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"No need to think about it, Christine, this is my only chance."

Stephen Strange watched Ye Ye Shenghui feverishly, rendering the underground garage a dark red with a spell. His tone was very firm. After finishing speaking, without waiting for Kristen to say anything else, he solemnly sang to himself. A summoning spell.

“Fill it. Fill it. Fill it. Fill it. Fill it.

"

A long series of incantations with unfamiliar pronunciation and obscure contents ended. The brilliance of the technique shone brightly and then dimmed quickly. The ancient Western-style spear placed in the technique had disappeared, and a mass seemed to be alive, slowly surging. Black mist replaced it.

Kristine blinked blankly. She thought that what she summoned might be ghosts, demons, etc., but she never thought that it would be such a mist with no image, even though it looked very good. It's ominous, and I want to avoid it for no reason.

Strange's expression was equally sluggish, and his face turned pale at a speed visible to the naked eye. In his imagination, the heroic spirit he summoned should be a hero who is good at using guns, not a mass of unknown identity.

But what made Strange look pale was not the disappointment in his heart, but the huge amount of magic power he had consumed since the black mist appeared.

Magic power is essentially the energy contained in the human body. Strange has no magic power, so the energy in his body has been drained too much. He looks like he has overindulged, with a sore waist, weak legs, and lack of physical strength.

The black mist seemed to be aware of the rookie master's embarrassment, and there were some fluctuations on the surface. It quickly dimmed to a translucent state that almost dissipated. It floated to Strange's side and stopped moving.

"Stephen, how are you, are you okay?"

Christine looked worried and looked at Strange worriedly, but she was afraid of the black mist and didn't dare to get close for a while.

Strange shook his head weakly and responded:

"No problem, it should be due to the sudden loss of physical strength and the body did not react."

"Okay, you rest for a while and I'll get you some food and water."

Kristen took another look at the black fog that was almost dissipating, and turned to leave. She believed in Strange's judgment that it was his hand that was injured, not his mind, and a good doctor must know his physical condition best. of.

"Thank you."

Strange thanked him absently and softly. At this time, his attention was already focused on his servant. No matter what, the Holy Grail War was his only hope to restore his hands, so even if the servant was unsatisfactory, he would not give up. .

However, as a Master, Strange's pupils suddenly shrank and his face twitched.

When Christine returned to the underground garage with a bag of bread and a bottle of water, she was startled by the complicated expression on Strange's face.

"What happened again?"

Strange seemed excited, sighed, regretful, and annoyed, and said in a very complicated tone:

“Have you ever heard of the legend of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?

When I saw the Lamb opening the first of the seven seals, I heard one of the four living creatures with a voice like thunder saying, "Come." And I looked, and behold, a white horse, and the one who sat on it was holding a A bow was given to him, and a crown was given to him. Then he came out, victorious and victorious. "

"When did you become interested in religion and also memorize the original text of The Knight on the White Horse?"

Kristine asked in surprise. In her impression, Stephen's medical skills were very superb. He was praised by many patients as God's gift to the surgical world, and was indeed recognized by many top surgeons. But it was precisely this kind of superb skill that came from science. Medical skills made Stephen disdainful of any religion.

This is why Kristen thought Stephen was crazy when she knew that Stephen firmly believed in magic.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, also known as the Four Horsemen of the Doomsday, are allusions to John's Revelation in the New Testament of the Bible. They are the White Horseman of Conquest, the Red Horseman of War, the Black Horseman of Famine, and the Green Horseman of Death.

However, there is also a saying that the rider on the white horse is the plague and death is the rider on the gray horse.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is not a particularly obscure religious allusion. Not to mention Christian clergy, believers, and religious scholars, even people who are slightly interested in Christianity have heard of it.

Suddenly, Kristen realized that Stephen Strange did not say it casually, and she had a guess in her mind that she found ridiculous.

His eyes shifted to the almost transparent black mist floating around Stephen. He was stunned and hesitated to say:

"Could it be that"

"Yes, he is the white horse knight Plague."

Stephen nodded and confirmed Christine's guess, his expression becoming more complicated.

"Are you sure this is what the knight on the white horse looks like?"

Christine looked suspicious. No matter what, she could not connect the black mist that was about to dissipate, as if it could be scattered with a slap, and the doomsday knights who represented conquest or plague in biblical stories.

""

Stephen's face trembled uncontrollably, and his complicated expression turned into depression.

The black mist is indeed the white horse knight among the four horsemen of the apocalypse, but it is not a conquest, but a plague. The appearance of the black mist is actually the embodiment of the disaster of "epidemic".

As the white horse knight in the biblical story, there is no doubt about his strength. Except for the strength value that represents strength is too weak, the other basic values ​​​​are top-notch, and several skills and noble phantoms are even at the ceiling EX level.

More importantly, the knight on the white horse does not have an independent personality and has no emotions. Although he cannot act independently or execute complex orders, he is very obedient and reliable. He does not have to worry about problems such as personality incompatibility. In some respects, he is more powerful than a servant who has his own self. To satisfy Stephen.

however

However is the key. Whenever words such as however and but appear, it represents an important turning point.

However, Stephen is an ordinary person with no magic power at all. If the White Horse Knight maintains his peak condition, let alone fighting, it will be very difficult to just maintain his spiritual existence, so that the White Horse Knight will instinctively deteriorate greatly as soon as he appears. own abilities to reduce Stephen’s burden.

If the physical knight on the white horse had been more responsive when he appeared, he might have been able to drain all of Stephen's physical strength and vitality within a minute.

Comparing the current data of the White Horse Knight with the original data, it is simply terrible, which makes Stephen extremely depressed and heartbroken.

I suddenly saw hope in a desperate situation, and then this hope is very likely to be realized. However, due to my own reasons, the prerequisites for realizing the hope suddenly decreased significantly. This emotional ups and downs are more exciting than riding a roller coaster.

Stephen felt that he hadn't collapsed yet, and was only being sustained by his obsession with regaining his hands.