Demons, Witches, and the Dimensional Demon God
The Dark Dimension.
This place should have been the ultimate the Void that devoured all light, the realm where Dormammu looked down upon reality.
But now, this place, which should have been pure darkness, is like a shattered glass, riddled with shocking spatial cracks! The raging energy turbulence is like a runaway python, wildly crashing and tearing at the fragments of the broken dimensions!
The culprits behind all this are now arrogantly displaying their destructive "talents" in this territory that should rightfully belong to the King of Darkness!
Clang!
A streak of eerie blue light, like a cold crescent moon piercing the eternal night, swept across thousands of kilometers in an instant!
The countless twisted monsters formed from solidified darkness along the way, along with several floating Dark Fortress, were silently cleaved in two! The cut was as smooth as a mirror!
Vergil sheathed his sword, the Yamato striking the end of the scabbard with a clear, crisp sound.
He stood on a floating, gigantic dimensional fragment, his white hair motionless amidst the turbulent energy currents. His cold gaze swept over the dark creations that were still slowly writhing and attempting to reassemble, as if he were complaining about their slow regeneration rate.
Boom!!!
On the other hand, there's pure violent aesthetics!
Dante's figure was like a burning crimson meteor, rampaging through the dense forest composed of countless huge dark tentacles and hideous monsters!
He didn't even look at his target; the Rebellion and the Ebony & Ivory Dual Pistols in his hands transformed into the wildest symphony! Brilliant gunfire wove together a deathly barrage, and every swing of the heavy greatsword was accompanied by the flying limbs of monsters and the explosive roar of dark matter!
It's less like a battle and more like bowling with dark creations!
"Woohoo!! Yes, yes, yes! The one on the left that looks like a toilet plunger! Yes, yes! You're the one! Take this 'Toilet Plunger Finisher'!" Dante yelled, swinging his Rebellion in a wide arc and smashing the twisted dark matter along with the floating platform beneath his feet to pieces!
He leaped into the air, stepping on the falling rubble, and casually blew an exaggerated kiss to the giant eyeball-shaped fortress in the distance, before unleashing a barrage of demonic explosive bullets from his dual pistols!
Bayonetta, this elegant witch, seemed to be on her own personal stage.
Her high heels swayed through the Void, each turn creating a dazzling afterimage. Her slender fingers moved gracefully, and the massive Madama Butterfly summoned her behind her, each gesture unleashing a colossal magical claw strike that tore through space! Those slippery dark Stealth who attempted to ambush her were bound by her whip and flung away like flail balls, crashing into a grotesque mountain of flesh formed from writhing darkness in the distance, emitting dull, splattering sounds.
She even had time to take out a vintage-style mirror and tidy her sideburns in the light and shadow refracted by the broken dimensions.
The actions of these three deities were completely beyond the comprehension of the lower-level creations of the Dark Dimension!
They couldn't even form an effective encirclement! The entire dimension was wailing and shattering in their "activity"!
Deep within the core of the dimension, in that thickest, purest darkness, Dormammu's massive consciousness roared, twisted, and trembled madly! Not out of anger, but out of pent-up frustration! Out of a deep-seated fear and PTSD!
Just as Mephisto opened the gates of hell, Nightmare manipulated Red Hulk, and Xisoth used Mordo to cause trouble, intending to keep the entire Blue Planet's defense forces busy, Dormammu was indeed overjoyed!
An opportunity! A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! If I could briefly Descent my true form and forcibly devour Earth with the power of the Dark Dimension, who could stop me?!
He immediately stopped shifting coordinates, locking the core anchor point of the Dark Dimension firmly outside Earth's orbit! Vast dark power began to cross dimensional barriers, greedily reaching towards that azure planet!
Just as he extended his tentacles—
"Warning! Warning! The high-dimensional interference field has breached the outer barrier! Coordinates locked! Channel forcibly established!" A gloating voice exploded directly in his dimensional core! It was Diablo!
The next second, three terrifying auras that froze Dormammu's soul core crashed into the Dark Dimension he had painstakingly repaired for many years, like three blazing meteors, through the newly established dimensional passage!
"No--!!!" Dormammu's consciousness screamed silently! It was them! And those two white-haired girls!! And that woman with the gun on her foot!!!
The painful memories of the past burned his consciousness like magma!
Last time, Chen Tian led these three people plus Diablo into the Dark Dimension. In that battle, nearly half of the Dark Dimension was destroyed! A piece of its core was forcibly ripped out! It took several years to repair, and it was just about to recover... and now they're back! Once again, they're taking advantage of the situation!
Shame! Endless shame! Dormammu chose to feign death, desperately shrinking his core and mobilizing all his dark creations to fill it! He would use sheer numbers to drown them! He would wear them down!
Until that fool Mephisto's distress signal came through, followed by that nightmarish shout, it ripped through the darkness:
"Hahaha! Dormammu! My nephew's busy this time! So just a few of us have come to 'visit' you! Surprised?! Open the door! Welcome our guests!!"
Dante's shout was like the last straw that broke the camel's back.
"Enough!!!" The entire Dark Dimension suddenly collapsed inward! Boiling black flames, containing endless rage and destructive energy, spewed from all the broken cracks!
A black mist head, the size of the moon, appeared, the mist churning and rolling, each roll accompanied by bursts of colorful light— Dormammu.
"Insects! You damned, persistent insects!!!" Dormammu's roar unleashed a devastating dark storm that swept towards the three. "You've destroyed my territory! You've ruined my plans! I will burn your souls in the fires of darkness for billions of years!!!"
Faced with this world-ending pressure and roar, the trio's reaction was--
Vergil finally looked directly in Dormammu's direction, his brow furrowing almost imperceptibly. "Noisy."
Bayonetta put away the small mirror. "Oh? Finally willing to come out and greet guests? I thought you were planning to be a coward your whole life."
Dante whistled excitedly. "Hey! Old Black! You've gotten quite the temper in years, haven't you? That was quite a welcome! Come on, if you weren't done with that toilet plunger-shaped one, this big one is just right!"
He shoved the Rebellion back into his back and pulled out a giant, spinning Chainsaw that sparked as it swung – Heavy Knight: Chainsaw Mode!
"Court death!!!"
Dormammu's massive dark avatar went into a frenzy! A colossal claw, burning with Eternity dark flames, slammed down towards the three of them, blotting out the sky! Even before the claw arrived, the terrifying gravity caused the surrounding dimensional fragments to collapse Oblivion inward!
"Well done!" Dante's eyes flashed red, and his Chainsaw roared deafeningly!
Vergil's hand rested firmly on the hilt of the Yamato, its sheath gleaming with a cold light.
Behind Bayonetta, the phantom of Madama Butterfly solidified instantly, and its enormous magical claws swelled in the wind!
The core of darkness, a new battle has officially begun!
"Roar!!! Ignorant insects! Your attacks are nothing but tickles!" Dormammu's moon-like head, composed of swirling black mist and colorful energy, let out a deafening laugh, filled with the arrogance of someone who had survived a catastrophe. The fear he had felt moments before was completely replaced by a twisted sense of superiority.
At the heart of the battlefield, turbulent energy currents rage.
Dante's Pandora's Box transformed into Rocket mode, unleashing a wild beam of magical energy that blasted a massive hole in Dormammu's face. But the edges of the hole writhed wildly, and countless dark tentacles instantly intertwined to fill it, even attempting to devour Dante!
With a shriek, he cleaved the tentacles with his Rebellion, then flipped to dodge a sweeping pillar of dark fire.
Each tear from Bayonetta's Madama Butterfly claws carried away large swathes of black mist, revealing the surging, colorful energy core beneath. But as soon as the core flashed, new black mist would surge forth like a tide, enveloping it once more.
Her magic bullet struck Dormammu precisely in the eye, exploding into a dazzling burst of magical sparks, but only briefly dimmed those crimson energy eyes before they shone with an even more ferocious light.
The only thing that could slightly slow Dormammu's movements was Vergil's unpredictable [Dimension Slash]!
The azure blade of light seemed to disregard spatial distance, suddenly appearing in Dormammu's core region, slicing and separating large swaths of black mist along with the colorful energy beneath it!
Dormammu let out a painful groan; the cut area healed much more slowly, like boiling magma.
"Do you see that?! Your power is utterly insignificant before the Eternity Dark Dimension!" Dormammu's roar was filled with endless mockery, and the eyes on his massive black mist head revealed naked scorn.
"Last time there was that monster Chen Tian, and this time, the three of you couldn't even leave me a deep wound! Go back to your world and eke out a living! Darkness will eventually devour everything!"
Boom!
The three of them joined forces again to temporarily repel the surging dark tide, using the force to drift backward and land on the same relatively stable dimensional fragment.
When Dante landed, he could hardly believe his ears.
He pointed to his own nose, then to the gigantic, arrogant face in the distance, his expression contorted in exaggerated rage. "Hey! Did you hear that? That lump of coal is laughing at us? Vergil! My nephew's wife! He! Is! Laughing! At! Us!"
Vergil did not respond. He simply straightened up slowly, his right hand still firmly resting on the Yamato. Deep within his icy blue pupils, a point of dark blue demonic flame ignited with a "poof"!
The flames instantly engulfed his entire body! His white hair danced wildly, and cold, demonic markings spread across his cheeks and exposed skin! The surrounding space began to distort!
[Devil Trigger - Vergil]!
"Whoa!" Seeing his brother's stance, Dante's exaggerated expression instantly switched to an extremely excited, wicked grin, his eyes blazing with crimson. "Fine, fine! You asked for it Old Black! I'm not playing with you anymore!"
Boom!
Crimson, blood-red, raging demonic flames erupted from his body! The Rebellion hummed and trembled, its blade wreathed in tangible Hellfire! His muscles bulged, demonic horns pierced his white hair, revealing his wild, demonic form!
Dante the Demon King!
Two completely different yet equally terrifying demonic auras erupted, instantly forcing back the surrounding raging dark energy turbulence!
"Oh dear..." Bayonetta sighed helplessly, shrugging as she looked at her two brothers who had instantly transformed into inhuman beings. Her tone was languidly complaining, "Seriously... you can both transform into handsome and powerful demons... what am I supposed to do?"
She stretched out her slender fingers and gently pushed up the iconic retro round-framed glasses on the bridge of her nose, her red lips curving into a captivating, alluring smile.
"Ah~~ right~" she drawled, with a playful air of sudden realization, "I think... I also have a little secret weapon~"
The words had barely left his mouth!
Clatter
She gently removed the glasses and casually tossed them into the ripples of space beside her, where they disappeared.
Buzz--!
A demonic aura, far more ancient, grander, and more terrifying than Madama Butterfly, erupted from Bayonetta's sensual body like a ferocious beast awakening after millions of years of slumber!
Her long, jet-black hair moved without wind, growing and dancing wildly, like darkness come alive!
Purple-gold magical patterns flowed through her hair, spreading mysterious and powerful runes across her fair skin! Her pupils turned into a pure, burning, molten gold!
Behind her, the phantom of Madama Butterfly instantly solidified, expanded, and transformed! It was no longer an elegant summon, but had become the towering [Eye of the World - Bayonetta's Primal Demonic Body], which controlled the heavens and the earth!
A terrifying pressure, no less than that of the demon brothers, joined the battle!
"WoooooHooooo!!!" The Sin Devil Trigger Dante roared, shattering the Void, and transformed into a crimson comet tearing through the darkness! The Rebellion was no longer a sword, but a burning meteorite! With the ferocious power to crush stars, it smashed down on Dormammu's enormous eyeball! "Old Black! Taste this! Royal Guard Burst Fist!"
Boom--!!!!
The entire Dark Dimension suddenly sank! Dormammu's "head," formed from black mist, was forcefully slammed backward, and countless colorful energies exploded like shattered glass! The pillar of dark fire he had just condensed to counterattack was directly shattered by the demonic flames burning on Dante's body!
"Die!" Vergil's figure teleported, appearing at the "back of Dormammu's neck." The Devil Trigger Yamato flowed with a chilling blue light that seemed to freeze time and space.
[Dimension Slash - Absolute!]
A gleam of extremely refined, dimensionally-tearing cold light flashed and disappeared!
Sizzle--!!!
Dormammu let out a deafening scream! His "neck," made of pure energy, was ripped open with a massive spatial rift, its edges burning with eerie blue flames!
The cracks spread wildly, devouring the black mist and colorful energy that made up his body! Healing became extremely slow and painful!
"You're still far from it, you ugly creator." Bayonetta's cold, demonic voice rang out. She hovered in the Void, like a queen of the demon realm. With a graceful wave of her slender hand!
The towering [Eye of the World] demonic body behind her simultaneously swung its claws!
A colossal, purple-gold claw, bound by chains of time and inscribed with ancient runes, disregarded spatial distance and viciously plunging into the wound that Vergil had torn open Dormammu's body! Its target was the ever-churning, pulsating vortex of colorful energy that represented the very core of his life!
"No--!!!" Dormammu felt an unprecedented, deadly threat! It was a power that could tear his very essence apart! He desperately mobilized the power of the entire Dark Dimension to try and stop it!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Dante's wild slashes! Vergil's unpredictable dimensional cuts! Bayonetta's deadly tearing claws!
Three ultimate demons/witches, unleashing their full power, were like three of the most violent demolition machines, launching a relentless saturation bombardment around Dormammu's core!
The darkness is crumbling!
The dimensions are wailing!
Dormammu's maniacal laughter had long since turned into desperate howls and agonizing roars! His massive energy body was riddled with holes, and each healing became incredibly difficult! The colorful energy that formed his core vibrated violently, and its light visibly dimmed!
"Your throw is too weak." Vergil's icy voice pierced the chaotic battlefield.
He gripped the Devil Trigger Yamato with both hands, the tip of the blade pointing directly at Dormammu's core. The spatial ripples on the blade vibrated violently, as if trying to suck the entire dimension into it!
[Dimension Slash - Judgment!]
Boom
Vergil's [Dimension Slash - Judgment] was activated first! With the tip of the blade pointing directly at Dormammu, a large area of his chest, along with the colorful energy core beneath it, was forcibly stripped, compressed, and twisted into a dimensional rift!
A colossal void, its edges crackling with eerie blue arcs of electricity and its interior utterly Void, suddenly appeared! Dormammu's agonizing scream nearly tore the entire dimension apart!
"Now! Try this big one!" Sin Devil Trigger Dante roared, his Rebellion vibrating and humming, its form undergoing a dramatic transformation under the infusion of raging demonic energy!
Countless demonic runes lit up on the sword's spine, the blade swelled, and the swirling Hellfire coalesced into a tangible, pitch-black demonic flame! The Godkiller Sword — Dante the Demon Sword!
Dante channeled his power into it, his body stretching into a straight red and black comet, the demonic sword trailing a destructive tail as it slammed into the dimensional void created by Vergil!
Pfft--!!!
The demonic sword pierced with unparalleled precision the wildly pulsating, exposed, multicolored energy core deep within the void! The raging demonic energy, like a red-hot steel needle, tore and corrupted Dormammu's very life force!
"Let's end this disgusting farce," Bayonetta's cold voice rang out.
The demonic body of the [Eye of the World] behind her clasped its hands together, and countless ancient purple-gold demonic runes flowed and converged between its palms! A miniature cosmic singularity, seemingly containing the End time and the return of all things to nothingness, instantly took shape in her palm!
She gently pushed the [Endspell], which exuded an aura of annihilation, forward.
The magic bullet ignored the distance and appeared directly at the core where the magic sword had pierced, merging into it!
The next moment--
Buzz!!!!
An indescribable burst of light and heat erupted!
The entire spatial node has been completely erased!
Vergil's dimensional void, along with its core, was Oblivion by Bayonetta's power of destruction, reduced to utter nothingness! A spherical zone of absolute darkness, from which even light could not escape, rapidly expanded in place!
"No--!!!!!!!!"
Dormammu let out a roar that transcended the limits of pain and rage, a roar that contained the lamentation of the entire Dark Dimension!
He could feel that his most important core essence... had been completely destroyed! Despair and madness completely devoured his last shred of sanity! The massive black mist head disintegrated and dimmed at a visible speed!
"Insects!!! Even if Oblivion! I'll drag you all down with me!!!" Dormammu's desperate roar shook the Void!
Rumble rumble rumble--!!!
The entire Dark Dimension emitted a terrifying wail! Countless enormous cracks piercing through the Void instantly filled the field of vision!
The earth collapsed! The sky shattered! The invisible chains of rules that maintained the existence of dimensions broke inch by inch! Every particle and every inch of energy that constituted the Dark Dimension was forcibly ignited and detonated by Dormammu's final will!
This is the ultimate self-destruction, a mutual destruction!
He will drag the entire dimension, along with everything within it, into an abyss of Eternity annihilation!
The darkness itself is boiling, burning, and emitting a destructive shriek!
Endless destructive energy erupted simultaneously, gushing forth from the deepest, most minute parts of the dimension, indiscriminately tearing apart and devouring everything! Spatial fragments were crushed into dust like shards of glass! Time itself became chaotic and disordered here!
Under the Armageddon dimensional self-destruction, the three's ultimate demonic bodies trembled violently like rocks in Dotō! Their energy shields flickered wildly, their demonic flames were suppressed, and even the edges of their primordial demonic bodies began to show subtle, ethereal cracks.
Bayonetta's long hair was covered in magical runes that fluctuated violently, Vergil's Azure Demonic Flame flickered erratically, Dante's Hellfire was also affected by the impact, flickering unpredictably!
The energy barrier they had painstakingly erected groaned under the absolute dimensional Oblivion! This was a destructive torrent of pure power!
However, neither Vergil's icy focus, Dante's wild roar, nor Bayonetta's bewitching eyes burning with molten gold fire, could falter in the slightest!
The three forces coalesced like never before, like three towering pillars, firmly anchored in the center of the destructive wave!
A stalemate! A terrifying stalemate!
The energy of dimensional Oblivion clashed and Oblivion with the power of the three ultimate demons! The Dark Dimension was like a balloon blown to its limit, struggling frantically on the verge of complete collapse!
Boom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finally, a silent roar, exceeding all decibel limits, swept across the entire Dark Dimension! It was the death knell of the complete collapse of the rules!
My vision was dominated by absolute incandescence, followed by all-consuming darkness!
When the blinding light and the violent energy turbulence finally began to subside and calm down—
The area where Dormammu once stood is now just a vast, ever-expanding, absolute void, radiating a chilling stillness.
The scorched earth, the shattered sky, the twisted buildings that constituted the Dark Dimension... everything vanished, turning into fragments floating in the Void, emitting a faint, dim, colored light...
They come in all shapes and sizes, like dust particles from the universe.
Those were the remnants of the Dark Dimension's authority shattered! Having lost the support of its core will and source of power, the Dark Dimension completely disintegrated, and its authority shattered into countless pieces!
Almost simultaneously, the demonic flames on Vergil, Dante, and Bayonetta suddenly subsided, and their enormous Demon Form receded like a tide.
Their white hair returned to its smooth state, their glasses were put back on, and the three landed steadily on a relatively stable, large, colorful fragment, regaining their human form.
Dante, breathing heavily, wiped away imaginary sweat, staring blankly at the floating fragments of authority and the enormous void before him. "Huff... huff... all done? Old Black is dead? Why does it feel... like a fart that's been punctured? Not even the grandeur of a true god's fall?"
Vergil frowned, his sharp pupils scanning the empty space and the surrounding floating fragments of authority. His right hand instinctively pressed against the hilt of the Yamato. "Something's wrong. The lingering aura... there's no sense of complete the End."
Bayonetta elegantly tidied her sideburns, put her glasses back on, and gazed into the depths of the void, where a faint, extremely subtle trace of spatial disturbance seemed to linger.
She parted her red lips slightly, her tone carrying a hint of playfulness and certainty. "He's not dead, my darlings. That poor Dormammu... seems to have escaped."
"He... he escaped?!" Dante's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets as he pointed at the empty space and the countless fragments of authority. "What kind of hellish joke is this?! We practically blasted him to smithereens! He even abandoned his home? His authority was shattered into eight million pieces! And he still managed to escape?!"
He simply couldn't comprehend what kind of will to survive (or rather, what kind of deep fear) it would take to do something so drastic as to sever one's own arm.
Vergil ignored Dante's clamor, his gaze fixed on a barely perceptible spatial ripple at the edge of the void, a ripple that did not belong to the Dark Dimension.
The fluctuation was extremely weak, carrying a sense of... forceful pull.
He slowly shook his head, stating his judgment decisively. "He didn't run away on his own. The remaining traces... suggest he was dragged away by a forced force."
"He was rescued?!" Dante's expression completely collapsed. He scratched his messy white hair, feeling like his brain couldn't process it all. "Who the hell could rescue such a huge black lump of coal from right under our noses, in the chaos of a dimensional self-destruction? Old Black has this kind of life-or-death friendship outside? How come I didn't know?!"
Bayonetta's gaze swept over the fragments of authority that had begun to stir, frantically fought over and devoured by countless dark creations emerging from the Void rifts. "Interesting. It seems there are some 'enthusiastic spectators' at this party we don't know about. But..."
She shrugged. "At least for the short term, this Lord of Darkness won't have time to worry about Earth. As for these 'little snacks'..."
Before she could finish speaking, Vergil 'Yamato flashed, and a fist-sized fragment of core authority, radiating a dense dark aura, was precisely flicked towards her.
Bayonetta smiled slightly, her long hair curling like a snake as she easily took it into her hand and played with it.
"Fragments of authority, appetizers for the Civil War." Vergil glanced coldly at the grotesque ocean below, now a chaotic mess, where people were fighting and even devouring each other over the fragments, his tone utterly calm.
Although the Dark Dimension has collapsed, the chaos here has only just begun.
"Alright, alright," Dante casually used his Rebellion to swat away a few low-level fragments that were rushing towards them, attracting a swarm of deformed creatures to scramble for them. He clapped his hands, "The show's over, the fight's had its fun, it's a bit of a letdown that Old Black ran away... Let's go! Let's go back and find my nephew! This godforsaken place doesn't even have a place to get pizza!"
The three figures, no longer lingering on this bloody battlefield of power struggles, turned and tore open a spatial rift, disappearing into the devastated ruins of a Dark Dimension.
Only countless roaring, deformed creatures remained, embarking on a new and even more brutal gluttonous feast amidst the shattered fragments of power.
Dormammu's whereabouts, and the mysterious "helper," became a shadow hanging over the chaos.