Mephisto compromised.
After Hawk swore an oath to the Goddess of Death, he chose to trust Hawk one more time.
However...
He had no choice.
Those with nothing to lose fear not those who have something to lose, but the current situation was indeed as Hawk said: he was the one with something to lose.
Mephisto couldn't enter Hawk's Universe.
But Hawk could block his Hell Dimension. What's more, he remembered something Hawk had said in the Hell Dimension at that time:
"I'll do nothing else my whole life but block the gate of your Hell Dimension. If you've got the guts, don't ever come out. I'll wear you down until you die."
Thinking of this.
Mephisto shivered, and in a fit of pique, he could only be angry for a moment.
Their eyes met.
After Hawk finished his oath, Mephisto turned and left without a word.
Why stay?
To be provoked?
But—
This matter couldn't just be left at that.
There would be plenty of opportunities in the future; Hawk would wait.
The moment the Hellgate boomed shut, Mephisto turned, his demonic eyes meeting Hawk's once more, filled with extreme resentment and blazing anger.
Hawk felt Mephisto's hatred but didn't care.
He knew he was on a collision course with Mephisto the moment he used force in the Hell Dimension to threaten Mephisto into taking his sister's soul.
In a word.
Demons are not only untrustworthy, but also incredibly petty. It could even be said that with just a glance, a demon would feel you were despising him.
As the biggest demon boss in the Hell Dimension, Mephisto's pettiness was truly astonishing.
However, coincidentally enough.
Hawk wasn't exactly magnanimous either.
To be precise, transmigrators generally weren't.
So—
One day, he would swallow Mephisto's Hell Dimension.
Hawk watched Mephisto disappear from his sight, muttering to himself. Then, the black phoenix underworld armor on his body instantly disintegrated and returned to the Underworld Temple. At the same time, he stepped out, returning to the Reality World, and then immersed his mind in his Little Universe.
His conversation with Mephisto took place in a spatial rift, and the time was not long, only a fleeting moment.
And at the very moment Mephisto chose to abandon the issue of Alexander Pierce's soul ownership, the latter's soul was also guided by the Underworld in a daze and then cast into the Underworld Prison.
Hawk's Underworld has Eight Great Hells!
He created this by relying on the fragments of the Law of Life and Death exploded from Blackheart, plus the Four Elemental Demons of Creation exploded from the Four Elemental Demons of Creation, and the Reality Stone, combined with the Underworld Prison he had seen in his previous life from the Underworld Saints.
Each of the Eight Great Underworld Hells had its own characteristics.
They were divided into:
The First Hell, the Underworld Tribunal, which would eventually govern all living beings in his Little Universe, holding the Book of Life and Death, managing life and death, judging the sins of people during their lives, and meting out rewards and punishments, casting the dead into the corresponding hells based on the severity of their sins.
The Second Hell, the Torrential Rain Underworld Prison, an boundless place like a Small World, where tormented souls would endure acid rain that constantly fell, strong enough to melt souls, causing them to die, then revive, then die again, repeating this cycle until their sentence ended.
The Third Hell, the Millstone Underworld Prison, a gigantic circular millstone connected to three colossal, hill-like pillars that could sweep away everything, rotating at a constant speed on the massive millstone. The tormented souls would constantly run on it. They could choose not to run, but the result would be being crushed to death by the hill-like pillars, then reviving again...
And Alexander Pierce was currently in the Millstone Underworld Prison.
The next second, as a sudden, immense tearing pain shot through his soul, Alexander Pierce appeared on the massive millstone of the Millstone Underworld Prison, his expression horrified as he looked at everything around him.
In a vast, desolate, and despair-inducing ochre World, in the distance, a gigantic, sky-obscuring, hill-like pillar was rolling towards him.
Without time to think.
Alexander Pierce instinctively turned and ran.
The hill-like pillar pursued.
Pierce ran.
But...
He ran, but he couldn't escape. Alexander Pierce, noticing something was wrong as soon as he started running, hadn't even had time to wonder why his legs felt as heavy as lead when the hill-like pillar behind him, with a mournful whoosh, had already caught up to him.
The next second.
Alexander Pierce was crushed to death by the hill-like pillar on the spot.
The next second.
Alexander Pierce revived behind the hill-like pillar. Before he could understand what had happened, a rumbling sound came from behind him again.
In his view.
Another hill-like pillar appeared in his sight.
"WTF..."
"Welcome to my Underworld Prison, Pierce."
Hawk appeared silently in the Millstone Hell.
Pierce's eyes narrowed as he looked at the appearing Hawk, then at the frozen hill-like pillar.
Instantly.
He finally understood why Hawk had killed him so easily, and also understood what Hawk meant by "death is better than life" just before his death.
It turned out that death was truly not the end, but the beginning.
Alexander Pierce recalled the intense pain of being crushed by the hill-like pillar just now. Looking at Hawk in front of him, even his breathing momentarily stopped at this moment.
Although he had forgotten that he was already dead and didn't need to breathe at all.
Pierce's expression changed.
Hawk chuckled.
"Do you think I'll continue to ask you what you've been hiding from me?"
"Don't worry."
"I won't ask."
"Because I already gave you the last chance, and you didn't cherish it. You have no chance now."
"So..."
"You'll stay here,"
"Forever and ever."
"..."
By the time Alexander Pierce came to his senses, Hawk had completely disappeared, and the hill-like pillar that had just been frozen began to turn once more.
Alexander Pierce fled again, then was crushed to death again.
He would endure the punishment of running—being crushed to death—reviving on the spot, endlessly and forever, in this Millstone Underworld Prison.
Above the Millstone Hell, after finishing his conversation with Alexander Pierce, Hawk looked down calmly at everything below.
Just as he had said.
There was only one chance, and he gave it to Alexander Pierce. The latter didn't cherish it, so in that case, let Pierce be tormented with his secret forever and ever.
Hawk didn't care at all what secret Alexander Pierce was hiding.
Of course.
It wasn't that he didn't care at all; it was just that he couldn't imagine what secret Pierce was hiding that he would rather die than reveal.
But it didn't matter.
There was still Anna.
When Anna died and her soul came to the Underworld, Hawk believed Anna would definitely tell him.
Of course.
Anna was just a backup option; Hawk had other choices.
One should know that the HYDRA leaders were not just Alexander Pierce and Arnim Zola.
There were several HYDRA leaders.
Hawk also happened to know two other HYDRA leaders.
The first one, Daniel Whitehall.
This guy was a ruthless individual; he survived into reality by transplanting the organs of the Inhuman Jiaying, who was Skye's biological mother.
It was precisely because of this that Hawk had a deep impression of him.
However...
Hawk only knew that such a person existed. As for where he was currently hiding, he didn't know.
But it didn't matter, there was still the second one.
Wolfgang von Strucker.
Or rather—
Baron Strucker.
Yes.
He was the HYDRA leader who used the Mind Stone to activate the Scarlet Witch's and Quicksilver's superpowers.
And Hawk knew exactly where he was.
In Sokovia.
Coincidentally, the Mind Stone was also in Sokovia. Taking this opportunity, he would go there and take it as well.
So—
Boom!
Hawk's figure instantly appeared tens of thousands of miles above. Immediately after, with the appearance of a sonic boom cloud, his figure transformed into a rainbow, whistling as he swept towards Sokovia.
At the same time.
Tony Stark, still at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Triskelion headquarters, heard Jarvis's voice.
"Sir, Phoenix Mr.'s energy signal detected."
"Display it."
"Yes."
Jarvis instantly projected a real-time satellite image.
In the image, Hawk's flight speed was extremely fast, so the image was zoomed out very far, as this was the only way to avoid constantly switching views.
"This isn't the way back to New York, is it?"
"No."
"Can you predict his final destination?"
"Please wait."
Jarvis said, and then, based on Hawk's current flight path, a small landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordering Slovakia and the Czech Republic, namely Sokovia, was marked.
"Sokovia."
Tony looked at the place name, then turned to Natasha: "Where is this? Do you have a S.H.I.E.L.D. Base here too?"
Natasha shook her head: "No."
Tony was a bit curious: "Then what is Hawk doing going there?"
Just then.
Jarvis spoke again: "Sir, a signal scan has confirmed the signal source of suspected HYDRA hidden outside Palm Street."
"Send it over."
"Sent."
Tony looked at the signal source location projected by Jarvis and said to Natasha: "There's nothing for me here. I'm going back to New York City first to deal with that hidden HYDRA."
"Thank you."
"You're welcome."
Tony's faceplate closed again, and he walked out: "Hawk is better than Hulk. At least Gwen is there, so I don't need to research any anti-Hawk armor."
This was the truth.
With Gwen there, no matter how irritable Hawk was, he could be appeased.
Unlike Hulk.
He was completely unreasonable, just smashing things around when he got angry.
However...
Anti-Hawk armor?
Tony was indeed secretly researching it.
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