The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 2581: Xiao Xiao Down (Sixty-five)

Constantine, who had just been discharged from the hospital, was studying magic circles in his office. All kinds of books were scattered on the floor, and the open space in the office was also messily drawn by him. Various materials were piled up around him, and the wall next to him was also filled with jars of strange biological products.

When Schiller and Sivana came in, Constantine said without even looking up, "Go find Professor Zatara if you have anything to say. I'm busy."

"Is your leg better?" Schiller asked.

Constantine was startled and sat down on the ground when he turned around. Seeing that it was Schiller, he breathed a sigh of relief, sat down on the spot, patted the hem of his magician robe and said, "Why are you here? Don't you have classes recently?"

"Most students were moving to new dormitories, and too many of them asked for leave," Schiller said. "So I just asked for a few days off as well."

Constantine nodded without saying anything, and put the magic circle runes that he had just messed up when he fell back into their original places.

"How many days have you not slept?" Schiller asked.

"It will only take two days." Constantine yawned and said, "I have to finish this part quickly. I can't put it off any longer."

Schiller turned around and saw Constantine's notes on his desk. Schiller picked up the notebook and took a look, and found that it was a record of rune conversion.

The rune system of the entire magical world has been reconstructed. Many of the magic circles developed by Constantine and reconstructed by Bruce are no longer usable. They must be converted before they can work properly. He has been busy with this before.

Schiller saw the small wooden stick that Constantine had thrown aside and asked, "Why did you get this too?"

Constantine was stunned, then looked at Schiller. Schiller was also stunned, and then he remembered that Constantine could not use magic now. What else could he use if not the wand?

The magic wand developed by DC is different from that of Marvel. Marvel's magic wand is equivalent to pre-prepared meals, which are used to feed little wizards who can't cook at all. The magic wand of DC is just the opposite. It is equivalent to a lithium battery, which can store energy and is used to charge big wizards who are short of energy.

Therefore, the use of the wands here is strictly restricted and is basically only circulated among Bruce's acquaintances. The power in the wands is actually the power plundered from Barbatos, and Bruce has the highest control over it.

In fact, it is equivalent to Bruce lending money to these magicians, but they don't have to pay it back and don't require any cost, but the prerequisite is that they have to use this power in the right way, such as doing academic research or teaching.

This is the power Constantine is using now.

Constantine stared at Schiller with an expression that said "How dare you 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 even a new principal yet." Sivana said modestly, "I heard you're a magician?"

Constantine muttered something under his breath, then said, "It used to be, but it's not now."

"Do you know the Rock of Eternity?" Schiller asked.

Constantine nodded almost without thinking, and then asked doubtfully: "Why are you asking about that place? It's unlucky there."

"Unlucky? Why is it unlucky?"

"Of course it's that Shazam who is so annoying. Oh, I forgot, he is also a great wizard and is in the same group as those people, so I am probably the only one who thinks he is annoying."

"What do you mean?" Schiller pulled a chair and sat down, and Shivana simply sat on the ground, and both of them looked at Constantine.

Constantine didn't understand why they were so interested in this, so his eyes kept moving back and forth between the two of them. Shivana sighed and briefly told him about her past experiences.

After listening to this, Constantine snorted coldly and said, "That's right, it's something that guy would 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 interactions have you two had?"

Constantine waved his hand and said, "He wanted me to be his successor, but I refused. Then he started spreading rumors about me in the wizarding world. That's when I started to have trouble getting along with the mainstream wizarding world."

"Tell me more specifically."

Constantine thought about it and said, "That was several decades ago. I was a rookie at that time. I was looking for fragments of the Eternal Star and accidentally entered the Eternal Rock..."

According to Constantine's story, Schiller and Sivana learned about the relationship between Constantine and old Shazam decades ago.

Constantine was still a young boy at the time, only about seventeen or eighteen years old, but 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 a great wizard like many young wizards, nor did he squander his power and kill himself. Constantine was more interested in magical artifacts.

To be precise, he was more concerned with the carriers of magic, such as props, magic circles and casting methods, but was not particularly concerned about the power itself. However, because his talent was so good and his soul had an unusual attraction to the devil, he was already very strong at that time.

Of course, he later found out that this was actually just a gambling game of the devil, and he was the card table, so the devil favored him particularly.

At that time, because there was no one to guide him, he had to explore everything on his own, and there were no ready-made materials. Constantine was like Dora and the monkey, going out to explore every day, and basically traveled to all the magical worlds, big and small, including the 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 going for his power at all. He just wanted to find materials to make magic props, but the wizard Shazam did not think so.

He felt that this gifted boy must be the heir sent to him by God, and he kept asking Constantine to inherit his power. Constantine refused, and the two parted unhappily.

When he said this, Xivana couldn't help but ask 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 want, I can get power a hundred times stronger than his in a minute. Why do I have to take his power?"

“But no one would complain that the money is too little,” said Shivana.

Constantine waved his hand again and said, "Do you think you can take his power without paying a price? How is that possible!"

Sivana was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Does he have to pay a price? But he's not a devil or anything."

"How do you know he's not?" Constantine seemed a little fed up with Sivana's stubbornness. He said, "Why do you think he's hiding in that corner? Is it because he doesn't like the glorious magic tower in the main world and the magician apprentices who surround him every day?"

Shivana had never thought about this angle, and he said, "Isn't he practicing there or something?"

"Did he tell you that? You believe it?" Constantine said disdainfully, "I told you long ago that the essence of magic is debt. Do you have to run 100 miles before you can get a loan from the bank?"

"Then why is he there?"

"That old man is hiding from his creditors!"

Constantine recalled and said, "I have forgotten who his creditor is, but since he has lived for so many years, he must have borrowed a lot of debts. There are too many such people in the magic world."

"Although most of the magicians in the main world have died, most of them are young people. Yes, people like Master Andrew can be considered young people. Many old people have been hiding in some corners for thousands of years. No one knows whether they are still alive."

"Most of these people made a fortune during the era when the terms were relaxed, or took advantage of the battle between the devils and angels during the Fallen War. They are afraid of being liquidated in the future, so they hide in the most remote place possible."

"These people generally have no talent, no skills, and no ambition. They live their whole lives just to live longer, so they plan to live off their old capital and stay in one place for tens of thousands of years. Shazam is obviously this kind of person."

"Why would he need to find a successor when he has so much power? Can't he just come out and enforce justice himself?"

Shivana felt like her filter was completely shattered.

"Then, you can also take his power..."

"I told you this will come at a price." Constantine rolled his eyes to the sky. He said, "What do you mean by looking for an heir? Isn't that just money laundering? He transfers the power to someone else, and then fakes his own death, and then all the debts are cleared."

"When I am resurrected in the future, I will go find the unlucky guy who inherited the power and take back most of the power. I will call it your benefactor. If you don't give me one million dollars when I am in trouble, you are an ungrateful villain."

Shivana could hardly close her mouth.

"In my opinion, the reason he didn't choose you wasn't because you were tempted. He just thought you were not innocent enough to be fooled. 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 had great power. After he was reincarnated, not only would he not lose anything, he might even make money. That's why I didn't want to be deceived."

Constantine sighed and said somewhat indignantly.

"That guy lived a long time. He had a lot of influence in the Grand Mage Alliance. I didn't fall for it, so he said behind the backs of those grand mages that I was too talented and had bad intentions. He said that he would become a big problem in the future. As a result, for a long time afterwards, those magic families and mage apprentices always caused trouble for me."

Constantine said grimly, "You always say that I don't fit in and that I always screw my teammates, but it's not like I want to be a marginal figure in the wizarding world, at least not at that time."

"But Shazam was in control at that time. What could I do? Most of the magic families wouldn't trade with me. No one would tell me if I wanted to get intelligence. How could I survive if I didn't use some crooked ways?"

"So this magician must become one?" asked Sivana.

Constantine looked at Schiller with some doubt. Schiller shook his head and said, "The principal is just an ordinary person. He has no magical talent."

Constantine understood and said, "Magic talent is not a talent, but a curse. Having magic talent means that the devil likes you very much, and you can't refuse."