Chicago, downtown.

An afterimage shot out like a butterfly through the traffic of the block, and suddenly embedded in the wall of the street building, and it was Eric, who was dressed in the armor of the composite mode. He staggered and jumped off the wall, and he was fine, but he frightened many passers-by around him, and they scattered one after another.

Eric touched his head, "Hey, it hurts a lot." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, another afterimage had already chased after him from the direction he flew out, as if there was a looming whirlpool of air behind him. Eric's electric power flashed all over his body, dragging the golden lightning three steps sideways, and the sharp afterimage immediately shattered over the afterimage left behind him by his high-speed movement, shattering the wall behind him and causing a puff of smoke and dust to collapse.

Eric paused, and turned. From the flying dust, out of the dark red combat boots, white as jade long legs, the moment the heroic female warrior stepped on the footsteps, the smoke behind her seemed to be blown away by her compelling aura, like a god of war.

It was supposed to be Eric's teammate, Wonder Woman. But now, she looked like she was facing an old enemy, and her eyes were as sharp as knives, as if she was about to pierce Eric.

What made them suddenly mortal enemies?

Well, this part is still confusing even Eric. And after listening to the woman's next sentence, he was only more at a loss.

"Demons!" The heroine shouted, and rushed up again, "Tell me honestly—where the hell did you get my friend!?" ”

Ten minutes ago.

It was so strange that none of them could have expected it ten minutes ago. After Eric decided to help Diana find the object Faust had pointed out, the two followed the mysterious pointer and then rushed to Chicago.

I don't know if it was because the objects Faust wanted belonged to old antiquities, but this time the hands on the dial led them to a museum in Chicago. It was too easy for the two of them to infiltrate the museum without setting off any alarms, and they quickly groped their way through the dark museum to their destination.

This time it was a strange object made of stone, very similar to the one Diana had just acquired at the New York Museum, and the size of this one was just right in the palm of your hand, but the shape was not at all similar to the previous one.

Neither of them could guess what it was for, but they had to take it anyway as Faust had requested.

This time, however, as Diana reached out and touched the stonework, a purple mist suddenly burst out of the crack in the ground where they were standing without warning. This purple mist came around the two of them as if they were alive, and it was so fast that they were enveloped in the thick fog before they had time to react.

Eric hurriedly withdrew from the mist, but he didn't feel anything out of the ordinary, and the armor scanner showed that there was nothing harmful in the mist.

When the fog cleared, Eric saw Diana standing a few steps away from him with her back to him, frowning and looking at the stone in her hand, as if she had found something, so he stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

He originally thought that Wonder Woman's body would be invulnerable, and there should be nothing wrong, but unfortunately he seemed to be wrong. He didn't expect that the moment Diana looked back and saw him, her face suddenly changed, and without saying a word, she slammed into him with a punch from zero distance. Eric was completely defenseless, and was punched right in the door, and his body flew out like a cannonball, crashing through the entire museum and into the downtown street outside.

At this moment.

Eric was still wondering what Diana had shouted, "Where did you get my friend?" but he didn't have time to think about it. Because at this time, the heroine had already shown her silver long sword, and the tip of the sword dragged a snow-colored sword light towards him.

Wonder Woman holds a rumored artifact made by Olympian craftsman Hephaestus, which is said to be so sharp that it can split atoms. Although Eric's subdemonic armor also copied this Excalibur, its power was inevitably reduced.

He didn't dare to use his armor to take this sword hard, so he pulled out of the way. But Diana did not give up, and slashed sword after sword, as if the surging water was surrounding him. She also used ancient swordsmanship from the Amazon, which was more subtle and powerful than modern swordsmanship, and Eric couldn't find the slightest flaw. In addition, Eric felt that something was wrong and didn't want to hurt her, so he could only rely on the speed of the god to dodge left and right, and at the same time think of countermeasures.

But Diana's attack became more and more urgent, and she didn't intend to give him time to think. Seeing that he was speeding away, she predicted the direction, and the long sword suddenly came out of her hand, turning into a flash of silver light and flying away. Eric volleyed sideways, changed direction, and dodged without much effort, but the sword swept straight past him, severing the connecting shaft of a billboard, which immediately fell with sparks.

Eric glanced sideways, catching a glimpse of a mother and son just below the billboard. Realizing that the catastrophe was coming, the mother hurriedly shortened and protected her five-year-old son with her body.

In an instant, time seemed to freeze before Eric's eyes. The bustling traffic on the road, the billboards falling from the sky, and even the two falling iron nails next to it all stood still in the realm of divine speed. Eric flew to his feet, stomping diagonally on the side wall, his body dragging a dazzling electric current across the vertical wall. The black afterimage flashed from under the falling billboard, and the mother and son flashed abruptly to the opposite street as if they were teleporting, and the billboard smashed to pieces where they had just been, and parts were scattered everywhere.

Only then did the mother realize what had happened, and before she could even thank her, she hurriedly picked up her son and ran away.

Eric had just gained his footing when a bitter wind was blowing behind him. You don't have to look back to know that it was Diana who killed again, and she slammed into Eric's body and flew sideways to the ground. Eric swerved in mid-air, his legs bent and kicked her in the abdomen, and his legs slammed backwards, kicking the woman out of top of him. Diana's body slammed a bus on the side of the road horizontally and into the second floor of a shopping mall, rolling to the ground wrapped in a mess of clothes.

Eric then flew into the mall and landed behind Diana, carefully preparing for the next offensive.

And Diana shook off the pile of clothes on her body and got up to fight again, but she was stunned.

Through a mirror behind a hanger in the mall, she clearly saw Eric's back, and herself facing him face to face.

"Eric!?" She cried out in some disbelief.

Eric was stunned for a moment, but finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although I don't quite understand what is going on, it seems that Her Majesty the princess has finally returned to normal.