After hearing Russell's words, Hulk got up from the ground.
Later, Russell cast the portal magic and took Hulk out of the mirror space.
There was too much noise in his sparring with Hulk.
In order not to disturb other people.
More importantly, in order to avoid having to repair the training ground every now and then, he deliberately brought Hulk into the mirror space.
In the mirror space, let alone destroying the training ground, even if New York is destroyed, it will not have any impact on the real world outside.
Passing through the portal, Russell and Hulk returned to the real world.
As soon as they returned, No. 3's voice came from the speakers on the training ground.
"Sir, a gentleman named Victor von Doom has sent an invitation letter."
Victor von Doom?
After hearing No. 3's report, Russell couldn't react for a while.
After carefully recalling it, he finally remembered who Victor von Doom was.
Doctor Doom!
In other words, Lord Doom!
In the Marvel Universe, Doctor Doom is a super villain whose reputation is not much lower than Thanos.
Although Dr. Doom is not as crazy as Thanos, he is definitely among the top super villains in the Marvel universe.
In addition, although Doom is a villain, Russell quite admires him.
Doom was born in Latvinia, a small country in Eastern Europe. He has no superpowers of his own.
But with his own hard work and clever brain, he developed high-tech armor that was not much worse than Tony's steel suit.
Not only that, Doctor Doom is also a top talent with both "technology" and "magic".
Through his own study and various opportunities, he has mastered a large amount of magical knowledge.
His level of magic can even rival that of Doctor Strange.
Like Thanos, who wants to bring balance to the universe by destroying half of all life in the universe, Doom also has his own pursuit.
He pursues all the mysteries of the universe, and he pursues all kinds of powerful powers.
Although Doom has not appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in the comics, he is an old enemy of the Fantastic Four and has fought against the Avengers many times.
After recalling Doom's information, Russell said to No. 3: "Okay, I understand."
After answering No. 3, he turned to Hulk and said, "If you want to train next, you can find Quicksilver or Peter. I may have to leave for a while."
"Uh-huh!"
Hulk replied angrily.
After giving instructions to Hulk, Russell cast the portal and returned to the study.
As soon as he returned to the study, he saw the invitation on the desk.
"How did the invitation appear?"
Russell asked No. 3.
"I got a message from Doom."
"Then, this invitation appeared out of thin air in the study."
No. 3 answered quickly.
Appear out of thin air?
No. 3 didn't know much about magic, so he couldn't explain clearly what this was all about.
However, for Russell, who has pretty good magic skills, he can guess it with just one guess.
It is nothing more than a remote delivery method in the magic field.
In the field of magic, there are not many magics that can do this.
Doom's level of magic is no worse than Doctor Strange, so it's normal for him to be able to do this.
After thinking about this, Russell sat down on the chair and picked up the invitation on the table.
The black invitation looks a bit low-key.
But as soon as he opened the invitation, Russell saw the devilish words inside.
To ordinary people who don't understand magic, the devil's words in the invitation look like decorative patterns.
This kind of devil's writing, which appears to be decorative lines but is actually words, was learned by human mages from devils in hell.
Before heaven and hell were completely separated, the devils in hell often ran into the real world.
In order to obtain enough souls, the devils in hell will make apparently fair transactions with humans.
Devil's contract!
By signing a contract, devils and humans come to an agreement in the presence of hell or other great beings.
Generally speaking, humans will sign a contract with the devil to satisfy their own desires.
For example, gaining power, beauty, strength, etc.
From a certain perspective, the devil is a very reputable creature.
As long as the contract is signed, the devil will do everything possible to fulfill the agreed content, even if it costs his own life.
However, this does not mean that signing a contract with the devil is a fair deal.
Devils do have credibility, but their credibility only lasts until the contract is signed.
Before the contract is signed, the devil will try his best to manipulate the contract to make what originally seemed like a fair deal only benefit them.
To give a simple example, someone hopes to gain a long life by using his or her soul after death.
The devils would be happy to make deals with such humans.
However, they will do some tricks in the signed contract.
For example, add some hidden terms.
If you are not familiar with the devil's ways, or cannot understand the devil's writing, you can easily be fooled by the content on the contract, sign the contract foolishly, and eventually die on the spot, living a long life without freedom in hell.
Like lawyers in human society, the devil is very good at finding loopholes in contracts.
If the transaction requested by the other party has a loophole, just exploit the loophole.
If there are no loopholes, take the initiative to create them.
For example, add some devilish words that look like decorative patterns to the contract.
If one cannot read the devil's writing, humans trying to make deals with the devil can easily sign contracts that are not fair at all.
After seeing the devil's words on the invitation, Russell frowned slightly.
This is just an invitation, not a contract, and it is impossible for Doom to do anything on it.
Even if something was done, as long as Russell didn't sign his name or leave his blood, the invitation wouldn't suddenly turn into a contract.
Russell directly ignored the human text on the invitation and directly browsed the devil's text on the invitation.
On the invitation, written in human characters, Doom invited him to meet in the capital of Latvinia on the 1st of next month.
But the content written in the devil's writing is completely different.
One o'clock this afternoon.
Empire State Building Observation Deck.
After translating the content of the devil's text, Russell put the invitation back on the table.
It is obvious that what Doom really wants to express is what is written in devil's script.
interesting!
Although I don’t know what Doom was planning, I have to say that Doom’s behavior of writing the invitation message in devil’s script aroused Russell’s interest.
Doom will use the devil's text to convey the real content, and it is definitely not for show.
If he guessed correctly, Doom was using devil's words to hint at what they might talk about after meeting.
Thinking of this, the information about Doom's mother immediately appeared in Russell's mind.
Doom's mother is a gypsy witch who knows some simple magic knowledge.
In order to gain the power to protect others, Mother Doom summoned the hell lord Mephisto and signed a contract with Mephisto.
You don't need to think about the ending to know that Doom's mother did receive the power given by Mephisto.
But soon, Doom’s mother’s soul was taken away by Mephisto.
Doom, who was a serious scientist, later embarked on the path of magic because he wanted to take back his mother's soul from Mephisto and let her truly rest in peace.
This guy doesn't want me to go to hell with him, does he?
Although this seemed a little impossible, the more Russell thought about it, the more he felt that this was probably Doom's true plan.
However, he was curious about how Doom would convince him.
Going to hell is no small matter.
Not to mention retrieving Doom's mother's soul from the hell lord Mephisto.
This level of difficulty is no less than taking away the Time Stone kept by the Supreme Mage Ancient One in the New York Temple.
Strictly speaking, the difficulty will be even higher.
This is not to say that Ancient One is not as powerful as Mephisto, but because Mephisto has a natural home field advantage in Hell.
As the Lord of Hell, Mephisto can fully mobilize the power of Hell.
Even if Mephisto is seriously injured in hell, with the help of the power of hell, Mephisto can quickly recover.
Unless Mephisto is killed forcefully when he has no time to mobilize the power of hell.
Otherwise, fighting Mephisto in hell will turn an already difficult battle into a difficult and long protracted battle.
In addition, there is a very important question that needs to be resolved before heading to hell.
This is not the ancient time when heaven and hell were still connected to the real world.
It is much more difficult to travel to heaven and hell now than in ancient times.
Of course, for Russell or Doom, they both have the ability to go to hell.
If you want to go to hell, you just need to open the dimensional door or hell gate to hell.
While it's no simple magic, both Russell and Doom are capable of it.
The real question, however, is not how to get to hell, but how to get back.
Because of some unknown secret agreement, the crystal wall between heaven and hell heading to the real world has been unilaterally strengthened.
Although it is difficult to travel from the real world to hell and heaven, you can still do it if you work hard.
It is not that difficult to get from hell and heaven to the real world.
Otherwise, the angels in heaven and the devils in hell would have come to the real world to collect souls.
In the past, it was relatively easy.
If he wanted to come back, with Russell's current knowledge of magic, he couldn't think of any way to come back.
The dimensional door, which was originally a two-way channel, became a one-way door due to the secret agreement.
Could it be that Doom has a way to return from hell to the real world?
If this is the case, then Doom is Mephisto's favorite.
Mephisto would not mind having his mother's soul returned to him if the restrictions of the secret agreement could be bypassed and the demons of hell could travel to the real world as easily as they did in ancient times.
Use the soul of an ordinary human woman in exchange for a way to the real world.
No matter how you look at it, this is a good deal that Qin Shihuang made a profit by touching the switch.
Time passes little by little.
Soon, it was one o'clock in the afternoon.
Russell used the portal magic and went directly from Zhenglian headquarters to the observation deck on the top of the Empire State Building.
Although this would be a bit arrogant, he didn't need to worry about that at all now.
He is now the de facto master of New York.
Not to mention just using the portal in front of ordinary people, even if he started a nuclear test in the center of New York, others would have to endure it.
After arriving at the observation deck, Russell quickly saw Doctor Doom.
There are usually many tourists at the observation deck, but now there is no one there.
Just like the image in his memory, Doom was wearing a green cape and a metal mask, standing in the center of the observation deck like a weirdo, looking at the scenery of New York.
After seeing Russell arriving, Doom nodded to him first.
Then he said slowly: "Although this is not the first time I come here, every time I come here, I can see a different scenery."
"The scenery has not changed, but the main reason is that the mood of looking at the scenery has changed."
Russell said calmly.
"Yes, the main reason is that my mood is different."
Doom agreed with Russell's statement.
"Don't waste time, tell the truth. As the monarch of Latvinia, what do you want to see me for?"
Russell had no intention of fighting with Doom and asked directly.
"The fact that you are here means that you can understand the devil's writing. I wonder what you think of creatures like the devil?"
Doom asked instead without answering Russell's question.
"I said, don't waste everyone's time. What exactly do you want to do?"
Russell asked again.
He had already decided that if Doom continued to act this inscrutable, he would turn around and leave, not bothering to pay any more attention to Doom.
Seemingly seeing through Russell's true thoughts, Doom did not continue to beat around the bush and said straightforwardly: "I'm going to hell. I hope I can invite you to go with me?"
"For your mother?"
Russell did not agree immediately and continued to ask.
"It seems you know why I came to find you!"
"Yes, I went to hell this time to let my mother rest in peace."
"She's a good person and she doesn't deserve the eternal torment of Mephisto."
Doom's tone became a little excited.
"I know something about your mother's affairs."
"But I can't think of a need for me to go to hell with you."
"It's not a tourist attraction. It's not difficult to get there. If you want to come back, as far as I know, no human being has done it yet."
Russell said slowly.
"Normally, it is not easy to come back from there, but I have mastered the method of coming back."
Doom turned to look at Russell and said with great confidence.
"Prove it to me!"
Russell doesn't really believe that Doom can do it just because he says he can do it.
If it were that easy, Mephisto would have sent demons to earth to harvest souls.
Doom laughed after hearing Russell's words.
Then, he snapped his fingers with his right hand, and a magic scroll full of ancient aura appeared in his hand.
"The way back is inside. With your level, it shouldn't be difficult to understand."
After speaking, Doom handed the magic scroll in his hand to Russell.
