Constantine was invigorated by Zatanna's insults and beatings, and he came up with a plan. He remembered the Purple Light Array, that basic defensive magic.
It not only resists external invasions but also prevents things from escaping from within.
As a basic magic, the principle is not complicated. As long as the energy supply is increased, its power will proportionally enhance.
All he needed was a little time to set it up, but this time, without Demon's Blood as energy, he needed something else...
If only he had Bat Gold on hand, alcohol couldn't be used as magical energy.
But perhaps joy turned to sorrow, he smugly lit a cigarette in the bushes.
And in the night, a small red dot in the garden flickered, seemingly guiding Diana in the sky.
She flew over immediately, ready to chop them into pieces.
The Swamp Monster was helpless and could only take them to flee. After being critically injured, he didn't even have the chance to check why the Tree Council in the Amazon Basin was screaming.
He felt it at the time but was utterly powerless.
...........
This is precisely what setbacks Constantine's team encountered before the Deathstroke Squad arrived.
At this moment, The Flash and Deathstroke had come to rescue these poor souls.
Barry left Su Ming in Diana's path, while he hid somewhere unknown.
According to the original plan, he was supposed to seize Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth, using that yellow rope to bind her.
However, at this moment, the Lasso of Truth was clasped in Diana's hand, and Barry simply couldn't snatch any weapon from her.
Thus, Deathstroke needed to confront her directly, make her take up her sword and shield, allowing the rope to hang back at her waist, giving Barry a chance.
"Godslayer, Shield."
To induce Diana to choose sword and shield for combat, first Su Ming himself had to have a shield.
He would flash the glittering shield in front of her, flaunting its sturdiness and practicality.
I have a shield, sturdy and beautiful, you can't hit me.....
Perhaps under the engraving control, Diana would also remember that she had a shield.
He raised the shield with his left hand and directly drew the Nightfall Greatsword with his right. Anyway, he always wielded this Giant Sword as a one-handed sword; this was the privilege of a Super Soldier.
Like a Spartan, he tapped the sword blade against the shield, producing a crisp metallic sound, catching Diana's attention. This trick has been handy since the city-state era.
"Clang! Clang!"
"Hmm?"
In the air, Diana was drawn by the sound, turning her head like a beast.
Compared to Constantine's group, who buried their heads and stoically ran, this enemy actively appeared in front of her and caught more of her attention.
The Witch's Hour control wasn't directly Hecate controlling the Engraver; instead, it seemed like it created a new persona within the Engraver, an ungrateful person who only obeys commands.
So, like Black Orchid, her original personality was trapped in a corner of the soul world, watching Deathstroke stand before her.
She wanted to warn him that it was extremely dangerous behavior, and now there's no restriction on her.
Under the engraving control, the Silver Bracelets' self-limitations on her had vanished, and she could fully be called the War God.
When she lifts her restrictions, even Zeus' firstborn, 'Primordial,' wasn't her match. In Olympus, only the Main God Zeus could slightly surpass her.
But she never told Deathstroke of this matter. After all, that was internal killing in Olympus, actions she took with extreme violence, resulting in bloody outcomes.
It was a catastrophe, not only for the Olympian Pantheon but for ordinary people as well.
She could kill when necessary but wouldn't harp on it.
Perhaps Deathstroke could make a few cold jokes at the dining table while exploding someone's head with a gun as if using tomato sauce while eating an omelet, stirring up the atmosphere.
But she wouldn't.
So now facing this issue, she worried that Deathstroke was unaware of her full strength.
Yet, she couldn't say anything, stuck in an observer's role, watching her body rush towards him, swinging the Lasso and Treasure Sword in hand.
"Here we go..."
Su Ming watched Diana diving down towards him from the sky, her long hair dancing in the wind, the sword in her hand gleaming with firelight.
If it wasn't him as the target, it would be quite a scene, quite pale and grand.
He raised his shield, ready to take the strike. As long as he could maintain the upper hand in a close combat entanglement, he had complete confidence to make Diana also pick up a shield.
But the result was slightly different from what he expected when Diana's Treasure Sword clashed with his Shield.
He immediately felt a huge force coming through, his left hand's X Metal Skeleton bore massive impact force, transmitting this power to his entire body, sending him flying.
Strangulation had already spread out from underfoot, trying to grab the ground to slow the impact, while the Magic Floating Cloak simultaneously pushed against him.
But even so, he flew about two hundred meters away.
"Oh shoot..."
In a passive flying state, he tried his best to adjust his posture, forcefully sticking the Nightfall Greatsword into the ground, furrowing out a deep trench.
Bear in mind, this is the mountain top, and except for that small piece of land in the garden, everywhere else was solid rock.
He broke through walls one after another, and punched countless human-sized holes into residential houses, until finally crashing into the sturdy stone wall of a castle, embedding deeply before stabilizing himself.
His muscles and tendons were painfully aching, and his back skin felt like it was ripping, sensing blood flowing down his body.
The metal skeleton could bear such force, but the skin seemed significantly less resilient.
His self-healing ability began to work, and Strangulation started refurbishing the host through its method.
Other symbiotes mend the host more like patching a tooth, using their tissues to fill in the host's missing parts.
But Strangulation was different from those seductive b*tches outside; once a Kama Taiji experiment, it could stimulate the host's own cell division to accelerate self-healing.
"Hey, hey, hey.....are you okay? Okay? Okay?"
Barry's head appeared in the hole; now Su Ming seemed like he was punched into a deep well, and Barry's words even echoed.
"Cough...still not dead. She's completely out of control now; her Divine Power is unrestricted."
Su Ming moved his arm, struggling to fly out of the blasted stone hole, intense collision injuries were heavy, prompting the self-healing ability to surge his Bloodthirsty Desire.
But he managed to hold it, as long as the upcoming fight doesn't entail severe blood loss or internal organ damage.
"Uh, should we call Superman?" Barry glanced at the approaching Diana, pressing his hand against Su Ming's shoulder, infusing Divine Speed, and the surroundings instantly slowed down.
Su Ming shook his head, denying his suggestion.
"As soon as Superman shows up, he'd probably be controlled by Hecate with magic...continue with the original plan; I must reveal some real skills now."