Chapter 380: Mephisto's Imagination
The Ancient One didn't give Luke an answer, or that Luke would never get an accurate answer from her. After all, even if the two have become isotopes of interests similar to the Trinity Emperor Weishan under the link of psionic energy, they are still different from Emperor Weishan after all.
A mage universe is certainly tempting, but for the current Ancient One, it is not urgently needed. After her personality is promoted, there is still a period of growth, and she is not in a hurry to establish or find her own dimension, or the universe.
After all, this kind of thing is still very sensitive to demon gods like them. This is equivalent to showing the foundation of his power in front of Luke in every detail, and if Luke does something in it, no one can afford this consequence.
Of course, if it is only used as an accumulation and reference for the follow-up power route, the custom universe is still very marketable.
Mephisto's shareholders at Energy Bank may be cautious, but that doesn't mean they're not happy to promote this bespoke service. Are there any back-ups or something, they're not ordinary buyers anyway, are they?
Even according to Mephisto, the first president of the Energy Bank, he would definitely ask Luke to add something to it and vigorously promote this product.
After all, the universe is still too crowded, and no matter how much you squeeze those weak gods, you can't squeeze any oil and water. And increasing the number of conquests in the multiverse, which in turn takes time and training manpower, which also requires a lot of investment and waiting.
But if they can customize the universe themselves, it is equivalent to making the cake bigger, and their income will increase hundreds or thousands of times. This is the real "loan" business that can be used as a pillar.
It is comparable to the ultimate version of the trinity of Fangxue Medicine.
No customer can refuse this kind of service unless they have a powerful dimension of their own. But this kind of demon god is either not a customer of the energy bank, or it is a high-end customer who needs customization.
At the latest bank meeting, Mephisto was so excited that he couldn't wait to make a big splash. Shareholders such as Dormam and Nightmare have also invested heavily in the new business prospects, and they have hemorrhaged hard.
After all, after working together again and again, Luke, as the core engine of the team's business, has proven his vision and technology more than once. The sweetness they tasted in the early stage had already given them a certain amount of trust in Luke. To put it mildly, if Luke pits them ruthlessly at this time, they will all break their muscles and bones, at least retract and lick their wounds to recover more than 10 billion years of vitality.
At the latest meeting, under the vote of many shareholders, the latest technology that Luke has come up with has been regarded as the core of the next business of the energy bank, and those demons in the hell dimension were constantly whipped by Mephisto wielding the whip of the soul like a spinning top, scurrying all over the universe, highlighting a locust-like promotion.
In Tony Stark's words, hell is empty, and demons are on earth!
In the past, newborn devils and demons would be led to learn how to trick a human to hand over their souls, but now the devils and demons, who is too lazy to bother to bewitch human beings one by one, and then rack their brains to deceive and harvest their souls?
In the past, this kind of thing was a beauty difference, and only the most cunning or powerful group of devils and demons could choose, and even Mephisto, who was one of the lords of the Hell Dimension at the time, had to put down his body to run the business and recruit the souls needed for the Hell Dimension. Of course, he picks all the hard bones, the kind that is of extremely high quality.
But now, in addition to those devils who can't keep up with the version and are still stubborn, they are still returning to their old business, and whoever receives this kind of [beauty difference] will most likely be excluded and exiled.
Such devils and demons are not absent, but rare. After all, there are too few skilled people in the business now, and one is counted as one, and it can't be easily wasted. And running business has always been regarded by Mephisto as his basic plate.
Originally, there was enough manpower in one universe. But when Luke started the multiverse business, the qualified business staff was a bit stretched. What is the old to bring the new, staff training or something, has been carried over by his think tanks from various races, and even he has relaxed the restrictions, no longer just pulling people from the hell dimension, Dormammu in the dark dimension and nightmare in the nightmare dimension are also mixed in. But not many are admitted. In the end, it was S.H.I.E.L.D. that provided a large number of salesmen. Fill the void with a team model of one human and one thug bodyguard.
And the change after these groups joined in was that Mephisto could no longer prostitute labor for nothing, and under pressure from all sides, he had to pay these salesmen a certain salary, and could no longer stuff the money into his own hands. After all, if you don't have money, who wants to work for you? Isn't it?
Those demons and demons who have been prostituted for a long time have already erupted in the hellish dimension many times, and they have all been forcibly suppressed by Mephisto. However, this kind of strong pressure cannot last in the case of demand and supply reversal. After all, those devils and demons are treacherous and cunning characters, and those who have always pursued secret intrigues can't help but stand up in protest, so you can imagine how crazy Mephisto's exploitation is.
The demons and demons even staged a massive strike, which was broken by Mephisto with the painful expenditure of a new currency.
A certain big director in the atrium even restored the original history of the trilogy of devils and demons to ask for wages. Of course, the characters of demons and devils appear in it, all of them appear in their true colors, and the demons all play the demons, and the devils all play the devils, but Mephisto is played by his son.
Mephisto had always wanted the director's soul to hell, but the director had made a lot of new money with this documentary film, and he could buy a lot of life-prolonging things to live for a long time. And the company that the other party works for is itself a holding company of a subsidiary of Energy Bank.
That's right, it's S.H.I.E.L.D. with some more corporate shares.
In the end, Mephisto made a condition of delaying the expiration of a loan from S.H.I.E.L.D., where Nick was located, so that the documentary had an extra history of whitewashing.
But the changes in the energy bank are indeed drastic. It is no longer a framework with only high-level power, it has really become a behemoth with intertwined interests and complex internal affairs.
The demon gods of the dark forest-like dimension have also established relative trust and order for the first time in history. Of course, this is limited to IQ online, if you go to find some chaotic dimensional demon gods, then their chaotic brains may only think of killing and grabbing.
For example, the god of a certain symbiote that has been sealed.
Therefore, after discussion and discussion, with the unanimous consent and joint operation of the shareholders of the Energy Bank, they rebuilt a set of energy extraction system outside the prison where the god of symbiotes was imprisoned. The symbiote god was mined as a long-term gold mine.
The symbiotes have no objection to this. Some of them are symbiotes willing to change, joining the formation of energy banks and cooperating with humans and other intelligent lifeforms. As long as the seal of the Symbiote God is not broken, they can live in peace. They wish the Energy Bank could seal the prison one more time, or weaken their Founding God.
Everyone was satisfied, the only one who was not satisfied was Mephisto, who had lost a sustained extra income. Yes, under the pressure of various factors, he paid his salary.
Of course, the version he came up with after discussing and deliberating with the human think tank was a basic salary that had been cut at first, and then the remaining salary was turned into a bonus, depending on the amount of business, and if the business did not meet the standards or did not meet the requirements of the rules, a certain salary would be deducted.
To this end, Mephisto and his think tank planned a logical and meticulous set of rules and conditions. The payment of salaries quelled some of the protests. Mephisto also seemed to have changed his ways, and honestly paid his salary for a period of time. But soon, many demons and devils found out that they simply did not get the so-called basic salary. When at least half of the devils and demons found that not only did they not receive the so-called money, but even had to give Mephisto money upside down, a wave of cheating and trickery swept in.
Eventually, after the protests of Energy Bank's shareholders and customers, Mephisto had to revise the rules and regulations again, and only after gaining the approval of all shareholders did he get things back on track.
For the demons and demons of the Hell dimension, it is now version 2.0 and higher. They can make a lot of money in the open, far beyond the previous one-on-one fraud model. After all, not every fallen soul is noble and worth ten thousand dollars.
For the Hell dimension, if the number of souls is insufficient, then the purified spiritual energy can also be used as food and supplement. It can even increase its activity and will, and is favored by it more than those souls.
Due to the high dedication of the life of the Nine Realms to psionic energy, the Hell Dimension and Mephisto even wanted to directly pull a group of living people to be raised in the Hell Dimension. Even Mephisto went to discuss with Stephen of Kama Taj and Nick of S.H.I.E.L.D. about the plan to open a tourist area of the Nine Realms of Life in the Hell Dimension. If it's a high-quality human, they can pick it up and drop it off for free.
But Mephisto's plan was rejected by Stephen and Nick without hesitation. Who knows if those people will be able to come back after they have passed? What kind of world is the Hell Dimension, don't they know yet? What normal person has nothing to do with going to the world of the Hell dimension? Energy radiation alone, even if it has a certain amount of protection, is enough for the small body of a human being to drink a pot. In case it is repeatedly marked by the Hell dimension, it will be even more troublesome.
Although the possibility of the Hell Dimension invading the Nine Realms is now very low, it is not a reason for people who have been contaminated with the power of Hell and become its followers to operate wantonly in the atrium. Those people are trouble.
In the end, Mephisto relented, came up with a certain amount of new currency, and offered some debt relief conditions in exchange for the criminals in the Atrium world who were extremely difficult to deal with.
Of course, this kind of behavior can't be a straightforward deal, in Nick's mouth, it is to hand over these criminals to the newly opened prison in the Hell dimension to serve, and Mephisto's money is a donation.
In fact, Mephisto still liked the first plan, if there were a large number of Hell cultists active in the Atrium, with their recklessness, it would at least be able to lure many human souls to fall, and then be marked and captured by the Hell dimension.
But Mephisto didn't care about the rejection, which at least saved the trouble from having one of Luke's annoying clones come to the door to reason with him and discuss compensation. After all, the Atrium and the Nine Realms are owned by Luke and Asgard. In the past, such acts could have been regarded as provocations and wars.
The current energy bankers have received a new promotion training notice, and they need to inform and sell Luke's latest technology to potential customers as quickly as possible.
Although the technical requirements are still very high, the difficulty of manufacturing and the resources required are not low, this will change. With Luke's research speed, by the time this group of salesmen is trained and the universe is promoted, the second version of the technology, or the third version of the technology, may have appeared in Luke's laboratory.
What's more, in Mephisto's view, this kind of technology that can create the universe does not need to be fully versioned. A fragmented version of the standard universe world, or a simplified version, a galaxy version, and a large and small version, can be on. It doesn't matter if there are some loopholes and hidden dangers. As long as not all of the standard universes are faulty, a few complaints and protests from customers are acceptable.
After all, you can attract more customers. As for energy consumption? Psionic energy is definitely impossible, but it is still no problem to squeeze the gods of symbiotes, as well as other unlucky dimensional demon gods, and extract and borrow their energy to make do with the transformation.
If you want to be better and more perfect, then you have to at least become a VIP customer of our bank, right? If it's higher, you can even enjoy customized services.
loans, rent collection, eating interest.
Mephisto had imagined a near future when groups of supported Dimensional Demon Gods would open up the multiverse and deliver energy to him and the Energy Bank.
Well, the contract must add a little more abyss power. Give those customers a little bit of urgency.
Mephisto found that he was even a little fond of the Abyss now, provided that the Abyss didn't entangle him, of course. He still has a shadow of the power of the abyss.
As for whether the abyss will swell to the point where it could destroy all of the multiverse, what does it matter to him? That day may have brought the destruction of all universes many times. What if Luke can come up with a better technology that can actually purify and remove the power of the abyss?
People have to have dreams, and so do demon gods. Isn't it?
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(End of chapter)