American comics: From Hogwarts to God on Earth

Chapter 201 Buying on credit is not a good habit, especially when the creditor is strong enough to kill you with a slap.

Since arriving in front of Nelson, Nab has been putting on an aloof act, trying to appear as if the God of Order is supreme and that he disdains to argue with a bunch of juniors.

How hypocritical! I hope you'll remain aloof after hearing what I'm about to say. Thinking this, Rune continued, "Right now, our world is undergoing an unprecedented upheaval. First, I need to explain something to you: I possess the ability to travel between dimensions. During my trip to another world, where I incidentally saved this one, I discovered a terrifying world-invading organization—"

When Rune said those words, a glint of light appeared in the eye area of ​​the Helmet of Fate.

Nelson frowned even more: "What evidence do you have?"

"Why would I need to lie to you?" Rune retorted, leaving Nelson speechless.

Ignoring the old man's silence, Rune continued, "And I can tell you definitively that this organization is far more powerful than you can imagine, so I hope we can form an alliance with another world that has been saved."

Nelson and Naboo naturally had no objections; the benefits of this matter definitely outweighed the drawbacks.

"But I must warn you, Rune!" Nab, who had been pretending to be an expert, hid inside the Helmet of Fate. Under the control of order magic, the helmet flew up and stared directly at Rune: "You must be careful. Not every dimension is friendly, and your journey cannot continue smoothly."

Rune looked at Nab and nodded in agreement. In fact, he knew more about the matter than Nab did.

Leaving aside the fact that Earth-2149 in the Marvel Universe is teeming with zombies, and that even the Goddess of Death herself was sacrificed...

The entire universe has been transformed into Earth, a slave to unspeakable things. The DC universe also contains a dark multiverse, and almost every normal universe corresponds to a dark multiverse. Therefore, the proportion of those unfriendly dimensions in DC is much higher than in Marvel.

Honestly, Rune would be surprised if Naboo didn't know about the Dark Multiverse.

"Thank you for reminding me, but there's one more thing, and it's very important," Rune continued. "I want to change the current spellcasting system in the universe."

Both the DC Universe and the Marvel Universe require a price to be paid for casting spells, but the Marvel Universe's spellcasting system is clearly more reasonable. Spellcasters provide creditors with abstract concepts such as pain and sorrow, as well as food or resources to become stronger, while creditors provide spellcasters with magic power. The two sides reach a deal and each gets what they need.

However, in the DC Universe, apart from those with angelic or demonic bloodlines who are God-side spellcasters and other strange and unusual sources of magic, the vast majority of spellcasters use the magic of the Upside-Down Man, the god of magic in the Dark Multiverse, and their actions are quite malicious—they are on credit, even though they themselves are unaware of it. The Upside-Down Man will inevitably travel to every universe and reclaim what is rightfully his.

Rune isn't some death knell named Sue, and he wasn't sure if he could make the Upside Down understand what a loan was, so his solution was to introduce gods from the Marvel Universe and rebuild the spellcasting system.

"--That's it, what do you think?" Rune asked, but although he asked it that way, he had already made up his mind to do it. Moreover, Rune not only wanted to do it, he would also ask Naboo or Doctor Fate to directly promote this spellcasting system.

"No! The intervention of other cosmic deities is a disruption of the existing magical order, and I will never allow this to happen!" Nab shouted in protest, and because he was so eager, his words were imbued with magic, as if countless men, women, and children were speaking along with him.

But Nelson squinted; he felt something was off.

"Why would you want to disrupt the existing spellcasting system again?" Nelson asked. This old man had been deceived by Naboo and had fought against countless evil people, so he was able to keenly perceive Rune's dissatisfaction with the existing spellcasting system. Judging from Rune's actions in helping Raven, he was not a bad person.

Rune briefly explained the current source of magic in the entire universe, then asked, "Do you think this is correct?"

"Magic actually comes at a price?" Nelson shouted, grabbing the helmet and turning it towards himself. "Naboo, tell me! Is this true?"

After the New Year, Rune would still need to learn magic from Nabu, so he didn't reveal the shameful things Nabu had done.

Despite this, Nab remained stammering and unable to speak. Nelson, of course, understood. Nab had reacted the same way when Nelson confronted him about his father's death.

His father was killed by the poisonous gas released from the sarcophagus that contained Nabu.

Upon learning the truth, Nelson immediately realized the gravity of the situation. The magic the mages had borrowed would eventually be repaid with interest, and the repayment might take the form of their souls, a distortion of reality, or even becoming puppets of the inverted beings. "I—" Nelson was stunned by this explosive information, his head felt like it was going to explode: "I—I think—Wait, let me think about it carefully."

After a long while, Nelson, under Rune's gaze, replied, "I need to ascertain the thoughts of those gods. If the new gods can help us get rid of the dark magic god you mentioned and help us fight against a more powerful threat, then rebuilding the entire spellcasting system is not out of the question."

Rune nodded. As expected of the first generation of Fate Doctor, he still has some sense of responsibility.

"However, how do we promote this new generation of spellcasting system?" Nelson frowned. "The mages are used to 'free trials,' and now we're suddenly asking them to pay for the 'official version'? Will they agree?"

"Yes," Rune's smile widened. "At this time, we need a hero of high standing in the magical world to actively promote this 'official program.' Don't you think so? The symbol of magical order..."

One of the universe's top guardians, the highest authority in the magical world, and the spiritual leader of modern mages—Master Destiny?

Nelson paused for a moment before bursting into laughter.

"No wonder, no wonder you returned the helmet." He laughed until tears streamed down his face. "You little rascal, you actually wanted to rehire an elderly person who's already lying in a hospital bed! You're heartless!"

"What can I do?" Rune rolled his eyes. "I don't have many friends in the magical world to begin with, and I even had a falling out with Zatanna, a true champion of the magical world, because of the Three Palaces Demoness incident. All I have left are Constantine and Ittigern, but do any mages listen to those two?"

Nelson fell silent, because Rune was absolutely right. Besides, even if Rune wanted to delegate the task to someone else, he wouldn't trust them with that!