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"Withdraw!" the Holy Lord immediately chimed in. The talisman was important, but staying alive was even more important. Moreover, the completely unclear situation made the Holy Lord wonder if the Human Alliance had learned bad habits from him and was now resorting to breaking promises and abandoning agreements.

The only one who was still a bit undecided was Ximu. He really wanted to return to the main universe. Flying in the Hell Dimension wasn't very enjoyable; there were enemies everywhere. If he flew too far, it might become a weak point.

Outside the Reverse Eight Trigrams Formation, Mephisto sensed the wavering of the eight demons and immediately intensified his attacks. At the same time, various blasphemous words were constantly sent into the Reverse Eight Trigrams Formation in an attempt to turn one of them against his will.

It doesn't even need to be completely successful. As long as one demon lets it slip halfway through, Mephisto can eliminate this major threat that the Human Alliance planted in Hell in one fell swoop!

Compared to this, Dracula's original plan is nothing. Let alone Dracula, what about Thanos?

No one really thinks that Mephisto, a ruler of hell, would wholeheartedly consider the interests of his allies after forming an alliance. It's already quite generous of him not to betray them. Besides, he even left some power for Dracula to use as a stabilizer.

Clang~

A sound like a vibrating zither string echoed around the inverted Bagua formation, while incredibly sharp threads woven from hellfire continuously plucked back and forth above the formation.

Each touch causes the inverted Bagua formation to vibrate violently.

"Let's retreat..." Ximu said unwillingly.

"Wait!" Zhou Lan suddenly spoke up. He had received some fragmented information and turned to look at Bo Gang. "Is it still edible?!"

"Burp~" Bo Gang let out a burp, picked at his teeth, and thought, "After fighting Mephisto for so long, you're asking me if I can still eat? I'm almost bursting!"

Many of Mephisto's attacks ended up in Pogan's stomach. The energy there was difficult to digest and came in large quantities, making it a real challenge!

"It's not about you eating him! It's about the surrounding energy and the thick dimensional walls. We need to create a singularity that can be detected from other universes!" Zhou Lan explained quickly.

"You've made contact?" the Holy Lord asked rhetorically, his voice booming. "Are you sure it's not a trap or an illusion?"

“The evacuation would have required breaking his blockade anyway, and it could have been done easily, it just would have required a slightly larger movement.” Zhou Lan said to Bo Gang, knowing that no matter what she said, it would still be Bo Gang’s job, as no one else had her ability.

"Hopefully this isn't just a facade, otherwise future collaborations won't be so easy!"

The sound emanated from Bo Gang's massive body, deep and resonant, extremely heavy.

Devouring the heavens and the earth!

With a sudden burst of strength, squeezing the contents of his stomach, Bo Gang opened his mouth wide again.

A huge vortex began to rotate around the inverted Bagua formation, and the surrounding energy flowed into it like water.

Mephisto took a step back to avoid a direct confrontation. He had seen this move by Bogang many times before, and the more frequently the move was used, the more it meant that Bogang and the others had run out of options.

Mephisto didn't expect that this time, the devouring of the heavens and the earth would have an extra finishing step compared to the previous ones. Po seized the opportunity and took a bite out of the dimensional barrier.

As several teeth shattered, they also significantly thinned the barrier in the area where the inverted Bagua formation was located.

After doing all this, Bo Gang lay down horizontally in the inverted Bagua formation. For the first time, she felt like she was going to be stuffed to death.

west Mu was very proactive. He didn't quite understand what Zhou Lan meant, so he simply treated it as an evacuation. If something else happened later, he could just adapt to the situation.

Seeing that the inverted Bagua formation had escaped as expected, Mephisto temporarily put aside the change and prepared to intercept it.

In the solar system, after Bo Gang completed his mission, Artoria opened her eyes, her right hand slowly gripping the hilt of her sword, and colorful light, formed by the fusion of rules and power, emanated from the blade.

Gather strength! Accumulate momentum!

The light surrounding Artoria grew brighter and brighter, stretching out a ribbon of light across the universe, drifting without wind.

"This war is not a war that betrays humanity!"

Gahris – Admit it!

The Sword of Victory flashed, its momentum growing even stronger.

"This battle is not a battle against the elves!"

Lanlost spat out a piece of stone from his mouth. "Admit it!"

"This battle is for honor!"

Gawain, his expression serious, clad in full armor, fixed his adoring gaze on Artoria. "Admit it!"

As the sound continued, Artoria seemed to merge with the Excalibur, and the imagined starlight made anyone who got close feel a stinging pain on their skin, which was unbearable.

"ex-calibur!!!"

A massive beam of light erupted as Artoria moved, slamming directly into the dimensional barrier.

The voice of the Excalibur, proclaiming victory, pierced the barrier between worlds and dimensions even before the power itself reached Mephisto and the others.

Ximu braked suddenly, stopping in mid-air, and then saw a golden torrent shoot out from the area that had been thinned by the waves.

This torrent appeared somewhat insignificant in the face of the colossal Mephisto, yet it was incredibly captivating, and the omnipresent power of hell seemed to be sliced ​​apart by this light.

Claws of Corruption!

Mephisto stretched out his right hand, and with the full support of the Hellish consciousness, a giant hand exuding a bloody aura and burning with hellfire directly grasped the golden river, then squeezed it violently.

The creaking sounds of the battle echoed through the sky. After a while, the giant claw and the long river vanished into thin air.

Mephisto was furious. He was the only one who ever caused trouble in other worlds, and this was the first time someone had directly confronted him and provoked him!

However, upon seeing the person behind the empty hole, Mephisto's anger vanished instantly.

Artoria, Merlin, Blaze, Olaf, Jax, Sun Wukong—one legend after another stared at Mephisto.

That's fine, it's just that there are more legends. Mephisto isn't afraid of anything in his home in Hell.

But above these people was a scroll of history full of charm, which immediately suppressed Mephisto's anger.

For the Heavenly Emperor, the Book of History was almost equivalent to the consciousness of hell. Mephisto, putting himself in others' shoes, would never lend out something of that caliber so easily.

Therefore! The Heavenly Emperor is very likely hiding within some causal thread in the surrounding area!

Mephisto sensed it, but found nothing.

Furthermore, with the Heavenly Emperor leading the team and bringing together a group of legends, it looks like they're serious about this!

In other words... he became the one who stood out and was used as a warning to others!

Mephisto felt increasingly uneasy. Thanos's act of hiding himself now seemed to him like a conspiracy.

He deliberately gave up his position to show off, and while Thanos was talking about it, Dracula was still interfering.

I'm everywhere! Who else should you hit if not me?

Mephisto snapped to attention, as if he had grasped the true nature of the world, and immediately withdrew all his remaining power and fled!

Artoria was stunned; she hadn't expected intimidation tactics to be so effective.

In reality, only she and Merlin are true legends in the team; the rest are just simulations created using the technology of the Heavenly Court's network. The Book of Time that they borrowed above their heads was to prevent Mephisto from discovering this fact.

Originally, the intention was simply to put some pressure on Mephisto, draw away some of Dracula's defensive forces, and, as agreed, create space for the eight demons to escape.

As it turns out, this is an unexpected bonus. Mephisto has done far more than Artoria imagined, even extracting the hellish power that Dracula used to construct the special space.

He also conveniently disconnected several interfaces that were constantly spreading hellish power.

Perhaps, in Mephisto's view, even if it's fake and he's scared away, it's better than if it's real and he ends up taking the blame for Thanos and Dracula.

The former only loses face, while the latter not only loses face more, but may also suffer significant losses in substance.

In the Harry Potter world, Leona crouched outside the Blood Sea space created by Dracula. Merlin had told her that the defenses here might suddenly become weak, giving her the opportunity to strike.

Leona was nervous about this for a long time, afraid that if the emptiness was just a little bit, it would really be just a little bit, and if the time was any shorter, she might accidentally miss it.

However… there’s no need to think about that now.

The sea of ​​blood in front of Leona fell downwards like rain, and the originally stable space around her collapsed because the power of hell was suddenly sucked away.

Caught off guard, Dracula had neither the means nor the time to solve the problem immediately. He could only shrink his core into a sphere and let the other, less important parts go wherever they wanted.

Leona unleashed the power stored along the timeline, and countless phantoms of power from other points in time converged on Leona in the present.

Stimulated by these forces, both the Golden Aegis and the Zenith Blade, in their recovery phase, displayed their projections.

Leona pulled out Avalon and flung it in the air, drawing all its power into it and simultaneously unleashing a surge of timelines.

Immediately afterwards, using the bridge as a sword, Leona pointed it at Dracula's blood orb.

Solar flare!

Light from all directions pierced into the blood sphere, turning this rather strong sphere into a hedgehog, covered in golden quills.

"burst!"

Like Leona's hand, the solar flare erupted completely, its power impacting the entire blood sphere from the inside out.

The next second, countless blood blossoms bloomed in this area, and Dracula's tortoise shell was completely shattered.

Leona instantly entered, and as Merlin had guessed, there wasn't a single real thing inside.

Dracula and those phantoms of Dumbledore disappeared together.

It's a pity we didn't find Dumbledore, but that was something Merlin and the others had already expected.

This time, Leona's actions were solely aimed at destroying this area.

The spacetime tremors caused by the explosion and destruction flowed upstream along a hidden causal line to find the true master of the sea of ​​blood.

Merlin stood before the book of history, his hands behind his back.

The purpose of borrowing this item is twofold: first, to use its reputation to intimidate Mephisto; and second, to directly observe and trace the cause-and-effect relationship to find the true location of Dumbledore.

In the annals of history, a pale red line meanders and spirals, then suddenly seems to hit a wall, splitting into multiple branches that spread in other directions.

Merlin was selecting every possible target, which was no small task.

After all, everything is interconnected; those who have more contact have deeper connections, while those who have less contact have fewer connections.

Only the Heavenly Emperor could clearly discern the difference between these two figures; Merlin was still somewhat lacking.

Until Merlin saw someone: Karma!

All legends possess a limited power of causal cleansing; some nonexistent causal relationships will not entangle them, such as hearing about something. This level of causal relationship is ineffective for legends.

In other words, only after truly engaging with the event will a clear cause-and-effect relationship emerge.

Karma was not involved in this event from beginning to end; to be precise, Karma had been out of this universe for quite some time.

She transformed into Loki's appearance and followed Stark to another universe.

"I understand, I was wondering where you hid them..." Merlin murmured to himself, gazing into the distance.

That's indeed a very difficult place to reach; it's another Marvel world.

As for how they got there, it's highly likely that Stark and his crew from another world borrowed the Infinity Stones and returned to their own world, but forgot their coordinates.