Lord of Cinder in American Comics

They were all prepared to be threatened by the magician, but Constantine just sighed.

Without making any further moves, Natasha finished breakfast with Constantine.

"Leave as soon as possible."

After the meal, Constantine asked them to leave.

Without waiting for Natasha to leave, Constantine returned to his bed, closed his eyes, and began to rest.

Although she possesses the power of the Lord of Cinder, which allows her to perform multitasking, the shifts in perspective and the subtle movements still make Ashe feel uncomfortable.

This discomfort is simply the discomfort caused by processing information from multiple perspectives. However, to avoid this discomfort, Ash still keeps unused bodies in a dormant state. This is why all the clones that were found were in a lazy state.

Natasha's half-dead state made her think she had done something that triggered Constantine's melancholic memories.

After passing the conversation to Fury, Natasha quietly began helping to clean the storage room.

She was supposed to quickly reach the S.H.I.E.L.D. contact point and wait to be reactivated. Instead, she was washing dishes in Constantine's storeroom.

She didn't know why she did it; she just couldn't help herself when she saw someone like Constantine.

Having done everything she could, Natasha even prepared food for the next meal and put it in the refrigerator. It could be taken out and eaten whenever someone needed it.

Looking at Constantine lying lifeless on the bed, Natasha dried her hands, packed up all her belongings, and prepared to leave.

However, at that moment, a vortex shining with red light appeared in the room, and then a woman radiating red light, with a blindfold wrapped around her head, wearing a feather shawl, a black dress, and barefoot, appeared in the spot.

Chapter 102: Carcharus

Natasha, who had been shocked for decades by the big move made by the man in black, saw the red vortex and thought it was the evil god from before coming to take revenge.

There wasn't enough time to wake Constantine, and given his sleeping habits, even whispering in his ear might not wake him. So Natasha simply pulled out her pistol and started firing wildly at the figure that appeared.

Although it's unknown whether the bullets will be effective, the decibel level of the gunshot inside the room should be enough to wake Constantine. As long as Constantine wakes up, there will still be a chance.

Having made up her mind, Natasha pulled the trigger with a sound so smooth it was almost like a submachine gun, emptying the fifteen-round magazine in an instant.

However, all they saw was this woman, who was covered in red light, pull out a long whip from her waist and wave it to deflect all the bullets aimed at her.

The bullets ricocheted wildly in the room, smashing various pieces of furniture. One bullet even grazed Constantine's nose as he lay there and hit the wall.

After Natasha finished firing, she dodged behind the refrigerator to reload. However, a long whip bypassed the refrigerator and wrapped itself around her neck.

With a flick of the other end of the whip, Natasha was knocked over everything in her path from behind the refrigerator, and brought directly to the woman in black.

Natasha, with a whip around her neck, was curled up and kneeling at the feet of another woman; the scene was somewhat awkward.

Just as the woman, who was entirely black and glowing red, raised her other hand to her mouth as if to blow something, Constantine finally woke up.

“Stop, Kakaruz,” Constantine called to halt the woman’s next move.

Kacherous, a white ghost encountered in the game in front of the Old Demon King boss in the Catacombs, assists the Ashbringers in defeating the Old Demon King. Originally an apprentice of Komicus of the Great Swamp, he was disliked by his teacher for learning forbidden poison magic. In order to seek his teacher's forgiveness, he embarks on a journey alone to find new magic, attempting to acquire new spells to gain his teacher's forgiveness.

After joining forces with Ash to slay the old Demon King, Kecharus, having acquired new spells, returned to the cage where his teacher was in the Undead Settlement. Unable to find his teacher, he committed suicide next to the cage.

Ash waited for months in the Undead Settlement to save another apprentice of the sorcerer, finally encountering this senior sister and preventing a tragedy from occurring.

But when Kacherus saw the old sorcerer again, she learned that Ash was the new apprentice, which made her very jealous.

On one hand, Ash had taken away her teacher's favor; on the other hand, Ash helped her kill the old Demon King, obtained new spells, and prevented her from committing suicide.

As a result, Kakaros now feels both grateful and jealous of Ash (Constantine). Although Kakaros tries his best to fulfill Constantine's requests, his attitude is, to put it mildly, acceptable.

Constantine stopped Kakarus from behind. Sitting on the bed, Constantine lit a cigarette and held it in his hand, looking at the two people in the living room.

Carrying Natasha by the whip, Cacharus glanced at Constantine with displeasure, but still put Natasha down as Constantine had instructed.

He ignored Natasha, who was lying at his feet, gasping and coughing violently as she suffocated from the whip wrapped around her neck.

Kakarus hung the colorful whip back on his waist and said to Constantine, "The teacher has agreed to go to the Ringed City, and at the teacher's urging, Kirk has also agreed to bury the White Spider in the Ringed City. However, he requires you to go there in person."

Upon hearing Carcharus's words, Constantine was jolted awake from his drowsiness and fell into deep thought and reminiscence.

Upon seeing Constantine's appearance, Kacalus seemed to realize something. Without saying a word, he used the Farewell Crystal to return to his own time and space, handing over the current moment to Constantine.

Sitting on the bed, the cigarette in his hand had burned his fingers, but Constantine, lost in thought and memories, seemed completely oblivious.

Natasha, having gotten up from the ground, saw this scene. She simply reached out and took the cigarette butt from Constantine's hand, extinguished it, and threw it into the trash can to prevent a fire.

As he met new people and heard new names, more and more mysteries surrounded Constantine.

Natasha had no choice but to use the communication device she always carried to send the recording and video to Fury, leaving Fury to worry about this.

This made Fury, who was keeping a close eye on the situation, curious: who exactly was Constantine's teacher, who was Kirk, and who was the White Spider?

Having secretly entrusted Natasha with the task of continuous observation and intelligence gathering, Fury went to attend to other matters. Compared to the matter of the magician, there were now more important things to deal with.

Natasha looked at the mission instructions, then glanced at Constantine, who was sitting on the bed deep in thought and was beginning to exude an aura that kept strangers at bay.

Gently rubbing the marks on her neck, Natasha felt even more disappointed with this mission. Constantine clearly disliked her, and then there was the mysterious Kacherus who attacked her on sight. Not to mention the potential teachers and Kirk she might encounter in the future—the name "White Spider" alone suggested she wasn't human!

But a mission is a mission, and as a low-ranking agent, I have no right to refuse; I can only complete the orders from my superiors.

Looking at the devastated interior, riddled with stray bullets, and then at Constantine sitting on the bed, Natasha began to despair about the mission.

After managing to tidy up the broken items in the room and bagging the trash outside, Natasha prepared to go out again to take advantage of the free shopping spree caused by the orcs and add some of her own belongings to the room. Perhaps she would continue to extract information from Constantine; she was preparing for a long haul.

However, just as she was about to leave, the wolf bone ashes tied to her chest flew up on their own, passed through the entire room, and landed in Constantine's hand.

Blue light swirled in Constantine's hand, flowing into the box containing the wolf's ashes.

He tossed the urn to Natasha. He should have started making sarcastic remarks long ago, but Constantine didn't say a word. He just lowered his head and touched the book that had appeared in his arms.

It was a black book wrapped in black cloth strips with dark gold trim, elegant and precious. The contents of the book, faintly visible through the cloth strips, were written in an unknown gold script.

Constantine stroked the book as if he were caressing a former lover. This only fueled Natasha's curiosity.

However, Constantine's condition at this moment clearly made it not a good time to ask questions. Natasha simply took the urn that had been thrown at her and put it back around her neck.

Natasha pulled out her pistol and tucked it into her coat pocket before heading outside. Her current goal was to buy some free items and perhaps get herself some new household goods.

Chapter 103: Heartache for the White Spider

Ash knew what Constantine knew.

In the Fire Keeper's eyes, Ash's soul began to sink into the abyss, the humanity of the abyss enveloped Ash, and the scenes from her memories filled Ash's entire soul.

Although the others didn't have the Fire Keeper's ability to look directly into souls, the aura emanating from Ashe made them instinctively keep their distance.

Some timid individuals gradually reduced the frequency with which they pulled the trigger, fearing that they might have done something wrong to offend this big shot.

Leslie received another batch of requests from people wanting to sell their properties.

Ash, who keeps strangers at bay, arrived at the top of the tower. This was originally a place where the Fire Keepers would relax and unwind, and Ash would often accompany them here to rest.

But at this moment, the tower belonged to Ashe. The understanding Fire Keeper blocked anyone who tried to approach, including Cassell and Stark, who were somewhat worried about Ashe.

Ash gazed into the distance, and following his line of sight was New York, visible to everyone else. But in Ash's eyes, the other side was the Ash Graveyard of Dark Souls, the high walls of Lothric, and Irithyll of the Boreal Valley…

Daylight quickly passed, and night fell. Ash, who had spent the entire day in the tower, still showed no intention of coming down.

Ash remained gazing into the distance, and faintly heard hushed conversations coming from below the tower.

“Casel, I need to step on you to get up there, not for you to push me up…”

"Damn it, Stark, can't you keep your voice down? That crazy woman with the lightsaber is patrolling down there."

Looking down from the tower, one could see that on the watchtower above the gate of the sacrificial site, Cassell was half-crouched, letting Stark step on his shoulders to climb onto the roof of the sacrificial site.

Then, Stark lay on the roof and reached out to pull Cassel up.

However, because of Cassel's weight, Stark couldn't help but lament, "Cassel, you need to lose weight, you absolutely have to lose weight, I can't move you at all!"

Cassell gripped Stark's arm with one hand and clung to the roof with the other. His feet were dangling in the air as he flailed about, trying to scale the surface and reach the roof.

Finally, after much effort, the two managed to climb onto the roof, which was within easy reach.

After resting for a while, panting, on the edge of the eaves, the two tiptoed away, only to be met with a series of urgent caws from crows beside them.

"Kassel, what did you run into? Are there birds here?"

Stark immediately shifted the blame to Cassel and searched for the source of the sound. Following the sound, he saw only an empty bird's nest with scattered feathers; there were no birds in sight.

However, the raven's crow persisted. They even heard Iris, wielding the blue orb dagger, walking towards them.

"I don't have time for you to look anymore, hurry up and go."

The faint glow emanating from the crystal blade of the Sapphire Bead Short Sword was already visible. Cassell grabbed Stark and ran towards the tower's connecting corridor without looking back.

The target was the gap in the broken corridor and the broken stone pillars. The two tried to jump onto the stone pillars and then climb back onto the corridor.

However, the two clearly overestimated their abilities. They struggled to even climb the roof, and stared wide-eyed at the stone pillar that was almost two people tall in front of them.

"Stark, is this the distance you visually estimated you could climb? Aren't you a scientist? How could you make such a mistake?"

It was obvious that the two were unable to climb the stone pillar, and their plan ultimately failed.

Stark argued, "It's so dark, how could I see anything?"

Just as the two were about to continue arguing and figure out whose fault it was, Iris's patrol was about to arrive.

The two immediately shut their mouths and looked for a place to hide.

However, the only passage on the empty rooftop of the sacrificial site was through the gap in front, leading into the interior of the site.

But hearing the crows cawing in the nest, Iris was walking this way along the same path.

Just as the two were pacing anxiously, Ash opened the iron gate of the tower, waved at them, and said, "What are you doing?"

Upon seeing Ash, Cassel replied, "Uh, we wanted to grab a drink with you, and we were figuring out how to get up there. Now we're figuring out how to get down."

Ash pointed to the ladder right in front of them, looking at the two of them with a hint of helplessness.

"Damn it, Stark, it's all your fault for planning to climb the pillar. The ladder was right there and you didn't even know."

"How can you blame me? It's because you didn't scout the area beforehand..."

Despite their bickering and sabotage, Stark and Cassel still sincerely climbed the ladder and descended from the sacrificial site.

To avoid being discovered by Iris, the two quickly slipped through the iron gate of the tower and went up the spiral staircase.

As Ash prepared to close the iron gate, she sensed that Iris had also moved away from the area.

Back on the tower, Stark and Cassel, like Ash during the day, gazed at the view of New York.