Time passed quickly. By noon the next day, when the sun stood directly overhead, all the selected prisoners had been escorted to S.H.I.E.L.D.
Nick immediately had someone notify Quicksilver and his sister.
When the two arrived at his office after receiving the message, Nick asked bluntly, "They're here. What do we do next?"
"Find somewhere secluded. I need to inscribe a magic circle."
"The more remote, the better. This could cause quite a disturbance."
After hearing their requirements, Nick nodded and immediately arranged for them to leave. He also brought Hela and Thor along.
He had no choice. If Hela called someone terrifying, he naturally had to take precautions.
And within S.H.I.E.L.D., only those two siblings could handle a situation like this.
The Captain and the others were no slouches, but they still fell a little short.
To get Hela to come along, Nick had even paid her a case of Romanée-Conti.
They traveled by car, accompanied by a contingent of guards and over a thousand prisoners convicted of serious crimes, heading for the outskirts of New York. They finally stopped at a military testing ground.
This was where the military tested secret weapons. It was utterly quiet and remote, with virtually no one around to disturb them.
Upon reaching their destination, Quicksilver and Wanda got to work, using special materials to inscribe a magic circle.
Nick had naturally supplied those materials as well. With S.H.I.E.L.D. under his control, there were few materials on the planet he could not obtain.
Two hours passed before Quicksilver and Wanda finally finished inscribing a rectangular magic circle.
Looking at the mysterious pattern on the ground, Hela and Thor seemed lost in thought. Nick and the others could make neither head nor tail of it.
But with Quicksilver and Wanda there, along with Hela