In the valley of Greenwich, Constantine and his party found the dark tomb where the dead Boston Brand lived in seclusion. Constantine squatted at the wooden door of the cellar, grabbed the handle and knocked on the door. After a while, A pale hand stretched out from the tomb.
The dead man Boston leaned out half of his body, and when he saw Constantine's face, the door of the tomb closed with a bang.
"You're less popular than I thought," Red Robin commented.
"I'm used to being rejected." Constantine curled his lips and didn't take it seriously. He continued to knock on the door and shouted: "Boston, my old man, you have to open the door for us, otherwise I will let you in." Jim will chop you to pieces!"
"Don't listen to him, I won't do that." Dark Night Master Jim stepped forward, half-crouched at the door and said: Mr. Deadman, we do have something to ask you for help, but this is completely within your ability. . "
A few seconds later, the door opened again. Boston stood in the passage and looked up. His eyes were emitting a faint blue light. He nodded and said in a dull voice, "Come in."
Constantine jumped into the underground passage first, followed closely by Night Master Jim and Bennett who turned into a bat. Red Robin felt a little hesitant. He didn't think it was polite to jump into other people's graves. But when he bravely jumped in, he discovered that there was something different inside.
Passing through the long and dark underground tomb passage, there is a modern apartment with complete facilities. It even has windows for lighting, but there are colorful space fragments floating outside the windows.
"This is the space gap." Constantine explained in a low voice to Red Robin behind him: "Most of the archmage's mage towers are in the space gap, because only in this way can they live long enough, like Ka If I were to find a cemetery to build a house in reality like that idiot, I would have been beaten to death by the creditors who came to visit me."
Red Robin nodded and took note of this clue. Deadman Boston invited them to sit on the sofa and poured each of them a glass of water.
Red Robin observed this strong man carefully. His complexion was pale and blue, and his body muscles were smooth. He looked like he had received special training. His eyes were heavily dark circles, and his eyes were somewhat hollow. More importantly, he had no Body temperature, really like a dead person.
"Why did you come to me?" His demeanor and expression were dull, and he was completely devoid of the life of a living person, which was creepy.
"Kaz was taken away. It may have been the work of the Demon Sect of the Blood Clan, or it may have been the Blood Queen Mary's own initiative. His contractor, the Skeleton King, could not contact him, so we hope you can track his aura and bring him to get back.-
"Is it necessary?" Dead Man Boston showed no interest. He sat on the single sofa next to the fireplace and said, "When Kaz was an apprentice, he once pushed his classmate off a cliff and hid his body. He got up to do experiments, and his dim-sighted teacher thought he had found a gifted necromancer apprentice."
"We all know he is a bad guy." Jim shook his head and said, "But this means something different. He has been promoted to an archmage. If he is taken away by a vampire and brutally killed, there will be another bloody storm in the magic world."
"They came for me." Bennett said, "John saved me again. He dug me out of All Souls Cemetery in advance, otherwise I would have been taken away."
"It's not that simple." Boston judged: "If they want to ask Kaz about your whereabouts, they don't have to take him away."
Several people frowned. Boston obviously knew more. He sighed softly and said: "You may think that necromancy is related to death, but on the contrary, the energy of necromancy is a kind of life energy, so it can Let the lifeless bones stand up again."
"This is also the reason why the undead kings in hell always hide away from the world and do not deal with demons. They have nothing to do with violence and destruction. What they have and continue to crave is life force, and the necromancers who have obtained their power So are they."
"Everyone
It is known that vampires can obtain energy from human blood, but few people know how they obtain energy, perhaps even themselves. "
Bennett frowned slightly and noticed that several people were looking at him. He shook his head slightly and said, "It was just an accident that I became a vampire. I have no family inheritance, so I don't know much about this aspect."
Boston continued: ""The power given to Kaz by his contractor is the power of life. He uses this power of life to resurrect the dead. In the eyes of vampires, the power of life in Kaz is extremely precious. Ingredients. "
Constantine narrowed his eyes slightly, but Red Robin seemed to have thought of something and said, "Indeed, the woman who took Kaz away behaved a little strangely. At the end, she cut Kaz's cheek open and let his blood splash. At the window, but doing so has no other use except leaving more clues for the pursuers, unless..."
"Unless she wants to taste it in advance." Bennett continued: "I know Mary. She is not a person who can resist the temptation of power. She tasted Kaz's blood and decided to take him away."
"The question is, who does she want to take him to?"
There was silence in the room. Obviously, no one had the answer. There were not enough clues and no one was sure to deduce the truth.
"Then can you help us find him?" Constantine looked at Boston again and asked.
"I will try my best, but I must remind you that if they are so rampant that they dare to suck the blood of an archmage without restraint, it proves that they are not afraid of going to war with the magic world."
"The worst we can do is fight another blood war." Jim, the master of the night, snorted and said, "How we fought them back home in the first place will be the same this time."
Boston nodded and stood up, as if he wanted to get the magic tools, but at this time Constantine stopped him. He glanced at Red Robin and said, "There is one more thing I want to ask you for help, Boston." , my apprentice Tim will be contracting a demon for the first time, and I already have a good candidate, but I hope you can guard the magic circle."
Boston frowned hard. He looked back at Constantine and said, "Aren't you determined not to accept an apprentice? Why did you suddenly change your gender?"
"You have been hiding here, so you don't know the biggest news in the magical world recently. Constantine washed his hands in the golden basin, and a mysterious friend of his paid off all his debts."
Boston's eyes changed when he looked at Constantine. He took a step back, as if he wanted to stay away from Constantine. Constantine sighed and said, "I didn't trick him this time. I don't have that much ability. And He's still alive, he just doesn't want to show up."
Boston stood there with a frown and struggled for a while, but in the end he had to admit that Constantine, a liar recognized by heaven, hell and the human world, never told lies.
"Okay, you're lucky, but why did you drag this innocent young man into trouble again?"
"This is his own choice." Constantine walked to the opposite side of Boston and said: "Don't tell me you didn't see it. His ambition for power made him destined to embark on such a path. If we guide him, he will never... There was too much trouble.”
Boston turned his head and laid his eyes on Red Robin's face. After a while, he nodded and said, "You are always good at convincing everyone. John, come with me. I have all the materials in my basement."
"I'm here for you." Jim turned to look at them, and Bennett said, "Me too."
So, Boston, Constantine and Red Robin came to the basement of Boston's hideout.
There was only a small, flickering light bulb in the dark basement. There were traces of complex magic circles on the cold ground, and the bottles and jars on the surrounding tables emitted a strange smell. It was not unpleasant, but it just made people feel dizzy. .
Red Robin was surprised to find that he had no fear. Even though in the next few minutes he might have to face the dark side of the world that he had never faced before, he could only find excitement in his heart. .
In the office of Arkham Asylum, when Bruce hugged him, he seemed relieved. Under everyone's understanding, including Batman, he was
He was grateful for Batman's miracles, but only he knew he wasn't.
He was happy that the Batman of another universe actually took the path of a shepherd, because this proved that they were really similar, and the most similar thing was that they could never be someone else's little lamb.
Red Robin stood in the center of the magic circle under the command of Constantine. Constantine walked up to him and said to him: "The person I chose for your contract is the ancestor of the black devil in hell, that is, the person you were in Akka that day. Djeru's grandmother, whom we met in the Mu Lunatic Asylum, was a black goat demon called "Dirty Ritasha." "
"She is an extremely ancient demon. Her history can even be traced back to Satan's fall into heaven. Some people say that she was once a lamb in the Garden of Eden. She was corrupted by the dark power and fell into hell when Lucifer started the war against heaven."
"In any case, she is older, wiser, and more stable than most demons in hell. I have not heard of her torturing her own followers, but she has no direct agents, but I think you can convince her .”
Red Robin took a deep breath and nodded. Constantine and Boston worked together to draw a magic circle at his feet. Just when they were about to activate the magic circle, Red Robin suddenly stretched out a hand to stop it. got them.
"What's wrong? Any questions?"
"Don't be nervous." At this time, Boston also planned to comfort Red Robin and said, "John and I will ensure your safety. Even if you don't become a demon, we won't hurt you."
"Don't worry, Tim, the demons have a very good attitude towards the mage apprentices. There are even many demons who are good at coaxing children. This is the basic skill to trick you into signing a contract. Even if the negotiation fails, they will not hurt anyone. Once the reputation of violence spreads, no apprentice will come back to them."
"No, I'm not referring to the fact that your magic circle was drawn wrong." Red Robin said with great certainty.
Constantine and Boston were stunned for a moment, but at this time Red Robin had already walked out of the magic circle, standing in the front of the room and pointing at the complex patterns on the ground.
"Look at this rune. This rune should refer to "female", but the range it delimits overlaps with the later rune that represents the mother of so-and-so. The former one can be completely deleted and replaced with an emphasis type. Runes... And here, why is there so much redundancy here? It’s completely unnecessary. Delete it and replace it with enhancement..."
Constantine and Boston looked at each other, watching Red Robin pick up the materials and modify them on the magic circle. Boston swallowed and said, "Is he really your apprentice?"
"He is now, but you don't want to know whose apprentice he was before."
Before Boston could ask, Red Robin clapped his hands and stood back in the center of the modified circle. He looked at the two of them and said, "Okay, let's start."
Boston walked forward with some hesitation and took a look at the magic circle that had been modified to the point that he could not understand it at all, and said: I have to remind you, child, maybe you are talented in magic circles, but the method of communicating with a certain demon The array is fixed like a phone number. If you modify the array to look like this, I can't guarantee whether the phone call can still be connected. "
"Forget it, let's give it a try. If it doesn't work, we'll change it back." Constantine also stepped forward and said.
Therefore, Boston half-knelt on the ground and placed his hand on the activation rune of the magic circle. As the strong power of death spread, the magic circle gradually lit up.
Red Robin felt that the scene in front of him was replaced by misty darkness and blood red. In a daze, he heard a girl whispering in his ear, full of endless temptation.
So he followed Constantine's instructions and began to recite the names and pray.
"Mother of the Great Black Demon, Black Goat of Sinful Hell, your true name echoes in my mind, and I pray for your coming - Rita Shatasi..."
The seductive whispers in his ears became stronger and stronger, but instead of feeling fear, Red Robin listened carefully, and then heard a hint of doubt in the muddy whispers.
"Who is Ritasha?" came a slightly hoarse female voice.
Red Robin was stunned for a moment, but still asked instinctively: "Are you not "Dirty Black"?"
"Ritasha"? then who are you? "I'm Lilith."
