The Anti-Monitor ended his communication with the World Forger. Yes, he had sold out his pawn, Batman Dragon, and reached an agreement with the World Forger.
He would divide up the Crisis Energy created by the World Forger through the Multiversal Merge, leaving the entire DC Multiverse to the Anti-Monitor before withdrawing himself.
Of course, both the Anti-Monitor and the World Forger knew that this talk of withdrawing was complete bullshit.
The World Forger was merely being forced to withdraw after cutting off a piece of his own flesh. Once he finished digesting the energy he had taken from the DC Multiverse, he would immediately make a comeback.
The Anti-Monitor knew very well that from the moment the World Forger took that energy, the game had changed from a chess match into a race between him and the World Forger to see who could develop faster.
As long as the World Forger allowed that Baby Multiverse to fully develop, his strength would undergo a cliff-like increase.
Conversely, if the Anti-Monitor completely devoured all the positive-matter universes in the DC Multiverse, his strength would be roughly equivalent to the combined power of the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor.
If things truly went according to the World Forger's plan, then the Anti-Monitor would be standing at the starting line alongside him.
Neither he nor the World Forger could possibly accept peacefully coexisting with the other, so this race was inevitable.
And what drove them to temporarily make peace and focus on preparing for the race was...
"Marr!"
The World Forger was still busy entangled with Batman Dragon. The Anti-Monitor had to resolve this matter himself... Waiting for one person was enough—or rather, this was precisely what the Anti-Monitor liked and wanted.
Trillions upon trillions of years of hatred, from comrades who had fought