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Chapter 281 Mephisto's Overt Scheme

Chapter 281 Mephisto's Overt Scheme

Now that two of the Avengers' Big Three have gathered, a very important meeting can proceed.

As for the purpose of this important meeting, it is, of course, to reveal the truth about this multiverse catastrophe, and Rune will also announce his solution at this meeting.

These are the main topics, but this is destined to be an extremely chaotic meeting.

Another Earth had just been destroyed not long ago, and most of the heroes believed that the disaster was over. However, when Rune said that this was just one of the battles that the gladiators had won, and that they would encounter other universes with gladiators in the future, the crowd erupted in uproar.

It's worth noting that while the Marvel Cinematic Universe doesn't feature many civilian superhero organizations, there are quite a few of them, besides the well-known X-Men.

In addition to top-tier hero teams like the X-Men and the Avengers, there are also hero organizations similar to the Avengers in various states.

The initial spark that ignited the Civil War in Marvel Comics was a young team of superheroes who live-streamed the arrest of a villain on a reality TV show. The captured villain went berserk and exploded, causing widespread destruction in Stamford and killing over 900 civilians.

This directly led to a collapse in public and government trust in superheroes.

After this incident, these grassroots hero organizations did indeed go into hiding, but many determined individuals did not give up their chivalrous deeds, and the heroic deeds of those top-tier superhero organizations also encouraged them.

To Rune's surprise, Iron Man had somehow gathered so many leaders of civilian hero organizations, which made the atmosphere of the meeting quite complicated.

Fortunately, Steve vouched for them with his own reputation, which silenced the assembled heroes, who listened quietly to Rune's next words. When Rune said he was willing to provide all the heroes with a way to survive the apocalypse, the entire meeting room erupted in cheers.

But when he explained that he wouldn't take ordinary people along for free, and that heroes would have to pay an extra price if they wanted to bring friends or family, the room fell silent.

Seeing the awkward silence, Tony quickly said, "Runn's method for surviving the apocalypse requires a huge amount of resources. His promise to take everyone with him is already a losing proposition. Perhaps it's because of Tony's own businessman background that a man in the audience stood up and angrily shouted, 'You damn capitalist, why are you siding with him! If he can take all of us, why doesn't he take more people? He won't lose much anyway!'"

The speaker had clearly chosen the wrong place. The heroes present all looked at him. Since he could persist in doing good deeds with almost no reward, the morals of everyone present, regardless of age or gender, were quite high. Therefore, his rhetoric, instead of causing others to attack Rune, made the other heroes dislike him.

Some people glared at the guy and shouted, "The person on stage has already done more than enough by helping us for free. Don't push your luck!"

Some people, however, spoke their minds directly, shouting for people to shut up.

The man looked around and then said viciously, "Are you so emboldened because it's confirmed that Rune will rescue you? You're even insulting me here, just because I care about the lives of other ordinary people? Does the life of a hero matter, but the lives of ordinary people don't?"

As soon as he finished speaking, someone sensed something was wrong. The man pressed a button in his hand and grinned.

Johnny smelled the familiar odor. He stood up, glared at the man, and shouted, "I smell sulfur on you!"

Who exactly are you?

"Who am I?" The man sneered, his figure swelling as his skin turned crimson. "I made the Silver Surfer submit, Doctor Doom tremble, and even Thanos kneel before me to swear allegiance! I am Mephisto, the embodiment of hell! Of course—"

He grinned maliciously: "You can call me Satan too!"

However, Rune stood up and made a pinching gesture, forcing Mephisto to stop the growth process.

He clutched his neck as if something was choking him.

"Mephisto, you still dare to show your face in front of me?" Rune asked with a sneer, and Mephisto laughed along.

"It's just borrowing a body to pass a message, what's there to be afraid of?"

At this point, other people who knew the man also asked, "Where's Alex? Where did you take him?"

"Alex?" Despite being choked, Mephisto could still speak normally. He looked at the guy who asked the question, his smile growing even brighter: "His power comes from me, so—of course I can send him to hell too~"

Having said that, Mephisto, ignoring the man's anger, turned to Rune and said, "Oh, my friend, ever since our last collaboration, I've been wanting to work with you again. What do you think?"

"You asked Odin, didn't you?" Rune asked coldly, though it was a question, his voice was unusually cold.

Mephisto nodded: "Wait, if I had known you were the ship's owner, I wouldn't have tried any of those tricks. Now I'd like to ask you to be kind enough to let me aboard your ship, okay?"

Mephisto was indeed shameless, but Rune shook his head. Mephisto thought the price wasn't enough, so he said loudly, "Alright, alright, I know you're the type who won't act until you see the benefit. We can sign a contract. I'll work for you for free for three hundred years. During those three hundred years, if you tell me to go east, I'll never go west; if you tell me to chase a dog, I'll never chase a chicken. What do you say?"

Rune shook his head again; he had made up his mind not to let Mephisto board the ship, even though the reward he offered was somewhat attractive.

But this was not enough to shake his belief.

"Ugh," Mephisto rolled his eyes. "I was hoping to resolve this peacefully, but with you doing this, I'm forced to resort to some underhanded tactics."

Rune was too lazy to listen to Mephisto's words and wanted to kill Mephisto's avatar directly, but unexpectedly, the other pointed to a place not far away: "I recorded everything you just said. If you don't agree to let me on board, the whole world will know that you only save heroes and not ordinary people—"

"I don't care," Rune said coldly, as a massive amount of magic power invaded the body of Mephisto's avatar, transforming into pure magic power amidst the other's mournful cries.