New York, Raven's room.

The night had fallen, and Raven's bedroom was pitch black and quiet. She was sitting cross-legged on the bed alone, her eyes closed, meditating.

She doesn't hate the dark, and even prefers the silence of being alone in the dark, which helps her focus. But now, no matter how hard she tried, her mind always seemed to be unable to concentrate, and lingering distractions swirled in her mind, making it difficult for her to get into the groove.

Eventually, she finally sighed softly and gave up meditating.

It's been a month since Eric returned, and he seems to be a little colder to her than he used to be. Eric's time used to spend with her almost every day, but now she seemed to have only seen him three or four times in the month he'd been back.

Of course, she could be sure that it was Eric himself who had returned, and she was as absolutely obedient to him as ever, and never complained. But it was evident that Eric seemed to have changed a lot from within.

Every time she thought about it, she shook her head and didn't let herself continue thinking about it.

Eric is Eric, and now that he has officially joined the Justice League and even moved to the watchtower, it is natural that he will be much busier than in the past, and there is no way to be distracted by other things. That's what she told herself.

Just then, she noticed the fall of a meteor outside the window. A dazzling tail flame pierced the sky, extinguished near the outside of her house, and landed vertically not far away.

She couldn't help but smile with relief, knowing that it was him.

"Raven, someone's coming for you!"

Sure enough, half a minute later, Eric had already appeared in front of her, this time with a bouquet of flowers in his hand.

She remembered as if it was the first time she had received flowers from him.

"I'm sorry, I've been busy for a while, and I didn't come to see you." Eric said slightly apologetically, "Want to go out for a ride?" ”

Raven smiled and nodded, "Hmm." ”

She liked Eric, and she would try to like him even more in the future, so that she might not care about what had changed in him.

Paradise Island.

Diana thought about it for a long time, and finally took Eric's advice. After asking the Alliance for a few days off, she flew back to Paradise Island to spend a few days with her mother.

Eric was right, it was her mother, after all. No matter what happened, they had to reconcile in the end, so it was a step that had to be taken.

Along the way, she made up countless reasons for herself not to go back to Paradise Island until now, but in the end she found that she couldn't even convince herself, so she had to bite the bullet.

However, what awaits her on the paradise island is much bigger trouble than these.

Diana landed on the beach off the coast of Paradise Island. She walked into the familiar jungle of her childhood on the coast, and headed in the direction of the Amazons. After walking for less than ten minutes, two stone statues came into view in the forest.

Diana was taken aback, hurriedly stepped forward to check, and quickly recognized them by their appearance. The two in front of her were the two sisters she had known since childhood, and they had taken her to hunt in the woods, and their memories were still fresh. The expression of the stone statue in front of him was so lifelike, with horror in his eyes, and his mouth seemed to be scolding loudly, and the hand pressing on the hilt of the sword failed to pull the sword out of the sheath after all, and the scene was quite bleak.

Diana recognized that it was a very powerful form of black magic. The dark magic had turned her two sisters into stone sculptures, and they were set to be immobile.

She knew that something was wrong, so she hurriedly left her two sisters behind for the time being, and ran away. Wonder Woman ran all the way up at the same extraordinary speed, and in a blink of an eye, she had rushed out of the forest and arrived at the martial arts arena where the Amazons had been practicing intensively.

At this time, this huge arena was in shambles, and a large number of Amazon sisters fell to the ground, their bodies hardened into rocks, and they were frozen in place like sculptures. More people still maintained the posture of drawing their swords and charging, but they were also frozen in place and became stone sculptures. The entire martial arts arena was filled with a death-like atmosphere, like the relics left by an ancient war, without the slightest life.

Diana hurried up to the hall and found her mother at the door. Queen Hippolyta had a determined and angry look on her face, with a sword in one hand on the ground, half-kneeling and petrified in place, her facial expression vivid.

"Great Hera......" The woman was shocked, and slowly approached her mother step by step, kneeling in front of her.

"I'm sorry," she bowed her head and muttered, "I'...... I shouldn't have been so willful, I should have stayed. If I stay...... I'm sorry, mother, and sisters......"

Seeing that Wonder Woman's heart was in turmoil, the figure hidden in the shadows quietly appeared. He whispered a string of incantations, raised his hand and raised something, and a dark fluctuation suddenly stabbed like a sharp arrow towards the kneeling woman's back!

However, Wonder Woman is such a good character to deal with? She turned back sharply as if she had eyes behind her back, raised her arm to protect the silver ring to block the fluctuation, and her body rushed out like a powerful lightning, and grabbed her throat and pressed the black shadow of the sneak attack on the pillar behind her, shaking the top of the hall with dust falling.

The other party hurriedly raised his hands: "Wait, wait!" There's something to say! ”

Only then did Diana see that this was a black-robed man with shriveled facial skin and an ugly appearance. She said angrily, "Who are you? Why on Paradise Island? What did you do to my mother and sisters!? ”

As a demigod, how can the aura of the woman's anger be borne by ordinary people? But this obscene-looking guy was still able to keep his composure, and hurriedly said, "Don't get angry yet, Wonder Woman." My name is Felix Faust, and I'm just a scholar. I know you're great, but if I were you, I'd let it go first. ”

"Give me a reason to do it."

"Because I'm the only one who can unlock the curse of all of them."

Confirming that the curse of the sisters can be lifted, Diana couldn't help but smile and shouted: "Undo their curse for me, or I'll blow your head right now!" ”

"It's not impossible for me to undo this curse, but of course it can't be unconditional." Faust said, "I just need you to help me find a few things, and it shouldn't be difficult to do it with your ability." As long as you can help me bring me what I want, I'll undo the curse on all of them in no time. ”

Diana frowned: "How do I know I can trust you?" ”

"Don't worry, I've always been a man who counts." Faust smirked, "Besides, do you have any other choice now?" Princess? ”

Diana glared at him in disgust for a moment and threw him to the ground.

"What do you need me to find?"

"I don't know exactly what it will be. But you just have to follow the pointer to find out. ”

Faust said, and out of nowhere, he found an ancient round dial, with the only hand on it, pointing firmly in a certain direction.

"You only have one day, princess." "If you don't finish it in twenty-four hours," Faust emphasized, "even I won't be able to save your sisters." ”

Diana glared at him and said, "If you dare to lie to me even half a word......

"Don't dare, I'm just an unknown scholar, how dare I get along with the famous Wonder Woman?" Faust smiled in return, "As long as you bring what I want, I will absolutely lift their curse without delay." ”

Diana looked back and looked at it a few more times, and finally reluctantly took off into the air and left the paradise island in the direction indicated by the pointers.

(Thanks to the book friend NormanLHP for the 100 starting coins, and the book friend 160410061618149 the 500 starting coins for the reward!) ）