Chapter 40: The Angry Spirit of Vengeance

Zatana sat in her chair, her hands slowly shaking slightly around the object in front of her, sensing the residue on it.

After a long time, she finally stopped her movements, opened her eyes and wiped the sweat oozing from her forehead, and said to the man who had been standing silently behind her:

"Bruce, I do feel the fluctuations in mana"

“..... Can it be reverse-tracked? ”

The use of magic is like a person's fingerprint, and each person has their own characteristics and attributes. Reverse tracking through magical remnants isn't too high-end magic. As long as the other party is not stronger than you and blocks tracking, there will be no surprises.

“..... No, it's been too long since I could perceive it clearly, I could only barely feel some fluctuations, and there seems to be more than one kind of magic in it, and it feels very evil..."

Zatana spoke truthfully about what she perceived.

When Bruce took it was said to be Jason. When Todd's blood sample came to her, she was taken aback. She hadn't seen Jason's body, but she never questioned Bruce's judgment.

From the remaining blood samples, she did sense fluctuations in magic, but it was too long ago, and there weren't too many left, and with her strength, she couldn't perceive it more deeply.

She couldn't even tell where the magic fluctuations were coming from. The essence of magic is the method of communicating with supernatural beings through some medium, some created by ancient people, while others are naturally formed.

Over the long years of the earth, all corners of the world have given birth to their own magic, which in some places is called witchcraft, or spells, etc.

Until now, even she had not been able to understand all the magic that had been born on Earth. That's pretty much countless.

Zatana's words silenced Bruce. There was remnants of magic in the blood sample from the Red Hood, which ruled out the possibility that he was a genetic clone.

So the answer he needs to find now is how much magic he knows in this world that can bring the dead back to life....

“... Zatana, how much do you know about the pool of the Seralus? ”

After a moment of silence, Bruce asked rhetorically.

"That pool of the League of Assassins? I don't know much, you know, that thing is like a natural demon saliva..."

"It's... Can the dead be raised? ”

Zatana was slightly stunned when she heard Bruce's question, she had this kind of conjecture too, but it was too impossible.

"No, it doesn't, that pool is supposed to just have the effect of healing and rejuvenation by activating cellular activity, but you know the side effects."

“.... Yes"

Bruce knew, of course, that everyone who had soaked in that stinking pool so far had gone insanely murderous with the exception of Reshaw.

“... Bruce, why don't you go and ask Sercy, she's a higher magical class than me."

Bruce guessed that it was the effect of the pool water, and Zatana had also guessed but she wasn't too sure, it was difficult to detect anything completely from the residual magic fluctuations on the sample, and Sersi was stronger than her, maybe you could ask her.........

“... So, that's why you're bothering me while I'm having fun? ”

Sercy was upset, she was having fun playing a singer here tonight, and Zatana took Batman straight into her dressing room.

"Sercy, you owe Batman once"

"I already answered his question last time"

"But that kind of magic remnant is rare."

Magic seems to be bound by a balance, and no magic can be used without a cost. This is why the demons always tempt others to sign contracts and cannot force them to do so.

The remnant of magic that Bruce brought with him last time was a very rare form of demonic magic, which was far more expensive than the questions Sersi answered, and:

"And you promised to help him for free once too"

Zatana made another stab, and it succeeded in making the smile completely disappear from Sercy's face.

“.. Oh well, I've got twenty minutes left on stage, so you'd better hurry"

Sersi compromised, and if she didn't follow the law of equilibrium, even she would be eaten back by magic.

Bruce didn't say anything, just took the sample out of his pocket, and as soon as it was dragged out of his pocket, it immediately floated to Sercy and landed in the palm of the woman's red nail polish.

"What do you need me to do?"

Sersi looked at the sample in front of her eyes and made sure it was nothing more than blood.

"Can you find out where the magic attached to this comes from?"

Sercy squinted at Bruce for a half before shifting her gaze to the sample in her hand.

Purple lipstick-coated lips opened and closed slightly, chanting ancient and complicated incantations, and the samples slowly floated out of the original bag, like small beads following Sercy's fingers in the air track.

After a long time, Sersi stopped the spell, snapped his slender fingers slightly, and the maroon beads exploded into pieces like brilliant fireworks and vanished.

“.... It's a bit old, and there are three kinds of magic in it, two of which I can't tell where they are, but they certainly aren't the regular magic that I know of that belong here, it feels more like a very old and probably extinct magic, I can't give you an answer as to where they came from, but I can suggest you look for the old magic that may be extinct, such as from the eastern realms. And the other one has a very evil aura, and I think you can already guess where it came from."

Sersi analyzed all the remnants of magic she could perceive, her magic skills were high, but her magic was mainly dark magic, and she studied all known magic in the world, some of which were close to but not exactly the same.

Bruce didn't answer, and Sercy's words had indeed confirmed his suspicion that Jason's resurrection was likely related to Reshaw's pool water.

Sercy looked at Bruce as he turned around and simply left, and said slowly:

"So what do you want to do?"

Sercy's words caused Bruce to stop leaving, and he looked at her out of the corner of his eye.

"Is this the kid, he's coming back from death?"

Although Sercy was in a questioning tone, she was actually very sure of the final answer, and it was also a very interesting thing to disturb this calm, almost emotionless man.

"So what are you going to do? Not only did I feel the remnants of magic, but I also felt the angry soul..... He's here for revenge."

"Sercy!"

Zatana knew what Sersi was trying to say, and she hurriedly spoke out to organize her to continue.

"Oh, my sweet little Zatana, he's always going to have to deal with this, isn't he? Your concealment will affect his judgment."

Zatana was completely unspeakable by Sercy's words, and she sensed the same dark and deep rage from these samples, and she didn't dare tell Bruce.

“... Is the soul that comes back whole? ”

"Oh? What did you say? Hahahaha"

Bruce's question successfully caused Sersi to laugh wildly, and after laughing for a long time, she finally had enough laughter, and after wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes, she said:

"I don't know, although I don't know what made this child crawl back from the world of death, but no one can be sure that it is his soul, even his soul is not sure if it is complete, but judging from the fact that the soul fragment contains such tyrannical feelings, he must have come back for revenge... I think you should know who he's coming for..."

“... Yes, clown...."

"Oh, I thought he was here for you."

Bruce's answer to her was enough to surprise Sercy, but the answer surprised her even more.

“..... Jason knows how much I love him, and I know he loves me the same.........."

Bruce said this calmly.

Sersi looked at Bruce's expressionless face, thought for a moment, and then asked:

"Really? Whether this is true or just a comforting word that will make you feel better, you know for yourself. But since it's rare to see you like this, I'll kindly tell you one more thing, love is the easiest thing to turn into hatred, and for a vengeful spirit full of rage, there is as much love as there is hatred........."