The Death Knell

Returning to the village, the place has changed. The huge Deadpool statue in the village has been modified and replaced with black and yellow paint. The original obscene posture has also changed.

The raised middle finger was changed to a sword, and the gesture of eating ice cream was changed to lowering one's head in contemplation. Although it was a bit awkward, at least it was a change.

The young people living here have also gained the right to choose their own names. Now they dress like humans and greet their neighbors with a standard London accent.

"Good day."

Such greetings were heard endlessly, and Su Ming, who was in a good mood, nodded in response and flew straight into the newly built castle.

This castle was built by Monaco and Casillas to control the Antarctic Holy Sanctuary on the barbaric continent.

Different from the style of other sanctuaries, this place was built in Gothic style. The sharp roof is like a cluster of spikes, pointing densely towards the sky.

Monaco went back after building the city. The monster hunter team had harvested their respective targets and left long ago. Now, except for the mining workers in Wakanda who are still going in and out of the giant portal in the castle courtyard, basically everything here It can already be regarded as the back garden of Kama Taj.

Apprentices and mages come here either for vacation or adventure to conduct research on new topics.

Su Ming had read many novels in his previous life, in which magic schools and the like always organized students to participate in graduation trials or go to forests or secret realms to exercise.

His Kama Taj cannot be inferior to others, he wants whatever others have. He must have what others don't have.

The Antarctic Holy See and the city outside the Holy See, ‘That Tun’, were built to tell everyone in the magic world.

This fish pond in the Wild Continent has been contracted by his death knell.

In the future, if outsiders want to explore the wilderness to find secrets, or to fight monsters and upgrade, they can still do so, but they have to pay to fish in fish ponds contracted by others, right?

The agreements with all parties have been implemented in an orderly manner, and Casillas is now very busy and satisfied.

He used to want to gain power in order to gain power. Now he is the youngest Archmage of the Sanctuary and fully appreciates the busyness brought by various miscellaneous affairs.

"Teacher, you are back."

But no matter how busy he was, he still greeted his teacher on the castle balcony and was as polite as ever.

"Well, this long plan is finally over."

Su Ming took off his armor and put him in lighter casual clothes, jeans and a striped shirt. He looked like a lumberjack after get off work.

A gloomy smile appeared under Casillas's hood: "Then can I see the legendary spider totem?"

"Here, this is it."

There was nothing she couldn't show him. Su Ming opened his palms generously and showed off what he had worked so hard to find.

Xiaoka's expression suddenly became strange. He stretched out two fingers and carefully twisted the 'totem' in the teacher's hand.

"I didn't think it would be like this..." Casillas couldn't find the words.

Because this thing is too small compared to the bat totem everyone found before.

If the bat totem is big enough to be used to build a house, then this spider totem is just like a toothpick, the toothpick used by goblin babies.

"I know, it is indeed a bit small. Otherwise, why do you think I have been looking for it for so many years?" Su Ming sighed. This is not looking for a needle in a haystack, but a veritable search for a needle in the soil.

At least there is still some visibility in the sea water, but digging something as big as that underground is much more difficult than that.

Xiaoka smiled briefly: "This miniature carving is quite exquisite. Yes, I saw a spider."

"Okay, stop praising it. It doesn't matter to me whether it's exquisite or not." Su Ming took back the toothpick and put it in his pocket: "I'm going to take a shower and then go back. You take care of this place." .”

"Good teacher."

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"I can't understand it and I can't drive it."

Monaco, who was lying on the massage chair, returned the toothpick to Deathstroke and told the truth.

He found that he couldn't live without this massage chair. When he had some time, he wanted to lie down in Karma Taj for a while. As a result, as soon as he lay down, there were always some things waiting for him to deal with.

This time was no exception. As soon as he lay down and adjusted the massage frequency to the God of Creation level, before he could enjoy it, Deathstroke caught him.

The return of Deathstroke means that the peaceful days of the Magic Prince in the past ten years are gone forever.

But back to business, he could feel that the miniature totem seemed to be connected to a special level, but this level was ethereal and seemed to be made of energy.

Unlike any known dimension or plane, it is so unique that it is impossible to send people there with the current knowledge of magic.

If you have to do that, it's like throwing people into the void and hoping that there will be a spider web in the void to catch them.

The danger is too high, and the Supreme Mage must not take such a risk.

Deathstroke now represents the entire Karma Taj, and is also the link with a large number of external forces. Not to mention that he has not designated a successor, even if Master Ancient One comes back, there is no way to take over Deathstroke's stall.

"Why don't you ask the Naughty Master? If we talk about magic theory and energy use, he is undoubtedly the number one person in Kama Taj today."

Monaco made a suggestion. He was curious about why Deathstroke usually didn't go to Merlin when something happened. Weren't they very close before?

Su Ming shook his head and put away the toothpick: "It depends on the situation. This kind of power may involve the multiverse. I don't want him to use it for experiments."

Monaco thought for a while and agreed with this statement. Yes, Master Merlin is good at everything. He just likes to experiment and can experiment with everything.

"Then I'm afraid the only one who can give you the answer is Master Gu Yi, but she has been gone for so many years and we have been unable to find any trace of her."

"She probably joined the world and lived an ordinary life. A top mage wants to hide, but no one can find her." Su Ming touched his chin, thinking about how to decipher the secret of the totem.

Spider web, web, web...

Monaque closed his eyes and smiled while holding his pipe: "Isn't she going to find someone to get married? I really can't imagine what that scene would be like."

Just thinking about the appearance of the ancient master in a wedding dress, Monaco's mustache couldn't help but curl up.

"Stop thinking nonsense, be careful if she hears it and casts a curse on you." Su Ming suppressed a smile and turned to leave. Monaco seemed much more lively after her health improved: "I'm looking for foreign aid, someone with an energy network. World, the mages there should be able to give me advice.”

Monaco took a puff of his pipe: "You'd better go home first and at least meet Gin, right?"

"I have a plan." Su Ming waved his hand and flew out of the room, rushing into the snow and wind that blocked Kama Taj in the sky.

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Gin definitely had to accompany him, but in fact the two of them didn't go without seeing each other for as long as Monaco imagined.

It was convenient for her to borrow the Rainbow Bridge. It was always easy for them to meet, almost twice a week, but they were always in that village.

Sometimes Su Ming's old friends from Hawaii who faked their own deaths would go to that village, where everyone would have a meal, pay attention to the yield of fruits in the fields, and chat about post-retirement topics.

Not only them, sometimes Mysterio or Natasha would also go to the Antarctic to hide and seek with the underground race in the cave with Deathstroke and deal with some chores.

Casillas was so loyal that he told no one about these things, not even Monaco.

Otherwise, if Su Ming were allowed to live alone underground for ten years in darkness, he would have gone crazy. He had to go to the ground to rest, right?

Before going to Kama Taj, he asked Xiao Ka to help send a message to Warnerheim. When he left Kama Taj and returned to Tennessee, Gin was already waiting for him here.

This is a villa built on a mountain. Not far away, you can see a swamp where a Kree aircraft crashed.

That Kree pilot? Now her daughter is in the Air Force and has participated in the Pegasus Project...

But this has nothing to do with Death Knell. Back then, he bought this hilltop that he liked, built a villa, and lived in seclusion here after faking his own death.

The things downstairs of Wilson Enterprise Headquarters were not moved here before. This is a simple private house, the home of him and Gin.

"Are you done over there?"

Gin was cutting the meat with a smile, and the two were enjoying a candlelight dinner in the style of Nordic warriors.

To put it simply, the two of them go hunting in the forest together, then find a clear stream to process the prey, then find a sheltered place from the wind and rain, build a bonfire and barbecue the prey together.

This time the two of them shot a North American brown bear. At this time, the smelly fur had been peeled off and used as a mat for the two of them to sit on, and its meat had been roasted.

Each person has a bear paw, which they can chew directly in their hands.

With fire, food, and good wine, Gin is extremely satisfied.

After all, she was a member of the Valkyrie. If Su Ming really took her to eat French food in a high-end restaurant and then go to Broadway to watch a musical, she could do it, but she would definitely not be as happy and natural as she is now.

"Yes, I plan to go to other worlds next and make the next plan."

Su Ming chewed the tendon in the bear's paw vigorously. Neither he nor Gin were particularly good at cooking. The food was salty at best, cooked and edible.

But the two of them don’t have higher requirements, right? That's fine now.

"My fleet has been prepared at the port of the City of Thousand Sails. Now we just have to wait for Contrasia and their stars to burn out before the plan can begin." Gin also picked up the huge bear paw and took a bite. Happy look.

How romantic is it to bake a bear with your man.

Contrasia, a planet developed by space colonists, was saved by the superhero "Jack of Hearts" after the star in its galaxy burned out in the comic book 616 universe.

However, the temperature in Contracia still dropped sharply, making agriculture completely impossible. People who lived there and could not escape could only develop tertiary industries such as entertainment industry.

It can also be seen in the MCU's "Guardians of the Galaxy 2" movie, which is the ice and snow planet that Yondu took his men to.

There are nightclubs and brothels everywhere, where there are drinks that can make all kinds of creatures drunk, and there are also the cheapest and most beautiful robot prostitutes. It was a pirate port in the universe, a lawless place where fish and dragons mixed together.

However, in the 40K universe, all that is about to happen. Contrasia is still a barren agricultural planet with hundreds of different races living on it. They are all fighting in the war between the Kree Empire and the Skrull Empire. affected refugees.

Their original planet may have been destroyed, or it may have been commandeered by both sides of the war. In short, they could only escape.

Although Contracia is poor, and the dying sun always extinguishes quickly after extreme expansion, at least it can still grow some food now and will not starve to death.

It's just that the people living there don't know that on the earth, which they regard as a backward civilization, there is a person who made a plan fifty years ago, trained the personnel, built a fleet, and was waiting for this opportunity to come.

An intelligence harbor deep in the universe, a channel for the circulation of dirt, and a home for cosmic mercenaries, Deathstroke liked this place very much.

"Their planet is nice, but it won't be long before it's ours."

Su Ming raised his bear paw and touched Gin's bear paw next to him, and the two fell together laughing.