Chapter 3064: Mercury Chronicles (61)

Greed took Pride and led Professor X to the abyss.

When Professor X saw the captured Mother, it couldn't be said to be complete; it could only be said to have the initial form of a human.

But what Professor X saw was clearly not such a superficial thing. Upon seeing that mass of unknown matter, his eyes lit up instantly, and soon he took Mother away from Shiler's high tower and returned to his own mental world.

Pride followed Greed to his room, crawled slowly onto the table, raised his upper body, and said, "Inspection complete. Now can we talk about the price?"

"Don't be in a hurry," Greed picked up his medical record book and said, "I gave you quite a few ideas. Let's deduct the planning fee first..."

"I'll be damned if I pay you," Pride said. "Besides giving me some strategies for dealing with Olympus, what else did you do?"

"What do you mean 'some strategies'? I gave you a complete set of plans, including how to release the eldest son to kill Hera's son Ares, so that she would completely turn away from Zeus and lean towards us, and then arranging for the children to conduct investigation after investigation, linking the many magical forces together..."

"Less nonsense," Pride said impatiently. "If you want to calculate, calculate quickly. I'll go back sooner; maybe that body can still be saved."

"I'm afraid it's difficult. After all, every side of the Triple Goddess must be utilized to the fullest."

In the fake Mercury made of Green Lantern energy, Bruce recalled the words the two had spoken in the hospital room before Shiler left Mercury for Earth.

At that time, Shiler went to Brand's place. Lilith was almost scared to death by Brand and was then taken away by Clark. It was at this time that Shiler called Bruce, and the two finalized the subsequent plan.

Facing Hecate head-on was not difficult; the difficulty was how to make her appear. This series of events on Mercury clearly showed that this cunning Goddess of Magic was pushing from behind. What made her most different from other villains they encountered was that she knew how to hide herself and would not act rashly.

Moreover, the Justice League Dark had not been established, and the magical power of this Universal Justice League of Shiler was relatively weak. It was difficult to find Hecate's hiding place based on clues, and even if found, they might not be able to enter, and it was also possible to alert the enemy, letting her hide again.

Then the focus of this plan was how to force Hecate to show her face.

When Diana came to his house to deliver vegetables, Shiler felt that something was wrong with her.

Actually, if Shiler were in a normal state, he might not have been able to feel it, but it just so happened that at that time, Shiler was letting Circe's curse erode his body, his state became weaker and weaker, and his empathy and psychoanalysis abilities became stronger. He noticed the problem almost as soon as he met Diana.

Of course, even without psychoanalysis, Diana's appearance was very suspicious. In Shiler's understanding, Wonder Woman was also a person who valued efficiency.

A diplomatic career much longer than that of ordinary humans made her understand how to assess the situation. She always appeared only when others needed her most and would not cause trouble for others for no reason. This visit was slightly abrupt because she had no reason that she must visit Shiler. It was not an exaggeration to say that she was just making small talk.

So even if Shiler hadn't discovered the abnormality at that time, after experiencing the series of chaos on Mercury, he would have guessed that Diana probably had a problem.

Then the urgent problem to be solved was, did Diana know that she had a problem?

This question was in doubt because although her behavior was abnormal, if she knew and felt guilty, the first thing she would have to solve was the mind-reader Lilith, and Lilith should also be able to read some of her malicious thoughts, thereby telling Clark.

But no, Diana did not take any action against Lilith, Lilith also seemed not to have read her malice, and Janna, who was shaking in front of the Justice League members every day, did not feel that there was anything wrong with Diana.

This meant that Diana might have been controlled, but she didn't know it herself. In that case, she naturally had no malice and would not feel guilty, so there was no way for the mind-reader to find flaws.

Since that was the case, the success rate of relying on Diana to fish out the Mother side of Hecate was not high.

Because Diana didn't know she was controlled, if the Justice League members suspected her, she would definitely not admit it, and Bruce didn't have any decisive evidence, so he couldn't convince the others in the Justice League to take action against Diana, and thus couldn't put pressure on the Goddess of Magic behind her.

It was indeed difficult to convince the others in the Justice League to take action against Diana, and even photos and videos might not be useful; they had to catch her in the act. However, it was simple to convince the others in the Justice League to trap Diana along with others.

Oliver, Clark, and even Hal were reasonable people. As long as they were told that Mother had the ability to control others without making a sound, and that there was likely a mole in the Justice League, they could be convinced to trap everyone together. Before reaching a real conclusion, no one was allowed to leave.

Once Diana was trapped, this chess piece was considered wasted. Then, normally, the mastermind behind the scenes could not move Mercury. But why say that conspiracies all fail due to greed? Since the Diana path didn't work, she realized that she actually had another path, which was Shiler.

At that time, Shiler saw that Diana was not right, but he was not strong enough to directly see Hecate behind Diana. He just followed the principle of casting a wide net, kept Diana for a while longer, talked to her about Circe's curse, and let Diana have physical contact with him. Anyway, no matter what method the mastermind used to control Diana, such a long time and so many conditions were enough for her to shift the target to Shiler.

Hecate was indeed fooled. Taking advantage of the physical contact, she also left seeds on Shiler. After completing the gestation of Diana, she started the gestation of Shiler without stopping.

As for why she was so determined to use a gestation opportunity on Shiler, there was actually nothing special. Hecate's target was Mercury, and the targets Diana could contact on Mercury were only a few. Shiler looked like an ordinary person, and his willpower was probably not strong. After completing his gestation, maybe there would be a chance to go and fish for another one. The more, the safer.

But unexpectedly, Hecate ran into a hard nut. She created so many hallucinations for Shiler, wanting to destroy his spirit and will, but Shiler just kept dragging it out hard, until he dragged it to the point where Diana's move was wasted and Hecate could only pin her hopes on him.

Everyone knew what happened later. Diana was restricted and could no longer create various accidents to make the Justice League divide its forces, giving Hecate a chance to break them one by one.

But Hecate was reluctant to give up the progress she had made here and could only make a desperate gamble, wanting to complete the gestation of Shiler as soon as possible to take over Diana's work and continue to make trouble on Mercury.

And the result was that the sunk cost was too high, and she was directly locked in by Shiler. The time spent on Shiler was enough for her to gestate three or four superheroes. Now, pulling out would mean all that time was wasted, so she could only go all the way down one path, not looking back even after hitting the south wall.

And Shiler happened to show a very weak appearance, giving her the feeling that she was about to succeed, combined with the final verbal stimulation, one of the three phases, Mother, was like losing her mind, full of thoughts of pressing the attack, completely unguarded against Shiler.

And Shiler, who had separated into different bodies, had an insurance mechanism. Once either the body or the spirit fell to the bottom, he would be forcibly teleported back to the high tower.

Pride used exactly this point. Under Circe's curse and Hecate's pursuit, he successfully reached the critical point of triggering the insurance and dragged one of the three phases, Mother, back to the high tower.

After finalizing the plan to trap Diana with Bruce, Pride contacted Greed through the Battleworld system. Anyway, since he was going to use the high tower to deal with Hecate, it was better to make the best use of it and sell her for a good price.

On one hand, he could earn a sum from Greed. On the other hand, the Marvel Universe possessed Professor X, the strongest mind-reader in almost all comic worlds. He should be able to figure out what was going on with Mother's mysterious gestation ability. After all, Diana and the suspected controlled Edward and Jonathan also needed to be rescued.

Greed was also interested in the mysterious Goddess of Magic. He gave Shiler more suggestions, letting him take this opportunity to deal with the mess of Olympus as well. That was how the long series of running-ring tasks for the Young Avengers came about.

The strategy for Olympus was completely different from that for Asgard because Odin and Zeus were completely different.

Odin could not be counted as a good father, but at least he was a good emperor. Young Thor was not a good monarch, but he must be a good brother. Young Loki was neither a good leader nor necessarily a good brother, but at least he had ambition and ability.

As the saying goes, with so many talents in the world, you have to occupy one, right?

Zeus basically occupied nothing. If you had to say one thing, he was good at having children. Those who could fight on Mount Olympus were more or less related to him.

Just looking at this matter of the Goddess of Magic, one could see how incompetent Zeus was.

Since Hecate's power was needed to resist the dark invasion, you at least had to make it look decent on the surface. Even if it was drawing a big cake, you had to coax her well. If you really intended to fight to the death, then you must kill with one blow and never give the other party any chance of recovery.

Zeus was good; he felt that the cost of saving Hecate was too high, so he gave up, causing her to fall into a deep sleep. But he was reluctant to give up the power Hecate used to resist the darkness, so he let her recover. He was typically stupid and didn't know it, short-sighted, and still thought he was very smart.

It is said that garbage is a resource in the wrong place, but wherever you put such a person, he can turn that place into a garbage dump.

Greed believed that Zeus had no utilization value, but Mount Olympus was indeed still useful. These ancient gods lived long and could fight one by one, which could well make up for the lack of magical ability in the DC Universe.

Since that was the case, it was better to directly cast aside Zeus and replace Mount Olympus with a practical leader. And regardless of ability or morality, Hera was the best candidate. ===== CHAPTER 3065 =====