Hawk smiled slightly and looked at Mephisto: "Perhaps it's just a misunderstanding, after all, why shouldn't I ally with angels with wings? Give me a reason why I absolutely must ally with you."
After pouring wine, Mephisto stared at Hawk: "Because you won't ally with those birdmen."
Hawk's smile remained unchanged.
"Reason."
"I only toy with hearts, while they toy with faith. I merely treat the Planet of Life as my pasture, whereas they treat it as their fuel."
After saying this, Mephisto stared directly at Hawk.
Hawk and Mephisto locked eyes.
After a while.
Hawk chuckled, picked up the glass in front of him, looked at Mephisto: "If, hypothetically, if I ally with you, what will I gain after resolving the Heaven Dimension?"
Mephisto also raised his glass, clinked it with Hawk's, and smiled: "If you want to manifest your cosmos, you'll need a real-world coordinate. Where the Heaven Dimension resides is a good choice."
Hawk heard this, his eyes glinting.
Indeed.
His Little Cosmos needed a real-world coordinate to manifest.
Let's put it this way.
It's like applying for a homestead. Hawk now has the ability to apply for one, but all the land has been claimed. In such circumstances, to construct his cosmos, he would either have to buy others' land or seize it.
No one would sell, of course.
Hawk initially planned to wait for the plot of Thor 3, for when the World Tree Cosmos was destroyed, then rush in to place his Phoenix Cosmos there.
After the destruction of the World Tree Cosmos, it parallels unclaimed land.
Since it's unclaimed land, it's certainly for the virtuous to reside.
This is why Hawk isn't anxious about not yet awakening the Seventh Sense.
No other reason.
Even if he awakened the Seventh Sense now, and quickly the Eighth Sense, thus able to manifest his cosmos, he has nowhere to build his Little Cosmos.
So...
No point in rushing.
But now, hearing Mephisto's proposal, though intrigued, Hawk still had a question: "Dimension world can't accommodate my cosmos."
What he wants to manifest is a Parallel Cosmos, one not weaker than the current cosmos.
Only a cosmos can hold a cosmos.
The dimension world...
Probably can't withstand.
Besides, if a dimension world could compare to a cosmos, why would Mephisto care about his Divine Authority?
Hawk seriously suspected this was another of Mephisto's tricks.
After all, he has a record.
Mephisto saw Hawk's skeptical eyes and smiled: "Other dimension worlds can't, but I assure you, the Heaven Dimension can. Do you know where the Heaven Dimension originates?"
Hawk shook his head.
"Don't know."
"I can't say."
"What?"
"You can see for yourself, deep within the Heavenly Soul, at the deepest point, once you see it, you'll know."
Mephisto mysteriously: "Once you see it, I guarantee, you'll come and ally with me voluntarily."
With that,
Mephisto finished his wine and got up, leaving the small tavern.
Hawk turned his head to look at Mephisto as he left the tavern, raising an eyebrow inquisitively.
Deep within the soul, the deepest point?
What is there?
Hawk frowned slightly, drank his wine, and then also got up to leave the tavern.
Buzz!
The space on the lawn was torn once more.
The moment Hawk walked out from the space rift, the Black Phoenix Nether Armor instantly disintegrated, returning to the Holy Hall in the Netherworld.
Gwen, seeing this, came forward and wrinkled her nose.
"Have you been drinking?"
"Yes."
"Don't let it be drugged again."
"It's fine."
Hawk waved his hand, looking at Caroline, who was watching him, and shifted the topic to Gwen: "Has the story ended?"
Gwen nodded, and then seemed to think of something, looking at Hawk: "My cousin said that Catherine intentionally killed her, which turned her into a vampire."
Hawk heard this and looked at Caroline.
Caroline, meeting Hawk's gaze, quickly shifted her eyes.
Hawk laughed and looked at Gwen: "Catherine Pierce is quite a pitiful person."
He said, briefly recounting Catherine Pierce's experiences to Gwen.
When she was human, unable to bear offspring, seen as disgrace and burden by her father, finally given to Ancestral Vampire Klaus by her father.
To escape the fate as Klaus's sacrifice, she turned into a vampire, but this was not liberation, rather the start of a nightmare, a nightmare lasting five hundred years.
While listening to Hawk's story, Gwen tightly furrowed her brows, seemingly empathizing with Catherine Pierce's fate.
Even Caroline, hearing such detailed account of Catherine Pierce's fate for the first time, couldn't help but place herself in it.
She realized if she were in Catherine Pierce's position, she'd likely have died under Klaus's chase.
The story concluded.
Gwen glanced at her cousin, then at Hawk: "You seem to feel sympathy for Lady Pierce; could she be what my cousin suspected, your ex-girlfriend?"
Hawk again looked at Caroline.
Caroline shifted her gaze.
Hawk chuckled, casually saying to Gwen: "Gwen, it seems you're not very close with your cousin."
Gwen raised an eyebrow: "Why do you say that."
Hawk shrugged.
"If Caroline were my sister, and I knew she was hypnotized and toyed with by a vampire for months, I'd rip that vampire to shreds."
"..."