Hela cracked her wrists and neck, her bones making a popping noise like crackling beans.
After absorbing so much of Mephisto's source power, she could feel the Universe's rejection of her rapidly fading.
She could even vaguely mobilize some of the fundamental laws in this Universe.
At this thought, the corners of her mouth curled into a pleased arc, and her battle-hungry gaze locked onto Mephisto.
Across from her, Mephisto's expression at this moment looked worse than if his own mother had died.
The power flowing through this woman was all his own!
Thinking of this, Mephisto gritted his teeth unconsciously and made a decision in his heart!
Right now, Peter's attack was no longer important!
He had to kill this bitch immediately and snatch back all the source power she had devoured.
This was his only way to turn the tables!
With this thought, he completely ignored Peter behind him, desperately mobilizing his various authorities over this Universe.
Before, using any authority of this Universe had been effortless for him.
But now, he had to exert all his strength, showing just how much he had lost in the previous battles!
Following Mephisto's movements,
the air instantly vanished, gravity multiplied by tens of thousands of times, and the ground beneath their feet erupted with surging lava.
Dazzling red light cannons condensed on Mephisto's hands.
These were all the methods he had used to deal with Hela before.
And they had been highly effective; Hela hadn't been able to deal with them at all!
But now, the situation had clearly reversed!
Hela stood in place. She didn't counterattack or dodge, but simply smiled and looked directly at Mephisto, waiting for his attack to land.
This was a test—a test of exactly how much 'authority' she had stolen from Mephisto!
*Crack!*
The gravity bore down on Hela, causing her knees to bend slightly, but in the next second, a dark green divine light surfaced on her body, helping her neutralize the effects of the gravity.
Immediately after, the scorching lava completely enveloped her, but instead of burning her skin, it condensed on her body into a lava armor identical to Mephisto's previous one.
Finally, there were the red light cannons.
These light cannons blasted against Hela's body, instantly shattering the lava armor.
They even blasted massive holes through Hela's body!
Seeing this, a hint of a smile finally appeared on Mephisto's face.
Fortunately, the situation didn't seem as bad as he had imagined...
But was that really the case?
"Hmm... Not bad. Your authority is indeed very useful."
Through the smoke, Hela's voice came clearly. Immediately after, a figure burst through the smoke at extreme speed, appearing right in front of Mephisto.
With two black spikes in hand, she flung them straight at Mephisto.
The spikes tore through the air, causing even space itself to fluctuate wildly.
Mephisto wanted to dodge, but Peter's all-black the necrosword was already about to strike him.
Choosing the lesser of two evils, he ultimately chose to take Hela's attack head-on.
He thought this would surely be less painful than Peter's all-black the necrosword.
But when the spikes pierced his chest, he realized just how ridiculously wrong he was.
A large spray of black blood erupted.
But before the black blood could even hit the ground, it drifted toward Hela of its own accord and was absorbed into her body.
"Wryyyyy~~~~!!!"
Mephisto let out a cry of total breakdown.
Not only because Hela could now straight-up drain the source power from his body,
but even more so because he saw that the holes blasted in Hela's body by the light cannons were currently healing at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Hela was replacing him in controlling the authority of this Universe.
This Universe was now... serving both of them at the same time!
A pain akin to being NTR'd hit Mephisto's fragile little heart.
At this moment, he was like an investor who had failed in an overseas investment.
Returning to America heavily in debt to prepare for a comeback, only to find upon his return that his own house had been occupied by someone else, and because the other party had squatted there for so long, even the full property rights now completely belonged to them.
Nobody could stand such a thing happening to them.
"Bitch! Bitch! Bitch!!!"
He cursed at Hela almost frantically,
"Give me back my power!"
He roared, throwing himself at Hela without a care for anything else.
At this moment, Peter's expression on the side was just like TheShy hearing Ning talk nonsense:
"He's anxious, he's anxious!"
He was about to seize the opportunity to pursue and attack, but he was stopped by a look from Hela.
Seeing her like this, Peter cooperatively stayed his hand, letting the two of them clash fiercely.
In any case, the current Mephisto was nothing more than meat on a chopping block; he could no longer stir up any waves!
Hela and Mephisto instantly locked in battle.
Uh... well, saying they 'locked in battle' was actually a bit of an insult to Hela.
To be precise, Hela was unilaterally brutalizing Mephisto.
The black spikes once again turned into a giant blade, slashing into Mephisto's knees.
Both of his shins snapped off, turning into black blood that Hela fully absorbed.
Mephisto let out a howl, raising his massive palm to swat at Hela.
Hela sidestepped to dodge, delivering another slash with a backhand strike.
The blade instantly sliced through Mephisto's forearm.
Mephisto hammered the ground in anger, and lava shot into the sky, turning into a fire dragon that bit toward Hela.
With a casual spell from Hela, the fire dragon not only disintegrated instantly, but was even dyed with a layer of dark green light, immediately turning around to attack Mephisto.
Their combat skills were simply not in the same league.
Before, Mephisto had already found it hard to parry, only able to force a cheat-like advantage by relying on his near-bug-level control over the authority of this Universe.
But now, with their control over the Universe's authority split fifty-fifty, Mephisto's lack of combat experience due to years of living in comfort was completely exposed.
In the blink of an eye, half an hour had passed, and the two had clashed for over a thousand rounds.
Throughout the process, Mephisto's figure grew smaller and smaller, shrinking from a thousand meters to a hundred, then from a hundred to fifty, and finally down to just over ten meters.
By now, the lava armor on his body had long since vanished.
Underneath the armor, the originally robust and bulging red muscles had completely disappeared, replaced by shocking skin and bones.
At this moment, he looked practically like a dried mummy.
Finally, Mephisto stopped struggling. He looked at Hela, his eyes calm yet vaguely carrying a hint of madness.
He looked just like those black guys commonly seen in Hells Kitchen who, after falling into desperate straits with nowhere to go, could only join gangs and live in a daze relying on Enhancers.
"Impossible... This is impossible..."
He muttered to himself, "I am Mephisto, the progenitor demon born after the destruction of the old Universe. How could I lose to ants like you..."
Looking at his psychotic state, Peter and Hela exchanged a glance, both realizing that something was wrong.
Sure enough, in the next second, they heard Mephisto burst into a frenzied laugh:
"Since I can't win... then let's all die together!"
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