20. The end [50/40]
In the square in front of the Trident Building, Logan watched the people around him be occupied by orange light one by one.
The light flow was also dissipating, like a river that was constantly extending out its branches, dividing the power of the orange light.
But after Wonder Woman also threw away her weapons and walked into the orange light, the light flow dissipated less than one-third.
"Not enough! Not enough!"
Logan frowned and shouted to the person behind him:
"Call someone!"
"Um?"
Dr. Reid looked at Logan in surprise and said:
"you mean..."
"Call the heroes here."
Wolverine turned around and pointed to the orange light that spread out along the broken bridge.
He said in a deep voice:
"Look! That light is instinctively looking for more hosts. If it cannot completely divide it before it enters the city, things will become very troublesome."
"The current situation is that we must find someone who can confront Merlin head-on without being beaten to death..."
Logan raised his hand and shouted to the communicator in his hand:
"Ororo! Take all the X-Men to the Trident Building!"
“All superheroes from the New York Heroes Association!”
Kuaiyin grabbed his hair and said to Dr. Reid:
"Come as much as you can."
"this..."
Reed was hesitant, but he couldn't think of a better way.
In the previous few minutes, Wanda and him tried magic and technology.
But these orange lights are very strange. Apart from being divided by the host, they cannot be offset at all.
"That mad vampire said that there are gods looking forward to seeing Merlin's defeat..."
Thor Thor glanced at the warhammer under his feet, and he stretched out his hand and held it on the warhammer.
He said to others:
"If it is really a god who sets up such a trap, then we have no other way except to fight..."
"Call people, Mr. Reed, have reached this point, either sacrifice us or sacrifice the whole city... this world..."
Thor half-kneeled on the ground, Prince Asgard's face was solemn.
He placed his hands on the hammer handle of Mjolnir, and he tried to lift the hammer, but he couldn't...
Warhammer no longer responded to him.
He knew why.
He was blinded to do the wrong thing and violated the oath of the God Hammer.
He disappointed Thor's Hammer, and he had deviated from his own path.
"I know I'm disappointing you, Mjolnir..."
Thor closed his eyes and said in his heart:
"My arrogance made me ignore the sounds that interfere with the soul, and put me in the wrong path. I deserve to be abandoned..."
"But, but please help me for the last time! I'm willing to ask you!"
His fingers clasped the hammer, he said:
"My friend needs my help. Although the form of this help is a bit strange, I have to fight Merlin to completely eliminate the disaster..."
"A city, millions of people, I can't ignore it..."
"Please help me!"
The proud Thor said to his warhammer in a prayer tone:
"Last time!"
Warhammer is silent.
It did not respond and seemed to have been completely disappointed with Thor.
Asgard's prince gritted his teeth, he stood up, glanced at the warhammer, and then walked towards the orange light beside him.
He must do his part, even as a mortal.
And the moment Thor's finger touched the orange light, behind him, the warhammer roared up and fell back into his hands.
but...
Extremely heavy.
Mjolnir responded to Thor's request because Thor was about to sacrifice.
But as Thor himself said, this was probably the last time he fought with a warhammer.
"Trial..."
Thor dragged the warhammer into the orange light, and he whispered:
"Father, is this my trial?"
"Crash"
The moment Thor stepped into the orange light, a thunder fell from the sky, and the orange streamer decreased rapidly at this moment.
It seems that this also represents Thor's potential.
These heroes are like buckets, using their bodies to bear the power of evil so that they will not harm ordinary people who cannot protect themselves.
But buckets can be big and small.
People like Hulk, Scarlet Witch and Wonder Woman walk into orange light and will dissipate a lot of light flow, which represents their power and potential.
"Crash"
As the wind whistled, a storm swept the Stormwoman and the X-Men rushed to the Trident Building.
As the wind dissipates, the X-Men members appear behind Logan, but there is a weird guy mixed in it.
That was a man wearing a black battle suit and a black panther helmet.
He stood beside Ororo, holding Ororo's hand, like a guard.
"Who is this?"
Kuaiyin looked at the person he didn't know, and he said with a weird look:
"Although I knew Ms. Ororo was amazing, you have a fiancé..."
"I heard about it here."
The man with the Black Panther Helmet ignored Kuaiyin's words and said to Logan:
"I know you need some people who can beat me, so I'm here to protect my wife..."
“I came on behalf of Wakanda too.”
He raised his head, and under the lenses in the eyes of the fully-covered Black Panther Helmet, he looked at Merlin in the air, and he said:
"Melin is a friend of Wakanda. If he needs help, we will not refuse...even if he needs an opponent, I will come happily."
"Let's go."
Logan gave a rough smile to Black Panther, and he said to the rest of the X-Men:
"Integrate into the orange light, become the host, and then be defeated by Merlin to save the city...this is our mission today!"
"I have a question, Instructor Logan!"
Among the young X-Men, Iceman Baby raised his hand and asked worriedly:
"What if Mr. Merlin can't defeat us? A group of out-of-control heroes can easily destroy New York and the entire East Coast..."
"You're thinking too much, kid."
Logan laughed and said:
"If you know Merlin enough, you wouldn't have that idea... that guy has made up his mind that he won't lose."
Wolverine took the X-Men and walked into the floating light before him, saying:
"Continue to call people, Mr. Reed, until the orange light completely disappears!"
"boom"
Just as Logan walked into the orange light, a figure wrapped in the sun fire fell from the sky.
Clark, who returned from the stars, seemed to have recovered from awakening after the golden apple was broken.
He looked at the heroes who walked into the orange light on the ground. He was a little confused, but he soon discovered Merlin in the light.
Superman hovered before the orange light, and he looked at the plum forest floating in the mirror-like light in front of him.
He shouted loudly:
"Merlin, I..."
"Shh!"
Meilin, who had closed his eyes, made a sound ban, and his ethereal voice came from the other side of the orange light.
He said:
"Don't say anything about apologizing, I've never blamed you, brother..."
"I need you to do me a favor now... Go into that light, absorb it, and absorb it as much as possible, and you will be brainwashed again, but this time it's for the rescue."
"I will hurt you again...I can't do that!"
Clark gritted his teeth and said:
"You also need help, if you have to face the heroes of the whole world...you need me."
"Not this time, Clark."
In the dark red light shining, Merlin whispered:
"This time, you have to be my enemy."
"I will give you freedom..."
"Believe me, I will give you and give you real freedom in this world."
“Merlin…”
Clark looked at his brother and he clenched his fists.
Finally, he closed his eyes and rushed into the orange light in front of him, allowing the power from higher will to infuse his body.
And at the moment Clark lost consciousness, Merlin's voice suddenly rang:
"Clark..."
"Um?"
"Don't forget to notify me when I get married to Louise..."
"Well, I won't forget, you must come!"
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Merlin could sense everything around him, even though his soul was in a special state.
But in the square in front of the completely collapsed Trident building, he could feel the actions of the heroes.
He was very glad that Bruce stopped the heroes as they left.
Batman is indeed reliable.
He was the first person to discover the truth about Juguang.
Bruce was right. If the orange light was allowed to spread to the entire New York and even the entire East Coast, then Merlin would have to face tens of millions of ordinary people who were infused with the orange light power.
In that case, Merlin could not stop all this except for a massacre.
Once Merlin lifts up the butcher knife, it means he will enter the victory of Death.
He will crush the weak order with his own hands and shape a new power in iron and blood.
That means he will lose.
And now, Merlin's friends have saved him the desperate situation of failure.
What he has to face is a group of reinforced superheroes. To be honest, it is definitely more difficult to win this situation than massacre tens of millions of people.
But this also means that Merlin can let go of his hands and fight without any scruples...
Let it go.
Break down the final dilemma set by the gambling dogs for him.
Or die in this chaos.
No matter which one, he will win and create his own victory among the three choices.
At this moment, in front of Merlin's soul, there was a deep red world.
The crimson light forms the suppressed kingdom of God, and there is no other power here, it is purely like a pool of water.
This is the realm of Crimson Lord Sethorac, and the home of the most maverick super-level creature.
It hasn't stepped out of its own world for hundreds of thousands of years.
It likes this place, and laziness is synonymous with it.
Merlin stood on a suspended rock, and he looked at the throne that melted in the crimson red, and a giant was sitting there on the throne carved like a rock.
Its height is indescribable, and at least Merlin cannot see the legs of the giant sitting on the throne.
In the dark red light, he could only see Sethorac's shoulders, arms, and head.
It's like a person, or a demon.
It carries a weird helmet, like the strange stone helmet of its Power Messenger Red Tank, but the battle helmet of Sethorac is carved more artistic.
But it is also possible that the battle helmet is its face.
The face had no twisted muscles and expressions, under the helmet, there were pairs of burning dark red eyes, and a mouth full of hideous teeth, extending three diagonals outside the battle helmet.
The two pairs of small corners are like decorations, and two corners that bend downward like scales extend behind the head.
This represents its identity, and it is suspected to be a demon.
But to be honest, after reaching the level of Setorac, it is difficult to describe it as a pure demon.
Just as Merlin never thought that the Three Palace Demon was a simple demon.
And just standing in front of Setorac, Merlin could feel the pressure...
Even more stressful than when facing the third house.
Crimson Lord...
It seems to be stronger than the Three Houses. Of course, this is in its realm. If you leave the Kingdom of God, probably two super-level creatures will tie.
“Satorak…”
In the crimson flames that were beating around Merlin, he said to the demon in front of him:
"I'm sorry I ruined your messenger, but I'll compensate you..."
"I will give you a new messenger."
Merlin spread his arms out, and he said to the demon who was looking at him in front of him:
"I will be your messenger and offer you the most wonderful war you can see in this world!"
"For this reason, I ask you to give me the power of crimson..."
"Really?"
Sethorac's deep voice echoed in the crimson dimension, it said:
"Little life, are you sure your war will interest me? The Red Tank's pursuit of destruction satisfyes me..."
"He's just making a small fuss."
Merlin said calmly:
"You want to see the collision of power, the defeat of the enemy, and the arrival of destruction..."
"Only I can give you what you want to see..."
"You will cheer for me."
A smile appeared on Merlin's face and he said:
"You will."
"Okay, a confident little life, I will forgive you for your previous insincerity."
The Crimson Lord probably has been bored for too long.
After all, after the Red Tank was killed, it had not seen the scene of destruction for a long time.
The evil otaku raised his hand, and the beating crimson flames covered Merlin's soul.
"Let me see if you can please me, if you let me down...wait!"
The evil god said very dissatisfied:
"Why is the power in your body so messy? I don't like it, what I pursue is pure..."
"Yes, I realized that, too."
Merlin said:
"I'm trying to make a change, but now, I still need the power of Crimson to help me win..."
"Oh, by the way, great Your Majesty, if you can..."
"I don't want that ugly helmet!"
"Dare you dare to question my aesthetics? Go back with a stupid little life!"
"Pleased me with war and destruction! Otherwise you will be dead!"
"Swish"
Merlin's soul was as if it was hit hard.
The next second, his eyes opened.
"boom"
The scorching crimson fire burned on the surface of his body, and a set of crimson armor began to cover Merlin's body in the flames.
The Crimson Lord stubbornly tried to create a weird stone helmet like a red tank for Merlin.
But Merlin mobilized other forces in his body and forced the process to interrupt.
On his forehead, the previously melted crimson rubies were fixed in flesh and blood as inlaid, just like the third eye.
Well, with Merlin's evil appearance at this time, it looks quite beautiful.
"call..."
Meilin moved the crimson armor covered with his hands, and he looked at the dissipating orange light in front of him.
He yawned, then grabbed the halberd and sword in his hand, and he took a step forward, but stopped there again.
He turned his head and looked at the airspace covered with orange light behind him.
In that light, there are dimensional cracks that are jumping.
"Ciri!"
Merlin shouted:
"You forgot our agreement? Don't let Elsa come!"
"Swish"
The next moment, two figures appeared in front of Merlin, one was Cialia and the other was also an acquaintance.
"Safe, Merlin."
Cili said to Merlin:
"Elsa is sleeping. She doesn't know what's going on here...but we have something to say to you!"
“I came on behalf of our organization, Merlin.”
Standing beside Cili, the demigod Maraka whom Melin had seen once... Uh, Ms. Kasandra stepped forward.
The woman had her braids, but her braids were hanging on her chest.
Well, a pretty dangerous hairstyle.
She said to Merlin seriously:
"You need help, as long as you speak, Merlin, as long as you are willing to be a member of us."
"Brothers of Holy Shield...we will give all our money to help you."
ps:
The New Year's update ends here~ Thank you everyone~ I wish you a happy New Year, and bring a mask when visiting relatives, and I also hope that the brothers in Wuhan City will take good care of themselves...
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Chapter completed!