American comics: I became a god at the beginning, I chose to practice both science and magic

Could it be that some supernatural entity has set its sights on Eternal Metal?

Although his guess was not completely correct, it was very close to the truth.

As they spoke, Dane had already killed all the mercenaries near the main gate of the base, some of whom were equipped with weapons made of eternal metal.

But it's all useless.

Dane wouldn't even give them a chance to shoot.

Before his men showed up, he had already released the Dream Stone, using the power of dreams to put them into a deep sleep.

Then he gives everyone a painless death with the kiss of death.

So if someone sees this later, they will find that all the dead have peaceful expressions, as if they are not dead, but just sleeping.

This made many people terrified and they dared not stay for a moment.

Those who are brave enough can still run inside, thinking of notifying some brothers to escape quickly.

The timid ones simply opened the gate of the base and escaped.

Ismail, who was sitting in his office, also saw the dead in the base through the monitoring room. He was even more certain that the murder must have been caused by some supernatural force.

But he didn't understand why all the soldiers died before they even had a chance to fire their guns.

If anyone could fire a gun, the eternal metal bullet in the gun would deal serious damage to that "thing"!

He saw his men packing up their things and preparing to flee, and couldn't help but curse, "Cowards!"

Then he turned around and went to pack his things.

He hasn't found the Crown of Shabak yet, he can't die here!

However, the development of things did not depend on his will.

Dane was alone, and he wasn't particularly dedicated to killing people; his only target was Ismael.

However, the Parallax Monster's aura of fear frightened all the mercenaries in the base, leaving only the thought of escape in their minds.

After the base gate was opened from the inside by the fleeing soldiers, the rebels lying in ambush outside discovered them.

At one point they thought they had been exposed and were ready to die heroically.

But I saw that the mercenaries were frightened by something and were running away for their lives.

Several leaders of the resistance army looked at each other in confusion. Someone couldn't help but ask, "It seems like something went wrong inside. Should we go in?"

It's obvious that there's something wrong. The best thing to do is to stay outside and see what happens first.

But one of the team leaders had a strong feeling that they should go in!

So he ignored the opposition and carefully walked into the base with a group of people.

But as they walked, they were surprised and even terrified.

Countless people who appeared intact died in strange ways. They would rather see the scene of blood and flesh flying everywhere due to being beaten by hot weapons than see this strange scene before them.

"Should we...should we still go in?" someone asked tremblingly.

The team leader who had just suggested coming in gritted his teeth and mustered up his courage:

"Go! This might be our best chance. As long as we kill their leader, the International Gang will immediately disintegrate, and Kandak can get the freedom he's always dreamed of!"

When the word "freedom" was mentioned, everyone had a sacred expression on their face, as if it was a beacon, a horn, giving them the courage to move forward.

So they stopped talking and continued to advance inward.

During this process, they did encounter some fleeing soldiers, but those people were frightened.

They had no intention of fighting back against their sudden intrusion. They all hated their parents for not giving them two more legs and ran out like the wind.

He didn't even look at these rebels.

The young rebels were worried, but they still went forward.

Until the end, in a dark room, a faint light seemed to illuminate a shadow.

It was an extremely tall shadow. The rebels could not see its face, but the breath of death that was overwhelming them almost made them stop breathing.

The "shadow" stood up from a corpse and looked back at them.

They also saw the pair of eyes that did not look human.

Instantly, boundless fear and darkness completely engulfed all the resistance soldiers, causing them to faint without even the slightest resistance.

Chapter 145 King Acton's Notes

On the other side, Dane, unaware that his aura of fear had already frightened someone, tilted his head and wondered, "What's going on?"

But seeing as they didn't look like they were already dead, Dane simply sprinkled some dream power on them so that they could sleep more peacefully.

When they woke up tomorrow morning, they would find that Kandak was free.

Of course, it was under the wise leadership of Boss Dai that we gained freedom.

Then he picked up the notes dropped by Ishmael. This villain boss who was torn in half by his hands when he appeared in "Black Adam" did not cause him any trouble and was killed instantly.

After all, all he could rely on was his bloodline as King Acton and the business empire he built on the exploitation of the citizens of Kandak.

He is just a very fragile human being and has no chance of turning things around in Dane's hands.

The book in Dane's hand records the whole story of the contract between King Acton and the devil thousands of years ago.

As the god of death, Dane does not have the ability to understand all human languages like Shazam, but when he turns back into a human, he often learns Shazam's magical knowledge.

And achieved some success.

So he used a simple ritual magic to easily summon the "Spirit of Solomon", which is the artificial intelligence of Solomon's wisdom that comes standard with Shazam.

As I said before, it likes Dane very much.

Then he asked it to translate the contents of the book for him on the spot.

It turned out that during the reign of King Acton, as a king, he felt the brevity of life and the impermanence of the world. Acton looked at Kandak, which was thriving in his hands, and he came up with an idea.

A thought that any emperor has had at one time or another is the hope of achieving immortality.

But God would not allow a tyrant like him to live forever, so Acton could not obtain the power of immortality from the gods.

But King Acton was a pragmatist. Since the gods could not fulfill his wishes, he was seduced by a black magician and began to come into contact with demonic culture, and became deeply fascinated by it.

Acton has since often used the inverted pentagram as his symbol, which is also the symbol of the monarch of Hell.

He was even obsessed enough to brand the symbol onto his own body, hoping to be closer to the devil and to Hell.

From that time on, Kandak entered a period of dark rule, and King Acton began to forge the Eternal Metal Crown according to the instructions of the demon lords.

Six demons from hell promised him that if he could wear the crown, he would be able to gain their power and become the new lord of hell.

But is the devil's favor so easy to obtain?

King Acton of course had to pay some price, and one of them was that as the new Lord of Hell, he had to give this world to them.

This means that he will become the vanguard of hell and hand over all the souls he slaughters and confiscates to the six demons.

You only have to put in a little effort, but what you gain is the soul of the entire world. This investment is actually very cost-effective.

This is especially true when the demons from hell cannot even set foot in the mortal world.

This contract is essentially a rip-off of "The Power of Shazam."

But King Acton's research into the mysteries did not stop there. In order to figure out what "Shabak" and "the power of Shazam" were, he did a lot of research.

During his reign, there were many magicians in Khandak. Acton learned a lot from those magicians and recorded it in this notebook.

Through this notebook, Dane was able to glimpse more secrets about gods and demons.

It is generally believed in the modern magic world that gods and demons cannot descend into the human world in their true form due to their special form of existence.

Therefore, they can only find a way to create a "demigod" or "half-demon" to preserve their power in the world.

But in the distant ancient times, humans, gods and demons could live together.

This kind of thing involves some essential questions about gods and demons.

The composition of demons is complex, including fallen angels, demons from other dimensions, and some are monsters that grow stronger by sinful human souls gnawing on other souls in hell.

These life forms are collectively called "demons" in hell, but if you insist on looking into them in detail, you may find that they all have their own origins.

Moreover, after countless years of blood mixing, the demon bloodline in hell has become more complicated, with all kinds of messy things on the DNA.

This also causes most demons to look messy, while those that look like humans have relatively pure bloodlines.

Demons feed on souls, so theoretically, the soul of any creature will do.

However, most demons still prefer the taste of human souls, which is said to be irresistible...

As for the gods, Dane learned from Morpheus that the origin of the gods was actually the embodiment of human imagination in dreams.

In the earliest days of life, the power of magic gave the gods in dreams the ability to descend into the human world.

At that time, Dane questioned, if humans came first and then gods, how to explain creationism?

And Morpheus explained the reasons to him.

Human beings’ imagination of time also embodies a god of time, but this god does not appear in the present moment when humans imagine him, but exists in the past when everything began.

Dane immediately understood the cause and effect of this.

What is "time"?

Many people think that time is a fixed thing, but it is not.

It is just a physical quantity created by humans to conveniently record the movement process of matter or the changes of things.

Objectively, time does not exist. It is just a standard set by humans, an artificial concept.

However, in life, human beings cannot do without the guidance of this concept in production and life, so the imagination of the god of time will produce tremendous telepathic power.

However, after the concept of "time" was created, it has three forms: past, present, and future.

No matter which time point is taken as the original coordinate point, the past and future time are always interspersed in it, so time certainly cannot only exist in the present, it must have started from a longer time ago.

And this time can be traced back to the beginning of creation.

So, at some point in the future, humans imagined the existence of the God of Time, and at the beginning of creation, the God of Time was born.

After He was born, He understood His mission and He also understood that He was born in the future of mankind.

So in order to ensure that his birth can become a closed loop and an established fact, he will try his best to ensure the birth of mankind.

The God of Time exists in the past and the future, so He knows very well which god will create humans in the future, and He will first ensure that this god is born.

Morpheus once thought that the Endless Family was the supreme ruler of all things because they did not need human worship, but after being enlightened by Dane, he understood.

"There has never been any god, no supreme being. We are all puppets of humanity, servants of humanity. We serve the survival of humanity."

Dane had seen similar words in comics before, but he didn't quite understand them at the time.

However, when he actually grasped the power of the gods himself, he began to understand its meaning.

The “human beings” here cannot be narrowly understood as the people on Earth453, but should be extended to all non-divine creatures in the countless multiverses.

This is the fundamental reason why gods are bound by rules. They are born from human dreams, so naturally they must serve humans.

When Loki caused Ragnarok, which threw all the gods into chaos, he was essentially trying to find a way to escape human control.

But they failed. If they did not want to be bound by the rules, they would not be able to stay in the human world.

With the awakening of human self-awareness and the deepening of understanding of the world, more and more people are beginning to question the nature of gods.

This dealt a heavy blow to the divinity of the gods and made them increasingly weaker.

Even the power of magic began to weaken. You know, at the beginning of the world, magic had the same quality as divine power, or even better.

But it was gradually weakened, and finally the helpless gods had to open up a new world and transfer the divine domain to that world. That was the origin of the fourth dimension.

Dane closed the notebook. This notebook greatly supplemented his understanding of the mysterious side and was a rare research material.

But those overly grand things have nothing to do with Dane now. He still has to focus on the present.

First of all, can we use that demonic contract to do something with the remaining demons in the Rock of the End?

If he wants to inherit hell in the future, he must have a reasonable identity.

Shazam and Death are both too orthodox and not very suitable, but the situation is different if there is a demon body.