Chapter 173 I knew you hundreds of thousands of years ago
"Bruce?"
Diana noticed something was wrong with Bruce.
Batboy was now tense all over, as if he had encountered the most powerful enemy he had ever seen.
"This must be Diana."
Ares' behavior at this time was perfectly consistent with his identity. Like an old-fashioned British gentleman, he bowed to Lady Diana.
"Let me introduce myself. I'm Ares."
He said, "I am your brother, we are a family..."
The words have not yet fallen.
"what--"
Diana didn't even let Ares finish his words and pounced on him.
She had been carrying the godslayer sword on her back, and now she drew it out, clenched it with both hands, and slashed at Ares.
Ares smiled and held up two fingers.
Then, he firmly held the God-Slaying Sword between his fingers.
Diana was stuck there for a moment. She used all her strength but couldn't pull the God-Slaying Sword out of Ares' hand.
"Don't waste your energy." Ares said, "Diana, I don't have any hostility towards you for the time being. I appeared in front of you today just to talk to you."
Diana didn't care and kicked him with a kick that could kill him off.
"you--"
Ares took a deep breath. He didn't expect Diana to be so unscrupulous.
You are a demigod! How can you use such a trick?
Just when Diana was about to be kicked, Ares' entire body disappeared from in front of Diana and appeared next to the bar.
"Who taught you this kind of fighting technique?"
Ares shook his head and said, "Not at all like an Olympian god."
"Because I learned killing skills."
Diana finally regained control of the God-killing Sword. "Hit the throat from above and the crotch from below. Whatever kills me will happen."
After saying this, she rushed towards Ares again.
This time, she did not use a slashing attack, but instead raised the God-Slaying Sword and stabbed straight forward with all her might.
Ares opened his palms to block in front of him.
It was completely beyond Diana's expectations. The God-Slaying Sword immediately turned into ashes as soon as it touched Ares' palm.
By the time Diana had finished stabbing, only the hilt of the legendary weapon that could kill gods remained.
"That's about enough, isn't it?"
Ares asked, "I've finished beating you, now can you give me some time to talk?"
Obviously, he came here today not to fight, but to talk.
Diana didn't answer him.
Wonder Woman's worldview has completely collapsed.
Since she was a child, her mother told her that this God-killing Sword could kill gods, and she believed it for five thousand years.
But now when he saw Ares, the sword turned into ashes at the first sight.
"Mother...you lied to me..."
Diana muttered as she looked at the remaining ashes in her hands.
"It looks like she'll need some time to recover."
Ares snapped his fingers, and two cocktails and a glass of orange juice appeared on the bar.
He looked at Bruce and asked, "What about you? Bruce, can you come over now?"
Bruce was asking Katoom in his mind.
"Are you all ready?"
"Ready," Katum said.
He has already prepared little Harley, and the speed force is ready to go.
In this way, even if Ares attacks later and they cannot defeat him, they can at least run away.
"Then come over and talk."
Ares said, he raised the wine glass in his hand, "And Katum, you dead owl, we haven't seen each other for hundreds of thousands of years, right?"
As soon as these words came out, Bruce felt like he was struck by lightning.
"You know Ares? You and Ares are old acquaintances!"
Bruce said in shock, "You never told me that! Not even when you were facing Paradox Bat!"
"What's there to say about the dark history..."
Katum said unconfidently, "Besides, I am the Demon King, a mature demon, so I must be able to conceal my past.
"Besides, if I were to tell you all about my hundreds of thousands of years, I wouldn't be able to finish telling you until you die."
When Bruce heard this, it seemed to be true.
But Owl didn't mention a word about him knowing Ares, which Batboy couldn't agree with.
They were once treated so badly by Ares!
"Come on, Bruce."
Ares urged again, "My patience is limited. I really have no hostility towards you today. I just came here to see an old friend."
Bruce looked calm and walked over.
He sat down at the bar, picked up the glass and wanted to drink it all in one gulp. Then Ares shook his head, waved his hand, and the glass in Bruce's hand disappeared.
"This cup is not prepared for you."
He pushed the orange juice in front of Bruce and said, "This one is yours."
Bruce didn't care what he drank and asked Ares directly.
"You know Katoom?"
"know."
Ares sipped, "Hundreds of thousands of years ago, he suddenly appeared on Earth, and followed a human named Batman around."
Batman?
Bruce suddenly woke up. Katum did tell him that Batman's original fate was to be teleported hundreds of thousands of years ago.
It was also at that time that Batman was noticed by Barbatos, which led to the subsequent Metal event.
"You got another Batman?"
Bruce asked in his mind, "You never mentioned this."
"I've already said it's a dark history!" Katum said helplessly, "Why are you entangled in this?"
Bruce didn't believe that.
He asked Ares again: "You said Katum suddenly appeared hundreds of thousands of years ago?"
“It really appeared out of nowhere.”
Ares finished his glass, then flicked his finger at the empty glass and it was automatically filled.
"He follows Batman around, always talking about a contract, partnership, and stuff like that.
"The Batman didn't seem to trust him at all, and instead betrayed the Owl in a battle, like throwing away a burden.
"Then... I thought about what happened. When you get old, your brain always becomes a little dull.
"Oh! I remember now, he fell into the hands of Barbatos.
"I don't know what Barbatos did to him, but when I last saw him, he had turned into a stone statue."
Stone statue?
Bruce suddenly remembered the time when he was searching for the devil by following ancient books.
Katum at that time seemed to be a stone statue.
It was he who smeared the blood on it, and Katum flew out of it.
"Is this true?" Bruce asked Katum in his heart.
"No."
Katum said, "It wasn't Batman who betrayed me, it was me who betrayed him. I am the king of demons, how could a human being plot against me!"
When Bruce heard this, he thought, that's probably it.
No wonder Barbatos can travel through the heavens to send pursuers, this ability should be obtained from Katum.
"You actually have such a past."
Bruce couldn't help but ask, "Such a tragic thing, why don't you tell it out loud and make everyone happy?"
"Be careful or I'll tear your mouth apart!" Katum cursed.
He sighed in his heart, what Ares said was indeed right, that was his dark history.
At that time, Katum had just traveled through time and had no special abilities. He was just an ordinary owl.
But because I'm tied to Batman, I still have some hope for the future.
But that was hundreds of thousands of years ago, and the Batman he met was the Batman who had defeated Darkseid, the complete Batman.
And suddenly he came back hundreds of thousands of years ago, and he became more suspicious than anyone else.
He was extremely wary of the owl that always followed him for unknown reasons.
All in all, it was a very unpleasant experience.
As for what Ares said, it fell into the hands of Barbatos and was turned into a stone statue, so that is not the case.
Katum used some ancient methods to turn himself into a stone statue.
He knew that he was already bound to Batman, and even if he sealed himself away, they would eventually meet again.
Things turned out exactly as he expected.
When he opened his eyes again, he saw Bruce at the age of ten.
"After all, wasn't the Batman I met before also you?"
Katoom said to Bruce, "It's just your future self."
"That's not me," Bruce retorted.
He thought that his fate had changed long ago and he would never travel back hundreds of thousands of years.
Although in the battle with Paradox Bat, he even went there millions of years ago.
But that's a different matter.
"Whether it was you or not, those things are in the past. Now that you know my experience, what can it do?"
There is no meaning to it other than being able to be told as a joke.
"That's it anyway. I didn't tell you before."
Katoom sighed and he looked at Bruce.
"I have known you for hundreds of thousands of years."
(End of this chapter)
