The Death Knell

The time in the theater seems to have stayed in the last century, everything is full of the glitz of the modern era, with dark red velvet seats and yellow translucent frosted lampshades.

The brown wooden boards that make up the wall interior also reveal the flavor of the times.

Of course, when Su Ming and Diana were walking backstage, they were faced with more debris and props stacked everywhere, such as performing a big box that sawed a person in two, or launching a magician into a living person. That kind of human cannon.

They were now hiding on the side of the stage, behind the curtain, with no place to sit except for a small bag of popcorn.

Zatanna didn't notice the existence of the two of them. She was performing to the audience under the spotlight with a smile on her face.

It must be said that her business was good. The huge theater was packed with people, and everyone was staring at her attentively.

Because her father, Gwani Zatara, was a famous top magician during his lifetime, and in people's eyes, Zatanna was born in a family of magicians, and she was outstanding in her skills. There were all kinds of novel magic tricks that made people dizzy.

Of course, there are other factors.

She is a big beauty, a female magician wearing short hot pants and black fishnet stockings.

At this time, she was even more dazzling on the stage. She took out a newspaper from her pocket with a smile and showed it to the audience. When she folded it and unfolded it, a large group of pigeons flew out from it.

There was a wave of applause from the audience. Even though it was just an ordinary magic trick, the audience was still very supportive.

"Thank you! Thank you!" Zatanna bowed to the audience and threw the newspaper on the table aside.

Her father taught her how to perform. In magic performances, you should start with the routines that are most familiar to the audience and use tricks that are often seen.

These are the rules of performance, an order.

The father and daughter, who are called magicians but are actually magicians, show the audience all the impossibilities that the audience can recognize.

The magnificence and terror of magic are beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.

The newspaper turned into pigeons, a magic trick performed with the help of props, and those pigeons were hidden in the lining of Zatanna's tuxedo.

And then, after the opening scene, Zatanna is about to use irony magic.

"The next program is about my hat!"

Zatanna smiled and took off the bowler hat on her head, put her hand in, and at the same time secretly recited the spell, 'The Rabbit Reveals the Lined Hat'.

This is the magic of irony, the magic passed down to her by her father. As long as she says what she wants to achieve in reverse, without exceeding her mental endurance, then it will become true.

Magic is all about equivalent exchange, which is a well-known thing in the magic world in the Marvel world. On the DC side, except for Constantine and a few people, many people did not realize this at all.

The wizards squandered their magical power without seeing the consequences.

Zatanna didn't, and now she must face the cost of her spellcasting.

Like a magician, she shouted out the 'spell' and opened sesame. Anyway, she was just pretending, and it was the same as anything she shouted.

She took out a rabbit from the hat, but it was not the rabbit with white fur and cute red eyes as she had imagined.

Instead, it was a rabbit covered in blood and unwilling to rest in peace.

"this....."

Suddenly, the bowler hat in her hand emitted a strong purple light, and then something indescribable horror emerged from it like vines.

It was a gnarled tentacle, covered with big mouths and eyes, and its cold eyes made people feel frightened just by looking at it.

It seemed to be part of a giant monster, constantly pouring out of Zatanna's hat, swelling and stretching, but never ending.

"Pa bang bang..."

The audience gave an extremely warm applause. It was an unprecedented magic trick. Most magicians would pull a rabbit out of a hat, but Zatanna actually conjured an infinite vine.

Wonderful, so wonderful.

Zatanna didn't think so. She shouted loudly towards the audience:

"Leave quickly! This is not a performance! We are leaving the capital here!"

She tried to use irony magic to make people leave the theater, but the magic was completely distorted. The monster in the hat stretched out countless tentacles, grabbed the audience below, and was thrown up and down like a rag doll.

"Help!"

People screamed and more people ran for the exits.

"Oh my god...what should I do?"

As a magician, when the magic failed, Zatanna completely lost any fighting power and panicked.

"I guess...that's why most magicians need an assistant!"

Diana directly lifted her cloak, jumped up from the background, and swung the shield and sword in her hands, cutting off many tentacles and saving some people.

Su Ming naturally saved people, but for this kind of thing, it would be more efficient to use two guns to break the tentacles.

The disguise of Strangler faded away, revealing the black and yellow armor underneath, so people no longer thought of thanking him, but instead sped away in fear.

In their opinion, the death knell is much scarier than this unknown vine.

With the cooperation of two powerful warriors, the people were rescued quickly, but the root of the problem was still not solved, and the monsters continued to pour out of Zatanna's hat.

It's like throwing a lot of Mentos mints into a vat of Coke. What comes out are sticky foam, which solidifies into living tentacles when it encounters the air, and also has a strange magical aura.

"Let's burn it!"

Zatanna tried to use fire magic, but it only gave this weird tentacle monster the ability to breathe fire.

"Well, you'd better shut up first."

Su Ming shook his head and pulled the mage away to avoid the flying fireball. In this case, the magician is a pig teammate, and it is best not to chant any more spells. Just go hide somewhere safe.

Since this monster comes out of the hat, it has tentacles like vines. Then its root is the top hat, and maybe there is something like a portal to another world inside.

Su Ming didn't quite understand what happened to the mages, but he knew that as long as the source of everything was cut off, the problem would be solved.

"Godslayer! Grow longer!"

Under the control of his mind, the God Killer seemed to grow in the wind, and instantly turned into a long knife more than ten meters long, still in the same style as a butcher's knife.

But now he didn't care about the appearance. Su Ming raised his weapon and stabbed the top hat in the distance.

The hat was pierced, but monsters kept popping up, seeming to speed up. Now, in addition to sword marks and bullet holes, the entire stage was covered with strange tissue fragments.

"receive!"

Su Ming only thought for a moment and knew what to do.

The God Killer directly lifted his hat, as if holding a big tree planted in a flowerpot, and returned to him.