Barbatos left.
He returned to the Dark Multiverse, back to the World Forge. He waved his hand and departed without taking so much as a wisp of cloud with him.
Prime Universe Bat left as well. Wearing the Sixth Dimension armor, he vanished through the portal without even asking Chen Tao about the current situation of his Justice League comrades.
Everything was over—for now.
Chen Tao did not know what outcome Supreme Superboy and the World Forger would reach, but the foundation he had wanted to use to reboot the timeline had already been completely destroyed...
But this also meant that Supreme Superboy no longer needed to shoulder the responsibilities of Prime Universe Superman.
Everything he wanted was now beyond his reach. Supreme Superboy had rejected becoming Superman from the bottom of his heart.
Now, he was merely venting his resentment, pain, and sorrow through his rage, just as he had done countless times before.
Chen Tao could only be thankful that Supreme Superboy was currently venting his anger on the World Forger.
Supreme Superboy was probably wreaking havoc in the World Forger's Baby Multiverse right now. His actions would completely depart from the standards of Superman—or even those of a mentally stable human being. After suffering defeat once again, Supreme Superboy's mental state would likely deteriorate further. In all this, the monkey head Chen Tao had conjured for him had played a huge part.
But the Prime Universe needed a Superman. As time passed, Supreme Superboy's voluntary abandonment of his duties would eventually ferment and trigger another disturbance in the Over-Time Stream. Before that happened, Chen Tao had to find another successor for the Prime Universe. It could not be the Superman of Chen Tao's alliance.
Back when Chen Tao had failed to find Supreme Superboy, he had received