Volume 4: The Last Day Chapter 46 You made such a big fuss just to get this broken box. Why didn’t you say so earlier?
During the time when Mason was fighting against the three giants of the Justice League, the fight between local spellcasters and foreign wizards had become increasingly intense.
The "Magic Pioneer Brigade" that crossed the border initially had the upper hand by relying on sneak attacks on Doctor Fate and all kinds of strange props, but the situation suddenly turned around after Batman opened the city surveillance system to Cyborg and the cyborg activated the "full map hang" for the magic allies.
Especially after Madame Shangdu, the host of the Mysterious House, persuaded many people to join this magical battle, the situation of the wizards became precarious.
Worse still, they were also divided.
The Lighthouse Squad wanted to break out of Gotham, but the Death Eaters were unwilling to give up the Philosopher's Stone that was right in front of them, and the two sides soon "separated their actions."
Well, that’s a high EQ way of saying internal strife.
In short, the great wizard Agilbert and his men escaped from Gotham before the local spellcasters completed the encirclement, and the remaining group hid in the complex terrain of the Gotham Island sewer system and planned to fight to the end.
At this time in the sewers, local spellcasters led by Black Adam and Zatanna were trying to break the rune defense barrier set up by the wizards in front of them.
But this kind of divine magic is much more difficult to break than ordinary magic. Its inherent energy counterattack property makes it as difficult to break as an armored dragon turtle.
"Xuan Lan sent a message that the disturbance of time and space from outside is intensifying. It is constantly trying to restart the world gate suppressed by Doctor Fate."
Zach waved her magic wand to weaken the golden light in front of her. She shouted to Black Adam who was punching the runes beside her, causing golden and blue lightning to strike back and forth:
“We have to speed up.”
"How can this be accelerated?"
Black Adam, who was called from Kandak by Doctor Fate to fight, kept punching and using his divine lightning to eliminate the divine runes in front of him. Wrapped in lightning, he frowned and said:
"Unless you can dissipate these troublesome divinities now, you can only consume them bit by bit. Zatanna, you understand divinity, a power that is higher than reality. You know that once it is formed, it is difficult to dissipate in a short period of time.
Doctor Fate might have a way, but he obviously can't be counted on since he was attacked by surprise.
But who caused this situation now?
If you hadn’t prohibited me from using deadly force…”
"We need prisoners, not bodies."
The angry Zatanna immediately retorted:
"We need intelligence rather than a meaningless victory. You also participated in the previous operation, Black Adam, and you know how difficult the situation we are facing is."
"intelligence?"
Black Adam punched again, breaking a suspended golden rune. He sneered and said:
"Batman's 'little henchman' who tricked us has enough information in his head, but he chose to hide it from us. In my opinion, it is better to deal with Mason Cooper first than to waste time here with these wizards .
The wisdom of Thoth has given me an intuition for the unknown.
And my instinct tells me that all our questions can be answered by Mason, you know? Zatanna, I think we are wasting our time.
I feel like we've been tricked.
I think this is all a setup!"
"Well said! But I have already paid, so you must work!"
Mason's voice rang out from the dim sewer behind the two of them, causing Black Adam to turn around suddenly.
What he saw was Mason, with disheveled hair and a disheveled face, supported by Harley Quinn, who was also disheveled but with a big smile on her face.
The young man obviously appreciated Black Adam's reasoning based on intuition, but Black Adam would not be polite to him.
The moment Mason appeared, the king of Kandak called upon thunder to pounce on Mason. He wanted to capture this cunning kid and end this headache-inducing battle tonight.
The moment he approached, Mason's eyes shot out heat rays like two shock waves that disintegrated Black Adam's thunder. He then swung his fist forward with superhuman strength and knocked the Magic King, who was confidently planning to pick up a head, away with one punch.
The latter smashed into the continuously flashing rune barrier behind him. The collision of huge force shattered another rune, causing the tricky divine power to dissipate a little.
The Black Death Sword armor on Mason's finger smelled the delicious divinity on Black Adam and was eager to try. It told Mason that it could help him kill anyone who dared to attack him at any time.
And Mason reassured it that now was not the time.
He stared at the golden runes covering a large area in front of him. His superhuman perspective allowed him to see a group of wizards resting in the barrier and the star-emitting world door in the center of them.
"You better calm down, you savage ancient."
Mason looked at the potion's expiration time on his watch. There were less than three minutes left. He said to the two spellcasters in front of him:
"Perhaps you don't believe it, but I'm here to help. The target you're chasing is not hiding here with nowhere to go. As wizards, they know very well how the World Gate works.
The status of each world gate will be monitored by the projection core of Star Castle.
Once it gets out of control, the core will immediately intervene and continuously increase its power until the connection is reopened. What's worse is that they have just upgraded the projection core due to some unexpected encounters..."
He looked at Zatanna.
These words were obviously meant for Zuckerberg.
Although the two had only met once before when Batman asked her to save someone, Mason had a good impression of Zuckerberg.
On the one hand, it comes from the fact that the beautiful girl in front of him with trendy clothes is Zack Snyder's eternal dream lover. On the other hand, it comes from the fact that Zack Snyder and his wife are childhood sweethearts and have a deep relationship.
He didn't think Zatanna was an enemy, and the fact that Zatanna didn't follow Black Adam to attack him immediately seemed to indicate that she was also hesitant.
He emphasized:
“Unless you have a magical object that can isolate time and space for a long time, the World Gate can only be suppressed temporarily. If these wizards hold out until that thing restarts, all the traps you set for them tonight will become ineffective.
You guys clearly need a little help, Zuckerberg.
Look, do you want a bunch of prisoners who can be tortured? Or do you want to waste time fighting with me here so that the villains you've been chasing can escape? "
"Mr. K is awesome!"
Harley, who was beside Mason, swung her baseball bat viciously, and took out a clown bomb that made a sharp laugh and swung it around in her hand. She bared her teeth and threatened:
"He can knock you down with just his fists, and I will take the opportunity to 'make up' your pretty face, lovely magician."
Black Adam climbed up from the ground and touched his sore cheek. The gloomy god of power looked at Zatanna, and then they looked at the wizards who were on high alert in the barrier behind them.
After a few seconds, Black Adam took a step back and made a "please" gesture.
Mason stepped forward quickly.
He did not punch the barrier in front of him.
Superman's strength is not divine, and it can be broken by brute force, but it is a waste of time.
He stretched out his left hand and placed it on the surface of the golden rune barrier. The Black Death Sword Armor Ring on his finger swallowed like a glutton the moment it made contact.
In just ten seconds, the rune that had been as solid as a rock collapsed like a high-rise building with an unstable foundation, leaving the wizards resting inside looking at each other in bewilderment.
What's going on?
The magic bestowed by Queen Frigga herself was broken just like that?
This is divine magic!
It’s not the cabbage that can be seen everywhere on the street!
Seeing the golden light as stable as heaven turn into thunder and dissipate, the wizards exclaimed in their hearts that this was not magic at all, and at the same time they grabbed their wands and started to fight desperately.
However, what greeted them was a whole bag of clown bombs thrown forward by Harley.
These things, with crude clown heads painted on their surfaces, exploded as soon as they hit the ground, with not only fire and fragments but also green clown gas spreading everywhere.
Amid the continuous coughing, some injured wizards couldn't help but reveal strange smiles on their cheeks. They were still fighting back, but Mason and Black Adam had turned into two lightning bolts and rushed into the crowd and started killing.
Zatanna also wanted to rush in but was grabbed by Harley and dragged backwards.
This cute little white wizard doesn't understand the horror of the clown's poison gas. Even if those wizards who inhale the poison gas survive by chance, they will become complete lunatics.
The Sorting Hat, which turned into a breathing filter covering Mason's face, was roaring, and it cheered every time Mason punched a wizard to death.
At this moment, it was very grateful to have found Mason, a powerful "partner", which allowed it to achieve two incredible victories in just over a month, despite originally thinking that the revenge against the traitors might take a long time to complete.
"Bang"
The great wizard Igor, who was hiding in the crowd, just raised the stone spear ornament in his hand and aimed at Black Adam who was bursting with divine power in the crowd, intending to launch another fatal sneak attack.
But before the stone spear could be launched, his head was grabbed roughly from behind and slammed against the wall.
Blood flashed as bricks and stones splattered everywhere. If the perpetrator had not shown mercy, this single impact would have been enough to make the old wizard's skull explode.
"Tell me! Where did you hide the endless chest of the great wizard Newt Scamander?"
Mason wasted no time, seizing every second before the Superman potion wore off. He first broke one-third of the old bastard's bones before he began to question him.
He spoke of this guy who had betrayed his world and had a bad criminal record, his tone was very cold and not at all gentle as usual.
The Sorting Hat on his cheek also revealed a blurry human face roaring, as if Mason had two faces, looking so hideous in the area filled with clown gas.
Behind Mason was a group of wizards lying in a mess.
Black Adam discovered that the danger of the gas was dragging them out of the crumbling area, and he kept exchanging glances with Zatanna in an attempt to stop Mason Cooper from leaving.
For both public and private reasons, the two spellcasters could not allow Mason to escape so easily.
Mason knew that there would be a battle between these two.
But he didn't care.
“Who the hell are you!”
Igor, the former headmaster of Durmstrang Academy of Magic and a senior Death Eater, was quite tough. Even though he was beaten like a dead dog, he still refused to reveal any information with his hair disheveled and his face covered in blood.
The pair of bloodshot eyes stared at Mason and the Sorting Hat on his face, probably guessing the relationship between this guy in front of him and Hogwarts.
He laughed in a low voice, as if ready to die, and said in a hoarse voice:
“Kill me, I won’t reveal any secrets. The power of the Star Society has locked my soul like a curse. You are also one of us, so you should also know our taboos.
It would be kinder for you to break my neck here."
"Well said! But I have no interest in the dirty secrets in your head! I don't give a damn what you think!"
Mason brought him to his presence and shouted:
"I'll ask you one last time, where is Master Newt's Infinity Box?"
Hearing Mason asking about the whereabouts of the box for the second time, Igor confirmed that the guy in front of him who was almost killing them really just wanted to get the old suitcase.
There was no horrible conspiracy at all, nor was there any personal grudge involved. It was just for a broken box... This truth made the great wizard feel like a thousand alpaca horses were galloping through his heart.
Although his body was in excruciating pain and he had a headache from inhaling the clown's poison gas, he couldn't help but roar at this moment:
"You tricked us into coming here and killing us just for this? Just for a broken box that can't be opened? How much money did those undead souls who went to hell give you to do this?
You killed your companions so crazily, aren't you afraid of being punished by the Star Society?"
"Of course I am afraid, but what's the use of being afraid?"
Mason picked up the old wizard and dragged him out of the area covered by the clown's poison gas like a barking broken-back dog.
The blood stretched out behind him into a dazzling shape, and he said:
"I felt there was no turning back when I stepped into the Star Alliance, and to be honest, killing you shameless traitors is just a 'benefit' of my job.
Hand over that box, Igor, and in the name of Hogwarts, I promise to let you go."
"You think I'll believe it?"
The old wizard with a bloody head sneered.
He looked back at the projection of the World Gate behind him that was destroyed by Black Adam with a bolt of lightning, and finally waved his finger with a hint of loneliness and regret.
A box that looked almost identical to Mason's magic suitcase fell to the ground, splashing a few wisps of dust.
He had sensed that his death was approaching, so he lowered his head and said:
"I don't know what's in that box, but I guessed the truth from the fact that you and the Sorting Hat went to such great lengths to get it. Since they are alive, let them continue to live.
Although living in this era is not a lucky thing.
I can't predict the future, but I'm certainly one step ahead, Mason Cooper! You won't get far, and I'll be waiting for you in hell.
May my death please the dark stars and illuminate our path forward..."
"puff"
The sharp blade was swung and the head flew off.
Mason ended the conversation before he could finish, and the black batarang, propelled by superhuman strength, easily cut the traitor's neck, causing the traitor's blood to spill onto the ground.
He picked up the polished stone spear ornament from the pool of blood beside the headless corpse and whispered:
"The Stars Society was never an answer. It was at most a mistake. As for your death... Sorry, the Stars don't care."
The moment he finished saying this, all the superhuman strength in Mason's body quickly dissipated and he collapsed like a deflated balloon.
He covered his mouth.
But the continuous coughing caused blood to flow out and soon dyed his hands red.
This scene made Black Adam, who was watching, grin, and made Zatanna look worried. She wanted to step forward but Harley put a gun to her chin and dragged her back.
"Xiao Zha, cute Xiao Zha."
Harley whispered to Zatanna in her shrill voice:
"This is all part of Mr. K's plan. That big black guy is going to get a beating. You, a good girl, better not get involved."
"Give it up, Mason Cooper."
Black Adam was suspended in the air, and the divine power from the Seven Gods of Egypt turned into thunder surrounding him, making him look like a god. He scolded with a majestic voice and cast lightning that turned into a cage to bind Mason inside.
The young man didn't even look at him.
He simply picked up the gray suitcase beside him and reached out to brush off the dust on the outer shell.
He stroked it, sighed and said:
"One third of what happened tonight was because of you... Oh, I hope that when I'm in trouble in the future, there will be powerful heroes who will save me like I saved you."
"It will happen, Mason."
The hat, which had reverted back to a mask, whispered, causing Mason to grin.
Then he looked up at Black Adam who was confident of victory. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, threw the box to Harley and signaled her to take Zack away quickly.
The current battle situation is so favorable and the enemy is so giving him face, it would be unreasonable for him not to use a big move.
He stood up weakly, holding onto the wall. As the black substance on his fingers squirmed, Mason no longer suppressed the hunger and malice of the Black Death Sword. He said in a hoarse voice:
"First of all, I want to emphasize that I don't like men...but you, Adam, you are really delicious..."
