"Damn it, truly damned, where did you get so many ghosts?"
Monac followed in and stepped back a few paces upon seeing the situation in the living room.
But Gin had already closed the door.
Dealing with evil spirits is sometimes also a mage's responsibility. Some are good at dealing with devils, while others are good at dealing with the undead.
Mages also need to eat and live, and exorcism is a job with decent income.
Of course, there are better-paying jobs, but to maintain secret identities, many mages do not integrate into society and can only do some gray business on the fringes.
Like living off gambling, fortune-telling, and deception...
A mage group like Kama Taiji is slightly better, with territory and manpower, they can be self-sufficient.
But a few hundred years ago, even The Ancient One needed to personally farm.
Monac is not unskilled at dealing with undead, his youthful experiences made him more adept at dealing with humans.
Undead creatures mostly stem from a disgust for the living, possessing strong aggressiveness and danger, ghosts with no physical form able to pass through walls are even more dangerous.
"Not ghosts, they are heroic spirits, relax, my friend."
Su Ming patted Monac on the shoulder, signaling Heimdall to guard the door, as he wanted to converse with the other two in the living room.
Gin had already lit the fireplace, but the room was full of dust, although the Immortal Palace didn't have things like spiders, the smell of decay in the air was still very noticeable.
Whether the furniture was broken, or it was the smell of these ghosts, was unclear.
Gin let Su Ming and Monac sit on the bench, while she lifted a piece of beast hide in the corner of the house, opening a trapdoor to retrieve items.
That was her little wine cellar.
"I didn't know you knew so many people in the Immortal Palace."
Monac used magic communication, his hand hidden in his pocket gesturing silently, maintaining a curious expression on his face but secretly communicating with Su Ming.
"She is Gin."
Su Ming let Strangulation write words on the mage's back to communicate silently.
"The Gin I know? The one from your company?" Monac's eyes rounded wide, looking at Su Ming, then turning his head to look at the corner of the room.
Su Ming shrugged, actually, aside from feeling a little uncomfortable about Gin's identity, nothing had changed, Gin was still Gin.
"That's right."
"Excellent illusion technique, I didn't even notice before, does she have Warnerheim heritage?" The magic communication continued to drill into Su Ming's ears, Monac's voodoo contained many unconventional spells.
"That I'm not sure about, it's just a small matter... Just now I didn't say, we might have to deal with the Great Serpent, are you confident?"
"The Great Serpent? The mythical Jörmungandr? The one from the North Sea legends?"
"Uh, no, Jörmungandr is an animal, this Great Serpent is Odin's brother." Strangulation continued writing, the mage's white ceremonial outfit on its back was wrinkled like crumpled paper.
Every time after writing a paragraph, it still rubbed once like cleaning a blackboard, leaving the mage speechless.
However, upon hearing the words 'Odin's brother', Monac's mouth twitched a bit: "You want me to deal with not only Hydra but also a god?"
"Maybe, if we find Zemo before he becomes a god, then we only have to deal with one god."
Strangulation finished using its tentacles to gesture, and Monac looked at Su Ming with eyes that said 'Are you kidding me'.
However, seeing no hint of a joke from Deathstroke, Monac turned his head again, looking at the undead, indeed they were very orderly.
Though the aura of death still made one's skin crawl.
"Do you have a plan?"
"Of course, if you know Rune Runes, then we'll start by deciphering the clues."
"You know I lived in India before, and although I later traveled the world, Rune Runes are only used by a few mages in Norway, right?"
"You don't know them... no matter, let's do a Voodoo Divination Technique."
Su Ming took out Zemo's face skin from the waist pouch and tossed it into the mage's hand.
Even Monac, a rabbit-killing maniac with bloodstained hands, felt the slippery sensation in his hands and, after inspecting what it was, couldn't help but gag.
The face skin was soaked white, swollen, and the other side was stuck with plenty of muscle fibers and membranes, looking like thin pizza, or expired tomato sauce squeezed too much.
"Uh, you should have warned me earlier."
"Holloway doesn't care about meat, he only gags when seeing Wade's face."
"He's a surgeon... Glad your cousin is not here, I feel much more relaxed."
Though Monac protested verbally, he held the face skin in one hand, pulling a rabbit from his pocket with the other.
.......
Gin handed a small prop back to Su Ming, while Su Ming also took out his own and put it into his bag.
This was given to them by The Ancient One to avoid Heimdall's detection, as a protective talisman.
Now they were in Warnerheim, Monac's divination magic showed the position of a planet in the cosmos, thanks to Heimdall for recognizing it.
However, arriving here, Heimdall needed to stay at the observatory at the end of the Rainbow Bridge to receive them, so now there were only three people and a horse left to continue pursuing Zemo at the destination.
Celestial Horse Xiaoba was very willing to act with Odin, Su Ming also felt having a means of transportation in the team could avoid some unexpected situations, so he brought it along.
Before leaving Gin's house, Monac drew an array, trapping Gin's sisters in a big circle, preventing them from leaving the house and running amok.
Su Ming saw them looking pitiful and, with the help of Strangulation, found some wood and carved a Mahjong set.
The quantity wasn't enough, but better to use first for amusement, even if they didn't know the Mahjong game rules, they'd know how to stack blocks, right?
However, the ghost souls showed no intention to touch the Mahjong; they were mostly staring at the fireplace in a daze.
"The distance affected the accuracy, consumed too much of my power, I temporarily have no way to make a second divination to determine the direction."
Monac shed tears as he choked a rabbit, throwing it to the ground.
Su Ming observed the surrounding environment, well, it somewhat resembled a Hobbit's village.
Of course, the houses were significantly larger.
Here the trees were lush, grass everywhere, full of vitality, a pastoral song indeed.
"Being able to determine a world in the cosmos greatly reduces the range, let's first use the old method to search, and confirm again after you recover."
"This is a medieval village."
Monac said as he pulled a handkerchief to wipe his face while pointing to the side, the road could be said to be made of dirt, and excrement could be seen in dark areas.
Gin glanced, knowing the place had hardly changed since she came to handle affairs years ago: "I didn't think it before, but now this place is worse than Brooklyn, where even homeless people know to drop feces in empty pizza boxes."
"No way, endure it, and let's finish the mission quickly so we can return home... Gin, are you familiar with this place?"
"Been here a few times, not very familiar, but it's far from the Royal Palace, if Zemo is really in Warnerheim, I think a small village wouldn't be his target."
"I'm curious, Hydra doesn't have a Rainbow Bridge, how did they quickly move from Asgard here?" Monac asked, as seen from the cosmos, Warnerheim and Asgard weren't close by.
Su Ming nodded at this, indeed it was a question.
"Heimdall said those guys had Rune Stones floating above their heads, the abilities of these items I haven't yet figured out, now it seems they have the ability to traverse the Nine Realms."
"You said Zemo severed the Line of Destiny, drank Wisdom Spring Water... maybe I know what those Rune Stones are."
Monac thought deeply.