Chapter 160: Darkness Descends (3rd Watch)
Pillars of black light rose from the ground and shot up from the roof of the building into the sky. The majestic energy tore the crack in the sky, as if someone was tearing it apart bit by bit along the four corners of the gap. A powerful air stream was released from it, and a huge gravitational pull lifted everything on the ground into the air. Trees on the roadside were uprooted, light cars floated up like balloons, and roofs of buildings were lifted. With the black pillar of light as the center, everything within a radius of thirty or forty meters was attracted into the black hole in the sky.
The vortex continues to expand, and so does its sphere of influence. Hidden in that rift was a place of chaos, a thick darkness lurking in it, as if a pair of evil eyes were looking out at the world through the gap, ready to open their mouths and swallow this fragile planet into their stomachs.
Doctor Strange led the mages to the street directly below the Black Hole, directly in front of Casillas and his followers. Pedestrians fled in the same chaos as panicked animals in a forest fire, cars driving all over the streets, and every now and then a vehicle collided, gravitationally grabbed and flew off the ground, towards the black hole. Trees and lampposts were uprooted from the ground, and buildings collapsed. The black and white mages stood in the middle of the street with their swords in hand, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder on the eve of the decisive battle.
"So," Casillas said, glancing at Doctor Strange at the forefront of the enemy line, "you're the chosen successor of the old immortals?" ”
Doctor Strange sealed, his hands staggered and staggered, his left fist in front and his right fist in the back.
"Dormammu is using you, you are just his pawns, and soon you will all lose value to him." Doctor Strange said, "It's not too late to turn back. Together, we can stop this. ”
Casillas shook his head: "It's too late, no one can stop it." The world is about to plunge into darkness. Besides," his eyes were dark, and his pupils seemed to bend into a pool of ink-stained water, "why should I stop it?" ”
Doctor Strange tilted his head, "Well, I think so." ”
The arrays of both sides began to advance each other, at first on foot, then on trot, and finally all the mages on both sides sprinted at full speed and crashed into the enemy line. The two sides collided violently, and all the mages began to fight each other, and in the blink of an eye, people began to fall down.
Doctor Strange and Mage Mordo joined forces to surround Casillas. Casillas wields an invisible air blade, Doctor Strange holds a double shield, and Mordo holds the magic weapon "Watum's Staff". Casillas was outnumbered by one against two, but still had the upper hand.
"My master Dormammu is coming!"
Casillas swung his blade with swiftness and incoherence, the invisible onslaught forcing the two of them to deal with it, and the spell weapon kept sparking with the blades hiding in the air.
"And what about you? Your sanctuary is devastated, your men are badly damaged, and your strength is far from ours. And even the only old immortal you can rely on, the Supreme Mage, has fallen. ”
Casillas's voice grew louder and louder, and his moves became faster and more ferocious.
"See what you've left? Why are you fighting us? ”
He raised his hand and slashed, and Doctor Strange pulled out his two shields and held them above his head. Sparks rained down from his shield, and his arms tingled with invisible blades.
Doctor Strange gritted his teeth and responded, "We still have hope." ”
On the street at the bottom of the building, the two mages were fighting fiercely. Victor von Doom stood alone on the rooftop, facing his newly built machine, watching the sky-high black energy shoot out of its center like a cannon into the sky. His pupils reflected this apocalyptic scene, his expression as resolute and cold as the steel mask he was wearing.
A beam of blue pulsing light swept coldly past him, striking the working device. The roaring engine suddenly stalled, the black beam stopped spewing, and the machine stopped making a sound. The expansion of black holes in the sky seems to have slowed down a bit as a result, but the signs of expansion have not stopped.
"It's impossible to be stopped." Doom didn't look back, still looking at the sky, as if he wasn't surprised at all. He said to himself, "The door has been opened, and the two dimensions have been connected. Now he could open the door even with Dormammu himself, and it wouldn't be long before he came. ”
The black-gold armor silently appeared on this roof, standing behind him with his right palm raised.
From the moment he landed, the built-in computer had already started a new scan of Doom, and the results that popped up on the screen showed that Doom's mana level was about four times stronger than the last time they were fighting, and even now it continues to increase at an alarming rate.
Michael speculated that it may be because Dormammu is getting closer to this dimension, so the believers who rely on his power as a source are also getting stronger.
"So what about your plans when he comes?" Michael asked.
Doom slowly turned around and looked at him: "The plan is that I will defeat him." It is true that the Earth will descend into eternal darkness, but that new dimension of darkness will be ruled by me. Dormammu has now done his job, and I don't need him anymore. ”
"You think you can beat him?"
"Doom can beat anyone now." A dark light flashed in Doom's eyes behind the mask, and magic overflowed from the corners of his eyes, "Dormammu only gave me the way to draw power from the dark dimension, but this power did not come from him. At the end of the day, he's just drawing endless power from that dimension. After he drags the earth into the infinite darkness, it is impossible to say who is strong and who is weak. ”
Doom is true that the power of the dark dimension does not originate from Dormammu, and after all, this evil god is just a user of its power. But the problem is that this evil god has been absorbing and harnessing this dark power for a long time that cannot be traced, so it is so powerful that he can be called a "god". Doom wants to defeat the other party according to the rules of the game in Dormammu's game field, which is not possible, but it is almost negligible.
Normally, Doom would never have imagined it. One explanation may be that he has now been carried away by the dark forces that are too powerful, and another explanation may be that Dormammu is deliberately influencing his mind to induce him to think so, because Victor von Doom is a man who cannot be bought and will never give in, and only in this way can he willingly help Dormammu realize his wish to come to Earth.
"Don't get in the way, Michael." Doom said coldly, "When I defeat Dormammu and become the new god of the Dark Dimension, I can at least guarantee that I will not come to embarrass you." ”
"For this sake you remember our friendship, to be honest, I'm impressed, Victor." Michael said calmly, pointing his finger to his head, "But I promised you to get you out of the darkness, and I promised to help you get your mother back." You see, I'm not a person who likes to make promises casually. But once it's something I've promised, I don't like to go back on it. ”