Marvel Magic Case Files

Chapter 255 The Devil's Heart is Like a Needle at the Bottom of the Sea (Second Update)

"Humans are always selfish and self-serving. I have never seen any race in the universe as eager to scheme and fight as humans. The Ancient One thought that by letting humanity develop freely, they would achieve a high level of civilization. I can only say that this idea is too naive. Just like in the past, Camelot perished from within, and humanity will also perish from within. It's just that this time scale seems a bit longer when applied to races. Earth has always been very lucky. The position of the Sorcerer Supreme has always belonged to Earth, but this protection has also prevented humanity from ever growing up and from truly understanding what a threat is. Even if humanity develops to a high level, its soul will always remain immature."

Gunshots rang out behind Salomon, several times even drowning out the airbus's alarm. Salomon did not turn around, for the demonic figure in front of him was still talking animatedly.

He would never turn his back on the enemy.

"In fact, they found me first. Although it was only a small group, I was still somewhat surprised that these ordinary people could find a way to contact me from the vast sea of ​​legends. Perhaps I had been expecting this to happen since the day I led Faust on his tour of Hell, but I didn't expect it to happen so quickly. The decisiveness with which humans betray their own kind is truly astonishing." The old devil raised his eyebrows. "Of course, we have different names for this kind of thing. You may find this behavior very offensive, but everything that comes into existence must naturally be destroyed—society, race, even the entire world. You call it destruction, crime, or simply evil. This is my essential attribute, the end point of all things, the law of natural development."

The sorcerer made a subtle gesture, summoning a gentle breeze that blew the mist behind him towards him. The mist blurred the figures of the sorcerer and the homunculus. The homunculus immediately turned and ran into the cabin, while Salomon remained to draw the devil's attention. The homunculus was to protect the boy, but if the devil succeeded in his attempt, the homunculus would be responsible for retrieving the boy or killing him—if the boy was taken, Salomon would have to kill the devil's avatar here, but he wasn't confident he could do so, as the devil's magical skill far surpassed his own.

"Hmm." The old devil nodded with satisfaction. "Nick Fury, I think you'd better not fire. My servants have already taken control of your little plane. Oh, you're quite an interesting person. You have lofty ideals, even willing to dirty your hands for them. You believe you're fighting for justice, yet you've committed countless crimes. You have a normal sense of good and evil, but you feel no regret for your evil deeds, nor joy for your good ones. You're an extremely contradictory person. I look forward to seeing how you behave in hell after you die."

"I know I'm not going to heaven, but I'm not necessarily going to hell either." Nick Fury emerged from behind the bunker, glancing at the airbus still emitting occasional gunshots and screams. Due to his perspective, he was aware of the androids' actions, and for cover, he deliberately said something different. "There's one thing you've miscalculated, Demon Lord. It seems you're not as clever as you think. Every member of the action team on the plane is a battle-hardened agent. While I don't know who your henchmen are, I believe I have more agents loyal to me than your lackeys. And Ghost Rider is still on your plane; you can't do anything about it."

"They lack resolve." The demon incarnate shook his head. "They lack the resolve to sacrifice others, Nick Fury. They are not you. As for Johnny Blaze, I know him very well. He is weak at heart. There is a reason I chose him to be Ghost Rider. Even if he can become Ghost Rider now, as long as my minions capture that boy, your agents and Ghost Rider will yield."

Two figures plummeted from the sky, landing heavily beside Salomon. Nick Fury deliberately kept his distance from the witches to avoid being implicated and angered by them—he couldn't guarantee that the witches hadn't discovered his surveillance.

"The demons who made pacts with the witches have had their attention diverted by Lilith, so the witches can't summon them now." The demon avatar laughed and waved both hands. "I might surrender, but I sincerely suggest you seriously consider my proposal."

The Demon's incarnation was so confident that when the androids tossed several heads out of the mist, its expression instantly turned grim. Among those heads were tattooed monks and stunt team members wearing helmets and masks. Nick Fury stared at the heads thoughtfully. The androids' recklessness was the Demon's greatest weakness in all its schemes. The androids would raise their blades against anyone who dared to attack her, regardless of whether they were her servants; she brought only slaughter to them.

"I made the same mistake as my true self." The demonic avatar's form gradually thinned, like dissipating vapor. "My true self was too stingy with its avatars, and I'm too stingy with my servants. But the winter solstice hasn't arrived yet; we still have time to fight. Don't waste your time; no one can catch me..."

But just as the demon avatar was about to leave, his figure suddenly froze, because his spellcasting process had been interrupted. It wasn't Salomon who intervened, nor was it Kamar-Taj; the witch didn't even make any other move. The demon avatar's spellcasting was interrupted by himself.

"It seems that even as an incarnation, I have a clear understanding of myself." A burst of laughter came from behind the demon incarnation. "Of course I will be the winner, I will always be the winner." With the laughter, magic gathered behind the demon incarnation.

"For this grand enough blood sacrifice, I'm even willing to scheme against my own avatar. My dear Salomon, why are you so surprised? Have you forgotten for whom those mercenaries and servants died? It was me, the Devil of Negation. As for whether it's an avatar or the real thing, what difference does it make?"

"My avatar may not realize that not everyone who wants to contact me can contact him. I never entrust the same authority to the same avatar. My avatar never knows that he is just my salesman on earth, not my representative. Of course, I will never tell him this. What I admire most is that my avatar works hard to obtain channels for advancement... Ah, I am really evil. You human capitalists are really good at your methods."

A massive, deep red door appeared behind the demon avatar. This door rapidly expanded, crushing broken trees and still-burning flames, quickly growing as tall as a conifer. The moment it formed, it sucked the stiff demon avatar inside. Salomon could even see the astonished expression on the demon avatar's face; the laughter emanated from within the door, and the newly appeared deep red magic continued to surge into it. But as this gate to hell opened, orange-red sparks flashed around the aerial bus, and circular portals opened simultaneously. Led by Kasirius, the Kamar-Taj sorcerers emerged from the portals—each sorcerer holding a magical artifact, seemingly ready for battle. When the sorcerers appeared, Salomon's heart, which had sank because of the appearance of the gate to hell, immediately relaxed considerably.

"The taste of the human world." Mephisto closed his eyes, taking a deep breath, his blood-red face revealing his ecstasy. "It's been countless years since I last breathed this fresh air. No matter how much I protect the environment in Hell, the air quality is still terrible." He was completely unconcerned about the sudden appearance of numerous Kamar-Taj sorcerers. "The Ancient One is truly biased. She's the Sorcerer Supreme of this dimension, yet she's always only concerned with her own little garden. Even if she stops me, what can she really do? When she abandons other civilizations to stop me on Earth, I never lose out."

"What do you want, Mephisto?" Cassirios stood in front of Salomon, questioning the demon, "You've already signed a contract with the Venerable One, do you want to go back on your word now?"

"Go back on your word? You're defaming my reputation as a demon!" Mephisto's expression was one of profound insult. "Everything I did was within the bounds of the contract, which only addressed the possibility of an avatar rebelling! The contract didn't state that humans cannot sacrifice themselves to summon my true form!"

The demon bowed slightly, gesturing for the arcane mages to look at the ever-expanding Gates of Hell behind him. Through the grotesque limbs emerging from these gates, anyone could see the many eager monsters lurking within. "Although the Ancient One restricted the other arcane mages' actions beforehand, preventing my avatar from weakening your power," Mephisto straightened up, "two consecutive blood sacrifices were more than enough for me to summon some help from Hell, and because of the contract, she couldn't intervene. This time, I've won, Salomon Damonette. My previous suggestion was effective; you can reconsider."

This summoning was something Salomon couldn't stop. The third-circle spell Dimensional Anchor could only restrict access to living beings, and the fourth-circle spell "Wall of Goodness," with an area of ​​only 10 square feet, couldn't completely block this massive gate to hell. Only the eighth-circle spell Dimensional Lock could stop Mephisto, which Salomon couldn't cast at the moment. As for the Mirror Dimension, it couldn't swallow this gate to hell either.

So he tried to attack Mephisto's true form directly, which couldn't escape.

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