"Trash." Anti-Monitor thought silently.
By then, Anti-Monitor's will had already left Barbatos's body. But rather than being forcibly driven away, it would be more accurate to say that he had abandoned it voluntarily—for the sake of a more distant plan and greater interests.
Even so, First Lantern's final choice had disappointed him immensely.
History began to solidify like cement. The fact of First Lantern's death also began to imprint itself upon reality, until it became irreversible.
What do you mean, you can only see your mother after you die? What an idiot.
Anti-Monitor, who had wished for his own mother to die, could never truly empathize with First Lantern, who sought to find his mother again—not even as a Sixth-Dimensional God.
He had originally hoped that First Lantern would complete his plan to seize Earth-15, then help him shake the Over-Time Stream and create more cracks, making it easier for him to descend from above. But now, that expectation had fallen through.
Tsk.
He shook his head.
But his efforts so far had not been a complete failure.
History had already been damaged badly enough. The DC Multiverse was like a towering building, while the earliest event—the DC Multiverse's first universal reboot, the Infinite Earths Crisis—had laid the foundation for everything that followed and firmly nailed Anti-Monitor to it.
Over the countless years since that event, Anti-Monitor had tried countless times to change the outcome of the Infinite Earths Crisis.
He had also repeatedly exerted influence upon the downstream reaches of the Over-Time Stream, whether through whispers or by creating avatars like the Anti-Monitor Dragon.
But... he had never once truly managed to change the history of the Infinite Earths Crisis. That section of history was simply too damn tough.
As the foundation of the entire DC Multiverse, even without