American comics: From Hogwarts to God on Earth

Chapter 223 A Fierce Guidance!

Chapter 223 A Fierce Guidance!

Clark woke up quickly, but he felt excruciating pain all over his body. Low magic resistance has always been one of Superman's greatest weaknesses, especially when facing a mage of Rune's caliber. The Rune of today is no longer the weakling with immense magical power who couldn't utilize it to its fullest potential. After stealing—cough cough—the magic books from the New York Sanctum, Rune now possesses the ability to use magic effectively.

In this battle, Rune used the form of Ekron to control Clark, and then directly used Bosat's Lightning to render him incapacitated.

It sounds simple, but in reality, the spell "Shape of Ekron" alone has stumped countless mages. This spell involves multidimensional reality interference and the materialization of magical concepts. Essentially, this spell can be understood as the spellcaster's materialization of self-awareness. It consumes a great deal of magic power and places a very high mental burden on the caster.

On the contrary, the principle of Bosat's Lightning that Rune used to win the final battle was relatively simple. It was just a high-level way of using magic. For Rune, who was already a master of transformation and had extremely strong magic manipulation ability, it was a spell that he could imitate directly by just glancing at the principle.

But simplicity doesn't mean weakness. In the comics, this move once shattered Dormammu's clone and temporarily burned away Dracula's immortality curse.

"Awake?" Rune stared coldly at Clark, completely ignoring Hecate behind him who was trying to strike up a conversation.

Clark was clearly still a bit angry. He turned around, pretending not to see Rune, and then covered his ears with his hands, unwilling to listen to what Rune had to say.

"I know you can hear me." Rune pulled a cane out of the void and tapped the ground. Clark was instantly lifted up by magic, and a dimensional portal opened, leading to the underground training room of Avengers Tower, where Steve was training and waiting for Clark's arrival.

However, Steve looked at Clark with surprise: "What happened to him?"

"He's throwing a tantrum," Rune said. He had left Clark to Steve and didn't care anymore. He still had to go find Odin and the Serpent to make a deal. As for calming Clark down, he would leave it to the former Captain America and the moral standard of the world. He was sure he had a way.

At first, Steve thought Clark was just having a simple conflict with his brother, which was perfectly normal. Even he and Bucky had different opinions on certain things. For example, when he was a little kid with many illnesses but wanted to join the army, Bucky had a big fight with him. But this kind of thing did not make him really break up with Bucky. Instead, it made Steve have a deeper understanding of the friendship between him and Bucky.

However, after Clark repeatedly became distracted during training, resulting in poor training results, Steve directly stopped the training.

Steve walked up to Clark. In his mind, Clark was a very serious kid who worked very hard during training and had a strong sense of justice. His own abilities were also strong enough. The robots and other equipment used for Clark's special training were all made by Iron Man himself; otherwise, it would be impossible to keep up with Clark's progress.

So Steve was very strange when Clark was training passively.

"Did you and Rune have a falling out?" Steve patted Clark on the shoulder. Clark sighed, unsure of what to say, because he didn't know how Steve would react to the fact that he was an alien.

"I—I don't know what to say, actually." Clark shook his head, sitting on the floor, dejected. Just then, Iron Man arrived at the training room.

"Aha!" Tony approached Clark, a wide, excited smile on his face, clearly pleased by something. "Hey, my friend, have you seen Rune?"

Clark shook his head, unwilling to speak, while Steve shrugged: "He abandoned Clark and ran away; I don't know where he went."

"Damn it, I was hoping to buy some more of that magic potion from him!" Tony complained, but he quickly realized that Clark wasn't feeling well. Contrary to Tony's image and profession, Stark possessed a gentle heart and was acutely aware of Clark's pain.

"Hey little one, you look like you're about to cry. Want some candy from me?"

Well, although Stark has a gentle heart, that doesn't change Tony's sharp tongue. Steve couldn't help but glare at Tony.

Tony feigned innocence and asked, "What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?"

Under questioning from Steve and Tony, Clark finally revealed the truth.

"Wow!" Tony looked at Clark in surprise. "You're an alien? That sounds way cooler than my title of top genius and billionaire. By the way, I've seen a lot of aliens, why do you all look so much like humans?"

"I don't know." Clark shook his head. "And—cool? My very existence is a lie. I don't even know who the name Clark Kent should belong to. Maybe we should switch titles."

"Alright, kid." Steve sat down as well, placing his shield directly on the ground beside him. "Listen, seventy years ago, when I survived that experiment, when that skinny, sickly boy from Brooklyn turned into a muscular Captain America, I would often wake up from nightmares."

Steve pointed to his chest: "Can you imagine? I also thought I was a monster, but I didn't have your advantages to be able to quietly contemplate the meaning of my existence. The Nazi offensive forced me to go directly to the battlefield, but on the battlefield, I unexpectedly found the meaning of life."

The handsome man looked over Clark's head, staring directly into his eyes as he tried to avoid eye contact: "It doesn't matter what this body is made of, child. What matters is what you choose to do with this body—"

"And at least you didn't fall into Antarctica and freeze into an icicle for almost seventy years," Tony said with a laugh. "It's a miracle his brain wasn't damaged. You know, when human cells are frozen, the cell fluid turns into ice and ruptures the cell membrane, right?"

Steve glared at Tony: "I fell into the North Pole, not the South Pole. It's hard to imagine how a man who calls himself a genius went to school, to get something like this wrong. If I'm not mistaken, this is something we learned in elementary school, right?"