Chapter 3044

"This is a trap," Bruce judged. "We are overwhelmed by the chaos on Mercury, and we have sufficient evidence to prove that this chaos was caused by Circe. Once we hear the news of her death, we will inevitably send people to investigate."

"Because as long as it is confirmed that the one who died is the real witch Circe, the crisis on Mercury will be resolved. Under the pressure of continuous passive defense, we might be eager to confirm."

"On the premise of knowing that the other party has mind-control ability, sending people is not safe. It is best for one or several of us to go to Earth to check in person. Who do you think we will send?"

The others looked at each other, and finally their eyes fell on Diana. Bruce nodded and said, "Diana is the best choice, because she is proficient in magic and has some understanding of Circe. She is the easiest person to judge whether the witch is really dead."

"But once she leaves, the magic-side strength we finally supplemented will plummet again, and the success rate of the mastermind lurking on Mercury making another move to cause chaos will be much higher."

"Diversion?"

"Not only that," Bruce shook his head and said, "Diana going back to Earth alone is isolated and helpless. Remember the story Diana told us about the Goddess of Magic before?"

Hearing him say this, the others frowned. Clark whispered the story to Oliver, while Bruce continued, "I suspect that the Goddess of Magic, Hecate, may have awakened in advance, and her target is Diana."

The others weren't stupid either. Arthur followed this line of thought and said, "If it's Hecate playing tricks behind the scenes, then this might be a plan to kill two birds with one stone."

"She first creates chaos on Mercury, tying up all our energy, and then leaves enough evidence on Mercury pointing to Circe. While we are busy investigating, she makes a move to kill the witch Circe on Earth, where defenses are empty."

"Then she announces the news of Circe's death, luring Diana to investigate. Once Diana enters Earth, she traps or kills her. In this way, she solves two problems at once, and she can still hide completely without revealing any flaws."

"There is only one problem," Clark raised a finger and questioned, "Why does she want to kill the witch Circe?"

"That is part of her power," Diana sighed and said, "She divided her power into five parts and gave them to five girls, known as the Witchmark. Circe is one of them."

"If reclaiming power doesn't require killing the other party, then maybe Circe is also eyeing this power. In the child abuse case, didn't Circe say she was looking for a girl? She might be trying to swallow these powers alone before Hecate, and this angered Hecate, which is why Hecate wants to kill her."

"In other words, the one who has been hiding in the Mercury base is actually the Goddess of Magic, not Circe? Then where did she get Circe's power... Oh, Circe's power comes from her; I almost forgot about this." Oliver patted his forehead and said.

Diana stared at the cube in her hand and nodded, saying, "That's indeed the case. The reason why the witch Circe's power is so easy to identify is that it is different from almost all magical powers; it is a special witchcraft. But it's not that only Circe can use this power; the source of witchcraft power, Hecate, can naturally use it too."

"Since that's the case, we can't send Diana to investigate," Clark said. "The enemy wants us to do this, so we can't do it. We must never let her succeed."

"But someone must investigate this case," Bruce said. "Don't forget, Lila predicted that a tragedy would happen tonight. Circe's death can indeed be called tragic, so who made her so tragic?"

So they all thought of another point in Lila's prophecy, which was that the tragedy happening tonight would be related to Schiller.

"Do you think Schiller did this?" Oliver's brows were deeply furrowed. He said, "I don't think Schiller couldn't do this kind of thing, but why would he do this?"

"I don't understand either," Diana said. "Circe did participate in the child abuse case, which would make Professor Schiller very angry. It's not strange that he wants to kill her; what's strange is, how did he know Circe was on Earth, and how did he find Circe, who could use magic, and successfully kill her?"

No one could answer these doubts.

Now they understood why Bruce said they must investigate, because the series of events was too coincidental.

Schiller's mental state suddenly worsened, Circe died in a tragedy related to Schiller, and they deduced that it might be Hecate who had awakened in advance and was playing tricks behind the scenes.

Based on this series of coincidental events, it is not difficult to infer that Hecate might be the culprit who influenced Schiller's mental state.

She made Schiller's mental state worse, manipulated him to return to Earth, used her power, which was of the same origin as Circe's, to help Schiller find Circe's hiding place, and cruelly killed her, in order to lure Diana back to Earth while reclaiming two parts of power.

If you replace Schiller with anyone else in the above speculation, this reasoning holds up.

But the problem lies in the name Schiller.

No one here believes that Schiller would be easily manipulated by Hecate.

Then why and how did Schiller kill Circe?

Arthur snapped his fingers, attracting everyone's attention, and then said, "Since we all feel that Professor Schiller is unlikely to be easily manipulated by others, then all of this is very likely him going along with the flow. Regardless of what he wants to do, he won't harm us anyway."

"Then why don't we pretend we don't know anything, continue to defend on Mercury, and at the same time protect Diana well, leaving the stage of Earth to Schiller and that Goddess of Magic, and see what on earth they want to do."

When Arthur said this, Clark was really enlightened. He said, "That's right. Although out of personal feelings, we are all very worried about Professor Schiller, but in fact, our returning to Earth at this time doesn't look like helping, but more like adding to the chaos. It's better to guard Mercury; at least we can protect the safety of all teachers and students."

They all understood that Bruce's proposal to return to Earth to investigate was actually out of the need to protect Schiller, who was involved; otherwise, they wouldn't care if Hecate had killed Circe. It was a good death, a wonderful death, a great death.

It's just that Circe's death, Schiller's loss of control, and Hecate's possible existence made Schiller involved in the battle between witches. Of course, the Justice League couldn't ignore Schiller's life or death, so they naturally had to go to Earth, at least to bring Schiller back.

Morally speaking, this is how it is, but in reality, Schiller participating in the battle between Hecate and Circe means Hecate and Circe should be the unlucky ones. If they return to Earth to participate in it, then they might also be unlucky.

It's not that the brothers don't want to help, but before helping, you have to see who is on the other side.

If it were the usual Schiller, that would be fine. Although Schiller is relatively serious and strict, he is good to everyone in the Justice League, and he can distinguish between friend and foe in a melee, so he wouldn't kill everyone with one blow.

But now, Schiller is already so delirious that he sleepwalks. Who knows if he is killing everyone below? What benefit is there for them to go over at this time, other than being able to increase his average kill record?

It's better to wait here and watch the changes, and see how this daring Goddess of Magic will end up being unlucky.

Bruce walked up and patted Arthur on the shoulder. If a team is full of people with hearts like honeycomb coal, it is easy to fall into the thinking trap of nesting dolls, starting to predict your prediction of the prediction.

At this time, Arthur's relatively straightforward thinking became a precious life-saving straw. No matter how you lure or calculate, I remain unmoved, with extremely high strategic stability.

Thus, the members of the Justice League put down the situation on Earth and began to continue focusing on the defense of Mercury. Bruce continued to adjust the layout of the cameras, Oliver and Arthur organized the students to lead teams to patrol and keep watch, Clark floated above Mercury, and wherever there was something wrong, he would hit it with lasers. Diana strengthened the magic defense, leading Zatanna and Madame Xanadu to set up magic arrays for detection everywhere, not letting go of any slight energy fluctuation.

The violent typhoon was still raging on the east coast of the United States. Without the protection of Cat Getan's dark clouds, the people of Cat Getan had just walked out of the scorching heat of the summer, only to suffer a once-in-a-decade typhoon disaster. Every household kept their doors and windows closed, and almost no one dared to be active on such a night.

A figure in a black suit stood in front of the attic window.

What was reflected on the glass in front of him was not Schiller's figure, but a woman with a graceful figure.

The candlelight flickered, and what was opposite Schiller's pale face was none other than Circe's face.

Schiller grinned. His face was pale, his lips were chapped, and his golden vertical pupils reflected the cold light of the night sky. This smile looked extremely evil.

"Welcome, Miss Witch, how do you feel?"

"You lunatic!! Lunatic!!! Let me out!!!"

Circe's reflection appeared very indignant. She reached out and knocked on the glass, but that was actually just a phantom. What really trapped her was not the glass, but Schiller's mental world.

Everything started three hours ago.

Circe was dead.

The beast-transformation curse she left for Schiller became her death warrant. After Schiller's mental state fell to the bottom, the curse worsened to the extreme, which also meant that he and Circe had reached the point of almost telepathic communication.

Last time, she faked her death under the Scarlet Witch and escaped, but it wasn't without a price. Her physical body was completely destroyed. Although she was able to escape and be preserved with the help of witchcraft power, without a physical body, she could do almost nothing.

Before her body was reshaped, she couldn't be too far from the place where she died. She had been hiding in Cat Getan recently, collecting materials by possessing ordinary people with her soul to reshape her body.

And just when all the reshaping work was basically completed, with only the last step left, Schiller followed the power of the curse and found her door.

Even though Schiller's ability to act was greatly weakened because of the curse, his body possessed the power of his past life, which was only equivalent to an ordinary person after being weakened. But Circe's soul and the shaped body couldn't be completely fused, and her power was not even as good as an ordinary person's, so she was naturally no match for Schiller.

Her body, which had almost been shaped, became the first flag.

She had no choice but to abandon this body again and came to the ordinary person she had possessed before.

These possessed ordinary people weren't just found randomly. Only those who had received her power could allow her to successfully possess them in a short time, so she found those child abuse case participants who had been lured by her and had looked for many child sacrifices for her like Williams.

First was a man. Circe wanted to use his physical strength to fight Schiller, but she couldn't adapt to the male body at all, nor did she know how to lift muscle restrictions, so she was quickly defeated and became the second flag.

Afterward, she thought of using social order, so she found a celebrity woman who was at a banquet, betting that Schiller wouldn't dare to make a move in public.

But what Schiller was best at was driving a panicked lamb out of the flock, following its back until the other party was exhausted, placed on the chopping board, and became a fresh fish.