Chapter 163 Paradox Batman
Another apparition.
Katoom and Bruce disappeared and reappeared in the Hog's Head Bar.
As it is holiday time, the wizarding village Hogsmeade seems extremely deserted.
The owner of the Hog's Head Inn is Dumbledore's brother, Aberforth Dumbledore.
He was currently curled up by the fire in the bar, dozing with his eyes closed, his long white beard covering his chest.
"Collapse!"
Bruce felt that even if Aberforth fell asleep, he was still not safe.
Without hesitation, he cast a stunning spell.
Aberforth's head tilted suddenly and he fell into an even sweeter sleep.
"You're bullying the old man again."
Katum was making sarcastic remarks nearby.
"That's not the point." Bruce's goal was clear. "Hurry into his bedroom and see if there are any relics of Credence."
Mainly looking for things like letters.
"It's fine if you bully the old man, but now you're coveting his son's things."
Katoom said something casually, then followed Bruce into Aberforth's bedroom.
"Reveal yourself urgently!"
After entering Aberforth's bedroom, Bruce first used a revelation spell to prevent Aberforth from using any concealment magic.
Then he began to rummage through the boxes and cabinets, and every time he found a place, he immediately restored it to its original state.
He searched bit by bit and even found the few witch girl magazines that Aberforth had hidden under the bed.
"Why are you so skilled?"
Katum was stunned. "If you tell me now that you were a thief before, I will believe you."
"Don't just stand there!" Bruce urged, "Come with me and look for it!"
Time passed quickly.
Bruce was sure he had searched every inch of this bedroom.
As for Credence's belongings, there is indeed one, which is a photo album that records every detail of Aberforth's life with his son.
Then there are some items used by Credence that were found along with the photo collection.
They even found a red battle suit, neatly folded and placed at the bottom of the closet.
There is a red lightning symbol on the chest of the suit.
"Ahaha, I'll tell you!"
Katum seemed very happy, "I said that the Flash must have appeared in this world."
The reason why there is no record is not that the Flash is so low-key, unlike in the DC world.
But it’s because the Flash this time is a wizard.
He would forget the spell.
"I don't know what you're happy about."
Bruce refolded the suit and put it back to its original place.
"We didn't find any clues."
I couldn't find anything resembling a letter.
"It doesn't look like it's here."
Bruce finally accepted this reality, "Then let's go look for it at Dumbledore's place. If we still can't find it, it means your guess is wrong.
"Barry Allen left us nothing."
"Of course there is." Katum was full of confidence. He believed that the Speed Force would give him the best arrangement.
"Then let's go."
Bruce and Katoom leave the Hog's Head.
Only the old Aberforth was left, lying unconscious beside the fire in the bar.
……
Hogwarts without students is just a gloomy castle.
As for Bruce, just one day ago, a bloody murder happened in the castle.
He was now literally returning to the scene of the crime.
"Well, Dumbledore must have changed the passwords for his offices this year."
"We couldn't get into the office through the main entrance, so we had to use our old method," said Katum.
Climb the window.
Bruce and Katum had climbed together once before, a year ago.
Compared with the magical restrictions on the main door, the restrictions on the window were much smaller. Bruce used the Supreme Wand to knock open the glass window and then crawled in.
He then restored the windows to their original state.
As soon as he entered, the portraits of the principal in the office were immediately startled.
"Bruce Wayne?" A portrait recognized him. "Why are you here at this hour?"
And he entered the office this way...
"I'm here to see Dumbledore."
Bruce said calmly, "Didn't you notice that Dumbledore is missing?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the person in the portrait seemed to be enlightened.
Fear was evident on their faces as they finally realized that Dumbledore had disappeared.
"Don't worry!"
Bruce immediately said, "I'm here to help you find Dumbledore. Now, I need a little cooperation from you!"
He looked around; Dumbledore's office remained the same.
There were many strange and bizarre silver objects, rotating and emitting small puffs of smoke.
Bruce looked up at the portraits of former headmasters and said, "Do you know what Dumbledore has collected, something like a letter?
"Or something else, at least every time Dumbledore saw those things, he would have a deep or sad expression on his face."
this--
The portraits of the headmasters looked at each other, and then Bruce saw an old woman nod.
"some."
She said, "It's in the third drawer of Dumbledore's desk. He set a password. I...can't tell you."
"Now is not the time to dwell on this!"
Bruce said anxiously, "Dumbledore has disappeared. If I want to find him back, I must know the password!"
There was no trace of joking in his attitude.
The old woman hesitated for a moment and finally sighed.
"Okay, the password is the Order of the Phoenix."
She said, "The letters and the sadness when reading them all meet the requirements you just mentioned."
Order of the Phoenix?
Bruce felt that the old woman might have misunderstood what he meant.
But there was no harm in looking for it, so Bruce went to Dumbledore's desk and gave the password.
"Order of the Phoenix!"
As the password was spoken, the magical restriction that had been lingering on the drawer was lifted. Bruce opened the drawer, which was filled with letters and papers.
He took these things out.
At the top is a portrait of men and women standing, sometimes looking at each other, sometimes looking at the camera with a smile.
"This is a group photo of the members of the Order of the Phoenix."
Katum recognized them and casually reported the identities of several people.
"These two are Harry's parents. You should be able to tell who they are. This one is Lupin. It turns out he used to look so miserable. This one is Sirius. He's quite handsome. These two are..."
After thinking for a moment, the owl finally figured it out, "Oh yes, these two are Neville's parents!"
"Neville's parents?"
Bruce suddenly remembered Neville's reaction in the worst ending.
He couldn't help but ask, "Are Neville's parents dead?"
"You really don't care about others at all!"
Katum said, "I remember I told you before that Neville's parents were tortured crazy by the Death Eaters, but they didn't die!"
"Really? I only selectively listen to what you say. Maybe I accidentally missed it that time."
Bruce was thinking about a question.
Although Ares has a strong brainwashing ability, how did he brainwash Neville from a timid but kind-hearted fat boy into a criminal who attacked his friends?
Bruce didn't know why, but he had a feeling at this moment.
This may all have something to do with Neville's parents.
"Let's write down this clue first."
Bruce thought to himself, then turned his attention back to Dumbledore's letter.
He read through the pages one by one.
"Dumbledore, Lily and I's child is born. I named him Harry..."
"Dumbledore, I sent you a picture of little Neville..."
"Dumbledore, I've been feeling a little frustrated lately. The werewolf community is not willing to communicate with me at all..."
They were all very old letters, and they did not describe anything very serious.
Some come to share their daily lives, some are seeking help because they are troubled, and some are just simply saying hello.
Although the contents were extremely bland, Dumbledore still treasured the letters like treasures.
Bruce believed that Dumbledore must have written replies to these letters seriously, but times have changed and things and people have changed.
"Ugh."
He sighed and continued his search.
Finally, when the letter reached the bottom, an old piece of paper caught Bruce's attention.
It was a very ordinary piece of parchment, with no signature on it, except for a lightning symbol drawn in pencil in the upper right corner.
"found it!"
Bruce immediately called out to Katum, "Look at this lightning symbol!" Katum pulled his head out from another pile of letters and leaned closer to look at where Bruce was pointing.
"You can't draw such a simple conclusion."
The owl said, "Harry also has a lightning symbol on his head, but you can't say that Harry is a clue left by Barry, right?"
So we still have to look at the specific content.
When the parchment was unfolded, it was densely written with content that should not exist in the wizarding world.
"It's a chemical formula! And it's from different chemicals."
Katum counted the formulas above, "At least eleven, oh no, twelve!"
"Is this what Barry left behind?" Bruce asked quickly.
"Absolutely!"
Katoom's expression at this moment could be described as completely excited. He chuckled and said, "I know what this is! This is the beginning of the Flash!"
The birth of the Flash came from a flash of lightning.
Barry Allen was originally just a forensic doctor, until one day, a lightning bolt struck the medicine rack in the laboratory, and various drugs mixed together and poured all over Barry.
From then on, he possessed super speed.
Although strictly speaking, this is only an appearance, the real reason why Barry possesses super speed is due to his own arrangement in the future.
But now that Barry has left behind these chemical formulas, it means he agrees 100% that he can get the blessing of the speed force through this method.
Barry had arranged it.
"Now we need to prepare these chemicals!"
The owl stretched out one wing and pointed it toward the sky.
"Then, guide a lightning bolt to hit these chemicals. Once they are mixed and poured on your body, you will gain super speed!"
"Seriously?"
Bruce immediately began to think about how to implement this action.
"Preparing chemical agents is nothing. I can just buy a chemical laboratory. Then we can use kites to pull lightning during heavy rains. We can even create heavy rains ourselves!"
The portraits on the wall looked at each other, totally confused as to what Bruce was saying.
What chemistry?
Is it a new magic?
"Hurry up and do it, Bruce!"
Katoum urged, “We have to finish all this before school starts.”
Bruce nodded, and he immediately said goodbye to the portraits of the principals, indicating that he had found what he was looking for.
Then he would climb out the window and leave.
Just then, the old woman suddenly spoke and called Bruce.
"You can leave the principal's office without climbing through the window."
The old woman pointed and said, "You can just walk out the door."
……
Bruce walked outside Hogwarts Castle.
Looking at the familiar black lake in front of him, his state of mind was completely different.
The scene of that night will never happen again.
"Let's go, Katum, to America and buy the best chemistry laboratory!"
Katum thought for a moment and said, "Can 30 billion buy the best chemical laboratory?"
Forget it, forget it.
When Bruce wants to spend money, it will come to him naturally, that's not a problem.
Then, at this moment——
Katum, who was about to say something weird, suddenly opened his eyes wide.
"careful!"
He almost subconsciously used the Disillusionment Charm to hide himself and Bruce's figures and disappear from the spot.
Bruce didn't understand what was going on, he just heard the owl reminding him in his heart.
"Don't make any noise!"
Then, in the void above the Black Lake, arcs of electricity suddenly flashed out of nowhere.
The arcs come in two colors, blue, and an extremely strange black.
Bruce said nothing as Katum continued to cast spells beside him to cover up any noise they might make.
Just after all this was done, suddenly, a passage opened in the void.
All Bruce could see was two colors of lightning interweaving together, from the sky to the water, and then rushing back to the sky.
Finally, the lightning struck the shore, not far from Bruce.
The lightning dissipated, and two figures appeared out of thin air in the same place.
That is--
Bruce's eyes suddenly widened, and he could hardly believe what he saw.
The two men, one was wearing silver-white armor that wrapped his body tightly, and his body was surrounded by blue arcs of electricity.
"Savitar." Bruce silently said the name in his mind.
This is the true identity of Savitar, the God of Speed. It is an absolute secret.
Not only the true appearance inside the armor, but also the figure wearing the armor cannot be easily seen.
Even in the worst ending, when Cedric gained the speed force, Savitar did not appear.
But now, he looked extremely miserable, his whole body hunched over, as if he had been seriously injured.
Bruce was even more impressed by the man standing in front of him.
Cedric!
In other words, in the worst ending, Batman has been crowned with the Speed Force and the knowledge of the God of War.
The fastest, strongest, darkest Batman!
"This is impossible!"
Bruce looked suddenly at Katoom.
"Didn't you say that time has gone back? Then why is Cedric still here!?"
"Well..."
Katum sighed and said, "It's hard for me to explain it clearly. I'm afraid that just before time went back, Cedric used the speed force to travel back to an earlier time and avoided the time going back."
But this again presents a paradox.
Because the timeline in which this Batman was originally born no longer exists.
"Cedric has now completely become an existence that cannot be explained by any theory."
Katoom said from the bottom of his heart, "He is truly the Paradox Batman!"
Completely cutting off his past, Cedric became Batman wandering in the time paradox.
Bruce felt extremely heavy in his heart when he heard the news.
In addition to the original Savitar, they now have a more difficult enemy.
only--
"Why did Cedric and Savitar fight?"
Bruce thought, "Shouldn't they be on the same side? Cedric's speed was given by Savitar."
He didn't ask the question because Savitar asked it himself the next second.
"Cedric, I really can't understand why my future self would choose someone like you!"
Savitar scolded Cedric in a voice transformed by the Speed Force.
To Bruce, this sound sounds a bit like electronic music.
"Betrayal. I gave you the speed force, but you used it against me?"
"You only have yourself to blame."
Cedric's voice also changed at this time, becoming extremely deep.
"You are the source of the Speed Force. You can create the Speed Force on your own, but I can only use it."
Cedric looked at Savitar with extremely cold eyes, "This feeling of being controlled by others makes me feel insecure and I can't even sleep well.
"Savitar, I can only sleep well if you and I become one!"
After saying this, countless black lightning suddenly burst out from his body, and the next moment, his figure disappeared from the spot.
At the same time, Savitar's figure disappeared, leaving only flashing blue arcs.
Black and blue lightning intertwined, broke through the sky, and disappeared in an instant.
Only then did Bruce and Katum feel relieved.
"Savitar can't beat Cedric!"
Bruce said in shock, "The God of Speed can't beat the monster he created?"
"That's not just any monster."
Katoom clicked his tongue and said, "Batman, the Old God, and the Speedster, these three combined into one, it can be said that Cedric is completely invincible in this world now!"
Invincible in all aspects, with almost no shortcomings!
The pinnacle of excellence, Cedric!
The Wizard's Answer, Cedric!
"But, I suddenly thought of something very interesting."
Katoom suddenly said, "Savitar is cunning and sly, even though he will suffer a bit, he should still be able to escape.
“By then, he will definitely want to find a place to heal.
"Coincidentally, I know where he will run to."
"Where to?" Bruce asked.
"Malfoy Manor!"
Katoom looked at Bruce, "Drag's alter ego, the alchemist Julian, is Savitar's loyal follower.
"You should be able to tell from the fact that he betrayed us without hesitation before."
The owl was thinking about something.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Although he also hates Savitar, driving the tiger to devour the wolf is beneficial to both him and Bruce.
Now this paradox Batman is a bit too much to handle.
(End of this chapter)
