The Martial God of the Marvel World

Chapter 458 Death of Ancient One
Zhan Liu and his companion arrived at 177A Bleecker Street in Manhattan, New York City, where the New York Temple is located.

"Is it right here? Why can't I see anything?" Natalia stood in the air, looking down and around for a long time, but couldn't find the location of the New York Temple.

"In order to prevent ordinary people from disturbing the temple, the temple used a magic circle to hide this place."

"Then how did you see it?" Natalia asked curiously.

"I just discovered that this eye can be used in this way." Zhan Liu proudly pointed to the third eye on his forehead. "I tried many times before, but I couldn't emit lasers or see through them. I always thought that this mutant organ was just a decoration!"

In Zhan Liu's third eye, countless magic rings were linked together to form a huge magic circle, cutting a piece of the current dimension out of thin air, overlapping with the buildings in the real world, and being in the same position, but having nothing to do with each other.

Zhan Liu gestured to Natalia, slowly landed at the gate of the New York Temple, and knocked gently, very politely.

However, no one paid any attention to him!
After knocking several times, there was still no response, which made Zhan Liu a little angry.

He tentatively pushed the door of the hall, and it opened lightly.

Without the partition of the magic door, the original soundproofing effect immediately disappeared, and loud explosions were heard from inside, as well as a lot of shouting, fighting, chanting... and other noisy sounds.

The two looked at each other and knew that something had happened inside.

Zhan Liu didn't care about being polite and pushed the door open and rushed in.

The New York Temple was in chaos, with collapsed corridors, flames everywhere, and many pale corpses wearing black cloaks lying everywhere.

"Oh no, we've encountered the Casillas Rebellion!" As soon as Zhan Liu saw those distinctively dressed cultists, he realized what was happening inside the temple.

He hurriedly strode in, not because he was in a hurry to help Gu Yi quell the rebellion, but because he was worried that if he went too late, Gu Yi would take the opportunity to go off work.

Just as he turned a corner, a figure suddenly appeared and rushed towards him. Zhan Liu subconsciously swung his fist, and with a "puff", he hit the other person to death, and blood was all over his head.

Before he could see clearly who the dead person was, he heard the entire temple suddenly become quiet, all sounds disappeared, and then a scream was heard.

"He...he killed the Sorcerer Supreme!"

Zhan Liu's head was buzzing. He looked carefully and saw the corpse hanging on his hand. He had a bald head, delicate eyebrows and eyes, a smile on his lips, and was wearing a yellow robe. The Eye of Agamotto hung on his chest. Wasn't he the Supreme Sorcerer Ancient One?

I am!

If you want to die, don't drag me with you!

Wouldn't it be nice to die at Casillas' hands?

Why do you have to hit my hand?
If you say this was an accident, Zhan Liu would never believe it.

But no matter how hard he thought, he couldn't understand why Gu Yi had to die in his hands.

However, the current situation does not allow him to explain, and no one is willing to listen to his explanation.

The mages of Kamar-Taj were like crazy, casting all kinds of magic at him.

Zhan Liu sighed and decided to leave first and find a chance to explain later.

He pulled Ancient One's body from his arm and threw it to the ground.

Now he hated the old woman so much that he had no intention of respecting the corpse at all.

As Ancient One's body fell to the ground, the Eye of Agamotto on his chest floated upwards and flashed in front of Zhan Liu's eyes.

Zhan Liu's heart moved, and he subconsciously reached out and took back the artifact containing the Time Stone.

I've taken the blame, and since there's no way to clear myself of it, I might as well reap all the benefits!
He pulled back and left the New York Temple in a flash. Natalia, confused, also withdrew.

However, Casillas, who was commanding the cultists to charge and kill, saw Zhan Liu snatching the Time Gem away. He became furious and left the Mage King and others behind and chased after him.

"Leave the Eye of Agamotto, or I won't let you go!" Casillas shouted and released a dark shock wave towards Zhan Liu in the sky.

Zhan Liu didn't even have the desire to kill this idiot. He dodged the attack with a flash of his body, and instantly accelerated with Natalia to exceed the speed of sound, causing bursts of thunder and disappearing at the end of his sight.

“Damn it!” Casillas was furious, but he couldn’t fly and his speed was slow, so he had no way to deal with Zhan Liu and the others. He could only talk nonsense, “I will find you! You will never escape!”

Zhan Liu and the other man had disappeared long ago, and no one could hear what he was shouting about.

After returning to her residence, Natalia asked mischievously:

"Aren't you going there to ask for advice?"

"How did you beat him to death?"

"And this universe-level strongman you mentioned is too fragile, isn't he?"

"He died after not even being able to withstand a single punch from you. Did you remember it wrongly, or have you become the best fighter in the universe?"

Zhan Liu rolled his eyes at her and said angrily, "We were tricked by Gu Yi!"

"The Marvel Universe is no longer an era of magic. All magic is borrowed magic. You need to borrow magic power from the demons in the dark before you can use magic."

"Whether it's white magic or black magic, you have to follow this principle."

"But the problem is, if you borrow, you must pay it back. The more magic power you borrow, the more you will have to pay back in the future. In the end, not only your body, but even your soul will have to be paid for."

"Ancient One is the capable subordinate of the Universe True God Eternity. After her death, her soul will return to Eternity. This is the highest priority. All demon gods cannot compete with the Universe True God Eternity."

"The demon gods didn't know Ancient One's identity, so they foolishly lent her money."

"This girl deceived countless powerful demons and borrowed huge amounts of magic power from them, but when she needed to repay them, she just died and ran away!"

"You thought she was dead, but actually she went to default on her debt!"

"With her death, all the demon gods will suffer a huge loss. They won't be able to get back any of the magic power they lent out before!"

Natalia was stunned by Zhan Liu's explanation.

"Is this still possible?"

"Humph, having a powerful backer means you can do whatever you want!" Zhan Liu was furious when he mentioned this. "It's even worse!" Zhan Liu continued to complain: "Gu Yi can see the future and never does anything unnecessary. In other words, she chose to die in my hands, and she must have had some plan, but we don't know. There will definitely be a lot of troubles coming later."

"Then why don't you explain it to those mages?"

"Who would believe it?" Zhan Liu lamented.

"I have no friendship with them. They saw Ancient One die in my hands with their own eyes. How could they believe what I said?"

"However, even though I took the blame, I guess it wasn't all in vain."

"It's just like a game. What we fear is that it's boring and there's nothing to do. As long as we can trigger the mission event, we can naturally push the plot of the game forward."

"Maybe the answers we are looking for will come to us soon, or at least give us a clue."

Natalia rolled her eyes and said speechlessly: "Reality is not a game, how can it develop as you said?"

"How do you know that reality is not a game?" Zhan Liu retorted, "Even the system has come out. Isn't it normal to have a main quest?"

"Besides, there is such a thing as destiny in the Marvel Universe. Everything is predetermined. God has already arranged everything!"

“Oh, then why don’t we just lie down? Do we have to go to so much trouble to look for any lost memories?” Natalia said sarcastically with displeasure.

“Lie down?” Zhan Liu sneered, “Haha… You can only lie down if fate allows you to. If fate doesn’t allow you to lie down, you don’t even have the qualifications to do so.”

"Even if you don't cause trouble, trouble will come to you. You can't just lie down and be safe."

"If nothing else, this Infinity Stone in my hand is one of the greatest trouble attractors in the world."

After saying this, Zhan Liu took out the stolen artifact and began to fiddle with it to see if he could gain the power to control time.

"Infinity Gems? What are these?"

"It's similar to SHIELD's Cosmic Cube..." Zhan Liu shared the information about the Infinity Stones with Natalia, and finally concluded: "Collecting six Infinity Stones can make anything happen, just like a wishing machine, but the price is also very heavy. Without sufficient physical strength or mental will, ordinary people can't make that finger snap."

Natalia suddenly realized, "So other people will come to you one after another to snatch the Infinity Stones? Like the black magician who just chased out?"

Zhan Liu curled his lips in disdain, "That guy is just an idiot. There will naturally be a new Sorcerer Supreme to deal with him. He alone is not qualified to get his hands on the Infinity Stones. I'm talking about Thanos, the Overlord of the Universe."

"Well, there's another new character..." Natalia spread her hands in dissatisfaction and complained, "Can't you introduce all the relevant people to me at once?"

“Wow, that’s a huge project. It may take several days to finish it…” Zhan Liu scratched his head, feeling a little embarrassed.

"We have plenty of time now, don't we?" Natalia said meaningfully.

"Well, that's true! Let's start with the main members of the Avengers. The first one we must talk about is Iron Man Tony Stark..."

While Zhan Liu was educating Natalia, the war in Kamar-Taj was intensifying.

The death of the Supreme Sorcerer was a huge blow to all the mages, but at the same time, it also inspired the fighting spirit of all the mages, making them more powerful and defeating Casillas and other dark mages.

Dark magic is indeed easy to learn quickly, but orthodox wizards have the advantage of geographical location and can effectively utilize the various magic arrays and instruments of Kamar-Taj.

The fallen dark wizard was abandoned by his magic weapons, and due to the changes in his magic power, he was unable to use most of his magic circles, which caused the battle situation to gradually become one-sided.

However, Casillas never intended to defeat Kamar-Taj with this mob. If Kamar-Taj was so easily defeated, it would not be worthy of being called a temple.

The fierce battle left a large number of corpses in Kamar-Taj, which were excellent sacrifices and spellcasting materials for summoning the arrival of the demon.

While the two sides were fighting fiercely, Casillas had his men clean the floor of the hall of the New York Temple, then carved a huge magic circle on it, and then ordered people to secretly collect the corpses, regardless of whether they were enemies or friends, and put them all into the magic circle.

Before being completely defeated, Casillas finally prepared all the sacrifices.

As he chanted the spell, the magic circle slowly began to operate, swallowing up all the bloody corpses. The bloody smell instantly filled the entire hall. The ominous red light illuminated the entire room, and penetrated outside through the gaps in the doors and windows, dyeing everything red.

"Oh no! He is summoning the devil, we must stop him!" the Mage King exclaimed.

This sign is too obvious. Anyone with a little knowledge of magic will know how serious the consequences will be.

A group of wizards began to rush forward regardless of the cost, determined to kill the person in charge of the magic circle before the space gate opened and prevent the devil from coming here.

However, when the plan was about to succeed, the other dark wizards certainly did not want to fail, and they also fought for their lives.

As the sacrifice was absorbed bit by bit, the space gate finally opened.

A tide of dark magic surged in from the other end of the space gate, instantly blasting the space magic circle outside the New York Temple.

The New York Temple appeared in the surface world, crushing the original building at that location in an instant.

The sudden collapse of the building exposed the secret existence of the New York Temple directly to everyone.

As the dark magic spread and eroded, ordinary people simply could not withstand this energy. Hallucinations suddenly arose in their brains, and they were pulled into a psychedelic state and began to go crazy.

Dark magic can only amplify other people's dark desires and cannot create something out of nothing. However, the city is full of mortals. Living in a prosperous metropolis, with greed, anger, ignorance, love, hate, evil and desire... all the five poisons are present. How can one have a clear mind?

Anyone with even a little desire will find it difficult to control their heart in the face of this extraordinary magic power. They can only hold on for a moment before becoming a slave to darkness.

The kind-hearted and righteous person who appears to be righteous on weekdays has now torn off the veil, released the beast in his heart, and began to pursue his desires based on instinct.

Robbery, rape, killing... revenge is taken when there is hatred, complaints are complained when there is resentment, all the unrest starts from here.

New York, which has suffered many disasters, is once again facing destruction.

Looking at everything in front of him, Casillas laughed heartily. He knelt on the ground facing the space portal, raised his hands high, and prayed loudly.

"Praise the great Lord of Darkness!"

"Your loyal believer, Casillas, has prepared a rich sacrifice for you. We respectfully invite you to come!"

However, as he prayed, the space door opposite was silent, without any movement at all.

(End of this chapter)