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Chapter 1078 Raven, powerless to stop the world's destruction

"Very good, Wanda's matter has not been resolved yet, and now an evil version of Doctor Strange has appeared."

Raven couldn't help but mutter a complaint under her breath.

She rubbed her temples, a hint of weariness flashing in her eyes.

The original purpose was to immediately travel to the Illuminati universe to stop Wanda, but now they have to deal with the evil Doctor Strange in this universe.

What a rollercoaster ride!
The projection of the Ancient One, standing nearby, turned its gaze toward Doctor Strange in the main universe and said calmly:

"Now, only you can stop the other you, Stephen. You two are of the same origin. Go, before he causes irreversible consequences."

After saying this, the Ancient One's figure gradually faded and disappeared.

"Okay, we're going to save the world again."

Raven couldn't help but complain to Bruce.

Bruce said nothing.

He was considering whether he had any way to deal with this evil sorcerer.

It's too much for a mortal like myself to participate in such a magical battle.

Even though he used Compound Super 5 in the vampire incident.

"What are you thinking, Bruce?"

Raven asked Bruce, who had a serious expression, with curiosity.

"I'm wondering how the Godfather knew everything that was happening in this universe."

Bruce stroked his chin as he spoke.

Raven put on her hood. "It's a bit strange, but it's not strange when it happens to my dad. Fathers are always so mysterious. Sometimes I even suspect he can see the future."

The night was as dark as ink, and rain began to fall in a drizzle, pattering on the twisted metal wreckage and the scorched earth.

Raven and her two companions arrived at the scene of Christine's car accident and witnessed Doctor Strange hovering in mid-air, with the Eye of Agamotto on his chest emitting an unprecedentedly brilliant green light, and a massive amount of time energy gathering like a vortex.

He was preparing to go all out, forcibly tearing apart the timeline to return to the moment when he had tried countless times to save his girlfriend.

"No, stop, you have to let go."

Stephen Strange's voice pierced through the rain and reached him.

Hei Qiyi's movements suddenly stopped, and he turned around in disbelief.

When he saw yet another Stephen Strange appear before him, his eyes, corrupted by darkness, were instantly filled with shock and confusion.

How come another version of myself has appeared?
Wasn't the version of myself from the timeline that was split off by the Ancient One swallowed up by him?

How is this going?

"Impossible... The other me from that time... should have already been absorbed by me!"

Hei Qiyi looked at the other party in shock.

He quickly sensed the completely different magical aura emanating from Stephen, and his expression instantly turned serious.

"I see, they are outsiders."

Stephen, Raven, and Bruce slowly walked towards the Black Strange.

Stephen calmly said to the other party, "Yes, we are outsiders. You are causing this universe to collapse. Stop now. There is still time to salvage everything."

He still tried to persuade the other party.

"...You don't understand, I've gone too far, there's no turning back."

Before he could finish speaking, Hei Qiyi suddenly waved his hand.

Several tentacles, composed entirely of dark energy and twisted biological tissue, covered with suckers and barbs, burst forth from the shadows behind him with astonishing speed.

Although Stephen was prepared and instantly activated the Ring of Seraphim, the power of the dark tentacles far exceeded his expectations.

With a crisp "crack," the golden magic shield was shattered.

A tentacle coiled around Stephen's neck like a venomous snake, the immense force instantly suffocating him and lifting his feet off the ground.

"Dr. Strange!"

Raven gasped and reacted immediately.

She formed a hand seal, and dark purple magical energy transformed into a sharp energy arrow that struck the tentacle wrapped around Stephen's neck.

"laugh!"

The tentacles were torn apart by the energy arrows and retracted in pain.

"Ahem.!"

Stephen, who had been released, fell to the ground, coughing violently.

At the same time, Bruce, like a ghost blending into the night, silently circled around to the flank, and several batarangs equipped with high-intensity magical interference devices were launched at Black Strange.

With his other hand, he threw a high-frequency sonic boom grenade in an attempt to distract him from his spellcasting concentration.

"boom!"

Black Strange reacted quickly to Bruce's attack.

He didn't even move; the dark energy around him automatically formed a shield, easily deflecting the batarangs and sonic booms.

Then he waved one hand, and more and more powerful dark tentacles emerged like snakes from their holes, attacking the three from all directions.

Meanwhile, Black Strange's other hand continued to maintain the operation of the Eye of Agamotto, attempting to forcibly open a time portal.

"No, stop him, we can't let him succeed."

Stephen, suppressing the discomfort in his throat, used both hands to pull out the massive ancient body of Hoggus to temporarily block the tidal wave of tentacles, while shouting to Raven.

Raven unfurled her shadowy wings and soared into the air, dodging the ground tentacles' pursuit. Her hands lashed out repeatedly, unleashing hellfire from the bloodline of the Three Palaces Demon, along with flame and lightning runes, raining down on the Black Strange.

Bruce used the mobility of his bat armor and various non-lethal but highly disruptive technological devices to constantly move around, looking for gaps in the Black Strange's defenses or trying to disrupt the complex magic circle that was forming beneath his feet.

Black Strange fought against three opponents with ease.

He dodged Raven's attack and unleashed his cloak, sending Bruce flying.

At this moment, the Black Strange had devoured countless powerful creatures and another version of itself, its power being immeasurable.

His magic is no longer limited to the Vishanti system, but incorporates the talents and abilities of countless dark creatures: mental shock, corrosive energy, physical regeneration, power amplification, and even temporary etherealization... His methods are endless and unpredictable.

The more Raven was hit, the more surprised she became!

This guy seems even more twisted than Wanda!

I originally thought that in the DC universe, under my father's tutelage, I was one of the most powerful wizards in the magical world.

Why are they repeatedly failing in the Marvel multiverse?

Am I just a minor character in the Marvel multiverse?
Raven was completely devastated!
On the other side, Stephen seized an opportunity and suddenly swung out the Crimson Ribbon of the Cytorak, attempting to restrain the Black Strange.

However, the moment the straps touched the black oddity's body, violent dark lightning erupted around him.

"boom!!!"

The crimson ribbon shattered instantly, and a powerful electric current rebounded along the magical link. Stephen was struck hard, screamed in agony, and was blasted away.

With a loud thud, Stephen fell heavily into the mud, his body crackling with electricity, and he couldn't get up for a moment.

"PhD!"

Raven was extremely anxious and immediately stopped her wild thoughts, launching an even more ferocious attack.

But Black Oddity commanded his levitation cloak—a blackened and tattered levitation cloak—as if it possessed its own consciousness, to nimbly entangle Raven, interfering with her spellcasting and flight, forcing her to fall to the ground in a sorry state.

"Raven!"

Seeing Raven knocked to the ground by the magic cloak, Stephen struggled to his feet, immediately drew circles with his hands, opened a portal, and instantly pulled Raven, who was about to be surrounded by more tentacles, to his side.

However, before the three could catch their breath, Hei Qiyi formed a strange hand seal with his hands.

The same deep red ribbon, but as black as ink, possessed an energy intensity far exceeding the original. It shot out from the void in an instant, binding Stephen tightly and rendering him unable to move.

"I know all your magic, and... it's even stronger!"

Black Strange shook his head, his palm aimed at the bound Stephen, and a dark energy shockwave capable of annihilating everything began to gather.

"No!"

Raven tried to rush forward to rescue them, but was held back by several giant tentacles.

At this critical moment, Stephen gritted his teeth and desperately mobilized all the remaining magic power in his body.

A miniature yet exquisitely condensed phantom of the sacred sword of Vishanti instantly formed before him.

The Holy Sword of Vishanti was not used to attack the Black Strange, but rather to swiftly slash at the dark shackles binding him.

"Hey!"

The band was restrained by divine energy and snapped instantly.

At the same time, a strange, dark shockwave blasted towards them.

Stephen had no time to dodge and could only use all the magic he could muster after breaking free to form a final shield.

"Boom!!!"

A huge explosion rang out, and the shield surrounding Stephen shattered like paper.

With a loud bang, he was blown away again, blood spurting from his mouth as he crashed to the ground.

Stephen, who was already injured, began to lose consciousness after being attacked by the Black Strange.

The phantom of Vishanti's sacred sword also dissipated due to the interruption of energy.

"PhD!"

Taking advantage of the moment, Raven repelled the tentacles and rushed to Stephen's side, trying to help him up. Black Strange looked at his severely injured opponent, his eyes filled with even greater madness.

He ignored the increasingly unstable magic circle beneath his feet and prepared to eliminate the three of them completely first.

However, just as his attention was drawn to the seriously injured Stephen and Raven...

Bruce, who had been observing calmly from the sidelines, finally found the opportunity he had been waiting for.

Bruce discovered an extremely subtle, periodic weak point in the energy flow that the Black Occultist used to maintain the massive time magic array.

Upon discovering the suspicious node, Bruce immediately and without hesitation launched a specially modified, overclocked batarang that he had prepared beforehand and which could greatly interfere with the convergence of magical energy towards the node.

"Boom!!!"

The light from the magic circle flickered and distorted violently.

Although it was not interrupted, it caused the black strange figure to pause, and the gathered energy experienced a very brief period of disorder.

Seeing Bruce cause his opponent to freeze for a moment, Stephen, lying on the ground, launched a final attack with his last ounce of willpower.

He gently pushed Raven away, and with his last bit of strength, he clasped his hands together tightly.

Stephen poured out all the purest Vishanti white magic power he understood, mixed with his last belief in protecting life.

"In the name of Hoggs... Oshutu... Agamotto... Protect reality!!!"

An unprecedented, dazzling torrent of pure white energy, like a purifying light, surged from Stephen's hands and heavily struck the Black Strange, whose defenses had been weakened by the disruption of the magic circle.

"What?!!"

Black Strange had never expected that his opponent, despite being severely injured, could still unleash such pure and powerful strength.

The dark shield he hastily conjured was instantly torn apart.

"boom!!!"

The white light completely engulfed the strange black figure, causing a violent explosion.

The blinding light temporarily blinded everyone, and the shockwave from the explosion instantly evaporated and dispersed the surrounding rainwater.

The light gradually faded, and the surroundings fell into a deathly silence.

Raven struggled to her feet, and together with Bruce, who was also barely able to stand, they nervously looked toward the center of the explosion.

Black Strange was kneeling on the ground. The dark energy on his body seemed to have been purified, becoming thinner and dimmer. His magic cloak was also badly damaged.

Black Strange lowered his head, breathing heavily, and the next second, he collapsed weakly to the ground.

"Is it...successful?"

Raven was panting. She didn't feel much joy after her success; instead, she felt completely exhausted.

Looking up at the sky, the rain gradually stopped.

An energy fluctuation was generated behind her.

Raven turned around in surprise, and to her astonishment, the figure she missed most—Peter—was smiling and walking towards her with that familiar, reassuring smile on his face.

"Riven."

Peter opened his arms wide, his voice filled with satisfaction, "Well done, my daughter, I'm so proud of you. Come here, it's all over..."

Feeling Peter's unique scent, a blend of sunshine and the faint aroma of the farm, Raven was instantly enveloped by a tremendous sense of warmth and security, almost drowning in it, and instinctively wanted to walk into his arms.

But just a second before taking the first step, Raven froze.

No, that's not right!

A father's eyes wouldn't look so empty.

The father's aura would not have carried the faint, almost imperceptible, sense of dark corruption that it does now.

"No, you are not my father."

Raven's eyes flashed with a fierce light, and she shouted sharply, instantly erecting a powerful mental barrier.

"Crack!"

The illusion shattered like glass in the next moment.

The "Peter" in front of them instantly twisted and turned back into a strange, hideous black face.

A flicker of surprise crossed his eyes, followed by a deeper anger.

"That's a keen awareness, but it's alright!"

In the real world, only a moment has passed, but that momentary distraction is enough.

Taking advantage of the moment when Raven was bewitched by the illusion, the true form of the Black Strange immediately launched an attack.

Countless dark tentacles and cursed magic surged like a tsunami towards Raven, who had just experienced an illusion and was still in shock, and Stephen, who was completely unable to move.

Bruce tried to come to the rescue, but his attack was completely ineffective against the terrifying power that Black Strange was unleashing at that moment, and he was easily deflected.

"Oh!"

The next second, before Raven and Stephen could make any effective defense, their bodies were once again violently thrown away by the surging torrent of dark energy.

The two were thrown backward like kites with broken strings, crashing heavily onto the already cracked ground, rolling for more than ten meters before coming to a stop.

Raven felt as if all her bones had fallen apart, her internal organs had shifted, and demonic power was raging chaotically within her.

Stephen's situation was even worse. He was already seriously injured, and now he was spitting out blood. His consciousness was struggling on the verge of complete unconsciousness, and he couldn't even lift a finger.

Doctor Strange, hovering in mid-air, did not immediately step forward to deliver the final blow to the two.

His eyes, burning with madness and obsession, had completely ignored Raven and the others.

All his attention was focused on the Eye of Agamotto on his chest.

"Now... Christine... This time, I will succeed!"

Black Oddity roared hoarsely as it poured the terrifying power within its body—powerful enough to distort the very fabric of reality—into the Time Stone, a power it had gained by devouring countless lives and fusing with its other half.

"Boom!!!"

The power of time erupted on an unprecedented scale. The green light was no longer a vortex, but transformed into a colossal pillar of light that reached the heavens and the earth, forcibly tearing apart the structure of spacetime.

The entire scene began to rewind and recombine wildly.

The wreckage of the car was restored, the splashing rainwater was poured back into the sky, and the dark night faded into dusk...

Stephen and Raven could only watch helplessly as this horrifying scene of time reversal unfolded, powerless to stop it.

As the green light finally faded, time was abruptly reversed back to that rainy night.

The black car came to a smooth stop at the red light.

Inside the car, Christine Palmer was smiling as she made a phone call.

The large truck that would have otherwise gone out of control and crashed into the car is now parked properly in the adjacent lane, waiting for the green light.

Time passed slowly, and nothing happened. Christine drove home safely.

Christine was still alive and well the next day.

Did it work? !

The black creature hovered in the air not far away, trembling with excitement.

He did it. Through countless attempts, endless darkness and sacrifice, he finally reversed that damned "absolute time point".

“Christine…Christine…”

He murmured softly, his voice choked with sobs, tears streaming down his cheeks.

A surge of immense joy and accomplishment filled his chest, as if all the pain of the past had been compensated.

However, just as he was immersed in the joy of his great success, a "crack" sound, as if from the very foundation of the universe, a sound that sent shivers down one's spine, suddenly rang out.

The sky was like a shattered mirror, with countless crisscrossing black cracks appearing. Behind it was no longer the starry sky, but a despairing void.

The earth began to shake violently and collapse, and a huge abyss appeared out of nowhere, swallowing everything.

The light began to distort, the colors became chaotic, and the structure of matter became unstable. Distant buildings, mountains, and even rainwater began to flicker and decompose into the most basic particles, like a poor-quality holographic projection.

Because the core timeline of this universe was forcibly and thoroughly altered, the causal chain supporting its existence was completely broken.

The ultimate collapse of the universe has begun!

"Do not--!!!"

The wild joy on Hei Qiyi's face froze instantly, replaced by terror and despair!

He frantically unleashed dark energy, attempting to forcibly stabilize the surrounding space and prevent the world's destruction.

But his power seemed extremely insignificant in the face of this massive collapse at the level of laws that swept across the entire universe.

He can hold up a small area for the time being, but more space is collapsing and disappearing at an exponential rate.

"Why?! Why!! I definitely succeeded!!"

Black Strange let out a resentful roar, watching helplessly as Christine's face turned ashen due to the collapse of the universe's rules, her life force rapidly dissipating like a candle in the wind.

Even in the relatively stable region enveloped by his power, he could not completely isolate himself from the effects of the death of the entire universe.

He reversed time and saved her, but for her sake and for his own, he brought about an even more complete annihilation—the demise of the entire universe.

At this moment of utter despair, on the other side, the severely injured Raven, enduring excruciating pain, witnessed this apocalyptic scene.

She knew she couldn't stay there any longer.

"We must...we must leave!"

Raven struggled to climb to Stephen's side, who was almost unconscious, and then looked at Bruce, who was struggling to use his bat claws to hold himself up and avoid falling into the crevice.

(End of this chapter)