Mephisto was indeed in an awkward position.
This powerful Hell Lord had first been brutally beaten down by Karl. Before he had even fully recovered, he had now suffered another heavy injury.
He looked utterly miserable.
However, Chthon no longer had time to worry about him.
"Attack. Kill him!"
Chthon did not bother wasting words. He took the lead and charged forward.
Around his body, terrifying black magic power swirled. He waved his hand at Karl.
Two streams of black energy shot out like a pair of long serpents, twisting through space and bearing down on him.
When they reached Karl, the two beams suddenly split to either side and curved around, trying to trap him directly.
Karl reacted extremely quickly.
He left an afterimage behind and appeared in another part of space.
The moment he reappeared, Balthakk's attack arrived.
A purple energy beam, carrying destructive fluctuations, shot straight toward Karl.
The surrounding space began to distort.
"The Law of Destruction?"
Karl's body flashed away as he gave the attack a wary glance.
There was nothing especially refined about Balthakk's move.
It was a pure energy beam.
He attacked by relying on the vast amount of energy inside his body, together with the terrifying Law of Destruction contained within it.
With just one Law, he had unleashed such terrifying power.
Even the space of Hell itself was forcibly distorted.
Karl had no intention of taking that attack head-on.
His body moved, and he drew a circle with one hand.
A golden portal instantly appeared.
The purple beam passed directly through the portal.
The next moment, the purple energy beam appeared behind Krakkan and struck him directly.
However, when this terrifying energy, powerful enough to destroy a planet, hit Krakkan's back, it only left a white mark.
Karl's eyes widened.
Damn. What kind of species was this? Was his body really that absurd?
That physical strength had actually allowed him to withstand it head-on?
Were the timing not so bad, Karl would genuinely have wanted to go up and compare strength with this guy to see whose body was tougher.
Karl was somewhat surprised.
Balthakk's eyes nearly popped out as well, even though he did not actually have that organ.
What kind of monster was this kid?
He could actually teleport his energy beam?
Even Hell's space could not withstand that terrifying power. How had he done it?
One had to understand that the thing spatial magic feared most was instability.
A slight fluctuation could potentially cause a spatial portal to collapse.
That was also why powerful beings rarely used spatial magic in the middle of battle unless the terrain and timing were absolutely right.
One careless mistake, and spatial magic might fail to kill the enemy while harming the caster instead.
But now, things were completely different.
Balthakk was a dignified Space Lord. He considered himself someone who had seen plenty.
Yet this was the first time he had ever seen someone use a portal like this right in front of him.
This was far too impressive.
Even though Karl was his enemy, Balthakk still felt that this generation's Sorcerer Supreme was extraordinary.
Unfortunately, he himself did not have spatial methods.
He could only stop attacking helplessly.
When Chthon saw this, he frowned, then said nothing more.
A moment later, a black beam spread outward through the surroundings.
Karl immediately felt his spatial magic being interfered with.
"Interesting. Dark magic really does have a few tricks."
This was the first time he had met someone capable of interfering with his magic.
A person's reputation cast a long shadow.
Chthon, the God of the Underworld, truly lived up to his name.
The source of dark magic was indeed powerful.
However, Karl was no freeloader either.
He knew exactly what to use against this guy.
His powerful mental force spread out.
A vast amount of scarlet magical energy began circling around him.
Chthon's expression changed drastically.
"Chaos Magic!"
"That's impossible!"
Chthon's heart churned violently, as if he had witnessed something that should never have happened.
Even his perpetually gloomy expression could no longer remain calm.
What was Chaos Magic?
It was a powerful force born after his own power had been enhanced by Scarlet Witch's mutant ability.
It was also a variant of his power.
In this world, aside from Scarlet Witch, no one should be able to wield this power.
Yet Karl had just used Chaos Magic right in front of him.
How was this possible?
Chthon could hardly believe it.
He muttered incantations under his breath as powerful dark magic shook around his body.
Deep black magical power condensed before him.
Complex magical runes emerged.
A black spear appeared in front of him.
The spear emitted an abnormally evil aura.
Even a great demon like Balthakk instinctively felt disgusted when he saw it.
It was as if he had seen something standing on the opposite side of life itself.
The moment it appeared, it was like a black hole, devouring all the surrounding light.
"Spear of Original Sin!"
"Go!"
Chthon raised his head.
The spear, engraved with extremely complex black runes, shot toward Karl.
Krakkan, who had been trying to close in and fight Karl in melee, could only dodge aside helplessly.
Karl directly controlled the scarlet energy in front of him and pulled it toward the black spear, intending to snap it in half.
Scarlet Witch had never received systematic magical education, so when she used Chaos Magic, it seemed more like some kind of powerful telekinesis.
Karl was different.
He could bring out the most terrifying power of Chaos Magic.
Reality alteration.
This was also one of the reasons Chaos Magic was considered one of the ultimate powers of the Marvel world.
As long as one's power was strong enough, one could change the entire world.
One could even alter physical rules and rewrite Laws.
It was equivalent to directly activating god mode in a game and instantly becoming omnipotent.
Karl's mental force moved.
The tyrannical Chaos Magic instantly erupted with his power.
The long spear Chthon had launched, which carried an intensely evil aura and seemed incompatible with the world itself, vanished from thin air in an instant.
Power, Laws, aura, fluctuations—nothing remained.
It was as if such a thing had never existed in this world at all.
Karl had directly rewritten that section of space.
"Chaos Magic. It really is Chaos Magic!"
Chthon stared fixedly at Karl, muttering under his breath.
The only thing capable of countering the world's original sin was Chaos Magic.
Only this most fundamental power of the world could threaten the Power of Original Sin.
This was the ultimate evil born during the early formation of the Multiverse.
It was the lingering evil will of an existence that had already died.
Even the tiniest trace of it could destroy an entire universe.
Yet it had been neutralized so easily!
Only Chaos Magic could do that.
But how was this possible?
Why could he use Chaos Magic?
For a moment, even Chthon became somewhat confused.
(End of Chapter)
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