As soon as the words fell, the entire Pocket Universe began to tremble violently.
The sky looked as if it were torn apart by an invisible giant hand, revealing massive patches of cosmic turbulence.
The ground fractured into pieces, and magma bubbled like boiling water.
Countless spatial rifts exploded across this Universe, and spatial shards flew everywhere like shattered glass!
Mephisto was actively detonating this Universe that he had created with his own hands!
He was prepared to use this method to kill Peter and Hela, letting everything start anew!
That's right, a fresh start.
As a Progenitor Demon, he would not completely vanish just because the Universe collapsed.
He would merely return to the state of primordial chaos from hundreds of millions of years ago.
He would need to wait slowly during this process, waiting another hundreds of millions of years for energy accumulation until he gathered enough Origin Power to reopen a Universe of his own.
Even though this would cause hundreds of millions of years of his painstaking efforts to go down the drain.
But to the current Mephisto, as long as he could make this wretched couple, Peter and Hela, lose their lives, it would all be worth it!
"Damn it! He's crazy!" Thor's expression changed dramatically.
Such a situation was almost unsolvable in his understanding.
Even Hela furrowed her brows as she mobilized the Origin Power she had obtained from Mephisto with all her might.
She attempted to use her cosmic authority to end the self-detonation process.
But in the end, she still failed!
This Universe was born because of Mephisto, much like Mephisto's own stomach.
Even if Hela controlled all of his stomach functions, she could not stop him from committing hara-kiri.
"Peter, it seems we should leave this place!"
As the eldest daughter who accompanied Odin to conquer the Nine Realms, Hela possessed a highly strategic vision:
"Once the destruction of this Universe begins, it cannot be stopped. Pushing him to this point and wasting hundreds of millions of years of his efforts is no different from killing him."
"He has already lost the ability to continue seeking revenge on us. There is no need to risk our lives just to kill him completely."
Faced with Hela's persuasion, Peter did not immediately take out the breaker of worlds hammer. Instead, he showed the Omnitrix on his wrist:
"I understand the reasoning! But what if I said... I have a way to stop this Universe from collapsing?"
As he spoke, under Hela's astonished and admiring gaze, Peter turned the dial, letting the icon on the Omnitrix freeze on a pattern that hadn't appeared in a long time.
It was an icon similar to NASA's.
As Peter slammed down on the Omnitrix, brilliant starlight burst from him in the next second.
His entire being seemed bathed in starlight, and a hazy, celestial glow emerged on his body.
It was as if his entire body had transformed into a micro-universe.
It was precisely Cosmic Energy!
This was the energy that Peter had copied from Soros, the patriarch of the Inheritors, after the latter devoured Captain Universe Spider-Man.
This energy was born of the concept attached to the abstract deity Eternity, and it was the fundamental energy used to maintain the operation of the Universe.
To put it plainly, the greatest function of this energy was to forcibly stabilize a chaotic, or even collapsing, Universe.
As Peter willed it, in the next second, the energy on his body began to dissipate.
This Cosmic Energy drifted into the air.
Wherever it passed, the sky stopped tearing, the earth ceased its shaking, and the spatial turbulence gradually calmed down.
With Peter as the core, the originally crumbling Pocket Universe was forcibly stabilized bit by bit.
When the collapse of the Universe was prevented, Mephisto also froze completely in place.
"Damn it, how can this be!"
"How can even Cosmic Energy be controlled by you!"
Mephisto completely doubted his life. He now even suspected whether Peter was the illegitimate son of the Living Tribunal or TOAA.
Otherwise, how could a mere human manage to master various types of Cosmic Energy so effortlessly without being completely blown apart by these complex, diverse, and even conflicting energies?
He looked down at his shriveled hands, a look of despair appearing on his face.
He couldn't win! He really couldn't win!
He even began to regret why he had coveted Peter's soul in the first place.
But what was the use of saying all this now?
He had already lost, completely and utterly.
Attempting to detonate this Universe just now had exhausted the last of his strength.
Now, he couldn't even escape from this Universe if he wanted to.
Thus, Mephisto closed his eyes in pain. This Mr. Demon had completely given up and was waiting for death.
Seeing Mephisto show such an expression, Peter and Hela looked at each other.
In the next second, the two of them raised their weapons in unison with tacit understanding.
A blinding white light symbolizing the Phoenix Force lit up on the god-beating whip, while a nearly pitch-black authority of Pluton glowed on Hela's giant black blade—after devouring Mephisto's Origin Power, her divine power had also completely completed its transformation.
Flanking him on the left and right, the two held their respective weapons high near their temples, making a motion similar to a baseball home run swing.
The dark clouds in the sky seemed to realize something, churning like boiling water. Even the air, which emitted a sulfurous scent, seemed to be affected, creating a terrifying low pressure that made breathing difficult.
Hela glanced at Peter and asked with a smile:
"This is our first time joining forces. For such a memorable attempt, shouldn't we have a resounding name for it?"
"I've thought of one long ago!" Peter grinned and answered without a second thought:
"How about 'Ocean Sovereignty'?"
"Ocean Sovereignty?" Hela chewed on the name, and a moment later, the curve of her lips turned up significantly:
"Sounds pretty good!"
The moment the words fell, the two swung their weapons in perfect unison.
Buzz~!
Accompanied by violent fluctuations in space,
one black and one white beam of light were blasted out together.
The moment these two light beams appeared, they actually began to attract each other.
The black and white light pillars intertwined, gradually condensing into the shape of a giant dragon.
The black-and-white giant dragon spiraled and bit toward Mephisto.
His remaining mangled body was completely pierced through.
Mephisto's body began to vaporize, leaving only a charred heart area.
There, a fragile, still slightly beating core was exposed to the air.
That was Mephisto's demon core.
This thing was usually not fragile, nor would it even manifest in the form of a core.
But since he was almost sucked dry by Hela at this moment, the remaining core naturally became extremely vulnerable.
Glancing at this remaining core, the two looked at each other and then turned back to look at Thor in tacit agreement.
Thor understood immediately.
He raised stormbreaker high, and violent lightning instantly wrapped around the axe blade.
He flew toward Mephisto, thunder faintly flashing in his eyes:
"Father, this lightning flashes for you!"
As his voice fell, the battleaxe in his hand swung down simultaneously.
The core shattered.
Mephisto, one of the Progenitor Demons, completely became history.
Thor put away his battleaxe, looked at Peter, and then at Hela.
An absurd thought popped into his head:
"Hmm~ the three of us are really awesome!"
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