Three Bedrooms, One Living Room

Before long, Lu Xi arrived in a blood-red Hell territory, dragging Old Mo along with him.

The moment he entered this area, Mephisto's injuries began healing rapidly at a visible rate.

This was the special bonus of being a lord. The power of the entire dimension continuously supplied him with energy.

Overjoyed, a vicious gleam suddenly flashed through Mephisto's eyes.

Thinking he had recovered his strength, he planned to launch a surprise attack while Lu Xi was off guard.

But in the next instant, his aura weakened even faster, plummeting so sharply that he directly fell below the Skyfather-level threshold.

Mephisto turned around in terror, only to see that Lu Xi had officially taken over the territory and mercilessly stripped him of his lord privileges.

"No!!!" Mephisto let out a desperate roar.

Meanwhile, Lu Xi's aura surged once more, radiating an overwhelming pressure.

Once the takeover was complete, Lu Xi turned his head, glared at him, and said irritably:

"Why are you yelling so loudly?"

Mephisto was both furious and afraid, but he dared not voice his anger. He said resentfully:

"You clearly said in the contract that you'd leave me some territory!"

Lu Xi casually pointed to the side and said with perfect justification:

"I keep my word. I already left it for you."

Mephisto followed the direction of Lu Xi's finger, and his entire demonic body froze in shock.

The territory that belonged to him had been reduced to... roughly one hundred square meters.

Mephisto trembled with rage, pointing at Lu Xi as he stammered:

"You... you!"

Lu Xi walked over, patted him on the shoulder, and said solemnly:

"Old Mo, this is enough space for you to decorate a three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment."

"Look at those ordinary people. They work themselves to the bone their whole lives just to buy a place this big. I gave you one right from the start, so what are you dissatisfied with? As a demon, you need to learn contentment."

Lu Xi had indeed fulfilled the contract. Though this hundred-square-meter Hell territory was small, it had everything it needed.

Contracts, soul harvesting, Hell dark magic, and so on—every function was present.

It was just that... the energy this hundred-square-meter territory could provide was pitifully scarce.

If Mephisto casually cast a few spells, he would probably run out of magic power and become completely limp.

But at least those functions remained, preserving Mephisto's status as a demon god. The contract had been perfectly fulfilled. ✓

Mephisto was so furious that he could not speak.

His former territory had been boundless, truly vast beyond measure.

Now, only a mere hundred square meters remained. Such an enormous gap was simply impossible for him to accept at once.

His eyes rolled back, and he fell stiffly to the ground, fainting from rage.

Lu Xi shook his head helplessly and clicked his tongue.

"Tsk, tsk. That mental resilience still needs work."

At that moment, Lu Xi sensed that his two territories seemed to be gradually merging, slowly becoming one.

In the Hell Dimension, there was no concept of physical distance like in the real world, so the territories fused together with incomparable smoothness.

After the territories became one, Lu Xi carefully examined them through his senses.

He discovered that his territory was now probably as large as half a solar system.

Lu Xi raised an eyebrow slightly and mused to himself, This Hell is pretty smart. I just wonder why they merged.

He lowered his head toward Old Mo, who lay on the ground like a corpse, and his thoughts stirred.

An invisible force pierced through Mephisto's soul.

"Ahhh! Ahhh! Raaaargh!" (Tom Cat's scream)

As though he had been electrocuted, Mephisto was jolted awake by agonizing pain that reached deep into his soul. He screamed and sprang up from the ground.

Lu Xi looked at him expressionlessly and asked:

"Old Mo, why did my two territories merge automatically?"

Mephisto looked utterly terrified and did not dare hide anything. He hurriedly replied:

"The Hell Dimension was originally one whole. For some unknown reason, it shattered into the many fragments it has today. So long as territories belong to the same demon god, they will automatically merge."

He paused, then added:

"We demon gods once speculated that whoever first gathers all the fragments of Hell could become Hell's true ruler, stepping into the pinnacle of Multiversal-level, perhaps even reaching Omniversal-level."

"That is why we fought each other over territories. On one hand, it was for the energy provided by dimensional space. On the other, it was because we wanted to become the being that ruled Hell."

Lu Xi nodded thoughtfully, then remembered another question and pressed on:

"Right, Cyttorak said just now that he could come find you with his true body. Can beings at Multiversal-level come over whenever they want?"

Mephisto trembled slightly.

"They can, but they generally do not do that."

Lu Xi frowned. "Oh? Why?"

He needed to get to the bottom of this. Otherwise, he would have a hard time feeling at ease with powerful demon gods who might come knocking to cause trouble at any moment.

Mephisto hurriedly explained:

"Great demon gods like them are top-tier beings even in the entire multiverse. In truth, the only ones who can reliably suppress them are the supreme ruler, One-Above-All, along with great gods such as the Living Tribunal, Eternity, and Infinity."

He swallowed and continued:

"The Living Tribunal once ordered these powerful beings not to run rampant throughout the multiverse. Though the enforcement is not particularly strict in practice, great demon gods generally will not run around everywhere over such a minor matter."

"If they are unlucky enough to run into the Living Tribunal, they will be completely finished."

Lu Xi nodded in realization.

"So that's how it is."

Now he could rest easy. After all, the two great demon gods had not suffered any substantive losses.

They probably would not come looking for trouble over such a small setback.

Lu Xi looked at Mephisto and said:

"Alright, stay here and amuse yourself. I'll call you if I need anything."

With that, his figure flashed and instantly disappeared.

Only Mephisto remained, staring at the vast, endless Hell... and the tiny three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment beside it, his heart filled with bitterness as tears threatened to fall.

Above Hell's Kitchen, Lu Xi emerged from the rift once more.

The instant he stepped out of his territory, he clearly felt the lord bonus Buff on him disappear, and his strength dropped somewhat.

Fortunately, he still remained at Universal-level.

Lu Xi first extended his thoughts beyond Earth's defensive formation and asked Ancient One:

"Supreme Sorcerer, how are things on your end?"

Ancient One's voice reached him through their thoughts:

"The three demon gods led by Beelzebub sensed Mephisto's fate just now and have already fled."

"Ah..." Lu Xi was slightly stunned, unable to help feeling somewhat regretful.

He had originally planned to go over and lend a hand. Perhaps he could have caught another demon god, but it seemed that idea had fallen through.

Those Hell demon gods truly deserved to be called old hands of Hell.

When it came to collapsing, retreating, selling out, and slipping away, each of them was more skilled than the last.

Lu Xi shook his head helplessly and looked down below.

Within the ruins of the building, all kinds of grotesque demons continued pouring out from the blood-red teleportation array.

However, the demons that had emerged were now firmly suppressed within an encirclement by the superheroes.

Peggy Carter and Steve, the evenly matched captains, needed no further mention.

Iron Man, Tony Stark, had also come to support them, blasting wildly through the demon horde with his repulsors.

In addition, Daredevil, who had been kicked away, had returned to join the battle. A clear footprint was still visible on his face, making him look rather disheveled.

It was obvious that Peggy Carter's shoe size was probably not small. That footprint had to be at least a size 42.

Finally, there was a little guy swinging nimbly through the air on spiderwebs—Spider-Man.

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