Deep down, Chen Tao did not particularly care whether First Lantern succeeded or failed.
Since you came back from the future, and you can deal with The Batman Who Laughs, why not do it? With you suppressing The Batman Who Laughs, I finally had some rare time to retire and rest.
Chen Tao had not rested in a very long time. He had also not completely let himself go like this, becoming a pure attacker.
All he needed to do was hold the enemy back and follow their orders. To him, that had long since become a luxury.
He had journeyed across the boundless sea for too long. After finally spotting a harbor where he could rest for a while, how could Chen Tao not find a way to dock there?
To him, First Lantern was merely a humanoid tool helping him fight The Batman Who Laughs. As long as the goal could be achieved, anything was fine.
Though "anything was fine" did include First Lantern actually sawing Earth-15 off the Prime Universe, Chen Tao instinctively felt that First Lantern would have a hard time pulling it off.
But the safety of Hero Day was not part of this plan!
Hero Day played an extremely important role in Chen Tao's subsequent plans, especially after he picked up the corpse of the World Forger.
Only Chen Tao knew about this.
There was no way Chen Tao would let anything happen to him.
So he stood in front of Hero Day, unmoved by First Lantern's plea.
"I won't let you put my friend in danger. Stealing the World Forger's sword through Hero Day... If the World Forger no longer intends to return that sword to me and has also abandoned completing the cycle of history, then using Hero Day to steal the