Chapter 213

Huh? It looks like Vali Lucifer just walked in. So he exists in this world? I could never find anything about him in my own. I always thought it was strange that my Azazel was missing his foster son so I never brought it up. 

[Vali is a half Devil and the Devil's in your home Universe are evil…he's probably dead or been enslaved as their secret weapon.]

The thought of that made me grimace but it was as good a theory as any. Or it could be something as simple as he was never born.

"Why does my mom have to fight you?" Heather asked Vali.

"Because she is strong! It's natural for the strong to test their skills against each other." He replied as if that was common sense.

[Only if you live in a Xianxia world…]

"What kind of stupid anime logic is that?" Heather retorted while stamping her foot. She wanted to go out and adventure. Not stay here the entire time.

I apologized to the battle junkie, who had rushed all the way here to fight me. "Sorry, but we're a bit busy right now. We can fight later if you want." I told him. I actually wouldn't have minded fighting him, but Heather and Asia didn't seem interested in that right now. 

Vali scowled. "And when is later supposed to be?" He asked me in disappointment. "None of the other Cadre's will fight me anymore!" 

I shrugged in response before turning around and heading towards my open portal. Heather and Asia had already hopped through it. 

I stepped out of the portal into the green hills of scotland. I'd sent us directly to the fringes of where Hogwarts would be in this world. I didn't see the iconic castle nestled in the hills. As I thought, Hogwarts wasn't a thing here. 

Surprisingly, there was a large tower though. It was at least 100 stories tall and almost perfectly cylindrical. It looked like the type of tower a wizard would own.

"What are we doing outside of Mephisto's Tower?" A voice asked behind us.

I spun around. "Vali? Why did you follow us here? And this is Mephisto's Tower?" I asked him while glancing at the tower once again. This time more critically. The wards around it were some of the strongest I have ever seen! I doubted the tower would be damaged even if a meteor was dropped on it.

[You really gotta use that move at some point by the way!]

'This isn't an anime! Dropping a meteor from the sky would level half a continent at least!'

I turned back to Vali to wait for his response. 

Vali was going to respond but a new voice spoke first. "It is indeed my Tower. I don't usually get new visitors. Welcome…"

A lone figure materialized out of thin air nearby. He was dressed like an elegant 18th century aristocrat wearing the top hat and everything.

Mephisto Pheles was definitely a lot different from the Marvel Mephisto. For one thing, he wasn't an insanely evil Demon God. He was just a quirky extra demon who really loved learning all kinds of magic.

"Welcome to my lovely little tower located in the hills of Scotland." Mephisto said while taking off his top hat and performing a gentleman's bow. "What brings a bunch of dimensional travelers to my neck of the woods?" He asked us casually.

"You know we're not from here?" I asked in surprise. 

He scoffed. "Of course! I've been studying magic for thousands of years. I can easily notice something so trivial. On top of that, I had recently detected a couple spikes in dimensional energy originating from the underworld. Specifically, the Fallen Angel's territory. Obviously, Azazel has been getting up to some weird experiments again and brought you here." Mephisto easily deduced.

[This guy is smart.]

"Since you're here, I take it that there's no Hogwarts?" Heather asked him in mild disappointment. She had been hoping to meet some versions of her friends that weren't traitors or evil. 

"Hogs what?" Mephisto asked in confusion.

"It was my magic school back in our Universe. It was located here." Heather explained while gesturing to the hills and Mephisto nodded.

"That makes sense. I built my magic research tower at this location because it sits directly over a powerful Layline. Your school was probably built over the same one back in your world. How fascinating! I wonder how that affected the students' magical growths? Maybe I should get my own students to learn here for a few years to test it out?" Mephisto started mumbling to himself while pacing back and forth. 

"Sorry your school isn't in this world, Heather." I said to her as I placed my hand on her shoulder gently.

"It's ok," She said. "I know they were secretly scheming against me, but part of me just missed my friends and wanted to see them again." 

"So you're from a different world or Universe or whatever?" Vali asked us.

"Yeah."

He smirked. "Are there strong people in your Universe?" 

I gave a cocky grin right back at him. "Oh yeah. Unlike this world, we have an entire Universe full of powerful aliens and alien gods. Our Universe is way more dangerous. There are two space empires that have been at war for over 1000 years and trillions of lives have been lost in it." I told him a bit about the Kree and Skrulls.

"And then there's all the scary Demons and Evil Eldritch beings that keep trying to invade the Earth!" Heather added on. "Mom killed Belial, the King of Gehenna in a super epic battle just last month. Half of Scotland burned to the ground in the fight!" She started bragging about me.

"I wish there wasn't so much hatred everywhere…" Asia mumbled quietly. 

Vali had an expression on his face that looked like Christmas had come early for him and we had just given him the greatest news ever! "Take me with you when you go back!" He asked in excitement. "It's so boring here! No one ever fights me anymore and now Azazel is going to sign a peace treaty with the other factions!" Vali complained. As someone who lived for fighting, that was almost the end of the world for him.