Godhood Unlocked: I Choose Sci-Magic Dual Cultivation

Diana whipped the Lasso of Truth from her waist. The other end of the rope flew into the clouds, as if it had looped around something.

She yanked hard, pulling herself into the sky.

"Holy shit!"

Damian began questioning his entire life.

He turned to Dane, looking as though his worldview had been rebuilt from the ground up. "This isn't scientific!"

"Unfortunately, that's magic. Science has nothing to do with it."

Dane replied casually as he typed a message to Jason.

There were some things he could not say outright. He was afraid Barbara and Alfred would argue with him if they found out.

"Scarecrow has a backup plan. I sent Wonder Woman to deal with it."

"Superman has gone to rescue Batman. Your task is to go to Arkham Asylum. Kill anyone who tries to take advantage of the chaos!"

"Most importantly, Joker must die. That lunatic can't be allowed to keep living!"

Soon, an "OK!" came back from the other side.

Northern Ice Plant.

Batman and Nightwing were surrounded by a group of fully armed mercenaries.

Batman looked at Nightwing beside him, his expression complicated. "I told you to go back to Bludhaven."

Nightwing smiled at him instead.

"Could you have handled this without me? Come on, Bruce. When are you going to be more straightforward and just say 'thank you' or 'I need help'?"

Even facing such a desperate situation, Batman smiled. "Don't count on it!"

Nightwing had come to investigate a shipment of weapons transported here from Bludhaven.

He had happened to witness Gotham's situation, so he decided to stay and help Bruce.

But like Batman, he had fallen into a trap set by Gotham's villains and was trapped here.

Penguin, Black Mask, and Two-Face appeared together. They stared excitedly at the two men surrounded in the center and burst into laughter.

"Hahaha! Who would've thought we'd catch two big fish in one go!"

Two-Face took out his treasured lucky coin and said darkly, "Today, let the coin decide your fate."

Black Mask wasted no words. He waved one hand and ordered all the mercenaries, "Kill them!"

The mercenaries raised their automatic rifles and immediately unleashed a volley.

Going in for hand-to-hand combat when you had guns was something only idiots did in movies. If bullets could solve a problem, no one would be stupid enough not to use them.

Batman's expression changed. He hurriedly wrapped his Bat Suit's cape around both himself and Nightwing.

His cape was bulletproof, but Nightwing only had a bulletproof bodysuit. His head was practically unprotected; one shot and he would be finished.

But just as the bullets were about to strike, a red cape suddenly appeared before Batman's eyes. He seemed to have descended from the sky.

Very quickly, Batman realized that he really had descended from the sky.

Boom—!

The sound of the ceiling shattering and bullets striking blended together, but nothing could cross even a single step past Clark's Man of Steel.

That red cape, that blue figure, and that somewhat foolish yet brilliantly sunny smile.

He was Superman!

Chapter 23: Project Rain

Wayne Manor.

Dane, Alfred, and the others relocated to the Batcave.

From the moment Batman fell into danger, the development of events had already exceeded what the old butler could control.

So Dane naturally took over command.

Oh, and he had also released Poison Ivy from Umbrella Laboratory.

Unlike Gotham's other villains, Poison Ivy was really just an extreme environmentalist devoted to protecting plants.

As long as she was not constantly trying to turn the city back into a forest, she seemed fairly harmless most of the time.

So Dane did not treat her like an ordinary prisoner.

"Hm, you really are someone who can be reasoned with."

Accustomed to being captured by Batman, Poison Ivy had never encountered a righteous figure who did not arrest her.

"Hey, Mr. Dane, they all have things to do. What about me?"

Damian kicked at the rubble in the Batcave in boredom. He wanted to slaughter enemies like Jason.

"Please, Master Damian, stay here and don't go anywhere!"

Alfred had already learned of Damian's identity from Dane, and he was now extremely worried for the young master's safety.

He wished he could stop Damian from going anywhere and keep him in the Manor forever.

Thank heavens!

He had thought the Wayne family was destined to decline from this point on. Who could have expected heaven to leave the master with an heir?

Alfred had excellent eyesight. At a glance, he could tell Damian was definitely Bruce's son. The boy looked exactly like Bruce had as a child, as though cast from the same mold.

Damian was dissatisfied, but he did not want to reject Alfred's sincere kindness.

Dane pinched his clothes and pulled a small clump of fabric free, transforming it into nanoparticles.

He tossed them onto the Batcomputer's mainframe, and they quickly merged into it.

Before long, the entire computer and the whole base opened themselves to him, granting him every permission.

Kryptonian technology was truly mind-blowing!

Barbara watched the entire process, and the corner of her mouth twitched. Was this man's technological ability not a little too absurd?

He understood magic and technology?

What shocked Barbara even more was that Dane had not only taken control of the base, but also Wayne Enterprises' private satellites.

"Damn, they really are rich. Seven commercial satellites!"

Wayne Enterprises truly deserved its reputation as one of the wealthiest corporations in the DC world. It actually maintained seven satellites.

Even Umbrella Corporation had only just launched one private satellite so far.

NASA in America was pretty interesting. As long as you had money, anyone could launch something into space for fun, and they even handled private rocket launch contracts.

The capital market really could buy anything.

Dane pulled up the satellite map and precisely located Stark Industries' address in Gotham City.

This Stark Industries was nothing like the one in Marvel. It was a company specializing in high-tech medicine.

Scarecrow had robbed the company of a machine called "Project Rain," intending to use it to spread poison gas throughout the city.

Didn't that feel familiar?

This plan was remarkably similar to Lizard's scheme in The Amazing Spider-Man to turn the entire city's population into lizard people!

Villains really had no creativity.

Wonder Woman moved extremely quickly. She soon arrived at her destination, and every mercenary in her way was no match for this demigoddess.

She showed no mercy to the armed soldiers, taking them out almost directly.

Then, following Dane's instructions, she installed the neutralizing capsule into the Project Rain device.

Just as she was about to activate the device, someone stepped out, exactly as expected.

While Diana was operating the machine, Mr. Freeze ambushed her from behind, freezing her solid with a blast of freezing ray.

"Hahahahaha! You fell for it!"

Mr. Freeze had noticed long ago that this woman was no ordinary person, so he had remained hidden in the shadows, waiting for this very moment.

And he had succeeded in one strike!

But he did not know that Wonder Woman was far more powerful than he imagined!

A crack suddenly appeared in the ice, and Mr. Freeze's laughter cut off abruptly.

The next moment, the ice exploded. Diana glared at him furiously.

"Wait!"

Diana had no intention of listening to any explanation. She slammed her hands together, and the massive shockwave sent Mr. Freeze flying.

Mr. Freeze arced through the air into the distance.

In that situation, let alone surviving, it would be difficult for him to even leave behind an intact corpse.

Diana turned back to continue operating the machine, only to discover that one corner had been sliced open by an ice blade. Mr. Freeze must have done it just now.

Project Rain had entered its activation sequence. It could no longer be shut down.

"Damn it!" Diana smashed the console with one punch, filled with frustration.

She collected herself and immediately reported the situation to Dane.

The Batcave suddenly fell silent. Dane said nothing, as though he were thinking about something.

After a long while, Poison Ivy suddenly spoke.

"Beneath Gotham City, an ancient plant lies dormant. If I release it, I may be able to use it to synthesize enough neutralizer."

"And what would the cost be?"

Poison Ivy's words brought Dane back to himself. He smiled and asked.

Poison Ivy was very calm. "If I want to cover the entire city, I may not be able to preserve my own life."

"Even so, you still want to do it?"

Poison Ivy did not speak, but Barbara could not help asking, "Why?"

"I must protect Gotham's plants."

It was an answer very characteristic of Poison Ivy, but it could not have been the only reason. Perhaps she was also protecting the Gotham in her heart in her own way.

"There's no need to go that far. Things haven't reached such a terrible point yet."

Dane waved a hand, signaling everyone not to panic.

They looked at him in confusion. Damian was quick to speak, asking first, "Do you have a Plan B?"

Dane nodded, then looked a little embarrassed.

"Because this plan is rather high-profile, I never intended to use it in the first place. But now that Project Rain has started, I have no choice."

That only made everyone more curious.

Diana shouted anxiously through the communicator, "Whatever your plan is, I suggest you hurry! It's already started operating!"

Everyone turned their eyes to the large screen, where surveillance footage near Stark Industries had appeared.

The next instant, a cloud of murky yellow poison gas spread out like dense fog, rapidly expanding toward the entire city.

"It's begun!"

The greatest difference between Scarecrow's new poison gas and his previous versions was that it could not only enter the human body through the respiratory tract, but also seep through the skin. Ordinary gas masks could not stop it.