Chapter 962: Shiler's Sharp Blade (Part 2)

"Alright, let me see, what should I do first." In the dim basement, Constantine sat in the center of the room, looking at a pile of messy spell-casting materials around him, touched his chin and said: "Should I summon the Green of All first and let him change the broccoli back, or should I find Shiler first and save him?"

At this time, Constantine thought of Shiler's previous reaction. He sighed and said: "It seems I really should read more books. It turns out that allergic reactions can be so severe. I thought it was at most just complaining a few words."

"But then again, just like I don't like sweet wine, if there's only one glass, I can pretend not to see it. But if I were made to soak in a swimming pool of sweet wine, I might go crazy too... Forget it, let's solve the broccoli problem first. Otherwise, I don't know how that petty guy Shiler will retaliate against me."

After saying that, he stood up and began to pick and choose among the spell-casting materials, intending to set up a summoning array to summon the Green of All and cancel the contract they had previously made, letting him change the broccoli back.

But just at this moment, with a "bang," the basement door was kicked open. Constantine was startled and silently took a few steps back, seeing that the person who came was Batman. He breathed a sigh of relief, touched his chest, and said: "It's you. You startled me. I thought the devil had found me again."

"But seriously, can you open the door lighter next time? Fortunately, I didn't set any traps on the door this time; otherwise, you might have been bounced into the Pacific Ocean." Constantine shook his head while walking back to the center of the room, but at this time, he felt the atmosphere was a bit wrong.

He looked at Batman standing in the darkness. Constantine, who possessed super-high spiritual perception, saw a terrifying black tide behind Batman.

He took two more steps back silently, leaned against the corner, looked at Batman, and said: "What's wrong? Bruce, you... you're in a bad mood?"

"Find Shiler's location." Batman's voice was low and hoarse. He said: "Find Shiler's location at the fastest speed."

Constantine was a bit nervous, but he still pointed to the pile of spell-casting materials on the ground and said: "Oh, yes, I'm trying hard. I'm planning to summon the Green of All to solve the broccoli matter."

"I said find Shiler's location." Batman repeated it again. Constantine frowned and said: "Even if you want to save him from the agents, you have to solve his allergen first. Otherwise, even if he can return to the manor, won't he still be just as uncomfortable?"

"This broccoli matter was caused by me. I will be responsible for cleaning up this mess. In a moment, I'll have to be blackmailed by the Green of All again. Let me see, who should pay the bill this time?"

Constantine wanted to put his attention back on the pile of materials, but the next second, he heard the sound of wind whistling in his ear. He turned his head and saw a flash of light. A Batarang was embedded in the crack of the brick wall behind him, less than two centimeters from his ear.

"Batman! What are you doing?!" Constantine screamed: "You almost shaved off my ear!

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"Alright, I know you're angry. I shouldn't have produced so much broccoli and made Shiler allergic, but I didn't know his allergic symptoms were so severe. This was just an accident, and there's still room for recovery now. You don't have to kill me, right?"

"Find Shiler's location quickly." Batman repeated it again, and then he said: "Shiler is seriously injured. Only you have a way to find him at the fastest speed. Hurry."

Hearing the trembling in Batman's tail tone, Constantine frowned, and his face gradually became serious. He walked up and asked Batman: "You mean Shiler is injured? Those agents dared to hurt him?"

Seeing Batman's face, Constantine didn't ask any more questions. He immediately began to prepare the spell-casting materials, fiddling with them while saying: "I think. You should have discovered before that the fastest way for mages to find people is to go through the Spirit Realm."

"In the Spirit Realm, we can directly locate a person's soul and ignore obstacles in reality, traveling through at the fastest speed." Constantine arranged some branches into a circle and then brought over a few kinds of spices.

"However, only souls can walk in the Spirit Realm, and ordinary souls cannot cause interference to the real world." Constantine handed a bottle of spices to Batman and said: "But as long as you attach some extra power to your soul, you can also make it temporarily possess a physical body. With your soul strength, you only need a little bit of magic energy to beat all those ordinary agents to the ground."

"Alright, get ready." Constantine stood in the circle, and Batman also walked in. Constantine squatted down, pressed his five fingers on the ground, and prepared to release energy into the materials. However, after squatting there for a few seconds, he let out a somewhat puzzled "Hmm???"

He withdrew his hand, took a few deep breaths, lit a cigarette, and then said: "You made me too nervous just now. The magic energy isn't running very smoothly. It doesn't matter, let's try again."

After saying that, Constantine squatted on the ground again, five fingers touching the ground. However, a few seconds later, there was still no reaction. Constantine changed hands, changed postures, and changed all the spell-casting materials, but it was still useless.

He stood in place, a bit bewildered, and said: "What's going on? Why can't my magic be used?"

He looked at his hands with some disbelief, exerted force with his arms, but no light appeared. He closed his eyes and began to meditate on various demon patterns, but there was still no reaction.

At this moment, he was even more panicked than Batman. He immediately looked at Batman and said: "Something happened. Something must have happened in the occult world. Hurry, let's go find Zatanna. She should know what's going on."

After saying that, without waiting for Batman to move, he rushed out the door straight away, but soon ran back and said: "Where did you hide Zatanna? Take me to find her quickly!"

But soon, he reacted again and said: "If you want to save Shiler, then Little Za is the only answer. Even if the Spirit Realm and magic energy can't be used, she can still divine. She must be able to give us Shiler's location."

The two left the basement, came upstairs, took the Bat-helicopter, and returned to the Batcave. Zatanna was playing cards in boredom. Seeing the two of them return in a hurry, she looked them up and down with some doubt and asked: "What's wrong with you two? Why is your complexion a bit bad?"

"Little Za, hurry, see if your magic can still be used?" Constantine said with quite a bit of anxiety. Zatanna was baffled by his question. She reached out, pointed at Constantine, and said: "Levitate!"

Constantine was instantly hung upside down. Zatanna shrugged and said: "Isn't this perfectly fine? What are you going crazy about again? Constantine?"

Constantine fell from mid-air and crashed to the ground. But he had no time to tidy up his clothes. Instead, he immediately took out a talisman from his pocket.

He swung it hard, and the talisman made a "slap" sound, but there was no reaction at all. He swung it hard again, but the talisman still had no reaction. Finally, he kept swinging the talisman, causing the paper talisman to shatter directly. Constantine looked at the paper scraps on the ground with disbelief.

At this time, Zatanna also realized that something was wrong. She walked up with some doubt, looked at Constantine, and said: "What's wrong with you? Magic malfunction?"

Without caring about the disheartened Constantine, Batman stepped forward and said to Zatanna: "Take me to find Shiler. He might have had an accident."

"Shiler had an accident?" Zatanna immediately became vigilant and said: "What's going on? Did those black mages attack him?"

"No, it's FBI agents. They took Shiler away and hurt him. Shiler might be seriously injured. If we can't find him immediately, he might be in life-threatening danger."

Zatanna frowned and said: "Alright, there are two ways to find people using magic. Either go through the Spirit Realm, or use divination to locate."

"The advantage of going through the Spirit Realm is speed. We can directly track the aura of the soul and ignore all obstacles in reality, reaching the target location directly. But it requires extra magic to interfere with reality. And divination tracking directly in reality, although slow, doesn't require extra energy."

"Go through the Spirit Realm." Batman opened his mouth immediately and said: "I will compensate you for any extra energy you pay. Let's go now."

Hearing Batman's tone, Zatanna stared at him, then looked into his eyes and said: "Bruce, what's wrong with you? Do you remember the first time we met? You've become very similar to that time."

"Your soul is feeling incomparable sadness and anxiety, and it has reached the edge of collapse. You can't go on like this anymore. Relax... relax..." Zatanna reached out and waved in front of Batman's eyes. The halo of magic made Batman's spirit stretch a bit, and he didn't break the string in his brain.

Zatanna didn't use spell-casting materials to go to the Spirit Realm like Constantine, but directly let the other two sit on chairs. After her body lit up with light, the three of them had their souls leave their bodies just like before and arrived in the misty Spirit Realm.

Zatanna took the lead to point out the direction. They flew for a while. Batman felt them pass through buildings, pass through the ground, arrive underground, and then arrive on the ground again.

Souls traveled between streets. And just at the moment they stopped, the scene Batman couldn't accept the most appeared in his field of vision.

At the end of the alley was a red telephone booth, just like every old telephone booth in Gotham. The red paint had peeled off, and the glass was covered with thick dust.

A figure leaned against the side wall of the telephone booth. Fresh blood dyed the ground of the telephone booth red, flowing into the rainwater outside along the opened door of the telephone booth.

There was a huge wound on the side of his neck. The few cloth strips wrapped around the wound couldn't stop the blood from flowing out at all. The dark suit was completely dyed dark red.

It could be seen very clearly that one of Shiler's arms was already hanging down powerlessly, while the other arm was resting on his shoulder, seemingly wanting to press the wound. But there was no doubt that he no longer had any breath.

Batman stood in place with disbelief.

Zatanna also revealed a sad expression. She patted his shoulder and said: "My condolences, I think he will... wait a minute, Bruce, I remember you told me the law of blood coagulation. Judging from the degree of blood coagulation on his body, he should have died not long ago?"

Batman remained completely unmoved, but Zatanna said anxiously: "Since he died not long ago, where is his soul? His soul should stay in place! If we can find his soul, maybe there's still hope!"

Batman turned to look at her immediately, but Zatanna had already floated around the telephone booth, beginning to look for Shiler's soul. Batman also followed her. Zatanna explained while looking:

"The souls of ordinary people won't be picked up and taken away so quickly. They aren't that attractive, so there won't be special demons or angels to pick them up. Usually, they will stay in place for 24 hours or even longer."

"Judging from the blood coagulation situation, this professor might have died less than an hour ago. And he isn't Constantine, who had a group of demons and angels waiting beside him before he died. Demons and angels also have to travel. How could they arrive so quickly?"

"Where is he?!!" Batman asked with some madness: "Where is his soul?!!"

"Don't be anxious." Zatanna said while looking: "He must be nearby. He doesn't have magic power to support him, so it's impossible for him to float too far. Perhaps he is attached to surrounding objects... No, he's not here..."

Suddenly, Zatanna sniffed and said: "I smell the aura of a demon. I smell it, that's right, it must be those guys from hell. Why did those lazy ghosts arrive so quickly this time!"

"Find him! Catch up with him!" Batman said. Zatanna was about to open her mouth, but Constantine spat out a name: "Edge of Hell."

"Edge of Hell!" Zatanna raised her voice and said: "Right, that's right, we should indeed go to the Edge of Hell. That is the boundary between the human world and hell, and it doesn't belong to the jurisdiction of hell!"

Constantine continued: "If we can intercept the demons there and grab the soul back, hell won't be able to manage it, then there's still hope!"

"Let's go now." Batman stared straight at Zatanna. Zatanna hesitated, but stamped her foot and said: "Alright, I'll take you to teleport."

The next second, she waved her hand, summoned a fire circle, and the three souls flew into the fire circle. Soon, the three arrived in a pitch-black space.

This was a barren black land. Constantine pointed in a direction and said: "This way is the direction to hell. If we want to catch up with them, we must rush on the road with the shortest route."

Several people rushed in that direction all the way, and the scenery around them was unchanging and gray.

Suddenly, a firelight appeared in front of them. Batman looked intently and discovered that there was no road ahead. On the distant skyline was a river of magma pouring down from the sky.

The place where they were was at the foot of a mountain under a steep cliff. In front of them was a huge protruding cliff. The towering cliff looked even more majestic against the backdrop of the magma.

"Ahead is hell." Constantine said: "If you jump down from this cliff, you'll be in hell. Be very careful later, don't fall down, and don't be pulled down by the hands of demons."

"Wait a minute, who is that?... Shiler! Shiler!

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Accompanied by Constantine's shout, Batman saw a black shadow standing at the very top of the huge cliff.

Against the backdrop of the huge cliff and the rolling magma river, Shiler's figure looked very small, yet very great.

Constantine saw countless ghost hands stretching out from hell, desperately stretching upward, wanting to grab Shiler.

And at this time, in the dim sky at the Edge of Hell, a beam of light suddenly appeared. A holy light pierced through the dark clouds, and countless clean white arms stretched out from the holy light, wanting to touch Shiler's cheeks.

Constantine suddenly discovered that whether it was heaven or hell, he was very familiar with every figure that came here. They were all his former creditors.

And at this time, Shiler's voice echoed at the boundary between heaven and hell:

"Today, I invited everyone here, and I just want to announce one thing. I know my good friend Constantine owes you a lot of debts, and he doesn't intend to pay them back."

"But it doesn't matter. Just now, I died."

"I believe you should be able to see many things from my soul. That is the sin or redemption you have been longing for."

Accompanied by his words landing, flames rose from Shiler's soul.

Amidst the raging fire, a high tower piercing the sky appeared on the cliff at the Edge of Hell. The countless sins and good deeds, countless grievances and stories filled there made all demons and angels go crazy for it.

Shiler's figure appeared again. Then he turned around, with his back to all the demons and angels, spread his arms, and the firelight behind him outlined his silhouette.

He stood at the top of the cliff, overlooking all the visitors, like a king about to be crowned. The first sentence he said made the earth and heaven tremble at the same time.

"I will use my soul to pay off all of Constantine's debts."

"From now on, what he seeks but cannot get will be satisfied, and what makes him unable to sleep at night will eventually dissipate."

"He will get rid of the fate of being doomed to have no peace, get rid of the evil born with him, he will—gain a new life!"

Shiler's words fell. Constantine was stunned for a moment, and then rushed onto the cliff with some madness. But Shiler took a step back, came to the very edge of the cliff, and looked at Constantine quietly.

Constantine looked at Shiler's gray eyes, shook his head, and said instinctively:

"No..."

Shiler spread his arms and slowly fell backward. Constantine rushed to the edge of the cliff, but the outstretched arm touched nothing.

Constantine lay on the edge of the cliff and looked down. The hellfire was raging. Amidst the changing light and shadow of the flames, Shiler's figure was like a wild goose falling on the skyline.

"No!

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Constantine's roar broke through hell.

Just at this moment, Constantine felt a shadow pass over his head.

Batman jumped up from the edge of the cliff and fell into the abyss, just like when he flew down from the attic in the cold night, light and light, but carrying the power of ten thousand jun.

And at this time, Constantine saw that Shiler, who was falling, revealed a crazy smile full of triumph on his face.

The benefactor who once sincerely wanted to save him, and the savior who truly saved him, fell into hell at the same time in front of him.

Constantine felt that a sharp blade had pierced his heart directly.

Precise, elegant, fatal in one strike. ===== CHAPTER 963 =====

Precise, elegant, one strike fatal.