Chapter 377 Zatanna's New Father Peter Padrick

Chapter 377 Zatanna’s new father——Peter Padrick

Dream world.

Zatanna is performing with her father at the Boston Theater.

That was the happiest and best time of her life.

At that time, Zatanna was just an ignorant child.

More than ten years later, she still remembers that night.

The magician's father forgot his lapel, so Zatanna ran upstairs to get it for her father's performance.

Zatanna noticed something was wrong as soon as she walked up to the dim connection between the stairs and the corridor.

It seemed like something evil was approaching.

"Bang!"

The stairs shook, and in her fearful eyes, a black shadow slowly walked towards her.

Zatanna, filled with fear, immediately ran back.

As a result, the figure rushed towards her in the next second.

"No!"

The shadow held a dagger in his hand and stabbed Zatanna in the neck.

Although Zatanna dodged, her arm was still cut by the dagger.

Blood immediately poured out from the wound.

Zatanna was hurt in the dream world, and blood suddenly flowed from her arm in the real world.

After being injured, she immediately understood what had happened.

In the dream world, the girl who ran away in embarrassment instantly transformed into the image of Zatanna.

She used her backhand to knock away the black shadow that attacked her.

With a "boom" sound, the black shadow fell to the ground and turned into an ugly little devil.

"Damn it! You greasy little nightmare, get out of my dream!"

Zatanna immediately recognized the creature in front of her as the infamous Nightmare - Forselli.

A hell creature that has the ability to enter the dream world of others, and can make what happens in the dream affect reality.

Seeing Zatanna recognize his identity, Nightmare smiled at him, "Don't worry, Zatanna, I'm just taking you to review a precious memory."

"Memories? These are not my memories. This is not how my dreams develop."

In the beautiful memories I had with my father that day, I didn't encounter any attackers.

Nightmare took a step closer to Zatanna, "That's why I exaggerated it a little bit."

He smiled at Zatanna and said: "As long as I get into the sleeper's mind, I will modify their memory, add anxiety and uneasiness, and when that person screams, I will replay the scene. Once again.”

"You know, even though it's a bit risky to deal with a magician, I just can't resist the challenge of temptation."

Zatanna looked at him with a serious expression, "I'm not afraid of you. As long as I can face my nightmare and catch it, I can wake up!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Zatanna rushed towards Nightmare.

After dodging Zatanna's attack, Nightmare looked at her in surprise, "Do you want to drag me back to your world? You can't do that."

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Zatanna stretched out her hand and immediately recited the irony magic to him: "I, the Dreamer, leave! I will not cause any disturbance!"

As the irony magic was spoken, a torrent of magical energy struck the nightmare.

With a "bang", the nightmare was hit and disappeared instantly.

But before Zatanna could breathe a sigh of relief, the nightmare's voice sounded all around again.

"Good job, sister! But in my world, using magic is not that easy!"

As soon as Nightmare finished speaking, Zatanna suddenly found that the pajamas she was wearing had turned into a magic dress.

A floor-length mirror suddenly appeared in front of her.

"Wow!"

The floor-to-ceiling mirror shattered instantly, and Zatanna was pulled into the mirror among the flying glass lenses.

“Here, I peel away the facade of reality so that you can face a truer version of yourself.”

"Damn it!"

Locked in the mirror, Zatanna hammered the mirror hard and asked him, "Who asked you to come?"

She had no memory of any interaction with this little nightmare.

"That's a question. You have to use your head and think about who you have provoked recently."

Nightmare stood outside the mirror and looked at Zatanna in the mirror triumphantly, "Everyone sees you as a powerful magician, but only I know the truth. Just like your silly little magic cards and tricks, The great Zatanna is actually a liar!"

With a "boom" sound, as the nightmare's words fell, Zatanna found herself in an uninhabited wilderness.

Surrounded by death and loneliness.

The rotten fallen leaves and dry trees tightly imprisoned her.

"Even if you do have any magic power, it will only bring a curse to the people closest to you."

"Your poor, dead mother"

As the sound that made Zatanna extremely painful came out, the image of her mother appeared in front of her.

Zatanna reached out, trying to grab her mother.

But her mother disappeared in the blink of an eye, and what appeared in front of her instead was a burning flame.

In the flames, her father was being burned by the fire, screaming in pain.

"No, no!"

Seeing her father burning in the fire, Zatanna finally couldn't hold on any longer and fell to her knees in pain.

Seeing Zatanna's mental breakdown, Nightmare Fuseli transformed into a nightmare creature and attacked Zatanna.

Just when Zatanna was about to be defeated by him, an accident suddenly happened.

The giant snake that was attacking Zatanna was suddenly caught by a hand.

"Crack!"

The giant snake was grabbed by the emerging black shadow and twisted into two.

At the same time, flames rose from the ground, instantly burning the nightmare creature created by Fuseli into ashes.

Fuseli stared blankly at Peter who appeared in Zatanna's dream.

The terrifying and powerful power emanating from his body made him, who was also a nightmare creature, even feel a trembling feeling.

This powerful and unfathomable pressure from the dream world even reminded him of that man.

"This is the first time I've seen someone dare to break into my world."

Peter looked at Fuseli coldly and said.

"Boom!"

Before he could react, a platform rose from the ground, raising the ground where Fuseli was.

Chains spewing flames emerged from the ground and locked Fuseli who wanted to escape.

Peter looked at the terrified monster, explored the dreams of the people around him, nodded and said: "So that's it, you can't enter Zatanna's dream directly, so you use the dreams of the people around you as a springboard, and you can change other people's dreams at will."

"Tell me, who asked you to deal with Zatanna?"

Peter asked the other party coldly.

"It's the Dark Night Brother!"

Fuseli said the mastermind behind the scenes without any hesitation.

He was now burned by the fire on the chain, and his whole body was in severe pain.

"Dark Night Brother?"

Peter frowned slightly when he heard the name the other party said.

He had never heard of such a name.

It was probably some unknown villain in the magic world.

"Very good."

After getting the answer he wanted, Peter moved his mind slightly, and Fuseli was pushed in front of him by an invisible force.

"What do you want to do?"

"I know that every nightmare you created has your lingering shadow, so I will send you back to the dreams of these people at the same time, so that your body will be torn to pieces, and your spirit fragments will appear in the dreams of countless people."

Listening to Peter's devilish whisper, Fuseli was stunned.

After reacting, he immediately begged Peter for mercy with a face full of fear.

"No, please, great god, have mercy on me, as long as you spare me, I can do anything!"

"This is not like your style just now."

Peter shook his head and activated his ability.

As he begged for mercy, Fuseli's body gradually became torn into pieces.

As if being pulled by something, the body gradually disappeared piece by piece.

Faced with the other party's screams, Peter remained unmoved and watched the other party's body being completely decomposed.

After dealing with the nightmare, Peter walked to the side of the distraught Zatanna.

"Little Za."

Peter squatted down and reached out to hold Zatanna's hand, "It's okay, I'm here."

Feeling the warmth from Peter's hand, Zatanna threw herself into his arms and burst into tears.

Peter gently patted her shoulder, "It's okay, everything is over."

Zatanna cried and said to Peter: "I'm sorry, I lied, sir, I actually...actually knew the whereabouts of my father. Madam Shangdu told me what happened."

"Father, father, he was in Winters Manor, engulfed in flames at a meeting."

(Winters Manor, Constantine presided over a meeting to explore the truth behind the great darkness. Three powerful magicians were burned to ashes in the exploration of the darkness, including Zatanna's father.)

Zatanna's voice was filled with uncontrollable sadness and pain, "I have been deceiving myself, deceiving myself that my father is still alive, and creating a dream for myself that I can never escape from."

Zatanna, with red eyes and tears constantly overflowing, hugged Peter tightly, and her body kept shaking.

"Dreams are the most beautiful reality, Zatanna, but reality is the cruelest nightmare."

Peter was also in a heavy mood. He whispered to comfort Zatanna, "Each of us is dreaming a dream that we can't escape in our lifetime."

Zatanna listened to Peter's words, and there was uncontrollable sadness in her eyes, "Dad once told me that magic is beautiful, terrifying and psychedelic at the same time. Without it, the universe will become a cold and dead place, without miracles, but... it really seems like a curse to me."

Peter didn't know much about magic, but through Zatanna's story, he could probably guess what kind of person Zatanna's father was.

After thinking about it, he put his hand on Zatanna's hair and said to her, "I think this is not a curse, Zatanna, that's why it needs to be protected. Your father has been training you, and he should hope that you will play this role."

Zatanna listened to Peter's words and let go of Peter's hand that was hugging her shoulders.

"Protect?"

"Yes, protect."

Peter held her cold hand, "Not only magic, but also everything you love that is worth protecting."

Looking into Peter's eyes, Zatanna felt an irrepressible emotion in her heart.

If it was her father, he would say the same thing to her.