Parallax Hal Rebels, Sounding the Horn of Counterattack! Barbatos: Big Dog Chomp Chomp Chomp Chomp

Well, while Batman Dragon, World Forger, Anti-Monitor, Monitor, and a whole host of others were fighting around the Multiverse convergence until it all became a steaming mess...

What exactly was our beloved and magnificent Lord Barbatos doing?

Er...

Well, Lord Barbatos was hiding in the World Forge, wallowing in isolation and slacking off.

Although he had reached an agreement with Batman that they had to join forces and defeat the World Forger, Barbatos's fear of the World Forger had already seeped deep into his bones.

The many years he had spent gnawing on the World Forger's corpse, and all the benefits he had gained from it, had ultimately become the very reasons he feared him even more.

Barbatos knew perfectly well that, as a Servitor God of the Sixth Dimension, he was a tiger that merely looked like a dog. If he went all out, he could do far more than hide in the World Forge and tremble...

Although he wasn't actually trembling.

But if someone told you that the success you thought was yours... I mean, every achievement you had been proud of during the first half of your life, was merely the calculated result of someone else's plan, something they had deliberately arranged...

It would be hard not to feel fear, just like Barbatos.

More importantly, unlike Batman Dragon and the others, when he thought about it carefully, Barbatos seemed not to be completely without an escape route.

At worst, he could simply flee the DC Multiverse and go to another Multiverse to become an outer god, just like Doctor Manhattan. Although Barbatos was not as powerful as Doctor Manhattan, when facing some sufficiently weak universes, his status there might be equivalent to Doctor Manhattan's.

For the Sixth Dimension Trinity, fleeing to another Multiverse to become an outer