Scarlet Chains Wipe Out the Battlefield, Leaving an Old Sorcerer Stunned!

"It's Raine!"

"Kamar-Taj's greatest prodigy!"

"He's incredible! Even the Masters aren't this fierce!"

The medical apprentices shouted excitedly, as though they had found a lifeline.

Raine rubbed his chin and cleared his throat. "Everyone, calm down. I'm just an ordinary sorcerer."

Everyone looked at the alien corpses scattered across the ground, each neatly cut in two, and rolled their eyes.

He sliced through monsters like vegetables, and he called himself ordinary?

Raine had entered the Mirror Dimension with the main group, but during the head count, he had noticed the medical team was missing. Sensing trouble, he had torn through the spatial barrier and arrived just in time to save the old sorcerer's life.

"Master Carter, the safe passage is right there. Why did you insist on opening a Portal?" Raine asked helplessly.

The old sorcerer's face flushed crimson. After a long pause, she finally muttered, "There's a line for the passage..."

She had botched the evacuation and needed a student to rescue her. It was embarrassing.

Deep down, though, Carter was delighted.

See that? I taught this absolute monster!

"All right. Stay close to me."

Raine did not bother calling her out. He turned and cleared a path ahead. Carter had taught him, so protecting her was only right.

The group raced toward the Sanctum.

Countless Chitauri foot soldiers lunged at them along the way.

Raine did not even need advanced Magic. With a casual flick of both hands, several basic Magic Chains whistled through the air.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Golden whips lashed wildly. Any alien monster they struck exploded into a bloody mist, leaving no corpse behind.

The apprentices following him kept crying out in amazement until their voices were nearly gone.

"Raine is invincible!"

"Our savior! A walking meat grinder!"

Walking at the front, Raine listened to the praise behind him and secretly enjoyed it.

Still, no matter how strong he was, he had to keep his head. When it was time to be modest, he could not let it go to his head.

Raine led the way, charging toward the New York Sanctum.

With his overwhelming strength, he crushed every Chitauri who dared block their path.

The farther they ran, the denser the alien forces became.

Stark Tower was only a stone's throw away. This was the heart of the alien assault.

The Avengers' main force was fighting desperately here.

Before long, Raine spotted someone he knew.

Captain America, Steve.

A veteran of World War II, Steve had gained peak human physical abilities from the Super-Soldier Serum. His punches carried several tons of force.

One-on-one, he could crush an alien grunt without effort.

But this was different.

Dozens of Chitauri soldiers swarmed Steve like frenzied worker ants, surrounding him on every side.

Trusting in their numbers, the aliens abandoned their Laser Guns and rushed him in hand-to-hand combat.

By the time Raine reached the street corner, Steve was almost smothered under them.

"Who's that? His fighting skills are incredible!" Carter exclaimed, her eyes widening.

She had always assumed everyone outside Kamar-Taj was an ordinary person.

Yet this blond man's close-quarters combat was fiercer than that of many battle sorcerers in the Sanctum.

"Captain America, from the Avengers," Raine explained casually.

"So that's who he is." Carter nodded. Kamar-Taj's intelligence network had files on the Avengers.

"We're all fighting to protect Earth. Let's help him," the old sorcerer suggested.

Raine did not answer. His gaze sharpened, and he quietly spoke a few words.

"Scarlet Contract Chains!"

Boom!

More than a hundred translucent, blood-red Magic Chains shot from his body.

They writhed through the air like living snakes and plunged straight into the alien ranks.

Squelch! Squelch! Squelch!

Each chain pierced an enemy with deadly precision.

In the blink of an eye, the hundred or so Chitauri surrounding Captain America had all been skewered like meat on skewers!

One move had wiped them all out.

"Ding!"

"Scarlet Contract Chains has been nourished by a large amount of blood and is elated!"

"Skill power has received a temporary boost!"

Raine heard the System Notifications and smiled faintly.

Behind him, everyone was stunned senseless.

"Wh-what kind of Magic is that?" The apprentices' scalps prickled.

Even the well-traveled Carter looked as though she had seen a ghost.

Well versed in Kamar-Taj's theories, she could tell at a glance that the technique was based on Scarlet Chains.

But Scarlet Chains were supposed to be pure energy!

They relied on Divine Power to burn an opponent.

How had Raine made them as solid as steel? Could Magic inflict piercing wounds now?

It overturned everything the old sorcerer knew.

Carter barely managed to keep her composure. The medical apprentices were on the verge of losing theirs.

They all studied Magic, so why could he use his Spell like a greatsword while they could barely make fireworks?

Before they could recover, an even more shocking sight unfolded.

Raine drove a blood-dripping chain straight into Steve's chest!

Captain America had been mobbed by hundreds of enemies and suffered grave injuries. He had already collapsed unconscious in a pool of blood.

Was Raine going to kill an ally too?

"Ding!"

"Scarlet Contract Chains is resisting the healing target."

"Healing efficiency has dropped drastically."

Raine frowned and cursed inwardly. This skill has quite the temper.

The medical apprentices nearly jumped out of their skins.

"Raine! Why are you killing him?"

Carter panicked too. She scrambled forward. "Raine! Stop! Even if he isn't one of us, you can't kill an ordinary person!"

"It's an ironclad rule of Kamar-Taj! If you kill an ordinary person, the Sorcerer Supreme will strip you of your powers!"

Sweat poured down the old sorcerer's forehead. She was terrified her most gifted student would bring a death sentence upon himself.

Seeing Carter about to lunge in and disrupt his Magic, Raine hurriedly took half a step back. "Wait! Master, what are you thinking? I'm healing him!"

"Nonsense! You call stabbing someone healing?" Carter was beside herself.

Raine pointed at Steve on the ground. "Look at his face."

Dubious, the old sorcerer lowered her head.

Steve was still unconscious, but color was visibly returning to his deathly pale face.

His deep wounds were rapidly scabbing over and healing. His breathing had grown steady and strong.

Carter froze.

"He really is... saving him?"

The old sorcerer's head buzzed.

After transferring to the support team, she had studied countless forms of White Magic and healing arts.

But in all her years, she had never heard of saving someone with a weapon of mass destruction!

One second it killed over a hundred alien monsters. The next, it plunged into an ally's body to revive him?

How was that supposed to make sense?

Did the basic rules of Magic mean nothing anymore?

The apprentices gaped, feeling their entire understanding of Magic crumble to pieces.

On one side stood the Ancient One's unquestionable authority. On the other was the impossible reality Raine had conjured with a wave of his hand.

They stood frozen in the wind, almost forgetting how to breathe.

"Roar!"

As they struggled to make sense of it all, a savage roar suddenly erupted.

The sound wave shattered the windows of a nearby building.

The apprentices jolted and whipped around.

At the far end of the street, a green Demon God over three meters tall, its muscles bulging, charged toward them with a fury that threatened to destroy everything in its path!