Chapter 1681
After the dark clouds over the Mount Ximalaya dissipated, the weather became sunny. The blue of the sky was eerily purple. Barry, who had just finished exercising on the training ground, returned to his dormitory with his wand and covered in sweat, preparing to take a shower and then take a nap.
He saw little Bruce still leaning over the table, the table piled high with information. Under his pen, those curved and strange symbols that ordinary people couldn't look directly at filled the whole parchment. Barry felt dizzy just by looking at it.
"Another poor wretch addicted to forbidden knowledge." A voice sounded in Barry's mind. In Barry's mind, the pale Doctor Strange revealed a mocking smile and said, "It won't be long before your partner will be swallowed by this knowledge that humans cannot understand at all. He took the wrong path, so the faster he walks, the closer he will be to destruction."
"Is swallowing the counterparts of other universes the right path?" Barry said mockingly, "You are not as good as him."
"I will forgive your small offense, child, but that is only because of my mercy. Don't forget, you still have to rely on me to deal with your companions."
Barry was silent and didn't continue to speak. In the conversations of these few days, he had basically figured out the origin of this guy who came to him in his dream. He claimed to be Stephen Strange from another universe. In that universe, his code name was Doctor Strange.
However, this guy took a different path from the Strange Barry knew. He held an artifact called "Darkhold" in his hand, and at the same time swallowed the power of Doctor Strange in other universes through sleepwalking.
According to him, he had swallowed many counterparts in other universes and obtained extremely powerful power from them, and began to use this power to explore the boundaries of sleepwalking ability, in order to further master the power of the Darkhold.
Just as he was constantly exploring toward the edge, he discovered this strange universe. According to this Doctor Strange with three eyes on his head, this universe was at the edge that his sleepwalking power could reach. At the same time, he faintly felt the difference in this universe, thinking that there might be more powerful power waiting for him to swallow here.
But the problem was that he searched around in the dream world and didn't find the figure of Doctor Strange in this universe, so he followed some symbolic clues to Kamar-Taj Magic Academy and found Barry, who was also gifted.
Barry agreed to his request for a contract, not because he really wanted to do anything bad for this Doctor Strange, but just because the two companions around him were getting more and more wrong.
Since that day, little Bruce had become god-talking. He began to draw many twisted runes on paper without a teacher. This was the result of the glance he took in his dream. He was currently deciphering it, but Barry felt that little Bruce might be crazy.
Harley got some kind of strange Chaos Magic from somewhere. In the three preliminary matches that started recently, she was almost invincible and started very heavily. Her three unlucky opponents were stabbed at least once. Fortunately, this was a world of magic, and the wounds could almost be restored instantly, but one could tell from the screams of the victims that they must be very painful.
Barry now realized that the magic world was not beautiful at all. There were traps everywhere, chaos, confusion, and madness. Everyone was gradually becoming abnormal. If he didn't find a way to protect himself now, he would definitely suffer.
This strange Doctor Strange was not a good partner, but Barry had no choice. At least he looked rational and could communicate, better than those invisible and untouchable gods who would go crazy if they looked at them, right?
So far, Barry Allen was still just an ordinary child, but he had one good point, that was his moral bottom line was indestructible. At least when his parents were still alive, he was rational and could distinguish what was good and what was bad. Doctor Strange lured him several times, but failed.
However, he really didn't have the top wisdom like Harley or little Bruce, and was set up by Doctor Strange several times.
From his mouth, Doctor Strange learned that there was a whole complete big world in a very distant place, where there was powerful power waiting for him to discover.
For this reason, Doctor Strange was willing to wait, waiting for Barry to return to that universe, so as to give him a chance to master more powerful power.
Just like this, the three became each with their own ghosts in a sense. Little Bruce studied that forbidden knowledge and seemed to have obtained power from it. Harley mastered powerful Chaos Magic and had crazy wisdom as an aid. Barry received Doctor Strange's careful teaching and constantly polished his power on the training ground.
Soon, the preliminary matches ended, and the semi-finals came much faster than imagined.
It was still an overly sunny morning. The cold wind blowing through the valley also showed mercy for this grand event. The air was dry like every late autumn evening. Children rushed to the side of the playground in a disorderly manner like crowded sparrows.
The whole playground was the arena. On the cliff closest to the playground, a temporary viewing platform was set up, where all the professors in the academy so far sat. Today's referee was the Saint Sword Grand Mage. He waved his staff and fired a brilliant light into the sky. Immediately after, cheers erupted, and the contestants walked out of the crowd.
Unsurprisingly, Helen Stark, Harley Quinzel, Bruce Wayne, and Barry Allen all entered the semi-finals. This was actually not difficult, because the students in this school who had stable Demon God contracts so far were still a minority. Most of the ones they defeated were ordinary students who had just waved their wands and practiced a few spells.
The first one to appear was Helen, and the student she faced was a girl two grades older than her. The other party looked a bit scared, because so far, rumors that Helen was the heir were still circulating in the school. Students were afraid that they would participate in the struggle of the Asgardian royal family.
Helen floated slightly. Her divine power was inherited from Thor, so when she stretched out her hands, powerful power with electric light jumped between her hands. The girl opposite had just swung her wand, and an arc of electricity jumped precisely onto her wrist. With a "pop", the wand was knocked away.
The girl looked a bit flustered, but didn't give up. A rich dark power surrounded her body. Helen was not surprised. Doctor Strange in Barry Allen's brain, who was watching the fun next to the playground, let out an exclamation.
"Dormammu?!" Doctor Strange shouted this name in shock, and then said even more shockingly: "What about the Sorcerer Supreme? His student contracted Dormammu and fell into a believer of the Dark Dimension!"
"Can you stop making a fuss?" The high-intensity training during this period obviously exhausted Barry's energy. He curled his lips and said: "I also have Dormammu's phone number, do you want to call him?"
What happened next made Doctor Strange even more shocked—after this girl was defeated by Helen in a few moves, the next two students who appeared, one obtained the power of Mephisto's flame. When the raging hellfire burned on the playground, Doctor Strange thought this Lord of Hell had invaded Earth.
The other student was even more amazing. She waved her hand, and a full six deep red ribbons protected her body tightly. The rich Crimson Dimension power extinguished most of the demon flames.
Even though the two students were not old, they were old villains as soon as they opened their mouths.
"Shen Fang, you stepped on Satan's spine and left hell, stealing a flame that didn't belong to you from there. You are destined to be burned by it and fall into the abyss of hell without peace!"
"Shut up and listen, Andria Li! The power from the Crimson Dimension cannot make you see through the truth of this world. This world is destined to burn fiercely under my Lord's feet!"
"Too many words will only expose your weakness. I will let the heretics get the most profound lesson with Crimson Power!"
"Mephisto is the only evil!"
Countless flames emerged from behind the boy, almost burning through the spatial structure. Behind him, it seemed that volcanoes and abysses of hell appeared, and countless souls were screaming and wailing in them.
The girl flying in mid-air did not show weakness. A deep red big hand reached out from behind her, and the caught flames gradually extinguished like a candle in the wind. The low chanting of the Crimson believer was like distant thunder and like whispers nearby.
At this moment, the sky of the Mount Ximalaya was divided into two, half black and half red.
"What's going on? Demon Gods collectively attacking Earth?!" Doctor Strange shouted loudly in Barry's mind: "Even so, the Sorcerer Supreme of this universe doesn't care?! Where is he?!!!"
Barry dug his ears and said with some disdain: "You attach power to my eyes and look at the sky."
Doctor Strange attached his power to Barry's eyes with suspicion, opened his magic vision for him, and then found that two behemoths were floating in the mid-air of the Mount Ximalaya looking down.
Mephisto crossed his legs, constantly grabbing souls from the space cracks next to him and throwing them into his mouth, looking just like the old man eating melon seeds on the street. Cyttorak looked sleepy, his elbows resting on the chessboard, his hands supporting his cheeks, looking at the situation in the field with one eye half-closed.
"That's right, fight like this! Use fire to burn her ribbons... you are stupid, how can this be entangled by it?!"
"Can you be quiet?" Cyttorak curled his lips and said: "Noisy goat hooves."
"Hahahaha, my believer is about to knock yours down!"
Mephisto burst into a burst of laughter, but soon he couldn't laugh, because his believer was poisoned by a trick by a believer of the snake god Set in the next match. Mephisto immediately turned his head and glared at a certain phantom in the void.
Doctor Strange looked around, and the Demon Gods who were eating melon seeds and chatting and watching the game over the Mount Ximalaya were almost crowded. There were even Demon Gods opening a market on the edge to bet on winning or losing. After a match ended, the winner's side erupted into strong cheers.
For a time, gongs and drums were loud and firecrackers were ringing over the Earth. Those who didn't know thought the monkeys had attacked.
Although the monkeys were really there, obviously Doctor Strange was a bit confused by the current scene.
Demon Gods dared to come out to watch the fun so blatantly, is there anyone to manage it?! What about the Earth magic defense network? What about the Grand Mages, and more importantly, what about the Sorcerer Supreme???
Did the Sorcerer Supreme not even want his own home?!
So I am not the craziest one in the multiverse?!
End of Chapter
