"It's just a destroyer robot, and you're scaring me! And you're still pretending!" Kurohane's words were like a thunderbolt, shocking Doctor Doom. He almost forgot what he was there for, and his brain couldn't react for a moment! After hesitating for a long time, he finally started asking Kurohane a new question.
"How do you say that?"
"Initially, I thought it was the armor you were wearing that blocked my sight and prevented me from sensing the soul within you. But after I asked you to take off your helmet, I found out your true identity."
Kurohane's face was full of smiles. At first, he was forcibly pulled out of Galactus' spiritual world. Kurohane was really scared, but when Doctor Doom took off his helmet, Kurohane finally saw the true form of the Doctor Doom in front of him. He was not a living person at all.
This was a soulless and unconscious destroyer robot, equipped with an AI with the same will as Doctor Doom. Let them think that he was the real Doctor Doom, unless the real Doctor Doom stood in front of them. Or only when there was another destroyer robot present would they realize that they were destroyer robots. They had mechanical brains that were exactly the same as human brains, and could even deceive some weaker telepaths. Let them think that the person in front of them was the real Doctor Doom!
Usually these destroyer robots served as Doctor Doom's guards. Only when Doctor Doom was unavailable or didn't want to risk going to a place directly, would he send a destroyer robot in his place.
The reason why Kurohane was able to sense it was because he didn't sense the flesh and blood breath from the Doctor Doom in front of him! That's right, flesh and blood! The Doctor Doom in front of him even had a part of Doctor Doom's soul. This was a typical Doctor Doom method, the perfect fusion of technology and magic.
If it were another person who didn't know Doctor Doom, they really wouldn't be able to see through Doctor Doom's disguise! The biggest flaw in this disguise was that Doctor Doom's face was always in the process of being destroyed. And the Doctor Doom in front of him didn't even have a trace of flesh and blood on his body. That bright face was made of other materials.
Kurohane's logic was that you are the almighty Lord Doom in the battle world, who can repair your injured face. But you can never escape the fate of having a scarred face, and the premise of a scar is, at least you have to have a face! Therefore, if there is no Doctor Doom who can damage his face, then he is obviously not the real Doctor Doom!
"Alright, it's my turn to ask again. How did you pull me out of Galactus' mental world?"
The only thing Kurohane couldn't understand was this: why could a destroyer robot be pulled out under the protection of the Phoenix Force without any resistance. The expression on the destroyer robot's face suddenly became much more human-like, and even its eyes began to have some spirit.
Kurohane was stunned... He raised a vibranium shield engraved with a nine-headed snake pattern, and four or five Shields of the Seraphim appeared in front of him, covering his figure completely!
"Such a quick reaction? You knew I was coming?" Doctor Doom's mouth curled up slightly, and he said to the vigilant Kurohane with amusement: "It's okay, you don't have to be so vigilant against me. After my consciousness descended, I'm not necessarily your opponent, and I have no plans to do anything to you!"
"The soul in your body is hundreds of times stronger than before. With such a massive soul power, the only possibility I can think of is that it's your original soul that has descended. It would be difficult not to find it! Just answer my question, it's a deal between us."
Kurohane didn't believe what Doctor Doom said at all, and covered himself with a shield. Only two eyes were exposed from behind the shield, always paying attention to Doctor Doom's movements.
"You don't even know the answer to such a simple question. I don't know how you became the lord of the dark dimension. Are you Dormammu's son?" Doctor Doom seemed very dissatisfied with Kurohane's performance and said angrily: "Magic is not just about offense and defense. If I want your consciousness to return to its original form, I don't even have to attack you. All we need to do is heal your soul and summon your consciousness back to your body. Since I cast a healing spell on you, your body's defenses won't be activated. This will also allow me to bypass the Phoenix Force on you, because it will also identify me as your ally!"
Kurohane was shocked... He had been wondering why the Phoenix Force didn't intend to protect him. It turned out that it didn't regard Doctor Doom as an enemy, but as a teammate! He thought, I thought this destroyer robot was this strong. If that's the case, then I won't fight him! I'll just directly join Battleworld and become Doctor Doom's henchman, and become his number two or something. Then I'll just be an undercover agent next to Doom, try to dig a big hole for him, and then take over Battleworld! Anyway, I used to be an undercover Hydra agent, so I'm very good at this job.
"Alright, let's be frank. Although the Transcendent God has been destroyed, but I still can't stop the destruction of the multiverse, even as we speak, there are countless Earths colliding with each other, and countless universes are disappearing." Doctor Doom did not deny that he was not omnipotent. There were always things in this world that he couldn't do.
"And those fragments left behind from the destroyed universes, after Molecule Man absorbed the Transcendent God, his power can do a lot of things, such as gathering the debris of the universe, I will guide the energy to save these fragments of the multiverse and unite them to form a new world! But the problem is, I haven't completed the puzzle yet, so I want to invite you to join me."
"Why do you need my participation?" Kurohane didn't think he could help Doctor Doom at all. He knew nothing about building a battle world. But if you asked Kurohane to tear something down, he was pretty good at that!
"Because I want to bring all those dimensional demons and lords of hell into the battle world, and also integrate their hell dimensions into the battle world."
As soon as Doctor Doom finished speaking, Kurohane felt the hair on his back stand up. He quickly turned the shield and blocked it in the direction of his back, and sure enough, it blocked a wave of white energy shock!
Seeing another "Doctor Doom" who was attacking him from behind, Kurohane snorted coldly. "You don't really think I don't know that you have two destroyer robots here, do you? I have to knock them all down for you today, otherwise, you'll really think I'm a vegetarian!"
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