American comics: Today’s big news Chapter 074

Almost as soon as he opened his mouth to bite, Connors pulled out some melon seeds.

He usually intervened in battles and stuff, but this was someone about to make out, how could he interfere… interrupt?

Connors pulled out the melon seeds, ready to watch the action, but besides the three hidden Connors, Hippolyta, and Hades, there was one other person present.

If I watch what happens next, I might lose my life…

Faust quickly ran over, steeling himself to interrupt Hades:

“My lord, I have done what I was supposed to do, set you free and brought you the Amazon Queen.”

“Now I need your promise, the one you made me.”

Hades straightened up, his face showing no displeasure at being interrupted, but instead said with unusual pleasure:

“Oh, of course, I promised you countless knowledge of magic, the ‘ultimate truth’, the ultimate…”

Hades extended a finger, the tip burning with scarlet flames, and pointed it at Faust’s forehead as he looked on with anticipation.

“Pain and suffering that humans can never know.” Hades finished the sentence after touching his fingertip to Faust’s forehead.

Visibly, the black magician Faust’s skin quickly shriveled, his hair turned gray, his eyes were bloodshot, and his back hunched over.

Accompanied by Faust’s painful wails, he turned into a withered, skinny old man and fell heavily to the ground.

Hades smiled and looked at Faust lying on the ground:

“You will continue to live, and this decaying body will always accompany you, you will forever endure torment that humans cannot imagine.”

What a miserable old man… Connors had seen Faust being neither arrogant nor humble in the temple, and guessed that he had some backup plans, but now it seemed he couldn’t do anything.

Swish—

“Wonder Woman” Diana, who had just been knocked back and caught by Connors, slowly pulled out her greatsword from her magic pocket, wanting to take this opportunity to save her mother Hippolyta.

With Faust’s death, the chains that had trapped Queen Hippolyta naturally broke.

Diana rushed over, pulled up her mother, and turned to run:

“Quick, Mom.”

Hades watched the two women turn and run, his voice as devoid of displeasure as when he spoke to Faust:

“Hippolyta… you didn’t tell me you had a daughter.”

With that, he opened his mouth and scarlet flames spewed out, exploding near Diana.

“I wonder if she is as full of love as her mother?”

As Hades spoke, he strode towards the direction Diana was running, and opened his arms.

The underground of Paradise Island, which had not been calm for long, shook once again, and one after another, rotting corpses emerged from the ground.

At the same time, in the distance from the gates of hell, countless skeletons rose from the ancient battlefield that had been left behind, and gathered here.

Hades was unhurried, as if he had victory in his grasp, enjoying the pleasure of trapping his prey in a cage.

“Wonder Woman” Diana and Hippolyta watched as they were gradually surrounded by resurrected corpses, one swinging her greatsword, the other snatching weapons from the corpses’ hands and began to fight.

…

“Do you have a knife on you?”

Connors asked Zatanna.

He reached behind him several times, confirming again that he still couldn’t pull out props at any time.

“No, besides magic items, I only carry a magic wand with me,” Zatanna shook her head.

Connors sighed:

“Oh, then break my left pinky finger.”

Zatanna looked curiously at Connors’ outstretched left hand, touched his pinky finger, and said after confirming again and again:

“There’s no knife in here.”

“… I mean, just break it, I’m doing an experiment,” Connors suspected that Zatanna had been infected by Diana, who had been out of her mind just now.

Although Zatanna really wanted to ask “what kind of experiment”, seeing more and more undead beginning to gather here, she still reached out her hands and forcefully broke Connors’ pinky finger.

Having experienced being punched several times by General Zod, and possessing the limit of human endurance, Connors didn’t care about this level of pain, but instead looked at Hades from his hiding place.

The old man was fine.

The reverse-cast “healing magic” had no effect on this god, and did not break his pinky finger.

I wonder if the conceptual “unlocking” can lock up all of Hades’ skills… Connors muttered to himself, then walked out of his hiding place:

“Hey, old fart!”

Hades didn’t understand what “old fart” meant, especially since Connors really didn’t know how to translate this word, so he spoke in Heavenly Dynasty language, which Hades understood even less.

“Who are you? Does Hippolyta have a son besides a daughter?” Hades said, looking at Connors.

Walking out of his hiding place, looking at the tall, elegant, long-haired middle-aged man not far away, Connors said:

“I don’t have any malice, it’s just… your scene from just now isn’t over yet, can you do it again?”

He pointed to his mouth, meaning the thing about Hades pursing his lips to kiss Hippolyta just now.

Hades was stunned for a moment: “What do you mean by this?”

Connors was afraid he would misunderstand, and quickly explained:

“It’s like this, I prefer to eat melon seeds and watch the fun, I think a kiss scene between a god and a human is not easy to see, it’s a pity that it didn’t succeed.”

“You humans are really interesting,” Hades smiled very happily, “Then go and join the undead and bring Hippolyta to my side.”

“After waiting bitterly for more than three thousand years, I don’t mind you watching from the side.”

At the undead siege, Hippolyta looked at her daughter:

“Did you bring outsiders to Paradise Island?”

“Wonder Woman” Diana’s expression turned sad when she heard Connors’ conversation with Hades.

She thought she had found a helper, but she didn’t expect him to be an accomplice, and now, in response to her mother’s question, she said in a low voice:

“Mother, you’re right, maybe it was a mistake for me to leave Paradise Island.”

On the other side, Zatanna looked curiously at Connors, she didn’t even understand what the man had said about “doing an experiment” just now, and she was even more confused about running out to talk to Hades now.

But her gaze was not only on Connors, the magical knowledge hidden deep within the undead controlled by Hades was also quickly being learned and memorized by her.

Ignoring how Diana, Zatanna, and others viewed him, Connors shook his head at Hades, the god of the underworld:

“You misunderstood, I mean, you and him should recreate the kiss scene.”

Hades looked in the direction Connors was pointing, and the elegant face he had maintained since his appearance became twisted and angry.

Connors was not pointing at Hippolyta, but at Faust, who had turned into a withered old man.