American comics: From Hogwarts to God on Earth

Chapter 217 Beating Hecate

Seeing that things were going badly, Circe chose to run away. For someone who frequently clashed with the Amazons, running away was an essential skill, and Circe's running away skills were quite superb.

She first made a desperate gesture, tearing reality apart with her powerful magic. The torn space fragments became weapons of indiscriminate attack, instantly shattering the Mirror Dimension spell. At the same time, Cersei also released a spell that could obscure vision, and then opened a portal and left.

This series of fluid and extremely smooth movements actually allowed her to escape successfully!

Circe had no intention of sacrificing herself for Hecate's orders. She was a vicious woman, a pure villain, and an absolute egoist. So don't expect her to actually die for Hecate—even if Hecate granted her immortality. Moreover, in the original world, Circe not only failed to help Hecate escape being devoured by the Upside-Downs, but actually fueled it.

When the Vishanti descended and constructed a new magical system, Hecate, who was chasing after a woman who contained one-fifth of her power in the river of time, was furious.

Her original plan was to have Cersei entangle the guys who were trying to summon evil gods from other dimensions, while she went to retrieve the scattered power, and finally, upon her return, she would extract the last fifth of the power from Cersei's body to become the God of Magic of the multiverse once again.

With such power, Hecate naturally possesses near-limitless authority in the magical realm, easily thwarting the foolish plans of those bastards and preventing the invasion of evil gods from other dimensions.

But Cersei clearly disappointed her. So she gave up on pursuing that power and went directly to Rune and his group.

When the enraged goddess of magic appeared, Nab, manipulating Doctor Fate's body, expressed his desire to leave to Rune. He was in the wrong for imprisoning Hecate in the first place. Although he later realized his mistake and had been pathologically obsessed with maintaining the order and balance of the magical world, he still dared not face Hecate directly.

"—I'm sorry, Rune." Nab lowered his head, not daring to look Rune in the eye, because he also felt guilty towards Rune. Nab questioned Rune's plan because he was unsure whether the gods from another dimension could really change the spellcasting system of the entire DC universe. However, after going to the Marvel world and meeting the Vishanti, Nab no longer had any doubts.

The magic of the New York Sanctum is exactly the same as that of the Vishanti, which means that the Vishanti are really protecting the Earth—or rather, it is the mages who use their power who are protecting the Earth. But for Naboo, it is the same. He already understands that although introducing the Vishanti will cause turmoil in the magical world, the result will definitely be good.

However, now, his decision to leave stems from guilt towards Hecarim, and also from guilt towards Rune. Rune was truly working for the benefit of the entire DC universe, but what about himself?

However, Rune did not refuse Doctor Fate's request, because the upcoming duel would no longer require Doctor Fate.

Doctor Fate nodded and then left. He had many things to do next, and promoting the new magic system was not even his priority. His primary task now was to inform the major powers in the universe about the change of magic systems, such as the group of little blue men on Planet Oa.

Rune carefully observed the goddess of magic. She was tall with brown skin and had three heads and six arms. The head in the middle looked like a emaciated old woman, with a fierce light shining in its eyes. At this moment, Hecate did not look like the gentle goddess of magic at all, but rather more like the inverted being from the dark multiverse.

Rune took flight and shouted, "I thought the one coming to stop me would be the Phantom Stranger, but I didn't expect it to be you, Hecate!"

The Phantom Stranger is also a magic-based hero, and he is likely even more powerful than Doctor Fate, as his power comes directly from God. Therefore, Rune initially assumed the Phantom Stranger would be the one to stop him, but it turned out to be Hecate instead.

The Phantom Stranger was easy to talk to and could distinguish right from wrong, good from evil, and discern truth from deception—oh, Rune seemed to know why the stranger hadn't come to stop him.

"I know you," Hecate stared intently at Rune, "It was you who wanted to summon an evil god from another world, it was you who wanted to replace the magic system, you traitor!"

"Wait!" Rune frowned. "How am I a traitor?"

Hecate remained silent, launching her attack at zero frames. Her power surged into reality like a tidal wave, distorting spacetime. Rune and Vishanti were almost instantly pulled into a void. At the same time, countless chains shot out, attempting to bind the three gods, but Hoggs roared, and a strange energy instantly shattered all the chains.

Agamotto didn't say much, and immediately used Time Freeze to completely lock Hecate's movements. However, this was destined not to last long. Oshutu blew a breath, and a gust of wind appeared inexplicably in this void. It was not swift, but rather very gentle. But when Hecate broke free from the shackles of time, she found that she could not move.

"What have you done to me?" Hecate screamed. "Enough, Hecate!" Rune shouted, looking coldly at the goddess of magic, and then threw a crimson ruby ​​into the air. This time, the demon he summoned was far less gentle than the three Vishanti.

A colossal crimson overlord appeared in this void. He was tall and had a ferocious face. He wore thick red armor and his muscles bulged. The first thing this terrifying being did upon landing was to look at Rune.

"Is this the trouble you were talking about?"

Rune nodded helplessly: "I thought it was some other kind of trouble, but it turns out this magical avatar is even more foolish than I imagined."

Hecate, who had been inexplicably insulted, glared angrily at Rune. She knew she had actually failed, but she couldn't accept this reality—shouldn't she at least kill Rune?

Upon seeing that it was Cytorak, Hoggs burst into laughter. He said to Oshutu, "Girl, let go of that wretched woman and let Cytorak have some fun with her, how about it?"

Meanwhile, Hecate was struggling violently, and Oshutu complied with her choice. She blew again, and a scent of springtime fields filled the air. The gentle breeze that had been binding Hecate completely lost its power. Setorak then looked at Rune and asked, "Can you kill her?"

"cannot."

Upon receiving the reply, Cytorak was inevitably somewhat disappointed. He didn't bother with anything and simply ran up to Hecate. Magic shield? Useless. Offensive magic? Shattered with a single punch. Creating a black hole with massive amounts of magic? Let my fist do the talking!