Parallax Hal had ultimately failed to receive Supreme Superboy's answer.
The other party's shadow dispersed at such incredible speed that it seemed the tremors he had just caused in the Over-Time Stream were nothing more than a hallucination brought on by Parallax Hal's overwhelming pressure.
"All right, all right." Then he heard Perpetua say, "You low-dimensional life-forms can't understand these grand concepts. Why don't I make some promises that you can see and touch first?"
Perpetua said, "What do you want, hmm? What do you want?"
The cold Mother of the Multiverse never spoke like this, yet her whispers rang in Parallax Hal's ears, affecting his mind.
Above the reality of the current multiverse, only three people—or three and a half—were qualified to influence the outcome of the battle between her and Batman Dragon, who had borrowed all of the Anti-Monitor's power.
Doctor Manhattan, Parallax Hal, Supreme Superboy, and that half—the First Lantern. Perpetua had seen how her children used the First Lantern as a blade, repeatedly slicing apart the realities they didn't want. The First Lantern was a blade, and the sharpest one at that.
Perpetua had never underestimated him.
Oh, and there was also Supreme Superboy.
In essence, Supreme Superboy and Parallax Hal were the same kind of people. Both yearned for a perfect world, and both could tempt the other with whatever he desired. The entire multiverse had been created by Perpetua. For two people longing for a perfect world, that was practically the perfect résumé.
Neither of them had any reason to refuse.
As for Doctor Manhattan...
It had to be admitted that Doctor Manhattan was the only one among them who might pose a massive threat to Perpetua.
But Doctor Manhattan believed wholeheartedly that the DC Multiverse could decide the path of its own final