Across the vast, desolate wilderness of western Texas, there was no wind and no moon tonight.
The rolling, sprawling hills, yellow earth and gravel, and sparse, lonely vegetation should have become a pitch-black wasteland on this starless, moonless night. Yet beneath clusters of vast, brilliant golden sparks—
It was almost as bright as day.
Within the ruins of San Venganza in the empty valley, Mystic Arts formations cast by the Kamar-Taj sorcerers surrounded the area in staggered layers. At the very center stood an almost equilateral triangular formation, with Emma Howlett, Charles Xavier, and Kaecilius, Ancient One's disciple, each guarding one point.
Inside that was a square formed by several sorcerers positioned at each of its four corners and linked together through their formation. The outermost layer consisted of eight arrays forming a massive circular formation.
Several hundred mystic sorcerers from Kamar-Taj had deployed in near full force, creating an unprecedentedly immense Mirror Dimension array in the history of mystic sorcerers.
On the land beneath the oppressive black clouds, within a hidden space invisible to ordinary mortals.
The densely scattered Mystic Arts arrays connected into lines of starlike fire, combining into a grand formation that reflected and echoed with one another. Such staggering scale and unprecedented grandeur existed solely to stabilize the battlefield prepared for Mephisto, the lord demon god of Limbo.
Emma sat cross-legged at the center of the formation the mystic sorcerers had drawn for her. Three sorcerers sat around her, one before and two behind. Kaecilius and Professor Charles had been arranged in the same fashion at the other two points of the great triangular core.
She felt her psychic power resonate with the formation beneath her, continuously and steadily supplying mental energy that the sorcerers could convert and wield. Her beautiful pale face looked all the