Miao Mu began rummaging through the pile of rubble. Amid the bone-chilling broken bricks and tiles, a golden scepter stood slanted in the ground.
It was covered in densely packed magical runes.
"This thing..." Miao Mu reached down and picked up the scepter. It was heavy, as though it were made of gold.
The moment the scepter entered his hand, the Ouroboros Brand on Miao Mu's wrist suddenly glowed red, like a scorching branding iron.
The pain made Miao Mu frown.
[Demon Scepter, contract item. Inscribed with the true names of four hundred and seventy-nine demons. Can summon demons into the mortal world and command them in battle under the authority of their true names.]
As the item's ability appeared, the Ouroboros Brand on Miao Mu's wrist became like a vortex that devoured energy.
It sucked in every magical rune on the Demon Scepter, and the golden scepter instantly lost its luster.
Cracks spread across it. Like a stone pillar weathered for a century, the scepter collapsed to the ground with a clatter.
The Ouroboros Brand rose into the air, its surface covered in magical patterns, before dropping back onto Miao Mu's wrist.
The magical energy "borrowed" from Dormammu surged into it, and streams of magical patterns gathered in Miao Mu's palm.
"This..." Feeling the magical energy in his hand, Miao Mu suddenly clenched his fist, and several magical runes shot out.
A demon phantom abruptly appeared around Miao Mu.
His arm swelled to more than three times its original size, and black Demon Armor expanded across it, covered in rock-like patterns.
Miao Mu slammed his fist into the ground. With a boom, cracks spread from the impact like a spiderweb.
Scorching lava burst from the rocky fissures around his fist, instantly filling the cracks below before erupting