"I remember Earthlings celebrating their cooperation with champagne."
"I haven't decided whether I want to cooperate with you, Mephisto."
Hawk sat on the high stool, placed his hands on the bar, and watched Mephisto who turned around with a bottle of champagne in his hands: "After all, you're already considered untrustworthy to me. What if we cooperate and you stab me in the back?"
Upon hearing this, Mephisto met Hawk's eyes, thought for a moment, and shook his head.
"That possibility exists indeed."
"Ha, thank you for your honesty."
"Hey, I'm a Demon. You say Demons can't be trusted. You can't even trust a single punctuation mark in what I say."
"So..."
Hawk realized, looking at Mephisto with a hint of a smile: "You're lying again. You won't stab me in the back."
Mephisto shrugged, took two glasses from below, and with a pop, the celebratory champagne was opened. While pouring drinks for both, he looked at Hawk.
"Can I kill you?"
"No."
"Then if I stab you in the back, there's no real loss for you, right?"
"But I would feel disgusted."
Hawk took the glass Mephisto offered, glanced at Mephisto, and then directly said: "Is the Celestial God Team behind Heaven?"
Upon hearing this, Mephisto looked somewhat surprised at Hawk.
"You know them?"
"Isn't it obvious."
Hawk chuckled, looked at Mephisto: "Didn't I know you back when I was just an ordinary person?"
Mephisto shook his head: "Their legends only spread in the Cosmos. People on Earth never know."
Hawk wasn't here for small talk with Mephisto, directly looking at him.
"Does the Celestial God Team use the Heaven Dimension to quickly nurture new Celestial Gods?"
"..."
Upon hearing this, Mephisto was genuinely surprised this time, looking at Hawk: "You knew this too."
Hawk chuckled.
"You said it."
"I never did."
"You mentioned that upon acquiring a Planet of Life, Heaven Dimension uses its souls as fuel for their attack on the next Planet of Life, and the Celestial God Team is behind Heaven Dimension. New Celestial Gods also require Life Energy. Heaven wants souls, new Celestial Gods need life."
"The most important point."
"I've seen Celestial Gods."
Hawk held the champagne glass, looking at Mephisto with a hint of a smile: "The one sleeping within Earth."
Mephisto gasped, seriously scrutinizing Hawk from top to bottom.
"But you're still alive."
"Yes."
Hawk shrugged, appreciating Mephisto's genuine shock this time.
If it weren't for not wanting to reveal to Mephisto that he also absorbed Tiam's Life Energy, Hawk thought that revealing it would make Mephisto even more bewildered.
Mephisto was indeed shocked.
Although, theoretically, like the Celestial God Team, his direct superiors were 'Death' and 'Eternal' from the Five Great Gods of Creation.
But...
'Death' has many Lords of Death like him.
While the Celestial God Team serves 'Eternal.'
Who's closer is clear.
However...
After recovering from the shock, Mephisto looked at Hawk: "Since you already know, you also know the Heaven Dimension is expansive enough for your Cosmos to unfold. So you should cooperate with me even more."
Hawk shook his head.
"Shouldn't I be cooperating with Heaven Dimension? The Celestial God Team is behind them."
"They want to destroy Earth."
"That's none of my business."
Hawk laughed disdainfully, looking at Mephisto: "Let it be destroyed. It has nothing to do with me."
Anyway, he can traverse the Cosmos. If Earth is to be destroyed the next second, he can leave immediately with the ones he cares about and those Gwen cares about.
As for where to go once Earth is gone.
That's not an issue.
The Cosmos is vast; he can go anywhere.
The most important point.
Hawk looked at Mephisto: "You know I don't really need a reality anchor as a coordinate to unfold my Cosmos."
A reality anchor can indeed make it easier for him to unfold the Phoenix Cosmos.
But it's not necessary.
After all, the Phoenix Star System is right there in reality. If needed, he can go there to unfold his Cosmos.
At most, he'd be targeted by the entire Marvel Cosmos.
Since this method is essentially robbery.
But the Celestial God Team is behind Heaven Dimension. If he robbed Heaven Dimension, he'd be targeted by the Celestial God Team too.
So...
Hawk calmly looked at Mephisto: "Just a Heaven Dimension is not enough to pay me for cooperation with you. You're offering too little, old Me."
Upon hearing Hawk call him "old Me," Mephisto couldn't help but want to go fishing with Hawk.
But he forcibly restrained this strange impulse, locking eyes with Hawk.
"What else do you want?"
"Souls."
Hawk had already decided what he wanted before coming, looking at Mephisto whose expression turned dark: "Relax, I don't intend to ask for a third or half of the souls. Those killed by me in the future belong to my Netherworld. This demand should be acceptable for you, right."
Mephisto laughed.
"What if I agree now and next you kill off all life on Earth?"
"Am I that cruel?"
"Should I accompany you to see the tribes you slaughtered?"
"Black ones don't count. I just wondered why you included blacks in life when you took over Earth. All so disgusting."
"That's not my business."
Upon hearing this, Mephisto refused to take the blame, revealing his red demon form, and looked at Hawk: "If you think I'm the reason Earth went dark, you've got the wrong person. You should be questioning Heaven Dimension; after all, Yahweh is black."
Hawk: "..."