Volume 9: Fate of Destiny Chapter 45: Turning My Remains into Fire
" ah!"
The tide has turned in Mephisto's throne room.
The weakness brought by Ciri's death had not yet been fully recovered, and Liana's death once again pierced the old devil's heart like a bone-cutting blade.
The fall of the Battle Master came at a very delicate time.
Mason was not able to agree on a time with the swordsman, but perhaps it was a blessing in disguise, as the blow she brought to Mephisto created a perfect opportunity for Mason to defeat the enemy.
Well, of course, it was Void Mason who dominated the battle at this time.
An evil madman who is more manic and vicious, more adapted to the current battlefield of fists and flesh, and very much enjoys this life-and-death battle.
He was well versed in the fighting philosophy of attacking you while you're weak, and when he saw the old devil who had been able to fight him to a draw or even suppress him just now, covering his chest and screaming, he immediately rushed forward.
With his whole body in light, he used a set of "Star Military Boxing" to beat Old Mo until his blood flew everywhere.
This is like a very classic BOSS battle design. After a certain combat mechanism is triggered, the BOSS that was originally completely invincible will enter a period of stiffness or weakness, and will be beaten up by the protagonist.
If you are lucky, you can even reach the kill line directly.
Of course, this is the real world and there is naturally no perfect counter-mechanism. Liana's use of death to weaken Mephisto did not last long.
After all, he was just a spokesperson and a subordinate. Lao Mo's soul connection with the great mentors would not come at the cost of himself being seriously injured.
pain!
But the pain is not yet unbearable.
So when the Void Mason pulled off the long hair that formed the classic devil horns on Old Mo's head, the old devil, whose head was bruised, recovered.
This guy must have used some evil magic.
In short, his aura suddenly became heavier, and he bared his teeth and blasted out terrifying energy to repel the Void Mason, and began to outline a rather complicated magic.
However, after Void Mason landed awkwardly on the ground, he looked at the old devil floating above his head with a very subtle look.
He reached out and grabbed the Ragnarok pistol at his waist, awakening the impatient Black Death Sword into his hand as a cold weapon. Unlike Mason who was averse to close combat, Void Mason seemed to prefer this kind of close combat.
"Divinity? You're using this thing against me? Are you dizzy from all the blows?"
Void Mason grinned with an evil expression. Since the other party was so generous as to expose the weakness that only he could capture, what else was there to say?
Just do it!
"puff"
The buzzing Black Death Sword pierced through the divine force field in front of Lao Mo. The greedy creature devoured the scorching hell divinity in front of it, and at the same time used the anti-divine characteristics to greatly increase Lao Mo's consumption to maintain this force field.
"You are consuming your own divine power that you use to store promotion to resist weakness? You are going to give up transcendence? Great! For a useless devil like you, such a goal is indeed too demanding.
Recognizing your own limits and giving up in time is the right choice.
I want to give you a thumbs up. "
Void Mason swung the Black Death Sword vigorously to pierce the force field, and at the same time attacked Old Mo's mind with vicious words, but the old devil did not respond at all, but speeded up the dark magic he was sketching in his hands to complete it.
This reaction made Void Mason's heart skip a beat.
Especially the magic model in Lao Mo's hand seemed to be related to mental power, which made him immediately aware of the danger, so he exploded again regardless of the consequences.
The power of the stars was transmitted through the Black Death Sword, which tore a gap in Lao Mo's divine force field while tearing and chopping. Then the black sword tip pierced fiercely into the old devil's waist and abdomen.
The moment the black blood gushed out, Mephisto, with an expressionless but very embarrassed face, cast the magic in his hand on Mason.
It did not act on his body which was protected by the Phoenix Force, but went straight into his mind.
"ah!"
Void Mason immediately felt that he was being "peeled off", just like the plastic workers tearing off the water stickers neatly.
The dark side attached to Mason's spiritual wound was swept up all at once, and then torn into pieces under the impetus of the mystery of the mind and driven back to the place where it was born.
"Idiot! I told you so!"
The old devil kicked Mason in the chest, whose strength was rapidly weakening. He wasted no time in rolling up huge waves in the river of lava behind the throne of the King of Hell.
In this outburst of power and majesty, he said with regret:
"I have a way to help you completely occupy Mason's heart, but you are already crazy, poor lunatic, with this pathetic brain of yours that is filled with power but has no place to store wisdom, just wait to be toyed to death by Mason.
I don't have time to play tricks like this with you guys anymore."
Mason fell to the ground and blinked his eyes to recover. He could still hear the remaining roar of the Void Mason echoing in his heart, but the captain felt very comfortable to regain control of his body.
He got up, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and shouted to Mephisto who was opening the passage to the underground labyrinth:
"Your magic is great, can you teach me? This way I can avoid the trouble of the Mason family preparing that damn demon-repelling formation every time."
"Why are you asking him?"
The old hat that had turned into a headband and was fixed on Mason's forehead suddenly said calmly:
"I have memorized the ritual and the mana model. I will be able to restore it after some research. Now, stop him!"
"Bang"
With a loud bang, the entire lava river broke apart, opening a crack leading to the bottom of the mountain. Mason flew over and took a look, just in time to see Gray Bat and his Mason family rushing out of the maze.
Not all of them are here.
It seems that even with Johnny Skull's cheating guidance, many people are still trapped in the dangerous maze.
But they have already reached the platform where the World Gate itself is located.
The white gate with gold edges, built with two sets of Infinity Gems, three Cosmic Cubes and countless precious materials, stands in a ceremonial stone ring composed of suspended stones.
That is the source of all world gate projections, the foundation of the Star Society, the seal of the plane of death, the chain of God, and the ultimate treasure of Mephisto.
"Assholes! Keep your paws away from my baby!"
Lao Mo roared and controlled the magma to fall down. The jeweler quickly threw out six disposable infinite gems to annihilate it, forming a shield to protect everyone.
Mason also knew that it was a critical moment. He grabbed the Black Death Sword in his left hand, drew out the Holy Sword of the Lady of the Lake with his right hand, jumped up, and stabbed at the old devil under the escort of the chirping of wild phoenixes.
Now it's just a matter of delaying!
The final moment of decisive battle is at hand.
Open that door and everything will be over.
"Blow it out!"
Mephisto has now completely lost the leisure to play "games" with Mason. He has fully realized the truth that Mason Cooper is a troublemaker, and no longer talks about soaking Mason in evil and turning him into his own Knight of Disaster.
He now had only one idea.
Get this guy out of here right now!
Let him roll as far as he can!
So he gave an order to his last great mentor, which was the last trump card he prepared to prevent such a situation from happening.
Although Mason is protected by the strange powers that can resist the effectiveness of the soul contract, it would be difficult to really kill him even if his candle was extinguished, but Lao Mo is still very confident in his contract.
Even if it can't kill Mason, it will be enough to make this bastard extremely weak for a short period of time.
This damn Phoenix power is too weak!
No matter how many times he tore his body apart, the infinite resurrection flame would always restore Mason to his original state in the blink of an eye. Old Mo was really afraid that this damn bastard would take out a bottle of million star potion again...
Damn it!
He really took it out! How shameless!
"Don't worry, it's not a million stars, just your average superhuman medicine."
Mason unscrewed the lid and poured the Superman potion into his mouth, then put the reusable Infinity Glove given by the jeweler on his left hand.
At this point, he didn't care about the subtle use of his strength, and activated all of his one-time infinite gems at once, causing Mephisto, who was rushing towards the maze below, to crash into an invisible space barrier with a bang.
It was like a transparent mirror lying across the center of the stone ring between the throne room and the end of the large maze below, allowing the old devil to clearly see the actions of the "door-opening team" but unable to effectively obstruct them. He remembered scratching his ears and cheeks, no longer having the slightest demeanor of the King of Hell, and waving his claws to hammer the space barrier like the savage demon he despised the most.
Behind him, there is a flea-like Phoenix Apostle Mason, who keeps harassing him with two swords.
This is the ultimate torture.
"quick!"
The old devil roared in anger:
"I command you! Shazam! I command you! Put out that candle!"
"What are you yelling about? I'm working on it. If you have any opinions, come and do it yourself."
Old Shazam responded rudely.
Although his body and mind were controlled by the old devil, he still had some power to complain.
At this time, the upper level of the Star Castle was in chaos. The controlled old Shazam kept using lightning attacks mixed with the divinity of hell to block his Zack and Franklin.
The latter two guarded the road leading to the Shadow Land and did not fight back but just blocked it.
The mysterious girl sent by Damian, Raven, was preparing a spell that looked very powerful in the back.
"No, get out of here! You rebellious dogs!"
Through the eyes of old Shazam, Mephisto also saw the members of Team K who were hindering his servants. He was so angry that he activated the soul contracts of these people again.
Although this kind of action of directly interfering with the actions of lower-level officials without going through the lower-level officials will consume more energy...
But again, at this point, your life is almost over! Don’t think about whether it’s consuming or not!
The supreme soul shock immediately made Zha Kang and Franklin stand still, unable to move. Then they were hit by Shazam's hell lightning and their bodies crashed into the wall. The road leading to the shadow land opened in front of them.
But there is still one person who has not been controlled!
Raven, the mysterious girl recruited by Damian himself into the K team, always has four red lights flashing under the hood that covers her face. That is her hideous appearance when she enters the "demonization".
When he saw the iconic four-eyed form, Lao Mo's heart suddenly skipped a beat.
not good!
But it was too late for him to retract the soul shock he had inflicted on Riven. The next moment, an illusion of a dimensional demon with four eyes, white hair, and two feet on its head crashed into the old devil's heart and roared at him:
"Who gave you the guts to put your dirty claws on my pure daughter? Get out!"
"Bang"
The old Mexican's nose started bleeding instantly after being hit.
It is obvious that the person opposite is a dimensional demon who is no weaker than him. He has not tried hard to transcend. He has been the only one in the world since he was born. He is much better than Mephisto, the miserable guy.
“Damn it!”
The old devil was extremely angry. With a distorted expression, he turned back and shouted at Mason:
"You even managed to win over Sangong? How did you do that? That guy ran away before the attack started!"
"I didn't rope him in, it was really just an accident."
Mason innocently wielded the sword of the Lady of the Lake and stabbed the old devil. He said:
"If you insist on asking, I can only tell you that this is the power of love. I swear, Riven is really not in my plan, and I don't have the courage to plot against the daughter of the Three Palaces.
After all, the demon god known for his brute force and violent temper would not be as crazy as you and play games with me..."
The girl Raven's magic was finally completed. Without any interference from Mephisto, she turned into a dark tentacle and rolled up old Shazam in the air. Then she flashed to the front, waved her fingers, grasped a crimson blade and stabbed it into the old wizard's heart.
"Don't!"
Zha Kang, who was intimidated to the point of being unable to move, shouted with difficulty:
"He hasn't taken his medicine yet!"
"Um?"
Riven stopped suddenly, letting the blade stop in front of the old wizard.
But the next moment, old Shazam gritted his teeth, grabbed Riven's wrist, and pulled it forward hard under the stare of the mysterious girl's four wide eyes.
"puff"
Blood splattered everywhere.
The power from the demon pierced his heart.
"I don't need that bottle of pills, not in the first place, never, everything I want is right here, in front of me, and I see it."
It’s like old Shazam can’t feel any pain.
He loosened his bloody hands from Riven's magic restraints, and with his white beard fluttering, he turned his head to look at the sky outside the castle window.
The bright sky, without a single cloud and with the sun shining brightly, was just like the sky he had looked up at countless times in his memory that spanned nearly ten thousand years.
"I once promised the gods that I would use their power to protect the world and eliminate all evil. I once tired of this responsibility, and I also chose my successor.
I thought I made a mistake at the beginning of my life, and that mistake has constrained me for the rest of my life."
The old wizard's breath was getting weaker and weaker, but the light in his eyes was getting brighter and brighter.
"Until the impact came... My world did not perish in the impact. In fact, it still existed. It was just that the gods I believed in gave it to the Council.
They surrendered and even asked me to do the same. All that humiliation made me regain my lost original intention.
As an old man, I am different from all of you. My purpose in joining the Star Society has always been very clear, which is to reverse this era where good and evil are reversed.
But the more I saw, the more desperate I became.
I thought I couldn’t do it anymore.”
Death is covering, it has arrived.
The world in front of old Shazam's eyes became blurred, as if he had returned to that afternoon nine thousand years ago when he witnessed the murder of his parents on the land of Canaan and knelt sincerely before the statues of the gods in his sackcloth stained with blood.
"What is your wish?"
"Protect the world!"
"What is your goal?"
"Eliminate the evil!"
The echo of the question and answer traveled through the vast ocean of time and was transmitted from the mouth of the red-eyed shepherd boy to the ears of old Shazam.
"Oh, I am honored to play such an important role in such a great cause. Please tell Mason that I thank him for giving me the opportunity.
The forerunners have already lit the first fire to fight against the night, so let me, an old man, become the last flame, tearing the curtain of darkness and letting the light of dawn shine.
I will die, and I will live forever.
bring it on.
Shout it out..."
His body burned under Zhakang's gaze, the filthy power belonging to Mephisto was stripped back into hell, while the power belonging to the gods pulsed into flickering light, like a power waiting for the next young man who vowed to save the world to take it.
At the same time, on the Scorched Plains of Hell, among the heroes who were surrounded, Shazam of the Gotham world suddenly raised his head, and he seemed to hear the call of the old man with white beard.
At this moment, the boy also recalled what the old man had said to him in the Rock of Eternity at the end of the long-ended World War.
Words that are difficult to understand, obscure, but sound very sad.
oh.
That turned out to be his last words...
Long before all this happened, he had made the final preparations.
"Shout it out."
The old wizard's call brought tears to the boy's bloodstained face.
He knew what he was waiting for, so when another wave of hellish creatures swept in and the battle line was about to collapse, Shazam in red and white robes dragged his exhausted body up from the mud and ashes.
He clenched his fist and roared to the sky:
"Shazam!!!"
"boom"
The golden waterfall turned into lightning, shattering the space from the Star Castle and falling onto the battlefield. It not only enhanced Shazam's divine power, but also generously bestowed it on every warrior around him who was still resisting.
This is the last gift left to the world by an old man who is over 9,000 years old and is tired of living.
That flame...
Burn!
Until this endless darkness is burned out.
