A Little Bit of Suffering for the Heroes of the Prime Universe, I'll Take the Blame

This was the World Forge.

When Chen Tao and Barbatos arrived together, their minds united as one, the Anti-Monitor Dragon was so furious that he nearly ground his teeth to pieces.

"Isn't this Barbatos's dog?"

Chen Tao used only that one sentence to set the other party ablaze with rage.

Barbatos, who appeared before the Anti-Monitor Dragon, received an enthusiastic welcome from him. But even that could not change Barbatos's victory. His foundation was simply too deep; he was vastly more powerful than any one of them.

But at the same time, Barbatos was incomplete. He needed someone to fill his emptiness.

Uh, although that sentence sounded a little strange, it was indeed the truth.

Although he had murdered his master, Barbatos was ultimately not a Sixth Dimension God directly created by the Mother of the Multiverse, Pepatua, like the World Forger. His power had been acquired later, and he had not even taken all of it.

The reason he had been able to fight Parallax Hal and Supreme Superboy simultaneously in the World Forge without suffering any injuries was the resonance between the Anti-Monitor Dragon's power and his own.

Now, by borrowing his power, Chen Tao had briefly helped Barbatos complete that circuit. In a sense, what he had claimed was not a lie.

With Chen Tao's help, Barbatos displayed overwhelming might in the Forge as if he had taken drugs.

Chen Tao took advantage of Emperor Joker's psychology. He might have been the person present who most wanted Batman to rescue William, and Chen Tao understood that without saying so.

Thus, while the Anti-Monitor Dragon and his teammates fought, they once again experienced that familiar, stifling frustration. Either their teammates' attacks struck them during the battle, or their attacks were led astray, after which Batman Dragon and Barbatos