In a slightly dark conference room, there were several people sitting around a round conference table. Strange was sitting at the main seat with a pile of information in his hand. He stood up and waved to the left and right, and the others
They all nodded to him.
Schiller, who was sitting next to Strange, picked up his hand and put it on the table and said: "We are summoned this time because His Majesty the Supreme Mage from other universes has some opinions to express about the magic situation in this universe.
At the same time, you should also be curious about the situation in the magical world in other universes, Professor Strange will explain it to you in detail."
Strange nodded, stood up, and while pacing in front of the conference room, he began to talk about how the universe he was in in the Marvel world, the Sanctuary, Kama Taj, and the entire magical world worked.
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Because the situation was a bit complicated, Strange took a full forty minutes to talk about it. He didn't even talk in detail, but just gave a general structure.
In addition to people from the magical world, such as Constantine, Zatanna, Master Andrew, and Madam Xanadu, the three giants of the Justice League, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman were also present, as were Green Lantern Hal and Green Arrow Oliver.
Here, even ordinary people such as Falcone Jr., Cobot and Gotham City Mayor Roy all sat around the conference table.
After all, to build a magic academy in Gotham, the situation in the magic world is closely related to these people. Except for Bruce, Roy and Alberto, everyone present understood part of what Strange said.
I was confused after hearing this.
The main reason is that if Strange only talks about economics, most people can understand it, and if he talks about the magic world, most people can also understand it. But when the two are combined, there is a kind of onion grafting.
Many people don't realize the chaotic beauty in the apple tree for a while.
They digested it for another half an hour before barely understanding part of the content. Then Strange stood in front of the table, knocked on the table with the rolled-up documents in his hands and said: "Wake up, friends,
Humanity is about to be destroyed in your hands, why aren't you in a hurry?"
"Now that the magical world has experienced a catastrophe and the number of people has dropped sharply, do you think those demons and angels will accept the sharp drop in their income? It is foreseeable that they will definitely try their best to lure more humans into this scam."
"But they won't say it's their fault. They have a good excuse, that is, human mages have killed themselves so much, so it's natural for them to replenish their followers, and they may even ask us for compensation.
."
"How can they be allowed to bully humans like this?" Green Arrow Oliver slapped the table, stood up and said, "It's really lawless! Can no one take care of it?"
This was the first time Hal had heard of this situation in the magic world. He pursed his lips and said, "I'm not being sarcastic, but how could the mages wait until the situation worsened to this point before they reacted?"
"They haven't even fully reacted yet." Constantine tilted his head to the side and said: "As far as I know, some kind of middle school magic association has become popular in London, and some kind of graffiti spray painting of the Mother of Darkness has become popular in the community middle school, but
Even if I knew this was not a child's game, there was nothing I could do about it."
"Have you realized what caused this completely passive situation?" Strange asked a question.
Immediately, everyone started to answer. Some said that demons are too cunning, some said that angels do not fulfill their responsibilities, and some said that human nature is so depraved. Strange looked helpless when he heard this.
"Have you not discovered the biggest difference between the magic worlds of our two worlds? - The earth I am on has a magic defense network."
There was a moment of silence in the field, and everyone turned their attention to Strange. The smarter ones among them had an idea, and Bruce said, "Can you elaborate?"
"In ancient times, the great mage of the earth exhausted almost all his energy and even sacrificed his own life to build the earliest magic defense network. The most important function of this network is to prevent any demon from snooping on the earth at will."
"Is your defense network strong enough to kill all the demons?" Constantine asked.
"On the contrary, it is enough to kill all humans."
There was sudden silence in the room. Strange straightened his body, raised his chin slightly, and said in a cold tone: "From the beginning to the end, the purpose of the mage establishing this magic network is to bring all the humans on the earth to death."
"Of course the demon gods can attack this magic network arbitrarily, but they know very well that once the mages are completely unable to resist them, we will directly detonate the earth's magic defense network and pull all humans to perish together. They will get nothing."
"Humanity's beliefs are special, and we have value." Strange lowered his head slightly and said, "The uniqueness of human beings is the most important resource we can utilize, and it must be made aware of by all lives other than humans.
They force humanity to achieve nothing but destruction."
"It is difficult to destroy these powerful existences, but it is very simple to destroy human beings." Strange lowered his gaze back to the table and continued: "As long as you make them realize that you may destroy yourself at any time, how dare they
So arrogant?"
Seeing that the atmosphere in the room fell silent, it was Bruce who spoke first. He put his fist on his mouth and coughed, saying: "Building a protective shield for the earth does not only have these functions, in case there are other aliens."
It can also be used as the last line of defense against life invasion."
"That's right." Hal said, "The universe is not as safe as imagined."
"We don't necessarily have to actually detonate it, right?" Clark leaned forward and said: "Just like a nuclear bomb, the greatest value is the deterrent effect it has when it doesn't explode."
Schiller looked away silently. Clark saw his expression and gave him a bright, slightly apologetic smile. He even reached out and pulled his arm. Schiller could only shake his head helplessly.
"But how are we going to add a cover to the earth?" Zatanna scratched her head vigorously and said: "If the human mages in their heyday united, maybe it would be possible, but now everyone is dead and injured, and the rest are
They are fighting on their own and are not united at all.”
"Since the purpose is not to forcibly stop the devil, then it is not necessary to use magic to build a protective shield." Constantine touched his chin and said: "Anyway, it is just a deterrent. It is enough to build a power grid that can destroy the earth."
"The problem is that we can't let ordinary people know." Diana frowned and said, "That would cause panic. To achieve both concealment and a certain degree of protection, only magic can do it."
"Not necessarily." When Schiller spoke, everyone's eyes fell on him, but Schiller turned to look at Hal.
Hal was stunned, and Bruce rolled his eyes and said: "Indeed, we also have a very convenient energy, which is very suitable for building an earth defense network, which is both concealed and protective."
"You mean green light energy?" Diana opened her mouth in surprise. After thinking for a moment, she said: "I saw Hal use this energy when building the space station. It does meet the requirements for building a defense network, but where are we going?
How to get so much green light energy?"
Hal was stiff for a moment, then shrugged and said, "I'm afraid we don't need any more green light energy."
"What's the meaning……"
With a "crash", the entire room was engulfed in green light, and a mountain of green light energy crystals was released by Hal.
Then, Hal crossed his arms and stared at Schiller and said: "Don't tell me, you have thought of this day for a long time."
Everyone's eyes fell on Schiller's face again, but Schiller's expression remained calm. He said: "I don't want to be in front of everyone."
Quite tactfully but understandably, Constantine smiled at Schiller and said: "We will try to be half as smart as you, Professor Schiller, but only next time."
"What's going on?" Strange said in surprise: "Is it so difficult to say 'thank you' and 'thank you'? And what about me?"
Bruce stood up and shook hands with Strange, looked at Strange with his blue eyes, and said very sincerely: "Although you said before that you were not being modest, I still want to say that you hit the nail on the head.
In analyzing the key aspects of the problem, you are somewhat underestimating yourself."
Alberto quickly walked to Strange's side, shook his hand vigorously and said: "Your wisdom and experience will bring good news to Gotham and the entire magical world, Your Excellency the Supreme Mage."
Others took turns to shake hands with him, and Strange was as busy as a spinning top. After everyone left to prepare the magic defense network, he took a deep breath, shrugged to Schiller and said, "I've never been able to do anything in my life."
You've heard so many complex adjectives, each of them has more than seven letters, right?"
"At least twelve." Schiller stood up, waved to Strange and said, "Although we need to build a defense network, we cannot delay recruiting students. It seems that they are all very busy. We need to do some chores ourselves.
Dealt with it.”
Strange followed Schiller to another room, which looked like a room in the castle specially used for sending and receiving letters. There were several dark brown writing desks that looked very heavy and a desk that was so huge that it took up an entire wall.
The bookshelf is filled with letters.
"These are all the admission notices we are going to send out. Now we have to stuff them into envelopes, fasten them with the courier, and send them to the students who are going to be admitted."
Strange nodded, not understanding how such a simple process could be explained, but soon Schiller led him from a door in this room into another room.
As soon as he entered this room, Strange was shocked because there were tens of thousands of bats in the entire Gothic spire lobby.
Bats were hanging densely on the pointed dome, and some were still hovering in mid-air. A bat passed by the back of Strange's head, causing him to stumble forward, followed closely by a bat.
It hit him in the face.
"boom!"
"Ouch!"
Strange danced on the spot as if he was electrocuted, and then swooped back to another room. He looked at the bats filling the entire hall in horror, and shouted: "Could this be you?"
You’re talking about the messenger, right?!!…Why the bat???”
Schiller looked a little helpless standing among a bunch of bats. He sighed and said: "You may not believe it, but the only creature in this city that will not go crazy after being cast magic is bats, so we can only use this
.”
"What about the owl? Doesn't the magic academy in your thinking tower use owls?"
"We have people here who are allergic to owls, let alone owls."
And when Strange saw the box of bat-shaped envelopes, bat-patterned paint, and the bat-shaped doll that came with the admission notice that Schiller took out from a pile of bookshelves, he looked at Schiller with wide eyes.
, as if he didn’t know Schiller.
"Don't look at me like that, I don't know why he likes bats so much."
"who?"
"The wealthy man who sponsored the entire school, the school you see, and even the entire city were built by him - the student of mine you met before."
"Hiss..." Strange took a breath of cold air.
"If you really can't accept the image of a bat, you can stand there, and then I..."
"No, I'm asking, if I can get him more bat toys, can he sponsor the Holy of Holies?"