"he?"
The old wizard Shazam looked at Billy Batterson who was pushed by Merlin, and shook his head:
"He is not!"
"He has experienced loneliness and hardships since he was a child. He built a high wall in his heart and was unwilling to have too much contact with others. He is very withdrawn and extremely persistent in his heart..."
“There is impure in his soul.”
Old Shazam said:
"I can't take risks!"
"The last monster we created fell into the darkness because of paranoia."
Billy listened to the old wizard's comment on himself.
He couldn't help but clench his fingers.
He wanted to refute, but he couldn't.
The old wizard Shazam is right.
"Trust me, he's very suitable."
Merlin's voice rang behind Billy, and the ghostly body stood up from the stone chair.
He was suspended beside Shazan and he reached out to the child's shoulder.
He said:
"He is a rare magical constitution, and he can see the brilliance of magic without practicing, which is enough to prove his talent."
"I don't think I have to explain to you how important talent is to practice magic."
“Talent is important, but soul is more important.”
The old wizard said stubbornly:
"We made a mistake and chose a person whose soul is not pure, which led to a disaster. This time, I must find someone whose soul is pure in order to entrust my strength."
"Soul? Pure?"
Merlin let out a long list of laughter, he said:
"You old antiques always care about these meaningless things and ignore the essence."
"If you want to give powerful divine power to your successor, it should be a force that can shake the world. After suddenly accepting this power, do you still expect a pure soul to continue to be pure?"
"Stop kidding!"
Merlin said coldly:
"Strength brings temptations, all kinds of temptations, I have experienced them myself, and so do you."
"Shazan, why are you revered as a god by the Australian indigenous peoples?"
"When you were young, weren't you immersed in the feeling of being admired by everyone? Isn't the legend you left behind a proof of your pursuit of vanity?"
"Look, you can't even do anything you can't do, and you still expect your heirs to do it?"
He spread his arms and said to the old wizard:
"You realize that my Horcrux exists on Billy, you are attracted by my soul and bring him here... Do you think my soul is pure?"
"Well, my soul is purely because I've died once!"
"I left all the sins and glory of the past in yesterday, and I was reborn when the soul splits."
"Of course I will be pure, because I have not yet come to life."
"But trust me, once I return to this world, I will become the most complex and difficult to judge in this world."
"A pure and pure soul is just a hypothesis, it will not exist in this materialistic world."
Merlin put his hand on Billy's shoulder, he said:
"So what you need is not a person with pure heart, but a person who is firm enough to not lose himself after being strong."
"I believe this kid can do it."
"Why?"
The old wizard also stood up, lit his staff, and said slightly irritably:
"Why do you think so? You and him just met just now. Can you predict the future?"
"Of course I can't."
Merlin said calmly:
"But I believe my friend, Paul cannot hand over my relics to a bad guy in his eyes."
"More importantly, I will teach him personally."
"you?"
The old wizard stared at Merlin and said:
"Why?"
"The Supreme Master is leaving this world, she may have left."
Merlin said:
"Before leaving, she asked me to find a new dimension and guardian of magic for this world. I don't want to lose my promise...and fate happened to send this child to me at this time."
"To be honest, I don't think this is a coincidence."
"What nonsense are you talking about!"
The old wizard said:
"The Supreme Master has been in Kamataj, she has never left!"
“That’s fake.”
Merlin shrugged, and he said:
"Or I'll put it another way, she is just a derivative of this world like you. She may also be called the Supreme Master, and she may also be called Gu Yi."
"But trust me, she is not the one I know. And I guess she will die soon...it won't be too long."
Merlin's words made the old wizard's eyes widen.
Reason is telling him not to believe everything this weird guy said.
But another voice in his heart told him that Merlin was right.
really...
Giving a powerful force to a person who has never been exposed to extraordinary power and expecting him to continue to maintain a pure mind after possessing power, it seems...
Not likely.
He fell into silence.
"You can give the strength to this kid now."
Merlin said:
"Or keep waiting here, after 3 days, bring your strength to the grave together."
"Let the monster you expelled back to this world...but you don't need to worry too much."
Merlin whispered:
"I think there are enough people in this world who are willing to protect it and have the ability to protect it."
"Even if a monster from 5,000 years ago comes back, he will not cause too much storm."
He said:
"After all, I tested them myself before I left."
"etc..."
The old wizard suddenly raised his head, pointed at Merlin, and said in surprise:
"Ah, I get it! You are Merlin Riley, Dark Raven, you beat up all the heroes in the world and injured Odin!"
"Did you recognize me now?"
Merlin touched his chin and said a little depressed:
"I've been waiting for you to recognize me, and I thought I was a big shot that everyone knows."
"I don't care much about what's outside."
The wizard Shazam said:
"I also learned from other places what you did 7 months ago. Let me guess, the universe is accelerated and evolved because of you? It is said that you declared that you would give this world freedom before you die?"
“I did it.”
Merlin said calmly:
"You appear in front of me is evidence..."
"If it had no freedom, you, the monsters you had created, and the Rock of Eternity itself would not have appeared."
"Okay, okay."
The old wizard took a step back and made a weird etiquette, he said:
"A Heavenly Father came to the Eternal Rock, which really made the glory here shine."
“Not anymore.”
Merlin shook his head and said:
"That's not my power, it's just something...that's what should be abandoned, that's all."
"Talk the matter, Lao Shazan, my Horcrux fell into the hands of this child, and I will stay with him until it is returned to my friend."
"I will teach him to use his power, and at the same time teach him to control his mindset and prepare him for the final battle between him and that monster that will eventually come."
"If I can, I will train him to become the next Supreme Mage."
"Of course, it's just possible."
The old wizard looked at Merlin.
He looked at Billy Batterson again, and finally, he gritted his teeth and made up his mind.
He placed the staff in his hand before Billy, and he said:
"Hold it!"
Billy subconsciously looked up at Merlin, who nodded to him.
So Billy reached out and grabbed the staff.
The old wizard Shazan looked at him and said:
"What you want to take over is not just strength, but also a heavy mission, child."
"Maybe it was fate that brought us to this point."
"You are not the most suitable successor in my heart."
"You have a shadow in your heart, and that shadow may devour you in the future. In my opinion, giving you power is a great adventure."
He looked at Billy, and a smile suddenly appeared on his always gloomy face, and his voice became gentle.
He said:
"But maybe, you can prove to me with what you do, that I am wrong."
"Um."
Billy is a child who refuses to admit defeat.
He gritted his teeth and nodded to the old wizard.
"Buzz"
The huge magic power is like a volcanic eruption.
In Merlin's gaze, the heavy magic power mixed with higher powers turned into lightning, gathered on the staff in the roar of the old wizard Shazam and passed into Billy's body.
"I will give you the wisdom of Solomon!"
"boom"
"The power of Hygres!"
“Atlas’ endurance!”
Shazan shouted the name of the gods, and every time he called, a thunder and lightning would fall on Billy Batterson.
It was like thunder and lightning roaring, but the child did not feel the pain.
He was surrounded by magic powers, and those divine powers were changing his body.
"Zeus's divine power!"
"Achilles' courage!"
"Merculi's speed!"
Old Shazan's voice roared like thunder. He looked at Billy in front of him and roared:
"You will also inherit the duties of the Eternal Parliament by the flow of power!"
"Billy Batson! Now... shout my name!"
“shazam!!!”
A slightly tender roar rang out from the storm of magical power flowing.
Under the bombardment of an orange-yellow lightning, the source point where the divine power gathered burst out with pure magic.
Amid Merlin and the old wizard's gaze, a tall young man in a red suit, dotted with yellow belts, gloves and boots, and a white cape, stood up from the magic smoke.
He was panting.
Billy grew up...
It seems that it has suddenly changed from 15 to 20 years old.
"Uh, this..."
Merlin hovered next to the old wizard, looking at Billy who grew up, he said:
“Is this change in body shape normal?”
"certainly."
The old wizard took a step back, like a mud doll that had been tortured by time.
After losing the divine power that relies on to maintain existence, cracks like shattered glass appeared on his body and cheeks.
Between the ashes peeled off, he said to Merlin:
"I can't send a child to the battlefield..."
"I'll hand him over to you, Raven, take back the Demon Eyes, be careful... Black Adam!"
"Crash"
The old wizard's body collapsed completely at this moment, and the floating ashes were pushed back to the stone chair he had sat on before invisible wind.
The ashes circled around the seven chairs, as if they were saying goodbye to their long-dead brothers and sisters, and it was like a reunion.
"What's wrong with him?"
Billy grew up is a real handsome guy with neat black hair, big and virtuous eyes, and a strong body, making him enough to attract all girls' attention.
He leaned on his extinguished staff and walked to the silent Merlin, and he asked:
"Merlin, Shazam... is dead?"
"boom"
A lightning fell from the sky and was hitting Billy. In the rush of lightning, he changed from an adult to a 15-year-old child.
Merlin reached out to Billy's shoulder, and he looked at the disappearing ashes and said:
"Yes, a tired soul finally rested."
"But you, boy... your suffering has just begun!"
Merlin stared at Billy and said:
"It seems that 'Shazan' is your transformation word. You must call this name to summon the power of the divine power..."
"Tsk tsk, what a bad and shameful way of fighting."
"You should call me a mentor!"
Merlin floated before Billy, and he said to Billy:
"And, before you leave, you have to learn the first magic from me...I know you have a lot of questions to ask, but I think we have enough time to talk about other topics."
“Now…the class time is up!”
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A few hours later, Billy Batson returned to the streets of Philadelphia.
The child's face turned pale. It seemed that his process of learning magic was not going smoothly. That thing was much harder than any calculus.
Billy glanced at the red bracelet wrapped around his wrist, shrugged, and then looked for a telephone booth on the street.
Following the number Merlin told him, he made a phone call.
A few seconds later, the phone was connected, and a pretty woman's voice came from the phone:
"Hey? Who are you looking for?"
"Is it Miss Zatanna?"
Billy looked around and said in a low voice:
"Mr. Merlin's Horcrux is here with me."
Zatanna's eyes immediately narrowed at the other end of the phone, and she reached out to point on the sunglasses on the table.
Icarus immediately began tracking the phone number.
"What do you want?"
Zatanna said in a bad tone:
"Threat us? Or..."
"Uh, no, no."
Billy immediately realized that he had said something wrong, and he hurriedly explained:
"It was Merlin who asked me to call you this time. His Horcrux was activated for some special reasons, but only in Eternity... Ahem, I mean, you can communicate with him only in special circumstances."
"He asked me to tell you that Heaven had noticed his Horcrux. Although he didn't know what those angels were thinking, he told you not to rush to come to me first, prepare the materials and protect Icarus."
Billy complained in his heart.
He had no idea what he meant, what Horcrux, what Icarus, or what Icarus.
But Merlin, uh, the mentor asked him to say that, he could only say that.
He said to the other end of the phone:
"He also asked you to protect his family and not let them know about the Horcrux for the time being until he figured out what the angels of heaven were going to do."
"Also, Merlin wants you to find a man named Deadpool to help him complete his current mission and rescue a princess... He said that the princess has something necessary for his blood and bone ritual."
"Um."
After a moment, Zatanna seemed to have written down everything, and she asked again:
"What else did Merlin say?"
"Nothing more."
Billy said:
"He said it might take some time for him to come out of the trapped place to wait patiently."
"Who are you? Child."
Zatanna said:
"You seem to have something to do with Merlin? Are you his illegitimate son outside?"
"Uh, I'm not."
Billy said:
"I am his disciple."
"If he has anything else to convey, I will contact you again."
After saying that, Billy hung up the phone and walked out of the phone booth.
On the other side, in Zatanna's manor, Icarus projected a projection in front of Zatanna.
On the projection, Billy Batson, carrying a bag, was walking along the street.
His location and identity information have been projected onto the screen.
"Stay at him, Icarus."
Zatanna looked at the child in the picture and said:
“Merlin is really good at pointing out people…”
Chapter completed!