Chapter 209 Dormammu’s Arrival

"Kaecilius? Where is that damned traitor right now?"

Wanda’s red dress fluttered without any wind, and her eyes flickered with a predatory scarlet glow.

Kamar-Taj had borne over a decade of her bitter cultivation, and although the Ancient One was always speaking in riddles, she was still the mentor who taught her how to control her power.

Now that her sect was facing a crisis, the Chaos Magic within her instantly surged wildly like a breached Yellow River.

"He is at the Hong Kong Sanctuary!"

Strange hurriedly crawled up from the ground, having no time to try and get on Lucas’s good side.

How could this senior sister of his be even more uncanny than Kaecilius?

"Kaecilius has led a bunch of black magic traitors and already destroyed the sanctuary defense lines in London and New York! He is now gathering men to storm the Hong Kong Sanctuary! Once the formation hub there is uprooted, the absolute barrier constructed by the three sanctuaries will completely collapse! By then, the power of the Dark Dimension will march straight in, dragging Earth directly into an irredeemable abyss!"

"Let’s go! Time to clear out some small fry!"

Wanda turned her head and glanced at Lucas.

Lucas casually pulled up his boxers. "Why are you looking at me? Let’s go then. I also want to see just how strong this little punk is, to be able to beat our supreme Ancient One into heroic fragments!"

Strange outlined a magic array in the air, opening a portal. On the other end of the door was unmistakably the humid, pungent, and dark-cloud-capped streets of Hong Kong Island!

The three of them filed through one after another.

Just as they stepped onto the flagstone road outside the Hong Kong Sanctuary, an overwhelming wave of black magic washed over them!

Rumble!

The space of the entire Hong Kong district was forcibly folded into another dimension by a Strange mirror spell.

Skyscrapers resembled huge building blocks inverted over the firmament, the streets were twisted into a braided shape, and several cultists dressed in pitch-black robes with black spots clustered around their eyes were wantonly trampling on the corpses of the sanctuary guards.

The leader, whose eye corners were covered with black magic patterns and whose face was ferocious, was none other than the traitor Kaecilius!

But in Lucas’s eyes,

Kaecilius looked no different from Uncle Mads.

"Strange? The Ancient One is already dead, how dare a newbie like you come to block me?!"

Seeing the portal open, Kaecilius merely curled the corners of his mouth.

He slammed his hands together abruptly, and an extremely dense power of black magic surged around his body. The void behind him instantly tore open several bloody wounds:

"In the name of the great ruler Dormammu, strangle them for me!"

Clatter!

Dozens of sharp chains condensed from dark energy, carrying the piercing shrieks of dead souls, stabbed straight at Strange!

"What kind of skill is it to bully a newly-entered disciple? Your opponent is me!"

Wanda’s slender body flashed, rising from the ground as a deep crimson brilliance erupted from her eyes!

She didn’t even need to chant a spell, spreading her hands fiercely toward the void!

Chaos Magic - Reality Erasure!

Hum!

The moment those dozens of dark chains touched the crimson brilliance, their underlying rules were rewritten!

The pitch-black chains disintegrated on the spot, degenerating into rose petals fluttering all over the sky in mid-air, even exuding a faint fragrance!

Chaos Magic would manifest different styles of magic based on one’s inner state.

For instance, after Wanda lost her children and husband, her eyes were filled with ruin, so she condensed a group of baring-teeth-and-claws withered trees with a blood moon hanging in the sky, completely acting like a creepy dark blood witch.

However, at this moment, she was nurtured by love, and the magic origin within her heart leaned towards tenderness.

But hitting Kaecilius with it was certainly not tender.

"What? What kind of spell is this?!" Kaecilius’s eyeballs almost popped out, and he was forced back several steps by the impact.

"The spell used to kill you!"

Wanda was suspended in mid-air, her red dress rustling in the wind.

Having undergone bitter cultivation in Kamar-Taj for over a decade, her accumulated foundation was much stronger than bumpkins. Coupled with her insights into the White magic book pages, at this moment, the Chaos Magic within her joyfully responded!

She formed a hand seal with one hand, tracing a vast golden defensive magic array with her fingertips to block the sneak attacks of the surrounding zealous cultists. With her other hand, she pressed down through the air, and a crimson pressure as vast as the sea slammed down from above!

High-tier Defense Array.

High-tier Chaos Soul-Capturing Technique.

High-tier Chaos Energy Wave.

Wanda continuously unleashed several high-tier spells, leaving Strange filled with astonishment. In front of this absolute power, the mirrored buildings on the ground shattered layer by layer.

Kaecilius didn’t even have time to cast a complete black magic spell before he was struck in the chest.

That crimson wave of energy was simply brutally fierce!

"Pfft!"

Kaecilius spat out a large mouthful of blood, his sternum snapping inch by inch. Like a reverse-flying cannonball, he heavily smashed through three high-rise buildings and embedded himself into the broken ruins, most of the bones in his body broken.

Even so, his eyes were still filled with panic!

"How did you become so strong?"

Meanwhile, the dozen or so zealous cultists around were also surrounded by Strange, Wong, and Mordo. Several of them had injuries on their faces, obviously having spent a lot of effort clearing out the black magic cultists from the other sanctuaries.

Strange also conjured a defense array with both hands, cooperating with the flying Cloak of Levitation, and his moves were fierce and swift.

He also possessed strong aerial suspension capabilities.

He played with the Shield of the Seraphim even more mightily—slapping, smashing, kicking, and stomping... all in one go. Truly a melee mage!

In just a few minutes, the remaining small fry all collapsed into the ruins, none of them able to stand up again.

Lucas had his hands shoved into his thunder-patterned boxers, wearing flip-flops, floating leisurely in mid-air. With a wave of his hand, he conjured a bucket of popcorn. This magic duel with maxed-out realism right before his eyes was much more satisfying than those blockbusters with cheap fifty-cent special effects.

"No... This is impossible! I am the great servant of darkness! I will never lose here!"

Kaecilius’s face was completely distorted.

Seeing that the general trend was gone, a fierce glint flashed deep within his eyes!

Taking advantage of the gap when everyone thought he had lost his combat effectiveness, Kaecilius burned away all his remaining soul power, dipped his right hand in his own vital blood, and directly outlined a taboo ancient blood array on the Hong Kong magic array beneath him!

"With my blood, I sacrifice my spirit and soul! The great ruler of the Dark Dimension—descend! Tear this fragile Planet to pieces! Hahaha!"

Kaecilius let out a demonic roar. The moment the blood array was triggered, his entire body was drained dry by the berserk dark power, instantly transforming into a shriveled corpse!

However deeply he had once loved the Ancient One, he now hated her just as bitterly.

He would rather give up his life than destroy the Earth that the Ancient One had once protected.

...

Accompanied by bursts of muffled sounds,

the firmament split open!

The already folded sky of Hong Kong was now like a canvas violently torn apart, filled with endless power of stillness, decay, and darkness pouring out from the depths of the cracks!

The magnetic field of the entire Earth became berserk and chaotic.

Winds and clouds changed color, and seawater surged backward!

At the center of the abyss-dark black hole, a pair of giant eyes as huge as lighthouses slowly opened!

Its face was composed of hundreds of millions of purple-black dimensional energies, exuding a stillness pressure that annihilated everything!

The crimson ruler of the Dark Dimension.

Dormammu descends!

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