Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 214 17. The Bait of the Mandarin

When normal people measure anything, they always have a reference object in mind.

The existence of reference objects can make it easier for people to understand a certain property of an item.

Merlin also has this habit. In his daily work, when he uses it to measure the threat of the enemy, he will often subconsciously bring in the person who impressed him the most.

That is Carol Danvers.

In the internal materials of S.H.I.E.L.D., Fury gave Carol a code name, called "Captain Marvel".

Because the strength shown by Carol really surprised everyone.And she used to be an Air Force test pilot, her military rank is captain, the word Captain does have multiple meanings.

So the code name given by Fury is actually quite reliable.

Merlin has used Carol's combat power as a reference many times. For example, when facing the Cybertronians, Merlin would consider... Well, the physical strength of those mechanical life forms can barely withstand Carol's strength. full blow.

But once Carol enters the dreaded "binary" form, the defensive armor of those ordinary Cybertronians is not enough.

For another example, when he first went to England to face Voldemort, Merlin believed that the destructive power of Voldemort's magic could barely match one-fifth of the destructive power of Carol in the normal form, or one-fifth of the destructive power of the "binary" form. one-twentieth.

Well, from this point of view, Voldemort is an out-and-out brother.Even the current Merlin is not afraid of him at all.

Judging from this point, at this time, on the canyon battlefield in Afghanistan, the power of the dazzling lightning that attacked Merlin from a corner is probably at the level of Voldemort who erupted with all his strength.

Not fatal enough...

But it's dangerous enough.

The most important thing is that the speed of the lightning burst was so fast that Merlin felt the energy fluctuations, and when the lightning appeared, he had no time to react.

Merlin only had time to shrink the expanding mist for defense, and the next moment, the terrifying energy full of destructive power completely pierced Merlin's mist in a covering and penetrating posture.

pain!

This was Merlin's first feeling.

It was as if a scorching sharp sword had pierced his chest. The pain that scorched the internal organs of his body made Merlin unable to even maintain the form of mist at this moment.

He staggered to show his figure, around his body, on every inch of skin, there were still blue electric arcs dancing.

The whole person seemed to be electrified at this moment.

paralysis!

This is Merlin's second feeling.

Not only was his body paralyzed, but even the dark magic power that should have been flowing in his body was also paralyzed.The circulation of magic power is no longer smooth.

Obviously, the energy of the lightning still remained in his body, and before the energy dissipated, Merlin's magic power would be extremely restrained.

weak!

This is Merlin's third sense.

Like a patient recovering from a serious injury.He felt that all his strength was drained at this moment.

this is normal.

The energy form of lightning is the most violent and positive energy that can be condensed in nature.No matter what kind of mythology in any civilization, lightning is usually related to the story of purging darkness and evil.

This is not just nonsense of the ancestors, in fact, it is also recorded in the classics of orthodox wizards.

High-level wizards can even use magic power to simulate the extremely destructive lightning, and use it to intimidate and defeat creatures in the dark.

In the lightning strike just now, Merlin's dark magic power instinctively protected the host. It helped Merlin offset most of the lightning damage, but a small part fell on Merlin.

"Swish"

The second bolt of lightning came one after another, and the paralyzed Merlin couldn't dodge at all. He was struck by lightning again, and he fell to the ground in a state of embarrassment. His hands and feet were twitching, spreading the dark perception that was still functioning normally. .

The next moment, he "saw" the assailant's fingers flicking again.

"Swish"

Another bolt of lightning struck from behind, but this time Merlin, who was prepared, rolled to the side on the spot, avoiding the bombardment of the lightning that was much weaker than before.

The speed of the lightning was indeed so fast that Merlin couldn't dodge it, but it took time for the sneak attacker to aim, and this time was enough for Merlin to react.

The super soldier serum not only enhanced Merlin's body and strength, it also enhanced Merlin's reaction speed.

As long as he remains vigilant, under the detection of the dark perception, the sneak attacker will never want to hurt him in the same way again.

Merlin's legs were a little weak, and he pulled out the blue-gray steel cane with some difficulty, and pressed it against his weak body.

Behind him who kept dodging, dazzling arcs of lightning were thrown down from a high place, and the bald Iben kept waving his fingers, just like the gods who control thunder and lightning in mythology, throwing one after another destructive thunderbolts to the ground .

He didn't even care about the members of the Ten Rings Gang around Merlin. Those thrown lightning bolts failed to hit Merlin, who kept dodging, but killed a lot of the "onlookers" militants around him.

"click, click, click"

In the constant mountain wall, the steel cane in Merlin's hand was also changing rapidly. In the transformation of the weapon full of technological sense, Merlin's body turned to the outside, and avoided a lightning strike.

He raised his hand, without aiming at all, a scorching light shot out from the energy hand cannon in his hand.

The scorching ray went straight to Iben's head sitting at the entrance of the cave, but before piercing through Iben's head, it was blocked by a shield flying with an electric arc.

The fetishes bestowed by the Mandarin are not just for attacking.

"Damn it!"

But Merlin's sharp counterattack really shocked Eben.

This gloomy bald man is also a decisive person. Seeing that he failed to kill Merlin under the sneak attack, he turned around and ran into the maze-like cave behind him.

"coward!"

Merlin cursed, but his body was still paralyzed, and he was powerless to pursue quickly.And between him and the attacker, there was a group of fully armed lunatics.

"Bang, bang, bang"

In the next second, hundreds of bullets shot towards Merlin with scorching power, but without exception, they passed through his body and hit the mountain wall behind him.

"That's...stupid!"

Merlin raised his head and showed a cold smile towards those masked bandits.

He's been sneaked, he's been hit, he's been nerfed, all right.

But even so, he is not something these chickens and dogs can deal with.The black mist attack was just the attack method of the "seed of power" given to Merlin by the Demon of Three Palaces, and the body of black mist was Merlin's instinct.

A stupid thing like a bullet would never threaten him.

"boom"

Merlin kicked up, kicked the guy closest to him, and knocked the people behind him to the ground.

"@*&*&@!&!!"

A masked lunatic with a crazy face shouted a language that Merlin could not understand, and rushed towards Merlin with a gun, but the next moment, the fighting knife thrown by Merlin pierced his eyes, and amidst the blood flying, Merlin's figure also disappeared into the night of the canyon strangely.

He doesn't have time to play games with these guys.

Catching the sneak attacker who can use the lightning attack is what really matters.

If Merlin's guess is correct, that guy should be a senior member of the Ten Rings Gang, just like Abbas, the leader of the base who was killed by him before.

But we can't just let these armed lunatics rush out to chase and kill those exhausted soldiers. Under the cover of the shadow cloak, Merlin looked at the shouting armed men who seemed to be trying to find him. Shaking his head, he took out something from his magic pocket.

The thing is square, with a curved, convex shell, and a small metal bracket, the size of a palm, which looks harmless to humans and animals.

But those who are really familiar with it, when they see this thing, the farther away from it the better.

This is a second-generation M18A1 anti-personnel landmine, commonly known as the "Broad Sword", which was invented on the battlefield of the Vietnam War and is extremely insane.

If the situation was not urgent, Merlin would not have taken out this thing.

Under the cover of the shadow, Merlin threw a few broadswords at the exit of the canyon, then looked back at the chaotic militants who were still looking for him suspiciously, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Say hello to the Mandarin for me."

In Merlin's soft "farewell", several unplugged grenades were thrown among the militants of the Ten Rings Gang. Accompanied by two violent explosions, the atmosphere in the canyon seemed to be thrown Firecrackers are the same as the surface of the water.

Under the background of the wounded's screams and rising flames, Merlin in the shadows didn't look back at the brutal explosion. He turned into mist and rushed into the cave closest to him.

These caves are connected to each other, and the interior is like a three-dimensional maze. The sneak attacker Iben knew that it would be difficult for ordinary people to find him hiding inside.

Unfortunately, what he has to deal with is not an ordinary person.

As the perception of darkness spread, Merlin quickly found Iben who was hiding in the depths of the cave. He didn't say anything, but hid in the shadow cloak, quietly approaching the timid and treacherous attacker .

Eben was unquestionably just a normal guy.

He can only hurt Merlin with the power "loaned" by the Mandarin.

Unfortunately, there was only one chance left for him to sneak attack, but he failed to grasp it.

If he hadn't released the thunder and lightning given by the ring recklessly and rudely at one time, but had chosen to use that power to imprison and continuously shock Merlin, he probably would have won.

Even Merlin, under the torture of the destructive current and continuous electric shock, is very likely to die.

But Eben had no chance.

The bald young man hid in the darkness. He looked around vigilantly. The silver emerald ring on his left middle finger was beating with dazzling electric arcs. Obviously, this thing was in an excited state and could launch a lightning attack at any time.

But he didn't find Merlin standing in front of his eyes.

Under the cover of the shadow, Merlin raised his right hand, aiming the cold Cybertron hand cannon at Eben's head.

"Your master must have wanted you to be brave, but... you're just a stupid coward."

Bald Eben heard a low voice in the darkness.

It was the last sound he heard in his short life.

The next moment, the Cybertron hand cannon fired at its maximum power, the ray that could easily melt steel, pierced through the electromagnetic shield that the ring gave Iben, and in the blink of an eye, opened a hole in the bald man's chest. A bloody hollow.

His expression became extremely astonished at this moment, and his vitality was rapidly dissipating.

He saw Merlin, saw Merlin's eyes, those eyes shining with a strange light.

"Legilimens! (Instigmatism)"

In the last second of Eben's life, Merlin's Rementing Curse captured some of the memories in his mind.Some important memories that stuck in Eben's mind, those about the Mandarin.

This is his last legacy to this world.

"boom"

The corpse exuding a bloody and scorched smell fell at the feet of Merlin who emerged from the shadows.

This young man with great ambitions and a bright future died just like that, in a dark cave with no sunlight until his death.

His body would slowly decay in the dark, like a dead rat.

His soul, presumably, cannot enter the heaven of any belief.

Any power is not so easy to obtain, and the headless corpse in front of him is just not familiar with the fate of his own power.

After he fell, the silver emerald ring on his left middle finger also fell off his finger during the collision.Amidst the crisp sound of metal and rock colliding, the ring spun a few times before falling in front of Merlin's eyes.

It glowed with a blue arc in the darkness, as if luring ignorant treasure hunters to reach out and hold it.

But Merlin didn't.

He knew the value of this thing. It could endow a weak ordinary person with the power of a thunder god. This must be an extremely powerful legendary magic item.

But the more so, Merlin became more vigilant.

In Eben's last memory, Merlin saw the image of the Mandarin, and he saw the ten rings on the ten fingers of the Mandarin.

This silver emerald ring is just one of them.

This is a set of magic items. According to Merlin's understanding of magic items, such set items must have strange connections with each other.

And at the moment when he retreated, the silver ring on the ground really appeared abnormal.

It seemed to be held by invisible hands, suspended at the level of Merlin's eyes. The next moment, under Merlin's gaze, a purple arc jumped from the ring.

It is very similar to Iben's posture when using this ring, but its power and firing speed are more than 5 times stronger than that of the bald head when using it.

In a flash, Merlin was hit by the purple arc before he had time to dodge.

In fact, he couldn't dodge it either. The moment the dancing purple arc was activated, it was like a swollen spider web, filling every inch of the entire cave.

The speed was so fast that Merlin didn't even have time to use the Portkey.

The most terrible thing is that the sparked electric arc is not a rough one-time throw, but wrapped layer by layer like a hunting spider web, just like throwing Merlin into the millstone of lightning, and he needs to be bit by bit Grind into powder.

"boom"

The rock under Merlin's feet was shattered into powder by the terrifying electric shock, and he himself, under the continuous stimulation of the electric current, was lifted into the air by invisible energy.

And in the eastern European mansion thousands of miles away, Mandarin was washing her body in a luxurious pool paved with white marble under the service of several beautiful maids.

There was a meaningful smile on his ancient and calm face.

The middle finger of his left hand was shaking, as if the ring that could spark lightning had never left him.

When Eben left, Mandarin had told him that the ring would solve all his troubles.

Yes, Mandarin didn't deceive his disciples, the ring could indeed kill Merlin, but it wasn't through Iben who didn't understand the power of the ring at all.

Mandarin didn't need anyone else to do it at all, he just needed Iben to send the ring close enough to Merlin, and the mysterious and powerful leader of the Ten Rings Gang could do the rest by himself.

That is to say...

Poor Eben, he's just the Mandarin used to lure Merlin into a trap...

bait.

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