DC: A New Beginning-Chapter 90: Black Adam

Kahndaq, in an underground prison cell.

Four men and women, including Shazam, were being held in dirty and miserable conditions.

It’s clear that they had an argument not long ago, and now the four of them each sat in a corner of the cell, and none of them wanted to talk to the others.

A man in a khaki trench coat stood in the corner nearest the door, with messy hair, and a cigarette burned down nearly to the butt dangling from his lips.

The man reached into his pocket out of habit, then sadly pulled out an empty cigarette pack.

After fiddling with it for a moment, he threw it onto the ground.

"Bollocks. Things just got a whole lot worse, didn’t they?"

The other three instinctively look at him.

The man shrugged.

"I’m out of cigarettes."

The woman standing across from him, dressed like a magician, roared at him.

"Constantine! Nobody cares about your cigarettes right now!"

On the other side, a man in a vest pointed at Shazam, who was crouching in the corner and trembling nonstop.

"Uh... he doesn’t look good."

Constantine didn’t move.

He kept the cigarette in his mouth, already burning down to the filter, while searching all his pockets, hoping to find a spare one.

The female magician also looked at Shazam, and ultimately couldn’t bear it. She stood up, walked to Shazam’s side, and placed her hand on his forehead.

"The power inside him has fallen into chaos. It looks like that woman called Pandora has already found the place."

Shazam began breathing rapidly, gritting his teeth with a twisted expression and veins bulging on his neck and face.

He struggled for a long time before finally forcing out a sentence.

"Pandora is trying to destroy the Rock of Eternity. Why do I keep running into so many crazy women lately?!"

"Hey!"

The female magician is clearly somewhat unhappy.

Shazam shivered again from fear or pain, and then he quickly apologized to her.

"I wasn’t talking about you, Zatanna. You’re a good woman."

Zatanna felt somewhat helpless.

She sensed that Shazam seemed a bit childish.

Even though he often said things that accidentally offended people, it felt more like a kid speaking without thinking rather than being intentional.

After reciting several backward magic spells to slightly ease Shazam’s pain, Zatanna staggered back two steps and looked at the man in the vest.

"Dr. Palmer, I can sense you also have extraordinary power inside you. Why have I never seen you use it?"

Palmer spread his hands.

"I don’t like to bring my equipment when I’m doing archaeology, so I left my suit with my student for safekeeping. As for the power you mentioned inside me, it’s probably from all the times I’ve been exposed to atomic radiation."

The scene fell into brief silence again.

Just as they were about to discuss their plan again, a slight tremor spread through the prison.

Constantine looked up in confusion at the dirt and small stones that kept falling from the ceiling of the cell, then brushed off his dirty trench coat.

"Does Kahndaq have earthquakes?"

Ray Palmer perked up.

This shaking made him think of someone’s arrival.

"This doesn’t feel like a normal earthquake... Could it be Superman coming to rescue us?"

"No."

A dark purple-black magical aura spread across the ground outside the cell like a pool of water.

Suddenly, Rachel jumped out from it.

She looked at the people locked inside, especially Shazam, who was shivering like he had a cold, and raised her hand to try unlocking the chains on the cell door.

Zatanna’s eyes light up.

"Such a young talented magician, but you should be careful—all the materials in this cell suppress magical power."

Dr. Palmer rushed to the edge of the cell, grabbed the iron bars, and looked excited.

"If you were able to get here so easily, then who is keeping Black Adam busy?"

Rachel gave Palmer a cold side glance and had no intention of answering.

Instead, she focused on slowly using magic to wear away the chains made from special anti-magic material.

Shazam finally seemed to recover a little and muttered that the crazy woman seemed to have stopped.

Then Shazam saw Rachel.

Subsequently, Shazam’s face suddenly turned pale, and he abruptly burst out laughing.

"No, it’s not Superman, but I guarantee Black Adam is definitely about to suffer badly this time!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the ground shook violently again, and then an entire section of earth above the prison was flipped up like someone lifting a lid.

The prison cell Rachel had been struggling to break was destroyed instantly. The anti-magic prison was torn open by pure physical force.

Shazam was the first to rush out.

Zatanna and Constantine exchanged a glance and quickly followed behind him.

After dodging flying debris and rolling dust, the three saw something shocking.

Black Adam, who had seemed unstoppable before, was now being pinned down and beaten by someone.

Of course, Viktor was also quite injured and was covered in deep wounds caused by magical lightning, and even half of his face had been torn open by Black Adam’s brute force.

But unfortunately, this level of injury was not enough to shake Viktor’s will to fight.

"I really didn’t expect that you, as a tyrant, would care so much about the ordinary people of this broken country."

Viktor sneered with that terrifyingly gruesome wound stretched across his face, while his other arm was stabbed deep into Black Adam’s left abdomen, twisting around inside.

"Then I’m afraid you’ll have to taste death again today. As long as I keep you from leaving Kahndaq, you can never defeat me."

Black Adam spat out a mouthful of blood and glared angrily at him.

The pain of his internal organs being constantly torn and crushed inside his abdomen made cold sweat cover his forehead, while his fingers dug hard into the ground behind him.

In fact, Black Adam’s strength was even slightly greater than his, but Viktor had used psychological tactics during the fight.

After a huge rock fell from their battle and was about to hit a mother holding her child near the city, Black Adam couldn’t help but abandon the fight to go block it.

After that, Viktor specifically dragged Black Adam to fight in crowded areas, watching Black Adam exhaust himself saving people.

After being distracted many times during the battle, Viktor finally caught him in one brief opening, and he stabbed through his abdomen with a hand strike.

After stabbing into Black Adam’s body, Viktor refused to pull his hand back out.

Even after taking dozens of heavy punches to the head from Black Adam, Viktor only kept staring at Black Adam, returning heavy punches with one hand while conveniently crushing his internal organs with the other.

Black Adam had never seen such a bloodthirsty fighting style as Viktor’s.

Deep down, Black Adam began to feel fear toward Viktor.

Shazam, who originally thought he’d gotten some satisfaction, was so scared he almost peed himself and hurriedly raised his hand and shouted.

"Wait! Viktor, don’t kill him!"

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