The originally empty universe space was now being constantly torn apart by countless energies. Polaris threw a magnetic punch, her fist whizzing past Starfire's face. Just as she was about to follow up with a kick, Cassandra seized her wrist and flung her to the side. Starfire followed suit, but fortunately Quicksilver bumped into her from the side. Polaris took the opportunity to fly up and once again used magnetic confinement.
"Ha, got you!" Polaris said with some pride. But just then, two missiles came flying towards her, and she hurriedly dodged. The Arkham Knight, dressed in armor, rescued Starfire and Cassandra from the magnetic confinement.
At this moment, Iceman also arrived. Countless ice cones appeared out of thin air, shooting towards the opponents. To avoid these sharp ice cones, they had to spread apart. But this gave Quicksilver an opportunity; he charged forward, the sound of the Arkham Knight's metal armor deforming was particularly piercing.
"Oh, damn it." The Arkham Knight cursed, raised his gun to aim, but the moment he lifted his arm, a shadow kicked his wrist. Next, a cannon blast hit his chest, forcing him back several dozen meters.
He looked closely and saw, surprisingly, a raccoon holding a gun.
"Hey, don't move, buddy." Another voice came from behind him. The Arkham Knight sneered and decisively turned his head to shoot.
The bullet grazed Star-Lord's ear, and he ducked awkwardly to evade. Before he could say anything, Groot shouted, swinging a fist towards the Arkham Knight.
Starfire, unwilling to be outdone, kicked Star-Lord away and then punched Groot back. But at that moment, Gamora arrived with the Guardians of the Galaxy's spaceship, the glow of the main cannon's charging was exceptionally bright, forcing Starfire to quickly retreat.
Fortunately, when the main cannon fired, a blue light flashed, and Blue Beetle Ted activated a protective shield, but was subsequently suppressed by Star-Lord and Rocket Raccoon's combined firepower, forcing him to make way again.
Quicksilver also arrived, standing in front of Polaris, continually pushing back Cassandra who attempted to rush forward. Although Deathstroke came to assist later, the mutants and the Guardians of the Galaxy, relying on their numerical and firepower advantage, still pressed the attack.
This situation wasn't uncommon on the battlefield. The Marvel side had more troops than DC, and their individual strength was relatively strong. Although the command was a bit chaotic, since it was already a mess, more people indeed held an advantage when everyone was fighting blindly.
The front line was continuously advancing towards Batman's position. However, the Primary Universe Batman was still more concerned about the situation within the dimension; they had few people to begin with, and if they lost those Batmen, it would be a big problem.
"If things get bad, I'm afraid you'll have to take action," Primary Universe Batman said to Manhattan Batman. "But I just saw the Supreme Magician of the Central Universe, did you release him?"
"Yes, his teacher came for me," Manhattan Batman said, "The Ancient One is backed by Eternity, one of the pillars of the universe, I had to give him some respect."
"No wonder he dared to lead so many Doctor Stranges to find us, guessing he was sure his teacher would save him." Primary Universe Batman shook his head. "The chances of Superman being rescued are slim, and the hostages are probably useless. If the Batmen can't return, just send them back to Battleworld."
Manhattan Batman didn't refute, he nodded and then said, "Did you send someone to rescue the Batmen?"
"Yes, but I think the hope is slim, just doing the last effort. If the situation in the dimension remains unchanged, the possibility of us obtaining the final gemstone is very small, we must think about other ways to achieve victory."
"There is some clue about those Green Lanterns," Manhattan Batman said. "I conducted some research with the Super Body, discovering that one of them carries something related to the cosmic origin power; the specific nature is still unclear."
"I'm afraid they set a trap on him. Will that thing be important?"
"Being able to conflict with the Apocalypse Star Shield suggests it's quite important. The Super Body and I will quickly find that thing, maybe it can give you an idea."
Primary Universe Batman nodded and said, "Hopefully, the Batmen can be successfully rescued, even if we don't get the Infinity Gem, as long as the people come out, that's the best news."
Then, he turned to the monitoring screen, continuing to focus on the battle situation. Even though he saw the front line was continuously advancing towards their side, Primary Universe Batman did not panic. After all, the Marvel side didn't have any destructive power for the time being, and he still had trump cards that hadn't been played.
While he was thinking about this, he suddenly saw a burst of chaos erupted at the front line, many people's powers went out of control, slipping out of their hands, and people seemed a bit unsteady on their feet, with many looking in the same direction.
Polaris, who was pursuing the victory, raised her hand and caused a micro black hole to explode, but before it could reach the target location, it blew up, directly blowing a few people from her side away as well.
"Heavens, what are you doing!" Rocket Raccoon, who flew the farthest, said, "Blast them, why us!"
"Uh, sorry, something went wrong just now." Polaris was a bit embarrassed too, this move was not one she was very familiar with, she just wanted to show off a bit, and hurriedly used her most practiced magnetic confinement. But before the confinement layer formed, it exploded again.
Fortunately, this time it didn't blast teammates, instead unexpectedly blowing up the opponents. Rocket Raccoon cheered, but Polaris frowned: "Something's wrong, my power seems a bit out of control, what's going on?"
Before she finished speaking, Quicksilver tripped, looking around as if searching for something. After searching for a long time without finding it, he scratched his head in confusion and said, "It felt like some energy turbulence tripped me? Polaris, wasn't it you again..."
"Don't talk nonsense, I just didn't use any power." Polaris was also a bit puzzled, but suddenly, it seemed she caught something, turned her head towards a direction and said, "No, something is extracting the energy from this universe space..."
As she turned her head, she saw Martian Manhunter and Wonder Woman not far away also stopped, followed by Magneto and Electro who were confronting them, and even Captain America's Shield was almost uncontrollably flying in one direction, nearly causing him to fall.
Of course, the first alarm was actually triggered by Iron Man's battle armor. JARVIS was almost shouting inside the armor, "Attention! Abnormal energy activity! Abnormal energy activity!!!"
The Iron Men were still thinking, of course, there's abnormal energy activity, with so many superheroes fighting, how could the energy activity not be abnormal?
"Someone is extracting power!" JARVIS had to directly say, "Please check the dimension entrance!"
Only then did the Iron Men look towards the dimension entrance. Others also noticed the anomaly there. In fact, beings like Magneto should have noticed something was wrong long ago, but in a group fight, one must concentrate, not only to accurately hit the enemy but also to ensure not to disturb allies; there was no spare attention to focus on other places. It wasn't until the energy in this area was almost drained, and everyone's abilities were somewhat uncontrollable, that they realized the dimension entrance had a problem.
A huge machine was set up at the dimension entrance, with a whirlpool-like entrance in the middle. This machine was continuously extracting energy from the space battlefield here, and as the energy was absorbed into the machine, the intake power became greater and the speed faster. Seeing a few nearby had already been sucked in and shattered into white light, returning to Battleworld.
"Run!!!" The roar of Primary Universe Batman echoed in everyone's ears, "Quick!! Run in the opposite direction!!!"
Everyone started running, but they were already slow to react, and it was too late to run now. Several heroes were swept in, the white light was so intense that it dazzled them, making it hard to keep their eyes open.
The scene that followed even stunned Primary Universe Batman. He knew this machine wasn't arranged by their side, so it must be from the other side, but the problem was that it didn't even spare the superheroes of the opposite side!
Although indeed more from their side were sucked in, it was only because this contraption was closer to their frontline. But as the power increased, people from the opposite side were also being sucked in, with several unguarded Mutants already taken in.
Primary Universe Batman now wasn't sure that this machine was even from the other side; it was indiscriminately targeting everyone.
He carefully examined the machine's structure and then realized something was wrong. He initially thought it was a destruction device arranged by the opposition to further weaken their forces, but upon closer inspection, it became clear that if it was only for absorption, there was no need to build such a large machine, and it was conveniently installed right on the dimension rift. Could it be that they intended to...
Boom!!!!!!!!
In an instant, all monitoring devices went offline. Even with Primary Universe Batman's emotional control abilities, he couldn't help but throw down his communicator and charge towards the gate.
The violent explosion arrived as expected. All absorbed energy, after getting compressed, triggered an indescribable massive explosion. The entire battlefield was blown to pieces, except for the few who managed to escape quickly, everyone else perished.
But that wasn't the main point; the key point was that this gigantic bomb was placed on the rift of the dimension entrance. Such a degree of explosion directly blasted open the rift, pouring out the Power of Dreams, and almost instantly, the Dream Dimension descended into the real dimension.
Now, the dimension was filled with Schiller's morbid nightmare phantoms. With the Dream Dimension descending into reality, nightmare phantoms also emerged from the dimension rift. As for the result on the battlefield filled with remnants of defeated troops, there was no need to elaborate.
Screams echoed continuously, even Stark, after taking a hit, urgently upgraded to the Iron Demon God. But even so, guilt and hunger arrived as expected.
He couldn't understand, he had become a mass of energy, with no stomach, where did the feeling of hunger come from?!
Then, watching Mephisto next to him crazily gnawing at a spaceship, he was speechless. Alright, even the veteran Demon God got hit, can't blame himself for being too weak.
The Power of Dreams is truly a magical force, otherwise Dream Power Doctor Strange wouldn't dominate in stacking box competitions, even surpassing many absurdly set Mutants, becoming a hot candidate for Gu King. Because this involves the most fundamental concept of a universe, which is 'belief'.
To put it bluntly, the most basic underlying concepts of the Marvel Universe are actually only two: one is 'popularity', and the other is 'imagination'.
Officially, it was specially indicated that Marvel's Multiverse is infinite. Their explanation is that every idea, every thought is an independent universe. This represents that the underlying code that constructs universe structures is actually the thoughts of intelligent life forms, as long as you believe, it must exist.
The Power of Dreams is the embodiment of such a structure. Every dream is an independent universe, and each universe has countless dreams, the Multiverse expands infinitely in this way. Hence, the Power of Dreams can also be called the 'Power of Creation', as it can directly create the universe, not inferior to Mutants like Franklin, who on a setting level, can create universes.
This results in that even the virtual phantoms in dreams possess an almost infinitely large upper limit, appearing as though they become part of the universe's rules, affecting even energy beings like Demon Gods.
This time, it's not just a couple of ribs Mephisto lost, with just one step slower, only one goat hoof was left.