There is a huge abyss that stretches across the whole of hell, which is called "the hell of hell", and some people call it "the abyss of eternal night".

And in the deepest part of the abyss, on top of the cliff there is a huge palace, where the demon king Beelzebub, the most ancient demon king of hell, lives.

Beelzebub had many demonic generals under his command, but he was not a very military force compared to his counterparts, and every few hundred years, Beelzebub would gather them for a celebration under various names, and the abyss that had just been held seemed a little deserted.

Walk up the long obsidian corridors of the palace, through the flames between the sheep's heads and skeletons, and up the carpet woven with the pattern of the sun god, to the throne hall of Beelzebub.

The tall demonic guard was leaning against the door and snoozing, when suddenly a roar came from the throne hall.

「.····· What's the why?!! Batman, are you deliberately finding fault?!! Just do as I say!.iii

The guard shuddered and fell to the ground with the spear in his hand, and after picking up the spear, he couldn't help but look at the throne hall through the crack in the door.

In the past few days, the name Batman has appeared countless times in the roar of the Demon King, but every time he has only heard his voice and not seen him.

The demon guard watched for a moment and noticed that His Majesty Beelzebub seemed to be answering the prayers of the faithful.

Beelzebub was indeed on the phone with Batman, and it was the fourth prayer call he had received today

Beelzebub is not completely devoid of human believers, but usually, he only needs one thought to answer the lengthy prayers of human believers, and most of the human believers ask him for protection and strength anyway, as long as it is not too excessive, he will answer, anyway, the little power that humans want is just a drop in the bucket for him.

But Batman is different, he doesn't want power, he doesn't want protection, he wants knowledge.

Beelzebub has given his followers countless hidden knowledge, but other believers want nothing more than answers, such as whether a certain thing will be successful, whether a certain history is true, what is the truth about the battle between angels and demons, and so on.

Knowledge that is secret to humans is merely a memory of the past for Beelzebub, and he can easily answer these questions.

But what makes Batman different is that he doesn't just want answers, but also processes, and he doesn't give points for answers alone.

When he asks Beelzebub about the future of something, his focus is not on whether the future is good or bad, Beelzebub even suspects that Batman doesn't trust him to judge whether something is good or bad in the future, and what Batman cares about is how Beelzebub judges.

Beelzebub had of course explained to him that humans and demons had different life forms and personalities, and that for demons like Beelzebub, time was not linear, so of course he could see some future.

But Batman just wants to figure out what the principle of non-linear time prophecy is, where the difference between human and demonic life forms is, and what the person is - often Beelzebub answers one question to him, which leads to countless other questions.

Beelzebub yelled at him, "Don't be too clear about magic!" Batman would reply to him, "How can you be sure your answer is right if you don't figure out how it works?"

Beelzebub tries to convince him with practice, such as making a prophecy and then waiting for it to come true, but Batman will question it, even if it comes true this time, what about the next time?

Without a process that can be fully deduced, how can we ensure that the results are stable?

This theory really stumped Beelzebub, the power he had and everything he could do was instinct, and he never thought about where it came from or how it worked.

And Batman goes a step further and says, "If you don't understand how it all works, then one day this power is gone, and you don't even have a way to get it back."

Beelzebub, of course, wanted to swear that "this power will not disappear", and he has thought so for thousands of years.

He will always be the Demon King of Hell, a person far beyond any other being in the universe.

But Belier's death made him a little uncertain.

Judging from his common sense, the three demon kings of hell are immortal, they are the pillars of hell, and they should live with the entire universe, but Belel is gone, and there is no life when he disappears.

It's hard not to feel a sense of crisis in Beelzebub, and even if Batman doesn't go crazy and eat him again, how can he be sure that nothing else threatens his survival next time?

Any intelligent life has an instinct for survival, and a life with emotions is inevitably afraid, and why did Belel disappear so easily, and neither the great power he possessed nor his personality of Beelzebub could provide him with any protection?

Once the thought came to Beelzebub's mind, it was hard not to think about what would he have left if one day he fell in love with a madman like Batman, and apart from his power and personality.

If one day, his power and personality are gone, then can he really just stay where he is, waiting for danger to come, knowing nothing, and be completely powerless to recover?

Thinking about his current situation, Beelzebub thought, I'm afraid yes, he didn't know where his power came from, and if it was naturally generated, would it always be generated? If someone has given it, will it always be given?

These questions swirled through Beelzebub's mind like a spell, and every time Batman called to ask questions that Beelzebub had never thought of, it made the spell clearer.

When a Demon King begins to think about the source of his power, he inevitably uses his instinctive power to trace the origin of the universe with a vision far beyond that of a human.

But unfortunately, Beelzebub's personality is very high, but not high enough, no matter how much he uses his special vision and great power to explore the mysteries of the universe, he can never accurately say "how everything that exists really exists".

This made Beelzebub feel irritable, and even self-defeating, but Batman still took the trouble to call him and ask questions that sounded simple, but no one could answer.

Gradually, Beelzebub was no longer so angry, after all, a small human can persevere, even if he makes dozens of harassing phone calls to his god every day to find out the answer to the question, then as a god, isn't it stupid in his eyes to be so irritable?

Although, Beelzebub felt that in Batman's eyes, all life should be stupid, because he was a little too smart.

When Beelzebub really memorized and understood Batman's questions and the explanations he had casually uttered, Beelzebub realized that this human was really outrageously smart.

Many things that are impossible to see through from a human perspective, Batman is a knowledge that can be directly answered through deduction, which is impossible to understand in human life forms, and Batman also forcibly understands them with his terrifying comprehension ability.

He was probably the smartest man in the universe, Beelzebub thought.

Perhaps, then, he could use his wisdom to solve the mysteries of the universe that he could not study at all.

Yes, it's good for him, Beelzebub thought, not every demon monarch has such a smart pope, he should firmly grasp this opportunity, maybe there will be a chance to go further.

Thinking of this, Beelzebub's heart became a little hot.

But at this time, Batman's phone calls are no longer so frequent.

Beelzebub could only sit in his throne hall in a state of suspicion, and one day, he finally couldn't help but ask Batman, "Why haven't you prayed lately?"

He tried to restrain his tone so that he didn't look like a crazy woman who called every five minutes to check on the guard, but what Batman said made his heart half cold.

"I think those questions may indeed be too difficult for a demon king, after all, you are far from the origin of the universe."

"However, during a recent academic discussion, my teacher recommended me a good match, and I was about to fly to the West Coast to ask Lucifer about it."

Beelzebub felt his heart tighten at once, and he knew that as God's most beloved youngest son, Lucifer could be called truly omniscient.

At this moment, Beelzebub was not afraid that Batman would not be able to ask, but he was afraid that he would really ask. Will you still have your share as a god then?

Beelzebub was pessimistic about this, so he immediately said to Batman, "There is no need to trouble His Majesty Satan about this little thing, what is the name of that rune you said the day before yesterday······?" Grudges? Jealousy? That's Azazel's domain, and I'll ask him later."

"Oh, that." Batman's understated tone came from the other end, "That topic has been conquered by Tim, but it's ······"

Beelzebub was on a roller coaster, and he immediately asked, "But what?" "It's nothing, it's my private business."

"As a pope, of course you should be pious to your gods, isn't prayer meant to inform them of your difficulties without reservation?"

"Well, it's actually some questions about my spiritual world, some time ago, I split some personality traits, and I've been studying how to make them work together, but you also know that the human spiritual world is very fragile, so there was a little bit of a problem in my research process······

"What's the problem?" Beelzebub's tone implied a hint of joy, Batman, you also have today?

"It's hard to say." Batman's tone was a little embarrassed, he was silent for a moment, and then said, "Why don't you come and see in my head?"

Beelzebub didn't think it was strange about this invitation, and many humans would summon demons into their bodies in order to gain more power.

Beelzebub was even a little surprised that Batman would be willing to let him into his body? Many humans are very resistant to this.

But the opportunity is once in a lifetime, and Beelzebub really wants to know what makes this human called Batman special.

So Beelzebub made up his mind, and he said to Batman, "I'll give you a spell, and you just have to recite it in its entirety, and I can go into your soul and see what is going on, don't worry, there's no soul problem that I can't solve."

Batman recited the incantation, and Beelzebub managed to enter his soul one by one, and then he was overwhelmed by the endless mountain of code.

"Help me change the program until it works, thank you." "Oh······ Shit ······ What ······is this?"

"By the way, it's a closed system, you can't get out until it's finished, I'm going to do something else, bye bye Batman!!! Bat ······ !! vomit"