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Whether it was Faust the black sorcerer or the Gate of Hell to which the key corresponded, the destination was Paradise Island. When Connors arrived here, he realized that the situation was much worse than he thought.
The plain of the island was scorched by fire, revealing bare land, and black ash was blown in the air by the wind. All kinds of thatched houses where the Amazons lived and dirt houses had fallen down, burned down, and were in dilapidated condition. Stone statues were everywhere, each frozen in a moment of anger or sadness. Even the Amazon temple, its steps broken into several large pieces, its stone pillars scattered horizontally and vertically, had collapsed by half.
"Shh—we are much faster than expected. Let's first see what Faust is doing." Connors pulled back "Wonder Woman" Diana, who was about to rush in despite everything. "It's like this now anyway; impulsiveness doesn't help much."
Diana sighed heavily. Even though she had seen the destruction of Paradise Island before, she was still furious when she saw it again, and she just wanted to kill the black magician on the spot. But there was nothing wrong with what Connors said. He first observed Faust in secret before acting. Moreover, a hoarse and grumpy voice also sounded in the temple at this time.
"Where's she? Where is the Amazon Princess?"
Connors, along with Zatanna and Diana, the three of them, leaned in hand and foot and saw a cloud of scarlet flames burning in the air as the floating figure stood on a broken wall in the temple. That grumpy voice came from this flame.
Faust, wearing a dark blue robe and a round hat of the same color, was smiling at this moment to appease the owner behind the flame. "Patience, Master, those fragments are protected by seals and scattered all over the world. Since there are people working for me, why should I take risks on my own?"
Connors used "Athena's Vision" to see the flame clearly. It was ejecting from behind a golden circle, as if the circle was a passage to hell. The scarlet flame rose in the air, forming a looming monster with horns on its head. The already violent voice tended towards fury.
"Patience?! I endured it for more than three thousand years! If anything goes wrong with this, I'll cut off your head!"
Faust did not become angry or frightened by the grumpy voice, and his tone was neither high nor nor low. "Master, I mean the pieces will be here soon, maybe tomorrow—and then, Lord Hades, the world will be ours."
The flames slowly extinguished, but the last words still echoed in the temple. "The world will be ours. Definitely!"
Faust still had a smiling expression. He turned around and walked to the stone statue in another corner of the temple, reaching out to touch it. "I should thank you for raising such a dutiful daughter. She is so eager to work with me to save you."
Hidden in the dark, "Wonder Woman" Diana watched the black magician Faust rub the statue with his hands and could no longer help but rush over. "Faust!"
Faust stretched out his left hand, and an hourglass appeared out of thin air. After looking at the scale on the hourglass, he wondered, "So fast? There are still several hours left, which really surprises me. Have all the fragments been collected?"
"Wonder Woman" Diana took the key, which had been reassembled, from her magic pocket. "First, you have to release my mother."
"That's easy to say," a spell appeared out of thin air in the palm of Faust's left hand, and he pointed it at the stone statue in the temple. "Now, you have to put the things in your hands on the ground and walk to your mother empty-handed." Faust feared that Diana, the "Wonder Woman," would sneak up on him while he was de-petrifying her.
"Wonder Woman" Diana watched Connors walk in with some blankness against the wall of the temple. It was obviously within Faust's sight, but Connors walked over without him noticing, hand and foot. The black magician turned a blind eye to him. Not only that, Connors even walked to Faust, stretched behind him, pried the fingers of the stone statue's hand one by one, took away the charm, and exchanged it for a ball of mud.
"If you don't give me this, never try to save your mother, or even the Amazons on Paradise Island." Faust held the mud given by Connors in his hand, his eyes as sharp as an eagle's, and stared at Diana. Once something happened to Diana, Faust would hide the charm that removed the petrification.
"—" Diana blinked, feeling that the scene in front of her was somewhat ridiculous. Diana even wanted to remind Faust if it weren't for the two of them belonging to opposing camps.
Connors was playing with the charm that had come from Faust's hand. He saw that the thing was the size of a palm, and there was an image of a Gorgon on it, which should be the legendary "Medusa." With this thing, the stone statues on Paradise Island should be lifted, right? Connors threw the spell up and caught it. He saw "Wonder Woman" Diana was frightened and was afraid that he would accidentally let it fall to the ground and break.
But now that the petrified charm had been snatched away, Diana had no worries. She let the key fall from her palm and unbuttoned the Lasso of Truth around her waist.
"It seems you are obsessed with it," Faust sneered. The mud he had been holding, which had replaced the spell, disappeared without him looking at it, and he threw the purple-black ball of light condensed in his palm towards the Lasso of Truth. The thrown lasso was blown away by the ball of light. Faust's legs and feet remained motionless, and his body quickly moved along the ground. He came to the stone statue in the temple, and at the same time, his other hand grabbed the key through the air.
It was only at this time that he was somewhat surprised to find Zatanna standing not far away, looking like a curious baby. Zatanna didn't take action from beginning to end, but her desire for magical knowledge made her quietly come over and look at it curiously. Unexpectedly, she was discovered by Faust at this time.
As for Connors, this guy was standing right behind Faust. As if Faust couldn't find him as long as he was hidden in the other person's figure. He had no need to continue hiding at this time.
"Are you eager to learn magic?" Faust looked at the curious baby-like Zatanna with a smile on her face under her dark blue hat.
"Um." Zatanna nodded, but the words she said made Faust half-dead. "Remember to write down the magic before you die." She was just thirsty for magical knowledge, but she was not blind. Faust doing evil on Paradise Island, turning the entire Amazon into stone statues, had made Zatanna hate him. If her magic hadn't been more functional today, she would have even attacked before "Wonder Woman" Diana.
"You don't deserve black magic, you fool with backward ideas," Faust gritted his teeth and said, chanting the spell quickly. His whole person disappeared, together with the stone statue of Diana's mother, Hippolyta.
"The mother-in-law was abducted and ran away," Connors said while playing with the petrified charm. Faust disappeared, leaving Connors naturally exposed, and of course, he didn't need to continue hiding at this time.
He walked over to "Wonder Woman" Diana and patted her on the bare, round shoulder. "Don't be stunned. Get my mother-in-law back quickly?"
Diana's figure was not thin. She was slender, with an hourglass figure and ample muscle. Her shoulders were not thin, yet they didn't feel hard as bone when touched. Instead, they were moist and slippery, and the feel was comparable to fine suet.
Connors felt addicted after patting her again, so he simply left his hand resting on Diana's shoulder.
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