"Yo, look at this!"

Mephistopheles sat unceremoniously on the couch in Pierce's house, reaching for the book Pierce had placed on the table.

The book that tells a story about a mortal and a devil.

"Faust, my favorite book."

Mephistopheles flipped through the book, and said with ease:

"The game I played with my dear Mr. Faustus was the proudest story of my long life. I didn't expect you to be a fan of mine... What a coincidence. ”

The Great Devil winked at Pierce, who was sitting across from it, and he waved the book in his hand and said:

"Do you want me to sign your name?"

After speaking, without waiting for Pierce to answer, the great devil stretched out his claws, and at the tip of the sharp claws, there was a fire jumping.

On the cover of that book, a brilliant signature soon appeared, dancing like burning ashes.

"Well, of course it's not my real name."

The Great Devil put the book on the table, and it said:

"Scribbling your real name will cause a lot of trouble, I just suffered a loss, I have to learn some lessons."

With a wave of its hand, the coffee machine in the living room sprang into motion, and in no time it brewed two cups of fragrant coffee, and then poured them into two cups like an invisible hand.

It was finally delivered to Mephistopheles and Pierce.

"Now, then, let's talk about things between us."

It looked at Pierce, and it said:

"It is clear that you have a great wish in your heart, and that wish is about to come true."

"But here's the bad thing about how to deal with Merlin."

"You don't want him to interfere with your plans, you know very well how destructive he is."

"But you can't kill him directly, whether you can kill him or not is one thing, whether you want to kill him or not is another..."

"You're expecting Merlin to change her mind, well, you're expecting Merlin to be the heir to your great cause..."

The Great Devil stretched out his paws, propped up his chin, and said to Pierce:

"You're probably crazy, I seriously doubt that."

"What kind of person would let Merlin inherit his own business..."

"He is stubborn, he is entangled in darkness, he is ill-fated, he is stubborn and refuses to bow his head, and he has a gang of extremely evil people who are ready to do something in hell..."

"He never told you that he had any other identity than his earthly identity, right?"

Mephistopheles gave a hazy smile and said:

"Look at you, Lord Pierce, you don't know anything about Merlin, so why do you expect so much from him?"

"If you want me to say, you just kill him! Besiege him, and once he falls, the rest of the people will be well dealt with..."

Pierce didn't answer.

He was organizing the language, he was examining the devil before him, and after a moment he said:

"To be able to make a legendary character so angry that he can show up in person to solve problems is a testament to Merlin's ability."

"What's more, in this matter, I have my plans."

"What are you going to do? Huh... Mortal wisdom! ”

Mephistopheles cocked her legs, sneering at Pierce, then dropping the contract on the table.

It said to the cunning soul in front of it:

"I know that a guy like you wouldn't believe a guy who suddenly appeared and claimed to be a helper... As for me, I didn't expect you to trust me, so let's let the contract do the work. ”

"What you want, and what I want, we've already figured it out."

The Great Devil snorted, and said to Pierce:

"You still lack the power in your hands, and you need help to do what you want to do. Actually, I don't think you need to worry about anything. ”

"Compared to fulfilling a great long-cherished wish, making a deal with the devil is nothing to mention."

"You should learn from your predecessor, Red Skull Schmidt, who, like you, is eager to change the world with his own hands, and much more so than you are looking ahead..."

"When he signed the contract with me, he didn't hesitate at all."

Pierce looked up and gave a strange smile as he said:

"So, the Red Skull failed in the end, and there are no bones left, aren't they?"

"Well, his failure has nothing to do with me."

Mephistopheles spread her hands and said with an innocent face:

"I gave him all the clues he wanted, and as I expected, he found the power to change the world. He failed because he underestimated a child of destiny, and he failed because of his arrogance. ”

"His arrogance is innate, derived from the power he has received, which I have not imposed on him."

"What's more..."

The Great Devil blinked, and it said:

"Are you sure he's really failed? The Red Skull isn't dead yet..."

Pierce's expression changed for a moment, and instead of continuing to say this to the Great Devil, he looked down at the contract.

The content in it is very concise, stipulating the responsibilities and obligations of both parties, and there are not too many loopholes just from the core of the text.

After all, this is only a temporary contract, and the end point of the contract is the moment Pierce completes the advent of the new order...

And the contract stipulates that Mephistopheles must do everything in his power to help Pierce achieve a new order, without any conditions and no reason.

And at the cost of this help, in this upcoming operation, Mephistopheles can also borrow all the cards in Pierce's hand to fight against Merlin. Riley strikes, and Pierce can't stop it.

"You have a big plan."

The voice of the Great Devil sounded in Pierce's ears, and he said slowly:

"There are always all kinds of difficulties in a big project, and I'll be responsible for helping you get rid of the hardest one, and I don't even need you to pay me... You see, where can you find such a good thing? ”

"Also, you don't have to worry about the contract itself going wrong."

Mephistopheles was like a young man looking for a job, babbling and boasting, and it said to Pierce:

"The other devils, I mean my unsuccessful compatriots, always like to use their little tricks and feet in contracts, what lace ciphertext, what synonyms, what language traps, in order to embody their so-called 'evil' and 'wisdom'."

"But that doesn't take anything out of it except to make them look stupider, the contract is sacred, and all the devils who play tricks will be punished in the end..."

"I wouldn't do that, I never bothered to make any loopholes in the contract itself, I wouldn't do it!"

The Great Devil whispered:

"I'll arrange everything before the contract starts, and the contract is just a signal for me that another game has begun..."

"Wait, I have a question."

Pierce stretched out his hand to interrupt Mephistopheles' boasting, and he looked at the Great Devil and said:

"If you are really as described in Faust, then I think you don't need to intervene in this matter to use your own power to punish Merlin for being disrespectful to you..."

"As a legendary devil, although I don't know much about it, I don't think he's your opponent yet, right?"

"Hey, what are you talking about, you mortal!"

The Great Devil snorted discontentedly, and said to Pierce:

"I'm not a barbarian, in fact, I hate violence."

"Merlin's wisdom has made me a failure, so I will inevitably fight back in the same field... Besides, I love intrigue, I love games. ”

It stretched out its forked, snake-like tongue and licked its lips, and said:

"It's so boring right now, really, so quiet, I want to make it lively."

"And from this plan of yours, I smell the chaos that will make this boring world more interesting, and I want to see it become a reality."

"And you know what's the best?"

The Great Devil snapped his fingers, and said with great interest:

"The best thing is that all this is your own choice, and even the Supreme One has no reason to interfere with it..."

"You mean, the advent of a new order will bring the world into chaos?"

Pierce's expression changed for a moment, and he asked:

"You predicted that?"

"Prophecy? No kidding! ”

The big devil pursed his lips disdainfully:

"You can ask Merlin what the nature of prophecy is... It's just an illusion seen from the long river of discord of fate, it may happen, but there is a greater chance that it won't. ”

"All who listen to prophecy are fools, oh, except, of course, prophecies with prophecies, like poor Thor... Well, but you don't need to know this! ”

"Anyway, I didn't perceive the future through some unreliable prophecy or magic..."

The Great Devil pointed to his head, grinned, and said to Pierce:

"I use this... Brains are a good thing. ”

"When you've lived long enough, when you've seen enough things, when something has a certain sign, you don't have to think about it, you can guess how it's going to go."

Mephistopheles pointed at Pierce, and said:

"You're not the first person in the world to try to bring order to you, and your group isn't even the first to harbor such fantasies."

"Too many people have tried before you, to take away the freedom of the world, to change everything that exists in the name of the future, but if something important is taken away, people will rebel..."

"Freedom... Freedom is not worth mentioning to me. ”

The Great Devil pointed to himself, and he spread out his hands again, and said a little helplessly:

"But for you humans, that's something very important."

"When you try to take it away, a lot of people will jump out and fight with you."

"I'm not saying that your plan will fail, in fact, from my point of view, as long as you get Merlin and those Avengers, and get the help of the old devil, the probability of this plan succeeding is quite high."

"After all, you are a little more clever than those of your predecessors, and you do not intend to completely subvert the order, but to make it more 'beautiful' on the basis of the existing order..."

The Great Devil applauded:

"First eliminate crime, bring safety to people, and then on this basis, little by little, show the beauty of order in front of everyone, and finally tempt them to voluntarily give up their freedom..."

"It's really a good strategy to build a high wall and keep weak humans in captivity."

Pierce did not refute.

Because, what the Great Devil says, in a sense, is correct.

"But alas, your understanding of order is obviously too shallow."

Mephistopheles said casually:

"Anything good goes to the extreme and becomes bad, just like if there is heaven in this world, there must be hell, and human beings live between heaven and hell..."

"Your so-called humanity is the contract you have made with Heaven and Hell, as if you were in the balance."

"You want to maintain balance, but the moment you put down the weights, the scales are already tipping. It's like an introduction, and it will still be out of balance in the end. ”

The Great Devil shrugged:

"So the chaos caused by the order in the end, it's only a matter of time, and I just need to be patient..."

"Look, I've said so much, aren't you going to sign the contract yet?"

"I'm thinking."

Pierce reached out and asked the Great Devil to stop interfering with him.

He said:

"I'm still wondering how you're going to help me... Will you send your demons directly into the world and kill Merlin? ”

"It's rude!"

Mephistopheles said dismissively:

"You're napping when I spoke, aren't you? I've said it all, I don't like that damn violence. ”

"As for how I'll help you... Quite simply, I'll give you this! ”

Mephistopheles' claws clawed lightly in the air.

A mass of something that shimmered with a golden sheen was seized in its hand.

It looked like a golden ball, with all sorts of weird scratches on its surface.

Presumably to show how extraordinary this thing is, the lights in the whole living room dimmed when the Great Devil took it out.

A golden halo of light danced in the darkness, making Pierce's gaze can't help but be drawn to it.

When he saw the golden ball of light in Mephistopheles' hand, Pierce felt as if his will was being drawn to a whirlpool... There is no way to turn your head away.

"It's... This is? ”

He asked.

"I picked this up."

The Great Devil whistled happily, and he tossed the golden ball up and down in his hand like a small orange sun jumping up and down in his hand.

It says:

"One day, I was walking along some harbor on the east coast with nothing to do, and then someone was running away with this thing... He was covered in blood, tsk, and miserable. ”

Mephistopheles Says:

"So I made a deal with him, he wanted to escape from the vicious assassins, I granted his request, threw him into my hell, and he was safe."

The Great Devil placed the golden orb in his hand on the table, and said to Pierce:

"So in exchange, I got this..."

"They called it the 'Golden Apple,' and they originally intended to launch this thing into Earth orbit on a rocket, so that they could manipulate the will of everyone in the whole world through this artifact."

"Oh, by the way, their ideas are very similar to yours, and they also aspire to build a world ruled by order, but they are too crude and barbaric compared to your methods."

Pierce looked at the golden apple on the table and said:

"'They', who are they?"

"They called themselves Templars, and in ancient times, they called themselves the Cult of Kosmos, the Order of the Ancients, and the like."

The Great Devil squinted and looked at Pierce, and he said:

"And in this day and age, their name is ..."

"Abstergo, you have an impression when I say that, right?"