Chapter 46
As a mage of Kamar-Taj, the tall, powerfully built Mordo brought the term melee mage to mind.
In an instant,
the magical fluctuations all around grew denser. Figure after figure clad in sorcerers' robes used their Sling Rings to open gateways, traveling through them to appear atop the surrounding peaks.
Su Chen frowned.
He wondered when he had offended these people.
Was it because of last night?
Indeed it was!
In the Marvel Universe, a hidden force had always protected the entire Earth.
That force was the magical sanctuary of Kamar-Taj.
Its leader, the Sorcerer Supreme, had always borne the title of protector of Earth.
The current Sorcerer Supreme, the Ancient One, had lived for more than seven hundred years.
Last night, the Manhattan sorcerers stationed at the sanctuary had sensed fluctuations from an evil god beyond the dimensions. An incomparably evil, dark power had been tearing through the dimensional boundary to descend.
At first, many believed their old foe Dormammu was trying to descend.
But this power was considerably weaker, and they gradually identified it as belonging to another evil god of much lower standing, Black Sky.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the Sorcerer Supreme, the Ancient One, had traveled away from Earth.
After that...
The wisp of dark will that had torn through the dimensions to descend dissipated so quickly that the sanctuary sorcerers found few traces of it when they arrived.
However, early the next morning, Baron Mordo, the Ancient One's foremost disciple, whose magic was more advanced, had personally led a team to investigate.
"Traces of a dark evil god's fluctuations still linger on you."
Baron Mordo stood on a cliff across the mountain range, his arms folded as he looked down at Su Chen with a stern, arrogant expression.
"Do you mean that evil god from last night?"
Su Chen understood why they had come.
However,
he smiled and said, "That evil god was quite warm, actually. He gave me quite a bit of power."
Those words stirred up considerable criticism.
"You think you can devour an evil god's power?"
"How shamelessly boastful!"
"That's the first time I've seen someone make being possessed by an evil god sound so appealing."
The red-robed sorcerers around him emitted faint magical fluctuations. Some stood in midair, while others stood among the nearby mountain forests, all watching Su Chen like predators eyeing their prey.
High above the ground, even the mountains began to ripple eerily like carpets, while the spatial structure of the entire world changed.
This was highly unusual.
It was utterly mysterious and unfathomable.
Even the sky seemed to rise and fall slightly, and everything around them appeared to be shifting.
The sanctuary sorcerers of Kamar-Taj could even fold a city with ease.
This was the domain they had created, the Mirror Dimension.
Su Chen had been brought into this domain from the very beginning. The scenery around him appeared entirely unchanged, but nothing that happened here would affect the real world.
An ordinary person would have been terrified to encounter something like this.
But Su Chen's eyes had long since awakened the ability of Spatial Detection.
He could clearly perceive the warping and folding of spatial structures, as well as traces of spatial rifts.
He had witnessed the changes throughout the Mirror Dimension as well.
"It seems you won't let me leave."
A deep chill spread across Su Chen's impassive face.
He had come seeking revenge, only to be intercepted out of nowhere. It put him in a foul mood.
"You're possessed by an evil god, and you still want to leave? You should be worried about whether you'll keep your life."
Baron Mordo sneered.
He waved his hand.
Buzz!!
Magical fluctuations spread through the surroundings, and the sanctuary sorcerers' attack began in earnest.
"Rise!!"
A furious shout rang out nearby.
Boom!
The mountain beneath Su Chen's feet abruptly shot up from the ground.
The uncanny technique did not frighten Su Chen.
Whoosh!!
He leaped aside, dodging the immense force surging up from below. Telekinetic fluctuations flowed around him, and the sleeves of his black hoodie flapped in the fierce mountain winds.
Just then, a heavy shadow blotted out the clear sky and gradually fell over him.
Su Chen looked up and saw that a towering mountain beside him had suddenly folded over, its collapsing slopes crashing toward him.
"That's it?"
Su Chen sneered.
The next instant,
propelled by surging Telekinesis, he shot into the sky like a cannonball, dodging the collapsing mountain.
Amid the chaotic gales high in the air, Su Chen's black hood fell completely off his head, and his black bangs fluttered over his forehead.
At that moment, his innate Combat Intuition told him he was about to come under attack in midair.
After all, leaping so high into the air did make him a living target.
Whoosh!!
In an instant,
fierce winds turned into an array of blades, their terrifying edges slashing at Su Chen from all sides.
"Still not fast enough?"
Speaking with easy confidence, Su Chen vanished entirely before the astonished eyes of the onlookers, still handling the situation with ease.
"Damn it!"
"He's an expert at traveling through space too. His perception seems incredibly sharp."
"That must be the evil god's power, and that brat still dared to deny it!"
"Find him, quickly!!"
The sanctuary sorcerers' expressions finally grew serious. Only now did they realize that their opponent's abilities were extraordinary. Hadn't they said it was only a wisp of an evil god's will descending?
"Getting distracted isn't a good idea."
Just then, a voice rang out behind one of the sanctuary sorcerers.
His expression changed. Feeling a rush of wind behind him, he tried to reach back and block.
Puchi!!
Blood blossomed.
He was still a moment too slow. A slender blade formed through Telekinesis Molding pierced his lower back, its keen point emerging from his front.
Su Chen dispersed the Telekinetic fluctuations forming it.
Thud!!
The sorcerer before him fell to his knees, and his blood instantly formed a pool on the ground.
"The first one."
Su Chen sneered.
He looked at the red-robed sorcerers around him. The roles of hunter and prey had now been reversed.
Chapter 46
"Damn it!!"
The sanctuary sorcerers had never imagined that this young man would be so difficult to deal with.
Under their combined assault, he had not only dodged their attacks with ease, but had also struck back and killed one of their companions.
"Unforgivable!"
"This wisp of the evil god's will isn't as weak as we thought. Everyone, attack together."
Amid the furious shouts,
the figures before him launched their attack.
Buzz!!
Surging magical fluctuations gathered, and the surrounding mountains began to shake once more. The mountains converged, and figures in crimson robes used them to launch themselves into the attack.
"Since you've come to die, I won't hold back."
Su Chen's eyes glimmered as he instantly caught sight of a red-robed figure traveling through a spatial rift.
Clang!!
With a thought, he conjured an invisible blade with a faint outline out of thin air and thrust it behind him.
Puchi!!
Blood blossomed.
The red-robed sorcerer who had just emerged had his head pierced.
Meanwhile,
another red-robed sorcerer had only halfway emerged from a tree when Su Chen turned sideways and punched.
With a boom, the punch not only shattered the magical shield covering his opponent, but also blasted his entire body into a mist of blood.
That lethal physical blow was simply too unreasonable.
Whoosh!!
While Su Chen dealt with the two of them, magical ropes shot toward him from every direction. Their light flashed and vanished, making their trajectories difficult to track.
In the blink of an eye, the magical ropes, gleaming faintly silver, bound Su Chen's limbs.
"Let's see me tie you up, you beast."
Hah!!
With a furious roar, Baron Mordo, the Sorcerer Supreme's foremost disciple, fully displayed his magical power.
At that moment,
he conjured hundreds of copies of himself. Every figure hovering in the air released magical ropes that rapidly bound Su Chen's four arms.
Kamar-Taj inherited the white magic of the three Vishanti gods. It tended toward peace and did not have as many offensive spells as black magic.