The smartest man in the Watchmen Universe, Ozymandias, stood before them.
The ten missing years of Earth-0 were the decade in which Doctor Manhattan transferred his old friends from the Watchmen Universe to Multiverse 1, rewriting their stories and futures.
And now, to find the supposedly "dead" yet "omnipresent" Doctor Manhattan and ask how Darkseid's trick could be broken, if they could not find the blue man, then naturally they had to seek out the person who understood him best.
The Watchmen Universe had collapsed, destroyed by all-out Nuclear War. Doctor Manhattan had merged its remnants with Earth-0.
Second Generation Rorschach, Silk Spectre II, and the others had always been hiding somewhere on Earth-0.
Yet no matter what had happened before, none of them had made any move to rejoin the story, as though they had chosen to forget themselves.
But Su Ming knew that unseen did not mean nonexistent. Manhattan might have deliberately kept them apart from the Justice League, but quantum was not omnipotent. At the very least, he did not understand the human heart, and in that regard, he could not outcalculate Ozymandias.
A blond man in golden armor and a purple linen cloak stepped into the moonlight. He stood with his hands clasped behind his back, calm and unchanged from the past.
However, he also recited a poem in response to Deathstroke's earlier question, though he chose Shelley's work of the same name:
"I am Ozymandias, King of Kings; look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Before finishing, he gave a snort of laughter. Then, as if he could not stand himself, he shook his head repeatedly and said to Deathstroke:
"You remind me of myself when I was young. Yes, I am that Ozymandias. I once saved our Earth, but reality and time ultimately