Shadow of the Beautiful World

Facing the invasion of hell, the top heroes that the whole world has been waiting for finally appeared, and successfully trapped the three hell lords who entered the world.

The lords of hell feel that they have seized a good opportunity. When the human world is fighting monsters and robots, they plan to come to a wave of praying mantises to catch cicadas and orioles.

But they didn't expect that the praying mantis they were facing was very vicious. Not only did it eat the cicada, but it also planned to turn around and chop the oriole.

It was indeed a hard bone.

But the current situation does not allow the hell lords to hesitate any longer.

As a result of their outbursts, the empty base camp in the rear was hidden in the dark, and the children of hell who had already been eyeing them made a surprise attack.

Baal Hell, Lucifer Hell, and Belial Hell are all being raided by omnic armies from the Wasteland, as well as huge legions from Limbo and Marduk Hell.

The strategy of the Sons of Hell is very risky. They don't plan to take over the three defenseless hells in an all-round way. They are conducting beheading operations, or hell blitz.

It is necessary to rush all the way to the core of hell with superior forces, interfere and cut off the possibility of the hell lords returning to their respective hells.

But this interference doesn't last long.

This requires the human heroes who cooperate with them to kill the three maharajas trapped in the world before the passage of hell is restored.

But this is not an easy thing.

With superhuman superpowers, he still couldn't take down the cunning Lord Lucifer for a long time, and the situation in the battlefields of London and New York was the same.

Those who can sit on the position of majesty in the cruel competition in the hell world are all a group of cunning people, but apart from cunning thinking, they will never be ambiguous when they need to work hard.

Both sides are racing against time, almost all the arrangements left by Merlin before participating in the gambling game have been activated, and all the top heroes have joined in the pursuit of the three-headed hell lord.

But only Shazam, who rushed from home to the battlefield in New York, was in trouble.

Merlin's disciple was attacked by another divine power inheritor on the way.

The ancient Egyptian prince Black Adam, who was brought into the earth as a gladiator by Gao Tianzun, attacked Shazam and suppressed Shazam with absolute strength, asking him to take himself to the Rock of Eternity.

Hit, definitely can't beat.

Although under the training of Merlin, coupled with the strength of near-god power, Shazam already possesses quasi-first-line strength.

But compared to Black Adam, who has possessed near-god power for nearly 5,000 years, he is an out-and-out beginner in all aspects.

What's more, the inheritors of the near-god power are well aware of each other's weaknesses, and Shazam seems to be fighting against another enhanced version of himself.

What he has, Black Adam has.

What he didn't have, Black Adam also had.

This made the young man have no chance of winning in the frontal battle. Under the threat of death, he could only agree to Black Adam's request and lead him to the Rock of Eternity.

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In the quiet Temple of the Rock of Eternity, the halo of the opening of the divine power channel flashed away.

Wearing a black combat uniform, Black Adam, with his muscles stretched out and a firm expression on his face, escorted Shazam, whose hands were bound by white lightning, into the place.

This strong man who was born 5,000 years ago and was exiled to the other side of the universe looked around.

When he saw the complex and mysterious spells on the ground, and the swaying crystal chandelier floating in the air above the temple on the mountain stream, he had a look of nostalgia in his eyes.

After the end of this exile journey that was long enough to destroy the human mind, he did not forget the past.

He still clearly remembers how, as a prince, he was chosen by the wizards of the Eternal Council here 5,000 years ago.

In what a glorious scene, they were endowed with divine power.

Relying on the endowed divine power, he defeated the demons that invaded the country, saved his country, achieved the throne, married a wife and had children, and regarded himself as the guardian of ancient Egypt.

Protect people, protect civilization...

What a happy time it was.

When his eyes fell on the seven rock thrones at the end of the Rock of Eternity Temple, the nostalgia in Black Adam's eyes quickly faded, replaced by a touch of hatred and disgust that was even more difficult to let go.

Happy times are like the tail of a rabbit in autumn. After just a few years, my family and the country are in bad luck, and I can't save them with all my strength.

He could only helplessly watch the lives he protected die one after another.

When he needed help the most, the group of wizards who shaped him ruthlessly rejected him.

Deep love, deep hatred.

Loss, powerless loss is the venom of the soul, fermented and formed in despair, destroying the hero who regarded himself as guardian and justice.

And in the riddled holes in the will and spirit, inject the inner darkness.

He's been remade.

From a hero who lost everything, he was reinvented as a destroyer of loss, avenger of darkness, destroyer of magic.

Yes...

Magic is the root of all evil in this world.

All the good and bad things in the world are the same.

After stripping off the cloak of so-called justice, they are not different at all.

Those powers that can lift people to the top and make people fall into the abyss shouldn't exist!

You seem sad.

Shazam, whose hands were locked by white lightning, looked at his side in silence, and looked at Black Adam on the stone throne with hatred eyes, and he moved his body uneasily.

whispered:

There are only two of us here. Before you execute me, you should at least tell me why you are so persistent in destroying this place, right?

Um?

Black Adam glanced at Shazam beside him indifferently, and said:

Are you interested in my story?

certainly.

Shazam was pushed forward by the Egyptian prince, and he said while walking:

Before me, you were the first person to be granted divine power. I heard that you have experienced very miserable things. It is those miserable experiences that turned you into what you are now.

Hehe, did he tell you?

Black Adam chuckled, he pursed his lips, and said in a low tone:

Don't worry about your life, child, I have no interest in executing you.

You are not a fighter, and you have no responsibility to die in this battle.

After you hand over your divine power to me, you can leave. Ah, how desperate he must have been before he died, to actually give this power to a child... This is not a heavy responsibility you can take on.

You, like me when I was young, are only attracted by the gorgeous appearance of this place, but ignore the pressure and tribulations brought about by that magical power...

I guess you haven't opened those 'doors' he left for you, have you?

Shazam nodded even more uneasily.

The old wizard Shazam left him not only power, but also a responsibility.

In the depths of the Temple of the Rock of Eternity, thousands of doors are stored, which are the doors to various magical dimensions.

As the successor of the Rock of Eternity, Shazam has the mission of maintaining the peace of those magical dimensions, but those worlds are not only bizarre, but also full of danger.

His mentor, Merlin, advises him not to venture into those worlds until he breaks through with the Heavenly Father.

His own dangers are secondary to the irreparable damage that could easily be done to Earth if he accidentally released creatures from other worlds.

God Lord Dum also came to the Rock of Eternity for the first time after he became the supreme mage, to seal the doors leading to all dimensions.

Obviously, Dum doesn't think the current Shazam has the ability to pass through those doors.

Very well, then never open them.

Looking back at the passage leading to the depths of the Rock of Eternity, Black Adam said:

My story is not complicated. They chose me to be a guardian and drove me to other worlds. They told me that my mission is not only to maintain this world, but also to protect the creatures in other worlds.

I also thought it was an honor, so I practiced the path they set for me. I tried my best to save those times of crisis, but what did I get?

Painful.

Black Adam walked up the steps surrounded by seven thrones, and picked up the black wooden staff left by the old wizard Shazam from the central throne. He picked it up and walked towards Shazam. He said:

All I got out of that mission was pain!

The foreign gods and demons defeated by me unite and pass through those doors to the human world in one of my actions. They are afraid of the eternal council and vent their hatred of me on my wife, children, and my citizens .”

Once again I saved a world at stake, but when I came home full of glory, what did I see?

Take a guess, kid.

Black Adam's eyes became dead silent at this moment.

It's as if the soul has died, and what remains here is just a shell full of despair and pain.

His will seems to have stayed at the moment when his family was ruined and his despair was overwhelming.

Facing Black Adam's question, Shazam shook his head.

He wasn't an idiot either. Merlin had already given him many examples of what kind of cruel things a group of crazy gods and demons could do.

When those guys called themselves demon gods, they had already given up all their humanity, and when they were insane, they would behave worse than wild beasts.

And he was also in the battle for the supreme mage, and he saw with his own eyes a world destroyed by evil gods from outside...

That's what happened to Black Adam.

I came home and my wife was lying in a pool of blood and my children were placed on the table like a sacrifice.

My country was destroyed, everyone died, blood flowed like a river, and even the sky was red with the blood on the ground.

I held them, and I prayed countless times to the gods I believe in, praying that everything can be restored, I saved so many worlds! So many lives...

When I was most desperate, no one could save me!

Black Adam's tone of voice was like winter frost, making Shazam shiver uncontrollably.

The Egyptian prince put the staff between him and Shazam, his eyes were bloodshot, and he said to Shazam:

Son, do you know what the most ironic detail is in my tragedy?

I am for them!

Black Adam pointed to the seven chairs behind him, and he roared angrily:

I gave everything for their mission, but when I needed them the most, they chose to sit on the sidelines. I walked into this temple with my wife, son, and the blood of the people. I asked them why!

What do you think they answered me?

In front of him, when Hei Adam was the most angry, he became strangely quiet.

But this quietness made Shazam's scalp tingle, that kind of quietness was like the indifference of a tiger when it was about to pounce on humans.

The man in front of him has gone crazy.

They told me, hahaha, they told me it was all because of me...

It was me who was too obsessed with fighting and angered those foreign gods. It was I who brought disaster to my relatives. They protected the whole world, but they only left out my hometown, my country...

Ha ha ha ha

White lightning surged from Black Adam's body again, and in the scene full of lightning, halos swayed around his body.

He laughed wildly, like someone who has lost his heart.

He said to Shazam:

It turns out that everything I did was wrong, and it turns out that guarding is also a sin.

I protected those who needed protection, but I couldn't protect the ones I loved. They who I trusted...abandoned me when I needed it most.

In anger, I was shaped into a dark god, and I killed them with the power they gave me, just as cruel as those gods and demons killed my people, my wife and children!

I left the last one, and I was exiled because of it, but it doesn't matter, I'm back.

Black Adam looked at Shazam, and he said word by word:

You've been tricked, kid.

The ones who give you strength are not some guardians, but a group of timid bastards.

Your strength is not enough to honor you and your family, it will only bring you endless bad luck.

Come, take this staff, give me those cursed powers, give me your burdens.

White lightning danced wildly, like hell being bombarded by thunder.

In that scorching and powerful thunder, the lock on Shazam's wrist was unlocked.

The young man didn't fight back. He rubbed his wrists and looked at Black Adam in front of him. After listening to a tragic story, he didn't feel happy.

He just asked in a low tone:

What about after that? What about after you get the power? What are you going to do?

What should I do?

Black Adam shrugged, he said:

I will give you freedom, and then I will destroy this temple that should have died a long time ago, and destroy all those damn doors and those trembling executioners hiding behind the doors!

Revenge is late, but it will never be absent, and that's what I'm going to do...

Hold it!

During Black Adam's roar, Superman Shazam reached out and held the black wooden staff.

The staff used by the old wizard Shazam can store divine power, and just like the old wizard gave the divine power to Shazam, this power can also be transferred to other people through this staff.

Golden lightning flashed around Shazam's body, he hesitated for a moment, between two kinds of lightning intertwined.

He raised his head and looked at Black Adam.

He said:

I'm sorry that you lost everything because of the Rock of Eternity...but maybe you can go back to the past, I mean, you also see the situation on the earth now.

Just as your hometown suffered bad luck at that time, the earth is also attacked by all kinds of darkness. It is more heroic than ever.

And you are stronger than me. With my power, you will be stronger, and you will crush everything.

Shazam gritted his teeth, he said:

I will give you the power, but can you...can you replace me and help them.

I know that what you hate is not that mission, what you hate is the ruthless bystander of the Eternal Council.

In the story you just told, I feel that the time when you protected the world still made you feel honored, and you didn't regret it...

Help the world again, okay?

Under Shazam's expectant gaze, Black Adam shook his head, and said in a deadpan tone:

I admire your courage, boy.

But the survival of this world has nothing to do with me.

You and your friends shouldn't fight for it anymore, it's a lie... No matter what the result is, what you can get is just a lie.

Come on, give me your power, and let me remove that bondage for you!