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Chapter 252 The Long-Awaited Human Rubik's Cube
Chapter 252 The Long-Awaited Human Rubik's Cube
What does hand-to-hand combat involve?
It's a battle of who can hit more accurately, who can hit harder, and who can take more beatings. Especially against a powerhouse like Rune, there's no need for fancy moves; it's just a matter of punch after punch, attacking each other, and seeing who dies first.
If it were the same determined and battle-hardened Marvel of the past, the outcome might still be uncertain. However, Marvel, now corrupted by the Multihorned, has changed. He fears death and dreads battle. So, despite having more combat experience and being able to fight Rune to the point where the cancerous universe devours another universe after receiving the Multihorned's blessing, the fact is that Marvel is at a significant disadvantage.
"Why, why are you resisting?"
Marvel, caught in a disadvantageous position and almost unable to retaliate, was utterly bewildered. He could clearly see Rune's weakness, it was right in front of him, yet he couldn't actually strike it. Of course, he didn't know that Rune possessed beast sense, able to sense Marvel's attempts to attack his weakness, and thus easily evaded it.
Rune punched the wolf in the face. The man's expression became especially hysterical due to the breach in his defenses. However, after being torn apart several times, he did not lose his human form and turn into a twisted monster like the other infected by the multi-horned ones.
"Why are you resisting?" Rune sneered, calmly taking Marvel's punch. The punch landed on Rune's chest, piercing his heart, but for Rune, who possessed Wolverine's regenerative abilities, it wasn't a fatal wound. He could even retort, "Aren't you going to fight back when you're being hit?"
Then, Rune delivered a double-ear piercing to Marvel, the powerful force and the infusion of dark magic shattering the man's brain, but thanks to the blessing of the Multi-Horned One, he recovered.
Rune took the opportunity to distance himself from Marvel and evade his counterattack.
"Alright, it's time to end this charade." Rune looked at this twisted and depraved guy with disgust. He was more shameless and evil than those cancerous heroes. The reason he was still in human form was not out of pity from the multi-horned beings, but more because it was one of the rewards he received for bringing the multi-horned beings into his universe.
Marvel stared intently at Rune, roaring hysterically, "It's not over yet! It's not over yet! You bunch of fools, why won't you believe in the Multihorned One? Only he can ensure our survival in the upcoming war, only he can grant us immortality—"
"Enough!" Rune interrupted him, finding this stupid piece of trash utterly repulsive. Even if the cancerous universe did devour this ordinary universe, the multi-horned beings would definitely not be the ones to survive to the end.
In the comics, the two universes that survive to the end are the 616 main universe and the ultimate universe. All other universes are destined to die in this long night. The most essential parts of them will become God-King Doom's jigsaw puzzles, forming the Battle Realm together. However, Rune is certain that nothing from the cancerous universe will remain in God-King Doom's Battle Realm, because it is simply too disgusting.
Marvel clearly wanted to say something more, but Rune wasn't going to give him the chance.
How to kill Marvel? This is an unsolvable problem. The concept of death in the Cancer Universe is dead, and with the blessing of the Multihorns, Marvel is invincible, at least within the Cancer Universe. Rune could certainly bring him to the DC Universe and try to block the Multihorns' blessing by distance, but Marvel would likely attract the Multihorns, and Rune doesn't want the entire DC Universe to become the Multihorns' backyard.
But what if we just want to incapacitate him? That would be much easier.
Does anyone remember that Rune once injected a massive amount of dark magic into Marvel's body? This magic has been consuming Marvel's body and converting it into pure magic. However, this fool's body is also constantly regenerating, which has led to a problem—Marvel's body is now filled with magic that does not belong to him, and he himself is unaware of it.
So here's the question: what would happen if Rune extracted all that magic?
The answer is already obvious.
Rune opened his arms and began to recycle magic power. Magic power is essentially energy, so it inevitably generates heat during transportation. The amount of magic power that Rune was recycling was too large, so Marvel's body began to generate a huge amount of heat continuously.
"Aa ...
However, what emerges from Marvel's body is ultimately magic, which means that Rune can cast spells on him while extracting the magic.
Thus, Marvel, whose brain had shut down, was slowly turned into a human Rubik's Cube by Rune. His body seemed to be crushed by an invisible giant hammer, his bones making a teeth-grinding groan, but his muscles and skin strangely maintained their complete posture. Then, under the influence of the enormous magic, Marvel's body began to fold inward.
"I rarely use this magic except to deal with scoundrels," Rune said in a low voice. He didn't care whether Marvel could think or not; he only needed Marvel to feel pain, and that was enough.
The magic continued to obey Rune's commands. Marville's spine crackled like firecrackers exploding, his ribs snapped and gushed out one by one, and his chest cavity dried up like a balloon with air being sucked out. This turned his screams into faint moans. His internal organs shifted, his skull shattered, and amidst the colorful light generated by the collision and friction between magic and air, Marville finally transformed into a palm-sized Rubik's Cube that trembled slightly.
Rune held the Rubik's Cube in his hand. It had been a long time since he first created this kind of magic, but his skills had not become rusty; on the contrary, they had improved. The Rubik's Cube emitted a warm body temperature and a faint pulsation. Its six faces were flat and smooth, and most of them were covered by a white bone material. Only one face had a wide-open eye.
His fate was to become the object of dark magic's consumption through his immortality, providing a stable source of magical power for Rune's growth, until the day he lost his immortality and was drained dry by Rune. And that day was not far off—because he was about to go out and cause trouble for the Horned Ones.
"Truly a perfect work of art." Rune nodded, a low, cold laugh escaping his lips. "I wonder if you ever imagined this day would come when you sacrificed those other heroes?"