups from all over the world constantly brushed past him as sunlight shone down from the sky.
The weather was bright, and the air was pleasantly warm.
Threads of this Source Universe's operational logic wound themselves around He-El. This had happened through Batman, one of the important figures in the Source Universe's operation.
Through his conversation with Batman, He-El had gained a way to perceive this Source Universe's operational logic.
"Does it operate its universal logic through superheroes—or rather, through 'stories'?" He-El pondered inwardly, lowering his gaze in thought.
He had never encountered such a peculiar universal operational logic before.
Generally speaking, a universe's operational logic was simply its operational logic: the laws of physics, energy, dimensional operation, and everything else that maintained the functioning of that spatial region known as a universe.
The laws governing physics, energy, dimensions, and so on within universal space formed the most fundamental operation of a universe.
But although this Source Universe of the DC Universe appeared to operate according to the universe's basic rules, in reality, this Source Universe operated through "stories," through the characters within those stories.
Batman was one such example. He carried within him part of the operational logic that maintained this universe.
To put it simply—
A comic book was the universe, and what sustained the comic's existence was not its paper or pages, but its protagonist—Batman.
He-El considered himself quite well-traveled and knowledgeable.
Whether it was the three-dimensional material universe of The Three-Body Problem, the two-dimensional universe of Calabash Brothers, the universe of Bleach, or others, whether it was the Bleach universe that bore signs of having been created by the Soul King or the seemingly uncreated universe of The Three-Body Problem, their essence was all