Burn for Me!
When Chen Tian refocused his gaze, he and Vergil and the others found themselves on a distorted planet.
The ever-flowing purple energy vortex in the sky defies the laws of the three-dimensional universe in its geometric shape, and the ground is composed of crystallized magical energy, which may shatter and reassemble at any time.
Chen Tian looked at the soles of his boots, which were now being corroded, turning into dark red particle streams that drifted into an energy vortex in the sky.
"Take care of yourself, the corrosive environment here is very strong." A sky-blue magical aura emanated from Chen Tian's body.
Vergil and Bayonetta were also shrouded in ripples of magic.
Only Leah (Diablo) stretched out her arms in enjoyment. "Ah~ a completely different power, the taste is just..." She took a deep breath, her face full of pleasure. "So delicious."
Seeing how much Leah was enjoying herself, Chen Tian said, "Since that's the case, then why don't you, as a distinguished guest, knock on the door?"
After hearing this, Leah smiled mischievously, "What the master says is right. When distinguished guests arrive, does the host not even come out?"
A deep red mist began to rise from her body. "These locals are so rude."
Leah suddenly stopped all movement.
An unnatural smile curved her lips, and her dark gold vertical pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints. The next second, her body began to flicker like a broken projector—rapidly switching between a girl's form and some much larger silhouette.
"Since the master refuses to come out..." Her voice suddenly split into hundreds of overlapping echoes, coming from all directions, "Then I... shall be a little impolite."
As soon as Leah finished speaking, the red mist around her suddenly erupted, engulfing the sky and the ground. The distorted light in the Dark Dimension was replaced by deep red smoke, and a strong smell of sulfur permeated this dimension that should not exist.
The mist churned and rolled as if it were alive, causing the ground to boil and vaporize wherever it passed. Blinding yellow lightning flashed continuously within the mist, and each burst of lightning revealed a terrifying giant shadow.
Suddenly, all the lightning struck the same spot simultaneously, and a black claw as large as a mountain emerged from the blinding flash.
"Thump!"
The entire dimensional space trembled violently, the crystallized magical energy shattered instantly, and cracks spread from the claw tip as the center.
As the lightning subsided, a terrifying figure, blotting out the sky, emerged from the red mist. Dark red scales covered its mountain-like body, its vertebrae protruding to form a menacing array of bone spikes, and its curved demonic horns pierced the heavens. When it fully stretched out its body, the shadow it cast directly obscured half of the purple vortex in the sky.
"Dormammu! Come forth and greet the Lord of Terror!"
Diablo roared to the sky, and the entire Dark Dimension trembled at his roar.
Chen Tian crossed his arms, and seeing that Dormammu still hadn't appeared, he sneered, "Stop being polite, Diablo, tear down his house."
Upon hearing Chen Tian's words, Diablo's dark golden vertical pupils suddenly contracted into thin lines, and the corners of his mouth stretched into an exaggerated, almost tearing arc. A low laugh escaped from deep within his throat, a laugh that sounded like the echo of countless worlds collapsing simultaneously.
"No problem, my lord."
As soon as he finished speaking, Diablo's mountain-like body suddenly erupted with a blinding red light. The bone spikes on his back lit up one by one, like lit fuses, spreading from his tail all the way to the giant horn on his head. The entire Dark Dimension began to tremble violently, and the space cracked like a spiderweb of fragile glass.
"Let me see... where should I start dismantling?"
His voice suddenly became unusually soft, yet carried a chilling pleasure. The enormous demonic claw gently rose, its tip glowing with dark red runes. With his movement, the entire dimension began to distort, and the crystalline magical energy on the ground twisted and deformed as if being kneaded.
Vergil subtly took a half-step back, the Yamato already drawn three inches from its sheath, its blade swirling with azure magic. Bayonetta, meanwhile, observed the surrounding changes with interest, her red lips slightly parted. "Truly... a spectacular demolition scene."
Chen Tian remained standing, his trench coat billowing wildly in the raging torrents. He looked up at Diablo's retreating figure, a cold smile playing on his lips.
Diablo suddenly spread his arms wide, all the bone spurs on his back standing erect. He took a deep breath, and the energy of the entire Dark Dimension seemed to freeze for a moment—
"Fear Nova!"
With this roar, a dark red energy shockwave spread out in a spherical shape from Diablo's center. Wherever it passed, space was torn apart like a fragile canvas, and the distorted geometric structures vaporized into the most basic particles the moment they came into contact with the shockwave. The purple energy vortex was forcibly ripped apart into scattered streams of light.
The entire Dark Dimension began to collapse.
Dormammu could no longer sit still. The purple energy in the sky converged wildly, forming a gigantic face.
"Stop! You lunatics! This is my territory!"
Dormammu's face had just solidified when Diablo's maniacal laughter tore through the entire dimension. "Hahahaha! Finally decided to crawl out of your rat hole?"
The crimson demonic body leaped up, its claws reaching directly for the face formed of purplish-black energy. Dormammu roared deafeningly, and countless sharp shadow spears shot out from the Void, only to be deflected the moment they touched Diablo's scales, producing a crisp metallic clang.
"Is that all you've got?" Diablo slammed his massive claw into Dormammu's face, his dark golden vertical pupils flashing with madness. "Let me taste what a dark lord is like!"
His gaping maw suddenly opened to an unbelievable angle, spewing forth a torrent of dark red, molten energy from between his sharp fangs. Dormammu's face was struck head-on, and he let out a painful roar that shook the entire Dark Dimension.
Chen Tian raised his hand and erected a blue barrier to block the flying dimensional fragments. "Looks like Diablo is having a lot of fun."
Vergil watched coldly. "A waste of time."
Bayonetta sat on a floating crystal, legs crossed. "Don't be so serious~ It's rare to see a good show."
Dormammu's face suddenly twisted and deformed, transforming into an equally enormous purplish-black claw that clashed violently with Diablo's claw. The shockwave from the collision of these two completely different demonic powers pulverized the crystalline ground within a radius of several kilometers.
"Intruders! You will pay for this!" Dormammu's voice came from all directions, and the energy of the entire Dark Dimension began to converge towards the center of the battlefield.
Diablo neither dodged nor flinched; instead, he excitedly opened his arms to welcome the energy. "Come on! Let me see what you've got!"
Chen Tian narrowed his eyes, watching Diablo and Dormammu's struggle. He noticed that whenever Dormammu was seriously injured, the energy of the surrounding Dark Dimension would automatically flow to him, rapidly healing his injuries.
"Diablo," Chen Tian suddenly spoke, his voice piercing through the deafening roar of energy, "Don't rush to kill him. This dimension is his source of power—let's feast on him first."
Upon hearing this, Diablo's dark golden vertical pupils flashed with a cunning light. While exchanging blows with Dormammu, seven chains formed of molten lava shot out from his back, piercing into the Void of the dimension.
"Your Majesty is wise!" His voice trembled with pleasure. "Then... I won't stand on ceremony!"
In an instant, all the bone spurs on Diablo's back lit up with dark red runes, forming a huge energy vortex. The entire Dark Dimension began to tremble violently, and countless streams of purple energy were forcibly drawn from all directions and rushed into Diablo's body.
"What are you doing?!" Dormammu's face contorted in terror. "Stop! That's my power!"
Vergil raised an eyebrow. "I see... a radical solution."
Bayonetta chuckled and twirled the pistol, "What a greedy little devil~"
Diablo's body began to swell, a dazzling red light emanating from the gaps between his scales. He let out a satisfied growl, as if enjoying a sumptuous feast. As energy was continuously drained, the surrounding space began to become unstable—
"You'll regret this, Diablo!" Dormammu roared furiously, and the entire Dark Dimension began to distort with his roar as he prepared to detonate a portion of Dark Dimension power.
Seeing this, Chen Tian reached out and summoned a seemingly ordinary Neon Blade.
Vergil's cold expression vanished. "Child, are you really going to gamble this much?"
Bayonetta also changed from a sitting to a standing position. "Oh dear, it's time to find a chance to run away."
Chen Tian laughed and said to Diablo, "Diablo, we should go."
Diablo shifted his gaze from Dormammu to the seemingly ordinary Neon Blade in Chen Tian's hand. Its ordinariness made it stand out awkwardly in the Dark Dimension.
"Hahahaha!" Diablo's laughter shook the entire dimension. His claws suddenly changed trajectory, delivering a powerful punch that sent Dormammu flying hundreds of meters back. "This is so much fun!"
Dormammu's energy form shattered from the sudden, devastating blow, but quickly reformed. "You can't escape! This dimension is already—"
Before he could finish speaking, Diablo's tail suddenly drew a perfect arc in the Void, and dark red cracks spread out around Chen Tian. At the same time, his massive body began to shrink rapidly, his scales reassembled, and his bone spikes retracted into his body, instantly transforming him back into Leah's girl form.
"Get ready to run away!" Leah skipped over to Chen Tian and called out to Vergil and Bayonetta, "If we don't leave now, we'll get accidentally hurt by the Lord!"
Vergil shook his head as if he had a headache, while Bayonetta somersaulted to the side of the crevice. "Honestly, even adults are destruction freaks."
Chen Tian's magical power suddenly surged, and the sky-blue energy carved out an absolute domain in the Dark Dimension. He slowly assumed a sword-drawing stance, gripping the sheath with his left hand and the hilt with his right.
"The Myriad Manifestations ---"
As the incantation was recited, dense blue magical runes suddenly appeared on the Neon Blade. These runes moved like living things, and in the blink of an eye, they covered the entire blade.
"--All turned to ashes!"
The moment the last syllable exploded, the scabbard shattered. The exposed blade was no longer a simple white flame, but rather displayed an eerie blue-white gradient—the guard was a deep blue magical core, gradually transitioning to a dazzling, incandescent white towards the tip.
"The temperature is still rising." Vergil's expression turned serious. "It has exceeded the original temperature limit of Ryūjin Jakka."
The entire Dark Dimension began to distort unnaturally. Dormammu's roar suddenly changed tone, "Impossible! This temperature would—"
"Ryūjin Jakka - Modified!"
The moment Chen Tian swung his blade, time seemed to stand still. Where the Blade sliced through, space parted silently, like a hot knife through butter. It wasn't a simple cut; it was a direct, penetrating "wound" burned into the dimensional structure.
Wherever the blade flashed, the fundamental laws of the Dark Dimension began to burn, and the dark energy was instantly reduced to ashes.
Dormammu let out a scream that was not human, his energy body being irreversibly disintegrated. "Stop! You will destroy the entire dimension!"
Chen Tian's figure was blurred in the blue and white flames, only his cold voice came clearly. "Just what I wanted."
As the second strike landed, a sudden change occurred. The blue and white flames on the blade suddenly tangled into a spiral, and the temperature reading skyrocketed—28 million...29 million...50 million degrees.
"Click" --
A sickening cracking sound echoed throughout the dimension. Countless black cracks suddenly appeared beneath everyone's feet. These were not spatial rifts, but the more terrifying 'dimensional faults'—the entire Dark Dimension began to disintegrate at the atomic level, like glass being struck by a heavy hammer.
Leah trembled with excitement. "My Lord has burned through the entire space!"
Dormammu had shrunk to one-tenth of his original size, his voice filled with terror. "Madmen! You're all madmen!"
Dormammu's purple energy form trembled violently. He no longer cared about Chen Tian and the others; he could only do his best to maintain his Dark Dimension and prevent it from being completely destroyed.
"Chen... Tian..."
His voice was filled with anger and fear as he turned to look at where Chen Tian and the others were.
At this moment, the others had all disappeared, and only Chen Tian stood at the edge of the dimensional rift, with the blue and white magical embers still flowing around him.
He had one hand in his pocket, while the Neon Blade in his other hand had returned to its normal form.
Dormammu's energy suddenly surged violently, coalescing into a mangled arm that reached out towards Chen Tian: "I curse you! In the name of the Dark Dimension— "
"Ha, impotent rage."
Chen Tian sneered, looking at the Dark Dimension that was now only half full.
"Your curse?" Chen Tian scoffed. "Keep it to your own grave."
He turned and walked towards the crevice, but just as he was about to step into it, he suddenly stopped:
"Dormammu, I will come again. Then—"
"--You and this wretched place."
Dormammu roared in frustration, but his voice was swallowed by the sudden distortion of space. Chen Tian's figure vanished completely into the rift, leaving only a final whisper echoing in the collapsing dimension:
"... completely buried in the gutter."
(To explain the temperature settings for Ryūjin Jakka.)
(In the Bleach manga, the temperature of Ryūjin Jakka is described as follows: its Shikai is 6000 degrees Celsius, and its Bankai is 15 million degrees Celsius, approaching the temperature of the sun's core.)
(However, I personally think that 15 million degrees might be a bit of a stretch to burn through the Dark Dimension.)
(So, arbitrarily using magic to raise the temperature to 50 million degrees is questionable. I personally feel it's still a bit lacking. The core temperature of a Nova is over 150 billion degrees, and the temperature generated during a Nova explosion is over 100 million degrees, with the core explosion temperature exceeding one billion degrees. A Nova explosion can destroy a life-bearing planet within 326 light-years.)
(Regarding why Dormammu wasn't killed, in Marvel's lore, Dormammu is arbitrarily killed. However, Dormammu Dark Dimension has become a no-man's-land, unless someone can replace Dormammu as the new Dimensional Demon God and control the Dark Dimension. But while controlling it, they will also be corrupted by the Dark Dimension, becoming a part of Dark Dimension and turning into a new 'Dormammu'.)
(Dormammu spent countless years mastering the Dark Dimension. Even someone as powerful as Diablo would need a significant amount of time to do so in a short period. So, this is just a way to beat him up, and we'll deal with him again when the protagonist has the ability to dismantle the dimension.)
(If there's anything unreasonable, please point it out, and I'll revise it. Thank you.)