Buzz buzz buzz—!
The eggshell made of Phoenix power began to shrink, pressing in on Shumagras.
"Let me go! I'm willing to submit to you! I'm willing to give you my soul!" Shumagras begged.
"Too bad you didn't say it earlier. Now there's no point in begging. I'll come and take your soul myself!" Kurohane said.
As the eggshell shrank, Shumagras also shrank, returning to a two-meter size, with a pleading expression in each of his eyeballs.
Phew!
Kurohane's right hand pierced Shumagras's body and pulled out a transparent eyeball. The black snake swallowed it. Shumagras's hell dimension returned to its original form. Kurohane's power doubled. With a single thought, he could hold Shumagras's soul in his hand.
Kurohane saw Cyttorak holding Sithorn's head in his hand. "Wow! Not bad! I knew you could win! Do you want to just give up?"
"We haven't fought. I won't give up so easily," Cyttorak said, panting. For him, fighting was training. He felt that the position of Devil should be his.
"But I don't want to play anymore. Although the game of destruction is fun, it gets boring if you play it too often!"
"Are you insulting me?" Cyttorak was angry. He held Sithorn's head and launched a punch at Kurohane's face.
Bang—!
The punch stopped ten centimeters from Kurohane's face. He couldn't move forward. He also couldn't pull his fist back. Space and time seemed to be locked down.
"See? This is the difference," Kurohane said calmly. "Before, I just wanted you to hold Sithorn back. But you're really strong, and you can really kill him."
"Now, do you understand the gap between us?" Kurohane took Sithorn's head from Cyttorak's hand. "You still dare to stare at me? I'll gouge out your eyes!"
"Ow!"
Kurohane gouged out both of Sithorn's eyes. The small black snake swallowed them. Then he gouged out Cyttorak's heart. The black snake devoured it all. Three seconds later, Kurohane felt himself being magnified infinitely. The hell dimension spun in the palm of his hand.
He could see everything inside the hell dimension, and also see the Ant-Man Empire and Conqueror Kang in the Quantum Realm. He could observe everything in the multiverse simultaneously. If he wanted to, he could destroy the multiverse with a light pinch.
Buzz—!
Several blurry figures appeared. A white-bearded old man smiled at him. On the other side, a large golden face glanced at Kurohane, as if he didn't want to communicate with a Devil. The old man was God, and the golden face was TOAA, the creator of the Omnipotent Universe.
"Devil, from now on you are the general manager of the branch," the old man said, patting Kurohane's shoulder.
"So you're not the chairman either. You and TOAA share the shares. In the end, you guys played me to death. I don't know what's the point," Kurohane retorted. After becoming an omnipotent-level universal power, he could no longer be fooled.
"You have to keep it up. Don't let the name Devil get away from you. I worked so hard to build my image, I can't let you ruin it!" The old man hugged Kurohane.
Kurohane did not refuse. He still liked living on Earth. He took the Su Zhou Universe given to him by Loki, and made a safe separation from the multiverse.
"I am now the Devil recognized by Heaven and Hell. Does it make sense for me to do something evil?" Kurohane asked.
"Don't go overboard, the future of Marvel still depends on Doomsday and the Secret Invasion. After you vent your anger, remember to give it back to him," the white-bearded old man replied. "Difficult things are often solved with a single thought. As long as the entire universe remains active, there will be no day of exhaustion."
"I understand," Kurohane replied. "But before that, I have to go back to hell and hold a meeting with the project managers and actors below. We need to tell them about the new branch manager!"
"Please do. When you are needed, the script will be sent to you. You usually don't have to perform yourself, but you have to arrange the actors' work well!"
"I know!" Kurohane waved at the white-bearded old man, then returned to his own dimension.
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