Fierce Battle

"Strange, coordinate with me against Eye Demon later. The others will handle the remaining Demon Gods. Eye Demon possesses the Chaos Concept, so don’t get too close."

Adam instructed everyone. They all nodded, their expressions both excited and solemn. This time, their opponents were genuine Demon Gods.

"Have you finished discussing it? Who’s going to fight me? Or has Blood God prepared some other ambush? I wouldn’t mind a surprise at all."

Eye Demon Shuma asked with apparent excitement. Adam flew in front of Eye Demon with Strange and said, "Strange and I will deal with you, Shuma. Satisfied?"

"Just the two of you?"

Eye Demon seemed deeply disappointed. These two were far too familiar—there was nothing new about them. Its eyeball rolled as it asked, "Doesn’t Blood God have any other arrangements? Like having Vishanti or Crimson God sneak attack me?"

Adam shook his head. "Not this time."

Eye Demon waved its tentacles and shattered space. "There can be."

"Unless there is absolutely no other choice, Blood God will never let Vishanti or Crimson God enter the Main Universe."

Adam explained, "In your eyes, this final battle is already in the bag. But what you don’t know is that in Blood God’s eyes, it’s just as certain."

"Blood God won’t allow other ancient gods into the Main Universe, yet he lets you travel through it as you please."

Eye Demon stared at Adam and asked, "What exactly is your relationship with him?"

Strange looked at Adam curiously upon hearing that. He also wanted to know what Adam’s relationship with Blood God was. Blood God clearly trusted Adam greatly.

"We’re kindred spirits."

Adam smiled, then suddenly shouted, "Do it."

Strange immediately cast a spell. The Eye of Agamotto on his chest opened, and the green Time Stone shone brightly.

Then, three figures appeared behind Strange—the Vishanti. They all transferred their power to Strange, who rapidly cast a spell and formed a Time Magic Array beneath Eye Demon.

Time Magic, Time Stop—only Eye Demon’s time was stopped. Everyone else remained unaffected.

"Hell Gate."

After Strange immobilized Eye Demon, Adam immediately clapped his hands together. A massive hellish gate made of countless bones and souls appeared out of thin air.

The gate then burst open with a bang, and countless chains shot from its depths, wrapping around Eye Demon and dragging it toward Hell.

Adam was far weaker than Eye Demon. To defeat it, he had to pull it into Hell.

At that moment, Eye Demon’s previously vacant eyeball suddenly began to move. Then, Eye Demon’s body stopped moving, and no matter how hard the chains pulled, it did not budge in the slightest.

Strange’s expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly shouted, "The Time Magic Array is becoming chaotic."

Clearly, Eye Demon was using the Chaos Concept to disrupt the Time Magic Array. Adam immediately flew before the array, and black light flashed in his eyes as the Time Magic Array abruptly turned into lines of energy.

Among the green energy lines were countless black threads—the chaotic power of Eye Demon.

Adam cast a spell with both hands. A Magic Array that looked utterly chaotic and spun irregularly without pause appeared before him. It was the Chaos Magic Array. He wanted to use it to draw out the chaotic power.

Adam’s idea was wonderful, but reality was cruel—the chaotic power was completely unaffected by the Chaos Magic Array and continued destroying the Time Magic Array.

"You don’t understand how to use the Chaos Concept at all."

Eye Demon’s voice rang inside Adam’s head. Then, one tentacle broke free of time’s restraints, twisting space-time as it lashed toward Adam.

Adam condensed a greatsword and slashed at the tentacle. At that moment, the surrounding space-time suddenly became incomparably chaotic. The greatsword that had been slashing down was raised again, while the incoming tentacle wrapped Adam up tightly.

Chaos Concept—Chaos Time-Space.

Adam’s Chaos Concept was no different from a child’s before Eye Demon’s Chaos Concept.

After binding Adam, Eye Demon slowly said, "Adam, you are not Satan."

Seeing one of Eye Demon’s tentacles escape, Strange’s expression changed. He pushed the Time Stone with all his strength, but Eye Demon merely smiled disdainfully and continued disrupting the Time Magic Array. The array became increasingly chaotic and increasingly powerless.

"I’m not Satan. Are you?"

Adam snorted as he struggled desperately, but the tentacle was too firm. Even he could not break free.

"You are not Satan. The real Satan should be chaotic and evil. Yet you are not only neither chaotic nor evil, you are laughably kind."

Eye Demon said, "To truly unleash the power of a concept, one must completely merge with it."

"I know that. The problem is that completely merging with a concept means losing myself."

Adam said. Once he completely merged with the Chaos Concept, he would become like Eye Demon, full of chaos. The Evil Concept was the same—after merging with it, he would become a true demon of evil.

Adam had no desire to become that. He would rather wield only part of his Concept Ability.

In fact, Wang Bert had a similar problem. He could unleash all the power of the Space Concept—their compatibility matched—but he could only use half the power of the Devouring Concept.

"What does that matter? Power is eternal."

Eye Demon said indifferently. When it advanced into a Demon God, it had already lost part of itself, so it did not care about losing more.

In fact, the other ancient gods were the same. To unleash the true power of their concepts, they would continuously draw closer to them until they completely merged with them.

That was the greatest difference between Wang Bert and those ancient gods—he would never lose himself for power.

Adam shook his head. "No. The self is eternal. If I lose myself, am I still me?"

"What nonsense. Adam, I’ll help you become the real Satan."

Eye Demon chuckled and crazily injected chaotic power into Adam’s body—it wanted to turn Adam into a Chaos Creature as well.

"Stop."

Adam’s expression changed dramatically. He hurriedly used Hell Power to fight the chaotic power, but the effect was terrible. Hell Power did not resist chaos; instead, it welcomed it enthusiastically.

In fact, if Adam were not Wang Bert’s avatar, he would have long since been eroded by Hell Power, the Chaos Concept, and the Evil Concept, turning into the true Satan.

Adam hurriedly shouted, "Hey, Eye Demon, if I become the real Satan, my strength will multiply several times over. Isn’t this the same as helping your enemy?"

"That does seem to be true. Then I should turn you into Satan even more. That’ll be more fun."

Eye Demon burst into laughter. With its personality, helping others increase their strength on the battlefield was nothing. If it was in a good mood, it could even offer up its own head for someone else to play with.

That was why Adam did not want to become part of the chaos side. It was too chaotically idiotic.

"Wow, Eye Demon wants to turn Adam into its shape."

Deadpool cried out strangely. Spider-Man shouted, "Shut up! That sounds so sleazy."

Deadpool laughed smugly. "When has anything I, Deadpool, said not been sleazy?"

"Satan looks like he’s in trouble. Should we go help him?"

Seeing Adam trapped in danger, Tony asked the others. Steve hesitated, then shook his head. "We can’t go over. We’ll be eroded by the Chaos Concept. Since Blood God trusts Adam so much, I believe Adam has a way to break the situation."

"I don’t have as much confidence as you do."

Tony said.

Damon shouted, "Forget Adam for now. Those Demon Gods are coming."

Everyone turned and saw more than a hundred Demon Gods flying over from the distance, their faces filled with viciousness. One of them shouted, "Did you enjoy killing us before? Now it’s our turn."

"It was pretty enjoyable."

Tony replied cuttingly. Dozens of dazzling beams answered him. He jumped in fright and hurriedly dodged as Steve and Carter raised their shields and rushed forward to protect him.

"We could kill you before, and we can kill you now."

Damon shouted, swinging his Hellfire Chain around a towering Demon God. He then tried to yank his opponent over, only to be dragged over himself, motorcycle and all.

"Do you think I’m still who I was before?"

The towering Demon God grinned savagely and punched at Damon, its fist shaking space. At that moment, densely packed green rockets slammed into its face, making it scream and stagger backward.

Damon seized the chance to condense a flaming spear and hurl it at the towering Demon God. At that moment, a blast of frost flew in from the side and froze the flaming spear completely. Ice Block Demon God had made its move.

"Kill them."

Ice Block Demon God roared. The other Demon Gods all answered loudly and eagerly launched their attack on the Super Heroes.

Damon shouted, "Careful, they’re much stronger now."

"So what if they are? I, Tony Stark, am the strongest."

Tony shouted arrogantly. The next moment, he flew uncontrollably toward a Magnetic Force Demon God. His expression changed, and he hurriedly fired lasers at the enemy, only for them to be easily dodged.

Then, the Magnetic Force Demon God spread its hand, freezing Tony in midair. After that, it smashed its fist brutally into Tony’s face, instantly shattering his faceplate.

As Tony rapidly reassembled his faceplate with nanotechnology, he cursed unhappily, "Damn magnetism again."

The Magnetic Force Demon God pressed its advantage and raised its fist for another blow. At that moment, two flashes of blade light swept past, cutting it into three pieces. However, it did not die. All three bodies fled backward at once.

"The true bodies of Demon Gods are not only several times stronger than their projections, they are also extremely difficult to kill. You must completely destroy their bodies."

Gorr the God Butcher explained as he rapidly swung the Necrosword, tearing the Magnetic Force Demon God to pieces.

Blade said coolly, "There’s another method. Drain every drop of their blood. My sword can absorb blood."

Tony regained his freedom and said with a smile, "Blade, looks like you made a new friend."

Blade shook his head. "Not a friend. A very good opponent."

"You’re qualified to be my opponent. Want another match?"

Gorr asked. He thought highly of Blade because he felt they were the same kind of person—before Blood God descended, Blade had hunted the entire Blood Clan alone. He really did resemble Gorr in some ways.

"Of course."

Blade smiled coolly. Tony rolled his eyes, suddenly missing that lunatic Ivan a little.

"Do your best to stall and eliminate these Demon Gods. Don’t let your guard down. They are far stronger than their earlier projections."

Steve shouted. Everyone nodded. These Demon Gods were much more formidable than the projections from before.

Fortunately, eight Worthy had joined them. Otherwise, this battle would have been even harder. Of course, they would definitely win in the end, because they could not die—Dracula stood in the distance with his hands behind his back, looking lonely as snow.

How can it be enough to merely stall them when I, Dr. Richards, have personally entered the fight? I’ll wipe out every Demon God. Only then will everyone know how incredible I am.

Dr. Richards thought arrogantly—the influence of the Evil Concept. Besides, Dr. Richards had always been extremely proud.

After thinking it over, Dr. Richards fought while meeting up with Human Torch, Thing, and Susan. Then he said, "I have a plan. I need your cooperation."

Susan swung her hammer and sent a Demon God flying, then asked impatiently, "A plan? What plan? Also, aren’t you going to ask about Silver Surfer and me?"

"Who is Silver Surfer? Don’t waste my time on such trivial matters."

Dr. Richards said impatiently, "I studied the conditions of the four of us. We can actually merge because our abilities came from the same Cosmic Storm."

"Trivial matters?"

Susan gritted her teeth. This bastard had not changed at all. His mind was always filled with nothing but his research. If I say another word to you, I’ll walk naked through New York.

Human Torch asked with great interest, "Merge? How do we merge? What will we become afterward?"

"I got four fragments of Knull’s soul from Tony. They can allow us to merge together easily."

Dr. Richards said, "After merging, we will become the strongest beneath the ancient gods. Neither Tony Stark nor Steve Rogers will be a match for us."

"I like it. Reed, let’s start immediately."

Human Torch shouted excitedly. He loved being in the spotlight most of all.

Thing said readily, "Reed, I’ll fully cooperate with you."

Dr. Richards turned to Susan. Susan snorted. She did not agree, but neither did she object.

Seeing this, Dr. Richards distributed the soul fragments to everyone. Then he took out a device and activated the fragments. They lit up, and the four abruptly fused together, becoming a Reed whose entire body burned with flames.

"I knew it would work. I am the smartest person in the universe."

Dr. Richards laughed loudly. He tossed the three spare hammers to Steve, then rushed before a Demon God and thrust both hands forward, blasting a massive pillar of flame at it.

It was worth mentioning that the flames could burn because of the power of the Fear Hammer.

Seeing the flames approaching, the Demon God immediately raised its shield to block. However, the pillar of flame was terrifyingly hot. The shield was instantly burned through, and the pillar barely grazed past the Demon God’s waist.

Before the Demon God could breathe a sigh of relief, Dr. Richards’s arm stretched out. He swung his hammer and smashed it viciously into the Demon God’s head, sending it flying back with a scream. Its head was nearly shattered.

Dr. Richards was about to pursue when Ice Block Demon God fired a large number of ice spikes at him from the side. Dr. Richards shouted, and the flames around his body swelled wildly. Every ice spike that entered the range of the flames melted away completely.

Ice Block Demon God’s expression shifted slightly. Just as it was about to do something, a powerful force bound it in place. Then, the fireball opposite it slammed toward it like a meteor.

Ice Block Demon God was horrified and rapidly froze its body. The next moment, the fireball crashed directly into it and engulfed it completely.

After a while, the flames gradually receded. Dr. Richards stood proudly in the void, while Ice Block Demon God had completely become a thing of the past.

"I am the strongest. Tony Stark, did you see that?"

Dr. Richards laughed arrogantly—he was now not only Reed, but also Human Torch.