Chapter 1611: No Time to Die (Part 10)

A long time ago, Schiller had seriously considered how to allow two worlds to communicate. This didn't mean letting the two worlds merge, because a merger could lead to too many unpredictable situations.

But appropriate communication was necessary. Because the styles of the two worlds differed greatly, there were naturally areas that could complement each other. Last time, the soul of the main universe's Batman accidentally entered Stark's body, and the collision of their wisdom produced many positive effects, but that was ultimately just an accidental situation.

Schiller had always wanted to find a stable channel that would allow characters from the two worlds to communicate, but unfortunately, Schiller was a human. He didn't have the transcendent perspective of a god. Many things were clear at a glance to gods, but to humans, they were mysteries.

But Schiller didn't embark on a path of understanding gods as a mortal; he chose to drive the gods directly.

However, even gods who were nearly omnipotent needed professional alignment. Previously, Schiller had tested Eternity a few times, but he didn't seem to know much about things outside the Great World. That is to say, at Eternity's level, he might just be working on orders and didn't know the secrets hidden behind that vast void.

Schiller knew that OAA definitely knew everything, but wanting to drive OAA was too troublesome and required paying many prices. Schiller could only settle for second best and set his sights on Oblivion, who was also one of the five gods but the most mysterious.

Facts proved that his judgment was correct. Although Oblivion was at the same level as Eternity, because of his special nature, he indeed had more understanding of the nothingness outside the Great World.

He didn't explain the structure of the universe outside the Great World to Schiller in detail, but when Schiller proposed that he hoped to establish a channel between the two Great Worlds, Oblivion didn't refuse immediately but started thinking. This proved that Oblivion probably did have the ability to create a channel in the nothingness.

But Oblivion raised a key question about Schiller's hole-digging plan: Schiller was an outsider. He could naturally appear in these two worlds swaggeringly, but if he were to move characters from this universe to another universe, how would the copyright issue be resolved?

Schiller had thought about this problem, and the final answer he reached was that as long as you don't shout it out loud, it should be fine.

This answer seemed absurd, but it was actually based on rigorous deduction. Before, when the main universe's Batman came to this universe, the universe didn't have any alarm mechanism, nor was there any prompt for the universe administrator that characters from other universes had invaded.

It was only later that Schiller set a trap to make Batman say that most classic quote that Eternity realized belatedly that a big guy had arrived. This showed that when famous characters visit each other, as long as there is no major problem, there is no problem.

Thinking about it, it's understandable. DC and Marvel comics have huge fan-fiction communities. Many of these fan works haven't obtained official authorization, but even the copyright-maniac Disney couldn't possibly go after every such fan work, because it simply makes no sense.

First, the income obtained by fan-fiction authors is truly the smallest of small change, not worth mentioning. Second, fan-fiction authors can effectively expand the influence of the original works. If all income incentives were wiped out and copyright issues were strictly enforced, then even if these two comic companies promoted themselves as hard as they could, they couldn't possibly have such wide influence.

Standing from the perspective of a transmigrator, if both Great Worlds wanted to strictly enforce copyright, they could completely set up an alarm in the underlying rules of the universe so that as soon as an alien life form is discovered, it immediately alerts the universe administrator to clear them out. But after several tests, this situation wasn't found. That is to say, as long as mutual traversal doesn't cause major chaos, there won't be any problems.

But for the sake of safety, Schiller still decided that the first premeditated traversal attempt should be limited to an independent space that had a connection with the main universe but also had some distance. This would make it less likely to be discovered, and even if something went wrong, it would be easier to solve.

Precisely because Schiller had this idea long ago, Bruce proposed expanding this plan when the magic world wanted to build a magic school hidden under the Cat Getan River. Directly building a Cat Getan inner world perfectly met the conditions of being connected to this universe while having some distance, and being easier to solve if something went wrong.

Everything was ready, only the east wind was missing. As a reward for the main universe's Batman going to Marvel, Schiller originally wanted to move Stark to the main universe to help the main universe's Batman, but Strange courted death himself. Schiller, upholding his consistent tolerance, kicked him into the hole Oblivion dug.

But actually, there was a benefit. When building the inner world, the remaining magic world figures helped out a lot. It could be said to be a concerted effort. Now that the inner world was almost built, Batman naturally should provide feedback and put the construction of the magic academy on the agenda.

However, after the vampire invasion and the demon king supply cut, there were too few people left in the magic world, and even fewer who could be teachers. Even if people like Zatanna and Constantine, who weren't very suitable to be teachers, were forced to teach, there were still many professor positions vacant.

But Strange also had relatively rich teaching experience in the dream school and could become a very competent professor at the magic academy. More importantly, his moral level indeed met Cat Getan's requirements. When students had shocking remarks, he wouldn't be overly surprised.

This was actually very important, because based on Schiller's understanding of Cat Getan University students, many of the papers they handed in could be called mental pollution. Even the most cruel and evil black mages in the magic world would have to exclaim "You are truly too extreme." A teacher with morals couldn't look at this.

Strange was a very typical human supremacist. He even had a narrow definition of the human race. You must first think of yourself as a human, and not have done anything to betray the human race in your behavior, to count as a human. Everything else was non-human, and he wouldn't feel heartache no matter how many died. This fit Cat Getan's tone very well.

After Strange woke up from his initial dizziness, he looked at the two people in front of him with a dazed expression. Schiller explained the current situation to him in the simplest language, summarizing it in one sentence—either work, or die.

Strange stared at Schiller with a complex gaze and said: "So, you started a magic school in another world, and because you lacked professors, you brought me here? I have to teach and bring students here now, otherwise I can't get out?"

Schiller nodded and said: "In a while, we'll go up to meet our colleagues, then visit and familiarize ourselves with the school. Once everything is arranged, we'll start the first round of recruitment."

"Start the first round of recruitment?" Strange raised his tone and said with some surprise: "So this school doesn't have any students yet?"

"Everything is waiting to be done, sir." Bruce spoke up and said: "Are we going up now?"

"He is..." Strange looked at Schiller and asked.

"My student." Schiller answered concisely, then turned and walked toward the door. Strange and Bruce followed behind him.

Going up from the basement door, Strange found himself in a castle. It looked a bit like a Gothic ancient castle, but it wasn't dilapidated or dark; instead, it looked like it had just been built, with a slightly dark-styled magnificence.

When passing the first intersection, Bruce turned in a different direction from them, and Schiller didn't say anything, just led Strange all the way up.

Passing a slightly intricate spiral staircase, they arrived in a third-floor corridor. The floor here was entirely covered with dark red carpets, and the doors had complex decorative patterns, looking extremely retro. Combined with the magic candlesticks floating on both sides of the corridor, it had quite a fantastical magnificence.

"It seems like you've reproduced the magic school in your Tower of Thought." Strange looked up at the layout of the corridor and said: "But it's a bit different."

"I omitted some parts that had no practical value." Schiller pushed open the office door and said: "The magic in this world isn't that beautiful. Students had better not have any fantasies about it."

After entering the door, the light suddenly brightened. Deep red curtains hung beside huge wooden floor-to-ceiling windows, appearing complex and gorgeous. The smooth walnut floor reflected the sunlight spilling in. Professors in mage robes gathered in twos and threes, finally confirming the precautions before recruitment. Constantine, rarely wearing a formal mage outfit, a Baroque-style shirt and trousers, with a deep red robe outside, was researching teaching materials with Master Andrew.

Hearing the footsteps at the door, he looked up and saw Schiller and Strange following behind him. He flicked the long sleeves of his mage robe and walked over quickly.

"Back so soon? This must be the external professor, right? Hello, I'm John Constantine."

Strange stepped forward and shook hands with Constantine. Constantine looked at his own hand as if very surprised. Before he could say anything stupid, Schiller interrupted him and said: "He comes from a world exactly like ours, except there is no Cat Getan or Metropolis there; the two cities merged into New York."

"Let me introduce: Stephen Strange. In the universe he belongs to, people call him the 'Sorcerer Supreme'."

Instantly, everyone in the room turned their gaze to Strange. Strange just nodded calmly in response to everyone's gaze, then said: "It's not that I'm being humble, it's just that I'm not the strongest Sorcerer Supreme. The one known as the strongest Sorcerer Supreme in history is my teacher, the Ancient One."

"She must be a great mage of both virtue and talent." Constantine complimented. Strange nodded at him and said: "Hello, Master Constantine, are you also a professor at this school?"

Speaking of this, Constantine showed a bitter smile, nodded, and said: "Yes, I'm also a professor now, and even the professor of the most important main course."

"Then what course do you teach?"

"Uh..." Constantine hesitated, seeming to feel a bit ashamed to speak, but seeing Strange's increasingly curious gaze, he still had to say: "Mainly popularizing demon kings and angels to the students, and then teaching them how to deal with this group of powerful guys."

"That is, teaching them how to scam demon gods."

Schiller summarized expressionlessly. Constantine looked at him with annoyance and said: "We agreed not to mention this!"

Strange's eyes lit up with a "Zeng." ===== CHAPTER 1612 =====