[Comprehensive Anglo-American] Gem Merchant

As soon as this sentence was said, everyone was taken aback.

More than one person from S.H.I.E.L.D. stood in front of the computer and watched the current situation of Gotham City, so Damm Dugan, who was the immediate boss, immediately dropped the phone: Stark stepped in to make trouble again!

Is this kind of thing a joke? !

Alphonse was also taken aback—his thinking mode habitually wanted to solve problems from the perspective of magic, and he knew nothing about mathematical models and explosion simulations of volcanic magma pools, so he considered the magical power of leylines and Mephisto When bombing, there was no scientific solution at all.

Essentially speaking, this incident is a servant summoning ceremony triggered by the leylines of Gotham City, which itself has nothing to do with science. Even Batman's plan is nothing more than letting Alphonse go To fight against Mephisto, and try our best to keep the hostages from being harmed completely in terms of strategy, the essential idea is still to return scientific to scientific, and mysterious to mysterious.

But now, the leader of the scientific world, the genius scientist Tony Stark, said in the communication frequency band that he can solve this problem by himself.

"Stark, you—"

Even Alphonse didn't know what to say for a while.

"Are you surprised, are you surprised?"

Tony Stark said it very easily in the communication loop: "Actually, this matter is very simple. After all, Mephisto has never studied mathematical modeling. He just hid the bomb underground as much as possible with all his brains." , I don’t need to rule out all of them, as long as I remove the key few, I can stop the eruption of Yellowstone Park.”

"But the positioning of the magic bomb..."

"I know that some of them are placed in the mirror space. Aziraphale and Crowley have already told me. After all, the two of them don't really want the restaurant they usually eat to be covered with a thick layer of volcanic ash... …The latest version of the signal generator produced by Stark Industries is enough to calibrate the position in the mirror space. They only need to open a door and let me in. It’s just one more dimension than the usual three-dimensional space, which is in the model At most, it can be regarded as adding a new frame of reference, and the algorithm has not changed much."

Tony Stark spoke quickly: "But Al, I have to hang up now. I guess whether it's you or me, there is not much time left."

"...Are you sure there is nothing wrong with you?"

Alphonse was skeptical.

"Of course, what you are facing is the smartest mind in the world."

There was a beep from the other end of the communicator, followed by the urging of the artificial intelligence. The communication content was not smooth, and Alphonse could only hear clearly that the time was running out and he needed to make preparations as soon as possible.There wasn't much time left in Gotham City, so he quickly refocused on Gotham's leylines.

Tony Stark rarely promises anything to others, so this promise is all the more weighty.Alphonse cut off the communication connection, and when he was arranging the gems, he inadvertently remembered the person's answer in the interview.

"—I alone can save the world."

He said.

The alchemist used to be noncommittal about this almost arrogant self-confidence. He didn't understand what this "world" meant at all. The magicians of Weissandi guarded the dark dimension one generation after another, and the universe coveted other planets. There are countless villains, even the gods of Asa once issued the destructive omen of Ragnarok, and peace is more like a thin layer of ice on the turbulence. If someone threatens that only one person can keep it all , to a greater extent, Alphonse thinks that this is just a lack of deep understanding of the entire world.

However, in the magician's world, there is no need to involve humans beyond the boundaries. He doesn't think there is anything wrong with such self-confidence. Every time he learns more, he has no way to deal with this former arms dealer. Really angry.

But this time, the other party really came up with a solution that he didn't understand at all, declaring that he was about to save the world alone.

Alphonse put on a white hood, and under the wide brim of the alchemy robe, only the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.Batman let go of the hand that was holding the clerk, and stood silently aside.Six well-polished obsidian and six lapis lazuli were arranged alternately in the middle of the courtyard, outlining a huge hexagon in Wayne Manor. Alphonse inserted the gemstone sword vertically into the center of the hexagon, using it as a Eyes of magic.

□□Placed on the square table, Batman looked at the alchemist in front of him with mixed emotions. He had a plan to deal with most of the superheroes in the world in case of emergency, but the one in front of him had no Ranked among the heroes, but it is enough to be dreadful... The other party was completely indifferent to the slight temptation just now.

No one is without weaknesses, not even himself.The absurd plan of "killing himself once within 15 minutes" was itself a test that he proposed after he had roughly heard about the scope of the alchemist's abilities.

"You don't have to worry about me losing."

At that time, the alchemist who yawned because the battle plan was too long was a little tired, so he said bluntly: "There are many people in this world who can defeat me, but there should be no one who can kill me completely." A few. As long as it’s not someone of Odin’s or Zeus’ level who descends in person, parrying or escaping is still fine, and you can make predictions based on this level.”

In response, Bruce: "..."

As for the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent next to him, his reaction was equally surprising.From the point of view of physical reaction, this person has experienced simple firearms training but is obviously not proficient, but he doesn't know why he has been with the alchemist all the time. Based on the analysis of the reaction of pupil constriction in the reflection of the wall and the degree of stiffness of the body, the other party estimates He's not a magician either... At first he thought he was Edfelt's apprentice, but he didn't expect that he was really an ordinary detective.

But let's talk about this later, the more important thing is to save Gotham.

The night was over, and the light of dawn was shining in all directions from the far sky. The blond alchemist stood facing the rising sun. After everything was ready, he suddenly turned back to the little shop assistant and scratched the back of his head embarrassedly: "Suddenly I'm not used to preparing such a long chant...it would be bad if I mispronounced the words or bit my tongue, haha."

The little clerk staggered: "..."

Batman: "..."

Alfred: "..."

The three of them looked at Alphonse with disapproval.

The blond jeweler smiled apologetically: "I'm just joking, to liven up the atmosphere."

"Boss... Your joke almost scared me to death on the spot."

The little clerk covered his face, feeling that his job was really difficult.

The jeweler stretches out his arms towards the rising sun, and when viewed from the back, it seems to be embracing the whole newborn world.A low-pitched chant came from the wind, and the magic power rushed away along with the gemstones that gradually lit up, pouring into the unstable veins of Gotham City one after another.

[Call Celestite Obsidian Edelfelt]

The chanting lasted for a long time. The little shop assistant looked at his shop manager, knowing that the other party had no religious beliefs at all, and he did not give up. After seeing the fishing behavior of angels and demons, Especially in a place like Mystery, which often subverts the three views, his own attitude towards religion has become extraordinarily loose.But even so, looking at the white-robed alchemist who is automatic and windless, he will still have a feeling that "even if he adds a pair of wings, it won't look very abrupt".

Today is a world that is no longer full of magic power. These leylines that humans cannot detect are still in places invisible to the naked eye, protecting this land day and night, dusk and morning wind.

On the other side, directly above the Yellowstone Supercrater.

Crowley and Aziraphale sandwiched Tony Stark on the left and right, arguing fiercely with one person separated.

"Crowley, I really don't think this is a good suggestion. You have to know that there is a magma pool of a super volcano below. Even you and I will hardly come back alive. You can't leave this kind of thing to a human. Do!"

The angel condemned righteously: "You can't push this dangerous job to the other party just because he wants to!"

"What's wrong with letting humans solve the troubles they create?"

Crowley crossed his arms: "Logically speaking, we shouldn't have intervened at all, it's just an extra overtime to improve the quality of life."

"You clearly know that this is what Mephisto did, that guy is a lunatic!"

Aziraphale was so angry that he wanted to shake his wings: "I, uh, I should at least write a report to the omniscient and omnipotent God, and pray that he will protect the human world that is on the verge of collapse..."

"Oh come on, it's been more than 6000 years and you still don't know what your boss has done, or what happened to Noah's family hasn't made you think about it yet."

Crowley retorted: "A large group of devils in hell are eager to try. If you take advantage of this opportunity to make the entire earth miserable, your heaven will lose."

This sentence seemed to have hit the angel's sore spot, so Aziraphale pouted, and did not continue to refute.The Asian magician Wang who hovered in the air for a long time couldn't help but said: "Hurry up, everyone, if you really want to do this... If Modu knew that I was secretly helping you with this kind of thing, he would probably use it." The wand hits all over the head."

God knows how a magician could use a staff like a police riot baton.

Tony Stark nodded, overlooking the increasingly active crater on the ground from the air. According to the model's deduction results, the difficulty lies not in how harsh the surrounding environment is to achieve the goal, but in some of his own so far. Small problems that can be solved.

The spatial scale of the imaginary space is different from that of the real world. He needs to accelerate himself to the limit in a short time, and quickly destroy the key points—too badly, they are very far apart on the physical scale.

He needs to destroy the remaining magic bombs in a short time at a crater that is three times the size of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

"Hey, this is a magic item that can destroy bombs. It's called the Staff of the Court of Life. Even if you don't have a little bit of magic power, this thing has its own magic power interruption and destruction effects. Although it can't deal with large-scale magic formulas, it can destroy a few The magic bomb is still fine."

Wang took out a wooden scepter that was not as long as his forearm from his sleeve, and it looked like there was nothing special, and solemnly handed it to Tony Stark: "I only have one request for you. .”

"..."

Tony, who was wrapped in a metal suit, guessed: "Come back alive? Or do you want to complete the mission desperately?"

That's how it's done in those movies, and the male and female protagonists are also given hugs and tears.

"neither."

Wang said with a straight face: "I hope you don't tell Modu that I stole his wand, otherwise he will talk about me to death for the rest of my life."

Tony was dumbfounded: "...All right."

The Rod of the Life Tribunal sounds like a bluffing name.

He turned around, turned on the power of all the combustion chambers installed on his body to the maximum, and rushed into the flaming portal with the roar of the engine.

The leylines of Gotham City have returned to calm.

Although the blond alchemist didn't explain in detail what he had done to everyone, but as the other party obviously relaxed, everyone realized that the city had been saved again.

After finishing a lengthy magic ceremony, Alphonse just wanted to find a chair to sit on or simply find a bed to lie down. He didn't have any other thoughts left. Fortunately, Alfred seemed to be very used to it. Taking care of business patients, he prepared reclining chairs and blankets early on, and even served snacks.

"You stayed up all night, Mr. Alphonse, at least eat something before you rest."

Alphonse touched a piece while lying down, and found that it was a strawberry-flavored donut, his expression was taken aback.

Alfred, who is particularly good at observing words and expressions, said, "Don't you like this? You can choose something else. Our brownies are also highly recommended."

The jeweler shook his head, and took a big bite of the donut in his hand, only to be overwhelmed by the sweetness, which was completely different from the British pastry, so he drank black tea.

The little clerk quietly glanced at his boss: Sure enough, it's because he doesn't like to eat.

Alphonse waved his hands fiercely at the crowd watching him: "...Although the taste is still a little uncomfortable, I always feel that this body has a high acceptance of donuts."

It seems that Stark really ate a lot... Speaking of Stark, since there is no new news from Yellowstone Park, it seems that he is still a success?

Alphonse was so tired that he didn't even bother to raise his wrist, and directly gave instructions to the artificial intelligence: "Call Stark for me and ask him about the situation over there."

[Sorry, Mr. Alphonse, Sir's call is temporarily unavailable. ]

This is probably still in the mirror space, he thought, it seems that the progress of Yellowstone Park is slower than his.

The whole night of fierce fighting was completely over, and the mood of the night was full of ups and downs. Even Batman himself relaxed in the early morning when everything was over. Everyone sat around a table and ate breakfast slowly, Alphonse's eyes With a single glance, the magic-enhanced vision saw Bruce Wayne sending text messages in groups:

"This morning's meeting is cancelled."

Batman sat upright even at breakfast, and no one thought that the guy was too tired to go to work.Everyone finished their breakfast at a slower pace than usual in the state of being tired and overcoming difficulties, and when the traffic of commuters shuttled through Gotham, Alphonse still couldn't get through Tony Stark's phone.

"It shouldn't be."

The blond jeweler frowned: "The time for detonation has long passed, and now the volcano in Yellowstone Park has not erupted, which means that Stark should have succeeded..."

So, here comes the question, why didn't he answer the phone?

The little clerk spread out a big character on the soft bed, watching his boss drink tea with a bad face, and while drinking, suddenly shrugged his shoulders and coughed violently.

"……boss?"

When the opponent came back a few times before and was exhausted, Agent Kevin didn't realize what kind of battle it was. He could only use his imagination to figure out the treachery and danger of the magician's battle. After tonight, he I began to wonder if my boss had run out of mana and was so exhausted that he couldn't hold the teacup steadily.

As a result, he saw his boss flickering out the ring from his pocket, putting it on his finger with an angry face—or at least looking very angry.

"Boss... wait?"

He got up from the bed with a grunt: "Do you still have magic power left?"

"This kind of thing is like water in a sponge, squeeze it and there will always be."

The alchemist answered absently while pulling the portal in the air. The golden-red flame appeared and disappeared in the air. He failed twice in a row before he succeeded. I can see the other party's gaffe: "What happened? What are you going to do?"

"Go get angry."

Alphonse left a hurried back: "The ruby ​​worn by Stark has taken effect. Generally speaking, this kind of thing will only take effect when a person is about to die. When I sold it to him at the time Made an extra function to send me the coordinates...and I just received this coordinates."

The little detective covered his mouth in shock.

Yellowstone Park, Oregon, near a hot spring.

Aziraphale, Crowley and Wang stood in a row with their heads bowed.Next to the hot spring, on a large rock that had been apparently flattened in half by magic power, lay Tony Stark, who was equally out of breath.

This guy still had a lot of burns on his body, the first ruby ​​hanged his life, and the alchemist who stepped out of the portal had a dark face and found the second ruby ​​out of nowhere. piece.

"He spent hundreds of millions in one go."

When Alphonse pulled out the gem for treatment, Crowley whispered to the obviously poor temple mage: "Alphonse would never do this for free."

As a result, this joke was caught by the alchemist with good hearing. He glanced back fiercely, causing Crowley, who is a demon, to take half a step back, and raised his hands to signal his surrender: "I really didn't If I want to disturb you, you continue, you continue."

Jesus, this guy is pissed like Lucifer himself came to check the post.

The burn that could almost burn the whole person was pulled back from the death line by the gem magic. Immediately afterwards, Alphonse saw that the four spinels had been completely polluted to the point where the bearded businessman's heart could no longer be used. Palladium The metal toxins have spread all over the small half of the body, and the sub-healthy blue blood vessels are exposed under the skin.

Facing those eyes, Tony Stark was obviously guilty: "Ahaha, I knew you would come...Look, you saved my life again this time, and the payment will be sent to you later bank account."

Alphonse didn't speak, he took off the four spinels that had become cloudy with his hands and feet, and ran a finger of his right hand across the back of his left hand, and the skin immediately broke open, a hole that could ooze blood gap.

"drink."

The other party's statement is also concise.

The smell of blood flowed into the throat, and the experience was not pleasant.After exchanging Alphonse's body, Tony Stark knew that the other party didn't feel much pain with this level of wound: "So why do you have to make such a effort? If you need to pass on the magic power to me, why don't you give it to me by the way?" A French kiss... ouch!"

There was a sudden colic around the heart, and Tony's eyes widened in disbelief: Is this guy actually so narrow-minded?

"Although the efficiency of saliva spreading magic power is relatively high, the time it can last is too short. There is no magic circuit in your body. If you want the magic power to take effect slowly, blood that can maintain the slow release of magic power is the best way at the moment."

Alphonse lowered his eyes, expressionless: "The toxins left by the palladium metal around your heart have too much influence, and getting rid of them is more complicated than the previous methods."

Although the medical field is a difficult problem to solve, in mysticism, opening a small gap in the imaginary space in the blood vessel to sift out the excess garbage and throw it in directly is not a particularly delicate operation in Alphonse's opinion. But he turned up the pain threshold of Tony Stark himself.

"Oh, that's just so grateful."

Tony blinked: "I..."

"From now on, I will not sell you any alchemy products."

Alphonse didn't wait for Tony to continue to speak, and continued on his own: "Including those spinels. Power beyond the range of one person's acceptance will bring danger, and so will mystery itself."

He even removed the wristwatch that was equipped with the main program of artificial intelligence: "Edelfelt's jewelry store will no longer be open to you, next... please pay attention to your health."

"No? Wait?"

Tony felt like he had a black question mark on his face: "Did I save the world just now?"

Alphonse didn't continue talking, but glanced back at the angels and demons who were cooperating with the trouble, as well as the king who came to support from the New York Temple, and sighed: "There will be no next time."

Mystery begets mystery, calamity and danger will attract each other with power, this is how the world moves forward, and he understood the truth when he was still in Fairy Township, but he has been in human society for so many years And become somewhat forgotten.

"I have something else to do, I'll go back first."

With this sentence, the alchemist disappeared into the portal.

Tony: Wait, since it's all back to New York, why don't you give us a ride?