Chapter 261 Anti-Surveillance
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The Antimatter Universe.
This was the end of all light and life, as boundless waves of antimatter frantically washed over the last few surviving material Universes, and it would not be long before the entire World collapsed.
At the very center, the Anti-Monitor sensed the intruders.
"Interesting. I feel the same life fluctuations—a sixth-dimensional lifeform, yet not The Monitor. Who are you?"
As the voice fell, Lucas arrived with a massive crowd of people.
"The Anti-Monitor, I am here to negotiate terms!"
Behind Lucas, Cage Superman’s long hair fluttered in the wind, Kara stood behind him acting as a stylistic prop, and Barry Allen stirred the Speed Force to make himself look as fierce as possible.
The Arrow team naturally wasn’t absent.
There were also hero teams from other Universes, such as Earth-38’s Kara, and her cousin—who was Wolf Superman. Martian Manhunter also came to join in the fun, and even the Legends team drove their Time Ship to cheer them on.
With a single hand pinch by the Anti-Monitor, the sand on the ground condensed into a massive army.
"With just a few feeble warriors, you dare to break into the antimatter World. You certainly have guts!"
Lucas didn’t speak; he tore open a spatial rift, pulled Earth-2’s gorilla army over as well, and casually applied the Speed Force to all the gorillas.
Besides that, he also cast a layer of energy shield over every member.
"Leave the Anti-Monitor to me; you guys handle the rest. No problem, right?"
Cage Superman shook his arms, and the radiating force instantly annihilated several enemies taking the lead. His combat experience was stronger than any superhero present—after all, he was an existence that had fought his way from a World of despair to become the last man standing.
Next was Wolf Superman. Wolf Superman’s stats were pure, and he might even be stronger than Cage Superman; it’s just that his combat performance wasn’t great, and he was too easily suppressed.
"Ants... struggle to your heart’s content! In the face of eternal nothingness, the material Universe is doomed to perish!!"
The Anti-Monitor raised his palm, wielding enough power to crush a star, and pressed it down toward the allied forces.
Lucas finally moved. He took a single step forward, instantly arriving before the Anti-Monitor, and with a cross-rip of his arms, separated his head from his body.
But strangely enough, there wasn’t a single drop of blood at the Anti-Monitor’s severed neck.
In the distance.
The sand converged and formed shapes, condensing back into the appearance of the Anti-Monitor.
"Let’s fight somewhere else; it’s too restrictive here!"
Lucas hovered in mid-air, his figure swelling in an instant and evolving into a giant dharma form that transcended three-dimensional manifestations. Six kinds of infinite laws slowly emerged above his head, and Omega energy surrounded his body.
These powers, which originally belonged to the lower dimensions, naturally evolved into power rules matching the dimension after Lucas stepped into a sixth-dimensional lifeform.
Shock flashed in the Anti-Monitor’s eyes. The origin of his rules was destruction, aiming to obliterate everything in the material Universe; yet the opponent had seven or eight rule-type powers, and every single one of them subconsciously made him feel a sense of danger.
This was simply impossible!
"Nothing is impossible. Now that we finally have an expert of the same level, don’t even think about running away. Let’s fight!"
Lucas’s heart itched with eagerness; ever since stepping into the fifth dimension, he had rarely encountered evenly matched opponents.
The ones he couldn’t beat, he would run from; the ones he could beat, he had no interest in.
The Anti-Monitor was slightly stronger than The Monitor, making him a truly evenly matched opponent.
Swoosh!
The void split open, and Lucas and the Anti-Monitor tumbled out together. This was a vast and boundless deep space, and in the distance stood a cold giant wall, eternally spanning across there. Just approaching it gave people a feeling of shivering all over.
Even a sixth-dimensional lifeform would be frozen at any moment when facing that wall.
Source Wall!
"This is... Impossible, how could it be here?"
The Anti-Monitor’s pupils contracted sharply.
Countless epochs ago, three sixth-dimensional lifeforms joined forces—namely The Monitor, the Anti-Monitor, and the World Forger—and sealed away their own mother, the Creator Goddess Perpetua.
Now the World Forger was nowhere to be found, and The Monitor had been sealed by Lucas, leaving only the Anti-Monitor.
The moment he saw the Source Wall, he recalled that battle from the past.
"Your power cannot penetrate the Source Wall. Your duty was originally to guard the external entrance, but since the Source Wall stands here, its role in suppressing the antimatter Universe has vanished. Is that why you wanted to destroy the material Universe?"
Lucas slowly stated.
Creator Goddess Perpetua’s aura had constantly been upgrading, and the three brothers were the same. However, DC Comics frequently retconned things, so Lucas wasn’t sure if this was the exact version, and could only test the waters.
The Anti-Monitor did not speak.
But his slightly trembling pupils indicated that Lucas had guessed correctly.
"Who on Earth are you?"
The Anti-Monitor did not make a move; he was thinking: Could Lucas’s origins belong to the same realm as their mother Perpetua?
The sixth dimension was not the peak of life, and Perpetua wasn’t in the strongest tier either. Although she was crowned as the Creator Mother Goddess, above Perpetua were the Source Power Origin, Lucifer, Michael, and other versions of Batman, Superman, Diana...
"It’s hard to explain my existence. If I told you I stepped up from the three-dimensional World step by step, would you believe it?"
Lucas crossed his arms.
"Heh!"
The Anti-Monitor let out a disdainful sneer.
Dimensional ascension?
Do you think this is playing a video game?
The probability of a mortal ascending dimensions to become a god was lower than the probability of him breaking through the Source Wall. This wasn’t fighting monsters and leveling up in a game; no matter how powerful you were, it was impossible to peek into the power of this dimension.
The Monitor, the World Forger, and himself—the three brothers had been born as sixth-dimensional tools from the very moment they were created. There was no possibility of step-by-step promotion.
"Alright, since you want to act aloof, then don’t speak for the rest of your life. Just be a good boy and get nailed onto the Source Wall!"
Lucas threw a punch, spatial stacking power integrated. Before the Anti-Monitor could react, he was punched on the chin, the shockwave piercing through this Universe, and the surrounding environment instantly switched.
The surroundings were pitch dark, with only coldness and hunger constantly raging.
The starlight was being swallowed up.
The two fell onto Earth like meteors. Parallax Jordan was about to sacrifice himself to redeem the Sun from the Sun-Eater, but little did he expect that two supreme energies would almost pierce through his mind.
"Ah! Ah! Ah! What kind of power is this?!"
Jordan knelt on the ground. In her green-glowing eyes, she saw an incomparably terrifying phantom suppressing another golden lifeform. The aura on both of them was countless dimensions more terrifying than his.
However, before Jordan could react, she saw that stout, black-haired man raise his right fist, the fist peak lingering with energy that made souls tremble. The rule power upon it even made her feel the aura of the Source Wall.
"Bang!"
A punch blasted down.
Lucas and the Anti-Monitor fell once more, entering another Universe.
Every punch exchanged between them would pierce through the universal membrane, blasting open pathways to the multiverse. Even amidst the shockwaves of their divine power clashes, countless galaxies were instantly annihilated into dust.
This was still under the condition of holding back as much as possible; if they fought with all their might, hundreds of trillions of lives would perish in every material Universe they reached.