Chapter 567 33. If something can affect the outcome, then it must be firmly held in one's own hands!
Mason triggered the "Black Lantern Ring Global Defense System" when he entered the Lord's World for the first time. That experience is still fresh in Mason's memory.
Especially when the Red Queen came to disrupt the situation, the Black Lantern Corps noticed an unexpected wave of assists, which indirectly created an opportunity for the weak captain to defeat the enemy.
It was quite an exciting experience, and it also gave Mason an intuitive understanding of the power of the fully released Black Lantern Ring.
Although the Black Lantern Ring in this world is controlled and suppressed by John Stewart, the original Green Lantern, it is not to the extent of the legendary "Night of the Black Lantern", but in terms of destructive power and energy level, this thing is undoubtedly still rotten. Above the power of this root.
Thinking about it, I can understand that no matter how powerful the black decay is, it can only work on the earth, and the black lantern ring can cover the entire galaxy and even the universe after it is fully released.
The two are not at the same level.
This is also the reason why Mason did not come to explore the secrets of the black lamp immediately after the war in the lord world ended. He felt that these dark forces would always come up with strange rules, and it would undoubtedly consume a lot of energy to find the source. A lot of time, and what they need most now is time.
However, now that the Overlord World has essentially joined the Resistance Alliance, the power they put here to protect the world can also be used by Mason.
Although it was Uncle Tun's tough demands that disrupted Mason's plan, he could also take the opportunity to satisfy some of his curiosity about the Black Lantern Corps.
This kind of situation is called eating two fish? Or kill two birds with one stone?
"It is said to be a resident, but it is actually the ruins of the seaside city."
In the future technology bat fighter that landed, Damian pointed to the dark and cold city ruins below and explained to Mason:
"I've read the records of the Lords of Justice's war in the Batcave, and this city was one of the first places to be destroyed when the Conqueror invaded. The entire city was blown up by Vulcan and Storm .
The people inside were killed and injured countless times, even Hal Jordan, the greatest Green Lantern in the world, fell here.
It is said that before his death, the guy turned into the parallax demon, the Lord of Fear, through a series of operations to defeat that invasion. He sacrificed himself and finally flew to the sun.
It’s hard to say whether John Stewart was ‘inspired’ by his predecessors when he summoned the Dark Lantern Ring in a critical situation, but there is no doubt that the Lanterns in this world are really tough!
I read those stories in awe of their choices.
But I can't go with you, this city has been completely covered by the power of the Black Lantern Ring, the heroes and clones who died in the years of war have become the guardians of the Lord of the Black Lantern, any life that steps into it without permission will trigger their counterattack.
Even the justice lords will not come here if they have nothing to do. "
"I didn't expect to take you down with this little oil bottle."
Mason held the purple-emitting Uncle Tun fish tank in one hand, and while snapping his fingers, he pulled out the pendant made of time gems and clasped it in his hand. He jumped down from the open hatch and said to Damian through the team communication:
"You just wait here. The current situation is obviously not the time for you to participate. Ms. Janet will come with a portable quantum tunnel device in a while. You help her install the device here."
"Are you so sure that you can persuade the Lord of the Black Lantern to give up his power?"
Damian retorted:
"He is not an ordinary villain, and he cannot even be called a villain. Even after embracing Quiet Death, he is still defending the world.
This kind of strong will will certainly not be persuaded by a few words. "
"I have my own way."
Mason didn't explain. After he landed, he walked into the city of ruins that was shrouded in a darker night than the night. The ground here was stained with "black", just like the "black mud" all over the world is black. A manifestation of the death power of the Lantern Ring.
The captain carefully avoided these dangerous areas, so as not to alarm the dead.
Through the keen perception of energy by the Isu's sense organs, he locked the source of all scattered forces in the city, and that must be where the Black Death Emperor is.
Speaking of the Black Death Emperor.
This guy was supposed to be the incarnation of the power of death in the universe. Unlike the black decay, it has its own will and is obsessed with destroying all life in the universe in order to return the noisy stars to the "beautiful" silent age.
This kind of guy with his own purpose and power is often the most difficult to deal with.
Mason couldn't guess how the Green Lantern Stuart in this world got the Black Death Emperor to obey the guardianship, but he could imagine that it was definitely not a pleasant process.
"Something has awakened!"
This thought came to Mason's mind, he caught a glimpse of himself being pulled into the death mud that erupted, so he immediately stopped to activate the time gem in his hand.
Almost at the same time that the green fluorescent light wrapped around his left arm, the quiet black area around him suddenly burst into vibration.
The death mud tumbling around screamed and turned into dead heroes one by one to surround Mason. The mud full of death power exploded into a fountain to eat up the living person who broke into the kingdom of death.
But in the next moment, the green streamer on Mason's arm exploded, locking the time flowing nearby. The explosion of death mud and the hideous dead who sprang out were all frozen in the power of the time gem, and the captain drew out his pistol to aim at it. The nearest Hawkwoman fired a shot, and the bullet precisely shattered the latter's eye.
But no blood spewed out of the wound, and the black death mud repaired the injury, but these resurrected dead could not break through the control of the time gem by themselves.
But Mason couldn't move forward either.
Because of his attacking action, the entire dead and ruined city "lived".
Pale white light lit up everywhere in the city, and shadowy shadows also emerged from everywhere. These army of the dead under the control of the black lantern ring felt offended.
Because of death's abhorrence of life instinct, they want to completely tear up the guy who trespasses in the place of death.
The power of the Time Gem in Mason's hand is quite limited in this different world. The main reason is that he has not systematically learned how to control the flow of time. He may die soon by relying on this thing alone.
So when surrounded by thousands of dead, the captain decisively took out his big killer.
"Snapped"
The trigger of the one-time ultimate eraser was pulled, and the purple flame rose in the night, and was thrown forward by Mason like an activated grenade.
He made a cowardly gesture of covering his head and squatting on the spot.
"Boom"
The dazzling purple light beam once again illuminated the night, and the destructive cosmic divine power enveloped the entire ruined city in an instant. The resulting energy collision shattered the earthquake, and the strange howling sounded like **** descending.
This movement shocked Damian who was waiting outside, and made Ms. Janet, who had just been sent over by the speedster, almost throw out the portable quantum tunneling device in her hand.
"What the **** is he doing?"
Ms. Janet exclaimed:
"Didn't you say that Mason went to negotiate terms? This movement seems to be negotiating conditions? Is this the breakdown of negotiations and the start of an attack? Or is he planning to tear down this kingdom of death to force the Black Lantern Ring to obey?"
"Uh, maybe that's an option too?"
Damian pursed his lips, lamenting in his heart that this guy Mason's "explosive" attribute finally couldn't be hidden.
However, the captain did not expect to use a burst of cosmic divine power to defeat the Black Lantern Legion. Although the energy explosion just now did destroy the dead entity created by the Black Lantern Ring and interfere with the power operation here, but for the dead. Apparently, this sheer destruction doesn't stop them from reappearing in death.
"It's time for an exciting prawn hunt."
Mason looked at the shattered ground that had been emptied in front of him. He threw out a set of speed force armor and put it on. With the death mud around him surging like a sea tide, he quickly crossed the shattered ground to where the Black Death Emperor was. From a high altitude, one can see a faint blue light turning and advancing continuously in the ruins of residual dangerous energy.
It's like walking a maze.
In order to protect himself, Stuart set up a rather complicated route for the ruins. He himself lives in the center of this night maze, but no matter how complicated the maze is for a speedster, he can't try too many times.
"唰"
The figure of the chief captain appeared in the center of the maze, and it took almost three seconds for the black lantern ring to heal the aftermath of energy in the city and awaken more dead.
Mason popped out of the speed force armor, looking at the strange black skull seat in front of him.
A guy in a tattered black robe and holding a black sickle was sitting on it.
The black skull mask covers the cheeks and the face cannot be seen clearly, but the dried flesh and skin and bones can be seen in the swing of the robe.
At this moment, Mason understood.
"John Stewart?"
Mason asked:
"Can you still hear me?"
"Yes, I am not deaf."
A weak voice sounded from under the skull mask, with a kind of helplessness and boredom, he said:
"Are you Mason Cooper? I've seen you before, and I was impressed when Gray Bat asked me to use the power of the Black Lantern Ring to help you fight the Red Queen.
But why are you here? "
"Talk to you about something."
Mason put aside the cosmic divine power fish tank in his hand, and when he was about to talk about something, he was interrupted by the weak Stuart, who said:
"Do me a favor first."
"Well, you say, as long as I can do it."
Mason nodded.
He said in his heart that it really was this process, just like the **** task of accepting and doing tasks. If you want to get something, you have to serve the noble NPC first.
"Come forward."
Stuart said in a low and hoarse voice:
"This matter is very simple to you, but it is very personal. I hope you will not talk about this matter everywhere."
"You won't lie to me and let the Black Death Emperor who is suppressed by you swallow me in one bite?"
Mason asked suspiciously, causing the Lord of the Black Lamp to sigh and say:
"It's not suppressed by me, Mason.
There is a price for my ability to control the power of the black lamp. You should know that I have become a part of it, the incarnation of the concept of death in the material world.
The Green Lantern Corps did their best to destroy part of the concept of the Black Death, which allowed me to take advantage of it.
You don't have to worry about it getting out of control, at least not in this world. "
The captain stepped forward to approach John Stewart. His left hand was always on the pistol at his waist, making up his mind that if the opponent moved slightly, he would violently fight back.
But this kind of thing didn't happen. When he walked to Stewart's side, he heard the other party say in an awkward and weak tone:
"scratch my back"
"ha?"
Mason's eyes widened and he felt that he had heard it wrong. Is this a new joke of the **** young generation?
"I've been sitting here in this position for almost three years."
Stewart explained:
"I'm actually dead, but the power of the Black Lantern Ring maintains my existence, but I can't just move around if I want to project the part of the Black Lantern Power I can control over the world and keep them active .
This skull socket you see is actually a 'controller'.
Anyway, I can't do these simple things on my own, and my back is itching to death.
I'm going crazy.
Maybe I have to be glad that I don’t need to think about excretion after death, otherwise, just thinking about that scene would make me want to commit suicide with shame and indignation.
Oh Shet!
It's so cool. "
Your Excellency the Lord of Death felt that Mason used his dwarf saber to pop out a tickling-like device and move behind him, and suddenly let out a weird and comfortable moan.
"Can't you just find a dead person to help you with this?"
Mason complained with a strange expression:
"I just saw Hawkwoman and Vixen who have maintained an improper relationship with you for a long time. Wouldn't it be more convenient for them to help you?"
"They can't come near me."
Stuart sighed and said:
"This maze that binds me is not made by myself, it was shaped by them. They are bound by the Black Lantern Ring to curse their lives after death. Getting close to the power of the Black Death Emperor will make them lose their sanity.
They don't want to do it, and I don't want to force it.
In short, the relationship between me and them is very complicated, and it is not the kind of absolute control between the superior and the subordinate as you imagine. Well, much more comfortable, now tell me, what do you want me to do for you? "
"Well, that's a long story."
Standing beside Stuart, Mason looked at the power controller of the skull seat under his buttocks. He felt that this thing was similar to the legendary "Ice Throne". Say it again.
He thought it would be difficult to persuade the Black Lantern Lantern to give up his power, but he didn't expect John Stewart to make a decision within a minute after he finished speaking.
"You open that quantum tunnel now!"
The lord of death said firmly to Mason who was still tickling him:
"I will bring this army of the dead together into that plane of death, and if possible, I hope your companions there will help me bring the death power left by the Black Death Emperor in this universe together. .
Now that the threat of the Conqueror has vanished, our presence of the dead has become an unstable factor in this world.
The Black Death Emperor is a self-aware force, and it will definitely repay us ten times and a hundred times for what we have done to it one day in the future. By then, this troubled world will inevitably be bloody.
Yet I swore an oath when I became Lord Justice to prevent such dangers.
Now it's time for me to fulfill my oath. "
"No, you didn't understand my thoughts."
Hearing that Stuart was so determined, Mason was greatly moved, and said in his heart that these righteous lords are really too qualified in terms of dedication and sacrifice.
But he emphasized:
"I didn't send you there to make you obey our 'companion', Stuart, the death of that plane is reshaping the rules of death, the power of the Black Death Emperor is weaker than her personality but not impossible to resist.
Swallowing Stars and Death obviously already know the significance of their existence to us rebels, so they have cards in their hands to negotiate terms with us.
However, the feature that the 2149 plane can lead to the gate of the world is very important to our cause, and we cannot give up it.
So, I mean"
"You want me to enter there and use the power of the Black Death Emperor to participate in the restart of the death plane, so as to ensure that the secret tactics of the resistance alliance will not be interfered."
John Stewart said clearly:
"You are right! That road can directly determine the fate of the rebels, and it cannot fall into the hands of another group of guys with ulterior motives, even if they are the gods of the universe.
The initiative of this project must be in our hands. I am honored to undertake such an important mission after my death.
Leave it to me, Mason Cooper.
I will do my best to fulfill this heavy responsibility, and I swear in the name of Lord Justice! "
(end of this chapter)