Dreams, Within Reach

Chen Tao was deep in thought.

"So..." Bane said. "What do we do next?"

Chen Tao's mind was somewhere in outer space.

"Batman?"

Bane called out to him again, only to find that he still got no reaction.

So he jumped up and gave Chen Tao's head a hard knock.

The nearby member of the Black Council of the Black tried to sneak away.

These two were both far too terrifying.

In fact, the original members of the Black Council of the Black had all been captured and imprisoned for a long time by Arcane. In the end, they had been slaughtered like chickens, and Arcane had seized all control over the Black.

But the Black Council of the Black was a position, not a specific person.

Just as at the end of New 52 Animal Man, after the entire Totem Council of the Red had been slaughtered by the villain Blood Lord, the goat-headed ferryman serving in the Red's underworld, Bone Garden, had inherited the identity of the Totem Council. The position itself would not disappear.

Of course, the authority that had previously been seized could not be reclaimed. Thus, this new member of the Black Council of the Black was extremely weak. In the past, he had merely been an ordinary warrior of the Black, like those ordinary, beast-headed and humanoid totem warriors in the Red. Then, a pie had fallen from the sky and pushed him into a position he should never have set foot in.

He had not run far before Chen Tao caught up and smacked him flat with a splat.

Chen Tao flattened the new member of the Black Council of the Black, who looked like a combination of some oversized fly and rotting meat. He then kneaded him into a ball and temporarily