American Comics: Something's Wrong with This Superhero World

Chapter 180 Summoning

Watching the scene unfold at the Joker's wedding with Harley Quinn, Xiao Xian narrowed his eyes slightly. He didn't know how much of this was due to Mephisto's interference and how much was just a matter of luck. However, Mephisto's appearance served as a reminder to Xiao Xian that there were countless powerful figures hidden in this kind of superhero world, and countless others watching from the shadows. It was indeed unlikely that he could swallow it all up.

Given Xiao Xian's current strength, it's unlikely. Although Xiao Xian's current strength can overwhelm most heroes and villains, he is still far inferior to the truly powerful figures.

However, Xiao Xian is not without advantages. As a being of this world recognized by the world's will, Xiao Xian not only holds the key position of Supreme Mage, but can also easily descend into this world in his true form.

"That's enough!"

At the wedding, the Joker suddenly shouted, stopping Harley Quinn who had been attacking Sophie after defeating several black men.

"Joker, but she cheated on you." Harley Quinn said, feeling wronged after being yelled at by the Joker.

"My name is Arthur!" the clown shouted, protecting Sophie. "I won't allow you to hurt my wife. Perhaps she betrayed me, but I'm willing to give her a chance to forgive her."

"No, Arthur, she even conspired with Batman to poison you." Harley Quinn couldn't understand the Joker's act of forgiveness. How could she forgive that?

"I didn't! You're lying!" Sophie shouted immediately. She had clearly conspired with Xiao Xian to falsely accuse Joker Wall, using Joker to create a hot news story, take away Joker's assets, and send him to prison.

"I believe Sophie." The Joker glanced at Sophie and chose to believe her one last time. He felt that Sophie had only cheated on him on impulse. After so many years of relationship, she would never conspire with outsiders to kill him.

"Fine, I don't care anymore." Harley Quinn was completely speechless. She saw Arthur on the news as ruthless and decisive, even Batman sometimes suffered at his hands, but in reality, he really was just a clown.

Hmm. It seems the plan can still proceed? Xiao Xian looked at the wedding scene, and although he didn't understand, well, how should I put it, it's hard to say.

The thought process of a simp is really hard to understand. Is this guy actually feeling very sentimental and thinking he's being very affectionate? Xiao Xian thought to himself, looking at the self-satisfied clown, "This is too clownish."

"I can't stand it anymore, this is too outrageous. Can this guy really beat Batman after he turns evil?" In the hellish space, Xiao Xian withdrew his gaze, feeling as if his eyes had been polluted.

After retrieving the list of souls from the Hell Space, Xiao Xian felt that Mephisto was right about one thing: as a Hell Lord born from a superhero world, he did have both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage was that he had many high-quality souls and magical knowledge, while the disadvantage was that he couldn't pull the world into the Hell Space to devour it, or transform the world into a soul farm or a sin ranch.

However, just because the superhero world can't do it doesn't mean other worlds can't. After all, not every world has as many powerful figures as the superhero world. Although it's a bit troublesome for those from other worlds to enter, once they successfully conquer a world, they can reap a large amount of world essence and souls.

Unfortunately, after looking around, the vast majority of them were souls from the superhero world, and only a very small number were souls from the Jigsaw world. There was no need to bother with souls from this world, so Xiao Xian focused his attention on the souls from the Jigsaw world.

Among them, a name in the Jigsaw world that required a lot of energy to pull people caught Xiao Xian's attention. It was a Chinese name, and a Chinese name that Xiao Xian was very familiar with - Lü Ziqiao.

If nothing unexpected happens, Xiao Xian guesses that this is most likely Lu Ziqiao from Love Apartment. After all, his name is Lu Ziqiao, his soul is special, and he has committed the crime of color domain. No matter how Xiao Xian thinks about it, he is sure it is Lu Ziqiao from Love Apartment.

It seems that the Jigsaw world and the superhero world have something in common: they both have a lot of characters and storylines.

Both Jigsaw and Love Apartment are worlds without much supernatural power. If you're lucky, it might even be a magic-free world, which means there are no powerful figures besides the world's will.

However, considering that Jigsaw had picked up a fragment of Hell Space, Xiao Xian felt that the probability was really low, and he should not count on it.

Xiao Xian summoned Amanda and the other woman back and inquired about their work progress.

"Magic doesn't seem to be very useful. We're still trying it out, and there's not much progress so far." Amanda and her partner exchanged a glance, feeling quite guilty. They had been playing with trap-based killing games before, and magic was something they really couldn't understand.

Although the two of them worked hard on Xiao Xian's tasks, sometimes working too hard and frequently staying up late could result in lower efficiency than working under normal rest and normal conditions.

"Go back and try to summon me to descend first, even if it's just the simplest way of summoning a fragment of my consciousness." Xiao Xian understood that these two had limited strength, and it would take them a long time to figure out how to summon him to descend. Since that was the case, Xiao Xian might as well send his own consciousness there first and spend some effort figuring out how to get there.

"Yes, ma'am! We'll go back and prepare right away!" Jill Tucker and Amanda nodded quickly, then returned to the Jigsaw world to prepare for summoning Xiao Xian.

In the dark, damp basement, Jill Tucker and Amanda stood within a complex magic circle composed of ancient symbols and mysterious patterns.

Jill adjusted the black candles in the four corners of the room, each emitting a faint glow that contrasted sharply with the other lighting in the basement. Amanda, at the center of the ritual, carefully arranged bottles of rare herbal powders according to the instructions in the spellbook.

"Are you sure this will work? If we fail, Lord Xiao Xian will be very disappointed in us." Amanda's voice betrayed her unease as she looked around at the stone wall covered in ancient patterns. "Is there something wrong with the pattern you drew?"

"Of course, the drawing I made with a ruler is almost indistinguishable from the picture in the book. But you, are you sure you didn't get the ingredients of the herbal powder wrong? Did that girl who killed a hundred people really have experience killing white people? She seems to have only so-so experience."

Jill was very unhappy with Amanda's suspicions and instead questioned Amanda herself. She was determined not to let Amanda shift the blame onto her if the ceremony failed.

"That guy is an Only** blogger. Her record in the videos she's released is more than a hundred people. She definitely meets the requirements," Amanda said, dissatisfied. How could she be careless when it came to Xiao Xian's summoning ritual?

After completing their preparations, the two stood at the center of the talisman and began chanting incantations. Their voices gradually merged, echoing within the enclosed space.

(End of this chapter)