Seeds Buried Beneath the Surface, Hidden Traitors

Zero Hour Timeline.

The battle between Parallax Hal and the Five-Dimensional Being Emperor Joker had spread across the entire universe.

Among the superheroes present, some of the stronger ones rushed forward, intending to help Hal, while weaker characters hid away to avoid being caught in the aftershocks of their clash.

Yet among those fleeing weaker individuals was a strange presence who seemed completely out of place.

His name was Mordru.

Mordru, a supervillain. During the Zero Hour era, Parallax Hal had created a crisis that nearly rebooted the entire DC Universe. But in the early stages, he had remained hidden behind Mordru, silently manipulating his actions.

Mordru was nominally Hal's ally, but in reality, he was nothing more than Hal's puppet and subordinate.

Even so, the relationship between Mordru and Hal could not be assessed through a simple superior-subordinate hierarchy. To Mordru, neither Parallax Hal's victory nor defeat was worth risking everything he had.

Therefore, in a confrontation of such overwhelming intensity, Mordru naturally had to find some corner to hide in and preserve his strength. There was nothing morally wrong with that, but...

"Hal's gone mad. That mad dog."

Mordru wiped away nonexistent sweat as he hid inside a small pocket dimension he had constructed himself.

Time flowed differently here. Rather than merely being a hiding place, it was more like an accelerated shuttle that jumped farther into the future along the timeline.

Mordru was a villain who had mastered the power of time, so accomplishing this was easy for him.

But just as he was about to fully activate and seal off the pocket dimension, he suddenly noticed a blue face appear abruptly at the edge of the white space.

A tall, heavily muscled man wielding a massive hammer with an inverted spike suddenly invaded the private space