American Comics: Something's Wrong with This Superhero World

Chapter 178 Belief

"Technique 3015!"

Inside the hellish space, facing a man with a lewd face, Xiao Xian lightly snapped his fingers and then asked...

"How are you feeling?"

"I don't feel any different?" The lewd-looking man examined himself, but he couldn't feel that anything had happened to him. "If I had to say, my sexual desire has faded quite a bit."

"Go down and get tested." Xiao Xian curled his lips and ordered someone to take the lewd-looking man away. The results came out in no time. The lewd-looking man no longer had any worldly desires. Even taking medicine or being tempted by a succubus was useless.

"Very good, the Great Enchantment spell has been successfully optimized." Xiao Xian added the spell to his spellbook's list of implemented spells with satisfaction.

As the Lord of Hell Space, who is in charge of the color field, Xiao Xian can easily unleash large ed numbers. However, directly requesting authority to make the world's will respond to his thoughts is completely different from the world's origin that needs to be consumed to achieve a great effect with minimal effort.

Just like having the world's will erase a person's body directly versus having the world's will temporarily stop a person's heart, although both result in death, the amount of world essence consumed is completely different.

Similarly, both are major ED spells, directly having the world's will help to permanently cure and suppress the opponent's desire to seduce. The world's essence required for both is not on the same level.

While both methods aim to suppress the desire for ecstasy, the world origins required for suppressing it with magic and directly destroying the elements that constitute ecstasy's thoughts are not on the same level.

In order to conserve the world's resources and reduce costs as much as possible, Xiao Xian needs to cut costs and reduce consumption at every stage in order to maximize profits.

These days, being a capitalist is tough too. Expanding the Hell dimension requires the Origin of the World, experimenting with magic requires the Origin of the World, dragging people into Hell requires the Origin of the World, causing trouble in the real world requires the Origin of the World, and collecting coordinates of other worlds from radar also requires the Origin of the World. Xiao Xian now wishes he could have one Origin of the World as many as eight.

In the dimensional space, Xiao Xian's consciousness can descend to any place at any time, and controlling the other bodies he regenerates is not difficult either. The only limitation for Xiao Xian is the strength of his own soul.

Currently, Xiao Xian's soul can control the actions of up to three bodies simultaneously: one experimenting with magic, one causing trouble in the real world, and another collecting the power of fear throughout the hell dimension to enhance his soul strength.

While one of Xiao Xian's clones was researching magic, at the core of the world, Xiao Xian turned his attention back to Gotham.

Xiao Xian's original plan was to have Sophie marry the Joker, then have someone cheat on the Joker, and finally have Sophie report the Joker as being strong, sending him to prison. During a prison visit, he would tell the Joker that the child in Sophie's belly was not the Joker's but her lover's. Then, Xiao Xian would appear and sign a contract with the desperate Joker, granting him the power of revenge.

Everything was going smoothly until the day of the clown's wedding, when the plan went awry.

Pink and gold balloons, paired with dazzling lights, created a dreamlike celebration. The clown and Sophie stood beneath an archway adorned with white roses and mint green vines; one beamed with glee, while the other wore a look of utter disgust, wishing the wedding would end immediately.

The priest, dressed in traditional black vestments, solemnly gazed at the newcomers ahead.

"We are here today to witness the union of this beautiful couple. Before this sacred marriage is about to be completed, I must ask everyone present: Is there anyone who holds an objection that these two should not be husband and wife? Please speak now, or remain silent forever."

Upon hearing this, the black men in the audience exchanged knowing smiles, looking at the clown as if he were a great victim. Just last night, they had taken turns playing cards with Sophie all night long, and without any protection. Sophie was still clenching her legs together.

Just then, a door on one side of the venue was suddenly pushed open. Harleen, dressed as Harley Quinn, strode in, her makeup exaggerated, her green and red curly hair flying in the air. Her appearance immediately attracted everyone's attention, and whispers began to spread among the crowd.

Harleen walked to the center of the crowd. She pulled a phone from her sequined bodysuit and pointed its screen at everyone.

"I object! Sophie doesn't deserve to be with the Joker!" Harleen's voice pierced the silence. She pressed play, and a surveillance video appeared on her phone screen: Sophie was fighting with several black men, and the corner of the screen showed the time as last night.

In an instant, everyone's attention turned to Sophie and the group of black men below her. These were the men in the video. The bride not only cheated on her husband the day before the wedding, but also brought her lovers to the wedding venue?!

"This...this can't be real!"

Amid the guests' shock and uproar, Sophie's face turned deathly pale, and her breathing became rapid; she was clearly caught off guard by the sudden accusation.

After taking a deep breath, Sophie suddenly looked at Harleen, her eyes flashing with anger.

"You bitch!" Sophie screamed. "This is a fake video! You fabricated it! How could you use such despicable means to ruin my reputation!"

Harleen stared blankly at Sophie, her composure a stark contrast to Sophie's outburst. Harleen simply shook her head and replied, "The video doesn't lie."

The clown stood to one side, his emotions a jumble of complex feelings. He turned to Sophie, his eyes filled with pain and confusion: "Sophie, tell me, is this real? It's all fake, isn't it? You spent yesterday's Singles' Day queue with your best friend, right? When you called me last night, were you really just panting because you were playing a dance machine?"

Sophie's tears began to stream down her face as she looked at the clown.

"How could you do this?! How could you believe such a thing?!" Sophie's voice was filled with grievance and anger. "If you really loved me, you should trust me, not be here questioning me!"

"Sophie~ I~" the Joker said, feeling very aggrieved. It wasn't that he didn't believe Sophie, but all the evidence and reason he had was telling him that Sophie had cheated on him.

"Fine, if you don't believe me, then forget it. This marriage is off. Whoever wants to get married can get married!" Sophie said angrily, adding, "We'll go through with the divorce this afternoon, but you'll have to leave with nothing! This is the retribution you deserve for not believing me!"

(End of this chapter)