After searching around the city to no avail, Clark had no choice but to return home.

"Clark, what's wrong with you?"

Martha looked at her slightly grizzled son and reached out to help him clean the wood chips from his hair.

"It's all right, Mother, I just met a wizard in the morning and got into a fight with a moving stone statue."

At the mention of this, Clark sat down a little depressed, ready to eat the rest of his breakfast.

While eating, he waited for news from Batman's side, and before returning home, he sent a message to the Alliance headquarters, asking for help in the investigation.

"Batman, this morning a man dressed as a wizard robbed the Metropolitan City Museum and killed someone with suspicion of magic, and he was ecstatic to snatch something that was protected by magic.

I'm afraid he has some conspiracy, can I help investigate his identity. ”

Thinking of magic, remembering that David seemed to have picked up a magician's diary, Clark looked at him and recounted what had happened this morning.

"Do you have any impression of the magic he used, and the stone pillars that he guarded?"

Clark saw if he could find some clues with David, but was destined to disappoint him.

"Uh...... Magic? ”

On the other side of the table, David, who was reading the newspaper after eating, looked up.

At that time, what kind of magic diary was just an excuse for him to explain why he knew about LS Luchi's casual compilation, and he didn't know anything about magic.

"The Eternal Rock is home to the world's largest museum of magical history."

But there were so many books there that he wasn't interested in flipping through them and answering one of Clark's questions.

"If that wizard really dreams of destroying the earth and ruling the world, he will jump out of it himself."

David's expression was a little boring, and the attitude he showed made Clark choke.

The truth is this, but how can you leave it alone, he shook his head.

"Wait for him to take the initiative to jump out, then it may be a big problem, and the disaster will be nipped in the bud."

"Good luck then."

"Felix Faust used to be a successful professor of archaeology, but gradually he became interested in the occult and magic, and became too obsessed with believing and pursuing, so that his university expelled him."

After a while, in the alliance's internal chat channel, Batman sent a voice, and after receiving Superman's request for help, he and Cyborg immediately got the surveillance video of the incident.

With good looks, and then there is Cyborg's specialty, as long as that Mr. Wizard has left traces on the Internet, it is impossible to hide from Cyborg.

"He vowed to take revenge on those who mocked him, and after a while, several people disappeared inexplicably, and he disappeared from public view."

"Gone?"

At the dinner table, Clark raised his eyebrows, could the clue be broken here.

"Fortunately, though, this halfway monk doesn't like to hide in a gloomy cave like the legendary old-school wizards, and he still lives in the city."

On the other end of the communicator, Batman brushes his fingers across a row of books on the shelves, and Cyborg stands aside to look at the contents of the room.

It is a residence full of old objects, and there is a lot to see.

"Maya, Babylon...... Here you can see almost all the mysterious cultural relics of ancient civilizations in the world. ”

Cyborg marveled as he compared the objects online.

He picked up a golden scepter with ancient crystals on the top of the fireplace, trying to see if it was a fellow.

A bolt of lightning accidentally ignited from the crystal, nearly piercing the wall.

Dozens of centimeters away, Batman grabbed his cloak in time, blocked the bullet-like debris and looked at the steel skeleton with a faint gaze.

Steelbone's face was embarrassed, and he quickly put down his scepter and raised his hands.

"I didn't expect that."

"Be careful, we're dealing with a wizard."

After Batman reminded him, he looked carefully on the bookshelf again.

"Found ......"

He stopped his finger on a few very new books and glanced at the spread books on his desk.

"Hell, Styx, Death......"

These books are all related to the mythological god of death, especially Greek mythology.

With ominous words, Batman's face changed, and he told Clark about the discovery.

"Hell, Grim Reaper?"

Putting down the well-eaten plate, Clark was surprised, what the wizard was looking for was something related to Hell?

"There's a layer of dust on the table, and Faust hasn't been back to this room for a long time."

Fingertips wiped the table with a layer of dust, and Batman frowned and looked around.

"I'm afraid most of the things in this room are magical items that he painstakingly collected from all over the world.

What is there to be excited about leaving his home behind and not coming back for a long time? ”

"What did Faust find? What are you looking for? ”

All three of them were puzzled.

Ding!

Suddenly, a message sounded.

David, who was holding the newspaper, looked at the light ring on his hand, and the light flickered very quickly.

Someone contacted him urgently through the lamp ring.

"David, someone has invaded Paradise Island, and my mother has sent a call for help."

Diana's voice rang out, with anxiety, accompanied by the sound of packing up her sword and shield.

"I'll rush to Paradise Island first and see what's going on there."

"Paradise Island invaded?"

Hearing the attack on Paradise Island, David put down the newspaper in surprise.

Zeus once set up a magic to protect the paradise island from any snooping and detection, but as the years passed, the effect of the magic weakened.

It wouldn't be a surprise if someone found Paradise Island.

But it can actually make Hippolyta, the once proud queen of the Amazons, send a distress signal.

"It seems that a guy with extraordinary strength has discovered Paradise Island!"

David stood up, remembering what Clark had just said.

"Just mentioned you to Greek mythology, right?"

"Yes...... Yes, what's wrong? Did something happen? ”

Clark also stood up in a daze.

Something extraordinary seems to have happened.

"I remember that there was a gate to hell underneath Paradise Island."

David narrowed his eyes.

I thought it was a little magician who came out of nowhere, but I didn't expect it to end up on Paradise Island.

……

"Kill! Destroy the outsiders! ”

Brave and skilled Amazonian warriors, standing on the high steps of the palace, shoot arrows at the invading enemies on the island.

"I admire your courage to defy death, but what's the use?"

In mid-air, a shield appeared around Faust to shield him from the arrows that the Amazons could pierce through the steel plates, and he pulled out a strange handprint, and an ancient bronze medallion hanging from his neck shone brightly.

The bronze medal depicts a woman with snake hair and a roaring mouth.

All the Amazonian female warriors who were illuminated by the light froze in their movements and turned into stone statues of roaring rage.

A smug look appeared at the corner of Faust's mouth.

After finding Paradise Island, he traveled along the way, and countless Amazonian female warriors were turned into stone statues along the way.

This powerful treasure that his master guided him to find, coupled with his god-like magic, even the legendary Amazons, who belonged to the gods, could not resist it, and easily fell at his feet.

"Queen, you have finally appeared.

It's not too late to put down the sword. ”

When the last Amazonian warrior retreated, a woman wearing battle armor with an ugly and heroic face walked out of the palace, it was Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons, Faust said with a smile.

"I know you're not just the queen of the Amazons.

The master specially explained that when he got out of trouble, he wanted to see you as soon as possible. ”

"Both Hades and your messages are a bit lagging behind.

The king of the Amazons is no longer me. ”

Hippolyta sneered, grabbed the bow and arrow of the female warrior next to her, the bowstring was drawn into a full moon, and the arrow shot like a meteor, causing layers of ripples on Faust's shield, but unfortunately it was still not broken.

"Even the god of war Ares, who was killed by the new king of the Amazons."

"To whom did you pass the throne?

Your daughter? The bloodline of the great Zeus? ”

He knew a lot of secrets, thanks to his master, and Faust scoffed unconcernedly.

"It doesn't matter, whoever it is, when he returns to Paradise Island, he will face my master, Hades, the lord of the underworld!"

After saying that, he quickly urged the treasure in his chest again.

"Ares, the god of war, is nothing."

The last Amazons and Hippolyta were unable to resist the powerful magic and turned into stone statues.

Cross the palace.

He walked to the depths of the earth of Paradise Island.

At the end of the large, cold cavern is a tall and majestic stone door, carved with intricate and dizzying runes, emitting terrifying magical fluctuations that can make the gods tremble.

Faust takes out three key parts he finds around the world.

The three keys are all protected by powerful magic, namely the gargoyle, the abyssal serpent, and an environment that can bewitch the mind, but with the power bestowed by Hades, the king of Hades, he easily passed and obtained the key.

He reached out and drew a circle, communicating with Hades on the other side of the door.

"Master, I'll let you out."

"Hurry up, I've lost count of the years I've been imprisoned in this prison called Hades."

Hades' roar came from the flames of hell.

Faust did not dare to slack off in the face of the urging, and the three key parts formed a large stone key, which he inserted into the magic stake in front of the door.

Thundered!

The runes on the door were hidden, and the door that had been sealed for tens of thousands of years was opened.

The earth rumbled and trembled, and tongues of malevolent hellfire erupted from the door, turning everything into lava.

The cloak was torn, the tall man in armor, his indifferent face revealed a breathing domineering, slowly walked out from the side of the door, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath, looked up to the sky and laughed, and thousands of undead phantoms roared behind him.

"In the world, I, Hades, are back!"

The majesty of the terrifying gods suffocated Faust for a while.

……

As soon as they came out of Faust's residence, Batman and Cyborg were about to return to the Alliance headquarters, when Cyborg suddenly stopped, his face changed drastically, and he glanced at the red warning image shot from his wrist.

"There is a global catastrophe."

He has set up an early warning mechanism on the Internet, and whenever a disaster occurs, he will retrieve reminders.

"What's wrong?"

Batman frowned.

"Near the North Sea in the northeastern Atlantic, countless dead soldiers suddenly emerged from the sea and stepped on the sea to kill Britain, Norway and Denmark, and the offensive spread all over the world."

Cyborg panicked and released images captured by satellites of some countries.

The dense corpses of the deceased soldiers, their eyes were red, their skin and muscles were shriveled, as if they had crawled out of hell, and they crawled out of the sea with a roar, and the gray sea of people even covered the original color of the sea, forming a terrifying wave that rushed in all directions.

At the mouth of the coast in London, England, people scattered and fled, the police opened fire in panic, the bullets stuck in the shriveled bodies of the dead soldiers, but did not cause much damage, and then the landing army of the dead raged on the streets of the modern city.

"Faust!"

Batman instantly remembered the clue he had just found.

"Hell, Grim Reaper......"

"Gather the members of the Alliance, we will rush to the center of the disaster, if there is anyone or a god who is playing ghosts, it must be there!"

He calmly and decisively ordered.

"Let's fix this before the dead who shouldn't be alive can do more damage!"

……

"Are you saying that there is a door underneath Diana's hometown, and at the other end of the door is Hades' Hades?"

Having just left town and on his way to Paradise Island, Clark listened to David's narration with a stunned expression.

It's also not the first time he's encountered something from mythology, like the ancient demons that preceded him.

But Hades is different from everything else after all, it is the Hades in Greek mythology, who is in charge of death, and he may now appear in the world, which makes people instinctively uneasy.

"A long, long time ago, the Greek gods had a protracted war with the Titans, during which Hades became a traitor and made a pact with the Titans that as long as he betrayed Mount Olympus, when the matter was completed, the world full of flowers and all kinds of creatures would be under his control from now on."

David opened his mouth to tell the origin of it all.

"He opened the gates of Mount Olympus and put in the Titans, but the gods led by Zeus resisted desperately and won the war."

"In the end, Hades, who betrayed the gods, was beaten down by Zeus on Mount Olympus and sent to hell, and punished him for guarding the cold and silent underworld for eternity, not allowing him to take a step, and blocked the passage connecting the underworld with the world, and gave the key to Diana's mother, Hippolyta, for safekeeping."

"That stone part Faust is looking for is the key?"

Clarke's eyes widened and he thought for a moment, and it felt like everything was connected.

"Part of the key, to be exact."

David corrected.

"The underworld is actually the prison where Hades is imprisoned, and in order to prevent him from escaping, Zeus broke the key into three pieces and placed them in various parts of the world.

But...... It doesn't matter anymore. ”

As he spoke, he paused, his voice lowered, and he stared into the distance.

In the direction of Paradise Island, thousands of miles away on the sea, an endless army of the dead with teeth and claws, like a weightless evil spirit, stepping on the sea water, killing the world.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing David stop suddenly, Clark looked in the direction he was looking, his face changing drastically.

"That'...... Is that! ”

Millions, or tens of millions? No, more than that!

As many people have died in the world, Hades can summon as many armies of the dead, which is enough to drown the entire world in a death frenzy!

"The passage between hell and the world has been opened, and Hades is out of trouble!"

Above the sky, David's gaze was gloomy.

(End of chapter)