Chapter 87

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"Get lost or die," Su Chen declared coldly.

Hearing this, Kaecilius only smirked sinisterly. "You really don't know what's good for you. Do you still think this place is under your control?" Dressed in black robes, he spread his arms wide as if to embrace the world and proclaimed, "Open your eyes and look around."

Hiss! The fractured space continued to shatter, and black demonic energy poured out, further corroding the surrounding air. Everything touched by the dark energy collapsed and dissolved. Kaecilius, the orchestrator of this dark ritual, had dragged the unfortunate Sanctum sorcerers into a mirrored dimension where they were being devoured by Dormammu's followers.

With a scream, a corpse in crimson robes fell from the fractured space. Su Chen recognized the dead sorcerer, having fought him before. He glanced at the spatial rifts around him and realized that a mirror dimension was superimposed on the real world. A battle was raging inside, spilling dark energy into reality.

"It seems you have no intention of stopping this," Su Chen noted, understanding the futility of asking further. Without another word, he used his reality-warping abilities to erase the concept of distance. In an instant, he closed the hundred-meter gap between them.

Kaecilius was taken aback, unable to detect any energy fluctuation or trace of an attack. Suddenly, he found himself face-to-face with Su Chen, who delivered a powerful punch to his face. Kaecilius's head exploded, not with blood but with a burst of dark energy.

"Little brat..." Kaecilius's form reconstituted from the dark mist, his face twisted with anger. "I'll deal with you after I finish with the others." With that, the mist soared into the air and disappeared into the mirrored dimension.

Su Chen wasn't about to wait. The dark energy was rapidly spreading, turning the city into a hellish blackened wasteland. "You're courting death," he muttered, his eyes scanning the space and locating the mirror dimension. In the next moment, with a ripple in space, he vanished.

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Inside the mirrored dimension—no longer a traditional one—Kaecilius had combined Dormammu's power to create a horrifying dark world. The trapped Sanctum sorcerers were being devoured, unable to stop the ritual's master. Kaecilius's distraction with the outside world showed how confident he was.

"You're in a hurry to die, or have you reconsidered my offer?" Kaecilius sneered as Su Chen appeared. "Welcome to my world, but don't think of leaving."

The transformed mirrored dimension had a blood-red filter, the ground covered with grotesque fungi, and buildings pulsating like organs. The air reeked of sulfur, inducing nausea. It was a projection of the Dark Dimension, warping reality with its dark and evil influence.

In this twisted realm, Su Chen felt his emotions being assaulted by negative energies: corruption, darkness, greed, and malevolence. "Ah!" Some sorcerers in crimson robes screamed, their magic blackening as they turned into Dormammu's faithful.

Others tried to fight back with white magic from Kamar-Taj, but their efforts were futile. The holy light dimmed and their bodies were consumed by black flames. "Dormammu despises that disgusting white magic," Kaecilius stated, watching Su Chen with interest. He noticed Su Chen beginning to succumb to the dark influence.

"Come, embrace the darkness. Let Dormammu's power guide you," Kaecilius urged, as dark energy surged towards Su Chen. But to Kaecilius's shock, the energy formed a vortex around Su Chen, being absorbed instead of corrupting him.

"No!" Kaecilius realized too late that Su Chen was consuming the power. "I belong to the darkness, what need have I for guidance?" Su Chen's smile turned wicked as black energy enveloped him. Kaecilius couldn't understand the extent of Su Chen's transformation under the influence of dark energy.

"I will grant you a pillar of light," Su Chen declared, and a radiant beam pierced the dark dimension, enveloping Kaecilius. It was the white magic used by the Sanctum sorcerers, now amplified by Su Chen. Kaecilius screamed in agony as the light burned him.