Chapter 288

Chapter 288: The Law of Fear,  The Lord of the Hell Plane

Feeling its power, Bruce did not rashly move. He began to observe the behavior of the ancient demon.

Seeing Bruce looking at him, the ancient demon said in a drumming voice, “Human, how can you have the power of demons in you?”

Hearing the question, Bruce was taken aback. The power of demons? Did he mean the Rule of Fear?

The Rule of Fear was inherently demonic. He had downloaded it from the demon Azrael, and he, of course, could not tell this to the ancient demon.

At that, his God’s Telekinesis found that since this ancient demon came to Earth, his aura  was slightly weakened.

It made him think that there must be a limit to the arrival of demons. Otherwise the world would have been occupied by such a monster.

Seizing on his inability to stay on earth for long, Bruce steadied himself. “You mean the Rule of Fear?”

“The Rule of Fear?” The ancient demon laughed darkly. “Yes, human. That is the power.

“I feel the power that emanates from this place, and it’s you. Very well, it looks as if hell will soon have another general.”

The demon let out an evil laugh, but ignored Bruce. His finger twitched and drew a blood-red six-pointed star on the spot where Apocalypse had died.

The red six-pointed star contained the power of the ancient demon. Suddenly, it emitted dazzling golden light.

Something strange happened to surprise Bruce.

Apocalypse’s hazy face emerged from it!

Seeing that, the ancient demon reached out and hooked Apocalypse’s soul, trying to pull him out. Then, it dawned on Bruce.

Apocalypse did not die because his soul was imprisoned by the ancient demon.

No wonder. Apocalypse was not really dead until his soul was destroyed.

The ancient demon wanted to take him away, apparently to raise him up as the great demon.

A pure evil like Apocalypse would kill a planet without frowning, a real monster among demons.

If such a person became a demon, he would surely be transformed into something like a demonic god.

No wonder such beings like the ancient demon could not help coming to retrieve him.

But Apocalypse, however, was killed by Bruce.

The ancient demon was actually retrieving him without saying a word? It could be said that he didn’t take him seriously.

There was no such simple thing in the world. Even if Thanos, with the Infinity Gauntlet, came, Bruce would find a way to send him home.

At this point, Bruce reached out and grabbed the demon’s finger.

Feeling his fingers being held, the ancient demon turned and gave Bruce a cruel look.

“Why? Do you want to protect him?”

“Yes.”

The ancient demon laughed.

Despite its huge body, he clawed Bruce at a very fast speed.

If the Fire king did the same attack, the ancient demon was still a hundred times faster than him!

Bang!

Bruce stretched out his hand, struggling to resist the attack of the ancient demon. But he was knocked off his feet.

“Human, you are the first to rob a man from Mephisto.”

“It seems that it has been too long since I came to the world. The world has long forgotten about my legend. I’ll let you see my real power today.”

The giant claw moved and caught Bruce who had jumped.

A force more terrifying than the Rule of Fear enveloped Bruce after the demon touched his skin.

Bruce could see that the Rule of Fear the demon cast was no longer unbodied. Instead, it turned into a physical weapon and wrapped itself around him.

The red light in it  just cast a bit was stronger than the rule of fear that Bruce was now bursting with all his might.

Bruce knew that if he let it touch him, he would soon become the demon’s toy.

In the nick of time, Bruce donned the Ant-man suit and shrunk his body.

As Bruce’s body shrank, Mephisto couldn’t find him.

“Huh? Where’d he go?” Mephista became suspicious.

While Mephisto couldn’t find him, Bruce checked the ancient demon’s stats.

………..

After reading Mephisto’s stats, Bruce was relieved that it was just a projection of Mephisto.

It was certainly less than a tenth the strength of the real body. Otherwise, Bruce was screwed when he was covered by the Lwa of Fear just now.

This Mephisto, as once could see from the data, was a multiverse level being.

He single-handedly created the hells plane, which was independent of the entire multiverse.

He alone held the cosmic plane of Hell and was the master of that realm.

Mephisto’s worst abilities were better than those of level 5 mutants. His highest powers involved the Law of Fear, and he also had Rules of Souls that ranked at the top of various rules.

It was with Rules of Souls that Mephisto was able to freely enter into a contract of servitude with ordinary humans.

One of the most representative was the Ghost Rider.

The Ghost Rider walked on Earth as an ordinary person and made a soul contract with Mephisto, selling his soul to the devil.

He was transformed into a burning hellfire, gaining immortality and the Eye of Judgment.

The Eye of Judgment belongs to the power of rules.

In other words, Mephisto created a god at will on the earth. Such a lord of ages, no one wasn’t afraid.

But even so, Bruce didn’t intend to let him take the soul of the Apocalypse with him.

Bruce saw that Mephisto could not find him and prepared to summon Apocalypse’s soul again.

Mephisto’s time on earth was, after all, very limited.

If he stayed longer, the other gods would find him.

At that moment, the little Bruce took out the long unused Soul Gem, then boldly aimed it to Mephisto’s projection, who was ready to take Apocalypse.