Chapter 280: Mephisto, who covets Hawk's soul (First update!)

Put it in writing!?

It would be better if Mephisto hadn't said this.

Once said.

Johnny, who was still excited because Mephisto said he could resurrect his father, instantly felt like a basin of cold water had been poured over his whole body.

In his mind, he thought again of the tricks Mephisto used to lure him the first time.

Instantly.

Johnny's hot head cooled down at a very fast speed, and then he looked at Mephisto.

"You want to deceive me again, one more time."

"No."

Mephisto shook his head, still looking at Johnny with a gentlemanly smile: "This time, I will absolutely not deceive you."

At least when he said this right now, he was sincere.

As for later?

What does Mephisto breaking his promise later have to do with Mephisto swearing now?

Just like he told Hawk that as long as Hawk finds a body, he will release the soul of Hawk's sister.

This is just a trick Mephisto used to trick Hawk into this demon land of Texas.

It is true that his rebellious son Blackheart escaped from Hell and tried to find the Four Elemental Demons, relying on the laws of death he mastered to rebuild a Hell.

Similarly, it is also true that he hopes Hawk will help him stop Blackheart.

But...

He also seriously wants to obtain Hawk's soul.

No one can refuse the soul of a god, especially when this god is not yet a true god.

One sentence.

He can be replaced!

Being a dimension god of the Death dimension is actually not bad, but Mephisto feels that becoming a true god can make his path to godhood even broader.

Moreover, the divine authority of life and death is different from other divine authorities; even if Mephisto included all the living beings in the universe into his Hell dimension, he still couldn't become a true god.

Because the divine authority of life and death already has an owner.

And the owner is a creation god.

Death!

One of the five creation gods of the universe.

Death is the abstract entity of the concept of death, the embodiment of death itself, the master of souls, the source, creator, and controller of all souls in the multiverse.

Simply put.

As long as Death still exists, Mephisto will always only be a dimension god and cannot become a true god.

But...

That nirvana of Hawk's, which entered the edge of life and death, gave Mephisto hope and also made his mind stir.

Because if he could obtain Hawk's soul and then take out the two divine authorities of "Immortality" and "Nirvana" from Hawk's soul, then he could become a true god.

So he had been making preparations from the moment he saw Hawk on the edge of life and death.

For example, the few glasses of wine he invited Hawk to drink.

Those few glasses of wine were actually nothing special, had no problems, and even drinking them would make one's soul stronger.

Because the materials used for those few glasses of wine were souls themselves.

But precisely because the materials for those few glasses of wine were souls, Hawk's soul would not be purely his own until he completely consumed them.

The next thing Mephisto needs to do is very simple: find an opportunity to harvest Hawk's soul; even if Hawk's soul falls into Hell for one second, he has a way to make Hawk stay in Hell forever.

As a result—

The opportunity came.

His son Blackheart escaped from Hell while Hawk's sister Anna was summoned out of the Hell gate by the Hell witch; this once made Mephisto feel angry, but it also made him realize that the opportunity to harvest Hawk had come.

So he went online again, successfully tricked Hawk into rushing to Texas, and while helping him catch his rebellious son, gave him a chance to take away his soul.

And this opportunity is Johnny, who signed a soul contract with him in front of him.

Of course.

Johnny, as an ordinary person, cannot harvest Hawk's soul, but the Spirit of Vengeance he killed back then has this opportunity.

When he fought with the Spirit of Vengeance back then, he was almost hooked away by the Spirit of Vengeance's Penance Stare.

A mere Hawk who has not yet become a god and has been temporarily suppressed by his fine wine, as long as he is looked at by the Penance Stare, harvesting Hawk's soul is a matter of minutes.

But all of this has a prerequisite.

Johnny must cooperate.

If Johnny doesn't cooperate, it's very likely to capsize in the gutter.

But it doesn't matter; Mephisto could trick Johnny once, and now he can trick him a second time.

Sure enough.

Johnny listened to Mephisto's sincere guarantee, and his heart, which had just extinguished, began to beat again.

He swallowed his saliva and looked at Mephisto in front of him.

"Really?"

"I guarantee."

Mephisto smiled, then extended his right hand, and then a parchment contract flew toward Johnny: "I swear in the name of the Hell Lord, this contract does not contain any text traps or any handwriting you cannot see; you can take a look at this contract."

Johnny took the parchment contract, took a deep breath, thought of the painful lesson of being deceived the first time, and seriously looked at the content of the contract word by word.

Sure enough.

The contract states that as long as he can bring back the specified soul for Mephisto, then Mephisto will release his father's soul.

There are no text traps, and similarly, there is no small print that is almost invisible to the naked eye.

This contract is exactly the same as what Mephisto said.

Johnny took a deep breath and looked up at Mephisto.

"Who is this specific soul?"

"Hawk!"

Mephisto smiled and projected Hawk's appearance with Hellfire: "Send his soul to Hell, and your father's soul will be released."

He said release, not resurrect.

Johnny's father's soul is now locked in Hell's soul cage; releasing him from the cage is also a release.

Just like he promised Hawk back then. ===== CHAPTER 282 =====