Even though he hadn't worn a yellow ring, a faint yellow light had appeared on Emperor Viktor's palm by itself.
The energy of fear is under his control.
He had controlled the power of fear, and the light had formed a semi-transparent yellow cage, trapping Atomica, who could not be seen by the naked eye.
He tilted his head.
He never came into contact with either Ray Palmer or Ryan Choi as Atom in his timeline.
Perhaps during the war when multiple worlds invaded together, the Atom of this world had died in some conflict.
Emperor Viktor himself was fighting for control with Parallax fusing into his body at the time and couldn't figure out where all those interdimensional invaders had come from.
After he successfully fused with Parallax to a certain stage, Emperor Viktor had wiped out all the invaders.
He also didn't have a habit of asking for names when killing people, and didn't recognize Atomica at all.
"Someone who can shrink… the Atom?"
Emperor Viktor suddenly spoke.
He pinched her with one hand while rubbing his chin with two fingers of the other.
"Theoretically speaking, whether I'm exposed or not, Batman wouldn't go so far as to send someone to assassinate me..."
He thought it over again and felt confused.
He didn't seem to have any enemies on Earth during this period.
Lex Luthor might have been somewhat connected, but he hadn't even had the chance to move yet.
On the other side, Atomica, who had been tightly gripped by the power of fear, showed despair in her eyes.
The yellow light controlled by the other could operate on a microscopic level.
The seemingly transparent but actually omnipresent energy filled every space around Atomica, not even leaving her room to move muscles or open her mouth to beg for mercy.
She could feel the energy binding her slowly tightening. This anomaly didn't act like someone who would mix with a group of superheroes.
Instead, the feeling he gave her is more like Ultraman.
Since he couldn't figure out her background, Emperor Viktor was ready to kill her directly.
Owlman and Ultraman, on the other side, also didn't make a sound, as if already prepared to abandon her as a pawn.
Just as Atomica was about to be crushed alive into a tiny mass of flesh...
Owlman's voice finally came through her earpiece again.
"Can we talk?"
Emperor Viktor lowered his head.
Even though Atomica's earpiece had also been shrunk to the micrometer level, in theory, except for Owlman, it should be completely impossible for normal people to hear.
Even Superman couldn't hear such a faint sound without deliberately focusing.
However, Emperor Viktor had sensed the vibrations through the energy firmly suppressing Atomica.
"Hmm?"
The pressure around her finally loosened.
Atomica dropped onto his palm and quickly activated the device on her belt, enlarging herself to about the size of a little finger.
Looking at the woman in his palm, a trace of memory flashed in Viktor's eyes.
Since both the human consciousness and the consciousness of Parallax in his soul had long fallen into slumber, it took him quite some effort to barely recall part of his past life memories.
Atomica.
Crime Syndicate.
Forever Evil.
A comic event where a team of evil counterparts of the Justice League, existing on Earth-3, had invaded.
He looked at the finally freed Atomica, who obediently knelt in his palm, with boredom.
He moved his open hand slightly closer to his chest, lowered the hand that had been rubbing his chin, and grabbed the fishing rod resting at the bow.
He made a small pulling motion, like a fisherman who had been waiting for a long time, checking if a fish had bitten.
After finishing all this, Emperor Viktor wrapped himself in the power of fear, making sure no sound could leak out.
"What do you want to talk about?"
Owlman stared at the analysis on the computer screen about the faint yellow transparent energy that had captured Atomica from afar and carefully chose his words.
"You're a wielder of an emotional spectrum, aren't you?"
He found it a bit amusing listening to Owlman's cautious voice while thinking back to whether he had killed this guy when he dealt with those invaders before.
It had been too long ago, and his mind hadn't been very clear for a long time, couldn't remember.
He casually responded in a bit of an absent-minded manner.
"Mm-hmm."
Looking at those energy fluctuations extremely similar to the Power Ring in the Syndicate, Owlman boldly but carefully guessed the identity of this anomaly.
"To be honest, we come from another world."
"Our world was about to face destruction, so we urgently needed to find a new world that could accommodate us."
"We hoped to get your help."
Emperor Viktor almost laughed out loud.
This person sounded very similar to his past self and was only saying half of what he meant.
"I think you've found the wrong person."
It had been a long time since he felt involved in something like this, Emperor Viktor showed a bit more patience this time.
"I'm not what you think I am—a superhero or anything like that. I'm afraid I don't have any reason to help you."
Owlman's eyes suddenly lit up.
"That is exactly what I was about to say."
"We're not superheroes either. You must also be constantly troubled by the feeling of being bound by so-called justice and order."
Owlman was, of course, referring to the Justice League.
However, Emperor Viktor instead thought about Tom, whose whereabouts even he didn't know now.
"Your guess was quite good."
"Then we can completely cooperate. We urgently need a world to settle in, and you only need to provide a little bit of help. In the future, we could build a new order in this world."
Standing beside Owlman, Ultraman, who had a gloomy face, coughed.
Ultraman didn't want one more person to share the Syndicate's power, but Owlman signaled him to be patient.
He clicked his tongue and said nothing more.
That useless Atomica had clearly almost failed, and for now Ultraman had to rely on Owlman's intelligence.
On Emperor Viktor's side, he struggled to control his expression.
"A new order? What did you mean?"
Owlman raised his voice and used a negotiation tactic.
"We would destroy the Justice League of your world. Then our Crime Syndicate and you would share a brand-new world."
Then Owlman seized the opportunity while Emperor Viktor was silent to describe his original plan in very short terms.
He talked about using Atomica to carry kryptonite into Superman's brain to interfere with his thoughts, using a program to turn Cyborg's global monitoring AI network into an evil electronic virus.
He also mentioned reversing Firestorm's fusion and separation waves to trap the Justice League inside Firestorm's atomic field and finally finding Pandora and using the box to open the door to the multiverse.
Hearing a plan that was almost exactly the same as the one from his past life, Emperor Viktor's mouth began to twitch.
This plan would have worked in the real New 52 main universe Earth, but the problem was that this universe was completely different now.
Emperor Viktor let out a somewhat mocking sigh.
"If you can only come up with such a simple plan, I think there's no need for me to continue listening."
"…We also noticed that your world seems very different from what we first expected. So if you could provide us with some information, maybe we could improve our plan."
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