Lord Shadow

She should have guessed it. But she was too anxious for the safety of the Broker that she did not think of this. 

A witness to an execution. That is the role she is meant to play today. But for whom? For whom should she testify? And the answer immediately comes for her.

Loki wanted to convince someone else. He did not only want to convince the Crime Lords of his cruel nature. 

But he also wanted to show his determination to “that person” 

Since he had taken the blame to become a villain for the Multiversal Convergence and yet his brother still could not him go and wanted him to come back, this killing, this execution is for her to relay it to Death Monarch

To show his determination. She clicks her tongue.

Sooner or later, regardless of how she wanted to cover up this matter, it will come to light. 

Maybe the citizens would not know of this matter. But to those intelligence agencies in the dark, they would surely investigate what happened here.

Sasha click her tongue as she knows she need to disavow any of her relations with the Broker. 

It is not something she would like to do. But everything had been done. She could not really bring back The Broker back to life right now

There is no solution other than that. There are other solutions. But the other solutions would not be good for the Shadow Guards

In the end, she still had to choose the best choice for her and her organization

Since she could not do anything other than, she had to prepare countermeasures so that things would not get even worse.

Sighing he said

‘Now, that it is done, you should no longer hesitate. Use me’ Loki said. There was silence between them

Sasha shakes her head and said

‘There is another way.’ Loki eyebrows rise up

And then she said

‘You force me to do this’ the moment she said, the sound of a click could be heard. Loki smiles as he could see that there is something on Sasha hand, gripped tightly by her fingers.

She had clicked something. And the moment she did that, all kinds of sound could be heard. 

Swoosh!

There is the sound of air splitting. The sensation of the ground moving and a surge of energy that is gathering around Loki and Sasha

Loki shakes his head like he disapproves of Sasha action.

‘I have been waiting for you to call out all of your operatives here. Your last trump card, I presume. I wish you won’t do that. It would save both our times. But, I guess you would not understand until you are beaten thoroughly.’

Sighing he then said

‘I guess I need to extinguish all of your hopes before you start seeing things my way’ And he smiles his most charming smile towards her

But Sasha did not smile. 

She is still wary. Loki seems to be calm. That is why she became even warier.

‘You don’t seem surprised’ she said, her eyes observing every single movement of the Trickster.

‘I notice that you were trying to contact your men when we were talking’ Loki said calmly. 

At the same time as they were both talking, there were hundreds of people wearing black clothes attires rushing toward him from the distance

Some of them is flying in the sky, some of them is running in super speed in the ground and some is travelling underground.

Their target is Loki.

Sasha knew she alone could not bring down Loki. 

She rarely overestimates an enemy but with Loki, Sasha had always thought that this person never quite plays by the rules

He hides too deeply and it is hard to know what is real and what is false when one is with him. With an enemy like this, Sasha knew what she needed is thorough preparation.

She alone is not enough

But what if is there a hundred people? At least, she could capture Loki and present him to Death Monarch

She knew Loki had his own plan. She read the letter. 

And she knew the advantages of that plan. But that was his plan.

And not hers. Why should she care so much about Loki plans?

All she needed to do was to make the decision that benefited Death Monarch the most. She is not working for Loki.

Loki is not her lord. So, there was no reason for her to respect Loki wishes and desires

Death Monarch wanted to protect Loki in Pandemonium.

That is not something he could do when Loki is all around the world trying to become the next leader of the Crime Alliance.

And without a doubt, this act of Death Monarch is not simply to protect Loki. It is also to restrain Loki.

Unlike Death Monarch other enemies, Death Monarch could not just kill Loki. To him, Loki is his brother.

But he could at least restrain him. That is why Sasha had a plan B if she failed to save the Broker. 

That other plan is to capture Loki and brought him to Death Monarch when he returns back from his seclusion.

What Loki probably underestimated was the fact that when the interest of the Shadow Guards and the interest of Death Monarch clashed with each other, Sasha would always choose Death Monarch interest

Like Loki said, Sasha is loyal. She might not be loyal in the beginning as she was the defeated enemy, but years had gone by.

Sasha found her work to have meaning. She had people she wanted to protect and there is people she loves.

And there are some virtues that she had cultivated. Loki smiles is quite weird. There is a trace of some shock but it was not obvious.

But even though the situation right now is very tense, Loki like always is confident. 

BOOM!

The sound of something closing could be heard in the sky. Loki look up and there is a smile on his face

A circular dome covers the sky above Loki head. It is erected in a split second. Powerful humming sound echoes all over.

‘I am flattered’ Loki said as he looks back at Sasha in front of him

‘You even activate the formation that my brother left you to seal any teleportation device that I might have. Sealing space and teleportation channel. Quite elaborate but understandable.’ 

Loki eyes look at it and matrixes in his eyes appears again, and he look at the formation with his eyes

Sasha take her stance. She was ready to battle again. Space is not the only thing that Sasha had sealed. She had even sealed energy inside the formation.

Outside the formation, on the four direction, west, east, south, north, there is people.

If one looks at it from a bird eye view, one would see that the hundred people separated and form a diamond shape 

There were a hundred kilometers from Loki and Sasha. As such, the radius of the sealing formation dome had the width of one hundred kilometers 

As for its height, it reached one hundred feet. On the west, there is twenty-five people. They sing songs and this song seems to turns into energy

On their feet there is translucent lines that connect the people in the west to the East. On the East side, there is also twenty-five people

These twenty-five people writes runes on the lines around them. These runes then would flow into the translucent lines and power the restriction in the sealing dome.

On the intersection of the lines is the sealing dome where Loki and Sasha is in. And intersecting these lines is also the line that connect the North and the South position.

Both the North and South position had twenty-five people. It seems that the sealing formation created by Sasha requires one hundred people to execute it.

On the South, the twenty-five people there did not sing or write runes. Instead they were drawing magic circles. 

inside the magic circles is all kinds of characters drawn by them. It seems to draw the power of the elements to the drawing. 

It has the elements of formation magic.

The raw materials around these people seems to be turned into dust. But that is not quite the accurate representation of the matter.

It is not that it turns to dust. instead it was turned into energy. Of course, such magic did not have the power to transform material objects to energy

At least not the magic that these people are doing

That is not how most formation magic works. 

While there is magic that draw power and energy from the surrounding and there is many such thing, what they took in is the energy of the world that is inside the matter

For example, a stone that is being nourished by the energy of the world would possess a certain amount of energy inside it

Magician, witches and warlocks and any magical kind could then absorb the energy contained in the stone. Of course, the witches and magical kind on Earth Prime had one advantages over the magical kinds of other world