"Are you sure you've seen the light......"

Black Adam opened his eyes.

In the dark and rainy night, his eyes were like lit flames, shining on the darkness in front of him.

His mind was still echoing the previous conversation.

"But you're still putting yourself in the middle of things you don't understand, Sivana...... There is no place for you in the wizarding world, especially in the nexus that connects the continents. ”

He looked up and saw Billy Batson's foster home, which was lit up and shining.

“…… Do you know what meditative mites can do......"

He thought about what Sivana had just said to him.

"You were there when the Meditation Mites first spread their fear across the Magic Continent...... What he planned this time was destined to be unstoppable. ”

"So join him, join us."

Black Adam pursed his lips.

The last time Black Adam joined someone else's camp, it was because he was imprisoned and whipped.

He broke free from his shackles, like a lion in the mountains and forests. He killed the whip-bearer who had shackled him, and he crushed the head of the slave owner like a grape.

But this time it's different...... It's different from what it used to be.

This time, it was not the shackles made of fine iron that bound him, so he could not be freed.

If the heart has been hung with false reins, and he obediently puts a slave collar on himself, then even the power of the thunder Shazam, which destroys gold and jade, may not be able to do anything, right?

However, what is Black Adam alone who is bound by the false reins?

Inside the house.

Billy Batson opened his eyes in the darkness.

He rolled over and sat up from the bed, staring at the darkness of the night in a daze.

He carefully climbed out of bed and over Darla, the youngest black child in his foster family, a lovely but noisy little girl, and he tried not to disturb her as much as possible.

Billy stood in front of the window.

The recent events had left him physically and mentally exhausted. What he meant was that after the initial excitement and amazement, the superhero career wasn't as easy as he imagined.

Nightwing, Dick Grayson, Supergirl, Carla Kent, The Flash, Barry Allen, they do far better than they do. They are heroes who are truly responsible, and they are nothing more than little children who abuse their power.

While Batman was busy with other things, he had already experienced enough. Some of the biochemical monsters that appeared in the city, all kinds of monsters made of a mess of magic, these should have been his responsibility, the responsibility of the magic guard.

But he messed up, he made a mess, he was far superior in strength to these ordinary monsters, but he was still played around by these low-IQ things, and killed a lot of innocent civilians.

He watched his parents lose their children in front of him.

He watched his children lose their mothers, those beautiful families shattered and destroyed, and then wailed in the dark of the night.

These are his responsibilities.

Like what Dr. Phil, who likes to play with scarecrows in the school counseling room, said to him, isn't it?

Billy held his chin.

One must do what one can do.

If the police don't even know how to use a gun, they will only kill the hostages with themselves when facing the gangsters, and may even shoot innocent passers-by to death.

A doctor who does not know how to do medical skills has the audacity to perform a heart transplant, and the end result will only be an extra corpse in the morgue.

If you don't have the ability to steal a high position, you will only kill others.

The power of Shazam should be given to someone who truly deserves their power, such as Batman, Wonder Woman, Supergirl, or whatever, and not be abused by an incompetent guy of his own.

Billy thought so, and then he walked over to his desk and, in the faint light, pulled a magic book out of the drawer.

He snapped his fingers, cast a little magic to keep the light out of the sleeping "brothers and sisters", and turned on the lamp.

He opened the magic book and found the page of magic that shared the power of Thunder Shazam with others.

"Your mana is boundless...... Your ultimate power! Say the trick! ”

He chanted silently. Although he had learned a lot of magic since becoming a superhero, the spell to share Shazam's power with others was too complicated for him to figure out what was going on.

Black Adam had tried to grab his power...... In fact, to be honest, he didn't give in to death, who can expect a 10-year-old child to be able to get up hard after experiencing a violent beating that was almost killed?

But he really can't give it!

"Billy?"

Billy turned his head, and he saw Mary getting out of bed, her eldest sister in the foster family and the "eldest daughter" in the unrelated family.

She was woken up.

Billy smiled apologetically at the other and said, "I just can't sleep......"

But just then, he heard a commotion downstairs.

He and Mary looked at each other.

"I was going to the bathroom." Mary said.

Together, they walked down the stairs from the bedroom on the second floor to the living room, where they saw the hall brightly lit.

Then Billy froze.

He saw a man with a vague resemblance to him standing in the doorway. His adoptive parents were by his side.

The man looked up and happened to see Billy coming down the stairs.

"Oh my God."

The man said.

"Billy?"

Billy had tears in his eyes for some reason.

"Daddy?"

He asked.

"Daddy!" He pounced, and the two of them hugged each other tightly.

"I've been looking for a long time, and I've finally found you." Billy's father said.

"This ...... Is this really you? ”

"Oh, Billy, I'm sorry." Billy heard what the other person said. Outside, in the middle of a rainy night, the rain was in full swing.

During Billy's childhood, he had run from orphanages countless times and run through dark rainy nights.

He had fantasized countless times that someone would say such things to him.

"Oh, Billy. You should never live alone. I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. ”

"You were born in Zambrotta, Minnesota...... That thunderstormy night. ”

"We're about to drive to the hospital, and your mom, Marilyn, is pregnant with you, and I still remember when she said to me, 'I'm not going to do it, CC, right now.'" ”

"A bolt of lightning blocked our way, and there you were there, in that car."

"That night, we left Minnesota and Marilyn's father was waiting in the hospital...... He doesn't approve of our relationship, and he's going to take you and your mother away from me. ”

"We drove all the way to Philadelphia and we put down roots there, and I wanted to be the best husband and father Billy in the world, you should know that, and every weekend I take you to the zoo to see the tigers, and you love them so much......"

Right now...... At this time.

Billy Batson sat on the steps in front of his adoptive parents' house with his biological father, C.C. Batson.

They need a little bit of privacy.

Billy is holding a photograph of Billy's father and his mother Marilyn holding themselves with a smile on their faces, with a zoo tiger behind them.

Looking at such a photo, no matter whose heart softens.

But Billy wasn't carried away in the end. He resisted the urge not to look at the pictures any longer.

"That's great, father. But...... Where did you go before? ”

"I ......"

Billy's father was silent for a moment.

"I miss those days, when everything was so good, it was your mother and I were a family."

"I'm not proud at all about the last ten years, I'm in some trouble, I'm leaving to protect you and your mother, in fact I'm not fit to be your father...... I went to jail. ”

"Prison?" Billy's last vigilance is dissipating.

"But that's already me in the past, I've spent my sentence, I'm out of prison, I'm looking for you everywhere." Billy's biological father put his arm around his shoulders.

"Where's Mommy?" Billy asked.

"I ...... I want to find your mother too, of course, I want to. But maybe we can find her together, and I think she might go back to her hometown, Zambrotta, Minnesota, and that's going to be my next stop, and I want you to come with me, Billy. ”

"You're still on parole, aren't you?"

"Your mother is the love of my life, Billy, I have to find him, I have to make sure she's okay."

Billy's biological father said, "Nothing is more important than family. ”

Billy finally made up his mind.

"I'll figure out how to get your sentence." He held back the excitement and excitement in his heart.

"I'll find a way to get them to help me, I mean, I know some friends."

He saw his father smile and seemed to not believe it at all. But Billy was still happy.

It was the best day of his life.

"Well, I found you. But it's too late, I'll have to leave, Billy. ”

They sat together for a while, and eventually, Billy's biological father stood up, "I'll come to you tomorrow, um, and then talk about fostering your family." But now may not be a good time. ”

Without waiting for Billy to speak, he grabbed him by the shoulder: "We've got your foster family to leave some buffer time, you know, they took care of you while I wasn't there, and I'm grateful to them." ”

……

……

……

"Do you think Black Adam is suspicious?"

In some dark corner, Dr. Sivana's hands are wrapped in thunder and lightning, manipulating magic.

"Our real plan?"

The voice of the meditative mite rang in Dr. Sivana's ears.

"It doesn't matter if he is suspicious, he is willing to do whatever it takes to bring back what he lost in order to protect the people he loves."

As Dr. Shivana continued to manipulate, a lightning teleportation portal gradually flashed into the space in front of him.

"Come on, Sivana, the business is done, and then I'll leave it to Black Adam. With Batman entangled in a precious gap between him and the alien sorcerer Atositas, it's time to string up our allies and find the key to the monster land. ”

Not far from Billy Batterson's foster family house.

Billy's biological father is overcoated and walks the road alone.

He turned his head to look at the store not far away, where a father and son were having dinner together.

"A banana sundae and two spoons!"

"And a big portion of Faki gummies, Daddy!"

Billy's biological father, Batson Sr., looked at the father and son with some envy for a while, and this action also made Billy Batson, who was secretly observing not far away, confirm his thoughts again.

He's suspicious enough, like Batman.

It can't be fake, and it can't be.

"Mr. Batson?"

However, at this point, Billy's heart stopped beating for a second.

He saw eight figures flying down from a tall building not far away, led by Black Adam.

"You'll have to come with us." Black Adam, entangled in thunder and lightning, hovered in front of Billy's biological father, frightened the other party back a few steps, and the people on the street saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly fled in all directions.

Old Batson stared at the strange Seven Deadly Sins around Black Adam.

"What are those things? Who are you? ”

"Billy will finally know what the real pain is, and I'm going to have a great deal of fun with it...... As long as you die first. ”

Black Adam's eyes were swirled with thunder and lightning, but faster than it was Billy who turned like a whirlwind into Shazam rushing towards him.

Billy punches Black Adam upside down.

And the seven deadly sins lined up in a row just stared blankly.

"My God, you...... You're that superhero! Billy's father said.

"Yes sir, now I need you to come with me, I need to take you to safety...... Tell you...... You don't need to worry. Billy said with some hesitation, but he finally smiled brightly: "Everything will be fine." ”

"It's true for me, it's true for Kandak, but it's not about you." But then Black Adam came back at a faster pace, grabbing Billy by the collar and rubbing him to the ground.

"We've got that father, what are we going to do with him?"

Billy turned his head and watched in horror as his father, C.C. Batson, was dragged into the sky by the Seven Deadly Sins.

"What do you want him to do?"

He struggled to fend off Black Adam's fist.

"Eventually I'm going to let him die, and you're going to follow!"

Bang bang bang!

Billy tried desperately to block them, and then he saw the monsters trying to take his father out of his sight.

"Daddy!"

He roared and rushed towards the seven deadly sins, but strangely Black Adam didn't stop him.

In the midst of the scuffle, he saw his father fall and fall to the ground.

"No!"

"Daddy!"

"He's going to die, warrior. Your weak heart has weakened itself, Billy Batson! ”

"Please! Please let me save him—I can't lose him now! ”

Billy roared, but the Seven Deadly Sins entangled him and wouldn't let him go.

He saw that his father was about to fall to the ground.

He remembered the mantra in the magic book.

A once obscure spell.

And the words of the old wizard Shazam.

“…… Not only flight and power, but also the spells you can weave...... There are so many that you have to learn to guard your family, as I should have done...... Family is what it can be, not what it should be, and that's your secret spell, your ultimate power......"

"Now...... Say that name. ”

"Shazam!"

Bang!

A bolt of lightning struck Billy's biological father, and with it, an endless stream of thunderous Shazam's power was shared into his body.

Old Butson looked at his hands in astonishment, he had changed his new appearance, wearing the cloak of Thunder Shazam, and thunder and lightning flashed on his chest.

"Oh my God."

The corners of his mouth showed a hideous surprise, like some insect singing viciously.

(End of chapter)