As Chen Tao had said, becoming a member of the DC Multiverse came at a price.
Empty Hand had acted too hastily and arrogantly.
Although he had already entered the DC Multiverse, Empty Hand had treated it entirely like the ordinary multiverses he had seen before, making many mistakes. The most important one was this:
"You only knew that the center of the DC Multiverse possessed tremendous power, enough to make the entire DC Multiverse revolve around you and turn you into the center of the world, the multiverse's favored child. You saw this identity as a gift and a blessing, and even twisted your own existence with a power called stories to obtain it. But the DC Multiverse's immune cells were never a gift, Empty Hand. They were a curse."
Chen Tao said softly, "A painful curse."
Empty Hand had completely realized that something was wrong. If the blue N52 Superman essence had been attacking him, he could have resisted. If it had been trying to control him, he would have had the power to fight back. But it was neither.
N52 Superman had come to merge with him. Their faces were pressed together, staring at each other. Empty Hand faced the blue shadow he had just vomited out and could do nothing about him. Outside the multiverse, Doctor Manhattan watched the DC Multiverse's current development with his own eyes, sinking into thought.
Faced with Perpetua's threat, Batman Dragon, an immune cell of the DC Multiverse, had let in the Outer God Empty Hand. By a twist of fate, Empty Hand had then been blinded by greed, voluntarily claiming the position and essence of the DC Multiverse's center—the position of Superman—and using his own ability to complete the final mistake.
Then, under the pressure of that status and essence,