Barbatos: Damn It, Why Are They All Coming to the World Forge?

When Chen Tao awoke from his deep sleep in the dream, he sat up on the bedside, silent.

In a perspective visible only to him, Bat-Mite appeared at the head of his bed in a puff of smoke in the world of the Fifth Dimension.

This time, he did not shout, rush over, or shower him with flattery. Instead, he cautiously said in silence:

"What do you think... about the news God of Dreams Daniel brought..."

Bat-Mite could create all sorts of bizarre enemies for Batman to fight, laughing until his sides hurt in the process. But the only thing that could make him this solemn, to the point that he could not even laugh, was power on a higher level.

"I have to explain that I'm not certain." He said, "The moment I sensed someone invading, I ran away in fright. Maybe all of this is just my—"

"You went to the Prime Universe. You met Batman." Chen Tao communicated with him wordlessly.

"There are only so many people who could give you that kind of feeling: World Forger, Anti-Monitor, Monitor."

His gaze turned distant. "He didn't come into my dream from outside the dream. He was already in my dream."

In fact, the reason Dream God could appear directly from Chen Tao's dream was that the status of Chen Tao's Dark Multiverse Dragon directly belonged to World Forger. Thus, Dream God had merely expanded the definition of World Forger's dream. But neither Chen Tao nor the frightened Bat-Mite knew about this connection.

When everything was pitch-black, one could never know whether the road ahead was smooth ground or a tightrope.

Chen Tao read the anomaly from the details. The tiny difference between "not entering from outside, but already being in the dream before dreaming" and Dream God's abilities