The First Lantern had completed his second historical loop back to the upper reaches of the Over-Time Stream, bringing Batman Dragon's plan one step closer to completion.
Perpetua knew danger was closing in, but she could no longer find a way to solve the problem.
The only thing he could determine for certain was that Batman Dragon definitely intended to strengthen someone...
Batman Dragon was gathering momentum. He was trying to create some kind of vessel capable of bearing the DC Multiverse's final resistance against her.
What were the World Forger and the Monitor doing? The Anti-Monitor had been robbed of his power and status by Batman Dragon. Could he really have no reaction at all?
Was it the Empty Hand?
How would they launch their all-out attack against her?
Perpetua had already begun to sense fragments of reality coalescing in the lower reaches of the Over-Time Stream, like cement gradually being stirred into shape before her eyes.
Destiny was revealing to Perpetua that Batman Dragon's counterattack was about to arrive—or, rather, was certain to arrive. As long as she survived this ordeal, Perpetua could divide and conquer, recruiting the thoroughly defeated characters one by one. Even the Prime Universe's Justice League would have to be converted into her soldiers. This was not because Perpetua had lost her mind and insisted on leaving herself a dangerous possibility of a comeback. Rather, the DC Multiverse had been built around these people from the moment of its creation: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash...
Superman was the core of the DC Multiverse, but the Justice League was like the cytoplasm and cell wall surrounding the nucleus. A nucleus alone could not survive. There was also Crisis Energy. Perpetua needed Crisis Force, and that could only be produced when a crisis emerged within