The Death Knell

The mantra lasso failed, and Naboo's magic still acted on him normally, and it could even be said that he became more powerful.

The noose passed through his body like it was passing through a phantom, without even catching a hair.

"Naboo! You coward! If you want to end magic, you have to get past me first!"

Diana raised her head, looked at Naboo who was drifting further and further away, and shouted loudly for him to come down and fight.

As an ancient mage, Nabu naturally knew the importance of not engaging in close combat with warriors, let alone a female demigod with a full body of artifacts.

"No, I won't go down, the aliens are coming, magic will die, and the world will be preserved."

Neither Diana nor the Justice League wants magic to disappear. After all, the multiverse is now in a countdown to destruction.

All kinds of crises are rushing to the earth from outside the wall of origin, first in the total body and then in the invisible spectrum.

At this time, any power humans master may become key in the future, and no one can afford the price of losing magic now.

But Nab didn't care, he only cared about his order.

He flew into the sky and disappeared, and suddenly a huge portal opened like a flashpoint in front of Diana, and a nightmare-like figure slipped out of it.

Diana recalled seeing it for the first time.

She once told Deathstroke that she was an Amazon and never had nightmares.

She lied.

She remembered the nightmare she had experienced as a child, the cry of fear that came from her heart.

Although the monster in front of him was different from the weird sight he had seen when he was a child, there was an underlying feeling that connected them.

.............

When Diana was a child, her mother did not allow her to visit the rituals of the 'Immortal Witches', a group of elder spellcasters from the Amazon.

But like all children, Diana had a curiosity that matched her age. She secretly followed the witches on a moonless night.

They will hold some mysterious rituals deep in the jungle of Paradise Island.

They lit a fire, took off their clothes around the fire, and danced weirdly. Then the women hugged each other three by three, kissed each other, and recited strange incantations.

Then Diana saw something terrifying that she had never seen before.

Those women fused together like mud, forming a monster with three heads and six arms. They kept calling out a name.

"Hecate!"

Diana knows this name. In the mythological genealogy, she is a three-phase goddess, having three faces: girl, young woman, and old woman. She is also the goddess of magic and soul.

However, when an extremely ferocious, banshee-like three-headed monster appeared in the fire, Diana still couldn't help but scream in surprise.

The terrifying goddess immediately spotted the young girl.

"Seize her for your gods!"

Hecate ordered her witches.

So the witches of Paradise Island, who were supposed to serve the queen and princess, and who were loyal to Olympus, controlled their new three-headed bodies and hunted Diana in the dense jungle.

It was a dark night, and a vine tripped Diana. The witches caught her and sent her to Hecate.

Hecate transformed into a branding iron, consisting of a round full moon and a pair of crescent moons that looked like flying wings.

She pressed the iron to Diana's forehead.

The smell of burnt flesh and severe pain hit her at the same time. Powerful magical power entered the body of young Diana, and she fainted.

.............................

After that, Hecate killed the witches and used the magic of forgetfulness to make everyone on Paradise Island forget about it.

But now, when seeing this guy hanging upside down and sliding out of another space, Diana's sealed memory came back.

She immediately touched her forehead under her crown, but as before, it was smooth and delicate, with no trace of branding. Everything was indeed like a dream.

But all dreams related to magic are often not that simple. Diana couldn't distinguish the boundary between reality and dreams for a while.

As for the monster that slipped out of the gap, although it was in the shape of a human, it was covered with white scales and had only a huge mouth on its face and no other organs.

But it just hung upside down quietly, using unknown means to 'look' at Diana.

The air twisted and undulated, and the thing spoke human language with a mouth that was constantly drooling.

It was not proficient at first, but after a few words, its English was as fluent as its native language.

"You...you can start...screaming, or you can call me upside down. The individual shape is really interesting, and the coordination of flesh and bone hints at many secrets."

It squirmed and squeezed out of the space. It seemed out of place in this world. It was not a creation of this world.

"I hope I generated the limbs correctly. The body is still a new concept for us and we are still adapting."

"You..." Diana looked at this creature that was not even human, hesitating as to how to communicate.

At least the other party was just talking. Although the appearance was terrifying, he did not take action. Maybe there was room for relaxation.

"Oh, you weren't the one who opened the door for us. Where was the man with the shining helmet? Did you kill him and steal his magic?" The Upside Down looked around decently, he looked very worried. curious.

"No, that's not my style!" Diana immediately denied.

"Wrong! Lie! You are all assassins and thieves, you stole magic from me!" The Upside Down let out a strange laugh, which sounded like crying: "What a boring world, no wonder your ancestors Sneaking into the darkness, stealing a little bit of magic from me, and injecting it into your own world, just to add a little wildness to it.”

"Who are you? You and Hecate..." Diana frowned and took both the weapon and shield in her hands. The atmosphere was not right now.

"Hehehehe... The world has become accustomed to magic and has become boring again, hasn't it? But you have forgotten the darkness of magic. I am the fear that you have forgotten, and I am here to remind you!"

The Upside Down finally learns human laughter, but its laughter doesn't make people happy.

Because when it was smiling, the strange tentacles that Diana had seen in the theater emerged from the door it had just passed through, and swept towards her.

Because the hole wasn't a hat, and Diana didn't smoke, she had no choice but to dodge the opponent's attack.

This weird thing can't be cut down, just like the mythical tree that cannot be cut down. As many trees are cut down as they are cut down, they will grow back.

Diana was a little confused for a moment. These tentacles were too dense, and the Inverted Man's body was also entangled at the same time, making it difficult for her to take care of them.

The Upside Down Man quickly grabbed her neck, and she could feel the divine power in her body disappearing like a tide in an instant.

Divine power is actually a kind of magic, a kind of witchcraft...

"Haha, when we get to this world, let's eat you first to appetize, but we have to have an stomach first."

The Upside Down Man once again showed an extremely frightening smile, and its fangs were close to Diana's face. She could already smell the unfamiliar stench of the different space.