Black Death Emperor: What? The ones being empowered aren't Parallax Hal and First Lantern, but me?

Batman Dragon had long since been eliminated. Perpetua had won a complete victory. What else was there?

Oh, Empty Hand had suffered a total loss.

Perpetua was creating his timeline—a timeline in which he had ruled the entire Multiverse for countless years.

He was slightly modifying the timeline in which he had once achieved a complete victory. When he created that victorious timeline, there had still been external threats, so he could only create a timeline in which he won completely, not one in which he had "ruled since ancient times."

But now, things like the Infinite Earths Crisis had become events that had never happened at all. A brand-new reality had risen within the DC Multiverse, and it was beginning to shape the Over-Time Stream from scratch.

Of course, the original histories of the Infinite Crises and the Infinite Earths Crisis had not vanished. They would continue to exist for a while, above the Over-Time Stream.

As long as the timeline Perpetua created—one in which he had ruled the world since ancient times—had not solidified, those histories would not completely disappear.

But once enough time passed, the ultimate fate of those histories would still be to scatter like stars and clouds, completely becoming nourishment for Perpetua's brand-new timeline.

Time was of the essence, my friend. You had to make a decision quickly. Once Perpetua digested everything in the DC Multiverse, Empty Hand would have no chance at all. When the Source Hand Clan arrived and launched a war against Perpetua, that old wolf who had lingered outside the DC Multiverse for so long could only slink away in disappointment, lest he be caught up in their battle.

And everything invested within the DC Multiverse would become an irrecoverable loss.

On the vast, boundless grassland of the Omniverse, if a