Even Ian Gets His Plans Intercepted

Dormammu's laughter was still echoing.

"Inferior life! Inferior creation! Inferior—"

His voice suddenly stopped.

Because that closed colossal mouth, that colossal mouth digesting its food—

began to tremble.

It was not Dormammu trembling of his own accord.

It was passive.

It was the tremor of something striking it from within.

Dormammu's eyes snapped wide.

"What—"

"—"

BOOM!!!

A jet of flame burst out from the depths of that colossal mouth!

Not one, not two—but countless!

Countless burning chains stabbed out from that dark abyss, piercing through the upper and lower jaws of the giant mouth, piercing through the cheeks covered in flaming patterns, piercing through the edges of those two burning eyes! At the ends of those chains were burning iron balls, razor-sharp barbs, and blades of judgment sharp enough to tear souls apart.

They crisscrossed over Dormammu's giant face, weaving into a burning net that locked that sky-covering flaming visage firmly in place!

"Ah!!!"

Dormammu's scream spread across the entire Earth.

It was the first true scream he had let out in countless billions of years.

Not a tactical retreat, not a strategic show of weakness.

It was real—pain.

Pain that reached the depths of his soul, pain that reached the core of his dimension, pain that reached the very essence of the being who had believed he had already surpassed all suffering.

"Ahhh!"

Dormammu's scream was still echoing through the cosmos when Ghost Rider's chains had already woven themselves into a burning net across that sky-covering giant face. The end of every chain had sunk deep into the flaming patterns, into the edges of those two eyes blazing like supernovas.

They also stabbed into every corner of that colossal mouth that had once devoured countless worlds and crushed countless gods.

Hellfire spread along the chains, crawling, burning, and