American comics: From Hogwarts to God on Earth

Chapter 261 It's hard to imagine the suffering of a brainless being.

"How much magic power would you need to kill this avatar?"

Mephisto immediately beamed with joy.

"Ah, isn't this the perfect time for me to ask for the moon?" Thinking this, Mephisto glanced at the woman beside him. "If Hela can agree with me, I can reap huge profits."

Rune could tell what Mephisto was thinking just by looking at his sly expression, and Hela would definitely follow this silver-tongued bastard in deceiving people for enough profit, so in the end he shook his head and sighed: "Never mind, we'll talk about it later."

Just then, the heroes who went to search for the underground resistance returned. Behind Doctor Strange, besides Scarlet Witch, were Vision, Jocasta, and other mechanical heroes. The latter's background is quite interesting; she was a wife created by Ultron after he hypnotized Dr. Pym and kidnapped Wasp, using Wasp's brainwaves to clone her.

Unfortunately, because he copied the Wasp's brainwaves, Jocasta also gained the Wasp's sense of justice and unilaterally "divorced" Ultron a few days later.

"This is not the time for pleasantries; you can leave now. The situation may get a bit chaotic, and some mutated creatures might fall to Earth. We'll need you to clean them up then," Rune said directly to the other heroes and the villains brought over by Doctor Doom after they returned.

He's about to make a big splash.

Mr. Fantastic Reed and the others hesitated to speak.

Most people present heard Rune say that he could survive this apocalypse. Most of the heroes and villains present also hoped that they could survive. However, most people thought that the so-called apocalypse only referred to the collision of the two Earths in front of them.

However, Reed from the Fantastic Four, Beast from the X-Men, and Iron Man all understood what Rune meant by the apocalypse. Although everything before them was already despairing enough, according to their detection, such a collision between two Earths had actually occurred at least twice before. Although it was unknown who intercepted the other Earth in the first two incidents, this disaster was clearly not going to end there.

However, to avoid panic among the other heroes who are unaware of this, they are unwilling to reveal it for the time being—even though they know that when they encounter another Earth in another dimension, the news will be impossible to keep secret. At that time, Iron Man, Strange, and the other members of the Illuminati will inevitably be attacked by the masses.

Captain Marvel was also only vaguely aware of this. She looked at Doctor Doom, who was whispering to the giant snake, seemingly discussing something.

Strange looked at Mephisto and Hela. As a magically gifted genius, he immediately understood how Rune intended to kill this cancerous Earth: "You want to use other beings with a concept of death as swords to kill the gods beneath our feet?"

Rune nodded: "What do you think?"

"It does have some feasibility, but this ritual would probably require a lot of magic power and a considerable amount of preparation time," Strange thought Rune's method was good, but he was a bit late and didn't have enough time. "I could buy you some time through the three sanctuaries, but that probably still wouldn't be enough, and do you have enough magic power?"

Theoretically, the magic Rune wants to use is enough to kill everyone except for death, an abstract entity. However, this universality comes at a price. For example, the conditions are harsh. It requires finding someone who has the concept of death. However, anyone who has the concept of death is an extremely powerful being. Moreover, extracting the concept of death would require a amount of magic power that would cause an ordinary mage to have a heart attack if they saw it.

Rune waved his hand, indicating that he already had a solution.

"Okay, I understand." Doctor Strange nodded. "Then I'll take the others back first. Good luck."

Doctor Strange opened the portal, and the members of this world naturally returned. The members of the underground resistance in the cancerous universe hesitated for a moment. Vision and Scarlet Witch clasped hands, taking one last look at this world with the other resistance members, as if bidding farewell to the universe that had given them life and nurtured them, yet betrayed them. Then, they resolutely stepped into Doctor Strange's portal, never looking back.

On the other side, Rune was also busy. He first persuaded Raven to return to another universe, and then turned the heroes and villains who were ignited and constantly tormented by the Fiendfire curse into human cubes one by one. Due to the nature of the Fiendfire curse, these magical flames were constantly consuming the undead creatures' resources for growth. These flames, which could even destroy souls, were quite dangerous, but some people were still able to launch a counterattack while wearing the Fiendfire.

For example, the Hulk, who has mutated and lost his human form, and Captain America, whose head and body are indistinguishable—when their strong will becomes an aid to evil, this contrast is all the more poignant. But they were inherently weaker than their counterparts in another universe.

They were ignited by Fiendish Flames, so their counterattacks were naturally extremely weak. Rune only needed one punch to render the Hulk unable to resist.

Hela watched Rune busily going about his business, while Mephisto felt a sense of kinship with him—he thought Rune was also a collector, except that he liked to collect unique souls, while Rune liked to collect human cubes.

Fortunately, the evil versions of the good and evil in this universe weren't as popular as the original Captain Marvel, Mar-Vell, so turning them into human cubes didn't require Rune too much effort. Soon, Rune had gathered a large number of human cubes together and fused them into a giant human cube.

This step already puzzled Mephisto: "What are you doing? Such a fine collection, and you just melted them all down?"

Rune glanced at Mephisto: "Who said these are collectibles? They're fuel!"

Indeed, Rune's idea was actually quite simple. What was the problem of insufficient time and magic power? In essence, it all boiled down to one issue: insufficient magic power. As long as he had enough magic power, he could delay the collision of the two Earths, and the latter problem would naturally be solved.

So where does the magic come from?

The wool comes from the sheep's back. Rune plans to get it from this avatar of the multi-horned one. He doesn't know if the avatar of the multi-horned one has a problem with its brain or if the multi-horned one itself has a problem with its brain. When Rune turned Marvel into a human cube, he found that the multi-horned one didn't seem to be very smart. When his subordinates were injured, he would only give them blessings, but he didn't know to prioritize repairing his subordinates' brains.

Or perhaps it's because multi-horned beings lack intelligence? That seems to make sense.