aircannonsinc #214 - The so-called old enemy appears? The existence of the Time Management Bureau!
#214 - The so-called old enemy appears? The existence of the Time Management Bureau!
The moment Luo Fu felt the power of another Ghost Rider, he understood Mephisto's true plan.
Through the Ghost Rider, he was guiding himself to appear around the former town of San Venganza.
Then, he would have Johnny, the new Ghost Rider, actively seek him out, further drawing out another Ghost Rider, and ultimately creating an environment in that area that ignored the Kama Taj's three sanctum barriers, allowing him to unleash his true power.
At most, he would just have to take out a little Hell energy as compensation, as for the Seven Deadly Sins, he shouldn't even think about it.
It has to be admitted that Mephisto's little plan was indeed extremely ingenious.
However, the only thing Mephisto miscalculated was Luo Fu's own strength and the Scarlet Witch by his side.
You must know that the Scarlet Witch was once a being who attracted the attention of Chthon.
Putting aside everything else, once the Scarlet Witch enters the Hell environment created by Mephisto in the human world, Chthon, even if he hasn't shown his face for many years, will inevitably be alarmed.
At that time, not to mention whether Mephisto can seize the Seven Deadly Sins from him, he will first have to face the furious Chthon.
Although in terms of reputation, Chthon is far inferior to Mephisto, who often comes to the human world to scavenge, in terms of strength, Chthon is a member of the Elder Gods and one of the earliest life forms on Earth. Even Mephisto and Dormammu borrowed Chthon's power before they became dimension lords and dimensional demons.
In terms of qualifications, power, authority, and so on, Chthon is considered a top powerhouse in the Marvel multiverse.
Just as Luo Fu was thinking about how to deal with Mephisto, outside the motel.
Accompanied by terrified screams, the Ghost Rider, whose whole body was burning with hellfire, and whose skeleton was all that remained except for the leather jacket on his body, brazenly rushed into the motel.
As soon as he entered the motel, the owner was immediately frightened into a coma by the Ghost Rider.
Fortunately, the owner didn't have much sin in the eyes of the Spirit of Vengeance, and coupled with being frightened into a coma and having an obvious target like Luo Fu, the Ghost Rider didn't pay attention to the owner.
Otherwise, the owner would probably not have escaped the fate of being burned by the Penance Stare.
Don't think that the Penance Stare, with its righteous-sounding name, is truly an ability that only targets sin.
On the contrary, you must know that whether it is justice or so-called evil, they are inherently relative, but in the eyes of the Spirit of Vengeance, sin is determined by its own will.
In other words, whatever behavior the Spirit of Vengeance thinks is sinful, then that behavior is a sin, and anything not in this category is not considered a crime.
This obviously has a huge conflict with human views of good and evil.
In the slave era, slave owners could kill slaves at will, but it was a completely just act, and in the feudal era, feudal lords had the power of life and death over their subjects.
In human society, the views of good and evil are not immutable, but constantly change dynamically with the passage of time.
However, the Spirit of Vengeance's views of good and evil have long been fixed and have huge conflicts with the present.
It can even be said that any ordinary person is guilty under the Penance Stare of the Ghost Rider.
Just the fact of disrespecting the gods is enough to classify more than 80% of ordinary people as sinners.
Even the God who created the Spirit of Vengeance in the first place could not accept its stubborn but unchangeable views of good and evil and abandoned this former angel.
Instead, Mephisto, the lord of hell, picked up the angel that God had abandoned and made the Ghost Rider a force under his command.
After just glancing at the unconscious owner, the Ghost Rider, whose whole body was burning with hellfire, went straight towards the direction where Luo Fu was.
Feeling the power of that hellfire, the Scarlet Witch couldn't help but say with some eagerness, "Sir, would you like me to try to take action?"
Luo Fu refused the Scarlet Witch's suggestion without hesitation.
The Scarlet Witch's own power didn't matter, but unfortunately, behind her, there was the hidden danger of Chthon, the Elder God.
Luo Fu didn't want to have to constantly guard against the descent of Chthon when dealing with Mephisto next.
Don't forget that Chthon is different from other demon gods and dimension lords.
You must know that Chthon's power is fully capable of contending with the trinity of the Vishanti.
And the trinity of the Vishanti is precisely the main source of power for countless mages of Kama Taj.
To put it simply, Chthon is fully capable of contending with the entire Kama Taj on his own, and even the three sanctum system of Kama Taj may not be able to seal Chthon's descent.
Before he has completely mastered the power of chaos magic, Luo Fu doesn't want to contend with Chthon like this.
Shaking his head, refusing the Scarlet Witch's suggestion, Luo Fu instructed, "You wait for me here, the next battle is not something you can participate in."
Nodding, the Scarlet Witch quickly accepted Luo Fu's request.
Luo Fu opened the door and walked downstairs. Before he even reached the staircase, he ran head-on into the Ghost Rider stepping on hellfire.
In those eye sockets burning with raging flames, the flames in his eyes seemed to be beating even more violently the moment he saw Luo Fu.
A hoarse and deep voice came from the Ghost Rider's skull.
"Sinner."
Accompanied by the deep and hoarse voice, the Ghost Rider yanked the iron chain wrapped around his body and flung it straight at Luo Fu.
A powerful repulsive force erupted from Luo Fu's body, instantly repelling the chain that was shooting straight towards him.
The moment the chain shot over, it was immediately repelled by Luo Fu.
The Ghost Rider clearly seemed to be stunned for a moment.
Then, very quickly, a clear look of anger appeared on the Ghost Rider's face.
A terrifying and frightening killing intent burst out from his eyes.
The flames burning on the Ghost Rider's body instantly surged again.
Walking towards Luo Fu's direction in large strides, as his feet stepped across the ground, it was as if hellfire was burning wherever the Ghost Rider walked.
In theory, hellfire cannot cause damage to the ground.
But now, the Ghost Rider's every move was having a great impact on reality.
Luo Fu, however, sensed a different kind of fluctuation from the Ghost Rider's body.
Luo Fu was extremely familiar with this fluctuation. It was clearly the power of Pride among the Seven Deadly Sins.
The Ghost Rider actually has the sin of Pride?
To be precise, it wasn't that the Ghost Rider had mastered the authority of Pride, but that the Ghost Rider was controlled by the authority of Pride.
For Mephisto, although he also had some of the authority of the Seven Deadly Sins, the Pride that Mephisto cared about most was in Lucifer's hands, which also caused him to be unable to truly subdue the Ghost Rider, even though he had completed his control over the Ghost Rider through various means.
This also made Mephisto have to use the current method of finding the Ghost Rider's human form on Earth to constantly weaken the Ghost Rider's own consciousness, thereby completing his control over the Spirit of Vengeance.
Unfortunately, Mephisto's plan to use the Ghost Rider to deal with Luo Fu was clearly a miscalculation.
However, just as Luo Fu was preparing to trigger the sin of Pride on the Ghost Rider, his movements suddenly stopped abruptly.
He suddenly realized that something was wrong.
You must know that Mephisto's greatest desire for Luo Fu was the power of the Seven Deadly Sins on him.
In theory, letting the Ghost Rider deal with Luo Fu was like throwing meat buns at a dog.
But Mephisto still made this choice, there must be something wrong.
Unless... unless there was something wrong with the sin of Pride on the Ghost Rider.
Thinking of this, Luo Fu immediately gave up the idea of manipulating the Ghost Rider with the power of the Seven Deadly Sins.
The powerful gravity and electromagnetic force, the two basic forces of the universe, were manipulated by Luo Fu, forcibly forming a force field cage, imprisoning the Ghost Rider firmly.
At a position less than ten meters away from Luo Fu, the Ghost Rider could no longer approach Luo Fu at all.
Looking at the Ghost Rider imprisoned by his gravity and electromagnetic force, Luo Fu frowned.
So simple?
Is Mephisto joking?
If the Ghost Rider is this weak, is he sending me free food by using the Ghost Rider against me?
Just as Luo Fu was puzzled.
The Ghost Rider, who was originally imprisoned by the force field of gravity and electromagnetic force, suddenly burst out with even more powerful power.
No.
This is not just power, but more like... an extremely strong will.
Zarathos's will.
This is the manic demonic nature belonging to the Spirit of Vengeance, Zarathos.
Relatively speaking, the Ghost Rider is more like a layer of packaging, a shell, or a safety device for Zarathos's own will.
The Ghost Rider itself is a layered product.
The complexity of its origin is so great that it is impossible to accurately describe its original state.
God and Heaven, the Spirit of Vengeance, Zarathos... these existences are all part of the Ghost Rider's power source, and even Mephisto's power is included in the Ghost Rider's power.
It can be said that the Ghost Rider may not be powerful in terms of strength, but in terms of the complexity of his power, probably few superheroes can compare.
And now, as Luo Fu uses gravity and electromagnetic force fields to imprison the Ghost Rider in place.
It is like detonating the origin in the Ghost Rider's body, which is sealed by layers of safety devices.
Clearly imprisoned in front of him by Luo Fu's power, but in the next moment, Luo Fu clearly felt that the Ghost Rider suddenly disappeared from the earth, and in just a flash, he bypassed Luo Fu's imprisonment in a way that Luo Fu was quite familiar with.
Dimensional teleportation.
The Ghost Rider's special nature makes him an existence that can ignore the defensive barriers of the three Sanctums of Kamar-Taj and freely travel between the human world and hell.
It is not Johnny himself who possesses this freedom, but the power essence of the Ghost Rider.
Only the Ghost Rider possesses this kind of incredible power, and this power is obviously not something that the current Johnny can master.
However, because of Luo Fu's field imprisonment, the current Ghost Rider seems to have broken through a bottleneck and mastered this incredible ability in advance.
Along with the action of traveling back and forth to the hell dimension, after breaking free from Luo Fu's force field imprisonment, the Ghost Rider's image has also undergone tremendous changes.
The hellfire burning on his body also seems to be mastered more skillfully.
Even the burning of the hellfire on that bald skull head seems to have turned into flowing and agile thread-like shapes, as if hair had grown on the skull head, with long strands scattered behind him.
With a roar, Johnny, who had returned from the hell dimension again, rushed straight towards Luo Fu.
Seeing the Ghost Rider approaching.
Luo Fu grabbed casually, and a scepter inlaid with gems fell into his hand.
The Mind Stone Scepter.
Since obtaining this trophy in the previous Battle of New York, Luo Fu has only used it once to enhance his own abilities and to stimulate the abilities of the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.
Apart from that, this scepter inlaid with the Mind Stone has always been hidden by Luo Fu in his Divine Might Space, gathering dust.
Luo Fu is very clear that although the power of the Mind Stone is indeed an incredibly powerful existence in the current universe, in reality, the power of the Infinity Stones is ultimately an external force.
Otherwise, Odin would not have ignored the numerous opportunities to obtain more Infinity Stones and remained indifferent.
Don't forget that the Tesseract, which contains the Space Stone, was originally placed on Earth by Odin and eventually obtained by Hydra during the Third Reich.
Odin never moved his heart regarding the Reality Stone, the Aether, of the Dark Elves, and even actively gave Luo Fu the opportunity to obtain the Reality Stone.
Even the Ancient One, the Sorcerer Supreme who controls the Time Stone, purely did so because the Time Stone was embedded in the Eye of Agamotto, which symbolizes the identity of the Sorcerer Supreme of Kamar-Taj.
Apart from the Time Stone, which has symbolic significance, the Ancient One has had many opportunities to obtain other Infinity Stones, but she has never been tempted.
For大佬 like them, the Infinity Stones are just external objects, and they are still external objects that are incompatible with their own power system.
Not only is it useless to obtain them, but it is also harmful.
For Luo Fu, he covets the Infinity Stones not for the power of the Infinity Stones themselves.
It is entirely because the Infinity Stones help him grow and even truly establish his own power system.
Among them, the Space Stone, after Luo Fu used it to enhance his own dimension, has almost no value to the current Luo Fu.
Therefore, Luo Fu directly let Thor take away the Space Stone after the Battle of New York, even though the Tesseract that wrapped the Space Stone had even given birth to top superheroes like Captain Marvel, but for Luo Fu, the Space Stone was more like a tool to enhance his own power.
It is like a walker that assists babies; when babies can walk on their own, the walker has little value.
Tools that simply enhance power, and are still external forces, and cannot establish their own complete system, naturally have greatly reduced value.
Even the Mind Stone Scepter, apart from the initial time when Luo Fu used it to enhance his own power, he now has little desire for the Mind Stone Scepter.
The top大佬 of the universe almost all treat the Infinity Stones as tools to be utilized.
Odin, the Ancient One, and even Thanos are no exception.
You must know that the Mind Stone Scepter was originally in the hands of Thanos, and even Thanos actively gave the Mind Stone Scepter to Loki, allowing him to bring the Mind Stone Scepter to Earth.
And when Thanos fulfilled his dream, collected the six Infinity Stones, and snapped his fingers, eliminating 50% of the life in the universe, Thanos then unhesitatingly destroyed the six Infinity Stones embedded in the Infinity Gauntlet.
For the current Luo Fu, the Mind Stone has no other value besides enhancing his own power.
Even the Aether, when Luo Fu perfects his own Chaos Magic, the Reality Stone will not be of so much value to him.
After all, in Luo Fu's heart, his own power is the foundation of everything. Simply relying on the Infinity Stones, once the Time Variance Authority appears, the power obtained by relying on the Infinity Stones will eventually turn into a dream bubble.
At the moment of taking out the Mind Stone Scepter, a powerful wave of power suddenly erupted from Luo Fu's body, and a pair of eyes instantly turned into the form of a kaleidoscope.
The current Luo Fu, his kaleidoscope, is no longer a form of Sharingan.
But a tool that simply helps Luo Fu grasp the essence of many pupil technique powers.
Even in the process of opening the kaleidoscope, there is no longer the process of one tomoe, two tomoe, and three tomoe.
As Luo Fu opened the kaleidoscope, the Ghost Rider who came head-on, in a face-to-face encounter, the hellfire burning on his body was instantly like being poured a basin of cold water on his head.
Although it did not extinguish, it was no longer like just now, when it was about to cover even the shape of the skull.
Completely exposing the Ghost Rider's skull appearance.
The kaleidoscope pupil technique, Izanagi, which changes reality, is displayed in Luo Fu's hands at this moment, and it is no longer in the state of pure pupil technique, but is beginning to transform towards the direction of Chaos Magic.
At this moment, Luo Fu is actually using Chaos Magic combined with Izanagi, which reverses reality and dreams, to forcibly change the burning state of the hellfire on the Ghost Rider's body.
It is only Luo Fu who can now combine Chaos Magic with Izanagi, but he cannot reach the point where he can manipulate the Ghost Rider's power at will. Otherwise, in an instant, he could completely extinguish the hellfire and return the Ghost Rider to the appearance of Johnny Blaze.
Perhaps because of the weakening of the hellfire, Johnny Blaze, who was originally suppressed by Zarathos's will, has regained some control over the Ghost Rider.
In the empty skull eye sockets, the flames of the Penance Stare flickered for a moment.
The bone frame, which clearly had no skin, muscles, blood vessels, and other tissues, made a hoarse and deep sound.
"Sin... sinner..."
Seeing that the Ghost Rider still wanted to attack him relentlessly.
Before Luo Fu could start the action of obliterating the Ghost Rider's will, he felt that a second Ghost Rider had appeared on the edge of the town.
At this moment, Luo Fu completely believed that Mephisto was indeed planning to use the Contract of San Venganza to completely transform the original San Venganza town into a domain of hell, and then, with his strength as a hell lord, forcibly crush Luo Fu and take away the Seven Deadly Sins authority on Luo Fu's body.
The Ghost Rider in front of him was just a means for Mephisto to confuse Luo Fu and conceal his true purpose.
Looking at the Ghost Rider in front of him with pity, Luo Fu said: "Poor tool, clearly deceived by Mephisto, but still so stubborn now."
Johnny Blaze, whose will was suppressed by Zarthanos's will and because of Luo Fu's chaos magic, regained some of his self-awareness and voiced his resentment.
"Sinner, I will use your sinful soul to exchange for the souls of the innocent."
Souls of the innocent?
A flash of inspiration struck Luo Fu's mind, and he suddenly realized, could it be that Mephisto was using the soul of Johnny Blaze's father, Crash Simpson, to threaten this Ghost Rider, which was why Johnny Blaze was working so hard for him?
The more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed. After all, Mephisto's depravity was well known throughout the multiverse.
"You want to save the soul of your father, who is suffering in Hell?"
The flames of the Penance Stare flickering in his eye sockets suddenly paused. At this moment, the Ghost Rider, dominated by Johnny Blaze's consciousness, angrily said, "Sinner who deserves to go to Hell."
Ignoring Johnny Blaze's somewhat confused state of mind, Luo Fu had a whimsical idea in a split second.
Although the Ghost Rider was a tool manipulated by Mephisto, unlike those beings completely controlled by Mephisto, the Ghost Rider had a considerable degree of autonomy.
Not to mention that the previous Ghost Rider was able to hide his name and live in obscurity for decades to stop Mephisto's plan, and this generation of Ghost Rider was also unswervingly fighting against Mephisto.
What if he helped Johnny Blaze?
Could he then get this Ghost Rider to cause trouble for Mephisto, the Lord of Hell?
After all, it's impolite not to reciprocate. Luo Fu couldn't just passively deal with Mephisto's schemes, could he?
He wasn't a superhero whose duty was to protect the Earth, and he didn't want a so-called nemesis to appear, like Doctor Strange and Dormammu, or Iron Man and the Mandarin. Luo Fu didn't want that to happen to him.
Johnny Blaze, who wasn't completely controlled by Mephisto, did indeed have the hope of becoming a headache for Mephisto.
Especially after mastering the ability of dimensional teleportation under his pressure just now, being able to freely travel between the dimensions of Hell and Earth.
The Johnny Blaze in front of him would definitely be able to constantly cause trouble for Mephisto, preventing him from having the mind to plot against the Seven Deadly Sins on Luo Fu.
Of course, there was a prerequisite for this, which was that Johnny Blaze's consciousness must dominate the power of the Ghost Rider, and secondly, Luo Fu had to first solve the current problem: Mephisto actually wanted to use the San Venganza Contract to turn the former San Venganza town's territory into a hellish environment, so that he could descend in his true form.
Theoretically, Mephisto wanting the San Venganza Contract to carve out a piece of land on Earth and bring it under the control of the Hell dimension was absolutely not allowed by Kamar-Taj.
But now, since the Ancient One had not taken action for a long time, it meant that either the Ancient One, who had insight into countless future timelines, had already seen Mephisto's failure, or the Ancient One was also being held back by Mephisto's schemes.
In either case, it was certain that he would not be able to rely on the power of Kamar-Taj to fight against Mephisto in the short term.
Luo Fu stared at Johnny Blaze in front of him, who was constantly struggling between the will of the Ghost Rider and his own will, and said, "Johnny Blaze, your father is in Hell, so you can only completely become Mephisto's tool. Do you want to free your father's soul from the control of Hell?"
This time, the will belonging to Johnny Blaze on the Ghost Rider became stronger.
"Sinner... you... what should I do?"
"Very good." Giving the Ghost Rider an approving look, Luo Fu said, "You must understand that your will cannot be completely controlled by the Ghost Rider, otherwise, you will never be able to get rid of Mephisto. You should master the power of the Ghost Rider!"
Along with a burst of Hellfire, Johnny Blaze's will became stronger.
While Johnny Blaze and the Ghost Rider were fighting for dominance of their will, Luo Fu sensed a Ghost Rider riding a skeletal horse galloping towards their current location.
Wherever this Ghost Rider passed, Hellfire seemed to leave a line of fire that countless Earth creatures avoided.
"Sin... I... tell me, what should I do?" After a brief struggle, the Ghost Rider was ultimately a being wrapped in layers, and after a brief burst of will in extreme circumstances, Johnny Blaze ultimately took the initiative.
A touch of approval flashed in Luo Fu's eyes, and he said, "Very good, next, we will have a real face-to-face confrontation with Mephisto. The power of the Ghost Rider is inseparable from Hell. Theoretically, you are able to control Hell, and even see your father's soul again, but before that, we must first teach Mephisto, the demon, a good lesson!"
When the Ghost Rider's burning eyes looked at Luo Fu, they no longer flickered with malice and hostility as before.
Although Luo Fu noticed that the Ghost Rider no longer harbored hostility towards him, the power of the Ghost Rider was ultimately given to Johnny Blaze by Mephisto, and Luo Fu obviously would not trust the other party so easily.
After slowly releasing the shackles on Johnny Blaze, Luo Fu said, "Now your predecessor is rushing towards here, you want to get rid of him and prove your sincerity to me."
Nodding, the Ghost Rider turned around, as if sensing his predecessor in Luo Fu's words.
With a flash of his figure, the Ghost Rider returned to his motorcycle by means of dimensional teleportation again. After straddling the motorcycle, he twisted the accelerator, and the Ghost Rider went straight to his predecessor.
Sensing the Ghost Rider's departure, Luo Fu looked in another direction.
There, he clearly felt Mephisto's violent emotions.
That's right.
When Luo Fu bewitched Johnny Blaze, Mephisto, who originally thought he had everything under control, finally began to stir.
Mephisto had spent a lot of thought on this plan against Luo Fu.
Mephisto had even prepared to abandon the Ghost Rider, but no matter what, he didn't expect that Johnny Blaze would choose to stand on Luo Fu's side.
It had to be admitted that although Mephisto's strength as the Lord of Hell was powerful, even God could not manipulate the free will of human beings.
Mephisto was naturally no exception. All he could do was constantly bewitch those deceived souls, and Johnny Blaze was like that in the past.
But now, when Johnny Blaze was bewitched by Luo Fu in turn, he had no other way to deal with this trouble except to use his limited control over the Ghost Rider to influence Johnny Blaze.
Now Mephisto could only hope to take the San Venganza Contract from the hands of the previous Ghost Rider, and complete the plan to turn the entire population of San Venganza town into Hell in advance.
Only in this way could he exert the power of the Lord of Hell on Earth and crush Luo Fu and the betrayed Ghost Rider with absolute strength.
And seize the Seven Deadly Sins power from Luo Fu.
In Mephisto's eyes, even if he sacrificed the San Venganza Contract, or even lost control of the Ghost Rider, as long as he could obtain the Seven Deadly Sins from Luo Fu, it would be a greater gain than loss for him!
When Mephisto finally took action.
Luo Fu's figure also disappeared in place in a space vortex.
The edge of town.
Two Ghost Riders, one riding a skeletal horse burning with Hellfire, and the other straddling a Ghost Rider motorcycle, the two Ghost Riders fell into each other's confrontation the moment they met.
While the battle between the two sides was in full swing, Luo Fu's figure appeared out of thin air next to the two Ghost Riders fighting.
At the same time, in front of him, an old man with a cane and wearing a swallowtail coat just happened to block Luo Fu who had just appeared.
"Your Excellency Mephisto, long time no see." Luo Fu looked at the furious Mephisto with a smile.
"Damn it." Mephisto gritted his teeth angrily, and his eyes towards Luo Fu were full of murderous intent, and said, "Do you think you can stop me like this? Don't even think about it, even if the Ancient One is here, she can't stop me."