Merlin opened his eyes in the light.

In front of his eyes, the two faces of Johnny and Zakang appeared.

Their faces were full of worry.

"How long?"

Merlin asked thoughtlessly.

"Well, 10 hours is almost."

Holding the alchemy instrument he had made for timekeeping, he said to Merlin in a shy:

"We thought you had escaped alone, or had accepted Heaven's beckoning to leave us brothers and sisters here."

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Johnny retorted with a disgruntled face:

"I always said Merlin couldn't have done that."

"But you're worried, too."

Zakang pursed his lips:

"You can't hide that worried look on your face, but speaking of which, where have you been?"

He looked at Merlin and asked:

"We could feel just now that all you left here was an empty shell, and you seem to have gone to a more mysterious place? Be... Is that the one? ”

The bold creature stretched out his hand and pointed to the sky, and he winked at Merlin, and said:

"Is he really there?"

"Yes."

Merlin sat up, and he breathed a sigh of relief:

"Absolutely."

"So you're done?"

Johnny also glanced at the sky, and he asked:

"Negotiated terms?"

"Yes."

Merlin looked at the gates of hell in front of him, his fingers flicking slightly, and a bronze key landed in the palm of his hand.

He felt the warmth of the key, and as Zackon and Johnny watched, Merlin inserted the key into the lock of the Hell Gate in front of him.

With the soft sound of the key swinging, he pushed the door open inward.

The gloomy world, filled with the smell of sulfur and an ominous halo, unfolded before the eyes of the three of them again.

The plains of ash that had been torn apart before had been bridged, and a new day had arrived, and every inch of the air in this hellish place was littered with ashes.

On that scattered earth, the streamers from the Doomsday Volcano erupted like falling meteorites, mixed with light and flames that fell on the world in front of Merlin's eyes.

The scorched earth crossed by the two Stygian rivers seemed to be the same as before, but in Merlin's perception, the silent land seemed to have opened its arms to him.

It's like an ugly monster, craving a warm hug.

He looked at the barren and desperate world in front of him, and he tightened the key in his hand.

He said:

"It's settled."

"This hell... It's ours. ”

He stepped out of the door into the wasteland in front of him.

Behind him, Zakon and Johnny glanced at each other.

Ghost Rider didn't care too much, and he followed Merlin back to the world he had so hard to escape, while Zakon stood outside the gates of Hell, struggling not to enter.

He complained:

"I don't know what happened to you, you could have asked for more from heaven..."

"If we are not destined to be free, then perhaps we should find a way to make our lives in this hell more comfortable."

"Trust me, Konstantin."

Merlin Says:

"That's the best we can get."

He glanced back at Konstantin, then at the few guys on the ground who were bound in chains, and he said:

"Stop grinding and drag them all in."

"I don't see anything good..."

Zak Kang muttered, but under Merlin's watchful eye, he dragged the four guys into the wasteland with the chains.

Merlin's conversation with God doesn't involve these four guys who have anything to do with the scandal in heaven at all.

Actually, there is no need to discuss any more.

At the moment when Merlin and God met, the fate of these four guys was already sealed.

Merlin took the key, marking the end of the Paradise scandal.

The things Malachi and Kazan did would be investigated, and Heaven would be brutally purged, but that had nothing to do with Merlin.

At the end of the day, God has paid the hush money...

No one will ever talk about it again.

"Let's start digging a hole."

Merlin glanced at the four guys at his feet, and he said to Johnny and Zakang behind him:

"Four..."

"Oh."

Johnny nodded, waving the chains, which were shaped into two shovels in the light of the Hellfire.

He threw a handful to Zakon, who took it in his hand, and smiled maliciously at Malachi, the angel of the stars who was lying on the ground and looking at him, and said:

"Don't worry, I'll dig up a big one for you."

"Nope! No!! ”

Malachi, the guy who hooked up with hell and betrayed heaven, has no shame at all.

When he saw the bronze key in Merlin's hand, he knew what he was up against.

He wailed as Johnny and Konstantin dug the pit with their shovels, crawling on the ground, his handsome face covered with golden blood.

The blood was stained with dust, making a mess of dirt on Malachi's face.

He endured the pain, and crawled to Merlin's feet, and he kissed Merlin's feet, and he said in a flattering tone:

"You need me, raven... No, no, Your Majesty! You need me. ”

"Oh?"

Merlin, looking out into the distant wasteland, glanced down at the angel, and he looked at him, at the face full of flattery, and said:

"What can you do for me?"

"I will proclaim your prestige, I will..."

Malachi could finish his sentence when Merlin kicked him away.

"No, I don't."

He said:

"In terms of being able to speak well, I already have Konstantin... You're not as good as Johnny, and your existence means nothing to me. ”

"I will serve you."

Malachi screamed:

"Give me a chance! Your Majesty, give me a..."

"I'm not disabled, I don't need anyone to serve me."

Merlin crouched down, he looked at the supplied face of the Angel of the Stars, he reached out to help him wipe the stains from his face, and said:

"I have no grievances with you, but if you show up again in the future, many people will be upset... Sorry. ”

"Bury him!"

Merlin took a step back, and a sinister Johnny stepped forward, grabbed the screaming angel and shook his hand, and threw him into the pit that Zakang had dug.

The dust mixed with ashes fell, and Malachi tried to climb out, but he was swung a shovel and smashed in the face.

Dust and blood splattered everywhere.

Malachi's whimpering sobs grew deeper and deeper, and shovels of dirt were thrown into the pit until at last the last of the cries of begging for mercy were silenced.

"Smack"

He slapped the shovel on the ground, pulled a cigar from his pocket and hooked his finger at Johnny, who flicked his hand and a flame flew to help him light the cigar.

Merlin's previous conversation with Malachi, Zakang heard it clearly.

Merlin said that in this small group, it is enough for people who can speak well to have Zakang.

From this simple sentence, the fox-minded Zakang already understood what Merlin needed him to do.

As the smoke rose, Zakang sneaked a glance at Merlin behind him.

The latter doesn't seem to care at all about the lives of these people.

But Zakang knew that it was time for him to step up.

He stepped forward with a burning cigar in his mouth and kicked Hus, the severed Hell Hunter.

The Children of Hell seemed to be a little heavier when they grabbed it, and Liana's soul-slashing sword undermined its sanity.

As a result, this guy now has no wisdom in his eyes except howling.

"This guy is crazy."

Zakang puffed out the smoke regretfully, he turned back to Johnny and said:

"It's useless, bury it."

Ghost Rider didn't say anything.

He bent down and grabbed the Hellhunter and threw him into another pit.

In the background of Johnny swinging a shovel, Zakang crouches down in front of the silent Angel of War Luther and the silent Fallen Angel Kazan.

He looked at the two men and said:

"You two seem to be of some use."

Za Kang smiled, and he said:

"Heaven and hell have forsaken you, and you have been cast into the wasteland... The boss seems to have something else in mind, I don't know what he wants to do, but I at least know that the one who knows the times is Junjie. ”

"You're going to die here, buried on the borders of the wasteland, rotting along with the world... Do you know what's the best part? ”

Za Kang snapped his fingers, and he said with interest:

"This place is magical, every 24 hours, you will be resurrected, and then continue to die again in agony in the suffocation of the deeply buried cursed earth, and the cycle will never end."

"Or you have a choice."

Konstantin glanced back at Merlin.

The latter was holding the key to the wasteland, his eyes closed, as if sensing something that was not visible to the naked eye.

Seeing that Merlin did not object, Za Kang turned his head and continued to the two guys in front of him:

"Follow the raven, he talks and laughs with God, has a great relationship with the lords of hell, and fought with Odin once, and it is not an insult to follow him."

"What do you say?"

"Lucifer won't let you go!"

The fallen angel, who glowed with a blue glow, gritted his teeth and said:

"In the face of Your Excellency Morning Star, I don't see the odds in you, I..."

"It's a pity."

Zakon reached out and grabbed the light from the fallen angel's body, as if by the neck, and carried it into the third pit, and said:

"Wrong answer! Rotten here with your brother! ”

"No!"

Seeing the stinking earth fall, Kazan, who had no fixed form like a blue glow, screamed:

"I mean, I know a lot of Lucifer's secrets, and you're going to need me to be his enemy!"

"That's right."

With his hands behind his back, Shi Shiran walked to the edge of the pit, and he said to the struggling Kazan:

"You can tell me clearly... I thought you were laughing at us for not being able to do anything, and the Boss wouldn't like to hear that. ”

He pulled Kazan out of the half-buried pit again.

He patted the stain on the light with a hypocritical face, and said to the beating light:

"You've made the right choice, bro, congratulations."

Kazan's faceless face shone brightly, and he didn't know if he was crying or laughing.

Zha Kang finally came to the silent angel Luther.

He reached out and stroked Luther's bloodstained face, but he could still see the original beautiful and radiant face, and he said:

"And finally you, angel... What do you say? ”

"Get your dirty hands away!"

Luther gritted her teeth, closed her eyes, and said in a voice that was as dead as her heart:

"My faith is broken, bury me."

Konstantin shrugged, he stood up and nodded to Johnny.

The Flaming Skull stepped forward, grabbed the mutilated Luther, and was about to throw her into the pit.

"She's still useful."

Merlin, who had been silent, opened his eyes, he held the key, and said without looking back:

"Keep her."

Merlin lifted his finger, and the bronze key in his hand rose to the gaze of everyone behind him, and a special connection was established between Merlin and the key.

Just like when Liana did. Rattings wrested control of the borders of hell from her "adoptive father" in the same way.

Merlin wants to connect his soul to the wasteland in front of him.

Like Liana, he will be the controller of a hell.

In this way, the will of hell will no longer force Merlin to stay there.

Because they have come together.

But the price is that he will be bound to this wasteland forever, and he will never be free.

When the wasteland is strong, he is strong.

When the wasteland is destroyed, he perishes.

But Merlin was luckier than Liana in that only a third of his soul remained.

Even if the wasteland disappears in the next moment, Merlin's existence will not be completely erased.

It seemed that there was almost no danger to Merlin, and it was a good thing, but there was no joy on his face.

"Once I'm done with it, I'll be tied to hell forever."

Merlin looked up at the key floating in the air, and said:

"I'm going to have to live as a creature of hell, I'm going to have to get into the battle for the kings of hell... Had to fight for victory. ”

Merlin sighed, and he said:

"A path to the end of God's damnation, once I fail, the end is destined to be miserable."

"If you can't make up your mind, why don't you let me do it?"

Zakang rubbed his hands, his eyes burning at the key suspended in the air.

He patted Merlin on the chest and said:

"I've been dead for almost ten years in this damn hell, and I don't care about being tied to it forever... Konstantin, the king of hell, tsk, that sounds great. ”

"Okay."

A smile flashed across Merlin's face, and he turned his body sideways and made a "please" gesture to Zakang.

"Come on, I'm happy for someone else to take on this responsibility for me."

This kind of generous attitude made Zakang a little afraid to act.

"Huh"

The chains in Johnny's hands ignited flames, blocking Zakkan's eyes like a sword, and the Flame Skull whispered:

"That's Merlin's desperate efforts to win, only he is qualified to use it!"

"Don't be stupid."

Sitting up from the ground, the blood-stained angel Luther also whispered:

"That's my lord... It's a God-made dimension key, and a spirit like you, if you touch it, you'll be purified... Incinerated to ashes in the light. ”

Zakang's expression changed quickly, he shrugged his shoulders at Merlin, and he said with a smile:

"Then it's better for you to come, let's just wave the flag and shout next to it."

"Coward!"

Merlin pursed his lips, and Zakon turned his face to the side and whistled, pretending he didn't hear at all.

This guy is thick-skinned enough, and Merlin's ridicule can't hurt his shameless soul at all.

"Well, if you think about it, that's not bad."

Under the gaze of the four men behind him, Merlin stretched out his finger and pointed at the floating key, and said:

"I still have a grudge against a couple of guys from the Lords of Hell... I think it sent me here for that. ”

"In the endless dimension, there are only a few ownerless hells."

His fingers touched the key.

A ray of light burst out from Merlin's fingertips.

In that scorching light, even Johnny couldn't help but raise his finger and cover his eyes.

"Satan's throne, the king of hell... That's for later, as you said, Zakkan, I bought this damn hell, and I can't sell it yet. ”

"What a loss-making deal..."

"It's on me... Probably like me, it is also yearning for change, like ashes, and it also yearns for rekindling. ”

Merlin whispered:

"Anyway, the wasteland tour is over, guys."

"It's time to go home..."

(End of chapter)