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Chapter 259 How to Destroy the Earth

Chapter 259 How to Destroy the Earth

How to destroy the Earth?

Too many villains have tried to answer this question. Galactus, the Celestials, Dark Phoenix, and the Symbiote all have their own methods. Some of them have the ability to destroy Earth directly, while others need time to help them. But they have almost all failed. And this is just a conspiracy against ordinary Earth.

The Earth in this cancerous universe is clearly much harder to destroy; more accurately, it can hardly be called Earth anymore.

The multi-horned beings have burrowed into the depths of the Earth, usurping its territory and corrupting the entire dimension from the center of this Marvel Universe. In other words, the first battle between the cancerous universe and the normal universe is also the final battle.

Rune knew very well that the reason they were able to win this war was truly thanks to the Beyonders. It was they who killed Galactus in this universe. Galactus in this universe had been personally transformed into a war machine by the Multihorns, and its power even surpassed that of the Celestials in the 616 main universe.

In the original comic, the one who destroyed the cancerous Earth and even the entire cancerous universe was Death of the 616 main universe. However, now that we are in the midst of a secret war, Death from any universe has disappeared. It is almost impossible to recreate the feat of annihilating the entire cancerous universe as in the original work. But Rune happens to know a few beings who can represent Death, and one of them happens to be someone he can summon.

"Orochi, please go and call Hela over," Rune instructed Orochi, ignoring the god-king's reaction, and turned to leave. He wasn't worried about Hela not coming; the various settings in this universe were more like those in comics. Although Hela was quite powerful, with Orochi around, she couldn't cause any trouble.

Not to mention, Hela is helping Rune now, which is helping herself. Although she rules Niflheim and the Underworld, these two spaces absolutely cannot survive the collision of two universes.

Rune's next target was the evil spirit rider. He approached Johnny and said, "To destroy this corrupted dimension, I need to negotiate with that guy you hate so much, so—can I borrow your body?"

Rune was referring to Mephisto—Johnny had made a contract with Mephisto to save his father's life from cancer, selling his soul in exchange for his father's recovery. However, Mephisto played a trick; the contract only mentioned curing Johnny's father, without specifying how many more years his father could live!

So Johnny's father soon died in an accident, and Johnny was fully aware that he had been tricked by Mephisto. However, he was powerless to resist and was implanted with the Spirit of Vengeance, becoming Ghost Rider. Of course, Mephisto did not expect that this action would lead to Johnny's repeated betrayals of him in the future, and that the damage this Ghost Rider caused him would far exceed his imagination.

Currently, thanks to the power of the contract, Rune can easily find this hell lord who enjoys watching others suffer through Johnny.

Johnny looked Rune up and down, then nodded: "Remember to rip him off big time."

Rune nodded and began casting a spell. Behind him, Fire Lord, who was performing a ritual, rolled his eyes in a rare move and turned away from Rune.

This Death Titan hated Mephisto. This Lord of Hell stole souls through contracts and imprisoned them in Hell to enhance his own power, as well as trying to make people believe that he was the embodiment of Death, which aroused Death's displeasure. Death's displeasure towards him was equivalent to Firelord's displeasure towards him. So when Mephisto tried to win Thanos over and called him the King of the Universe, Thanos not only disdained him, but even destroyed the statue that Mephisto made for him.

When Rune slapped Johnny on the head, Johnny felt a jolt, and then he saw another version of himself. He quickly realized that his soul had left his body, and Rune had left Johnny's physical body and casually touched the contract engraved on Johnny's soul.

The sulfurous fumes began to fill the air, and a slick, nauseating voice came from all directions: "Ah, who's disturbing my slumber—my old rival and subordinate, and a—new friend?"

The smoke swirled spontaneously, forming a vortex from which emerged a figure entirely crimson. In Rune's eyes, the figure wore only trousers and a cloak, with a rather high hairline and red hair twisted into bull horns. Yes, no doubt about it, those horns were his disguise as Satan.

In Rune's eyes, this glib-tongued demon was far less impressive than Lucifer next door.

"Mephisto, you know what I want you to do," Rune said coldly. Mephisto was a notorious liar; his greatest strength wasn't his magic, but his smooth talk.

In the Fear Origin event, it was Mephisto who persuaded the Serpent to emerge from the mountains. As a result, Cyttorak, who already had few followers, lost the Juggernaut, and the other Dreadlords were greatly weakened. Mephisto also successfully seized the title of Satan.

"Oh, of course I know what you're up to," Mephisto grinned. "But why should I help you? Right now, I can harvest countless souls without doing anything. My God, I can't even imagine what a fortune that will be! And how strong will I become with your souls?" Theoretically, what Mephisto said was true, but the problem was that Rune knew he was just using this as a pretext. Mephisto was best at only telling half the story. After harvesting souls, he would indeed become stronger for a short time, but—the destruction of Earth was only the beginning of the destruction of the entire universe. As a subordinate dimension of the universe, Hell would naturally be destroyed as well. At that time, it would be uncertain how much power Mephisto could retain, let alone become stronger.

Moreover, this is not the most fundamental issue. In the end, only one Battle Realm will remain in the multiverse, but there is more than one Mephisto. So who will become the ruler of the Battle Realm Hell? This will probably be decided through a fierce battle.

In terms of pure power, Mephisto in the 616 main universe is definitely stronger, and the hope that the Mephisto in front of Rune can kill countless versions of himself and win this battle can be described as extremely slim.

Therefore, Rune was not fooled by Mephisto's words, but continued to watch Mephisto laugh until he could no longer laugh.

"Laugh, why don't you keep laughing?" Rune sneered.

Mephisto could only manage a forced smile. Damn it, this kid seems to know his secrets. In reality, how could Mephisto not know his dire situation? He just wanted to take advantage of the situation and was waiting for someone to beg him!