chapter 259

chapter 259

Chapter 259:

Bang!

The female demon’s head whipped backwards as she was blasted in the face with a slug round. I think the armored guy actually nailed her directly in the eye...

It took me a second to remember how I even recognized the armored guy. He looked vaguely familiar to me. I know I had seen him before.

[You have, on a tv screen...back in your past life...]

‘Wait... Doom Slayer?’ I asked in disbelief.

[Yep. I’m just as surprised as you are.]

It was actually the real Doom Slayer!?

What the hell was he doing in our world–no, our Universe!? Was there an obvious crossover I skipped over this past year or did he just spring up out of nowhere?

[Lady Death told you that you broke Space and Time. Maybe that brought him here?]

‘I was expecting some alternate versions of some Marvel heroes to pop up, I wasn't expecting a video game character to pop into reality!’ I replied in my head.

“Ow, my eye! That freaking stings, you asshole!” the female demon shrieked at Doom Slayer in outrage. Her eye looked a bit red, but otherwise was completely fine. Regular human weapons just didn't have enough firepower to put down higher level beings.

“Now now, Jezebel. No need to get so upset about getting hit by a pathetic mortal weapon.” Mephisto chastised his–daughter? She looked like a female version of him so I suspected they were related. She also seemed to be a chip off the old block.

{Daughter of the Devil, Jezebel: Level 66}

Jezebel pouted at her father. “How about I shoot you in the eye and you'll find out what it feels like!?”

Mephisto laughed. “I've been shot and stabbed in pretty much every single possible location over the millions of years I've been around. At this point, nothing can hurt me,” Mephisto said while glancing down at all of us. He was trying to intimidate us by mentioning his age and his made up “invulnerability.”

[What a liar! He was screaming like a baby after the last time you kicked his ass!]

That wasn't exactly a surprise. Mephisto lies about everything. That's pretty much his thing.

Doom Slayer glanced down at the gun in his hands. I couldn't see his face with his helmet on, but I could imagine he was disappointed with its performance just now. A perfect headshot barely even scratched Jezebel.

“Try this instead.” I reached into my inventory and pulled out a few alien rifles I had swiped while I was on Knowhere. They were energy based weapons that I suspected were nuclear powered, so they never ran out of ammo. I tossed him an energy shotgun and assault rifle.

“Thanks.” Doom Slayer nodded at me. He slung the shotgun over his shoulder and aimed the assault rifle at Mephisto. “Does this hurt?” Doom Slayer asked before squeezing the trigger.

Mephisto had been talking tough only a few seconds ago, so I found it hilarious when he started letting out yelps of pain. I swiped those weapons from the Collector’s collection and they packed a pretty decent punch.

“Fuck–ow!” Mephisto yelled while being pelted by high speed semi-nuclear laser fire. Doom Slayer held down the trigger until the gun started to overheat and had to temporarily shut itself off. Mephisto was covered in welts that were already starting to heal, but he was no longer smiling so proudly. “I'm going to kill you first!” he exclaimed while pointing a sharp fingernail at the Doom Slayer.

“Heh! I told you it fucking hurts!” Jezebel laughed at her old man.

I flapped my wings and placed myself in the air between Mephisto and the Doom Slayer. I knew the latter was powerful, but he wasn’t ready for the top of this Universe quite yet. “You won't be getting the opportunity today, Mephisto. You're going to regret showing up in my world in your real body,” I declared while crossing my arms over my chest.

“Yeah! You tell him hot stuff!” Johnny Storm cheered from below. “Flame on!” he yelled and rocketed directly at Mephisto. “Prepare to get wrecked–urgh!”

Mephisto lazily swung his arm and smacked the Human Torch away from himself. Johnny blasted off, careening into a nearby skyscraper. He was lucky Mephisto didn't take him seriously, or he could have been seriously hurt trying to take on someone so many levels above him.

{The Human Torch, Johnny Storm: Level 56}

Mephisto barely gave Johnny a second glance before he scoffed at my bravado. “You were lucky you only had to face a weak avatar of mine the last time we met.” He spread his arms to the sides challengingly. “Now you face the real me!” he proclaimed as malevolent energy began to surround his entire body.

{The Devil of Marvel, Mephisto: Level 168 (Avatar)}

I scoffed right back at him after using Observe. Of course he was too cowardly to invade Earth in his main body. Once again he was using an Avatar, although I suspected this to be one of most powerful bodies–if not his most powerful Avatar. Losing it would definitely set him back quite a bit.

{Emergency Quest Initiated! Repel or slay Mephisto’s Avatar and save New York City before he drags it into his Hell Dimension!}

{Reward: Level up x 3! & An Ultimate Skill!}

“Status,” I thought to myself. I expected this to be a big fight, and I wasn’t going to hold back anything. Mephisto was going to regret thinking he could invade my home city with no consequences.

[Layla of the Fallen]

[Title: Fourteen Winged Angel, Goddess of Angels, Death’s Favored.]

[Level: 97]

[Sacred Gears: Purger of Darkness, Orb of Infinity]

[HP: 117,000]

[MP: 120,000→130,000]

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[Vigor: 10,300]

[Strength: 5,200]

[Intelligence: 12,200→13,000]

[Luck: 2300→2500]

[Available Free Stat Points: 1000→0]

[Perks and Skills:]

-Goddess of Angels (10x Increase in all Stat Points. Access to all Angelic Abilities. Can turn other races into white or black winged Angels depending on the person's Karma.)

-Death’s Favored (Resurrect on Death after 24 hours. Can resurrect up to three people a day.)

-Daughter of Heaven's Will (Passive Skill: Ask and you shall receive! The universe bends to your whims and circumstances that you wish for are far more likely to occur!)

-Observe (Max: No one's level is hidden from your gaze. No one can detect you using Observe on them.)

-Light Manipulation (Max: All Light Abilities Cost 10x less MP to Cast.)

-Senjutsu (Max: Passively regenerate 1000 MP/Min.)

-Rinnegan (Max: All Rinnegan abilities cost 5x less MP.)

“Nice one, sis! Flame on!” Johnny called out as he started roasting them alive. It turned out that burning demons did not smell nice...

“It’s clobberin time!” Ben leapt past Johnny’s flames and started smashing some demon heads as well. Their pitchforks harmlessly bounced off of his rock hard skin.

“Good job,” Susan said. “We’re not done yet though.” The smell of blood and sounds of fighting had attracted a few more squads of Imps to their location.

Despite being surrounded by demons from hell and fighting for her life, Susan actually found herself smiling. She found the fighting to be cathartic in a way. She realized that this was the first battle she’d ever been in where Reed wasn’t barking out annoying orders to everyone mid fight. In fact, without Reed’s constant yelling distracting them, Susan found that the three of them were fighting as a much more cohesive unit. They were tearing through any demons that came at them with ferocious precision.

‘The Fantastic Four were no more, but the Fantastic Three might turn out even better than the original.’ Susan thought to herself.

...

–Layla–

[You’re going to need to learn how to properly use a Katana at some point. You’re just swinging the thing like it's a bat.]

‘I’m doing my best, System! I’m used to spears, not swords!’ I thought back with some snark.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

My Asauchi clashed against Mephisto’s flaming sword over and over in the sky. I hadn’t been able to land a solid hit yet to really hurt him.

I did have a few opportunities to land some light cuts on him, but I held back on all of them. As soon as my Asauchi makes contact with him, he’ll be aware of just how dangerous my new weapon is against him. I didn’t know if I would get more than one shot on him with it.

“Is this all you’ve got, Layla of the Fallen? I expected more!” Mephisto taunted me as he blocked my overhead strike. I was begrudgingly impressed by his strength. He was matching me blow for blow.

{-500HP!}

Air left my lungs as he landed a solid kick directly in my diaphragm. Of course, as an edgelord supervillain/devil, Mephisto was wearing boots covered in metal spikes. Metal spikes that stabbed me when his kick landed.

{You have been poisoned! -50 HP/Second!}

And of course, he poisoned his freaking shoes...

“Not even the special poison I prepared for you seems to be working. I have to say, Layla, that you have the strangest physiology I’ve ever come across. All of your injuries end up disappearing within seconds.” Mephisto commented while observing the puncture wounds in my stomach fade away. “I can’t wait to rip the secrets of your body out of your corpse. Maybe I’ll even resurrect you as my zombie sex slave once I'm done with you.” he added with a chuckle.

“Almighty Push!” I hastily threw out my hand and blasted him off of me.

“Fuck!” he cursed, a wave of condensed gravity smashed him in the face. Mephisto flew back a dozen meters before extending his large wings to both sides. His wings caught the air around him and halted his momentum. “It's that annoying gravity attack again. Haven't you learned anything new since our last fight?” he asked in irritation.

My Rinnegan locked onto his form. “As a matter of fact, I have learned something new. Amaterasu!” Black flames covered his form from head to toe! He was completely engulfed by the flames of Amaterasu.

“I” took that split second opportunity while his sight was cut off to plan out my next move...

The flames burned atop his red skin, but there weren’t any screams of pain coming from the Devil. “Now you’re just spoiling me,” Mephisto said from underneath the fire. “Mmmm, these flames are delicious. I love devouring divinity.” He opened his mouth wide and started sucking in all the black fire surrounding his body. He let out a happy belch after swallowing all of them. “I rule over Hell, you actually thought I would be harmed by fire?” he asked me in disappointment.

“It was worth a shot.” We were fighting above the populated city, so I had to stick with my attacks that caused as little destruction as possible.

Mephisto shook his head at me. “It seems that I have overestimated you. You obviously can’t defeat me in my real form. I suppose I might as well finish you off now. Maybe your beautiful sister Gabriel will be more fun?” He taunted me.

I grit my teeth and glared at him hatefully! “I wont lose here and I won't let you touch her!” I yelled loudly. “I'll stop you!”

“You will try,” he replied dryly.

I flew directly at him again and started wildly swinging the Asauchi in my hands. I wasn’t going for any subtle moves this time, every single swing of mine was aimed to take his head off!

Clang Clang Clang Clang!

Mephisto effortlessly parried every single one of my strikes with a grin on his face. “Wow, you really are trash with a sword, aren’t you? You should have stuck with spears...” We continued to rapidly exchange swords strikes for another 30 seconds. In that short window, I must have swung my sword thousands of times! Not a single blow managed to connect with him. He was right, I was trash with a sword.

“Rah!” I yelled again. “Just die, you monster!” I stabbed my blade towards his non-existent heart!

“I don’t think I will.” Mephisto parried my strike out of the way before spinning his blade and delivering a high speed cleaving strike.

A cleaving strike that landed directly on my neck...

An expression of pure shock appeared on my face as my head separated from my body! The last thing my eyes saw was Mephisto’s smirk of victory.

And then my body exploded into smoke...

...

–Mephisto–

He had done it! He had finally slain the annoying Fallen Angel and gotten his revenge. The expression of shock on her face as he separated her head from her shoulders was glorious. Mephisto was going to remember this amazing moment for eternity. He couldn’t wait to present her head to her family members and witness their collective despair!

He reached his hand out to snatch her severed head out of the air. Before he could grab hold of it though, it disappeared in a puff of smoke!

Mephisto frowned. “What the–”

Puchi!

A sword exploded out the front of his chest! Someone had impaled him from behind when he was distracted by his victory! ‘How dare they!’

Mephisto glanced down at the blade sticking out of his chest. He recognized it, it was the same weapon that Layla had been trying to fight him with. The strange and average looking Katana that had randomly appeared in front of her before they started fighting.

He turned his head to see who had stabbed him. To his shock, it was a very familiar face.

“But...How...?”

“You’re not the only one that can use clones, Mephisto. I knew you would let your guard down after killing me,” Layla told him while twisting the blade in his chest. “My Shadow Clone was pretty convincing wasn’t it?”

Mephisto was starting to feel strange... He was starting to feel incredibly weak. Not just his Avatar either, he felt like something was wrong with his main body! “W–What did you do to me? What is this word?” Mephisto coughed out a mouthful of blood.

“It’s called a Zanpakuto,” Layla told him. “It’s a weapon that directly cuts and sever souls. A weapon that can harm you just by cutting your avatar here!” she explained to him with a smirk.

Mephisto’s eyes widened! That was–that was very bad for him. No wonder he was feeling so weak. He needed to cancel the connection with his Avatar immediately! He was in the process of doing just that when Layla ripped the blade out of him and caused him to scream in pain.

“You’re not escaping that easily. If you survive this, I want you to know that I will finish the job some day!” Layla declared before quickly swinging her blade horizontally.

In an ironic twist of fate, Mephisto ended up losing his head. Layla had slain another one of his Avatars.

As for his main body, back in hell...

It experienced more pain and agony than he had ever thought possible. Before his world went black, his last thoughts were of how he had been defeated by Layla for a second time now...

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