The color of my tunic had changed to yellow? How so?

This somehow distracted me from taking immediate action against Felix, who was reaching out to grab.

"Not bad." He said to himself. "I don't hate the color. I wonder how you would look on me instead?"

He flapped me around himself, fitting me to his shoulders, in a somewhat crooked way.

"Felix Faust, the Supreme- no, the Prime Sorcerer!" He said as he took a ridiculous stance, intentioned to show his pride. "Just you wait Doctor Strange. I am coming for the will of Prime."

"But first, I need more power to surpass yours." He added.

As he did all this, I was getting ready to attack, but something change my mind. This guy was planning something against me, and he was supposing that he had completely taken my magic.

I wonder why he had come here in the first place.

"Ah, Lex Luthor. Your ambitions never ceases to amaze me." Felix blurted out. "But thanks to you, I will be getting a lot of power without a hassle. All those relics will be mine."

So, Felix had come to steal the relics from Lex, just as I was planning. Why not let him do all the work, and then prance on him immediately he had obtained the relics. That way, I would also obtain the Scroll of Dimensions easily.

I decided to play dormant enough to let Felix see his plan through, then I would execute.

"I wonder if Doctor Strange has managed to unblock his Chakra yet?" I thought to myself.

Felix leaned forward to look inside the building. I couldn't tell what was going on in his mind, but I didn't want to intrude his thoughts, not wanting to risk exposing that my magic was still present. I didn't want to distract him.

"Here I go." Felix said as he jumped through the hole, right when Lex was planning to leave.

Gravity pulled Lex down fast, but being a sorcerer, he slowed down his movements as soon as he neared the ground, hovering above the broken bed where Wonder Woman had once been kept captive.

"You weasel!" Lex said harshly as he turned around to see Felix Faust landing gently.

"Lex Luthor," Felix addressed, "I have come to honor our agreement."

"Have you now?" Lex said, raising an eyebrow. "Where is the crystal?"

"The Nthirium?" Felix contorted his facial expression. "I lost it to a certain Kryptonian."

"Then I have no use for you anymore." Lex said. "You failed to report back to me, and for that, I will not show mercy."

"You should have known better than to betray me." Lex cracked his knuckles.

"Betray you say?" Felix asked. "My life was in danger after the little heist at the Sanctum. Up to now, I haven't had any contact with my shadow assassins that I had sent to masquerade as the League, hoping that would worry the sorcerer."

"I lost a lot on that night, including my demons, yet you instantly resolved to recognizing it all as a betrayal." Felix added. "Did you stop to think about all those casualties?"

"The only casualty I see here is your broken neck." Lex said, laughing. "You failed to bring back the Nthirium. Moreover, you did not report back to me. I don't need any more insight as to what betrayal is and isn't."

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"Well then, if you do value loyalty to a pact that much, you should honor our agreement." Felix said, his face darkening. "Fulfill your end of the bargain, then we can settle the score."

"Hahaha! What do you take me for." Lex laughed. "Of course I am a man of my word."

Felix's brow relaxed for a bit.

"A deal is a deal, and I know that I promised you power, in exchange for your services." Lex continued. "But I am not a man who pays for incomplete services. And yours failed to meet the terms."

"But you earned something else." Lex added. "Your death! I don't take betrayals light."

"I guess I will have to pay myself then." Felix concluded. "Leash!"

Felix's smoky attack propelled towards Lex at a fast speed. But as soon as it neared the genius, he put on a sinister grin and the aura dissipated.

"What?" Felix was surprised. "It can't be."

"You naive sorcerer. Your magic can't do anything to me." Lex said. "Let's see how you fair against my new tech."

"MagiTech assemble!" Lex said as his clothing began to warp, disassembling and reassembling into a different pattern.

The end result of Lex's transformation was a heavyweight mechanism that encased his form. The suit he wore looked sleek, with well defined edges. It was colored black.

The chest area looked muscular, and there was a small opening at the center, almost as if it was the heart of the suit. The abdominal area showed a set of cleancut six packs that rivalled those of a heavyweight champion.

The limb areas showed stripes of white that seemed to travel towards the fingertips and the tips of the toes.

The suit came with a black cape that came last in the transformation, gently billowing as Lex took a stance.

"Hahahaha." Lex laughed at Felix's expression. Felix was surprised because he hadn't expected that Lex's magic suit had completed by now.

He thought that Lex still lacked a substantial amount of knowledge required to fully stabilize the magical energy and channel it using technology. The closest he had gotten to doing it was with Mirage, who was still just a prototype wielding some of Felix's anti-magic charms.

The Nthirium crystal they had been so obsessed with was the key component to stabilizing Lex's suit, by limiting magical energy, and magical energy limited the anti-magic energy, in some sort of symbiotic relationship.

Then using magnetism, the technology could break streams of either of these two energies from the amalgam energy, and channel them to create either magic and anti-magic.

From the looks of it, Lex had managed to achieve that with his suit, having dispelled Felix's attack. Which meant that he had come across another anti-magic artifact, although Lex had lied about only one existing.

"What do you think about my new suit?" Lex said. "It's still incomplete, but it does the trick."

"Mmmh... So you found another?" Felix said. "It seems that I underestimated you."

"Ha! It was stupid of you to think you could lie to me." Lex said. "I know about the Anti-Magic entity and the artifacts. Infact I only lack three more to complete my collection, and I am sensing that you are in possession of one."

"It is the cape then? The Cloak of Zurak?" Felix said, but his expression changed to that of desire. "You know nothing of anti-magic. If you did, that cape would be green, not black."

"Hahaha." This time, Felix laughed. "To think that a meager mortal could achieve what I couldn't. You found the Lost Relics. I'm proud of you, but your journey ends here."

"Enough!" Lex's voice reverberated as he shot a beam of energy through his projected palm.

Felix managed to dodge it right in time, cartwheeling to the side.

Meanwhile, I was cloaking Felix's back as I absorbed all that I had heard. It seemed that there was more to anti-magic than I knew.

There were apparently more anti-magic relics than I had anticipated. The Lost Relics?

The Cloak of Zurak? What did Zurak mean?

Lex had somehow too managed to harness the powers of anti-magic, but the beam he had short felt more magic-like, however. He perhaps wasn't using anti-magic in his attacks.

Lex didn't have to move inorder to perform his attacks. All he had to do was direct his palm as a sorcerer would, and then a beam of energy would project to the target.

On his first attack, the beam of energy was meant to obliterate Felix from existence, but it instead did that to the wall, opening a hole into the next room. But there were no signs of any shattered bricks or cement. It was as if the hole had always existed there.

Lex's next attack wasn't that lethal. He meant to capture Felix with a projected energy hand, while Felix tried to escape through the hole. Lex had advanced more than he had anticipated he would have, and in a short while too.

"I don't like fighting with rats!" Lex shouted as the hand smashed through the remainder of the wall. This time, there was wreckage. "Face me you coward."

As the hand reached for Felix, he managed to slip through the gap between the thumb and the pointer, showcasing a tremendous luck in his flexibility. The posture he endured as he escaped would make you contort in pain, even by just imagining it.

I chose to remain impartial to this battle, but all the while rooting for Felix, despite his odds. I was getting the feel that Lex was just beginning, but I couldn't help but wonder if his suit had it's limits, and what they were. It was technology magic after all.