Barbatos had an ominous feeling.
The gigantic dragon of the World Forge coiled upon its throne, clutching his current favorite toy, Dawnbreaker, in his hands. He held the other party in his arms like a young princess living in a castle.
Batman was currently pounding on the World Forge at the Forge Gate, making the entire place thunder. But so what?
Without Barbatos's permission, he couldn't get in.
Barbatos soon shifted his attention back to his new toy.
After Dawnbreaker performed the Lights Out Protocol for him several times, Barbatos was very satisfied. In his view, although Dawnbreaker's Lights Out Protocol was inferior to Batman Dragon's, its special ability to restrain the Emotional Spectrum was genuine. This suppression of Emotional Spectrum users was something he could do without, but he could not afford to be without it.
Dawnbreaker had submitted to him, so if he mastered the Lights Out Protocol, it was equivalent to Barbatos mastering it.
As for Dawnbreaker's Lights Out Protocol being too weak...
That was no problem at all.
After observing Dawnbreaker's performances several times, Barbatos waved his hand grandly and generously injected a massive amount of Dark Matter Universe Energy into the other party's body in one go, forcibly raising the amount of energy within him to three or four times that within The Batman Who Laughs.
In an instant, Dawnbreaker leaped from being barely evenly matched with Drowned Vengeance and Red Death, and slightly weaker than The Devastator and The Merciless, to a level where he could single-handedly challenge the entire Dark Knights.
But what was the price?
The price was having an empty head filled to the brim.
Barbatos's Dark Matter Universe Energy had stuffed him to the point of nearly overflowing, completely stripping Dawnbreaker of all free will.
He had now submitted completely