Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 920 18. The frog in the well [4840]

In the lobby of the Trident Building, the rays of the setting sun shone on Merlin.

In the distant sky, the battle between the blade warrior and the blood-sucking monster is not over yet.

But the heroes who had freed their hands had already joined the battlefield. Diana and Thor blasted the monster into the ground, and were beaten by the Hulk who rushed out of the ground.

The scene was very hot, but Merlin was no longer interested in watching it.

He was resting with his eyes closed, and an ancient body's magic blocked the hall on the highest floor, preventing the captain and Batman from entering.

He didn't want to explain anything.

Because the game is not over yet...

Far from it.

It can't be that simple...

But there was also a devil chattering behind Merlin, which annoyed him immensely.

"You are so tenacious, I swear by the real name of the old devil, I have not seen such a tenacious soul in many years..."

"Oh my God, after being hit repeatedly, being chased and intercepted by some of the most powerful people in the world, and betrayed by old friends, but still relying on my own arrangements to calmly see through and dismantle every move."

"But I guess your heart must be very painful. You killed your best friend with your own hands and saved others."

The big devil laughed and said:

"To be honest, I think you can do better. You shouldn't have killed Pierce in anger just now. You woke him up, and he is willing to bear all the responsibilities?"

"You can continue to be a big hero."

"Why are you so impulsive?"

Mephisto took a step forward, standing on the line dividing light and shadow.

It looked at Merlin who was sitting on the blood-stained chair with his back to it.

It hardly needs eyes to feel Merlin's indescribable mood at this moment.

That must be heavy.

"I once said to poor Pierce, if you can persevere until the end, then the grievances between me and you will be written off..."

The big devil made a tearing motion, and it said:

"Well, you persisted until the end, you killed my contractor, you won..."

"Merlin, this game between you and Pierce, and between me, you won."

"Win the game, lose everything..."

"Behold, a broken soul entwined with despair and pain."

Mephisto laughed, and it leaned back and forth, and said:

"I lost, but why am I not sad at all?"

"This is a warning! Merlin."

"If you and your friends dare to provoke the devil, you will have to pay a price... Tragic, terrible, painful, let you remember the price for a lifetime!"

The smile on Mephisto's face turned into a vicious one. It clenched its paws and said to Merlin:

"The grievances between us have been written off."

"Of course, if you want to play with the old devil again, you and your group of restless children still want to continue to participate in the battle for the king of hell, the old devil will not mind playing with you again!"

"Have you... said enough?"

Merlin's cold voice echoed in the hall, he said:

"Enough is enough to get out."

"I don't have time to deal with you now, there will be 'guests' later..."

"Ok?"

Merlin's calm and excessive attitude surprised the big devil who came to laugh at him.

In its prediction, after suffering such a big loss, Merlin should be furious when he saw it, angrily wanting to rush into the hell of Mephistopheles and kill it.

but now...

What's happening here?

After it dropped so many harsh words, was Merlin's reaction so indifferent?

Is he crazy because he was too stimulated and suffered too much pain?

"What guest?"

The great devil asked with a strange expression:

"It's over, Merlin, Hydra is dead, and those from S.H.I.E.L.D. have been rescued. The Insight Project is over, and Pierce and his faction will be liquidated."

"Of course, except that you killed the world in full view, the chairman of the Security Council is a little troublesome, everything else is over."

"The clown is dead too, he was killed by the lunatic you sent, and everything is over."

"How stupid!"

Merlin leaned on the hilt of the sword with one finger, and leaned back in the chair with his eyes closed.

他 说:

"The most powerful creature in hell is nothing more than a bug crawling on the ground... That's what you see, Mephisto."

"You rushed in front of me to show off your power, mocked me wantonly, tried to hit me with words, acting as if everything was under control, but you are just a pawn..."

"No, you're not even a pawn."

"You're just a smug frog in a well."

"Hey, speak clearly!"

Mephisto said dissatisfied:

"You can ridicule me if you want, but you have to have evidence. Just casually saying some high-ranking lies can't change anything."

"The fact is that under my arrangement, you have experienced an extremely painful and bad event. Apart from a dispensable victory, you have almost lost nothing."

"Your belief has been destroyed by me, your efforts have been disrupted by me, and the path you insisted on has also collapsed."

"There is no more Hydra in this world, you cut off the last head; but there will be no S.H.I.E.L.D., you sent it into the abyss with your own hands."

"Am I wrong? Isn't it true?"

"Yes, that's the truth."

Merlin nodded indifferently, and he looked at the sunset in front of him.

He whispered:

"But if you want to hear something more real, let me tell you."

"You...you are all born of me."

"This world, everything in the world, everything revolves around me."

"I made those preparations, every step I took was to ingest the victory I wanted, but this victory is not something you can give me!"

"I'm chasing after things you can't even think about."

"And now, you're smug thinking it's game over, but in reality, it's just halftime."

"The person I played with was never you, Mephisto, and my opponent at this moment is not you..."

Merlin closed his eyes, and tried his best to mobilize the huge magic power to repair the stinging pain in his soul.

He no longer intends to talk to the big devil any more.

So he concluded softly:

"This game is about the world and even the stars of this side. You are just one of them, no different from a stone or a piece of paper. If you still don't understand, then I will explain it more clearly!"

"you..."

"Not worthy!"

"Well, I can confirm now that you are really crazy."

The big devil didn't expect Merlin to say such a thing, it rolled its eyes, and said with great regret:

"Too bad I was expecting you to be a little bit more interesting after this crazy day... Didn't expect you to be nothing more than that."

"Ha ha."

"Go back to your hell, and then thank me from the bottom of my heart for the response I am about to make. This world was born because of me, and will exist because of me."

"From today onwards, every day you are alive is not because you are strong enough..."

"Just because I'm kind enough."

"But don't take that for granted."

Merlin smiled softly.

He sighed and said:

"I love the world, with all its flaws..."

The big devil's eyes twitched. He found that after killing Pierce, Merlin entered a very strange state.

How to describe it?

It's like... It's like it's suddenly become a little unknown.

The way this guy talks... it's like talking to a pet in a jar.

Who does he think he is!

"Aren't you leaving yet?"

A few seconds later, Merlin said in surprise:

"Are you going to wait here and watch everything continue? Or are you waiting for me to drop a few harsh words as an accompaniment to send you off?"

"Well, since you want it, I'll give it to you."

Merlin cleared his throat, and said in a cold voice:

"Mephisto, go back to your hell, and pray to every existence you can think of."

"Pray that the day we never meet again."

"But if I'm lucky enough, or you're unlucky enough, then poor Mephisto..."

"See you next time, when your existence is erased, I will erase it with my own hands!"

"Tch, pretending to be a ghost!"

The big devil pouted.

It simply doesn't believe that Merlin can do what he claims.

From its point of view, Merlin is completely insane, and there is nothing worth targeting.

Moreover, the other party has already started chasing people away, and it is not in line with Mephisto's identity and status to stay here any longer.

It also wanted to throw a few harsh words in order to scare Merlin.

But seeing Merlin's look of not caring about anything, Mephisto suddenly felt very boring...

There must be someone to cooperate with such things as blaming and threatening.

How bad is it for a person to throw harsh words?

The big devil snorted, it hooked its fingers, and picked up the fallen golden apple from the ground.

Then he waved his hand lightly, and it was placed in other places of the Trident Building, including the golden apple in the clown's hand, which was gathered into its palm at this moment.

Five golden apples swirled around Mephisto's palm like the most beautiful works of art.

This stuff is great, and it shows through this one incident.

If this thing is used well, it will definitely produce many, many big events.

But just when Mephisto turned to leave.

Merlin suddenly said:

"Speaking of which, I still have a doubt, how did you get those things?"

"Huh? Are you talking about this?"

The big devil turned its head and said with a dark smile:

"This is my baby. I was really lucky when I got them. One day a few months ago, when I was walking in a certain harbor, someone suddenly..."

"Oh, stop talking, I know."

Merlin raised his hand, interrupting the great devil's rambling description.

He stood up in the sun, his face was extremely pale, as if he had just experienced a serious illness.

Looking back at the five golden apples in the arch devil's hand, he said:

"I've been guessing how the end will come... So they want to use your hand to achieve it..."

"what are you talking about?"

The big devil couldn't keep up with Merlin's train of thought, it took back the golden apple in its hand, and said fiercely:

"Nonsense, you'd better make an appointment with a psychiatrist to take a good look at you, you crazy...what are you guys, you're stuck in a fantasy..."

"click"

Before Mephisto finished speaking, a crisp and clear cracking sound came from its hand.

It lowered its head in astonishment.

I saw the golden apple wrapped in my hand shattered at the same time, along the nicks on the surface, like a cracked nut shell.

Orange light burst out from those cracks, like five small suns.

"Heal! Heal!"

The great devil frantically threw his magic on the surface of the shattered golden apple, but the golden apple, which was supposed to heal quickly under the magic power of the great devil, seemed to be completely shattered and out of control at all.

It was as if the terrifying magic power of the great devil completely lost its effect at this moment.

"Take it easy, you can't fix it."

"I didn't pick any of them, so they got mad and they wanted to teach me a lesson..."

Merlin waved his hand. He stood still and stretched his shoulders, as if he was relaxing before doing something.

Behind him, amid the terrified screams of the great devil, the energy of the five golden apples converged like an erupting sun.

Then it spread in all directions.

As the orange light dissipated, Merlin looked down at his feet.

In that square, Tony, who had just recovered his sanity, was being treated, and heroes were besieging the blood-sucking monster that was still resisting.

But at the moment when the orange rays of light poured out like the sun at dawn, covering everything, those heroes almost all fell into a stagnation at the same time.

"What a pity."

"You're just sober... and you're about to get another spanking."

Merlin moved his hands and pulled out the angry halberd stuck behind him. The black symbiosis rolled away on his body, and the magic power belonging to the three palaces and the three demons was also mobilized.

The entangled black mist set off miniature dark storms in the hall.

Amidst the lingering black mist, Merlin clasped his weapon tightly. He looked at the heroes struggling in the ocean of orange light, and said:

"Friends, don't worry, as a parting gift... I will try to be as gentle as possible."

"What exactly is going on?"

The phantom of the great devil Mephisto looked at the fragments of the golden apple in his hand a little frantically.

It can be sure that at that second just now, things have undergone some changes that make it feel frightening.

Perhaps, the craziest guess in its heart has been verified at this moment.

What it said to Loki in hell, this world is too quiet, and the quietness is a bit abnormal...

"You know, right!"

The big devil rushed to Merlin, and it yelled at Merlin:

"You knew this all along? Tell me, what the hell is going on!"

"Yeah, I know."

Merlin ignored the crazy big devil, he said softly:

"I've said it all, you're just a frog in a well."

"Well, it must be hard to be a frog, but there's nothing I can do about it."

"They want to put some pressure on me, want to push me into a corner, and then take the path they arranged, just like before..."

"Live for the gamble, die for the gamble, as the most miserable pawn."

"But they feel..."

Merlin took something out of his pocket and said:

"Having gotten to this point...will I continue to be at their mercy?"

"Come on! Let me see what other tricks they can play..."

An extremely relaxed expression flashed across his face, he reached out and patted the dazed big devil beside him, and said:

"Run away, Mephisto..."

"You can't handle the next scene."

"It's showdown time, and there's only one card I can play... win or die!"

"it's a pity..."

(End of this chapter)