Chapter 2323 Gotham Music Festival (Fifty-Five)
Chapter 2316 Gotham Music Festival (Fifty-Five)
Atlan's huge shadow suddenly froze.
A thick dark aura suddenly rose from the waves under Orm's feet, spreading from the deepest part of the sea. When it was about to spread to Orm's feet, Atlan was very panicked.
"What is this? This... No... No..."
The shadow whizzed back into Orm's body, but Orm was still manipulated to raise the trident. He howled in pain, lightning flashed behind him, and huge waves rushed to the shore, causing the crowd on the dock to shout in panic.
But soon another figure blocked the city in front of him. Arthur and the sea people of Atlantis, like Orm before, used the waves to form a solid giant curtain to block all the invading sea water.
The waters of the two sides gradually converged. Although they both came from the sea, they were clearly separated and entangled. Not far from the dock, they converged into a high water tornado. Even the clouds and lightning were swept into it, forming an extremely violent vortex.
In the water tornado, two strong figures fought together. Arthur's black hair was wet by the water and blown by the wind. He shouted to Orm: "Wake up, Orm, don't let him control you. We are descendants of Atlantis. The sea has free will and cannot be represented by anyone!"
Blue and gold lines appeared on Orm's body at the same time. Countless violent forces surged from his eyes and nose. He roared in pain, and countless sea water surrounded his limbs, like a cage and a weapon.
The thunder and dark clouds in the sky kept roaring and rolling, pressing down in pitch black. The falling rain seemed to have a force of ten thousand kilograms. Whether it was the corpse floating on the sea or the crowd fleeing in panic at the dock, they were all as small as the wet water vapor on the canvas.
The power of nature was fully manifested at this moment. When the sea and the sky roared together, the roars of all life were just the whimpers of newborns.
Arthur had no weapons, but the sea water was his most advantageous means of attack. He waved his arm forward, and a torrent shot out. The trident emitted a faint light. After barely blocking this attack, Orm roared and rushed towards Arthur.
Arthur dodged sideways, his black hair fluttered to his forehead. As the water flowed, he saw Orm's eyes through the gaps in the dense hair, which were full of pain and struggle.
Continuing to look inside, a strange black tide surged in the deepest part of the pupil. Another battle was in full swing in Orm's spiritual world.
Rich green occupied half of the sky. Green Lantern Hal floated above the world full of seawater. The rich green light energy resisted the endless invasion of seawater, and in the distance, King Atlan, who was emitting golden light, was desperately mobilizing his power to break through the blockade of green light energy.
"Wake up, Orm, the person who controls you wants to destroy your home." Batman's voice sounded in the water. He was standing on an isolated island on the water. The figure of the sea lord Orm was frozen in the floating iceberg in front of him. Obviously, that was Orm's consciousness.
Atlan's power was entangled on the iceberg, like the strongest chain, locking Orm's consciousness, and at the same time anesthetizing him, making him unaware of what was happening now.
Batman was trying to pry open Atlan's power and rescue Orm's consciousness, because he knew that this universe was still early, and Arthur had just figured out his life experience not long ago. He was far from the understanding and control of the power of the ocean by the sea king, and could not compare with the sea lord Orm.
In order to deal with the dead king Atlan, Orm and Arthur must join forces, and once Orm cannot wake up as soon as possible, the war in the ocean is likely to affect the land.
At this moment, Batman in the main universe here has some understanding of Atlan's life experience. Atlan was the greatest king of Atlantis. At that time, Atlantis was still a glorious kingdom on land with a very developed civilization.
Atlan's younger brother Orin is the most old-fashioned conservative. He believes that the power of Atlantis comes from pure blood, so he firmly opposes the marriage between Atlanteans and foreigners.
But Atlan himself married foreign women and had many children. Orin thought this was a defilement, so he betrayed Atlan and led his men to assassinate him. Atlan escaped with injuries, and Orin killed Atlan's wife and all his children.
Atlan returned to Atlantis and saw his wife and children died tragically. In anger, he sank the entire Atlantis with a trident, turning Atlantis from a glorious land civilization into a kingdom in the sea.
Because he had exhausted his power, Atlan had been sleeping in the Mariana Trench, but he never gave up revenge and always wanted to accumulate power to completely destroy Atlantis.
On the cruise ship, when Ion entered, Ion and his keen sense of smell smelled the extraordinary power fluctuations on the ship, so Hal and Clark followed this power all the way to the depths of the Mariana Trench.
Here they found Atlan's hiding place, but this once great king was proficient in magic technology. He made his hiding place watertight. Hal and Clark, who had no such experience, could not find a way to get in at all. They turned around the outer maze several times and had no clue.
Clark thought about breaking through with brute force, but the sea water here has a magical power that can greatly weaken the intensity of physical attacks. Although Hal has green light energy, he doesn't know how to effectively impact the shield.
After a long time without any progress, the two of them both thought of the same method, which was to go back to find Batman.
The distance from the cruise ship to the trench was nothing to the two of them. They quickly returned to the ship, but the one they found was not the Batman they were familiar with, but the Batman from the main universe.
In fact, it was because Bruce had just started to make music at that time, and Batman was being hunted. Only the Batman from the main universe was studying the energy traces in the power cabin of the ship. Like the white tank, he found something wrong with the power source of the ship.
Hearing the purpose of Clark and Hal's visit, Batman was already very accustomed to it, because he was the brain of their universe's Justice League and was used to people asking him for help anytime and anywhere.
Batman followed Clark and Hal to the depths of the trench, and then he found that the energy flow here was exactly the same as the energy traces on the power center engine of the Atlantis, which was enough to show that the Atlantis was a trick played by Atlantis.
At that time, they did not find out why Atlan had gone around so much and got a cruise ship to trick people onto it, but they also knew that if they could not break the shield where Atlan was hiding, then it would be impossible to restart the cruise ship's power system.
When Batman studied the shield, he found that the structure of the shield was extremely clever, and it could be said to be a new magic system, but there was only one loophole, that is, Atlan had left a hole on it and was transmitting his power to a certain place.
The three of them chased the power transmission channel and found the unconscious Orm, and then they understood that it was Atlan who was controlling Orm, and thinking about the opponent that Orm challenged was Schiller, I am afraid that Atlan's ultimate goal would be Schiller.
Although they did not know what hatred they had, the cruise ship was not far from the Gotham coastline. Once Atlan chose to attack there, the city on land would inevitably be threatened, which was something that none of the three wanted to see.
Clark and Hal used both physical and energy methods to wake Orm up, but all to no avail. Atlan's control over Orm was obviously premeditated and not accomplished overnight. His control over his mind was comprehensive and deep.
Batman speculated that in this case, they had no way to wake Orm from the outside, and they had to go deep into his spiritual world, defeat Atlan there, and rescue Orm's spirit.
When it came to the spiritual world, Hal naturally knew who to find. He contacted Constantine with a communicator constructed with green light energy and asked for some rights in the dream world. Clark was limited by bandwidth and stayed to guard the bodies of several people, while Hal and Batman entered Orm's spiritual world through the dream world.
When they came here, all their guesses were confirmed. I'm afraid that Orm's spirit had been invaded by Atlan many years ago. Atlan continued to pollute his spiritual space until Orm's spirit was completely frozen in the iceberg.
Atlan discovered their invasion and immediately mobilized its forces to launch a fierce attack on the two, which made it impossible for them to concentrate on removing the chains that trapped Orm.
So Hal and Batman divided the work, Hal was responsible for resisting Atlan's attack, and Batman was responsible for rescuing Orm.
But in fact, this is very difficult. From the current situation, Atlan must have a complete set of plans, and corrupting and controlling Orm is only one of them. The Atlantis is also very well prepared, and both Hal and Batman are equivalent to being ordered in a critical situation.
If they want to break the key part of this plan, that is, the controlled Orm, they must spend some time to figure out how Atlan controls Orm, and then they can find a solution.
Batman's speed is already very fast. He almost instantly discovered that the power of Atlan that blocked the iceberg was woven by a special magic structure, which is similar to the Atlantis engine and the magic shield of the Mariana Trench.
Batman immediately summarized all the information he observed, and then began to decipher it one by one in his mind, but even if this real super brain worked at full capacity, there was still not enough time.
A torrent of water hit Batman's feet, and Hal shouted towards him: "This guy seems to be a spiritual body, very good at fighting in the spiritual world. I have little experience in this area, I'm afraid I can only hold on for another ten minutes!"
"Then ten minutes!" Batman shouted, he stood in the storm, like a black high wall standing, like the last barrier for humans facing natural disasters.
He heard Hal say: "If this guy is going for Schiller, Schiller can't be completely unprepared! We have to wait for him!"
Batman was about to say, don't pin your hopes on anyone else, when he saw Atlan, who was committing a crime in the air, suddenly stiffened, and the whole person seemed to be suddenly disturbed by the communication radio waves, flashing a few times and disappeared.
Batman and Hal were both confused, but they quickly looked at each other and Batman said, "Save Orm first, then go back to his hideout and find out what this is all about."