Barbatos Was Meant to Be Exploited

With a bang, William leaped to his feet, then crashed to the ground, his heart pounding.

Although he was currently a Black Lantern corpse abandoned by the Black Death Emperor, he fundamentally had no heart that could pound.

When he saw his teacher, Batman, leap up as well, William realized he had jumped too early. He had been tricked and exposed himself, so he continued collapsing and pretended to be dead, praying that everyone would ignore this weak, pitiful, innocent hostage--

As for what to do if he had been exposed? Well... he would pretend first and worry about the rest later.

With another bang, the Time Trapper, disguised as the First Lantern, also fell to the ground. When he saw Batman and the Barbatos Dragon leap up together, he realized that he had somehow given himself away, but he could not be sure whether this was merely the other party's stress response.

So he let himself fall, then sprang up from the ground like a compressed spring while Barbatos and the Batman Dragon appeared momentarily stunned.

Chen Tao caught sight of the First Lantern attacking Barbatos from the corner of his eye.

Even in his current state, the Time Trapper still maintained the appearance of the First Lantern's transparent body, crisscrossed with countless multicolored veins, rather than his original cloaked and hooded form.

Even with the rank of the Dark Multiverse Dragon, Chen Tao could not see through the disguise that the Anti-Monitor Dragon and Emperor Joker's Fifth-Dimensional Power had created for the Time Trapper. Thus, he still believed that his opponent was the First Lantern.

Although he could not understand why the First Lantern had suddenly defected or why he was not using his signature Emotional Spectrum abilities, Chen Tao still intended to flank this "First Lantern" from