Plan Initiated

"No need!"

Doom had no idea why Reed was looking at him so strangely, nor did he have time to think about it. He waved his hand and turned to leave the command module. Outside, Doom activated the system and completely sealed off the command module.

"Susan, I won’t let you be hurt!"

A flicker of tenderness passed through Doom’s eyes before turning to resolve. He raced back to his room, put on the Cosmic Storm-resistant armor he had prepared, then picked up his communicator and contacted Elektra on Earth. "The Cosmic Storm will arrive in twenty minutes. Start immediately!"

Elektra hurriedly asked, "Why has it come early?"

"How would I know? The Darkhold can only provide knowledge. It can’t predict the future!"

Doom said, "This isn’t entirely bad. At the very least, as long as we hold out for twenty minutes, the plan can be completed smoothly!"

"That’s true. We’ll begin right away!"

Elektra nodded, set down the phone, and took out a scroll, tearing it open.

"Finally, I can let loose. I’ve been hiding for so long, and it’s been miserable!"

The hidden demons and monsters received the message and emerged from their hiding places one after another, their faces filled with excitement and savagery.

In New York, a two-headed wolf monster crawled out of a sewer. One head howled at the sky while the other spat a blast of fire at a pedestrian across the street. The pedestrian instantly became a human torch, rolling across the ground and wailing in agony.

"Monster!"

The citizens were terrified and hurriedly fled into the distance, calling the police at the same time and asking them to send Super Heroes to save people.

The same scenes played out in major cities across the world. The demons excitedly attacked humans and destroyed buildings, as if they had returned to several centuries ago.

Kamar-Taj sensed that something was wrong and immediately dispatched large numbers of battle mages to major cities to eliminate the demons!

New York’s situation was better than elsewhere. On one hand, its citizens had plenty of experience with this sort of thing and immediately turned to run whenever they saw a demon. On the other hand, New York had Super Heroes. Spider-Man swung on his web and kicked an eight-legged spider away, then clung to a wall and said to the approaching Electro, "I smell something ominous. This is probably another major incident!"

"Shut your crow mouth. New York has suffered enough already."

Electro blasted the spider with electricity as he snapped irritably. Spider-Man shrugged. "It’s a spider mouth, not a crow mouth!"

New York’s demons were quickly dealt with by the Super Heroes, but things did not go nearly as smoothly elsewhere. In fact, the situation only continued to worsen! Kamar-Taj was indeed powerful, but it had a weakness: too few people. Demons had appeared all over the world, and Kamar-Taj simply did not have enough manpower to eliminate them all in a short time. "It’s begun!"

Inside the Wakanda Embassy, Wang Bert looked at the information on his tablet, his eyes flickering. At that moment, a ring of sparks suddenly appeared beside him and grew larger and larger, frightening the surrounding guests into repeatedly backing away!

"Evacuate the guests!"

Wang Bert immediately shouted to the guards. The guards nodded and led the guests to safety. One female guest in high heels had a glint in her eyes as she quietly hid behind a pillar, blending into the darkness.

"Blood God, there are too many demons. Kamar-Taj is short on manpower. We need your help!"

Wong said anxiously. It was worth mentioning that his round face was slightly red—he had only recently declared that Kamar-Taj did not need anyone’s help, only to be proven wrong so quickly.

"It is our duty!"

Wang Bert said, "But only within America. I don’t have authorization elsewhere."

Wong immediately nodded. "Fine. Leave all the monsters in America to you. I’ll stay here and open portals for you!"

Wang Bert immediately said, "Good. Frank, have Ivan and the Super Heroes assemble at once!"

"Got it!"

Frank immediately started making calls. T’Challa stepped forward and said, "I can help too!"

"You’re in!"

Wang Bert smiled. Soon, the Super Heroes had gathered, and Wong opened portals to send them to major cities!

"Los Angeles? Mage, this portal of yours is completely unscientific. It’s shattering my worldview."

Spider-Man stared wide-eyed at the unfamiliar scene before him. Jessica stood on her Glider and impatiently called out, "Get on already! There’s a fire over there. They need us!"

"Okay!"

Spider-Man immediately jumped aboard and greeted her. "Hello, Jewel. I’m Spider-Man. We’ve worked together plenty of times, but this is the first time we’ve formally introduced ourselves!"

Jessica gave Spider-Man a disdainful look. Who was he fooling? Everyone knew he was Peter Parker. It looked like she would have to beat him up a few more times during training tonight!

With the Super Heroes joining in, the situation in America’s major cities immediately improved. Hill could not help calling Wang Bert. "Blood God, how did you manage this? Even rockets aren’t that fast, are they?"

"Kamar-Taj’s portals!"

Wang Bert said, "Director Hill, if you need help, just say the word!"

Hill did not stand on ceremony. "Blood God, send the Avengers Team over. Things are terrible in London. The Queen has called S.H.I.E.L.D. more than ten times."

"Fine. Come to the Wakanda Embassy!"

Wang Bert nodded. At that moment, President Ellis called. He first asked about the portals, then said, "Blood God, several European Union countries need your help."

"I need authorization to operate in those countries."

Wang Bert said, "Not temporary authorization. Long-term authorization!"

President Ellis knew that this was Wang Bert’s condition and smiled. "No problem. America’s Super Heroes should be saving people all over the world!"

"Mr. President, you put that beautifully!"

Wang Bert smiled and said, "Give me the names of the cities. I’ll arrange for people to help!"

Next, Wang Bert called Mercury and said, "Bring the Guardians. Prepare to depart!"

"Yes, Blood God!"

Mercury immediately nodded. Compared to being a president, she preferred fighting.

Wong looked at Wang Bert in surprise and sighed. "Blood God, I didn’t expect you to respect worldly rules so much."

"I’m one of the people who benefits from those rules. Why wouldn’t I follow them?"

Wang Bert shrugged. Before long, Steve arrived with the Avengers Team. The moment Danny Rand saw Wang Bert, he froze in terror and did not dare step forward! Daredevil turned and asked, "Danny, what’s wrong?"

Danny swallowed and said quietly, "The man on the left is that Iron Fist from last time."

"Mr. Wang is Iron Fist?"

Daredevil was stunned—he remembered Wang Bert’s heartbeat.

By then, Wong had opened the portal. Steve greeted Wang Bert and led everyone through with caution. Hearing the greeting, Daredevil pulled Danny forward with him.

Danny did not dare look at Wang Bert. He lowered his head and rushed into the portal. Once Wang Bert was out of sight, he let out a huge sigh of relief, then felt a little bitter. Wang Bert had not even regarded him as worth noticing.

Wong closed the portal and asked Wang Bert, "Was that man just now K’un-Lun’s Iron Fist?"

"Unworthy of the title."

Wang Bert shook his head, too lazy to talk about him. Wong shrugged and said nothing more.

Thanks to the Super Heroes’ efforts, the number of demons around the world rapidly decreased. But the Behind-the-Scenes Manipulators did not care at all, because these demons were merely cannon fodder meant to draw Kamar-Taj’s attention!

At the Space Station, Doom, clad in full armor, activated the equipment. Now, all that remained was for the Cosmic Storm to descend. Once it did, everything could be completed.

At that moment, Susan’s anxious voice came through the communicator. "Doom, where are you? The storm is about to arrive. Why haven’t you come back yet?"

Doom silently turned off the communicator. Susan and the others became increasingly anxious. Reed even wanted to open the door and search for Doom, only to discover that it had been completely sealed.

Reed frowned and asked, "Doom sealed the door. What is he trying to do?"

Ben said, "Doom’s behavior this time is really strange."

Susan said, "No matter what he intends to do, we can’t just ignore him. The Cosmic Storm is about to arrive, and nowhere else can withstand it."

"I agree!"

Reed nodded and began thinking of a way out. For others, it might have been impossible, but Reed was Marvel’s smartest man. A mere command module could not stop him.

Soon, Reed opened the sealed door, and the four of them went out together to search for Doom.

Since the Space Station was small, the four quickly found armored Doom standing beside a special device. Reed loudly asked, "Doom, what exactly are you trying to do?"

"How did you get out? Go back quickly. The Cosmic Storm is about to arrive!"

Doom hurriedly shouted, "Hide inside for a while. It will all be over soon!"

Reed was about to speak when the communicator in Doom’s hand suddenly rang. "Doom, everything is going smoothly. Kamar-Taj and the Blood God have been tied down. Next, as long as we break through the New York Sanctum, Earth will become our paradise."

"Earth will become our paradise?"

Everyone was stunned. Reed said, "Doom, what exactly are you doing? That doesn’t sound like a good thing."

Doom felt like cursing. What was a pig teammate? Elektra was exactly that.

Doom could not be bothered to waste more words. He drew a gun from his waist and said, "Return to the command module. Afterward, I’ll explain everything to you in detail!"

The four hurriedly raised their hands. Susan could not help asking, "Doom, what exactly are you trying to do?"

"Do what I’ve always wanted to do!"

As Doom spoke, Johnny suddenly hurled the plant in his hand at him. Doom dodged, and Ben charged forward, grabbed him around the waist, and slammed him hard into the wall.

With a bang, Doom crashed heavily into the wall. His grip loosened, and the gun in his hand fell to the floor with a clatter! "Get off me!"

Just as Doom pushed Ben away, Reed and Johnny rushed at him. The men grappled with one another as Reed held Doom’s arm and shouted, "Susan, stop that device! Pull out the Power Supply!"

"Okay!"

Susan hurried over, but at that moment, the Cosmic Storm descended. Aside from armored Doom, the other four were all swept into the Cosmic Storm, their bodies rapidly twisting and changing! At the same time, the device activated and crazily absorbed the Cosmic Storm’s energy.

"Has it begun?"

Ancient One glanced at the sky, her gaze icy. At that moment, The Beast and a group of outer-dimensional demon gods suddenly appeared beyond Earth’s dimension and launched a fierce attack on the Defense Net around New York.

The New York Defense Net had only recently been repaired and was extremely fragile. It could not withstand the demon gods’ assault. Ancient One snorted and personally went to stop them! Of course, she did not forget what was happening in the sky. With a wave of her hand, a portal appeared inside the embassy.

Ancient One shouted, "Blood God, destroy the equipment in the Space Station!"

"Are we really going through with this whole act?"

Without another word, Wang Bert rushed toward the portal. But at that moment, everything around him suddenly went dark, and he fell into a mysterious space.

"Again? Damn it, when is Thor giving the Tesseract back to me?"

Wang Bert shouted in frustration. At that moment, light appeared ahead. A valiant-looking female ninja approached, holding two metal rulers.

"Hello, Blood God. I am Black Sky of The Hand."

Elektra raised her metal rulers and said, "The Hand is here to reclaim—"

Elektra never finished the final two words, because her head was pierced through by an elongated finger.

"I make tens of billions a minute. Who has time to listen to your nonsense?"

Wang Bert retracted his finger and smiled disdainfully. At that moment, the supposedly dead Elektra suddenly winked at him. At the same time, the bloody hole in her forehead healed at a visible speed.

Wang Bert was not frightened, but he was somewhat astonished. "Are we filming a ghost movie?"

"As expected of the Blood God. I died before I could even react."

Elektra touched her healed forehead and said, "Unfortunately, I’m immortal."

The next moment, Elektra’s head flew into the air. Yet only a moment later, she revived again—her head flew back onto her neck without a single wound remaining.

Wang Bert walked over to Elektra and asked, "Not regeneration, but resurrection. Is this the power The Beast gave you?"

"That’s right. I actually died once before."

Elektra nodded. "Alexandra used the last Dragon Bone to revive me. After that, I became Black Sky. No matter how many times I am killed, I can revive instantly. Blood God, I can keep you occupied for a lifetime."

"Even though you’re beautiful, sorry, but I get tired of old things easily."

Wang Bert snorted and opened his mouth, driving two fangs deep into Elektra’s neck. In an instant, he drained all the blood from Elektra’s body! Yet Wang Bert frowned, because he had not absorbed Elektra’s soul. In fact, Elektra’s soul was not in her body at all.

Black Sky was considered The Beast’s saintess, with The Beast’s power residing within her. The price was that her soul belonged to The Beast.

To put it plainly, Elektra was merely a puppet. Unless he destroyed the soul residing with The Beast, he could not kill her at all! "This is a bit troublesome. If she doesn’t die, I can’t leave here."

Wang Bert released Elektra. She quickly revived, touched her neck, and asked in surprise, "Being bitten by you actually felt pretty good. Is that your problem or mine?"

"Mine."

Wang Bert said irritably, "When Vampires drink blood, they secrete a special substance that intoxicates the victim, preventing them from struggling."

"I see."

Elektra said, "Blood God, I can’t defeat you, but no matter how many times you kill me, I’ll revive."

"Is that so?"

Wang Bert snorted and hurled a mass of Dragon Fire, burning Elektra to ashes. Yet Elektra soon regenerated from the ashes, even with her clothes intact—that revealing ninja outfit was magical clothing.

Elektra smiled smugly. "I told you, you can’t kill me."

Wang Bert secretly tried to control Elektra with the Purple Man Virus, but it was equally ineffective. He pretended to be furious and asked, "What exactly are you trying to do?"