The Comprehensive Evolution of American Comics

“Echo? What echo?”

Dick knew that the word Zatanna said was different from what he understood. Obviously, what the other party said should be magical jargon.

“Emm…” Zatanna thought for a moment and said.

“It's a kind of magic. Simply put, it uses magic to create your own projection clone. There are many names for it in our industry, but our Zatara family likes to call it 'Echo'. It is a relatively advanced magic.”

“Depending on the caster's attainments in magic, the created clones are also different. It is very good for an average magician to create a static projection, but with Mr. Kent's attainments, the clone's intelligence must be not low.”

While explaining, Zatanna led the crowd along the carpet towards the interior of the Tower of Fate. Wally suddenly discovered something. Obviously, this tower didn't look that big from the outside.

When he was outside, Wally observed that this cylindrical ancient tower could be encircled by less than ten people holding hands. It was smaller than a small lighthouse, at most the size of a watchtower.

However, you must know that Robin and Zatanna did not stop when they were chatting just now. This five minutes or so is enough for a normal person to walk back and forth on the first floor of the tower five or six times.

However, since entering the Tower of Fate, they have been walking in a straight line. Not to mention the end, they haven't even seen the stairs leading to the second floor.

“That's strange.” Zatanna muttered. It turned out that Wally wasn't the only one who felt strange.

“Logically speaking, after we enter the Tower of Fate, whether it is to resist the enemy or to welcome guests, Mr. Kent's echo should appear. It has been five minutes, why is there still no movement.”

“Is this situation uncommon?”

It was Happy who asked this time. He was also very curious about unknown knowledge, and maybe he could find information related to Mr. Kent based on this clue.

“Uncommon.” Zatanna shook her head. “Generally speaking, there are only three situations where this happens.”

“First, the caster has not maintained the projection for a long time, causing errors in the magic.”

“Second, the prop bound to the projection is damaged, which causes all the magic bound to it to fail.”

“Third, the projection is doing something according to a pre-set program, which makes it unable to get away.”

Robin asked, “Based on your experience, which one is more likely?”

“Let me think about it.” Zatanna rested her chin on her right hand, and after pondering for a while, she began to speculate.

“First of all, Mr. Kent's disappearance has not exceeded three days, which is 72 hours. Normally speaking, magic of this level will not fail in such a short period of time, so let's rule out this possibility for the time being.”

As Zatanna spoke, she stretched out her left index finger and scribbled in the air. The next second, a purple energy lit up on her finger. Zatanna was actually writing in the air.

“The second is also unlikely. After all, Mr. Kent's projection is bound to the Tower of Fate. This building is not comparable to ordinary magic props. Even the Lord of the Fallen can't easily destroy it. What's more, we are in the tower now. If the tower is really broken, we would have had an accident.”

Zatanna raised her head and said firmly: “In my opinion, the third possibility is greater. The projection is obviously entangled in something, so it has no time to take care of us?”

“Based on the above points, I speculate that there may be a powerful foreign enemy inside or outside the tower.”

“That's a wonderful reasoning.”

As soon as Zatanna finished speaking, a sharp boyish voice suddenly entered everyone's ears. The children turned around and realized that three people had appeared behind them at some point.

These three people are not unfamiliar faces. Even the more jumpy Wally can call out all their names. That's right, they are the Wotan trio.

“Mr. Kent!” Zatanna saw the old man in shackles at first glance, and then noticed the Wotan Klarion and the future wizard Abra standing on both sides.

“It seems that all the answers are in front of us.” Robin quickly drew out three batarangs, and a drop of cold sweat quietly slid down his forehead.

As the well-known little encyclopedia in the team, if even Wally can call out the other party's name, then how could Robin not know the detailed information of these two people?

What's more, there is also Wotan, a very terrible enemy.

It was mentioned before that Doctor Fate is powerful because he is backed by Nabu, the Lord of Order who represents the cosmic order.

The powerful Nabu represents order, then in the vast universe, where there is order, there will be chaos, and Wotan is the representative of the Lord of Chaos. His strength is comparable to Nabu.

Wotan is an opponent that even the Justice League has to mobilize a large amount of power to deal with. Now it is not a question of whether it is difficult or not for them to deal with.

Oh, there is also Abra. This person is nothing special. He is just a time traveler who smuggled to the modern era from the future. Although this person often calls himself a magician, he actually doesn't understand magic at all.

Abra's magic comes from the high-tech equipment he brought back from the future. In short, he is the kind of charlatan in Wally's mouth.

Of course, Robin didn't mutter these materials to himself in his heart. He transmitted these materials to all members of the team through Happy's mind link, so that they could have a simple understanding of the enemy in front of them, so as not to be completely ignorant when dealing with them.

Others don't know, but this is very friendly to Happy. After all, there are too many parallel universes in the Marvel and DC world. The same character in different universes has different settings. If he uses his own understanding to deal with these people, he is likely to suffer.

For example, Abra, he didn't really know magic at first in the comics, but later Abra sold his soul in the DC event "Day of Vengeance" and exchanged real magic from the devil.

This exchange turned Abra from a second- or third-rate villain to a first-rate villain who can dominate major events. You can even find his figure in many major events.

For example, in major events such as "Day of Vengeance" and "Flashpoint", you can see his shadow.

And Abra has another characteristic, that is, like the Joker is obsessed with playing games with Batman, Abra also has his own obsessed object, that person is the Flash.

Abra's obsessed object is not the second-generation Flash Barry Allen, but the third-generation Flash Wally West.