Timelines That Kept Refreshing

While The Batman Who Laughs and Chen Tao schemed against each other, trading blows and fighting fiercely despite not having met for the moment, another group of people who were not part of the game was also very busy.

No, not Parallax Hal. He was already a player who had joined the game. The people we are talking about here were a group who had never entered the fray from beginning to end, but had been silently watching the battlefield from the shadows all along.

Earth-One.

This was the world occupied by First Lantern, the Shadow Hordes, and that huge group of Third Army members. The Justice League native to this world, younger and weaker than the Prime Universe's, had already been utterly defeated.

At this moment, both First Lantern and the Shadow Hordes were foolishly using all sorts of methods to increase—or rather, recover—their strength.

First Lantern had been dead for far too long, while the Shadow Hordes had suffered severe injuries while traveling through time. Their situations were more or less the same.

These heavy injuries and losses meant that neither First Lantern nor the Shadow Hordes, who believed they were manipulating the other, could spend much time on anything besides recovering their power.

That gave the Third Army members room to operate. So, at present, the actual rulers of Earth-One were the Third Army. They had replaced the two powerhouses who were busy recovering their strength, which meant that if the Third Army members did not want the two powerhouses to know about something, they would never find out.

For example, right now.

The Third Army was nearly boiling over, but First Lantern and the Shadow Hordes had not noticed a thing.

The base of First Lantern and the Shadow Hordes had been built on Earth, converted