Battles on All Fronts

Led by the Supreme Machine, everyone launched a spirited counterattack. The demons’ morale plummeted, and unable to defeat the Supreme Machine, they retreated again and again.

The battle on this front was no longer a problem. The key now lay in those god-level battles.

As if Cosmic Energy were free, Adam continuously unleashed Shockwaves at Gabriel. Gabriel dodged in a miserable flurry and shouted, "Adam, I know you. Why do you insist on following the Blood God? You’re a Demon King of Hell."

"So what? Can’t a Demon King of Earth turn over a new leaf and worship God?"

Adam shrugged and said, "Come to think of it, isn’t that what Heaven has always wanted? Heaven should be supporting me."

Gabriel snapped, "That man is not God."

"How do you know he isn’t?"

Adam sneered. "He has presented proof that he is God. What about you? Do you have proof that he isn’t?"

Gabriel retorted, "God has not reincarnated. He has always been alive. I can sense Him."

"Does God being alive conflict with a fragment of His Soul Stone reincarnating?"

Adam said, "Everything the Blood God has done fully meets God’s standards. You should know how many times he has protected Earth and the universe."

Gabriel could not refute him and could only shout, "He’s talking nonsense."

"He isn’t talking nonsense. You simply refuse to admit it. Over the years, haven’t you made enough mistakes?"

Putting on the air of a priest, Adam said, "Gabriel, kneel before the Heavenly Father and admit your mistakes to Him. The Heavenly Father will forgive you."

Gabriel froze, then shouted, "Shut up! He is not God! Besides, I have done nothing wrong. Everything I have done was for God, for Heaven."

"No, you only did it for yourself."

Adam shook his head pretentiously. Then he raised his greatsword and slashed, drawing an enormous amount of Cosmic Energy toward Gabriel. Gabriel could not withstand it and was sent flying like a meteor.

Before Gabriel could recover, Adam suddenly appeared beside her. Smiling faintly, he drove a fist viciously into her abdomen. She screamed and was blasted into the ground, creating a massive crater hundreds of meters wide.

"Gabriel, your holy light seems a little weak?"

Standing above the crater, Adam said calmly, "Has your heart begun to waver?"

Gabriel gave a bitter smile. "How could it not? Only God can use the Spear of God. Adam, is the Blood God truly God reincarnated?"

"How would I know? All I know is…"

Adam suddenly turned and hurled his greatsword fiercely into the sky. With a sonic boom, the sword instantly pierced the body of a transparent Gabriel.

Disbelief appeared on Transparent Gabriel’s face before she rapidly dissolved into motes of light.

"All I know is that you were deceiving me."

Adam said, "You deliberately pretended to waver to draw my attention, then sent a clone to retrieve God’s Cloak, didn’t you?

Gabriel, I may have only been born a few months ago, but that doesn’t mean I’m as stupid as you."

Gabriel roared, "The Godly Armament belongs to Heaven! If you take it away, Heaven will fight you to the death."

Adam recalled his greatsword, jumped into the crater, and viciously stabbed it into Gabriel’s chest. Then he said, "Aren’t we already fighting to the death? Besides, God’s Cloak belongs to God. What’s wrong with that?"

Gabriel shouted, "No! He is not God reincarnated. He isn’t!"

"The truth is often cruel, dear."

Adam exerted force, and Cosmic Energy erupted. Gabriel’s body was torn apart directly, leaving only a divine power crystal behind.

"Done."

Adam picked up the divine power crystal and nodded in satisfaction. Then he looked toward the battlefield to his right and found the Demon Dragon Lord and Flame Demon Lord crazily fighting within a sea of fire. Flames were everywhere, and the ground had been smashed into one deep crater after another.

After watching for a while, Adam complained, "You two are actually faking it?"

The Demon Dragon Lord and Flame Demon Lord awkwardly stopped. They had genuinely fought for a while earlier, only to discover neither could do anything to the other. After discussing it, they decided to fake the battle so neither of them would actually die.

There were many benefits to faking a battle. Not only could they avoid casualties, they could also play both sides and join whichever side won.

"Flame Demon, according to our agreement, it’s time for you to surrender."

The Demon Dragon Lord secretly called out, "No matter how I look at it, the Blood God’s side is certain to win."

"That’s true."

After hesitating briefly, the Flame Demon Lord raised his head to the sky and shouted, "I, the Flame Demon Lord, am willing to serve the Blood God for one hundred years."

"Two hundred years. Sign the contract."

Adam rolled his eyes and tossed a contract to the Flame Demon Lord. Without hesitation, the Flame Demon Lord signed his name.

Adam put away the contract and ordered, "Go. Eliminate all the demons. Other than the dragon race, they may surrender."

"Alright."

The Flame Demon Lord nodded. The Demon Dragon Lord blinked and said, "I think we should help the Blood God and the Iron Mask Man. Their opponents aren’t weak."

"You don’t need to worry about that. Just do as you’re told."

"If you say so."

The Demon Dragon Lord shrugged and left with the Flame Demon Lord to clean up the battlefield.

"The Flame Demon Lord surrendered?"

Seeing the Flame Demon Lord surrender, the demons’ morale completely collapsed. They fell to their knees and surrendered in waves.

Adam glanced at the battles in the sky and the Mirror Dimension, then turned and headed toward the Grandmaster’s side.

Let us turn the clock back slightly. Inside the Mirror Dimension, the Gargoyle Lord looked at the dense masses of oversized cockroaches around him and said to Doom as he entered, "So you were pretending to be weak."

"More precisely, we were luring you into a trap."

Doom said, "The Blood God wants one of his people to become Satan. You Demon Lords are a bit of an obstacle."

Hulk’s eyes lit up. Carrying his hammer, he asked, "Satan? Does that mean I can go to Hell and fight every day from now on?"

Doom smiled. "Yes. You can fight however you want."

"Though we are enemies, I have to admit that the Blood God is truly impressive."

The Gargoyle Lord sighed. "I somewhat regret tricking Mephisto back then. If he were here, we definitely would not have fallen for this so easily.

Lucifer may seem clever, but compared to Mephisto, he is still far inferior."

"Mephisto would have tricked all of you as well."

Doom shook his head. "Enough nonsense. Let’s fight. I really want to know just how great the gap is between me and a Demon King of Hell."

As he spoke, Doom raised a hand. Nine high-temperature rays descended from the sky, followed by the dense swarm of cockroaches rushing toward the Gargoyle Lord.

"Doom, today I’ll show you just how vast the difference between man and god truly is."

The Gargoyle Lord snorted coldly and raised his gray right hand. A stone shield appeared out of thin air, blocking all nine High-Temperature Light Beams.

Then, the Gargoyle Lord raised his left hand toward the nine Magic Satellites. Nine stone swords flew from his palm, growing larger and larger as they shot toward the satellites with sonic booms.

The Gargoyle Lord’s stone swords were fast, but Doom’s reaction was no slower. He swiftly cast a spell, and a portal appeared in the sky. All nine stone swords flew into it and vanished.

Immediately afterward, the nine stone swords descended from the sky and shot toward the Gargoyle Lord. The Gargoyle Lord snorted, twisted his fingers, and the nine stone swords curved through the air before shooting straight at the charging oversized cockroaches.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh… Though they were stone swords, they were as sharp as the keenest arrows. In an instant, they pierced through nine rows of oversized cockroaches. Even more astonishingly, all the cockroaches turned to stone, then turned around and bit the other cockroaches.

Doom was somewhat surprised. "Your stone swords can petrify others and turn them into puppets?"

"That’s right, Doom. Don’t underestimate us Demon Kings of Hell. The Blood God can kill us only because he is absurdly powerful. To be honest, I’m starting to believe that he is God reincarnated. Otherwise, he could not possibly be this strong."

The Gargoyle Lord pushed off with both feet and charged rapidly toward Doom with his shield raised. At the same time, he shouted, "As for you, you are not qualified yet."

"I know I am no match for a Demon King of Hell, but if I don’t challenge you, how will I know how great the gap between us truly is? I, Doom, will personally kill a Hell Lord sooner or later."

Doom said, "Hulk, your turn."

"Hulk, attack!"

Wielding the Gravity Hammer, Hulk leaped furiously in front of the Gargoyle Lord and smashed the hammer down with all his strength.

Before the hammer arrived, a gravity wave had already enveloped the Gargoyle Lord, locking him in place and leaving him unable to move.

"Trivial tricks."

The Gargoyle Lord snorted, and two Petrification Lights shot from his crimson eyes toward Hulk. At that moment, a gray cockroach appeared out of thin air in front of Hulk, blocking both Petrification Lights for him.

This gray cockroach specifically devoured Petrification Light, but the Gargoyle Lord’s Petrification Light was simply too powerful. The gray cockroach could not consume it all, and its body gradually turned to stone.

Seeing this, Doom immediately recalled the gray cockroach. Hulk’s body suddenly rose higher, dodging the remaining Petrification Light, then he smashed the hammer viciously toward the Gargoyle Lord’s head.

At the critical moment, the Gargoyle Lord broke free of the gravity wave and raised his shield above his head. Boom! A thunderous impact rang out, and the air itself went wild, turning into a violent gale that swept through the area.

Astonishingly, after taking that heavy blow, the Gargoyle Lord did not move an inch. He smiled disdainfully and kicked Hulk heavily away with a side kick.

Hulk rolled across the ground more than ten times before stopping. At the same time, the shoulder struck by the Gargoyle Lord began to petrify. Hulk roared and slammed a fist into his own shoulder, directly shattering the petrification power.

Then Hulk climbed back up and charged the Gargoyle Lord again. At the same time, Doom spread his hands. Vast amounts of lightning surged from his body, shooting into the sky and connecting with the nine Magic Satellites.

Sensing something was wrong, the Gargoyle Lord controlled the nine stone swords to shoot at Doom together. Seeing this, Hulk swung the Gravity Hammer and knocked all nine stone swords away in succession.

"Not enough. More."

Doom shouted, and countless lightning cockroaches flew into the sky. They sent all their electricity into the Magic Satellites, which blazed with lightning like nine enormous spheres of thunder.

The Gargoyle Lord snorted and flew swiftly forward while firing Petrification Light at Doom.

Seeing this, Hulk smashed two stone swords into the paths of the two Petrification Lights, blocking them both.

"Be destroyed, Gargoyle Lord."

Doom finished preparing. Casting with both hands, he formed a massive lightning magic array from thunderbolts filling the sky. Then, a Lightning Beam thicker than a rice barrel blasted viciously toward the Gargoyle Lord.

The Gargoyle Lord tried to evade, but at that moment, Hulk controlled the Gravity Hammer to release a gravity wave, pinning him in place.

The next instant, the Gargoyle Lord was blasted into the ground by the Lightning Beam, dragging the earth downward as he sank.

Doom let out a sigh of relief. This was one of his Killer Moves. He wondered how effective it had been. Soon, the lightning dispersed, and to Doom’s disappointment, the Gargoyle Lord slowly stood up, his body covered in numerous cracks.

He was not dead. He had only suffered minor injuries.

"Doom, your lightning is quite good, but it is merely quite good."

The Gargoyle Lord grinned, and his injuries healed at a visible speed. Then he spread his wings and pounced swiftly toward Doom.

Seeing this, Hulk immediately jumped over and grabbed the Gargoyle Lord. He pinned the Gargoyle Lord to the ground and drove his huge fist viciously toward his face.

The Gargoyle Lord caught Hulk’s fist and extended his tongue, turning it into a sharp stone sword that pierced through Hulk’s chest. Hulk screamed as green blood dripped onto the ground and the Gargoyle Lord’s body.

Just as the Gargoyle Lord was about to press his advantage, two huge hands suddenly extended from the ground. One firmly pressed against the Gargoyle Lord’s chest, while the other punched and shattered his tongue. Hulk seized the chance to leap backward and escape the Gargoyle Lord.

The Gargoyle Lord snorted and was about to tear apart the two huge hands when they suddenly exploded with a resounding boom. The Gargoyle Lord was blasted away, covered in dust and looking extremely disheveled.

"I’m going to kill you all."

The Gargoyle Lord was growing impatient. Raising both hands, he made the ground erupt with countless earth spikes like waves, shooting toward Doom and Hulk.

Hulk’s chest wound had already healed. He roared and slammed his hammer into the ground. The earth churned, and every earth spike shattered.

Then Hulk leaped with all his strength and smashed toward the Gargoyle Lord. The Gargoyle Lord sidestepped Hulk’s hammer and kicked him flying.

Next, the Gargoyle Lord controlled his remaining stone swords and fired them at Doom one after another.

Doom took out the Universal Weapon he had obtained from Ronan and swung it rapidly, knocking away every stone sword. He sneered, "You think I’m not good at close combat? Sorry, but I come from Kamar-Taj."

"Ancient One’s disciple, truly extraordinary. But today, you are doomed."

The Gargoyle Lord clapped his hands together. The ground shook, and countless chunks of mud rose into the air, forming Mud Giants one after another.

That was not all. The Gargoyle Lord glared at the Mud Giants and released Petrification Light, turning every Mud Giant into a stone giant.

"Kill that green monster."

With a wave of the Gargoyle Lord’s hand, all the stone giants thundered toward Hulk. Hulk showed no fear. Roaring, he charged at the stone giants with his hammer.

After using the stone giants to restrain Hulk, the Gargoyle Lord turned his attention back to Doom, only to discover that Doom was nearly done casting a spell. He hurriedly fired Petrification Light at him.

"Sorry, you’re too late."

Doom’s voice sounded from another direction. At the same time, the original Doom shattered like glass, revealing itself to be merely a spatial afterimage.

Then Doom pushed both hands forward, and a special hole-shaped device suddenly appeared in the void behind the Gargoyle Lord. Driven by magic, it began spinning madly.