American comics: From Hogwarts to God on Earth

Chapter 522 Animagus VS First Fallen

The battle between Rune and the Fallen Ones reached its climax in an instant.

The tiger did not roar; it simply lowered its body and locked onto the fallen one with its scarlet vertical pupils. Soon, it began to move, but the movement was not running; rather, it was more like gliding.

The Fallen One's response was simple: he was finally able to unleash his full power in his true form. This terrifying fellow simply waved his arm, and a torrent of black and red magic power, powerful enough to tear through dimensions, surged forth.

However, the tiger neither dodged nor avoided. When it faced this terrifying torrent head-on, the writhing runes on its fur suddenly lit up, forcefully separating these terrible dark magic powers as if Moses had parted the sea.

Before the newly fallen could even be surprised, a huge wound was left on his chest by sharp claws, from which black blood flowed out. At the same time, an indescribable rage surged in the newly fallen's heart.

"You deserve to die!"

With that, his right arm instantly swelled up and then slammed down, but the tiger did not dodge at all and took the blow head-on.

so hard!

The moment the thought crossed the mind of the newly fallen warrior, the tiger broke free from its grasp and slapped him hard. If he hadn't dodged in time, he probably would have had Rune bite his neck.

However, Rune's tiger's mouth still gripped the Fallen One's left arm, the force so great that the bones could be heard creaking under the strain. Perhaps in the next moment, his left arm would break, and the force required to break the Fallen One's true form was—

How did this bastard get stronger so fast?

He couldn't help but get annoyed. The last time he saw Rune, he could only fight to a draw with the person he was possessing. How come he was able to fight his true self this time?

This is neither science nor magic!

In a moment of thought, the Fallen One instantly shrunk to the size of a normal person, then pulled his arm out of the tiger's mouth. He then teleported backward, creating distance between himself and the tiger before finally relaxing.

He finally realized that he couldn't fight the tiger hand-to-hand. Not to mention that the tiger was obviously more dangerous than a human in terms of appearance alone, and for some reason, the tiger was also obviously stronger than him.

Therefore, the First Fallen has reason to believe that Rune used some kind of magic, exchanging magical power for a huge increase in size, strength and agility. The First Fallen himself is not actually that good at melee combat; his forte is magic.

Magic is the best way to subdue these big, dumb creatures.

Then, all sorts of magic began to rain down on Rune like a storm. The compressed magic power impacted to the extreme, the highly corrosive acid, the scorching flames, and even magic involving time and space all fell on the tiger.

Even Rune, who had survived the planetary impact and the tearing apart of the black hole, was covered in wounds. The First Fallen was indeed the first to fall; his use of magic, especially dark magic, was beyond Rune's comprehension.

As we all know, releasing a large amount of magic will inevitably lead to different reactions between spells. The combination of water and fire will naturally weaken the destructive power of a spell, but if it is a combination of wind and fire spells, it will actually enhance each other's power.

The Fallen almost completely avoided the former. None of their spells conflicted with each other; instead, they enhanced each other, greatly increasing their power. Therefore, even though Rune's Animagus form had strong magical protection, he was still severely injured.

To make matters worse, after striking the right arm of the fallen beast earlier, the giant tiger suffered a clear fracture in its right forelimb. Under the beast's relentless attack, the giant tiger finally stumbled and fell to the ground.

The Fallen One finally breathed a sigh of relief. He snapped his fingers, and countless chains exuding a blasphemous aura bound Rune, cutting off his last chance of escape.

When he was finally able to relax a little and approach the huge tiger, a look of surprise appeared in the eyes of the evil man. He had never seen such a spell before; its concept was different from most magic at present.

It is exquisite and perfect, almost unlike the magic of this universe. The amount of magic in the DC universe is extremely large, and the quality of magic is even more frighteningly high. Therefore, most of the magicians in this world still think about magic with great force and flying bricks.

The Fallen One narrowed his eyes and voiced his guess, "You—you can travel between dimensions, right? No, dimensional travel alone isn't enough—"

He began to pace around, but never got too close to Rune's Animagus form.

"You should—possess some kind of technology that allows travel across extremely long latitudes. Yes, that would explain the origin of this strange magic and why you were able to become so powerful so quickly!"

The Fallen One's guess was pretty close to the truth, because Animagus really didn't seem like a newly invented spell; the difference between it and the spells of this universe was like the difference between jeans and a Lolita dress.

This evil fallen one was not stupid; on the contrary, he was even clever enough to outwit a mage of Constantine's caliber. Therefore, he almost instantly concluded that runes could travel across dimensions, which was not difficult for a powerful mage.

However, there is one last thing that those who have just fallen into this trap don't quite understand.

"I have traveled to almost every universe, and the outer reaches of the multiverse are locked by the Origin Wall. I am quite familiar with the world inside the wall, but even so, I have never heard of this kind of magic before —"

"Could it be that beyond that wall lie countless worlds, and you happen to be able to cross that insurmountable barrier?" The Fallen One looked at the behemoth and offered his final conjecture.

Unfortunately, he still couldn't discern any expression on the face of the enormous tiger, nor could he see any flaws in it.

The joy of discovering a new world on the face of the newly fallen was somewhat stiff, and this joy quickly receded like the tide. He sighed.

"I forgot you can't speak, but we should have been friends, buddy," the Fallen One said with a look of regret. "Like before, if you had just handed Zatanna over to me, we could have been inseparable, you ruling the magical world, and I ruling Hell—"

"We can completely divide and conquer!" the newly fallen one declared, proclaiming his plan. "If you want, you can actually take over this entire Earth with ease, can't you?"

The Fallen Ones are no joke. Even if Zeus's clone had withstood his magical attack head-on, it would have returned to the Pantheon. Meanwhile, Rune, who also withstood his magical attack, was just lying on the ground, with no danger to his life.

This is enough to show that Rune has in fact become a god among men, and if he so desires, the entire earth will grovel at his feet.

The newly fallen one doesn't care about dominating this earth; he's only interested in the ownership of souls on earth, especially the souls of sorcerers like Constantine.

However, just as the newly fallen were immersed in despair, a tiger's roar came, followed by the clattering of the chains that could no longer bear the weight.

"Varied----"

The newly fallen creature examined the enormous tiger closely and discovered that its wounds had healed completely in a short time, and it was even breaking free from the chains that carried an aura of blasphemy.

"That's impossible!"

He roared in a fit of rage, but the enormous tiger eventually broke free from the countless chains and let out a roar.