Klyntar kept stopping and starting, which only made Su Ming more certain that the Shadow King was connected to Knull.
There had to be some method of communication between them. The Shadow King had told the one in the sky, "Things on Earth aren't settled yet. Don't come over for now."
That was why Knull had slowed down enough to feed Klyntar along the way. That was not his usual style.
Knull's story was right there for all to see. He was the kind of ruthless figure who would wake up and stab a Celestial to death just because it disturbed his sleep. Whenever he wanted to do something, he did it immediately and never delayed. Since he had set out today, there was no reason for him to dawdle on the road.
That was why Su Ming had been able to see something in it.
Still, it did not matter if Knull wanted to stall. Su Ming only needed to put pressure on the Shadow King and make him beg Knull to lend a hand. The outcome would be no different.
The only difference was that the Shadow King's plan would fall through. He would never find Charles and the others. If Kamar-Taj were so easy for outsiders to infiltrate, the Ancient One would have died countless times already.
The Shadow King's ability was to lurk within the dark sides of people's hearts, but plenty of demon gods could do the same. As an Ancient God, how could he possibly lack the ability to manipulate minds?
The darker they were, the more skilled they were at such things.
Ororo wanted to go to Cairo to deal with one of the Shadow King's larger accounts, his commonly used Amahl Farouk, and she was eagerly hoping someone else would help her