Chapter 220: The True Use of Dark Magic
The clouds in the sky were split into pieces, like large swathes of cotton candy.
In a patch of white cloud layer about a dozen square meters in size, a rosewood low table was placed horizontally. Two people sat cross-legged on the cloud, giving off the feeling of watching the world unfold, with clouds rolling and relaxing.
Tang Song personally brewed tea, picking up the purple clay teapot in his hand to pour a cup for the bald-headed big boss opposite him.
The Ancient One, wearing a simple long robe, rolled up her sleeves, picked up the teacup, and took a sip. The fragrance of the tea brought a slight smile to her face.
"The fighting below is so intense, aren't you planning to intervene?"
The Ancient One drank half a teacup, her eyes, which seemed to see through people's hearts, were pure and free of any impurities. She stared directly at Tang Song.
"Mage, aren't you not intervening either?" Tang Song picked up the teacup in front of him, took a sip, and retorted.
Below the two of them, dense silver disc-shaped aircraft continuously flew out from the spatial gate.
These unmanned aircraft, similar to drones, maintained a high-speed rotation in the air. Beams of energy light shot out in all directions, instantly tearing a large gap in the defense line the Allied Forces had just established.
The energy beams, descending from the sky like raindrops, caught everyone off guard.
On the Brotherhood of Mutants side, Magneto controlled the giant starship hull cover he had flipped over, using it as a shield above their heads.
With his magnetic manipulation, amidst the creaking sound of bending metal, this starship hatch cover turned into a turtle shell-shaped metal dome.
It blocked the attack of the flying discs for the Mutants gathered around him.
Tony Stark, piloting his Iron Suit, flexibly weaved through the air, occasionally firing palm energy cannons from his hand, attacking these disc-shaped aircraft.
But the number of these disc-shaped aircraft was simply too large, and compared to the Chitauri's flying motorcycle/skiffs from before, their speed was also astonishingly fast.
Tony Stark was hit by the energy beams from these silver flying discs several times. If T'Challa hadn't given him a batch of Vibranium ore afterwards in Wakanda, and he hadn't modified his Iron Suit, he would probably have been riddled like a sieve by now.
"Oh! Shit!"
In front of a shot-down Chitauri Iron Armored Dragon troop transport,
Deadpool, who was bending over with his butt sticking out, scavenging for alien leftover guns, suddenly felt a pain behind him. He turned his head, stunned to find everything below his waist had been blown to smithereens.
"Fuck mother! You alien bastards, you blew off my lower half!"
Looking at the silver flying discs rotating and hovering in front of him.
Deadpool angrily raised a Chitauri rifle in his hand, aimed at the disc behind him, cursing and pulling the trigger.
"Swish swish swish swish—"
The high-speed rotating silver aircraft, with a dozen gun barrels simultaneously firing energy beams, instantly riddled Deadpool like a sieve.
"Swish!"
The silver disc, after firing its lasers, was about to fly away and attack the next target, when a right hand lifted from the mangled mass of flesh and blood on the ground. In its right hand, it held an energy rifle.
As Deadpool pulled the trigger,
A blue energy beam instantly pierced a hole through the silver disc-shaped aircraft. The aircraft smoked and crashed to the ground with a clang.
Thump! Spider-Man Peter Parker shot webbing from both hands, sticking to a rapidly flying silver disc-shaped aircraft. He was lifted into the air by the aircraft.
High in the air, he flipped over to dodge the energy beams fired by two silver aircraft in a crossfire, released the webbing in his hands, and swung through the air.
Thump! He landed in front of Deadpool.
Looking at the mass of flesh and blood on the ground that was rapidly growing and healing, Spider-Man picked up a Chitauri energy rifle from the ground with concern.
Holding the muzzle, he poked Deadpool's body with the gun butt. As for which part, it was a messy mass of flesh and blood, he really couldn't tell.
"Wade! Are you okay!"
Lately, Spider-Man felt he really clicked with this guy Deadpool, especially after he put on his mask.
Perhaps it was because they were both Motor Mouths?!
"I'm fine now! You poked my heart! It's still a baby, it's growing!"
"Oh, Wade, I'm so sorry!" Spider-Man quickly moved the gun away and threw it aside.
Deadpool looked at Peter Parker's action with heartache: "Hey, be gentle, this thing could sell for at least tens of thousands of US Dollars on the Black Market! If we're quick, I think someone would be willing to pay hundreds of thousands of US Dollars!"
"But, Wade, if I remember correctly, the Vibranium the King of Wakanda gave you was enough for you to achieve financial freedom!"
Spider-Man was a little confused. After they helped T'Challa restore his kingdom, T'Challa gave Deadpool a piece of Vibranium ore as promised.
That ore alone was worth a hundred million. Logically speaking, Deadpool shouldn't be short of money.
"Oh?! I sold that Vibranium ore for eighty million US Dollars. Damn middleman, Old George ripped me off twenty million, saying the price of Vibranium ore is artificially inflated right now. I bought a sea view villa, a yacht... A sea view villa actually cost thirty million US Dollars, and I have to pay high property tax every year...
And that yacht, I need to hire crew members, Sailors, and the annual maintenance also costs money!"
"I don't want to be dragged to Japan to film movies again, oh God, the women there are really too ugly, if they hadn't paid so much, I would never have gone..."
Spider-Man listened to the information Deadpool unintentionally revealed,
"Wade, you even filmed movies, were they action movies? Also, you spent all your money?!" Spider-Man swallowed. A hundred million! He never dreamed of that much money.
You know, although his adoptive mother Aunt May was very good to him, because of their family's financial conditions, he never had more than a thousand US Dollars in his pocket.
A hundred million!
"Uh, it was an action romance movie. Maybe the Japanese director knew I had a big... *asset*, so he specifically invited me. It's a pity their taste in choosing female leads is really not good.
Of course, none of that matters, Peter, you're still young, you don't know the difficulties of an Adult Man. I also have several girlfriends to support. Buying a Villa and a Yacht is just to provide them with better material conditions!"
Deadpool complained while stating his true purpose: "So, Peter, how about you collect these alien weapons for me? After selling them, we'll split it three-seven..."
Spider-Man's head was a mess from Deadpool's thought process. Just as he was about to refuse Deadpool, his body hair suddenly trembled from his spider-sense behind him. He suddenly flipped over and jumped up.
More than a dozen energy beams shot out from beneath him, densely hitting Deadpool's body, even shattering his mouth.
Spider-Man waved his hand and flicked out webbing, sticking to a metal plate, and smashed down the silver aircraft that had launched the sneak attack.
"Hey! I'm sorry, Mr. Wade, you recover slowly here, I'm going to help others!"
Spider-Man glanced at the squirming Deadpool, grabbed a Chitauri energy rifle, and somewhat flustered, stuck to a silver aircraft with webbing, leaping into the air.
Only a blurry, continuous groaning sound remained on the spot.
"Woo woo woo woo..."
...…
Black Widow held a Chitauri energy rifle in her hand, using Captain America's shield as cover, and accurately shot at the sky. Every shot precisely hit a silver disc-shaped aircraft.
Meanwhile, Captain America held his shield, blocking the energy beams attacking from all sides for her.
Just now, Captain America organized a group of Rangers stationed nearby to withdraw from the battlefield and set up a second defense line Outside.
There was no other way. Against these high-speed flying alien flying discs, Ordinary Person Human Soldiers and the weapons in their hands couldn't play much role at all. Instead of letting them sacrifice for nothing, it was better to let them retreat and station.
The number of silver circular aircraft in the sky was simply too many, and flying discs were still continuously bubbling out from the spatial gate.
"This won't work! Since we can't close the spatial gate temporarily, we need to find something to block it!"
Captain America rolled on the spot, raised his shield, and blocked several energy beams for Black Widow.
He tried touching the communicator by his ear and suggested to Nick Fury on the other end of the communication channel.
A Quinjet circled and darted through the air. From the sides of the fighter jet, two tongues of fire continuously spewed out, constantly shooting at the dense silver circular aircraft in the air.
"Then find a method! The only person capable of doing that right now is Magneto. Agent Natasha, you and Captain go to Magneto and tell him this idea!"
Nick Fury stared intently at the screen in front of the Quinjet with his single eye, controlling the gear of the Quinjet with his hand. He had increased the speed of this Quinjet to almost maximum, which allowed him to avoid falling into the heavy encirclement of the silver circular aircraft.
"I'll go!"
Tony Stark's voice sounded from the communication channel.
Then he waved his hand and fired a palm energy cannon, shattering a silver circular aircraft into pieces. He then dove towards the giant man-made steel dome.
Magneto had taken the hull iron plate of the original Chitauri alien spaceship and used it to block above their heads, like providing a giant protective turtle shell for the Mutants.
The material of the Chitauri starship was not any known metal on Earth; its hardness and toughness were very strong.
Although hundreds of silver circular aircraft were surrounding this iron turtle shell and attacking, they couldn't blast through this thick iron plate for a while.
Instead, the Mutants shrunk inside were using the attack openings left by Magneto to launch attacks outwards.
Dozens of Mutants were gathered under this dome temporarily erected by Magneto.
Unfortunately, not many could cause damage to the Chitauri's flying discs Outside.
Magneto, of course, was an exception. Although he was distracted controlling the iron plate dome above his head, under his magnetic manipulation, the silver aircraft approaching within a hundred meters of the dome were pinched and exploded by an invisible magnetic field and fell.
Among the Mutants inside the dome, there were not many with long-range attack ability. The most eye-catching performance was undoubtedly Cyclops.
That's right, Cyclops. Although he was a member of the X-Men, out of the "universal love" of the Mutant race and the face of old friends.
Magneto also sheltered several X-Men together.
In this situation, Cyclops's ability undoubtedly exerted great power.
He placed his finger on the side of his ear, controlling the switch of his graphene glasses. As he tapped his finger, his eyes occasionally shot out crimson laser beams, shooting down silver circular aircraft one after another.
Of course, there was another person whose ability was not inferior to Cyclops at all. The girl wearing red clothes continuously pushed her hands outwards, and red energy balls exploded Outside.
Shattering swathes of alien flying discs.
"Her energy doesn't seem to come from Mutant genes!"
High in the sky, Tang Song sat on the cloud, watching the red energy easily tear and corrode swathes of silver circular aircraft. He frowned and looked at the Ancient One opposite him, who was leisurely at ease.
"Her energy comes from Chthon, the first God of Black Magic. He is one of the Ancient Gods and one of the earliest life forms on Earth.
He possesses immeasurable magical power. Mephisto and Dormammu have both borrowed his energy.
Twenty years ago, Chthon, who was exiled to an Alternate Dimension, attempted to return to the Current World through a Passage.
As a result, we had an intense battle with him on Wundagore Mountain. He was repelled, but when he retreated from Earth, he infused Chaos Magic into the little girl who had just been born below, and made her a host for a future attack on Earth."
The Ancient One narrated the whole story to Tang Song like telling a story while drinking tea.
Tang Song, however, heard the danger of that time from the Ancient One's understatement. The Ancient One said "we," not "I."
An existence that even Mephisto and Dormammu had borrowed power from, just thinking about it was terrifying. Tang Song didn't ask who the "we" the Ancient One mentioned were, but pointed at the girl in red inside the dome below with some curiosity.
"Since she is Chthon's bridgehead for attack, why did you leave her?"
The Ancient One smiled and shook her head: "There are countless so-called Sons of Evil Gods and Sons of Satan on Earth. Among them, Mephisto alone has dozens of hidden moves and hosts. We cannot erase a newborn girl because of something that might happen in the future!
If Chthon really invades the Current World again, we'll just beat him back!"
The Ancient One's understated words were full of a confident domineering aura.
The invasion of the world's first Black Wizard, the God of Black Magic, was just a simple "beat him back" in her mouth.
Tang Song greatly admired the Ancient One's magnanimity. If he were in the Ancient One's position, he would never leave such a big future trouble for himself.
Even if he didn't kill Wanda immediately, he would seal her power and have people monitor her constantly, lest he raise a tiger to be a problem, allowing Chthon to make a king's return.
That's right, the girl in red below was Scarlet Witch Wanda, one of Magneto's twin children.
"Ancient One Master, are you really not planning to intervene in the war below?"
Tang Song lowered his gaze, watching Magneto manipulate countless metal pieces to converge into a giant lump of iron, blocking the spatial gate, trying to plug this spatial gate.
However, in an instant, a thick beam of light shot out from the other side of the spatial gate, directly blasted through the lump, which was fifty to sixty meters thick.
The Chitauri fleet on the other side was ready to go. To block the spatial gate, it would require a giant Vibranium gate to withstand the bombardment of the Chitauri starship's main cannon.
"Isn't there you?" The Ancient One looked at Tang Song playfully: "As long as you take out the Mind Scepter and close the spatial gate, this crisis will naturally disappear."
Tang Song picked up the purple clay teapot and refilled the Ancient One's cup with tea: "The future world will be full of disasters and calamities. Humanity cannot rely only on a group of Superheroes for protection. I am doing this simply to push Humanity into the Interstellar Age a step faster!"
The two drank tea, Tang Song observing the Ancient One's expression, carefully probing the Ancient One's attitude on this matter.
The Ancient One didn't say anything. It seemed that besides taking action against some dimensional evil gods, Hell Lords, these uncontrollable factors for Humanity, she preferred to be an observer.
Up in the sky, the two were like clouds rolling and relaxing, a scene of peaceful years.
Below, as Captain America's plan to block the spatial gate failed, large numbers of silver circular aircraft surged in again.
For a time, the defense line composed of the Avengers, the Brotherhood of Mutants, and the Federal Government Army was in jeopardy.
Moreover, from time to time, a thick energy light pillar would shoot out from within the spatial gate, directly penetrating the entire Leon Urban Area. The force of this kind of powerful alien main cannon had to make Magneto abandon the idea of blocking the gate.
Fortunately, as time passed, batches of reinforcements also arrived at the Lyon Battlefield.
Hundreds of fighter jets, refueled and reloaded with ammunition, roared in, engaging in fierce combat with these alien silver circular aircraft high in the air—
Along with them came the Superheroes who heard the news and rushed here, finally arriving at the battlefield.
Human Torch, whose entire body was burning with flames, and who could manipulate flames to fly in the air. Invisible Woman, who could turn invisible and deploy telekinetic barriers.
Thing, who possessed boundless strength.
Doctor Reed Richards, who transformed into Mister Fantastic.
Whiplash Ivan Vanko, who appeared with dozens of Iron Soldiers!
Dozens of Iron Soldiers spewed blue flames from their feet, shoulders carrying missile launchers and heavy machine guns, and fought together with the Chitauri's silver circular aircraft.
Whenever these Iron Soldiers reached their critical limit, a loud explosion would directly sound in the sky.
That was Ivan Vanko directly detonating the Arc Reactors inside the body of the Iron Soldiers. The power of each Arc Reactor explosion was definitely no less than the effect produced by a fuel-air explosive bomb explosion. Each explosion of an iron robot could take away hundreds of Chitauri fliers.
At his most ruthless, Ivan Vanko directly blocked the spatial gate entrance with two Iron Soldiers, directly detonating them when a large batch of silver flying discs rushed out.
Ivan Vanko appeared on the battlefield for less than half an hour and directly took out nearly a third of the Chitauri's flying discs.
It must be said, with him playing this self-destructing style, Tony Stark's gaze never left him.
Ivan Vanko's appearance here was naturally Boss Tang's intention. You know, Ivan Vanko's matter, when calculated, was actually a personal grudge with Tony Stark.
Coupled with the Federal Government's coveting of the Arc Reactor.
This battlefield, which was the focus of attention for resisting the alien invasion, was Ivan Vanko's best chance to be whitewashed.
Afterwards, Tang Song would invite him to officially join the Tang Group under the name of Tang Group.
This was much simpler than laundering money! Ivan Vanko's Iron Soldiers did indeed turn the tide of the battlefield in a short time, but as his Iron Soldiers self-destructed one by one, facing the continuous stream of silver flying discs from the spatial gate.
The number of Iron Soldiers was clearly insufficient.
Ivan Vanko flew in mid-air wearing his Iron Suit, a thick Whiplash in his hand directly split the silver flying disc shooting at him in half.
The energy beams from the silver flying discs shot at his body, but he didn't dodge at all. "Hiss! Hiss!"
Several energy rays landed on the Adamantium armor, only sparking a few sparks.
"Time is almost up!"
Seeing that these Chitauri unmanned aircraft showed signs of spreading further.
Tang Song put down the tea cup in his hand, smiled at the Ancient One, and tapped the watch on his wrist, "Red Queen, tell Kane to start!"
Kane's complexion was calm. He drove an American Jeep recklessly into the hail of bullets, his target directly the spatial gate.
Along the way, he occasionally raised the modified shotgun in his hand and fired a shot at the silver flying disc flying past.
Compared to his calmness, in his front passenger seat, a pale-faced Japanese woman was trembling as she looked at the devastated, war-torn battlefield.
She was a Black Wizard, that was true, but she would die if she was shot!
Soon, the Jeep rushing towards the spatial gate attracted the attention of many people.
"Hey! What is he trying to do?"
Human Torch, flying in the air, created large swathes of sparks in the air, after igniting a large batch of pursuing silver flying discs.
He pointed at the Jeep with some curiosity and asked Thor, who was also flying in mid-air.
At this moment, this Thor of Asgard was wielding his hammer in one hand, while his other arm was holding a big living person.
It was none other than the third prince of Asgard, Loki, the God of Conspiracy and Trickery.
Thor wasn't afraid that Loki would escape again, but rather worried that this younger brother would be beaten to death by the angry Midgardians.
After all, he had caused such a big mess.
"I don't know! Maybe he wants to try closing the spatial gate!"
"Don't fantasize, that spatial gate is connected to the Space Gem. Unless you use the other Infinity Stones, you can't close it!"
Loki raised his head from under Thor's armpit and said with a sneer.
"Infinity Stones!" Human Torch kept Loki's words in mind. He planned to go back and tell his cheap brother-in-law to investigate clearly what these Infinity Stones actually are.
On the other side, Kane, who had received the Boss's order, drove the Jeep to the front of the spatial gate.
He flipped and leaped out of the car, and from the back of the Jeep, he carried down something like a roll of animal hide, and swung it forcefully into the air.
A giant beast hide unfolded directly and spread out on the ground.
"What is he trying to do? Block the spatial gate with this kind of beast hide? What a joke! Even a dragon's hide couldn't block the attack of alien weaponry! What is this, Black Magic?"
"Is he crazy?"
"I thought he wanted to blow up the spatial gate and stage a lone hero act, it seems I was thinking too much!"
....
The public watching the live broadcast through the remaining dozens of drones discussed amongst themselves.
Kane, however, didn't care about so much. He firmly carried out the Boss's order. He fired his gun towards the sky, providing cover for Hei Mu Mingliang beside him.
This Japanese Federation hybrid Black Wizard trembled as she held the crystal ball in her hand and chanted a spell. As her voice sounded, light spots lit up one by one on the giant beast hide sewn from the belly skin of hundreds of skull lizards. The connected light spots formed inverted hexagram arrays one by one, and these inverted hexagram arrays then formed a giant magic array.
"What is this thing?"
Whether it was the Avengers present, or the public watching this scene through the drone live broadcast, they were all a little confused about what this glowing beast hide actually was.
However, there were also people who recognized it.
Inside an Ancient Castle hidden by Dark Magic, the Speaker (Dark Council) wearing a black robe watched the television in front of him. The more he watched, the more familiar the pattern on the beast hide seemed.
He beckoned, and a ghost brought him an ancient, large magic book.
He flipped through it for a long time, finally finding a similar pattern on one side of the book.
"A black magic array to summon hell demons and open a hell passage, no, the pattern is reversed! This is an exile black magic array, black magic to exile living people to hell—Hiss!"
The Speaker (Dark Council), who had figured it out, stopped his white bone fingertip on the magic book. When he looked up at the television again, he sucked in a breath of cold air.
"This exile magic array can be used like this?!"
Whoosh! As Kane raised his hand, between grabbing with both hands, clouds follow the dragon, wind arises with the tiger. White Tiger Wind Manipulation seemed to be branded in his bloodline. With a flick of Kane's wind manipulation, the giant beast hide instantly covered the spatial gate like a curtain.
At this moment, everyone's gaze was focused on this beast hide curtain. Even though no one thought this beast hide could block the alien spaceship.
But this wasn't an ordinary beast hide, it was a glowing beast hide.
Many Ordinary People silently comforted themselves in their hearts. Everyone could see that Earth was at a disadvantage.
No one wanted Earth to lose. Behind the Lyon Battlefield was Earth, is billions of Earthlings. No one wanted the flames of war to ignite on themselves.
It seemed their prayers had an effect. Once the beast hide covered it, as if by magic, the aliens inside the spatial gate seemed to have stalled. Not a single silver flying disc flew through the spatial gate anymore.
"What's going on?"
Just like the confused onlookers on Earth, the Chitauri fleet also couldn't figure out what was happening.
Continuous attack drones flew into the spatial gate, instantly lost connection. The Chitauri fleet's command was confused and angry! In a Hell Dimension, swathes of silver circular flying discs continuously appeared out of thin air in the hell lava, were turned into masses of silver liquid by the scorching lava.
The silver liquid surfaced in the lava, quickly attracting the attention of a black demon dragon. This big guy, who was napping on a large rock by the lava river, curiously extended its sharp claws to prod the silver liquid.
It even extended its claws into the scalding lava and scooped out a silver flying disc, examined it curiously, then put it in its mouth and chewed it to taste.
"Ptooey! Ptooey!"
The demon dragon seemed to have eaten something very unpleasant. It spat twice and sprayed a stream of dragon flame from its mouth.
It didn't taste good. It instantly lost interest in the silver liquid in the lava. It wasn't gold or gemstones, which it liked, nor was it tasty.
The demon dragon turned around and lay back on the large rock, flicking its scorpion tail, closing its eyes, and falling back into a deep sleep.
(end of chapter)