Listening to the old devil's stream of hypocritical nonsense, Ren knew exactly what was going on.
If Mephisto ever went into Hollywood,
winning an Oscar would be child's play for him.
Ren stared at the demon's ingratiating smile, his own lips curling in mockery.
"You're not wrong."
"We really should sign a contract."
"But throughout history, the most effective pens for signing contracts..."
"Have always been knives and swords!"
Before his words had even faded, Ren drove off with both legs, launching himself like a cannonball!
Looking back through human history,
what truly effective armistice had ever been secured with a few scraps of paper and smooth talk?
The bigger fist made the rules.
Ren had always been a practical man who respected the traditions of physics.
"Fuck!"
Seeing Ren charge at him with his sword raised, Mephisto swore in alarm.
Still,
the old devil reacted with astonishing speed.
"Wraith Barrier!"
A mass of dense black mist erupted, enclosing him in a tight protective shell.
A closer look revealed countless skeletal faces packed into the mist, all wailing in agony.
Yet,
before Mephisto could even let out the breath caught in his throat,
an unstoppable streak of purple sword light came crashing down into his vision!
Boom!
The supposedly impenetrable Wraith Barrier proved as flimsy as paper before that purple light, instantly cleaved in two.
His army of a million wraiths, painstakingly amassed over centuries,
was annihilated by that single strike, leaving not a trace behind.
Terrified out of his wits, Mephisto frantically moved his lips, desperately trying to chant another defensive spell.
Unfortunately,
before the magic could even take shape,
Ren's murderous face was already right in front of him!
Dazzling amethyst radiance shot into the sky, lighting the dark heavens as brightly as day.
Mephisto never even had