Might Makes Right

Namor flew into a rage at that. He pointed, and a massive wave suddenly rose from the sea, more than a hundred meters high. It stood beneath his feet like a tamed pet.

He pointed at Zhan Liu again, and the enormous tsunami immediately came crashing down on him. At the same time, he reached toward the sea and gave a distant clench of his hand. After a tremor, the Golden Spear, which had been stuck diagonally somewhere on the seabed, shot toward him like an arrow loosed from a bow, drawing a thin white line through the seawater.

A tsunami was a natural disaster with tremendous destructive power, but it was more effective against enormous objects. Against a single target, the energy it could accumulate was quite limited.

The high-speed currents he controlled were not fast enough to reach the thousand-meter-per-second flow rate needed for a water blade to cut through things, so their destructive power was mediocre. Most of the time, he had to charge into close combat with the Golden Spear in hand, relying on his powerful physique to inflict effective damage.

In particular, he could not turn water into solid water or condense it into ice. In that form, even its defensive applications were practically useless.

Zhan Liu paid no attention to attacks whose visual effects far exceeded their actual power. Once the tsunami reached him, he casually threw a punch, evaporating the section of seawater in front of him.

Aside from the section of water directly facing him, the rest of the waves merely brushed past his sides before crashing heavily onto the sea, raising useless waves and wasting all their energy without accomplishing anything.

Zhan Liu followed up with another kick. Namor could not keep up with his speed at all and could only instinctively raise his arms to block, after which he was kicked flying again.

Beneath the sea, the Golden Spear, which had flown halfway there, had no choice but to change direction mid-flight and accelerate again, then change direction once more, and again...

"Enough! I'm the Sea King! The king of the sea! The lord of Talokan! Human, are you trying to start a war with the undersea kingdom?" Namor finally could not take it anymore. He began running his mouth, trying to threaten Zhan Liu with war against humanity.

That's exactly what I'm hitting you for!

Zhan Liu ignored him completely and continued kicking him, one kick after another.

Zhan Liu was in a very bad mood. Namor's appearance clearly marked him as a Central American, and he called himself the lord of Talokan rather than the lord of Atlantis. This plainly told Zhan Liu that this was a film-and-television universe, not a comic-book universe.

Everyone knew that Marvel and DC constantly copied each other: today you copied me, tomorrow I copied you. As a result, many of the characters in the two comic companies were extremely similar, making them easy to confuse.

For example, DC's Aquaman Arthur and Marvel's Sea King Namor. Their character concepts and appearances were not completely identical, but saying they were eighty or ninety percent alike would not be an exaggeration.

This led to an awkward situation in the film era. Whichever company made a memorable movie first, later viewers would compare the newer production to the earlier one, then mercilessly mock the newcomer for plagiarism!

Aquaman was made first, and the movie was pretty good. As a result, many fans who followed neither Marvel nor DC would often get confused and mistake Aquaman for Sea King.

It was easy to imagine that if Marvel made Namor, the original king of Atlantis, again, the final result would definitely not be very good.

Whether for the sake of the Marvel Universe or the box office, Marvel changed the character of Namor.

In the new version of Black Panther 2, Namor's first appearance no longer made him the king of Atlantis. Instead, he became the king of something called Talokan.

Talokan originated in the Central American Aztec culture. In Aztec civilization, Talokan was an undersea city ruled by the rain god Tlaloc.

Thus, the moment Zhan Liu saw Namor's Central American appearance and heard him call himself the lord of Talokan, he knew this was a film-and-television universe. In other words, somewhere inside Earth's crust, an infant Celestial really was lying there.

This put him in a very foul mood, so taking his frustration out on Namor was only natural.

Namor was unreasonable by nature, which was why he had attacked Zhan Liu the moment they met. But when one unreasonable person encountered someone even more unreasonable, the only thing that could ultimately decide the matter was a fist.

The bigger fist had the say.

Namor had originally thought that threatening war would have some effect. At the very least, it should have given him a chance to run his mouth, right?

However, although someone like Zhan Liu was not a pure-blooded Magnetic Lunatic, he had never cared much for human life either.

He had no morals, so morality could not be used to bind him.

It had to be said that Sea King Namor's body was truly sturdy. His feet felt great against him.

Zhan Liu kicked him more than a hundred times in succession, but all it did was make him spit a little blood. He showed no sign of dying at all.

Of course, this was also related to Zhan Liu not using too much Magnetic Field power. Once he overused his Magnetic Field power, Zhan Liu could easily enter a lunatic state as well. If he lost control in a frenzy, he might end up kicking Namor to death.

A trash mob like this was fine to kick around for fun. There was no need to use too much power.

After kicking Namor for a while and easing his mood, Zhan Liu calmed down the feverish state of his brain caused by digging underwater and using the power of the Twenty-Five Heavens for an extended period. With one final kick, he sent Namor flying into the sea, then turned and flew away.

Now that he had confirmed this was a film-and-television universe, there was no need to keep digging the tunnel. The key question he had to consider now was what exactly Ancient One was thinking.

Although Magnetic Field Rotation would alter a planet's magnetic field, he had never heard of this thing "inducing an abortion"!

Or was she trying to use Magnetic Field Rotation to alter that Celestial fetus?

Then, after the Celestial infant was born, would it become a "Magnetic Lunatic"?

What the hell!

A Magnetic Lunatic from the Celestials would have roughly the power of the Ninety-Five Heavens from birth, wouldn't it?

Who could afford to provoke such a Magnetic Lunatic?

The Celestials already existed to maintain the balance of the universe and treated human lives like grass. Combined with the personality of a Magnetic Lunatic, wouldn't it become a "world destroyer" the moment it was born?

So what exactly was Ancient One trying to accomplish?

This should not benefit her personally or the universe as a whole.

Besides, why had this thing not emerged the last time Earth exploded? The Eternals had been nowhere to be seen either.

The more Zhan Liu thought about it, the more confused he became.

If he did not understand something, he could simply ask. There was no need to make wild guesses here.

After flying back to New York, he went straight to Bleecker Street in Manhattan. The New York Sanctum was located there.

He landed in a dark alley near the street and walked out. The street was packed with traffic, but there was no 177A anywhere.

He opened the Sky Eye on his forehead. At once, the Sanctum's portal, hidden in the void, was fully revealed before him.

Zhan Liu pushed open the antiquated Sanctum doors and walked inside. A plump Chinese man was waiting for him on the other side.

"The Sorcerer Supreme has been waiting for you for a long time. This way, please."