Beyond the Over-Time Stream.

At this moment, Brainiac was in a place called [Vanishing Point].

In essence, Vanishing Point was a transit station on the timeline—a place where time stood still.

It was like a floating chunk of rock large enough to stand on, suspended above a concrete road. From here, one could reach any point in time along the timeline at will.

Brainiac knew that the World Forger existed, but he had never felt that the World Forger had controlled him.

He believed that everything he did had stemmed from his own thoughts, including cooperating with the World Forger at the beginning and betraying him now.

He knew the World Forger valued the Multiversal Merge he was about to create. From his perspective, he had also reached an agreement with the World Forger regarding how the power would be divided afterward...

But while attacking the fortress created from three universes by that Batman Dragon, Brainiac suddenly realized that he had already squeezed everything the World Forger could give him dry. Even if he abandoned the World Forger's mission and fled now, he could still complete the Multiversal Merge on his own.

So that's what he did.

He already had Parallax Hal's Parallax creature. What reason did he have to obey the World Forger's orders? Although the betrayal seemed somewhat rushed and impulsive, Brainiac felt that it had been his own decision. At least, that's what he believed.

He knew the World Forger wouldn't let him go, but even without making such a hasty decision to flee, he had already prepared for the possibility that the World Forger would turn against him and hunt him down.

He could use the world of [Vanishing Point] as a foothold along this timeline to cross directly through the Over-Time Stream and reach the upper reaches of the