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Chapter 807 Failure, Despair, Tears of Blood, Madness
Chapter 807 Failure, Despair, Tears of Blood, Madness
I am the first Lantern Knight.
"I am the first Lantern Man," thought the first Lantern Man.
I don't know who those people who suddenly appeared to help me are, but I already have some guesses.
But none of that matters. What matters is that I succeeded.
No matter how many times I tried, I finally succeeded.
I will soon be able to fulfill my long-cherished wish and save a history that has long since crumbled. Since the day I left home, I have been wandering in the multiverse for far too long, and even after all that time, I have never...
One day I gave up on the journey home.
……
I am the first Lantern Knight.
Shadow Calamity thought to himself.
This is my second attempt to restart the timeline. Surprisingly, I didn't initiate all of this at the moment of multicultural integration as originally planned, but now, by a twist of fate, I have still managed to gather enough information to restore my hometown.
That's enough.
I have never given up on my journey home.
……
I am the first Lantern Knight.
The members of the Third Army Corps thought to themselves silently.
This is my 4347th time restarting the timeline, maybe it's the 4348th, I forgot, maybe the one next to me is the 4347th.
Or is it 4346?
Whatever.
But I haven't forgotten my goal.
But this time, things didn't go as I expected. The conditions that should have been met only after the formal integration of diverse elements have already been met.
Am I about to succeed?
After all that has happened...
Am I finally going to get my reward?
I have never given up on my journey home.
……
I am the first Lantern Knight.
The old man was thinking of the calamity.
This is my...
How many times have I come back?
I forgot
I……
I really succeeded.
Someone said I would never succeed.
I still remember what he said to me back then.
"Even if you succeed, Huo Rong, I mean... even if you succeed, it can never be true."
"They have fallen into eternal peace... The dead cannot be brought back to life. If your eternally sleeping loved ones really appear before you, they must be monsters."
"Ah, calamity of the Rong..."
"The dead cannot be brought back to life; death is the greatest gift to life."
"Even if you tremble and are unwilling, you must pick up the sword. That is the right way."
This is all bullshit.
I'm going to win, I'm really going to win.
It is not an illusion created by the World Maker, nor by the Laughing Bat or the Fool.
I have traversed countless mountains and rivers; today, I deserve my reward.
Holding the sword, I felt a vast amount of dangerous energy lurking within the cosmic tuning fork, now under my control. I was finally able to wield the sword.
I ignored Superman's rage, and I ignored Batman Dragon and his ulterior motives.
I set aside the laughing bat, the watcher, the anti-watcher, the world-maker, Barbatos, or the foolish owl.
In my eyes, you are nothing but weeds and dust.
What struggle, what debate over whether to restart the perfect world, what grand narrative about the safety of the main universe...
None of this concerns me.
I am going home.
My body felt as light as a butterfly, dancing gracefully.
I……
He swung his sword down.
……
"ha!"
The elderly Calamity King held a precious sword, surrounded by endless crises energy drawn from the cosmic tuning fork and imbued into the sword in his hand.
It floats in the super-time flow like a butterfly, constantly rising, constantly rising!
Everything seemed like dust to him. He ran through fragmented timelines, saw the Flash, Barry Allen, roar in Flashpoint, saw the bullet that struck Darkseid during Final Crisis, saw the battle for the cape, saw the death of Superman, saw Zero Crisis, Infinite Crisis, and Infinite Earth Crisis—one grand narrative after another.
madness……
That's so stupid.
People like Batman and Dragon are moved to tears by grand narratives and histories, yet they turn a blind eye to those who truly need help.
But his original title, Lantern Knight Huo Rong, was the one who needed help.
He needs someone to help him save his hometown and avert its doom.
His hometown died because of Superman's wrath, which is not fair, not fair, you understand?
He swung his sword towards that crucial point...
Immediately following was a deafening roar.
Click.
No, no, please don't do this, I beg you.
No.
The old man, Huo Rong, saw the section of history he had cut off begin to crumble.
It began to crack into fine lines.
Then that fragmented history reappeared in his life...
In its rightful place.
It's like a lofty and indifferent fate.
Unmoved...
Half a point.
……
boom!
Spacetime was violently shaking, and Chen Tao watched helplessly as the first Lantern Knight created an incredibly violent, constantly trembling, enormous portal of light.
He charged in with his sword in hand, and the next second, he was expelled from it.
"No! How could this be!?"
Chen Tao saw the old Calamity and the Shadow Calamity pounce on him almost simultaneously, anxiously grabbing the First Lantern Knight's neck: "Why? Why did we fail?"
"I...I don't know."
At this moment, only confusion remained in the eyes of the first Lantern Knight.
He stared blankly at everyone in front of him, utterly bewildered.
"I felt a... a sense of death. I tried many times. But this, this isn't a problem with energy."
The first Lantern Knight said, "I feel that part of history is dead. Can you understand what I'm saying? That part of history is dead, it has decayed."
"Perhaps we..."
The first Lantern Knight felt a little reluctant.
"Perhaps we..."
"No!"
Then he heard the voice of Shadow Calamity.
"I absolutely cannot accept this ending! I can still do it! I can do it again!"
"There will be no more chances." Superman appeared behind them in an instant, his eyes flashing red.
"You dare deceive me like this? You will all die, not one of you will live. Even if you succeed... Batman? Why are you stopping me? You'd better have a reason."
The red light in Superman's eyes subsided slightly, and he looked down at Batman Dragon blocking his way.
"Wait, wait..." Chen Tao stopped Supreme Superman, grabbed the other's fist, and then turned to look at Shadow Calamity.
"Don't you understand?"
Chen Tao said, "You've come back countless times!"
"Me...what?"
A blank look appeared on Shadow Calamity's face.
The first Lantern Knight had realized some possibilities. The old Calamity and the members of the Third Legion had experienced everything, except for the shadow Calamity before them.
He only realized it now.
He looked tremblingly at the Third Legion members who had appeared around them at some unknown time.
One by one, they took off their cloaks.
Calamity befalls the enemy.
Calamity befalls the enemy.
It will still bring disaster to the enemy.
Amidst the dense crowd, Shadow Calamity was horrified to see that the creatures he believed to have been created by him all possessed faces identical to his own.
A chill ran from the soles of his feet straight up to the top of Shadow Calamity's head, and then down, like a bucket of cold water poured directly into his forehead.
He had already realized all of this.
A tremendous fear gripped Shadow Calamity's heart, and he screamed:
"No!!! I can't accept this, I will never give up!!! Never!!!"
He roared and screamed, unleashing a massive punch of emotional energy at Superman Supreme, sending Superman Supreme's face twisting to one side. He charged madly towards the enormous light and then vanished into it.
Countless other Third Legion scourges echoed the same sentiment: "One more time, one more time... I can win, I can win..."
Some tried to encourage themselves, others screamed in despair, and then, like gamblers who had given up and were trying again, they did nothing but try again. But no matter what they did, in the end…
They all rushed into the enormous light, like moths to a flame, and vanished into the light, like raindrops melting into the lake.
The light shone on their faces, and their features, having absorbed the shadows, sank into an even wider expanse of darkness.
Chen Tao looked at the elderly Calamity and the first Lantern Knight who remained in place with some pity.
The first Lantern Knight stood there, dumbfounded.
The Supreme Little Superman's eyes lit up with red light again, as if he wanted to do something again, but Chen Tao comforted him by patting his shoulder and gently patting his back.
"There's no need, Superman Supreme. There's absolutely no need to stop them. It's all part of history."
Chen Tao tells Supreme Superman, "The first Genie has failed. The story is over."
Upon hearing Chen Tao's words, the first Lantern Knight trembled, but he still rushed towards the gate of light without hesitation and then disappeared behind it.
After knowing so much, Chen Tao couldn't fathom what kind of feelings the first Genie had when he went to try it.
Although he knew that this attempt would never yield results, or that he could break this endless cycle simply by stopping trying.
Then Chen Tao looked at the elderly Huo Rong.
From the moment we left until now, only his last calamity remains before this newly created gate of light.
He flashed and picked up the sword that the first Lanternman had brought into the portal in an attempt to reverse history, but had failed.
That divine sword that could cleave history now lay quietly in his palm.
The power of the cosmic tuning fork still rests with the elderly Calamity, who still has the strength for one last desperate attempt.
He can still try...
Let him try it again himself.
"Huorong, sometimes we must..."
Chen Tao tried to comfort him, but was interrupted by the old man Huo Rong waving his hand.
"You've always offered more comforting words than this, and this is the last thing I need."
He scoffed, "The dead cannot be brought back to life, and death is the greatest gift of life? I've heard you say these things to persuade me to submit millions of times in endless cycles of reincarnation. My ears are calloused from hearing them."
So shut your mouth.
The old monster showed no respect for Batman Dragon, who wanted to help him, and Superman's eyes began to redden again.
Chen Tao quickly covered his eyes.
"All of this cannot..."
But the next moment, the old man Huo Rong ignored Chen Tao's words and rushed in.
boom!!!
The next moment, an even more dejected and utterly despondent old demon emerged from the portal once more.
He staggered slightly, but his strength didn't seem to have diminished much.
Then he cursed loudly, and then flashed back into the enormous light.
He still held the sword in his hand; time had cooled him, and Chen Tao knew the result of his attempt.
"A scourge to the barbarians..."
He tentatively called out to the person, but Huo Rong didn't respond at all; he stood there like a statue.
"disaster……"
"Why?!"
The calamity of war has erupted:
"Why? Why can everyone be resurrected? I was resurrected too! I can be resurrected! Black Death Emperor Anton A. Kane, and all sorts of other death agents, all kinds of chaotic mental death Black Runners, Reverse Lightning's death Black Lightning, and so on—why can't my mother be resurrected?"
He brandished his sword, slashing wildly at the air:
"What about the great undertaking of creating the Green Lantern Corps? What about the monumental achievements of laying the foundation for the multiverse? Can't I just forget about that?"
"Do you think I want those things? None of them matter to me. Do you know what matters most to me? My home, my family, the things you so easily took from me, that's what matters to me."
"Why? Why am I some important cornerstone and pillar of the multiverse? Who wants these things? Who wants to be these things? Why me?"
He roared loudly, and then the roar turned into howling.
"I don't want any of that, none of it is what I want. I just want, I just want my mother to come back, sob sob... I just want her to live..."
He groaned.
"Please don't be so cruel to me. I beg you."
He fell to the ground.
"None of this...this is not what I wanted."
His voice rose again:
"I beg you... have mercy, have mercy!"
He didn't expect anyone to show him any mercy; he just roared madly.
Chen Tao felt like his tongue was tied in knots:
"I understand how you feel, but your mother is a dead person from the past, and we cannot arbitrarily rewrite history. The Flash once tried to save his mother, but ended up causing the world to be on the verge of destruction."
"Our parents...will eventually leave us."
But the first Genie had gone mad. He couldn't hear anything anymore, and there was no way language could console him.
He looked up, and Chen Tao saw his bloodshot eyes and resolute gaze.
That was utter madness; two lines of bloody tears flowed from his eyes.
"No...no! I will never accept this ending. I can go back upstream in the timeline, I can change all of this. If I can do that, I can erase all of this!"
(End of this chapter)