"I told you on your first day here to train, Billy."

Merlin is suspended in the Sanctuary of the Eternal Rock.

He looked at his disciple solemnly.

He said:

"What you have to fulfill in the future is a heavy and dangerous mission; You want to live a life full of disputes between good and evil, and the first and most important thing you have to do..."

"It's about protecting yourself and the ones you care about!"

"The reason why evil is evil is because they have no bottom line, unscrupulous means, they can use any method you can think of, you can't think of, and do everything to deal with you!"

"You should protect your privacy, your identity, everything that will reveal your identity."

Merlin sighed, he looked at Billy with his head down, and said:

"But you still made the mistake."

"You can't be blamed for this, most heroes make this mistake when they first debut. You are more fortunate than they are, and you still have a chance to make amends. ”

"I'll go back at once."

Billy said to the mentor:

"I'm with my family to prevent that big bad guy from coming back."

"Nope."

Merlin shook his head, and he said to Billy:

"Listening to your previous description, that person can manipulate the embodied demons of the seven deadly sins, plus he himself is eight people... It's a group where you can share all your thoughts and plans of action. ”

"You are alone, how can you protect your family?"

Merlin said seductively:

"At this time, what you should do is not rely on brute force, but use your brain."

"Hide them?"

Billy scratched his hair, and he said to his mentor:

"Hiding somewhere the big bad guy can't find it?"

"It's an approach, but it's not smart enough."

Merlin continued to lead, saying:

"Come on thinking, do you have the wisdom of Solmon... The best thing you can think of is definitely not to hide your family in a hole somewhere. ”

"Hmm..."

Billy frowned.

A few seconds later, under Merlin's gaze, the child looked up.

He said:

"Send them to people like me, so I don't have to worry about fighting that big bad guy to my heart's content."

A look of determination flashed across Batson's face, and he said:

"And this time, I won't give him another chance to escape!"

"Well, that's a good idea."

Merlin nodded, his eyes shining.

He said:

"But it's still not the best."

"Think again, to get your brain moving, you have to learn a way of thinking... You have to learn to use all the information to turn bad things into good things! ”

"Bad things turn into good things?"

Billy muttered.

One message after another sparked in his mind.

The big bad guy sees his face, and he's bound to come for him.

The family is in danger and must be sent away.

Then you can find a battlefield that won't be disturbed, and you can...

Wait a minute.

Why do you have to wait for the big bad to come to him?

Can't you take the initiative?

Billy jerked his head up, he looked into Merlin's eyes, and he clenched his fists.

He said:

"Set a trap..."

"Yes!"

Merlin finally had a relieved smile on his face.

Solomon's wisdom was still somewhat useful after all.

He reached out and stroked Billy's hair.

He said:

"There's a saying in this world that if you want to defeat a demon, you have to be a demon first... This statement is nonsense and full of stupid habitual thinking. ”

"But you can't be wrong, you have to fight the bad guys, you don't need to be the bad guys, but to defeat them, you have to be more cunning than the bad guys."

"You must learn to use your wits wisely, Billy."

"Hmm."

The child nodded vigorously.

But soon, he made another mistake.

He said to Merlin:

"But mentor, there are two problems."

"First of all, I don't know a single superhuman other than me."

"Secondly, if I'm going to send my family away, how do I set a trap for that big bad guy to jump in?"

"That's your problem, Billy."

Merlin's face was expressionless, and he said to his disciples:

"You can't ask me everything."

"You see, you already have a plan, you know why you want to do it, and now what you have to do is complete it..."

"You have to find friends to rely on yourself."

Merlin winked at Billy, and said:

"As far as I know, there are a lot of superheroes on the East Coast... At your speed, you'll definitely be able to find someone you can trust before the bad guys arrive. ”

"And then..."

"Bang"

The expressionless Merlin curled up his fingers and tapped Billy. Batson's head.

He said:

"I've taught you so many spells, if you can't even disguise a few ordinary people, then it proves that you haven't learned well at all."

Merlin looked at Billy holding his head.

He shook his head, and he said:

"One more thing, Billy, for the next few days... You don't need to come here anymore. ”

"I have some personal matters to attend to, and it may take a while."

"You can also take advantage of this to complete the battle between you and the Demon Pupil host, and it will be your first exam to test your learning results during this period of time."

"But if you encounter something that can't be solved..."

Merlin reached out and nodded at Billy's heart, and he said:

"It doesn't take much to infuse the Horcrux with mana, and you can make a brief connection with me, but it's energy-consuming, so it doesn't matter until the moment of truth... Don't use it! Do you understand? ”

"Okay, Mentor."

Billy nodded to Merlin.

Anxious to go back to settle his family, he left the temple after a few words with Merlin.

Merlin watched Billy leave, and he looked at his disciple's back.

He knew that the first battle was always difficult.

No matter how much preparation Billy makes, there are bound to be surprises.

But Merlin wasn't worried, the Seven Deadly Sins might have some ability, but it was certainly limited.

In fact, if it was strong enough to kill Shazam, the host of the Demon Pupil would never have survived now...

There's no way Clark and Carol would have allowed such a powerful evil to roam the world.

Therefore, relying on the divine power given by old Shazam, Billy will only be seriously injured at worst.

But definitely not to die.

"Just a little hurdle, get over it, Billy."

Merlin's figure quickly disappeared as the magic dissipated, and he said:

"It's the first step to becoming a hero."

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"Buzz"

In the bar of the Wasteland Hell, Merlin reopened his eyes, and he glanced at the alchemy instruments placed on the bar.

The hands on it had already crossed several scales.

Time flows a little faster here, Merlin has only been in this life for less than 10 minutes, and hours have passed here.

He stood up from the bar and looked back to see that the bar was empty.

Only Constantine's pact succubus sat on a chair at the bar, napping.

"Where did they go?"

Merlin asked.

The succubus was awakened, and she glanced at Merlin in fear, and then pointed in the direction of the Plains of Ashes, and said in a seductive and light tone:

"As you ordered, Konstantin took a lot of demons to dig there."

"Hmm."

Merlin nodded, his lithe soul body floating, opening the tavern door and flying in the direction of the Plains of Ashes.

Far away, Merlin saw a large group of demons busy on the plain, which had been drifting ashes all day, and they had dug a large pit deep into the ground.

Ghost Rider appears to be the Overseer.

It waved the burning chains in its hands and was yelling at those who wanted to be lazy.

Za Kang has made a bloody investment this time.

He took out all the liquor and delights stored in the bar, and hired thousands of demons to work for him.

The problem is that Zakang himself doesn't know what he's digging.

Merlin just told him to keep digging down, and the deeper the better.

"Huh"

Merlin's figure appeared beside Zakang in the jump of the Transfiguration Charm, startling Zakang.

"How many meters have you dug up?"

Merlin asked, looking at the hot crater in front of him.

Zakang Says:

"I'm almost 1,700 meters away, and I've borrowed a few domesticated abyssal worms from the succubus' gang, and those ugly guys are good at digging holes."

"But what is that metal bulb you're looking for?"

"High-tech stuff."

Merlin said casually:

"What you don't understand, it's in every shaped world, just more or less."

"What's the use of that?"

Konstantin asked like a curious baby.

Merlin glanced at him, and he reached into his soul body and pulled out a bottle.

The bottle contained a third of the quirky liquid.

It's like some kind of delicate black mud.

Under the gaze of Zakang, the thing rolled around in the bottle.

"Metal Ox contains a highly toxic poison, and if you absorb it directly, even the most brutal demons will not be able to withstand the poison that destroys the body."

He looked left and right, quickly levitating beside an unruly demon.

As if he were dressed, his soul seeped into the demon's massive body.

After a few moments, the demon moved to its feet, and it strode over to Zakon and picked up the bottle containing the metal neomonium.

This is occupied.

Abilities that all ghosts have.

Merlin manipulated the heavy demon's body to open the bottle, fusing a grain of metal into the demon's body.

Under the gaze of Zakang, Merlin's fingers flicked slightly.

Beside the two of them, the cracked soil heaped there, dug out by the abyssal worms, seemed to be stirred by an invisible hand.

The dirt levitated in a gravity-defying motion, spun around again under Merlin's manipulation, and fell back to the ground.

"As for the role of metal mistium, there is only one..."

Merlin turned his head and said to the surprised Zakang behind him:

"Control gravity."

"Or rather, converting gravity into vector gravity, which has always been used by me as a means of warfare in the past."

"That's all this stuff."

Pointing to the huge amount of metal stored in the bottle, he said:

"Where did you get that? You're not going to go to hell with these things, are you? ”

"Guess?"

Merlin shrugged, and with a hint of a smile, he withdrew from the demon's body.

The moment he left, the demon let out a cry of pain.

The toxicity of metal is destroying its body.

But only a little bit, so the demon will suffer for a few days at most, and then it will return to normal.

And it will also get a slight gravitational control, which can be considered a blessing in disguise.

Raven-sama has always been so "generous".

"Legends of the demons that you ruined a canyon in the southeastern wasteland!"

After thinking for more than ten seconds, he said to Merlin:

"They say it's because the screaming demons in the canyon provoked you... Now it seems, it's not that simple, right? ”

"I don't have a grudge against those ugly guys."

Merlin put away the bottle, and he said to Zakon:

"I don't even know them, but the canyon they live in is peculiar, with tunnels that lead underground, like cobwebs... I could have arrived here more than 1 month early, but I was there for more than a month..."

"After I took the metal bumper from the ground there, the canyon lost the support of gravity and collapsed."

Merlin gave Zakang a regretful smile.

He said:

"So, don't listen to the gossip."

"I haven't killed any of the Screamers, I haven't even met them, they're... They just weren't lucky enough to get out before the earth collapsed, and that's it. ”

"Okay."

Rather than grieve at what had happened to the Screaming Demons, he glanced back at the pit that was being dug in front of him, and said:

"How deep do you have to dig to have metal?"

"I don't know, I'm just betting on luck."

Merlin Says:

"Dig it, and if we're lucky, we'll get the last bit of help before night comes."

Nine hours later, Merlin manipulated the spirits to float up from the pit that went straight into the ground, and the hired demons had already been paid to disperse.

The Plains of Ash at night is not a good place, and there are a lot of mad evil spirits gathering here.

"Did you find it?"

Zakang was lying on the edge of the pit, and he looked at Merlin with burning eyes.

The latter raised his hand, and in the bottle in his hand, there was originally a third of the metal ium, which had been accumulated to almost two-thirds of the scale.

"It's a good harvest."

Merlin smiled, and he glanced back at the gates of hell beneath the Doomsday Volcano in the distance, and said:

"These should be enough for us this time."

"Boom"

The muffled sound of the engine also sounded at this moment.

Beyond the massive crater that had been dug out, Ghost Rider in a cool black trench coat had piloted a flaming chariot, carving a trail of ethereal flames across the ground.

The locomotive is roaring, and the knight is waiting.

When he saw Merlin and Konstantin approaching, Zatanos patted the black trench coat on his body and gave Merlin a thumbs up.

It seems that the slightly more sober vengeful spirit is also pleased with this infernal cloak.

"Bang"

Ghost Rider waved his hand, and the hideous demon trapped behind the locomotive was loosened.

The guy who was knocked unconscious by the Ghost Rider turned around and ran.

But the next moment, Merlin's ghost silently took over its body.

The demon's distorted face showed a hint of dissatisfaction.

It moved its body and said to the Ghost Rider:

"Why is this demon so weak?"

"It's already the most toxin-resistant guy I've found in this thousands of kilometers."

Ghost Rider said dissatisfiedly:

"Stop nitpicking... Let's go! ”

It looked out at the gates of hell beneath the volcano in the distance, and said:

"It's almost midnight, and if you miss today, you'll have to wait another 24 hours..."

"I don't know what you guys think."

"But I don't want to wait any longer!"