"Who are you?"
In Mandarin's retreat, Eric had just taken a step in when he sensed a powerful psychic force sweeping across him.
A Buddha like figure suddenly appeared in front of Eric, his face solemn, his voice thick and solid, his words resounding like a great bell.
"What a clumsy technique! Not even close to Charles!" With a grimace, Eric vibrated the electromagnetic field, and an irregular electromagnetic pulse was sent out, and the Buddha figure in front of him suddenly broke apart, revealing the true face of the place of retreat.
The place was a huge underground cave, with some kind of artificial light source installed on the roof, the cave walls were covered with various oriental style murals, and there were countless exotic flowers and plants in the cave, and a small stream flowed through the flowers and plants, trickling.
"You sure know how to pick a place!" Looking at the beautiful view in front of him, Eric squinted to his right at the stone wall where a gazebo was set into the wall and Mandarin was sitting in it.
"Who are you? How dare you trespass in my place of retreat!" Even without the influence of the illusion, Mandarin's voice was still unusually thick.
He wore a long black robe, his grey hair was messy on the back of his head, his face was furrowed, his eyes were closed, his hands were on his lap, and he wore a ring on each finger.
The ring on his right index finger was set with a sapphire that glittered brightly and Eric took one look at it and realised that the illusion he had just had was the effect of this ring, which not only created the illusion but also increased the power of the wearer's mind.
There was another ring that caught Eric's eye, a golden ring with two white stones, which was worn by Mandarin on his left pinky finger, a strange magnetic field was generated from the ring and it was very attractive to Eric.
"Hmm? Why don't you answer?" When he didn't hear a reply, Mandarin opened his eyes, and his dark eyes and observed Eric.
Erik shook his head and waved his hand gently, putting on a golden outfit.
Mandarin's eyes narrowed as he interlocked his hands and brushed his fingers over the rings, which lit up in turn, "What do you want?"
"Why? Would you give it up?!" Erik broke off and sprinted, his fist aiming for Mandarin's cheek.
"Hmph!" Mandarin snorted coldly, the ring on his left pinky finger lit up and shot out a white light, where the white light passed, a large number of ice crystals surprisingly appeared in the air, and the temperature around him dropped extremely fast.
Eric quickly dodged, but Lord Manchu's fingers moved slightly and the white light swept across, still hitting Eric.
In the blink of an eye, a thick layer of ice was frozen on the outside of Eric's armour, and Eric stood like an ice sculpture on the spot.
"How easy!" Mandarin smiled in satisfaction at his work and raised his hand to give Eric another blow.
"Zee!" In the middle of the ice sculpture, Eric's armour suddenly turned red, and the ice attached to it melted as if it had been thrown into a frying pan, emitting a large amount of white mist that blocked Mandarin's view.
"Hm?" Mandarin was surprised but did not intend to sit still, the ring on the middle finger of his right hand lit up and an invisible force pushed the air, quickly forming a tornado that spun at high speed and wrapped Erik in it.
The white mist was swept away in the blink of an eye, but Eric was nailed to the ground like a nail, unmoving.
"Thou art not afraid of ice? How about fire?" As he spoke, Mandarin raised his left hand, and the ring on his index finger immediately shot out a scorching light, and where the light passed, flames actually appeared in the air out of thin air.
The flames followed the light and turned into tongues of fire that shot straight at Eric's face.
Measuring his head slightly, Eric controlled the flow of vibranium to completely cover the last slit in his visor, and with his magnetic senses, he charged hard against the flames towards Mandarin.
"Good armour!" Mandarin's eyes lit up, seeing the special features of Eric's armour, his eyes filled with visible greed, "If you offer this armour, I will forgive you and let you leave here!"
Erik rolled his eyes and made up his mind not to talk to this heavy middle-aged man.
Seeing how insensitive he was, Mandarin was immediately angered as he clenched his right hand into a fist and pressed his sole outstretched right pinky towards Eric.
A cloud of black smoke arose from the ring and fell lightly on top of Eric's head, then the black smoke suddenly turned black and Eric could not see his fingers in it.
Erik snorted, the darkness didn't affect him in the slightest.
After using several rings in a row without causing any damage to Eric, Mandarin was outraged and stretched out his left index finger to activate the ring's power, but hesitated for a moment and then withdrew it.
In that moment of hesitation, Eric had already reached the front and swung his iron fist at Mandarin's head.
Putting aside the Ten Rings, Mandarin was still a martial arts master, so he couldn't possibly let Eric get to him so easily! He pulled back slightly, dodging Eric's fist by a hair's breadth, his right hand lightly pressed against the vibranium armour.
When he missed, Eric didn't change his stance, but used his running strength to ram his head into Mandarin's arms, in a completely reckless manner.
As he saw that they were about to collide, Mandarin sneered and the ring on his right index finger lit up. A strong vibration ripple was generated from the ring, and it was able to pass through the vibranium armour and hit Eric directly.
Eric forced himself to endure the discomfort and swung his fist at Mandarin again.
Mandarin continued to do what he was doing, watching his fist approach until it was close to touching his skin, which was when he slightly deflected his head to avoid the punch.
However, unlike before, just as Mandarin dodged the punch, dozens of spikes suddenly burst up from Eric's fist, all of them sticking towards Mandarin's head.
"Hmph! Did you really think I'm stupid!" Marvel snorted coldly, as if he had been prepared for this, the ring on his right index finger, which was the focus of Eric's attention, glowed even more brighter than before as the magnetic field surged, making it difficult for the vibranium spikes to advance by half a margin!
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