Wenwu took the initiative to attack once again. This time, Harvey, who was already prepared, relied on the powerful defensive capabilities of the Shield Charm.
While tanking this wave of attacks, he immediately launched a counterattack.
"Sectumsempra!"
"Confringo!"
"Fiendfyre!"
Invisible blades, violent explosions, and several fiery dragons bursting forth.
Wenwu was entirely engulfed in a barrage of countless magical attacks. The blinding flash of explosions obscured his vision.
Harvey took this opportunity to cast the Disillusionment Charm to turn invisible, while simultaneously cracking through the air, continuously relocating using Apparition.
He effectively turned himself into an automated magical turret; the relentless magical attacks left Wenwu unable to catch his breath.
"Huff... damn it! I have to find a way to change the situation, otherwise my defenses will be broken through sooner or later!"
Wenwu realized the course of the battle was extremely unfavorable to him. If it weren't for the defensive shields provided by the Ten Rings, he would have been defeated long ago.
But the rings with the strongest destructive power, the Remaker and the Spectral Ring, had been given to his son Shang-Chi for self-defense.
Now he couldn't even find where his enemy was. Harvey was elusive as a ghost, appearing on the left one second and behind him the next. How was he supposed to counterattack?
At this time, the gang members on the sidelines also noticed the battle wasn't going well. Their boss was clearly at a disadvantage.
So they immediately sent someone to notify Shang-Chi to come and break the siege.
Wenwu also noticed the actions of his gang members. He believed that once his son arrived, they would definitely be able to mount a counterattack.
When it becomes a two-on-one, the advantage will be mine!
Thus, he gritted his teeth and continued to endure a one-sided beating, entering a state of full defense.
Seeing the old bastard actually willing to act as a target...
Adopting a posture of taking a beating without fighting back.
Harvey wasn't in a rush either. As long as he didn't give the other party time to breathe, he just kept up his continuous magical attacks.
Slowly wearing him down, he would break through Wenwu's turtle shell sooner or later.
And so, the situation reached a stalemate.
Until half an hour later, when Shang-Chi, who had been out on an assassination mission, returned just in time.
The gang members, who had been watching the unfavorable battle with worried eyes, cheered with uncontrollable joy.
"Thank goodness! The young master, the pillar of our gang, has returned. He will definitely be able to turn the tide..."
"What's going on?" As soon as Shang-Chi arrived at the training ground, he saw his father taking a beating.
One of Wenwu's personal bodyguards quickly explained the reason behind this battle.
Hearing that his father had once again started a war with someone for the sake of profits, Shang-Chi didn't want to aid an evildoer in his heart. But no matter what, it was still his own family.
He couldn't just stand by and watch his father get beaten up.
Therefore, utilizing the two rings his father had given him, he used their atom-destroying ability to fire two disintegration beams towards Harvey, who was constantly flashing in and out of the darkness.
"Father, I'm here to help!"
With a loud shout, Shang-Chi also charged into the battlefield.
While suppressing Wenwu, Harvey hadn't forgotten to keep his eyes and ears open to his surroundings. When he saw Shang-Chi arrive, he immediately took notice of him.
Consequently, after easily dodging the disintegration beams with Apparition, he unhurriedly put some distance between them.
Then he cast the Images of Ikonn, splitting into hundreds, perhaps thousands, of identical clones, and aimed his wands at Wenwu and Shang-Chi.
"Petrificus Totalus!"
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh—
When magical attacks from the enemy came from all directions...
Wenwu and Shang-Chi had absolutely no idea how to dodge. They could only rely on the layer of blue high-tech shielding around them to tank the hits.
This was a move Doctor Strange had once used when fighting Thanos. Although it couldn't do anything to Thanos, that was because Thanos was simply too strong.
But right now, after Harvey unleashed this move...
Tens of thousands of spells forcibly shattered their shields, freezing Wenwu and Shang-Chi in place.
Actually, Harvey could have used this move to finish Wenwu off much earlier, but his goal was the Ten Rings.
If he killed Wenwu too early, what if it scared Shang-Chi away?
He had no interest in playing a game of cat-and-mouse with Shang-Chi.
So, he deliberately waited until Shang-Chi came as backup and all ten rings were gathered together, so he could catch them all in one net.
Right now, Harvey didn't miss the opportunity he had created for himself. The moment the Full Body-Bind Curse took effect, he cast two Sectumsempra curses without hesitation.
"Swoosh, swoosh!"
The sound of spells tearing through the air rang out.
The four ring-bearing hands of Wenwu and Shang-Chi were all severed clean off.
"Ah... argh..."
Two screams of agony rang out almost simultaneously.
The father and son, unable to move a muscle, could only watch helplessly as their hands were chopped off.
"Accio Rings!"
Harvey cast the Summoning Charm. The ten rings encircling the severed hands slipped off one by one and flew toward him.
When the long-awaited Ten Rings fell into his hands, Harvey looked at his defeated opponents with a satisfied smile.
"Old bastard, thank you for your son's cooperation in delivering the Ten Rings right into my hands. I won't kill you for now, but whether you come looking for trouble later is another story."
"Until we meet again!"
With that, Harvey stepped backward into a portal and disappeared.
The gang members watching from the sidelines only dared to step forward and offer their concern after the enemy had left.
The defeated Wenwu and Shang-Chi, feeling an overwhelming sense of grievance and frustration in their hearts, forcefully shoved away the subordinates who tried to help them up.
"Get lost! You useless trash!"
The gang members, becoming the targets of their vented anger, didn't dare make a sound and could only silently retreat.
Shang-Chi already held a lot of resentment towards his father. Hurrying back, he ended up suffering a confusing defeat without even knowing who the enemy was.
The resentment in his heart right now could easily be imagined.
"Father, who exactly was that sorcerer just now?"
After losing the Ten Rings, Wenwu's spirit seemed to age ten years in an instant.
Regarding his son's questioning, he seemed as if he couldn't hear him, staring blankly at his two bloody, severed hands lying on the ground.
"Are you never going to stand back up again just because of one defeat?" Shang-Chi raised his voice, trying to reawaken his father's fighting spirit.
Only then did Wenwu turn his head. His cloudy eyes lacked the slightest glimmer of light. He wanted to say something, but ultimately it all turned into a long, drawn-out sigh.
"Sigh~"
"We couldn't even beat him when we had the Ten Rings, let alone now that we've lost them."
"Shang-Chi, you are still young. Don't be obsessed with revenge. A lifetime is very long. Disband the Ten Rings, and live the life of an ordinary person."
Wenwu's words, sounding as if he had seen through the vanity of the mortal world, only deepened the frustration in Shang-Chi's heart.
"Tell me who the enemy just now was. One day, I will avenge what happened today!"
Wenwu's lips moved slightly, hesitating whether he should tell him.
His son was still young; he didn't want to crush Shang-Chi's self-confidence.
But for a young person to lose their vitality was tantamount to becoming a walking corpse.
So, he eventually revealed Harvey's background.
"The opponent was Master Harvey from Kamar-Taj. As for anything more, I don't know much either. After all, I've only known him for less than a week."
Hearing this, Shang-Chi's face clouded over. "Kamar-Taj? That legendary sanctuary for sorcerers?"
"Yes. They are numerous and powerful, which is why I told you to stop thinking about revenge," Wenwu said, covering his face in helplessness.
Shang-Chi was still a young man in his early twenties. He wouldn't easily give up in the face of adversity.
"I've memorized his face. One day, I will return the favor of this severed hand ten times over!"
At that moment, Wenwu remembered the Extremis serum the other party had left behind, a sliver of hope rising in his heart.
"Perhaps, we still have a way to grow stronger!"
Shang-Chi's face froze in surprise. Had his father, who had lived for hundreds of years, actually kept a hidden ace up his sleeve?
"What way?"