The voices in the illusion became increasingly clear, gradually occupying Batman's mind. Batman felt almost exhausted, a consciousness beyond his control was taking over his body.
As the mist grew denser, Batman knelt, face up, and black goo gushed out, enveloping his entire body. Then, a huge black beast jumped onto the roof.
This was an unexpected development for both on the roof. Shiller retreated in an instant, staring at the black creature, he said in a low voice, "Venom? How did you get out?"
But it seemed as though the creature had lost its senses and madly charged towards Shiller.
Without giving it much thought, Shiller transformed into a grey mist to retreat quickly. By the time the creature charged at Shiller, it seemed to have regained some sense, or one could say the consciousness of Venom had the upper hand.
"I'll eat your brain!" Venom said.
Shiller's mouth opened in disbelief. He noticed something off about Venom's form. What were those pointy ears on his head?
Could it be...
Then Shiller said to Venom, "I think, before considering such mundane problems as meals, you may have a bigger issue to deal with..."
"What?" Venom hesitated.
Then Venom felt a wave of intense dark emotions erupting from the body of his host, a flood of terrifying darkness that almost instantly took control away from Venom.
In the short life of this symbiont, it had never experienced such intense and terrifying dark emotions. Symbionts, who feed off emotion, should never fear their food.
But now, it was as if Venom had been swallowed in an instant by a terrifying flood, and without making a sound, had lost control of every cell within its host body.
Soon, Shiller watched as Venom morphed. Originally, Venom's form resembled the liquid armor he had when bonded with Stark.
But now, while the armored part on Venom remained, he roared in pain. The black creature, half-kneeling and struggling, began to reform its sticky coating.
Pointy ears, fangs, wings; a bat insignia gradually formed on his chest. Behind him, a pair of massive bat wings unfurled. Venom Bat took off into the air and dove headlong towards Shiller.
Shiller evaded this attack by turning into gray mist, but the bad news was that this Venom Bat seemed to be out of control.
Even by guessing, Shiller could figure out some clues. He didn't know how Venom ended up bonding with Batman, but who was Batman? A personification of the darker forces within the entire DC Universe. A symbiote simply couldn't control him and might even stimulate the darkness lurking within Batman,
The symbiote's consciousness might have been trapped, and now controlling this body was an uncontrollable Dark Bat.
This was serious trouble. While initially, Batman merely harbored a mortal body and relied more on cunning, a symbiote was a very unreasonable creature within the Marvel World. The stronger its host, the stronger it was. The stronger it was, the stronger its host.
The symbiote could completely unlock the potential within a host's body and convert it directly into combat power. As for how much potential Batman had, there was no need to say more.
The Venom Bat in the sky was still undergoing astonishing changes. His body was getting larger, the black goo was expanding endlessly, countless tendrils of black goo wrapped around the creature like a cocoon.
Spikes started to appear on his body. Under the glow of the moonlight, a monster more than ten meters tall, with giant spiked wings, appeared in the sky above Living Hell.
It was a terrifying black bat. His whole body was pitch black, with a silver bat logo on his chest. His eyes, just like those of his creator Nal, glowed like flames, appearing fierce and terrifying.
Shiller looked up at the giant monster, then asked Gray Mist in his mind, "Are you sure you can fight?"
"I just don't like to fight, not that I can't! I'm going to beat him up!!!"
The moment Gray Mist's voice fell, Shiller's gray mist form also began to change.
The gray mist began to thicken from its initial thin state. Among the swirling gray mist, a circular sun composed of countless weird mist patterns slowly formed and rose from the mist.
Countless gray mists floated like solar particles, spreading open at the thickest center, also resembling shadowy claws and dreadful tentacles.
This eerie sun, made up of gray mist, began to deepen gradually. The condensation of mist grew thicker, and its color, darker. Under the moonlight, another huge and terrifying monster was born.
This parasitic species, born in chaos, grown in chaos, and bound to end in chaos, always emanates a weird and terrifying beauty. When these two giant monsters appeared in the sky above Living Hell, the moonlight became even brighter.
Soon, they began to tangle together, darting swiftly through the bizarre city that seemed to come alive.
The bright moonlight, the distorted huge city in the background, and the many tangled wires forming a large net together created a similarly eerie, solemn and grand backdrop to the battle.
A huge full moon rose. The mist and mucus flew forward, turning the moonlit buildings into dark silhouettes. Thick layers of wires, high garbage bags, countless broken bricks and tiles, the cool moonlight drew black and gray, swiftly traversing the city.
The floating plastic bags froze in the air for a moment, like a cold jellyfish. Countless floating cans also froze, transforming into shiny fish in the frozen sea. In an instant, a silent storm tore everything apart, dust fell from the wooden planks, metal emitted floating light.
The view receded rapidly, passing through the chaotic intertwined structure of buildings, climbing up the wires to the top, the huge city viewed from above, resembled the gaping mouth of an abyss.
Next, the falling speed caused ripples to form at the edge of the field of vision. The spirals of mist and mucus flew faster and faster, and the moonlight became brighter and brighter.
In an instant, time froze, between the stagnant moonlight and the solidified wind sound, all the light points were condensed in mid-air, swirling around countless glows, as they got closer to the center, it was finally clear, two forces silently collided, throwing up a huge mushroom cloud of numerous particles.
In the silent explosion, there was not a trace of flame or sound, only eerie silence. Afterward, a brainwave rose, and numerous sharp screams erupted at the spiritual level.
Almost in an instance, the micro-level battle, which humans could not directly see, had already entered the tens of millions of rounds.
In a blink of an eye, the first collision ended, and the fight that only the moonlight could see began again. The moonlight cast endless shadows over the city, like the curtain of an opera, setting the boundary between gray and black.
In Gotham tonight, silence and sonic waves played in harmony, stillness and conflict danced together, Living Hell rode the black tide, and the city screamed.
Under the moonlight, on top of the black building silhouette, a figure, insignificant compared to the monsters, finally fell in extreme fear and chaos, with his last consciousness, he said into the earpiece: "Cannot return... cannot return at this time..."
"... The Court of Owls mustn't return at this time!!!"