Spell Experiments

Carol was taken to a Chamber of Secrets, where, unable to resist, she was forcibly connected to the Kree Supreme Intelligence and prepared for brainwashing. But Carol was no pushover. After exchanging a few casual words with the Supreme Intelligence, she put on an expression that said, "I'm not listening, I'm not listening, you bastard's just chanting scriptures," and threw a punch at it.

If Carol had not been trapped in the Supreme Intelligence's domain, she might actually have been able to take it down.

Then came the classic case of the villain dying from talking too much. The Supreme Intelligence played back Carol's memories, not only allowing her to recover all her memories, but also failing to notice the distant Tesseract glowing and heating up as it transmitted its energy to Carol from afar.

Meanwhile, Li Feng, hiding around a corner, peeked at the three Kree soldiers guarding Talos. Though Kree guns were impressive in terms of recoil, noise, and power, Li Feng felt his Magic Playing Cards were far more reliable if he wanted to kill all three at once. At the very least, the cards could fly silently, and he could send out three at once to kill the three soldiers simultaneously.

Inside the cell, Talos stared blankly as three playing cards flew out from the corner behind the soldiers. They accurately struck the three soldiers in the face before exploding, killing all three Kree soldiers on the spot.

Then the man whose genes he could not copy walked up to him, holding playing cards in one hand and scratching his head with the other. Looking at the button beside the cell door, he asked, "Talos, how do you open this thing?"

Talos smiled faintly. As he showed Li Feng how to open the door, he grumbled inwardly: I knew it. I knew this guy wasn't from Earth. How could an Earthling shoot explosive cards from his hand?

As soon as the cell door opened, Talos transformed into a Kree while picking up a weapon from the ground. "We still need to rescue those two Earthlings."

Two Earthlings? Do you have some kind of misunderstanding? Aren't Carol and I Earthlings too?

Whether in my past life or this one, I've always been a Han Chinese man from Earth, okay?

Rolling his eyes, Li Feng tossed the weapon in his hand to a Skrull. Having never practiced shooting, Li Feng found guns awkward to use. As a Mage, the cards in his hands suited his identity much better.

Of course, considering Talos would be living on Earth for a long time, Li Feng specifically asked him to keep the fact that he was a Mage secret. At least until he became stronger, he still intended to develop quietly and keep a low profile.

Though Talos was puzzled by Li Feng calling himself an Earthling, he held goodwill toward the man who had saved his life and nodded in agreement.

Li Feng disguised himself as a prisoner and was escorted by Talos, who was disguised as a Kree, to Fury's side.

It could only be said that the Kree were either too confident in their energy restraints or too arrogant about their own strength. They had actually assigned only two Kree soldiers to escort Maria and Fury to the landing pad, intending to throw the two of them into Outer Space.

With an opportunity like this, not showing off would simply waste all of Li Feng's effort.

Disguised as a prisoner, Li Feng walked straight toward the two soldiers. As he passed the soldier at the front of the group, the one carrying the cage containing the Flerken, Li Feng discreetly winked at Fury. Once he reached the soldier bringing up the rear, he suddenly punched the man in the temple.

At the same time Li Feng threw his punch, Fury kicked the other soldier squarely in the groin, knocking him to the ground.

As for the remaining soldier, Talos had already shot him dead. When the soldiers knocked down by Li Feng and Fló tried to get back up, Talos raised his gun and put another shot into one of their chests.

With his hands still cuffed behind his back by the energy restraints, Fury turned toward Li Feng behind him and waggled his eyebrows. "See? We work together quite well. If we got to know each other better, maybe we could become even more in sync."

Damn it, we haven't even escaped yet and he's already trying to pry information out of me. Should I praise you for being so dedicated?

As he unlocked Fury's cuffs, Li Feng said, "Same as before. Come ask me questions after you learn a tongue twister. Of course, next time it won't just be Red Carp Green Carp and a donkey."

After removing the cuffs, Li Feng patted Fury on the shoulder. "Kid, I have faith in you. Go back and study Chinese hard."

Fury was somewhat dumbfounded. It was not because Li Feng had told him to learn Chinese, but because after freeing his hands, Li Feng had immediately slipped into a passage and left. Clearly, he had no intention of leaving this Cruiser with him.

Fury turned to Talos and asked, "I'm starting to like that guy. Do you know where he's going? Maybe I can lend him a hand."

Help? More like he wants to find out who Austin is and what he's trying to do.

With a slightly disdainful look, Talos pointed at his green face and shook his head. "Do you think an alien who has only been on Earth for a few days could be close enough to an Earthling for him to bare his heart and tell me everything?"

Fury had no way to refute that. Shrugging, he said, "Get your people onto the fighter first. We'll head back to Earth before discussing anything else."

At that moment, the Cruiser's equipment was assaulted by an external energy. The lights throughout the ship flickered several times as though the voltage had become unstable.

Li Feng, who had been hiding in a corner as an onlooker, was delighted at first. He knew Captain Marvel had officially made her entrance and was about to go on a killing spree aboard the Cruiser. Then he froze. Li Feng could clearly sense that as this force passed through him, his Mana limit had increased—and by more than half.

Li Feng grinned, secretly thrilled. So it wasn't my Mana increasing, but my Mana limit growing by more than half. Does that mean my potential increased from that energy blast just now? What a windfall. Maybe I should find a chance to have Carol explode a few more times. I'm not asking for much—just raise my potential to Ancient One's current level.

It could only be said that Li Feng was far too greedy. He was not satisfied even after receiving such benefits, and the gains this time were far greater than he imagined.

It was like in a game: a level-one Mage had a Mana bar of 100, a level-two Mage had 200, and a level-three Mage had 300. Li Feng, a level-one Mage, had already increased his Mana bar to 150. When he reached level two, his Mana bar would become 300, directly giving him the Mana bar of a level-three Mage.

Although the spells Li Feng could cast at level two would still be level-two spells, more Mana meant he could cast them more times.

Furthermore, the more Mana one had, the faster one's Mana recovery speed would be. Otherwise, if Mages of every level recovered Mana at the same rate, what would happen? A level-one Mage could recover his 100 points of Mana, but what about a level-one-hundred Mage? Would he only see a tiny sliver of Mana return to his Mana bar?

Unaware of just how much he had gained, Li Feng heard the sounds of Carol fighting Yon-Rogg and quietly approached the battlefield.

Watching from afar as Carol unleashed her might and beat the so-called Elite Squad like drowned dogs, Li Feng felt something was missing at his side—popcorn and cola, perhaps.

Watching live was far more interesting than sitting in a movie theater. Of course, it was also more dangerous. Just like now, one of the Elite Warriors spotted Li Feng and charged at him with a savage grin, swinging a longsword glowing with Green Light.

Li Feng raised an eyebrow and turned to run around a corner. He was starting to enjoy fighting at corners more and more. The enemy could not see him, while his spiritual power could easily lock onto the enemy's position. It was simply wonderful.

Besides, the playing cards did not have to fly in straight lines. Under Li Feng's control, they could turn corners and strike an opponent's face on the other side.

The Fireball that exploded directly in the Elite Warrior's face left his head buzzing and his movements sluggish. Li Feng had no intention of wasting such a good opportunity. As both hands fired playing cards at once, he sighed inwardly: Elite equipment really is something else. This protective gear is incredible. The playing cards that could instantly kill ordinary soldiers could only knock these guys unconscious through their armor.

Li Feng walked over to the dazed Kree Elite, picked up the longsword the man had dropped, and cleanly stabbed it through his eye, killing him.

Looking at the longsword in his hand, Li Feng grinned and complained, "How much do the Kree like green? Their uniforms are green, and even their weapons have to shoot green lasers. What's wrong with red? Yellow would work too if that's not an option."

It was a fine blade, but Li Feng felt he still needed to modify it with magic. At the very least, he could not let it keep glowing green. Otherwise, whenever he used it, he would feel the shadow in his heart expanding.

Dragging the Kree Elite he had killed to one side, Li Feng closed his eyes and sensed the blade's ability to conduct Mana. In Li Feng's eyes, since this longsword could coat its blade in energy, it could naturally be modified into a Magic Longsword.

Before long, Li Feng grinned and slung the longsword across his back, waiting only until he found suitable magical materials to modify it.

As for the Elite's protective suit, Li Feng naturally did not hold back. He directly stripped the man into a naked corpse with bluish-black skin.

As he tied the naked man's left foot and right hand in front of his body, then his right foot and left hand behind his body, Li Feng muttered, "Could this guy be a hybrid? Other Kree are all bright blue, so why are you bluish-black?"

Using a thick rope to suspend the naked corpse in midair by its waist, Li Feng channeled Mana and pointed at the thoroughly dead body.

The reason he had not cut off the man's head earlier was so he would not damage the corpse, because he wanted to try out a spell he had learned in the Otherworld—Necromancy.

This spell actually had many drawbacks. For example, the corpse had to be intact to summon the deceased's soul projection back into the body. Otherwise, why would Li Feng go through the trouble of tying and hanging him up? It would have been much safer to simply chop off his head and cast the spell. Without arms or legs, wouldn't the enemy be completely at Li Feng's mercy?

As Mana entered the naked man's body, he turned his head and looked around in confusion. The moment he saw Li Feng watching him with a mocking expression, he instantly remembered who had killed him. He was both puzzled about how he had come back to life after dying and eager to break free from the ropes binding him so he could punch Li Feng in the face.

Seeing that the spell worked in the Marvel Universe, Li Feng snapped the fingers of his outstretched right hand, ending the spell and sending the naked man's soul projection back where it belonged.

With the spell experiment complete, Li Feng let out a long breath. Frowning, he bent down to pick up the naked man's armor and fiddled with it in his hands.

After a long while, Li Feng wordlessly considered whether he should wear this bodysuit. First, although it offered strong defense, it really wasn't suitable for modification into a mage robe. This thing conducted energy too poorly and relied more on the material itself for protection.

Second, who had ever seen a Mage cast spells in a bodysuit? Whether in novels or films and TV dramas, Mages always appeared in loose robes, didn't they?

In the end, Li Feng folded the outfit and put it into his Shoulder Bag. No matter what, its defense was pretty good. At worst, he could wear it as underwear in the future and put a mage robe over it.