Chapter 78
The moment he raised his eyes, Messiah's expression became extremely cold.
Zatanna retreated silently, the irony magic had reached her throat, but a hand suddenly grabbed her neck, abruptly interrupting her irony magic.
Constantine's expression changed, the cat in the witch boy's arms also made a sharp cry, and Zatanna's face had lost its color.
Messiah looked at Zatanna, who was being strangled by his neck, his cold eyes filled with murderous intent, and he said word by word: "How dare you lie to me."
"How dare you use Jason to deceive me!"
Messiah's eyes burned with fire, anger nearly clouding his brain, how dare Zatanna give him hope and then tell him it was just a lie.
She had obviously watched Jason grow up, how could she treat Jason like this, treat him like this!
Zatanna's brain was already deprived of oxygen, but she still forced her red lips into a smile: "You... lost."
Messiah was extremely angry. The attacks of Constantine, Witch Child and others were all blocked by the automatically extended protective shield. He increased the strength of his hands and almost strangled Zatanna's neck.
But a hand stretched out and tried very hard to pry Messiah's fingers.
Jason jumped up from the bed at some point. He twisted Messiah's fingers and shook his head vigorously, trying to get Messiah to let go of Zatanna.
He stumbled, "No, Xiao Mi. We... are, friends."
"don't want."
Messiah looked at Jason's pleading blue eyes, and Zatanna suddenly gave up resistance as if she had suffered a huge shock, as if a bucket of cold water was poured on her head, and she suddenly calmed down.
He suddenly retracted his hand from around Zatanna's neck and looked at his hand in disbelief. He had never felt so strange before.
If you kill Zatanna just because you like her, what's the difference between you and killing Shazam's Supreme Leader?
Messiah looked in a trance at the hand that almost killed Zatanna. The almost hideous face of the Supreme Leader appeared in front of him, vaguely overlapping with his appearance just now.
Zatanna covered her neck and coughed twice, her face pale as she looked at Jason and the dazed Messiah standing in front of her: "I'm sorry... Jason, I'm really sorry, I..."
"…I'm sorry, Messiah."
Zatanna did not regret deceiving the White Tyrant, but the moment she saw Jason stop the Messiah, she felt an unprecedented regret in her heart.
She didn't regret deceiving the white tyrant, but she did regret deceiving Jason and the Messiah.
"Stop talking, let's go!"
Constantine looked at Messiah warily, pulled Zatanna over, and instantly rushed into the opened space channel.
The room fell silent again, leaving only the dazed Messiah and Jason, whose expression had returned to a state of numbness.
...The plan to deceive him could not have been thought up by Zatanna herself, and combined with the city occupied by the rebels and Batman's heartbeat getting closer and closer, Messiah could determine the culprit without thinking.
Bruce, using Jason to stop him.
Their father, their family, used emotions to hold him back.
Messiah was in disbelief. He wanted to find excuses for Bruce and to find the possibility that Bruce was being used by someone, but he could not shake the irrefutable facts.
"Why..." Messiah didn't understand, "Why would Bruce go to such lengths?"
Under his rule, crime and death rates dropped dramatically, everyone had enough food and clothing, could do what they wanted, and even children could receive free education starting in kindergarten to help them realize their dreams.
What he did was clearly the right thing. He successfully protected the earth and humanity. Why did Bruce stop him again and again!
No one could answer Messiah's question. Jason, who was quietly accompanying Messiah, was just an unconscious puppet, and he could not answer Messiah either.
Messiah took a deep breath, cleared away the chaotic emotions in his heart, and quickly calmed down.
The most important thing now is not Bruce, but the rebels who occupy the city.
Messiah walked straight out of the Garden of Eden, and Jason followed Messiah quietly like a shadow.
Damian was practicing swordsmanship in the courtyard. Seeing Messiah and Jason coming out, he sheathed the sword that was about to strike at the sparring puppet and frowned, "Where are you going?"
Damian's keen intuition allowed him to sense the danger, and he decisively said, "No matter where it goes, I'm going too."
Messiah paused, his eyes meeting Damian's young face that looked very similar to Bruce's, and he firmly rejected Damian's request.
Jason can stay by his side because he can protect Jason, and... he also wants Bruce to see Jason now and ask Bruce how he can have the heart to use Jason.
But Damian couldn't.
Damian is still young, and he can't let Damian see his brother arguing and breaking up with his father.
"Wait for me at home." Messiah ruffled Damian's messy black hair and said in a slow tone, "Be good and listen."
Damian curled his lips in dissatisfaction, but seeing Messiah's serious expression, he wisely chose to obey.
"But when you come back, I want to know what happened." Damian let go of Messiah's sleeve and said awkwardly.
Messiah's heart softened, and he said gently, "Of course."
When he looked up again, Messiah's expression had returned to its cold and dignified look, and he walked out of the Garden of Eden without hesitation.
Damian looked at Messiah's back without turning back. The white figure gradually shrank in his sight and finally disappeared.
Soon, he picked up the sword again and continued to chop the puppet seriously.
At this moment, Damian still thought that today was just an ordinary day, so ordinary that it was no different from the previous days.
Just like every day before, Messiah would go home after handling the incident, and would teach Jason physical skills together. Maybe he would even take him to Wayne Manor to play with Ace secretly, and then tell him "The Little Prince" which he had memorized long ago before going to bed.
Thinking of "The Little Prince" which he had long been tired of listening to, Damian suddenly curled his lips.
Tonight he must refuse Messiah's bedtime story and goodnight kiss. He is already an adult and does not need such childish things.
The little prince received the fox's farewell on a very ordinary day, and he would never see the fox he had tamed again. The little prince also did not know that he would never see the Messiah who treated him as a little prince again.
Damian was still looking forward to tomorrow, not realizing that this was the end for them.
Messiah closed his eyes.
The codes hovering above each city suddenly lit up. The unprecedentedly bright golden light illuminated the cheering crowds below, as well as the faces that had suddenly frozen.
The golden light of the code quickly extended outward, and the golden film expanded rapidly with the code as the center, and one city after another was covered with gold.
Soon, the golden film expanding above the city merged into one, and the earth was dyed golden.
This planet, which was placed in the palm of Messiah's hand, was briefly out of his control, but now it has fallen back into the palm of Messiah's hand.
The cheering crowds that poured into the streets and alleys suddenly panicked: "The Messiah is back! The white tyrant is back!"
"Hide quickly! Don't let the white tyrant know that we opposed him!"
People ran back home in a panic. They drew the curtains tightly to block out the golden light outside, deceiving themselves that nothing had happened, like covering their ears and stealing the bell.
The bustling streets were empty in an instant, and only the rebels holding guns remained in the streets and alleys.
The rebels looked up at the dazzling code as if they were looking at the sun.
The code just shone with golden light, and the golden film just covered the earth. They had not yet taken the next step, but they had already brought a strong sense of oppression to the rebels.
Someone tried to shoot a bullet into the sky, but the bullet lost momentum and fell to the ground before it even touched the codex.
Dead silence, total silence.
“…”
The rebels, who were originally full of vigor, suddenly lost their strength, and the guns fell heavily to the ground.
The sound of guns hitting the ground rang out one after another, and guns and ammunition crackled and fell all over the ground.
An atmosphere of despair spread.
——In the face of absolute strength, their resistance seemed like a joke.
"That's enough, we still have hope!"
Batwoman shouted, "Batman, they're almost in Gotham. Thousands of rebels are in Gotham. It's not time to give up yet!"
She stomped on the guardian, who suddenly began to struggle, and knocked him unconscious. His red hair, like flaming flames, fluttered behind her.
"Believe in Batman, he can do it." Batwoman said firmly, "I swear on my life, Batman will fight for us until the last second."
But Batwoman's words failed to inspire the rebels. What was faster than her encouragement was the golden lines that suddenly spread out from the code.
Golden threads dropped from the sky, each searching for its own host and sinking into their solar plexus.
From the rebels to the guardians, from ordinary people to superheroes, no one is spared.
The only exceptions were Gotham and Metropolis, which had never been occupied by the resistance. The sky in Metropolis was still blue, and the sky in Gotham was still covered with dark clouds. They were the only two cities that had not been dyed golden.
All this happened so quickly that the anchor on the TV news was still reporting, "Today, our heroes have taken back our city from the hands of the white tyrants, and the earth has been returned to mankind once again," when the Messiah had already taken over them again.
Messiah withdrew indifferently. The increasing opposition and repeated resistance had pushed his patience to the limit.
In order to protect humanity, he gave almost everything, broke up with his beloved family, and endured pressure and endless malice, but how did humans treat him?
The rebels were against him, and even the people he was protecting were against him.
Such ignorance, such disgusting to him.
Messiah thought indifferently that if that was the case, he didn't need to respect their ideas anymore.
Anyway, he just wants to protect the earth and humans, and there are many ways to make humans happy.
The Messiah decided that he would directly brainwash everyone on Earth so that they would never have negative emotions again.
Everyone will live happily under his rule. They will not be sad, angry, or rebel against him.
——The only exceptions are Gotham and Metropolis, the two cities that have never rebelled against him.
"I won't hold back on this world anymore."
Messiah said coldly, "I will never allow them to destroy my hard-earned happiness."
At this moment, the Messiah's appearance almost coincided with that of the Supreme Leader who decided to massacre the city, and the Supreme Leader's ruthless face was replicated on the Messiah.
So similar.
Imagine so.
This moment is just like that moment, but in the last world there was a Messiah to stop the Supreme Leader, but now there is no other Messiah to stop the White Tyrant.
Jason stood quietly beside Messiah, looking up at the code in the sky.
Suddenly, he blinked, and a black shadow suddenly appeared in his field of vision. The black shadow got closer and closer, and finally revealed its full appearance.
Batman, driving the Batplane, finally arrived before things became irreversible.
Before the Batplane landed, Nightwing jumped out first, and Batman also walked down after stopping the plane.
Messiah looked at Batman and Nightwing indifferently. Jason's lifeless eyes suddenly showed some emotion when they saw the faces of Batman and Nightwing.
Batman looked back at Messiah and Jason sternly, and Nightwing's resolute expression instantly shattered into pieces when he saw the appearance of Messiah and Jason.
They stared at each other.
Time seemed to freeze at this moment, and then flowed after Batman spoke.
"Afu is waiting for us to go home."
Batman suddenly said this inexplicably, as if his brain was controlled by something.
However, after he finished speaking, his tone quickly returned to its cold and hard state, as if the person who had just called Messiah and Jason to go home was just an illusion.
"It's not too late to stop now," Batman said coldly, "You can't make the same mistake again, Messiah."
【Author’s words】
I have plenty of time today, so I should have continued writing and updated some more, cough cough cough, but I felt it was just right to stop here, so I stopped hahahaha
I should be able to finish the second round and start the third round in two days at most [sunglasses] (If it’s not finished in two days, just pretend I never said anything, cough cough cough)
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