After ending his call with Nick Fury, He-El opened the computer on his desk, entered his email, moved the cursor over the video Nick Fury had sent, and double-clicked to open Hawkeye's mission footage.
The video began in pitch darkness. Hawkeye's agile movements made the footage constantly spin and shift until it finally settled in a basement.
Hawkeye had deliberately filmed the scene with Kaecilius present.
Dozens of slum civilians were already dead, their blood streaming across the floor and forming a bizarre blood-groove magic array. Kaecilius wore a dark brown cloak, and the swaying yellow light on the wall fell across his face, vaguely revealing an eerie darkness, as though the shadows had corroded deep black circles beneath his eyes.
Kaecilius stood atop the blood-groove magic array while his subordinates took their places around its edges and began chanting mysterious, eerie incantations.
Before long, wisps of darkness seemed to seep from the air. Most of them poured into Kaecilius's body, while a smaller amount entered his subordinates nearby.
Kaecilius and his men looked like addicts, deeply savoring the dark wisps squeezed from the air.
More and more dark wisps emerged, swallowing Kaecilius and the others from sight before surging out of the basement into the outside world. Kaecilius and his men laughed madly, gleefully talking about sacrificing more lives.
Hawkeye immediately drew an arrow and fired it straight at the magic array beneath Kaecilius's feet. The explosive arrow destroyed the entire sacrificial array and interrupted the emergence of the dark mist.
Kaecilius was furious, but the moment he turned and saw Hawkeye, his entire body was completely swallowed by darkness.
He-El's eyes sharpened.
He immediately knew that Kaecilius had temporarily been possessed by a demon god from another dimension.
The possessing demon god looked at Hawkeye with shock, ferocity,