Chapter 1732 Bruce Wayne and the Prisoner of the Batcave (XIV)
"So, you found the source of darkness in the city of Gotham?" Constantine asked, shaking the wine glass in his hand.
Schiller skipped the process of finding the scales. He simply said that he felt the same power as the darkness of Gotham on the scales. Others in the room did not continue to ask what the specific principle was. After all, magic There is no need to make things so clear.
"What's that?" Bruce asked, leaning forward.
"Barbatos, the dragon of darkness, lives in the abyss beneath the earth's surface. He is the god of destruction and darkness. He has been lurking in the shadows of the universe for a long time, peeping at the world."
"It's the eyes we saw." Bruce whispered, and then he looked up at Schiller and asked: "What is he?"
Schiller shook his head slightly. In fact, he knew Barbatos's background story, but obviously he couldn't provide any reliable sources now. He couldn't say he had guessed it himself, right?
And the origin of Barbatos is not very important. To put it bluntly, he is a pet dog who ate his owner. At the beginning of the DC universe, there were two brothers and a third person. This third person was the World Forger and lived in the World Forge. , which is now the Dark Multiverse.
He knocked out the universe there, and put the good ones on the plate, and fed the bad ones to the dog. Barbatos was the dog, but after eating too much, he felt that he was very capable, so he ate the caster. , and then those dark universes that should have been abandoned formed the Dark Multiverse.
It is useless to say this now. According to the timeline, the unlucky world caster may have been eaten. Otherwise, the space where little Bruce went could not be completely dark. This shows that Barbatos has already mastered the dark diversity. .
"What does this young Bruce mean when he talks about doors and keys?" Strange frowned. He looked at all this from the perspective of a bystander and speculated: "This young Bruce dropped his own blood on the metal. They had a wonderful reaction, and then his soul flew to the space where Barbatos was, which proved that there was something wrong with his blood and Gotham's metal."
Then he looked up at Schiller and said, "Since you are behind this, tell me your plan in full."
"This has to start with you." As a result, Schiller looked at Strange uncharacteristically. Strange was stunned and didn't understand what this had to do with him.
He looked around and found that everyone in the room was looking at him, so he was quite surprised and said: "What are you looking at me for? I am the only outsider here."
"Have you never thought about why you came here?"
"Of course it's because you are petty!" Strange glared at Schiller and said, "Just because I cut off my arm, you opened a hole between the two universes, and then kicked me in, and you still... Are you asking me why you’re here?”
Schiller shook his head, took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "Forgive me, I can only express regret for your radical wording, but it is not entirely because of this."
"Ancient One." Schiller spit out a name, but he did not have the consciousness to explain his accomplices, but started talking on his own.
"Just when I was studying the scale and guessing its true belonging, Ancient One came to me and brought me news of a serial murder case in the multiverse."
"I was surprised at first. Who could travel across the multiverse to murder others? Later, when Ancient One told me about her experience during this period, I finally understood what this was all about."
As Schiller told it, everyone in the room began to get a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg of another huge plan.
After Gu Yi retired, she began to roam the universe, but as she swam, the single universe was no longer enough for her, so she began to travel between universes, of course with the help of the power of eternity.
But the eternity of this universe is rather unlucky, and it has someone like Schiller. As a result, he would rather work overtime in the big world than come back. He would go on a business trip whenever he has time. He would rather leave the mess of managing the universe to his colleagues. Not willing to take another look.
Even the Ancient One often goes on business trips with Eternity. Whenever Adam, the Tribunal of Life in the big world, holds a meeting, he will bring together all the Eternities in the multiverses. Many Eternities will also retire with their universes. Ancient One.
In this way, the Ancient One mages began to communicate with each other, or in other words, the Ancient One from Schiller's universe finally joined the group chat.
At the beginning, everyone just exchanged some experiences on magic and spiritual cultivation, shared adventure experiences and new things in the universe, especially the experience of beating up the devil.
But the good times didn't last long, and not long after, many Ancient Ones began to complain in the group. Strange, the successor they chose, was killed in battle not long after becoming the Supreme Mage, and the cause of death was a mystery. It seemed like he was... It's like dying in your sleep.
After communicating in the group, the Ancient Ones discovered that this situation was not an exception, nor was it an accident at all. Instead, there was a mysterious serial killer who was constantly hunting Strange.
As soon as this strange incident came out, Ancient One from the Schiller Universe immediately became vigilant, because she discovered that the victims of Strange were all relatively young, and most of them were killed soon after becoming the Supreme Mage.
On average, Gu Yi discovered that Strange in his own universe is relatively young, and at the same time he has very powerful power, and is very likely to become the target of the murderer.
Ancient One wanted to remind Strange to be vigilant, but she thought that there is no such thing as a thief who can be a thief for a thousand days. Ancient One is not a defensive player. She prefers to take the initiative, so she found Schiller.
At that time, a certain plan had been lingering in Schiller's mind, but the structure was not clear enough. When Ancient One found him, he immediately had a new idea.
As we all know, after the gray fog swallowed up Knull, obtained his memory, and knew his true identity, the Cthulhu mythology system became a difficult problem that could not be bypassed.
Cthulhu is more like a style rather than a very specific subject matter, which means that their shadows occasionally appear in many European and American literary and film and television works. Before, Schiller was not sure whether there were only the Eye Demon and the Cthulhu-style characters mentioned in the Marvel Universe, or whether the complete Outer God system had been hidden behind the stars.
And when the Nameless Mist appeared, this question had a definite answer. At least the world he was in had Outer Gods, and it was the Outer God system that was generated around Azathoth.
In this case, other well-known Outer Gods should also be there, but even Greedy knows that the value of Outer Gods is not high. They are neither gods of cosmic rules nor energy bodies. They are more like a natural phenomenon with polluting properties. It is not easy to fleece them.
In fact, Schiller should be satisfied if he can fleece the Nameless Mist, but who makes Schiller's name Greedy? Again, he is good at squeezing out all the value of everything. Even a few drops of oil can be squeezed out of a stone, let alone an Outer God?
It is not realistic to directly deal with Outer Gods, because the original style of the Cthulhu Mythos system is madness and chaos, but because of this, they have a perfect use, that is, to be an oversized alarm clock.
As we all know, Schiller is very good at customizing alarm clocks. His creed is that the business can be negotiated, but you can't not answer my call. If you can't answer the call, it must be because the ringtone is not loud enough.
After guessing the real owner of the scale, Schiller certainly wanted to call and ask if it was true that Barbatos had never been fleeced, as Schiller said.
But it was difficult to call this master-devouring dog. If he rashly opened the door to the dark multiverse, what if it was not Barbatos who came in, but other disgusting things? Wouldn't that be asking for trouble?
So Schiller decided to find a way to throw a microphone at Barbatos. The quality of the call didn't matter. The important thing was not to get shit on him.
But this was also a technical job. First of all, Schiller needed to create an Outer God believer, so there needed to be an Outer God. Originally, the Nameless Mist could do it, but Schiller thought about it. The so-called mop was covered with shit, and Lu Bu was alive. The Nameless Mist was not aggressive enough. Schiller chose and chose, and finally decided on Naya.
On the one hand, there is a resonance between the fun man and the fun god. On the other hand, Naiya walks his dog and fights cocks every day in the human world. He is idle anyway. If he is busy, he can cause less trouble to people.
After the ringtone is determined, the material of the microphone must be determined. Of course, the material must be Batman. Barbatos has gone to such great lengths to get Batman to open the door, so Schiller will naturally give him Batman.
Schiller's original plan was to find an evil Batman from an evil universe, guide Naiya to attach his old mark to this Batman, that is, to smear the mop with shit, and then throw it in front of Barbatos to test whether his wool has grown longer.
But Bruce suddenly had an idea to get a little Bruce here, wanting to prove that he is not the worst at psychology in all universes. Although this is not the best candidate, it can barely be used.
So, Arrogant played the role of a magic professor here, and directed and acted in a whole play of Bruce Wayne and the Sorcerer's Stone. He originally planned to tamper with the Sorcerer's Stone and send little Bruce to Marvel through the channel that Strange came from, but Bruce got ahead of him and directly spread rumors about Lucifer in heaven to let Lucifer build a special channel to send little Bruce through.
In Schiller and Ancient One's plan, Ancient One reported the death of Strange in the multiverse to Eternity, and then went to investigate the case with other Ancient Ones, which would inevitably put a certain amount of pressure on the murderer. The murderer did not want to be found, and would definitely be eager to get power or find a way to escape, which would speed up her touch of Schiller's universe, and also speed up his hook.
While the Ancient One was not on Earth, Greedy had Gray Mist remotely control the Book of the Dead to appear in the Ancient One's study. Greedy wanted Bruce to find the book and teach him how to summon Nyarlathotep through the knowledge in the book. Unexpectedly, Helen got there first, and the Book of the Dead finally fell into Harley's hands.
And it was also very simple to seduce Nyarlathotep. As an Outer God who could understand humans, his method of seduce humans was different from the forced indoctrination of other Outer Gods. He was more elegant. In short, Nyarlathotep was a liar.
Any liar knew that if his past was written in black and white and widely publicized, it would be difficult to deceive people again in the future.
So, when Nyarlathotep learned that there was a Book of the Dead that wrote all the knowledge about the Outer Gods, he was eager to destroy it.