"Samael is dead?" Zemo's eyes widened in shock. "That joke isn't funny at all. He wasn't an ordinary demon. Ordinary demons had to kneel and salute when they saw him."
"But he really is dead, and he died with his eyes open."
"That's impossible."
Aaron snapped his fingers and pulled a cluster of silver memories from his mind.
The silver orb floated in midair, rippling outward as it projected the image of Samael unwillingly dissipating beneath an energy bombardment.
Gulp!
Zemo swallowed involuntarily. It took him several seconds before he stared blankly at Aaron. "Who are you?"
"Aaron Gaius, a warlock destined to ascend to godhood."
"Gaius? A warlock?" Zemo murmured, then suddenly seemed to remember something. "It's you? You're the God of Contracts?"
"Hm? What do you know?" Aaron asked with interest.
"I only know that Lucifer, King of Hell, has placed an enormous bounty on any mage named Gaius.
Quite a few demons still lingering in the human world have their eyes on that bounty. Samael was one of them."
Aaron's mouth twitched as he forced out a smile. "In a sense, I really am the universe's one and only hot commodity. Both my blood and Soul Stone are extremely valuable."
"Then Samael... didn't realize it?"
"Apparently, he really didn't. Throughout my fight with him, I relied entirely on equipment and didn't use a shred of magic.
Until he was beaten into Hell, he thought I was just some damned mortal.
Demons, you know. It's understandable that their brains don't work too well."
"But you're Gaius, the Gaius who defeated the King of Hell." Zemo spoke pointedly. "From the moment you defeated Samael, you became everyone's focus."
Aaron shrugged noncommittally. "That was a miscalculation on my part. I thought the Sorcerer Supreme of Kamar-Taj would step in promptly,