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Black Gold stopped slapping the ground with its vines and stood up straight!

Lucerne stopped wagging its tail and sat down on the ground with its ears perked up!

Mission Code: [Retirement Assistance]

"Mission Location: A world completely different from ours!"

"Mission objective: Assist a bald old lady named Gu Yi in completing her retirement ceremony."

Xiu En paused deliberately at this point.

He looked at the two new employees with a mysterious smile, then lowered his voice and spoke in a seductive tone.

"Most importantly, that world has many sinful souls!"

"This will be the best testing ground for you to examine your own trial system!"

"roar--!"

"Woof—!"

Black Gold and Lucerne are clearly impatient!

"Great! I see your enthusiasm for your work!"

Xiu En nodded in satisfaction.

"I won't waste any more words."

He reached out and opened a portal to the Sanctum Sanctorum in New York, part of the Marvel Universe!

Opposite is a courtyard filled with classical charm and mysterious magical atmosphere.

There seemed to be a few figures moving around in the courtyard.

"Remember your internship goals."

Shuen gave the final instructions to the two judges who were already poised to act.

"Find that old lady named Gu Yi. Then listen to her and do as she says."

"As for the rest, any foolish bastards who dare to stand in your way..."

"Consider it travel expenses."

"Let's go!"

With Xiu En's command!

Two members of the first batch of disciplinary inspection committee members of Ximujie, who had just joined the company less than half an hour ago.

One is a plant entwined with metal and divine fire.

One is a vicious dog representing devouring and nothingness.

And so, they waited with anticipation for a new world and new flavors.

He jumped into the courtyard of the New York Holy See!

The courtyard of the New York Holy See.

Mordo is training Strange.

"You must completely unify your will with the energy in your hands! Don't let it be like a limp noodle!"

Master Mordo was giving a serious lecture to his gifted but arrogant student.

Opposite him, Stephen Strange, once a world-class neurosurgeon, was awkwardly maintaining a horse stance. His hands were so weak he couldn't even hold onto an energy whip.

In his hands, the energy whip sometimes turned into a tangled mess, and sometimes it became as soft as overcooked spaghetti. Once, it even went out of control and lashed out at his own face.

"I told you, I'm trying!"

Strange gritted his teeth; he felt that controlling this damned magical energy was more exhausting than performing an eighteen-hour brain surgery.

"No, you didn't!"

"Your mind is filled with distracting thoughts! You're still reminiscing about your past, meaningless material achievements! Magic isn't a toy for you to show off! It needs your trust!"

Just as Master Mordo was preparing to begin his nth long discourse on the laws of nature and the responsibilities of a sorcerer.

Two loud crashes from the sky interrupted his words.

"boom!"

"Bang!"

The Black Gold Carnivorous Flower, with its enormous metal body the size of a small truck, crashed into the center of the courtyard.

The terrifying impact caused the entire courtyard to tremble violently!

Immediately afterward, Lucerne's robust body, as strong as a calf, landed firmly on all fours. But the aura of death that accompanied its landing caused a layer of frost to gather around it.

This unexpected turn of events caused the two people who were practicing their daily exercises in the courtyard to stop all their movements.

Modu turned around almost immediately.

When he clearly saw what the person who came was like!

What is that?!

A living, enormous plant, entirely made of black metal—uh, a man-eating flower?! It emanated a sacred aura like the sun, yet at the same time, it was mixed with a primal life force belonging to plants! This reminded him of Shu En, who often came to see the Ancient One, and Shu En's sunflower.

And that dog!

Monster! Its aura of death emanating from hell almost swallowed up the surrounding light!

The power of the sun god, the power of nature, the laws of hell...

"Intruders!"

Mordo's experience told him that any non-human creature that appeared in the Sanctuary in this way had only one purpose!

Invasion! Then, destruction!

"Strange! Stand back!"

With a low growl, Mordo spread his hands apart, and two circular energy shields made of orange-red energy appeared on his wrists!

He assumed the fighting stance of Kamar-Taj, his entire body tensing up!

at the same time.

The Black Gold Man-Eating Flower and Lucerne were also sizing up the two humans in strange clothes.

"Waaah..."

Luceries' nostrils twitched a few times.

It smelled it.

It smelled the scent of the souls emanating from those two humans!

Especially that man in the green shirt with a very serious expression!

The Black Gold Man-Eating Flower, however, wasn't particularly interested in the two mages.

Its attention was completely drawn to the orange-red energy shield in Master Mordo's hand!

What is that?

Energy? Or some kind of luminescent metal?

It looks delicious!

Black Gold, wearing a dark gold sun ring, excitedly tapped its metal vines on the ground, like a child waiting at a table to eat, banging its plate with a knife and fork!

Xiu En covered his face as he watched this scene in the Xi Mu Realm, definitely not because he seemed to see himself in the black gold.

It's clear that black gold and the sun ring have a very high compatibility; the fact that they like to consume metals is a big plus.

"Hey, Mordo..."

Strange looked at the two monsters, his voice trembling slightly.

"Why do I feel like there's something off about the way they're looking at us? Set this as your homepage to get daily updates on works like 'American Comics: Praising the Sun Starting in Gotham!'"

"They look at us like we're two dishes just served?"

"Shut up, Strange!"

Master Mordo whispered.

He could clearly feel the hunger emanating from the two monsters opposite him, especially from the black carnivorous plant!

Can't wait any longer!

We must strike first!

Modu flicked his wrist!

The energy shield transformed into two long energy whips burning with raging flames!

"In the name of Vishanti!"

Master Mordo charged headlong into the two enormous and terrifying intruders!

Two energy whips lashed out from the left and right in the air, aiming for the head of the Black Gold Man-Eating Flower and the neck of Lucerne, respectively!

Battle is imminent!

"bite--!"

A system notification sound, which only the holder of the precepts could hear, rang out simultaneously in the minds of the Black Gold Carnivorous Plant and Lucerne!

[Hostile attack detected! Source: Kamar-Taj Wizard (Elite)!]

Threat Level: Medium.

[Start Analysis]

A power of law that does not belong to this dimension has descended!

The black-gold carnivorous plant, which was about to open its massive jaws and bite off the delicious-looking energy whip, froze in mid-air.

Purple divine runes shone brightly on its metal vines adorned with dark gold rings! A command emanated from the core of the ring, locking down all its offensive actions!

Meanwhile, Lucerne, who had already pounced into the air and was preparing to perform a craniotomy on Mordo, also stopped!

In its field of vision, a serious-looking man in green training clothes suddenly had a semi-transparent data frame pop up above his head, visible only to it!

[Target: Karl Mordo]

[Faction: Kamar-Taj/Order]

[Sin Value: 0.001% (I accidentally stepped on an ant during yesterday's training)]

[Merit Points: 89.7% (Dedicated to protecting the Earth and driving out dimensional invaders year-round)]

Overall assessment: Non-hostile target/potential friendly unit.

Immediately afterwards, a bright red warning light filled its entire field of vision!

[Warning! Friendly fire detected! Penalty protocol forcibly terminated! Repeat! Forcibly terminated!]

Lucerne's jaw, which was about to bite down, stopped abruptly less than ten centimeters from Mordo's neck!

It could even smell the scent emanating from the other person, a scent born from years of arduous cultivation.

This tastes terrible, it doesn't smell appetizing at all.

Meanwhile, in the Ximu Realm.

Xiu En, who was remotely supervising the battle with Himawari, cheered as he watched the fight being forcibly paused.

"It's a success! Look, Xiaohua! The friendship damage assessment system is running successfully!"

Version 3.0 is stable and reliable!

Are you sure?

"Take another close look at the backstage logs."

Xiu En, puzzled, brought up another light screen.

The log was being updated with thousands of bug reports every second!

[Logical conflict! Judgment error! Target Mordo is attacking the Divine Messenger, which should be classified as hostile behavior! However, his sin value is close to zero, meeting the friendly force standard! Unable to resolve! Unable to resolve!]

[WARNING! A paradox has occurred in the merit calculation module! Restarting! Restart failed!]

Xiu En looked at the backstage logs that were almost burning.

"Uh, this..."

He scratched his head awkwardly.

"It's a minor issue. This shows that our system still needs further iterations and optimizations when dealing with situations where good people fight good people."

Sunflower gave a soft hum and tapped her sunflower leaves, creating a new requirements document.

"I told you long ago, your black-and-white binary system was bound to have problems."

"【Version 3.1 Update Requirements】: Add a crime value-based sentencing module. Attacking a divine messenger is no longer the sole criterion for triggering the disciplinary protocol. The determination of whether it is legitimate self-defense or excessive self-defense will be dynamically based on the other party's crime value and the intensity of the attack."

Ivy paused, then added the last sentence.

"And let's make the UI look better too."

Just as Ximujie's CEO and product director were having an intense "brainstorming" session for the features of the next version.

In the courtyard of the Holy of Holies.

Master Mordo also fell into self-doubt.

He looked at the two monsters who were clearly murderous a second ago, but the next second one froze on the spot and the other struck a strange pose.

What happened?

Is it some kind of psychological attack that I don't know about?

Those two damn monsters!

They actually mocked me!

His fighting instincts made him subconsciously prepare to launch a second attack!

However, at that moment...

"Modu".

Followed by.

"Snapped!"

Master Mordo felt as if he had been tapped on the back of the head.

The force wasn't strong; it was more like an elder disciplining a naughty child.

But this caused Master Mordo's energy whip to dissipate into the air.

He turned his head.

Suddenly, the Ancient One, the Sorcerer Supreme, appeared behind him.

She was dressed in a yellow monk's robe, with a serene smile on her face that seemed to know everything.

In her hand was a sandalwood folding fan that had just been folded.

Clearly, that last strike was the work of this fan.

"I taught you that last time."

Gu Yi tapped her temple with her folding fan, her tone remaining calm.

"Before you take action, look with your heart, not just with your eyes."

The Ancient One observed with great interest the metal carnivorous plant wearing a huge dark gold ring. She then glanced at the hellhound, which was tilting its head and looking at her with a puzzled expression.

She glanced at Strange standing beside her, or rather, at the Peashooter above Strange's head that was spitting green orbs of light into the sky.

"interesting."

"Sun, life, death."

She nodded to the flower and the dog, as if to say hello.

"It seems that Xiu En did say he would send me helpers, and the helpers he sent look quite professional."