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Chapter 156 Who is the boss
In a hidden place, inside a palace.

Casillas brought his followers back to this hidden hiding place, but he couldn't help being stunned when he entered the hall.He stood at the door and looked into the hall from a distance, and saw that there was another person sitting reclined on the seat that originally belonged to him.The man was dressed in silver-gray armor, wrapped in a dark green cloak, and his posture was casual but revealed an unquestionable majesty.He looked so natural sitting on that chair, like a born king.

Casillas stretched out his arms to stop the believers behind him, frowned and asked, "Who are you?"

The man looked up.The moment their eyes met, Casillas felt as if his soul had been seized by an invisible hand.There seemed to be a bottomless black hole in those eyes, and the icy-cold Li Lei was churning in the black hole.

In an instant, he recognized it—that person, like him, was also Dormammu's messenger.And the dark magic power on the opponent is boundless, I'm afraid it's not inferior to him.

"You are moving too slowly." Sitting on that seat, Victor von Doom said coldly, "Time is running out, and you are still dawdling, and so far you have made limited progress."

"The temples in New York and London have been destroyed. Now there is only the Hong Kong temple, the last temple." Casillas argued in a deep voice, "I have also dealt with the supreme mage, and the protection net of this world is unprecedentedly weak , and now only one last touch is needed to break it. The fall of the Hong Kong Temple is only a matter of time, and then we just need to."

"I doubt it." Dum interrupted with a voice without warmth, "If things are really as easy as you say, you should be on the way to attack the Hong Kong Temple by now, not here." Pause Suddenly, he narrowed his eyes, "The last temple is guarded by all the remaining mages. More importantly, there is an extremely difficult outsider who may also intervene - I believe you have already experienced his skills .”

Casillas couldn't help but recall the appearance of the black-gold armor mage from before, and his almost unreasonable strength.If that guy intervenes, it may not be so easy to break through the final temple.

"I'm pretty sure we can come up with a solution." Casillas looked at him coldly. "But before that, we may have to clarify one of the most basic things, which is the issue of leadership."

Doom gave him a sideways look. "You think you should call the shots?"

"It's always been that way," Casillas said, "and I don't see any signs that this routine needs to be broken."

"Then why don't you come up and try it yourself to see if things are really as you said?"

Doom's gaze made Casillas very uneasy, in fact, the presence of this person made him feel uncomfortable.But he suppressed his emotions, stepped forward, flew straight up, and rushed straight to Dum sitting on the seat.He slapped his right palm face to face, the churning dark magic power condensed in the palm, and the palm was wrapped in the dragging cyclone.

Doom's arms resting on the seat seemed to move for a moment.No one saw clearly what he did, and everyone only saw that Casillas, who had rushed forward, flew back along the way the next second, smashing the blue brick floor to pieces with his back.But Dum was still sitting there calmly, with his arms in place, as if he hadn't moved at all.

Casillas jumped to his feet, looking directly at Doom with a fierce gleam in his dark eyes.He opened his hands, the magic power was quenched, and a pair of air weapons were held in his hands.He stomped on his feet, jumped up, and quickly approached Dum, stabbing him straight with a transparent knife.Dum tilted his head, and the knife immediately stabbed into the back of the chair behind him.Casillas then slashed horizontally, but was dodged by Doom's short head again.Doom reached out and grabbed his arm before he swung his knife in the air, and then kicked Casillas out of the seat again.

Doom stood up and walked down the steps slowly, his dark green cloak hanging down to the ground.When Casillas gritted his teeth and stood up again, Doom walked in front of him without haste.

Casillas raised his knife and slashed again, cutting him across the neck with the knife in his left hand.Doom held up his palms, twisted his wrists and knocked his blade away, and then the shoulder bump sent him staggering backwards.Casillas gritted his teeth, and swung the knife with the other hand without giving up, and chopped five or six times in a blink of an eye.Doom stood motionless on the spot, defusing it casually, and then grabbed Casillas's arm with a thrust of his arm, and an over-the-shoulder fall smashed the mage to the floor.

Casillas snorted, but twisted his body after landing, and a carp jumped up and tried to fight back again.But he was kicked on the shoulder by Doom as if he had just got up halfway, and flew backwards with a more embarrassing momentum than before, and didn't stop until he hit the door, and couldn't get up for a long time.

Doom put his hands behind his back, hiding under the dark green cloak.He glanced coldly at everyone in the hall: "Now, does anyone else have any questions?"

All the mages looked at each other, and no one said anything for a moment.

Doom's eyes then fell back to Casillas, who had just gotten up in disgrace.Aware of Dum's eyes, he lowered his head dejectedly, and said bluntly, "No."

Casillas is certainly not reconciled to handing over the leadership of his small group to others, but there is nothing he can do about it.The mage in front of him and the one he used came from Dormammu's power, which shows that this person is also a follower of Dormammu.And the opponent is stronger than him, by more than one level, the matter is as simple as that.

Doom flung his cloak, turned and walked back to the seat, and sat down again. : "Then, we can return to the previous topic. Let all mages rest and adjust to their best condition. We still have a lot to do."

"The Temple of Hong Kong is well-defended, just as you said before." Casillas whispered, "To take down this last temple, we must."

"No." Dum waved his hand, "We won't fight that temple anymore."

Casillas froze for a moment: "What? But don't we want to."

"As I said before, playing that temple may encounter a very difficult guy, and now I am not ready to face him."

Dum paused, then continued: "The descending spell recorded in the black magic pages you stole needs to destroy the temple first and destroy the magic power protection net to be effective. But there are other ways to bypass it." That layer of protective net directly opens up the passage to the dark dimension by combining magic with technology."

"You mean that machine?" Casillas shook his head. "We tried and failed. Now that machine is carefully preserved by its owner, and we can't get close to it."

"I didn't say I was going to steal that machine again. You have to know one thing about that machine. I am its designer." Dum said lightly, "So this means that I can build another one at any time. This At one time, I only need a few hours."

(End of this chapter)