I'm a party

Chapter 35: The Art of Communication

“Well then, my junior brother whom I have never met, since we are both disciples of the former Supreme Sorcerer, let me give you a try and then make a final judgment.” As Jarrett finished speaking, he raised his two swords and slashed straight towards Lu Yifang.

"Zheng!" Lu Yifang stretched out two fingers and clamped the sword.

"Bang!" The sword broke as soon as it was slightly stressed. Lu Yifang played with the broken sword and threw it casually. The tip of the sword shot out like a cannonball, instantly creating a huge pit more than ten feet in the stone floor.

"Do you need to take another test?" Lu Yifang asked with a normal expression.

"No need." Jarrett looked at the big pit behind him, sweating coldly. So young and powerful, and wearing the emblem of a high-level deacon of the Hermit Order, who in the world could produce such a mage except the former Supreme Mage?

However, this way of demonstrating strength seems different. Don't magicians condense magic weapons and win through exquisite close combat?

"Then are you willing to lead me to Kamar-Taj?" Lu Yifang continued to ask.

"I'm sorry, but I can't do that." Jarrett shook his head with a determined look.

"Why?" Seeing Jarrett's gloomy face, Lu Yifang frowned, "Could there be any changes in the magic world?"

Hearing this, Jarrett was silent for a moment, but he did not hide the truth in the end: "Have you ever heard of the Book of Cagliostro?"

"I have a vague impression of it. It's a legendary and extremely powerful magic book that contains many wonderful spells." Lu Yifang tried his best to recall the details of the book.

"This book was stolen. Not just one or two pages, but the entire book was lost. Kamar-Taj is now under martial law."

"It's just a book, why is the whole city under martial law?" Lu Yifang wondered.

"Let me correct you. This book is not an ordinary magic book. It is the most powerful in the world. More importantly, after the book was lost, wizards in the magic world disappeared one after another. At first, we thought that it was the dark magicians hiding in the dark who took advantage of the death of the previous Supreme Sorcerer to make a move, but soon we found out that the dark magicians had more casualties."

“You mean that after the disappearance of the Book of Cagliostro, a mysterious wizard killer appeared in the magic world.” Lu Yifang concluded.

"We call them demon hunters. Every time a demon hunter kills a wizard, he takes away all of his magic power and soul, leaving no chance of survival." Jarrett said, waving his hand, and several mages retreated, revealing a mummy-like body.

"How much do you know about him?" Lu Yifang asked.

"Very few. Their strength, appearance, gender, and even number are unknown. Everything remains a mystery."

"So you doubt me."

"You can't prove your innocence, right?" Jarrett looked directly at Lu Yifang and asked, "Although you are the former disciple of the Supreme Sorcerer, her disciples can also fall into darkness, and Casillas is an example."

"Then how about I help you catch the witcher to prove your innocence?"

"I can sense the dark aura lingering on this corpse." Ghost Rider concluded after examining the corpse.

"My friend is extremely sensitive to the aura of darkness." Lu Yifang pointed at the Ghost Rider and explained.

"Okay, I believe you." After weighing the pros and cons, Jarrett agreed. Even though it might be a trap, he urgently needed to break the status quo, so he had to take the risk.

"Everything is normal in Area B." A wizard holding a communicator said on a high building.

"No abnormalities were found in Area D." The voices of other mages came from the communicator.

"I say, is this reliable?" Lu Yifang looked at the communicator in his hand, speechless. Judging from the model alone, this communicator is more than ten years behind SHIELD.

There is even a "buy three get one free" discount label on it. Could it be from a second-hand market? Don't you have a better channel? It's so unprofessional.

"It's really helpless." Jarrett put away the telescope, looking helpless, "The demon hunter seems to have mastered the method of avoiding the temple's magic detection, so we can only adopt an inefficient method and wait for the prey to come to us."

Opposite the window is an antique shop. According to Jarrett, the owner is an old wizard. So he used a communicator instead of a magic communication device to prevent the old wizard and the demon hunter from noticing the close-range magic fluctuations.

"There are a lot of wizards in New York, right? If you spread your forces out like this, even if you run into a demon hunter, can you stop them?"

"You don't need to worry about this. The New York Temple not only has magic detection, but also has space restrictions to prevent the invasion of evil things from other dimensions. Once some functions of the temple are activated, no one entering New York will be able to open the portal." Jarrett said confidently.

The three great temples are the pinnacle of the Supreme Sorcerers of all generations, and their reliability is guaranteed. Even Dormammu, the ruler of the dark dimension, must destroy the three great temples before entering the earth.

"I see. Why not gather most of the mages together and leave a few as bait? Wouldn't that help concentrate the power of the guardians?" Lu Yifang asked.

"It's useless. I've thought of this plan before." Jarrett shook his head. "First, even if we protect all white magicians, the demon hunters can still hunt down our enemies - those black magicians who never trust us." Normally, Jarrett would applaud when someone killed black magicians. But if it was a demon hunter with more cruel methods, Jarrett would feel guilty. He always felt that letting the demon hunters harvest souls and magic power was far more dangerous than those black magicians who only knew some evil magic and could suffer the consequences at any time.

"Besides, mages don't just live in New York. Even if we block the demon hunter's gap, he only needs to leave New York and open a portal to hunt mages elsewhere."

"It seems like this is a difficult problem." Lu Yifang frowned slightly, "Then let's find some helpers."

"You can recruit more innocent white magician disciples." Jarrett's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"I don't know many wizards, but I know some people who specialize in this matter. Has SHIELD heard of it?" SHIELD originally wanted to contact the Hermitage, and this is a good opportunity.

"You mean mortals." Hearing this, Jarrett frowned slightly, and his interest suddenly decreased. "Can they do it? Mortals have little strength, limited knowledge, and weak will. When facing magic, they..."

"It seems that you have misunderstood my meaning." After Lu Yifang finished speaking, he activated the communication technique. "Hey, Coulson, are you at the headquarters now?"

"Just returned to the headquarters." Coulson's voice came from the microphone. "But I still have some trivial matters at hand. What can I do for you?"

"Then put aside what you are doing. Lord Fury has authorized you to carry out a top-secret mission, codenamed 'Fire of Prometheus', with a secret order of @￥%￥%. I now order you to immediately check all the surveillance cameras in New York. Anyone with suspicious or strange behavior will be monitored in real time and all the information will be reported to me." After Lu Fang finished speaking, he glanced at Katie who was taking the data board.

"Katie will connect with your data and transmit all the information to her data board."

"Yes, I'll do as you command." Coulson replied solemnly.

A top-secret mission of level 10, which is equivalent to the secrets of Asgard and the underworld. If Coulson had not participated in the whole process, he would not have known about it. Now the mission carried out by Lu Yifang is also classified as level 10. Fury attaches great importance to this mission, so how dare Coulson neglect it?

"It's ready." In just a moment, many monitoring screens appeared on Katie's data board. Fortunately, her data board was specially upgraded by the college and could still carry massive amounts of information without collapsing.

"Now, you watch it." Lu Yifang took the data board, waved his hand, and many holographic images appeared before everyone's eyes.