Strictly speaking, although Batman Dragon was now about to be given the identity of the Anti-Monitor Bat, the way this identity was bestowed was slightly different from what the Anti-Monitor had originally imagined.
The original Anti-Monitor had been trapped by the Monitor in the upper reaches of the Over-Time Stream. He had intended to use the mortal Mobius to transform Batman Dragon, a Dark Multiverse Batman who appeared powerful enough, thereby helping himself escape the predicament in the upper reaches of the Over-Time Stream. But now, he had already accomplished that himself.
Thus, transforming Batman Dragon had become a kind of submission operation rather than a lifeline. The Anti-Monitor intended to use Batman Dragon's transformation to leverage the Earth-15 incident and thereby alter reality.
But now...
"If you want to make an issue out of Earth-15, it's completely useless."
The Anti-Monitor warned Batman Dragon, "The reason I told you that we could restart the entire timeline through Earth-15 was that, as long as you were willing to embrace me of your own accord, you could help me destroy all history since Earth-15. Then I could use that foundation to shape an Over-Time Stream reality more favorable to me.
"But now, merely suppressing our mother is already exhausting. I don't have the strength to help you shape reality as well. Understand?"
Chen Tao understood.
Simply put, circumstances had changed.
Back then, the reason the Anti-Monitor had painstakingly tried to make Chen Tao become the Anti-Monitor Bat was to eliminate the Earth-15 incident and directly overturn the game between him and the World Forger.
Chen Tao's voluntary alteration of his past actions would cause the reality of the Over-Time Stream to collapse. The Anti-Monitor could then use that opportunity to shape a reality more favorable to himself.
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