I'm working on Marvel's Spider-Man in American comics.

Chapter 715 The Children of Midnight

"It looks like even though it's already past midnight, you don't have much time to rest."

Gwen came to Peter's side and looked at Strange, who was chatting with Iron Fist and Moon Knight. She sighed from the bottom of her heart. Peter agreed helplessly, "Who says otherwise? You should go back first. It's Sunday tomorrow, so you can probably sleep in a little longer."

"how about you?"

"I'm not going to watch the homecoming football game tomorrow. No matter what Strange has to do, I'm definitely not free during the day tomorrow."

Peter complained helplessly, and Gwen could only nod after hearing it. But then she suddenly thought of something and asked, "You didn't invite me this year because Senior Felicia needed your help with something, which I understand. So, if Senior Felicia wasn't busy this year, who would you have invited?"

Peter hadn't thought of that question. His first reaction was to go with whoever invited him first. Then he realized that Gwen was asking who he planned to invite.

At that moment, Peter Parker's most genuine answer was, "Cindy, because I hired you last year."

Peter then gave an answer.

"If it weren't for Felicia's situation this year, I would definitely still ask you to dance with me."

"really?"

"Sure, okay, Strange's calling me, see you in a bit."

Peter took a deep breath and turned to Strange. After chatting for a while, Strange looked at Peter and said, "Ah, Spider-Man, you're finally here."

"It sounds like you're asking me for help. I hope you don't need to ask for help in the early hours of the morning."

"Of course not, I'm just here to give you an invitation. You can come to the Sanctuary for lunch tomorrow at noon, it's on me."

Peter paused for a moment, then looked at the three people beside him: Ghost Rider, Moon Rider, and Iron Fist. After a brief instant, he made a judgment: "Wait, are you gathering superheroes related to magic?"

"That's absolutely right, Spider-Man, you're one of them too. What, aren't you planning to come?"

That's as if I'd refuse. Peter muttered something to himself, then shook his head, and asked with satisfaction, "Are you really okay now?"

Strange looked at Peter speechlessly: "Really, everything's fine. If anything happens, I'll call your name in my dreams."

"No, no, no, let's not. It's too much to call someone in a dream. Alright, Dr. Strange, see you tomorrow."

Considering the limited sleep he had left that day, Peter immediately declined. Strange rolled his eyes and then looked at the others: "What about the rest of you? Perhaps you could discuss it and come help?"

"Count me in on Mephisto's matter." Ghost Rider readily agreed, as did Iron Fist. Only Moon Rider, after hearing everything, coldly replied, "No."

"Don't count me in this, I'm very busy."

The next day at noon, on the rooftop of the Sanctuary in New York, Peter saw Moon Knight descending as well and greeted him: "Hey... Mark, right?"

"No, it's Jack. Mark didn't accept Doctor Strange's invitation."

Peter paused for a moment, then looked at Moon Knight: "So..."

“But I’m Jack, and I agreed.” Okay, you’re mentally ill, you have special privileges, you get to decide.

Peter reluctantly opened the door to the rooftop attic and went down with Moon Knight. On the way, he saw the corridor of the New York Sanctum Sanctum. At the end of the corridor were three large doors, through which different views could be seen. The view behind one of the doors felt unexpectedly familiar to Peter. Just as he was thinking, a familiar figure walked directly in from the other side of the door and made a slightly surprised sound.

"Spider-Man?"

"Oh, hey, Wanda?"

Peter was surprised that Strange had gone all the way to Kenosha. He asked Wanda with some curiosity, "Do you know why Strange summoned us?"

"Hmm? Did they gather a lot of people? I thought they only called me."

Moon Knight saw Peter run into someone he knew and then walked away on his own. Peter and Wanda chatted about their current situation; they hadn't seen each other since the Kangal Dynasty. Kenosha was much calmer than New York.

Oh, so only three months have passed.

As they walked and talked, when they reached the anteroom of the Sanctum Sanctum, a somewhat familiar light appeared before Peter's eyes, followed by Magik Iliana standing before them, wielding the Soul Sword. Iliana nodded at Peter, then looked at Wanda, somewhat puzzled as to who this person was.

“Uh, Wanda? This is Iliana, a student at Xavier's School of Geniuses, Colossus's sister, and the Sorcerer Supreme of Limbo. Iliana, and this is Wanda, Magneto's daughter, a sorcerer who studies chaos magic.”

"Looks like Strange has organized a gathering of mages."

Iliana nodded to indicate that she understood, but Peter thought for a moment about the participants he knew and then shook his head: "I don't think so. Okay, let's continue. Do you know where the Sanctuary's restaurant is? I don't."

"I know, I'll lead the way."

Iliana led the two towards the restaurant, and as they approached, they heard a woman's voice.

"You mean you're a vampire killer? Sorry, I've been killing monsters since I was a kid, and I've never seen a single vampire."

As Peter and his group walked in, they saw a black man in a black trench coat and sunglasses who said rudely, "You're welcome. This just shows that I've done my job very well."

Peter looked at the woman who spoke. She looked to be in her early twenties, wearing a tactical leather jacket that was already quite conspicuous and rare, with long red hair simply tied in a ponytail.

The two looked over and saw the others come in, clearly a little confused as to why Spider-Man was there too.

Peter glanced around and saw Iron Fist was there too.

After a while, Ghost Rider and Moon Rider entered the room one after another. Then Strange led the King and another black man with white highlights in his bangs into the room. This black man was obviously some kind of priest.

"Let's all get to know each other. This is my second-in-command, Wang, and this is a master from Haiti, a voodoo doctor."

The remaining people introduced themselves to each other, and Peter confirmed that the black man was Blade, the vampire killer, and the other woman was Elsa, the monster hunter "Bloodstone" from the Marvel Universe.

Once everyone had gotten to know him, Strange continued speaking.

"I am honored to have invited you experts who are adept at dealing with mysterious creatures to this place. To put it bluntly, I have gathered you here out of my duty as the Sorcerer Supreme to deal with Mephisto—an unprecedented enemy."

(End of this chapter)