bacchusnovels Chapter 1018 Chen Tao cleverly employs a series of schemes, and Cersei mistakenly ends up on the gui
Chapter 1018 Chen Tao cleverly employs a series of schemes, and Cersei mistakenly ends up on the gui
Chapter 1018 Chen Tao cleverly employs a series of schemes, and Cersei mistakenly ends up on the guillotine.
Undoubtedly, the villainous witch Cersei from the magical world harbors evil intentions.
Based on the witch Circe's reaction, Chen Tao was quite certain that she had seen through him. Chen Tao had originally intended to test Circe's understanding of the current situation by transforming into Wonder Woman Diana, but the test results were disastrous.
I'm afraid—I'm afraid that, just in terms of knowing about the return of the goddess of magic, Hecate, the witch Cersei knew about it even earlier than Chen Tao.
Because all of this was so normal, the witch Circe's reaction to Diana's appearance was perfectly normal, exactly as most people expected of Circe, a cunning, untrustworthy, and evil witch trying to manipulate others.
She played a standard answer as if it were a video, but if Cersei truly didn't understand the situation, her reaction certainly wouldn't have been so perfect.
If you have a stereotype about someone, and they immediately and deliberately respond to you with that stereotype, it would be strange if there wasn't something fishy going on.
Don't be fooled by Cersei's current appearance—with her flowing red short hair and leather jacket, making her look like a capable tomboy—Chen Tao knows exactly what this immortal old hag is.
Yes, she is very beautiful, but Circe was originally a princess of Colchis. When Hecate, the goddess of magic, was still the goddess of the underworld and the wife of Hades, one of the Greek gods, Circe had gained immortality and dark magic by exchanging souls with her.
When this woman first received the divine power bestowed upon her by Hecate, she destroyed a kingdom, her infamy spreading throughout the ancient world. Moreover, she naturally and countless times forbade passion between the sexes, building a high wall of distrust between men and women, spreading suspicion and betrayal—
This sounds like some kind of slander, but it's true.
Simply put, she has a dark history of instigating conflict between men and women!
Alas.
She is skilled at transforming humans into animals, orchestrated the War of the Gods, attempted to destroy Earth, and repeatedly sowed discord between the Amazons and humans on Themyscira by kidnapping Wonder Woman and resurrecting Hippolyta. Cersei is infamous throughout the history of the DC multiverse; she has been active for hundreds and thousands of years, bringing endless chaos and destruction wherever she goes. However, in the modern era, having gained everything, she ultimately chose to live a peaceful, retired life on this isolated island.
She proclaimed herself a hermit, but in reality, she was still infamous.
As a terrifying mage on par with or even surpassing Zatanna, Cersei possesses a vast array of dark magic, including beast transformation, mind control, and resurrection spells. Her weakness—
Chen Tao thought for a long time.
Some kind of magical herb and a divine exorcism spell?
Clearly, Chen Tao wouldn't do any of those things.
If Chen Tao relied solely on brute force, he could kill her without these spells. However, whether he would actually kill a clone or a complete clone afterward would be beyond his control. Wizards are perhaps the most difficult cockroaches to kill in the DC multiverse. Chen Tao understands why Batman dislikes wizards. For wizards, their power comes from long-term study and complex rituals. For someone completely unfamiliar with magic, there is too much information asymmetry involved.
With the goddess of magic Hecate watching him closely, Chen Tao had no way to use his super-time flow to carefully examine every detail, cutting Cersei into minced meat with not a single bit of fat on it.
The witch Cersei smiled, perhaps completely unaware that Chen Tao was plotting how to kill her. She put on a worried expression, as if she were a truly patriotic and compassionate girl.
Yes, yes, she's very concerned about the country and its people. Back then, the Amazons and Greece planned to end the war through marriage. This woman sent the former wife of the King of Athens to the bed of the Amazon Queen and the King of Athens. It's like the young couple got married, and she brought back the former wife and killed the young couple's wife. Then there was another bloody war. Tsk.
Chen Tao couldn't help but laugh as he watched the other person act.
Chen Tao replied with an emoji of being amazed by the witch Circe's beauty, saying, "It's just acting, everyone can do that."
However, even though the witch Cersei was so dangerous, Chen Tao's decision to use her was not a rash one or an overestimation of his abilities.
Hecate, the goddess of magic, is the patron goddess of the witch Cersei, but this relationship does not mean that the two female villains get along well.
Cersei initially exchanged her soul for Hecate's dark magic, but Hecate certainly didn't offer these powers to Cersei for free because she liked her, because "beyond the witch's rebirth, in Hecate's name, the right to retain and withdraw the soul is reserved!"
Look, these are Hecate's original words.
If Cersei doesn't want to lose herself and become part of the Goddess of Magic, then in terms of simply stopping the Goddess of Magic, the witch Cersei and Chen Tao share the same goal.
Chen Tao also happened to know about Cersei's other goal: due to her connection with the goddess of magic Hecate, if Cersei could destroy the goddess of magic, she could take over the position and become the new goddess of magic, Cersei.
Chen Tao didn't know how the other party did it, nor how they were able to do it, but he knew one thing: as long as he kept the goddess of magic Hecate alive, Cersei would be helpless when facing Hecate.
This premise allowed Chen Tao to try cooperating with a dangerous person like Cecilia, without fearing that she might turn around and bite him.
Chen Tao needs the witch Cersei's help to find the Dark Justice League, the alliance of Perpetua, the Void Hand, and the goddess of magic Hecate, and their strategy of not confronting Chen Tao directly, but using their informational advantage to isolate him, leaving Chen Tao unable to find any allies proficient in magic for the time being.
If all Chen Tao needs to do is trick Cersei into helping him find his teammates, he can confront the Goddess of Magic head-on instead of being tricked by her time-travel techniques and only being able to arrive at the scene afterward, just like when Chen Tao tried to stop the magical Dorn from destroying the goddess Ramokhunash, only to find a pile of ruins in the end.
Chen Tao silently pondered what to say to the witch Cersei.
The witch Circe loves to act, and now that he's disguised as Wonder Woman, perhaps he can use this Wonder Woman identity to get Circe to find the Dark Justice League through a roundabout way.
Chen Tao knew very well that if he directly revealed his true identity and then used violence to demand that Cersei help him find the Dark Justice League, this seemingly beautiful but evil witch would not agree.
Nonsense, Batman's Dragon doesn't understand magic, but every member of the Justice League Dark is a powerful sorcerer.
Even though Detective Bobo has a basic understanding of magic, some of which might be an information barrier for magicians who don't understand magic, the Dark Justice League could see through it at a glance if they were present, thus causing the witch Cersei's attempt to lure Batman Dragon to fail.
If a con artist wants to deceive someone, how could they possibly allow a fellow con artist who can see through their tricks to be near their target?
Of course, she wouldn't dare to directly refuse Chen Tao, but she would definitely try to sabotage him. When it comes to doing bad things, what difficulty is there?
Whether it's leaked to the Void Hand or someone else, it will make Chen Tao's efforts futile, and he won't be able to say anything bad about Cersei, allowing him to completely extricate himself from the situation.
Chen Tao certainly wouldn't do that.
He had to figure out a way to profit from the chaos of his performance with the witch Circe, and then—
"Oh, you're not a sister, you're a brother."
Then the witch Cersei made it clear.
Chen Tao looked at the other person.
This was truly striking at the heart of the matter, giving Chen Tao absolutely no chance to use Diana's identity to maneuver indirectly.
"What did you say, Cersei?" He still wanted to try dressing up.
"I'm talking about Batman Dragon. Becoming Diana is really perverse. Is this body really that attractive to you? Or are you used to being like this, doing weird things to satisfy your desires? Hmm, tell me, does it excite you?"
The witch Cersei spoke with a mocking tone, and Chen Tao knew that she had laid her cards on the table and was trying to embarrass him with such words. She probably thought of him as a thousand-year-old witch and Chen Tao as just a human in his fifties, but Chen Tao had no morals.
This was merely a test; Cersei's words failed to stir his heart in any way.
With a mere wave of his hand, a multitude of metal tentacles reached out and bound the witch, Cersei. Cersei could have dodged, but realizing that Batman Dragon didn't intend to harm her, she stood still, letting the metal tentacles bind her, stretching her tomboyish body into a graceful curve.
"Wow, are you getting angry?"
Chen Tao lifted the witch Cersei up and then slammed her to the ground, his metal tentacles strangling her neck.
The classic bat-like interrogation method. But Chen Tao knew it would be useless against the witch Cersei.
"I need to know where the goddess of magic, Hecate, plans to appear next. Shh, don't make a sound, I know you know."
Chen Tao's first question was about the location of the goddess of magic, Hecate. He was trying to deceive the witch Cersei. The first question asked often represents the most pressing truth, and Chen Tao deliberately set that truth as Hecate's location.
This would lead the witch Circe to mistakenly believe that finding the Dark Justice League wasn't Batman Dragon's primary objective. This would not only help lower Circe's guard but also directly induce her to blurt out what she was trying to tell Batman Dragon.
Although Chen Tao doesn't understand magic other than irony and five-dimensional magic, he knows how to deceive. The witch Cersei made a huge mistake by choosing to compete against Chen Tao, who also knew how to use magic.
For the witch Circe, the best solution would be to avoid appearing in front of Batman Dragon at all. If he did that, both the Void Hand and the aftereffects of Hecate's protection would be able to reach her, making it as difficult for Chen Tao to find Circe as it would be to find the Dark Justice League.
But Cersei didn't. From the moment she appeared in front of Chen Tao, she could never leave, not only physically, but also through deception.
This was a mistake, but also an inevitable result. The Void Hand and the goddess of magic, Hecate, were undoubtedly aiming to prevent anyone or anything with any understanding of the magical world from appearing before Chen Tao.
But the more they suppress the power of superheroes like the Dark Justice League, the stronger viruses like the witch Serciy become when they are no longer suppressed, until they can do whatever they want.
She wanted to be the goddess of magic, she wanted to replace Hecate, she dreamed of it all. And so I appeared before you, Cersei.
Come, face me, face your destiny. The DC multiverse is now on your side; it would be a shame not to make good use of it.
The witch Circe was deep in thought, and Chen Tao watched her. But he couldn't give her a chance to think.
The most notorious trick of fraud is to deprive the victim of their ability to think, using a barrage of instructions to keep them busy and overwhelmed.
"Also, if possible, I need to find my teammates; they were captured by the Hand of the Void—"
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"I don't know where the Dark Justice League is, but if you want to find the goddess of magic, Hecate, I think I can help," said the witch Cersei.
After being pressured by Batman's dragon and his rapid-fire tone, Cersei finally chose the option that seemed least likely to go wrong from her perspective.
She chose to show weakness to Batman Dragon: "But before you offer help, could you put me down first?"
Actually, the destruction of the entire magical world by the goddess Hecate is undoubtedly a bad thing for me. I was wondering why Wonder Woman and the Justice League Dark haven't saved the world like they have in the past.
You mean they've been completely wiped out? Probably not. Based on my understanding of Diana, they wouldn't be defeated so easily.
Cersei tried to buy herself time to think by changing the subject, but Chen Tao pressed on relentlessly.
"To answer my question, I need to know where I can catch the goddess of magic head-on, and how to get there."
"Okay, calm down and put me down."
Chen Tao put the witch Cersei down.
She resumed her tomboyish demeanor, then gracefully spread her palms, displaying her body to her heart's content.
This helps her lower Batman Dragon's guard.
"I thought Diana and the Justice League Dark could solve this problem, but it turned out to be a complete mess in the end. Damn it, I trusted you superheroes too much."
"I was excluded from this attack by the Void Hand, and of course, Papetua was involved as well."
Chen Tao, standing nearby, said something that sounded like an explanation or a description of the situation.
The atmosphere between the two of them eased slightly. This was exactly what Chen Tao and the witch Cersei wanted to see.
"I can't face Hecate, you know. Although I can sometimes play with Diana," my power almost entirely comes from the goddess of magic, Hecate. Facing her, I would be utterly defeated.
The witch Cersei also explained why she couldn't participate in the battle.
"And now everyone is going to lose. If what you're saying is true, then Hecate, with the help of the Void Hand and the others, used the overwriting of time to reshape reality—"
"Use the power of storytelling and the replication of time travel." Chen Tao interrupted her, "Go on."
The atmosphere between them began to become more harmonious, which was amazing. In just a few seconds, the atmosphere between them immediately changed from interrogation to discussion.
"In short, reality has been shaped. The Green of All Things, representing life, and the goddess Ramakunash, representing death, have fallen into her hands. She has simultaneously corrupted the two pillars of magic. A part of life and death belongs to her, and due to the Green of All Things, a part of nature also belongs to her. I think I don't need to explain how much magic is contained within this; she is ready to rewrite the book of magic with her own pen."
But if she completely invades and shatters the third pillar, the existing magical system will utterly collapse. And based on what I know of him, his next target will be the Realm of the Gods, the dimensional sanctuary of all spiritual and divine energy in the multiverse. If she takes it—
The magic that sustains all magicians will die, and there's no need to look for the Dark Justice League anymore; all members of the Dark Justice League will die. In the best-case scenario, his hated, twisted magic will also transform everyone in the Dark Justice League.
Chen Tao seemed to be deep in thought.
"In other words, if you help me open a door to the realm of the gods, I might be able to find the goddess of magic, Hecate."
"Yes, and you can take me upstream in the hypertime stream first, and then open the gates to the Realm of the Gods there. Knowing their destination allows you to plan ahead, pre-setting a history in the hypertime stream where you've already arrived. When they try to distort the hypertime stream and make this event a fait accompli, you can use the history of 'you were already there' upstream in the hypertime stream to completely neutralize their plans."
"But there are thousands upon thousands of doors on Earth leading to the realm of the gods, and every temple where someone worships a god—"
"Please, you're Batman Dragon, at least you're a Batman. I thought all Batmen were detectives."
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The witch Cersei said, "Think about how the goddess of magic Hecate escaped, and what myth is at work now."
Chen Tao's eyes widened slightly.
Where do you think she'll go?