As the Wall of Will constructed by Levi continued to spread outward, the members of the Green Lantern Corps quickly noticed the changes in their rings.
Hal Jordan lowered his head to look at his right hand.
His Green Lantern ring was glowing.
Not the usual emerald green—but a platinum-white radiance.
The energy reading shot past maximum output before finally stabilizing at:
∞
"What the…"
Hal looked up toward the black-haired man at the center of the battlefield.
Levi pushed both palms forward, streams of platinum-green light pouring from his hands toward every Green Lantern.
Those currents of light intertwined throughout space, gradually shaping something massive.
The communication channels exploded with noise.
"My energy reserves are restored! I'm stronger than I've ever been!"
"My ring's showing infinite power!"
"I feel like I could manifest an asteroid!"
Hal took a deep breath and opened a full-frequency broadcast.
"All units, listen up! Focus your willpower and build the defensive line with me!"
Dozens of acknowledgments came immediately.
The exhausted Lanterns raised their right arms once more as their rings reignited brilliantly.
What Levi poured into them wasn't merely energy—it was something deeper.
It was the imprint of will belonging to a cosmic overlord-level existence, reigniting the courage buried deep within every Lantern's heart.
Kyle Rayner waved a hand, and a colossal cannon over a hundred meters wide materialized in the void.
John Stewart constructed defensive walls with atomic-level precision, every particle arranged through exact calculations.
Guy Gardner grinned as a massive green warhammer appeared in his hand. One casual swing shattered dozens of shadow demons.
At that moment, everyone's will resonated together.
Levi stood at the center of the storm, continuing to push his hands forward.
And finally, the thing taking shape in the void revealed its full form—
A gigantic Wall of Will stretching across the entire battlefield, spanning tens of thousands of kilometers.
The wall stood as heavy as a mountain, every brick condensed from pure willpower itself.
The shadow demon army halted.
The black tide crashed against the invisible barrier. Countless shadow demons shrieked as they slammed into the Wall of Will.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The impacts rippled through space as energy shockwaves spread outward.
Every shadow demon that touched the wall was burned away by platinum-green light and dissolved instantly.
Ripples spread across the wall's surface, but it remained utterly immovable.
Hal floated at the forefront of the wall.
He could feel Levi's will continuing to pour endlessly into him.
The power was so immense that for a moment, Hal felt as though he was no longer an ordinary Green Lantern—but the embodiment of a cosmic will itself.
"Counterattack!" he roared, raising his right hand high.
Thousands of green energy cannons materialized atop the wall simultaneously.
They fired in unison.
The deafening barrage shattered the silence of space as massive green beams tore through the darkness, vaporizing entire waves of shadow demons.
On the opposite side of the wall, John constructed dense arrays of artillery towers.
He had once been both an architect and a soldier—and now those two identities fused perfectly together.
Every tower's placement was meticulously calculated, forming a flawless network of overlapping firepower.
Kyle manifested dozens of fighter jets that weaved through the shadow demon swarms, hunting down any enemies attempting to bypass the defenses.
Guy Gardner became a living artillery platform, every punch detonating entire regions of vacuum.
The Green Lantern Corps had begun its counterattack.
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Watchtower
Batman stared at the tactical display, disbelief flashing through his eyes.
Moments ago, the defensive line had been on the verge of collapse.
Now the entire situation had completely reversed.
"Incredible…"
he muttered softly while typing rapidly across the console.
"Cecil, status of Watchtower defense system restoration?"
"Primary systems restored. Energy core functioning normally. Main cannon charge at seventy percent."
"Fire. Target the densest concentration of shadow demons around the black rift."
"Understood."
On the battered exterior of the Watchtower, dozens of main cannons slowly rotated into position.
Blue-white spheres of energy gathered at the muzzles, space itself distorting slightly under the concentrated power.
Then—
the beams erupted outward.
Explosions blossomed among the shadow demons, tearing hundreds of creatures apart instantly.
---
Wonder Woman seized the opportunity.
Sword and Lasso of Truth in hand, she charged from the Watchtower's flank.
Golden divine power burned around her body while the Lasso transformed into a deadly whirlwind, shredding dozens of shadow demons with every swing.
"Diana, take the left flank! I'll push the center!"
Superman's voice sounded through the communicator.
He had fully recovered.
Under the nourishment of solar radiation, his Kryptonian cells surged with power. Every punch created ripples through space itself as red-and-blue streaks carved a straight path through the shadow demon horde.
"I'm right behind you!" Diana answered while cleaving apart an incoming demon.
The two fought in perfect coordination.
Superman tore open the enemy lines while Wonder Woman followed close behind to clean up everything left standing.
Their target was singular—
the slowly expanding black rift.
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Levi floated above the Wall of Will, his gaze fixed on the distance.
That rift wasn't merely a portal.
It was the Anti-Monitor's tendril extending into this universe to assimilate it.
The edge of the rift was expanding at an almost imperceptible speed, and with every inch it widened, the laws of physics in this universe became further distorted.
It had to be sealed immediately.
Levi raised his right hand and clenched it slightly toward Hal, transmitting a mental wave directly to him.
"Hal, command the Corps to lock down the area around the rift. Don't let a single shadow demon escape the encirclement."
Hal froze briefly before understanding.
"Understood! All members, execute containment strategy! Construct a three-dimensional defensive network!"
Dozens of Green Lanterns moved simultaneously.
They spread into formation around the black rift, creating an enormous spherical blockade.
Countless green lights intertwined like spiderwebs, forming layered energy barriers that completely sealed off the rift.
John precisely calculated the position and strength of every shield layer.
Meanwhile, Kyle inscribed glowing runes across the barriers to enhance their stability.
Levi nodded slightly—and vanished.
Crossing thousands of kilometers instantly, he appeared beside Superman, who was still battling furiously.
Clark was about to smash apart a shadow demon commander blocking his path when Levi casually waved a hand.
The ten-meter-tall commander, wrapped in black mist, froze midair together with hundreds of nearby shadow demons.
"Come with me."
Levi offered no explanation and flew directly toward the core of the rift.
Superman and Wonder Woman exchanged a glance before immediately following behind him.
---
The closer they drew to the rift's core, the stranger their surroundings became.
Space twisted unnaturally.
Light stretched into elongated threads.
Physical constants fluctuated chaotically.
Diana felt her body alternately become as heavy as a mountain and as light as a feather.
"The laws here have been contaminated," Levi said calmly, though his tone carried gravity.
"The Anti-Monitor is using antimatter to erode the foundation of this universe. If this continues, the entire universe will be assimilated."
Superman's expression darkened.
"What can we do?"
"I'll seal the rift. You two handle anything left nearby."
Levi had already arrived at the edge of the rift.
A nauseating aura radiated from it—pure destruction and void.
Dense antimatter energy continuously leaked from the fissure, slowly corroding the universe's very foundation.
Levi raised his right hand.
Golden patterns illuminated his palm.
They were the manifestation of alchemical laws, every line representing a profound understanding of matter itself.
"Matter and antimatter are fundamentally just different arrangements of energy."
He spoke softly while extending his fingers toward the edge of the rift.
A violent repulsive force exploded outward.
Antimatter surged wildly, attempting to annihilate his hand.
Ordinary matter and antimatter should have resulted in total destruction upon contact—
yet Levi's fingers remained perfectly still.
The power of alchemical law was infiltrating the antimatter itself, gradually rewriting its properties.
A soul-shaking roar erupted from deep within the rift.
The sound bypassed air entirely, imprinting itself directly upon consciousness.
Superman and Wonder Woman both groaned as if struck in the head by a massive hammer.
"Mortal… you dare… oppose me…"
The deep, tyrannical voice echoed inside everyone's minds.
Then a black torrent thick as ink exploded outward from the rift's core.
Pure antimatter energy.
Wherever it passed, space melted and collapsed.
The Green Lantern Corps' first energy barrier was torn apart like wet paper.
"Damn it!"
Hal's expression changed drastically as he poured even more willpower into the defenses.
But the black torrent was too terrifying.
The second barrier collapsed.
Then the third.
"We can't stop it! This power's too strong!" Kyle shouted, veins bulging across his forehead while his ring flickered unstably.
Levi narrowed his eyes.
Mixed within the black torrent was a fragment of the Anti-Monitor's will.
Its true body had not yet descended, yet this fragment alone was enough to crush most forms of life.
Even worse—
Within the torrent's depths, Levi caught a fleeting fragment of information.
A coordinate.
A location.
A target considered critical by the Anti-Monitor.
The Anti-Life Equation.
The legendary ultimate weapon capable of enslaving all free will and forcing the entire universe into submission.
The Anti-Monitor was searching for it.
And that flashing coordinate fragment might very well be the key clue.
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