Batman simply existed there, his silvery-white radiance, like the rising sun, undeniably dispelling the Eternity gloom that shrouded Gotham.
The dark energy emitted a shrill scream under the light, melting away like ice and snow.
"Ugh..." Diana let out a painful groan, and the pure darkness that had engulfed her eyes quickly faded, revealing the confusion deep in her pupils.
She shook her head, and the Sword of Hephaestus in her hand fell to the ground with a clang.
At the same time, Aquaman Arthur's massive body trembled, and his golden pupils refocused. He looked at his trident, which was stirring up dark energy, and a trace of fear and disgust flashed across his face.
Barry Allen also stopped. The black lightning surrounding him vanished without a trace, replaced by familiar golden lightning. He stared blankly at his hands, clearly not understanding what had just happened.
All the corrupted heroes and villains regained their senses at this moment.
Above the sky, the enormous, indescribable shadow twisted violently.
Barbatos's roar, which came from the depths of his Soul Stone, was no longer hunger and malice, but was filled with terror and an incomprehensible absurdity.
"No... impossible... this is impossible!" The evil god's roar tore through dimensions. "A mere mortal! How could he possibly bear the 'possibilities' of the entire multiverse! You... what exactly are you?!"
Its "gaze" passed over the radiant God of Bats and locked onto the calm-looking man holding a long sword.
Thor faced the questioning, outwardly maintaining a profound and unfathomable divine demeanor, but inwardly he was furiously ranting.
"Making a fuss over nothing, you bumpkin who's never seen the world." He curled his lip. " The Batman Who Laughs stole Manhattan's power and became a god, so it's perfectly reasonable for me to use the Tenth Metal of the entire multiverse, plus a little bit of Enigma Force sponsored exclusively, to give my son a makeover."
He scoffed inwardly: 'Now, it's your turn to face your strictest 'father.'
"My God..." Barry, Allen had just recovered, looked up at the sacred Batman in mid-air, his mouth agape. "This... this look is so cool! Even cooler than when he sat in the Mobius Chair last time!"
A beam of green light descended from the sky, landing beside the group and transforming into a man dressed in Green Lantern battle suit.
Hal Jordan whistled, crossed his arms, and flew around Diana and the others once to make sure they were alright. Only then did he look up at Bruce and, in his usual nonchalant tone, teased, "I'm just wondering, is he planning to use this outfit to blind criminals during his night patrols? Is Gotham's dark legend finally over?"
"This is no time for jokes, Hal." Diana picked up her sword, her expression grave as she gazed at the confrontation in the sky. Even from a distance, she could feel the power of light capable of purifying everything, and the source of darkness that was wailing madly.
"I'm just... processing the facts." Hal unusually stopped joking, and his expression became complicated.
Just then, a metallic scraping sound came from the ruins of the Challengers Mountain facility.
Victor Stone dragged his half-damaged mechanical body out step by step.
His electronic eyes flashed red as he analyzed the incalculable energy emanating from the God of Bats.
"This power... is a 'miracle'," Victor said hoarsely, data flashing rapidly in his eyes, "Based on the resonance of the Tenth Metal across the entire multiverse, forcibly catalyzed by a higher-dimensional force... but its energy form is extremely unstable, it's a one-time event."
He looked at everyone, a hint of relief appearing on his battered face. "Fortunately... I was the only one hanging there as a beacon. The Mother Box's consciousness kept tempting me, trying to make me give up and merge with it... I didn't agree."
Victor gritted his teeth. He knew that if he had chosen despair back then, everything now would have been meaningless.
Everyone felt a chill run down their spines, and their eyes were filled with respect as they looked at Victor.
The battle in the sky finally erupted.
There were no fancy words, nor any unnecessary probing.
Bruce Wayne, now a god, simply raised his right arm, which was made of flowing light, and threw the most unadorned punch at the huge shadow in the sky.
There was no sonic boom, no energy fluctuation, only pure light, pure creative power, condensing into a trajectory that could not be captured by sight, stretching straight to the sky.
"Roar--!"
Barbatos felt an unprecedented and deadly threat.
It frantically mobilized the nightmare power of the entire Dark Multiverse, and the wails and despair of countless fallen worlds converged before it, coalescing into a dark wall of sighs so thick that it could devour galaxies.
This is its strongest defense, a collection of purely negative concepts.
However, faced with the absolute restraint of the dual attributes of the Tenth Metal and the Enigma Force, all struggles seemed pale and powerless.
The instant light and darkness come into contact.
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a crisp, almost illusory cracking sound.
Click!
That dark wall of sighs, powerful enough to drive even the gods to despair, was like a piece of black glass struck by a hammer. Starting from its center, spiderweb-like cracks instantly spread out, and then, in a deathly silence, it crumbled inch by inch, turning into Void.
"No--!"
Barbatos let out a piercing, distorted scream.
That punch, unstoppable, pierced through all its defenses and landed squarely on its massive conceptual body.
Boom--!
This time, it was not silent.
The entire Earth trembled. Everyone saw that the dark, ink-like shadow in the sky was dented by an invisible fist, and then, like a kicked ball, it was blasted out of the Earth's atmosphere at unimaginable speed, crashing into the cold, desolate depths of space!
One punch cleared the sky of Gotham.
The God of Bats slowly lowered his fist, and the pair of enormous wings of light on his back suddenly flapped.
He transformed into a platinum meteor that tore through the night sky, soaring into the heavens without pause, following the trajectory of Barbatos as he was blasted away.
He will lead the battlefield to the endless sea of stars.
They are determined to bring this nightmare that has engulfed the entire multiverse to a complete end.