First Lantern realized that he had been wrong—horribly wrong.
He had made almost the same mistake as the Anti-Monitor and the others. Based on their ingrained understanding of Batman Dragon, they had unilaterally assumed that the Nameless Old Dragon was a future version of Batman Dragon. From there, they had concluded that they could trust him too easily, naturally straying from the plan Batman Dragon had designed for them and ending up here, on a timeline completely different from the world he knew, to carry out the plan the Nameless Old Dragon had described to him.
He had made a grave mistake. That was why he had ended up in this situation.
Perhaps Batman Dragon had been the Nameless Old Dragon from the very beginning. All it took was one bad day to turn anyone into the Joker, let alone Batman Dragon. At some point, he had long since ceased to be the Batman Dragon First Lantern knew. First Lantern wasn't sure when it had happened.
When Edward Nygma, the Riddler, tore off his refined and gentle mask, First Lantern quickly realized that everything the Riddler had done before had actually been to ensure that this moment would occur.
(Note: For example, in Chapter 842, the Nameless Old Dragon dispatched the Riddler, Edward Nygma, to observe The Flash Barry Allen before the Crisis, ensuring that he would not be killed by Magician Superman of Earth-9. In Chapter 850, the Nameless Old Dragon had the Riddler, who was pretending to obey the Anti-Monitor, participate in Batman Dragon's operation. This caused First Lantern to mistakenly believe, when he met him, that the Riddler was taking orders from Batman Dragon.)
First Lantern didn't want to sit around and wait for death. He had actually obeyed the other party's orders and tried to balance