Constantine, who had just been discharged from the hospital, was studying magic circles in his office. All kinds of books were scattered all over the floor. The open space in the office was also messy with his drawings. There were various materials piled around him. The walls next to him were full of debris.
They are also jars filled with strange biological products.
When Schiller and Sivana came in, Constantine said without raising his head: "If you have anything to do, go to Professor Zatara, I'm not free."
"Is your leg feeling better?" Schiller asked aloud.
Constantine was startled. When he turned around, he sat down on the ground. Seeing that it was Schiller, he breathed a sigh of relief. He sat down and patted the hem of his magician's robe and said: "
Why are you here? Have you no classes recently?"
"Most students are moving dormitories, and they are taking too many leave," Schiller said, "so I simply took a few days off."
Constantine nodded, said nothing, and put the runes of the magic circle that he had just knocked down and messed up back into place.
"How many days have you been awake?" Schiller asked.
"Only two days." Constantine yawned and said, "I have to finish this part quickly and can't delay it any longer."
Schiller turned around and saw his notes on Constantine's desk. Schiller picked up the notebook and took a look and found that it was a record of rune conversion.
The entire magic world's rune system has been reconstructed. Many of the magic circles developed by Constantine that Bruce reconstructed cannot be used and must be converted to take effect normally. He has been busy with this before.
Schiller saw the small wooden stick thrown aside by Constantine, and he said: "Why did you get this?"
Constantine was stunned for a moment, then looked at Schiller, who was also stunned. Then he remembered that Constantine couldn't use magic now. What else could he use without a wand?
The magic wands developed by DC are different from those developed by Marvel. The magic wands developed by Marvel are equivalent to prefabricated dishes and are used to feed little wizards who don’t know how to cook. The magic wands developed by DC are just the opposite.
It is equivalent to a lithium battery, which can store energy and is used to recharge the Archmage who lacks energy.
Therefore, the use of the wand here has strict restrictions and is basically only circulated within Bruce's acquaintances. The power in the wand is actually the wool collected from Barbatos, and Bruce has the highest control authority over it.
In fact, it is equivalent to Bruce lending money to these magicians, but they don't have to pay it back, and they don't need to pay any price, but the premise is that they have to use this power in the right way, such as doing academic research or teaching.
This is the kind of power Constantine is using now.
Constantine stared at Schiller, the expression on his face was "You have the nerve to ask me why I use this."
Schiller didn't stay on this topic for too long. He pointed at Sivana and said, "Introducing the new principal of Gotham Academy of Magic."
"You're not the new principal yet." Sivana said modestly, "I heard that you are a magician?"
Constantine muttered something under his breath, and then said: "It used to be, but it's not now."
"Do you know about the Rock of Eternity?" Schiller asked.
Constantine nodded almost without thinking, and then asked with some confusion: "Why are you asking about that place? It is unlucky there."
"Unlucky? Why is it unlucky?"
"Of course, that Shazam is so annoying. Oh, I forgot, he is also a great mage and is with that gang, so I'm probably the only one who finds him annoying."
"What should I say?" Schiller pulled up a chair and sat down. Sivana simply sat on the ground. Both of them looked at Constantine.
Constantine didn't understand why they were so interested in this, so he kept glancing back and forth between the two of them. Sivana sighed and told him briefly about his past experience.
After hearing this, Constantine snorted coldly and said: "That's right, it's something that guy can do."
"You know him?"
"Is there anyone in the magic world that I don't know? Or is there anyone who doesn't know me?"
"What kind of interactions have you two had?"
Constantine waved his hand and said: "He wanted me to be his heir, but I refused. Then that guy started spreading rumors about me in the magic world. This is where my incompatibility with the mainstream magic world started."
"Tell me more specifically."
Constantine thought about it and said: "That must have happened decades ago. At that time, I was just starting out. I was looking for fragments of the eternal star and accidentally entered the Rock of Eternity..."
Under Constantine's narration, Schiller and Sivana learned about the relationship between Constantine and the old Shazam decades ago.
Constantine was still a young boy at the time, only seventeen or eighteen years old. However, because of his outstanding magical talent, he was exposed to magic when he was still a child and possessed powerful power.
But as most people said, he was a freak. He did not study under the Archmage like many young mages, nor did he squander his power to kill himself. Constantine was more interested in magic artifacts.
To be precise, he cares more about the carriers of magic, such as props, arrays and spell casting methods. He is not particularly concerned about the power itself, but because his talent is so good, his soul has an unusual attraction to the devil, so
He was already very strong at that time.
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Of course, he later realized that this was actually just the devil's bet. He was the card table, so the devil favored him.
At that time, because there was no one to guide him, he had to explore everything by himself, and there were no ready-made materials. Constantine was like Dora and the monkey. He went out to explore every day and basically visited all the magic worlds, big and small, including
Including Rock of Eternity.
The wizard Shazam is an immortal and has lived for tens of thousands of years, so he has accumulated such powerful power. When Constantine went there, he was not looking for his power at all. He just wanted to find materials to make magic props.
, but the wizard Shazam doesn’t see it that way.
He felt that this talented boy must be the heir sent to him by God. He opened and shut his mouth just to let Constantine inherit his power. Constantine didn't do it, and the two broke up on bad terms.
When talking about this, Sivana couldn't help but asked curiously: "Why don't you do it?"
"Why should I do it?" Constantine was also confused, "Why should I accept his power? It's not like I don't have it myself. If I thought, I could get a power a hundred times stronger than his power in a minute, why would I do it?
Do you have to have his?"
"But no one thinks the money is too little," Sivana said.
Constantine waved his hand again and said: "Do you think you don't have to pay for taking his power? How is that possible!"
Sivana was stunned for a moment, then asked: "Do I have to pay a price? But he's not a devil or anything."
"How do you know he is not?" Constantine seemed a little unable to stand Sivana's stubbornness. He said, "Why do you think he is hiding in that corner? He doesn't like the glorious magic tower in the main world and the people who surround him every day.
A magician’s apprentice?”
Sivana had never thought about this angle. He said, "Isn't he practicing there?"
"Did he tell you that? Do you believe it?" Constantine said disdainfully: "I told you before that the essence of magic is borrowing debt. You have to run 100 miles before you go to the bank to apply for a loan?
"
"Then why is he there?"
"That old man is hiding from his creditors there!"
Constantine recalled it and said: "I kind of forgot who his creditor was, but since he lived for so many years, he must have borrowed a lot of debt. There are too many such people in the magic world."
"Although many magicians in the main world have died now, most of them are young people. Yes, people like Master Andrew can also be considered young people. There are many old immortals who live in a corner for thousands of years.
If they don't come out for years, no one knows if they are still alive."
"Most of these people made a fortune in the era of loose terms, or took advantage of the battle between devils and angels in the Fallen War. They were afraid of being liquidated in the future, so they found a place as remote as possible.
Hide."
"This group of people generally have no talent, no ability, and no ambition. They live their entire lives just to live longer, so they plan to rest on their laurels and find a place to squat for tens of thousands of years. Shazam is obviously this kind of person."
"Otherwise, with so much power, he still needs to find an heir. Can't he come out to seek justice on his own?"
Sivana felt that her filter was completely broken.
"Then, you can also use his power..."
"I already said there is a price." Constantine's eyes almost rolled to the sky. He said: "Looking for an heir is just money laundering, isn't it? He transfers his power to other people, and then he
Fake your own death and the account will be settled."
"When you are resurrected in the future, you can go find the unlucky guy who has inherited the power and get most of it back. You can claim that I am your benefactor. If you are in danger, if you don't give me one million dollars, you will
He is an ungrateful villain."
Sivana could hardly close her mouth.
"Let me see, if he doesn't choose you, it's not because you were tempted. It's just because you're not innocent enough to be deceived. You don't still want to treat him as a treasure, do you?"
"He invited me at that time because he saw that I also have a lot of power. After he reincarnates, not only will he not lose money, he may even make money, so I won't be deceived."
Constantine sighed and said somewhat angrily.
"That guy has indeed lived long enough. He had a strong voice in the Archmage Alliance back then. I was not fooled. He said behind the backs of those archmages that I was too talented and had evil intentions. He will definitely become a big problem in the future, leading to
For a long time after that, those magic families and mage apprentices always caused trouble for me."
Constantine said with a gloomy face: "You always say that I don't fit in with others, and I always cheat my teammates, but I don't want to be a marginal figure in the magic world, at least not at that time."
"But at that time, Shazam had the right to speak. What could I do? Most of the magic families wouldn't do business with me, and no one would tell me if they wanted to get information. I don't want to do evil things, so how can I survive?"
"Then is this magician absolutely necessary?" Sivana asked.
Constantine looked at Schiller with some confusion. Schiller shook his head and said, "Mr. Principal is just an ordinary person. He has no magic talent."
Constantine understood and said: "Magic talent is not a talent, but a curse. Having a magic talent means that the devil likes you very much, and you cannot refuse."