Severe pain gnawed at his brain and legs, while his heart pounded like a war drum—assuming someone who had already been half-converted into a mechanical body still had such things.
Transforming into a mechanical body helped reduce the pain and delay his collapse. He had once made contingency plans for his body collapsing for some reason, and the Metal Spirit and The Red's synergistic regeneration allowed him to withstand the immense pressure before him.
Good. Good.
Let's calm down and quietly think through the current situation.
Actually, trapping the World Forger wasn't the most important problem. The important thing was forcing Perpetua back onto the Source Wall first.
All he needed to do was successfully trap Pepatua and force her back to where she was supposed to be. [If Pepatua could not truly descend from the Source Wall], this future in the Over-Time Stream would appear within the DC Multiverse.
After that, Monitor and Anti-Monitor would only need to ensure that this future remained unchanged. The energy they would expend would be relatively small—at least, small enough for the two of them to bear in their current state.
So he needed strength. He needed someone to restrain the World Forger and prevent him from completely withdrawing his power. It was like a tug-of-war: even if one contestant didn't exert any strength at all, his own weight would still make it harder for the other side to pull—better than having nothing.
Therefore...
I... I absolutely can't let Hero Day face the World Forger and Supreme Superboy at the same time.
Amid the chaos, Chen Tao's thoughts had never been as clear as they were at this moment.
Some kind of manifest destiny had activated within Hero Day, allowing him to briefly tangle with the World Forger as the latter struggled to