Chapter 45: The Man Who Reckoned with the Devil

The sun was lowered, and the last rays of the setting sun set over the mountains in the distance.

Young Johnny Blazer glared at the devil Mephisto, and he watched the "old man" cringe his back from time to time, whistling while tapping the asphalt with his cane to the beat, and sometimes struggling back and forth like a gentleman.

"How can I trust you?"

Johnny's white, handsome face was full of distrust, and he stared at Mephisto viciously, but he was indeed attracted by the so-called quid pro quo thrown again.

The temptation of the devil often the itch in the human heart the most.

"HeheheheJohnny Johnny, I have always thought that humans are the most greedy creatures, think about it, kid, your father would have died of cancer, I gave him health! And you blamed me for his accident again, and even asked me to give him a new lease of life again, greedy. Really greedy! ”

Johnny vaguely felt that there was something wrong with Mephisto's words, but he inexplicably felt that what the devil said seemed to have some truth, and the reckless boy who was combing through the logic listened to him continue:

You just signed a contract with the generous Mephisto, look at you now! You can still curse me, don't you think you have nothing to lose? Just take a gadget and have a chance to exchange it for your father's soul, such a good deal, what are you waiting for? ”

Mephisto paced forward, and a little fire in the depths of his pupils grew hotter and hotter, gradually filling the entire eye socket, as if a fire had been ignited from his skull, and wisps of black smoke and dust were coming out of his ears and nostrils.

Johnny Blazer looked at Mephisto, whose momentum suddenly changed, showing a bit of the majesty of the demon god of hell, and for a while he did not have the impulse and spirit just now.

I only heard the devil's voice become as piercing and sharp as a fingernail scraping on a blackboard, and he shouted in a high-pitched voice:

"Johnny Blazer accepts the fire of hell and brings back what he wants for your master!"

Hiss.

The bright yellow fire that ignited in Mephisto's eyes gathered on his fingertips, and a finger poked Johnny's forehead, and the magma-like streamer spread along the blood meridians to Johnny Blazer's body, and a cloud of steam rose above his head, and his skin was hot and red.

Johnny seemed to have swallowed a sip of pure liquor, his throat and eyes were burning with pain all the way, and his eyes were swollen as if they were about to burst open, pounding his chest hard, rubbing the skin and flesh of his face that had been invisibly burned and painful.

"Go, my knight, the Hellfire will give you direction, get back the contract, get back 'Saint Van Gonza'!"

Thundered.

A thick black cloud of ash in the sky overshadowed Mephisto's head, and his appearance did not change, but behind him appeared a figure of a giant with fiery red skin and thick, winding antelope horns.

And the thin clouds mixed with sparks followed one after another behind the devil giant, like a big curtain on his body.

"Ho! Ha! Burn, burn, burn! ”

Jonny's fiery red skin was covered with mist, and the moisture in his body was evaporated by the flames of hell.

The corners of his mouth reached the base of his ears, he tore open the flesh, his eyes burst out, and they exploded into two fireballs, and the whole person instantly spontaneously burned on the spot, screaming hysterically.

Smack, smack, smack.

Mephisto's old cheeks were wrapped in black air, and he watched Johnny's transformation with a skull cane under his armpit, applauding with joy.

"Woohoo! I'm never tired of watching the birth of the Ghost Rider, and it's a shame that the power of Hellfire and Zatanos can't be completely controlled by me."

Johnny Blazer's head and every inch of flesh and blood of his body were burned by hellfire, and he was facing a white burning flame skull, and the ordinary black lapel jacket on his body was supported by wide bones, and the rivets on his shoulders and forearms suddenly popped up, clusters like cone thorns, hideous and gorgeous.

The raging and blazing, unusually vigorous hell flames on his body were much thicker than Carter Sleigh's transformation. Finally, another Ghost Rider was born.

Johnny's hand caressed the grip of the motorcycle, and the skull metacarpal bones spread under the flames, and the tongue of fire swirled and spewed, and the frame of the short, narrow and dexterous stunt motorcycle was red and twisted like molten steel, gradually elongating.

The back seat sinks and the grip is raised, the front of the car is stretched out into a flaming skeleton, the hub is wider, and the spikes protrude to ignite the fiercest yellow flames, full of punk violence beauty.

Rumble! Boom!

Ghost Rider straddled the Hell's Chariot, the fire in his hollow eyes glaring at Mephisto, twisting his grip, and the flames from the tires dragged a trail of fire across the empty Texas highway and exploded.

Mephisto calmly leaned on his cane, looking at the road surface that disappeared from view in an instant, leaving only traces of burning, but lost the excitement just now, his eyes flashed with doubt, and he muttered to himself:

"If you don't let little Johnny cheer up, I'm afraid I won't be able to get it. Who is it? The followers of Emperor Weishan should not be nosy. Is it just to stop me?"

James Howlett saw the Ancient One mage use the brass pendant that hung from his chest for the first time.

Gu Yi was wearing a yellow and orange mage robe, not with a long sleeve with a long hem, but more like a neat short suit, his hands pinched and condensed on his chest, and a dense green light shone through the pendant, and the staggered eye-shaped locks on it rotated open.

Airplanes.

The green light in the center of the brass charm was sheng, and under the changing gesture of the ancient one, a green streamer appeared on her right arm, condensing into a ring-shaped mana array, with mysterious symbol patterns on it, slowly turning.

"If it weren't for the 'Eyes of Agamotto'. The risk is too great for your plan. ”

The Supreme Mage seemed to be ready at last, and she stood with her hands behind her back, standing with the tall and burly James on the reddish-brown hillside, looking down at the dilapidated ruins of an ancient town below.

There is so much barren and unexplored wilderness in Texas that the ruins of the small town of St. Van Gonza, left from the early 19th century, have been on the radar of historians for some time.

But as more and more explorers disappeared into this uninhabited area, there were no voices interested in it.

Legend has it that the ruins of this town were a mass grave, and the entire town was killed in great misery by plague or banditry, and their souls never rested.

Rather than the eerie haunted town, James was more interested in the Eye of Agomo on the Ancient One, which was one of the things he cared about most about the world, and he also learned more about the legend and origin of the Infinity Stones in Kama Taj's library.

"Ancient One, have you ever thought that there would be someone. Trying to take the gem away. ”

James, dressed in a succinct black combat uniform with long hair flowing down, asked quite seriously.

"The Infinity Stones were made from the essence of the six singularities containing infinite energy before the Big Bang, and in the countless years since the birth of the universe, there have been many people who have tried to collect and gather six primordial stones, but none of them have succeeded."

Gu Yi looked at James coldly, as if to explain, and continued with a faint admonition:

God-King Odin had a desire to collect the Infinity Stones, and when he was still fighting in the Nine Realms, the Asgardians had obtained more than one Infinity Stone, but he wisely abandoned this desire and sealed it separately. The convergence of the Infinity Stones will bring about endless disasters that radiate the entire universe. ”

"yes."

James replied softly as he watched a blazing line of fire from the wilderness.

He looked into the distance, compared to the extremely old, sunset like the former ghost rider Carter Shray, Johnny Blazer was like the rising sun, the flames of hell burned vigorously and vigorously.

"I know that after inheriting this arcane mage treasure from Agomoto, all generations of Supreme Mages have sworn to protect the Time Primordial Stone, which is also the ultimate reliance on your ability to truly fight against the mystical forces and dimension lords in the Endless Dimension. But I've always been curious. ”

James looked sideways at the Ancient One, asking the question he had always been most interested in but had never asked, a paradoxical thought that lingered in his mind for a long time.

"With the power to manipulate time, can you really see all the mysteries and see where the future is going?"

The ancient one's slender fingertips tapped the eyes of the Agomoto on her chest, and the pendant flashed green in response, and she suddenly chuckled and said:

"Mr. Howlett, the future has never had a fixed result, the future is always dynamic, so what I can see is very limited, and I rarely probe the direction of the future, which can easily bring the situation into a more dangerous situation."

James's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he continued to ask, after thinking about it:

"What you're talking about is the infinite possibilities of the future, can you look through all the possible outcomes of a relatively 'simple' thing?"

The Supreme Mage's expression was extremely cold again, and she looked up at James and explained with great seriousness.

"This is the biggest trap in the future, when you see the limited deduction results, you will think that you have the whole trajectory of the development of things, but from the moment you see it, the new development will change dramatically, and the cycle will start again, and the more you make up for it, the more you break it."

The two of them seemed to be less and less concerned about the devil's agent who had already sailed into the ruins of the town of St. Van Gonza, and talked about the obscure and complicated problems of time and space.

The pact of evil spirits, which Mephisto painstakingly cherished, was now placed in the middle of the ruins of the ruined church in the town, without any cover, at his fingertips.

As the mountain breeze blew in the night, James twisted his neck and finally let go of his doubts, believing that the future was at his feet, not on others.

He crossed his arms and looked at the dark clouds that were gradually obscuring the moonlight, and said half-jokingly:

"It's time, mage, shake people."

(End of chapter)