Accompanying the appearance of crimson explosion flames were naturally Hell Gates, large and small.
Countless hell demons were scrambling to rush out of the rifts.
Roars and wild howls filled the entire night of New York.
However, watching these various demons emerge, Luca in the sky suddenly realized a trace of incongruity in this night scene.
Why are there no cries of pain and screams?
Having this thought wasn't because Luca suddenly had evil thoughts and wanted to see the miserable state of New York citizens.
But no matter what, with so many demons and Hell Gates suddenly appearing, it was impossible to have no casualties at all.
His gaze focused on a Hell Gate opened on a large bridge.
The demons rushing out from there were wantonly smashing passing vehicles, but inside these vehicles...
"Hmm? Where did the people go?!"
Only at this moment did Luca suddenly realize that the people in those vehicles seemed to have disappeared completely the instant the Hell Gate opened.
And the reason why the vehicles on the street were still 'moving' was purely due to inertia after the drivers suddenly disappeared.
Even now, many vehicles had crashed into each other without needing demons to smash them.
Damn, what kind of supernatural event is this!
A thought seemed to flash through his mind, but since he had roughly confirmed the situation in New York, Luca didn't linger in the air.
He dived down again, and only when he was about to approach the ground did he transform back into human form and return to Tony's villa.
However, Luca originally thought that after demons started appearing from other Hell Gates, the first rift in this villa would definitely not be quiet.
Unexpectedly, after coming down, he found that it was surprisingly quiet here.
In front of the original Hell Gate rift, a golden portal sparking with sizzle sounds had appeared at some point.
Vaguely, one could see from the gap between the two portals that whenever a new demon rushed out of the Hell Gate, it would immediately dive into the golden portal and be transported to who knows where.
Of course, what was more important wasn't this fancy portal play, but the monk in robes surrounded by the Avengers in the middle.
"Wong? So you're responsible for the disappearance of New York citizens?"
With Luca flying around transforming between dragon and human, others naturally couldn't have failed to notice his return.
But before the Avengers could say anything, Luca's words plunged them into shock again.
"What? New York citizens disappeared?"
"Luca, do you know him?"
However, Luca ignored these teammates whose brains were empty now and could only ask stupid questions, and turned to look at Wong.
Wong, who was surrounded by everyone because he appeared suddenly and temporarily solved the problem of demons running out of this Hell Gate, saw the 'main person' Luca arrive and finally had a chance to explain. Without even catching his breath, he spoke rapidly.
"Master Ancient One is stalling the invading Dormammu and Mephisto in the Outer Realms. Ordinary citizens within New York have been transferred to the Mirror Dimension. The Master sent me to assist you in closing these Hell Gates."
After saying all this in one breath, Wong stopped and looked at Luca.
With such a large-scale Hell Dimension invasion, Kamar-Taj, as the frontline mages against dimensional invasion, naturally wouldn't fail to react.
In fact, shortly after the first Hell Gate opened, the defense system of the New York Sanctum had already issued a warning.
But just before these mages gathered to move out, the Sorcerer Supreme Ancient One, who had been staying in the Outer Realms recently, sent her projection to explain the situation.
First, she explained that she was stalled by Dormammu and Mephisto joining forces in the Outer Realms and couldn't return in person. At the same time, she left behind a Mirror Magic powerful enough to cover the entire New York.
However, because the Hell Gate itself was a spatial node fixed on Earth, the Mirror Magic could neither isolate these rifts individually nor transfer away the continuously emerging demons. It could only be used to protect ordinary citizens.
However, hearing this, Luca's mouth twitched.
"Just you came? Do you know how to close the Hell Gate?"
"Currently, most Kamar-Taj mages are fully maintaining the Mirror Dimension of New York and helping ordinary citizens in the space evacuate to other cities. But as citizens gradually evacuate, enough personnel can be mobilized soon."
In fact, this matter had already begun in the Mirror Dimension.
After experiencing the initial chaos of ordinary citizens suddenly arriving in the Mirror Dimension, a large number of Kamar-Taj mages also emerged.
They quickly found the local police and opened a large number of portals leading to neighboring Connecticut, guiding these citizens to leave the Mirror Dimension, this temporary transfer station.
But these were matters for later. Transferring millions of people from New York wasn't simple.
What really gave Luca a headache was Wong's answer to the second question.
"As for closing the Hell Gate. Master Ancient One said you have experience before and know what to do."
At this moment, everyone looked at Luca.
"I fck..."
Before Luca could curse out loud.
BOOM——
A stone demon about seven or eight meters tall smashed into the main entrance of the villa, causing the entire villa to shake violently.
And not just this demon. As it landed, more demons swarmed from the distance behind it.
Obviously, these were demons running out of Hell Gates in other directions. Finding no humans to slaughter, they actively started advancing towards this side where there was human presence.
"Stop talking nonsense, let's fight first!"
With a roar, Luca transformed into a dragon and soared into the sky quickly.
While his body expanded to the extreme, he whipped his tail directly.
In an instant, that huge stone demon, along with more than a dozen demons that had just arrived behind it, were all sent flying.
However, Luca, who cleared an open space, didn't pursue the victory. Instead, he transformed back into human form in the air, took out a whole box of universal capsules from his pocket, pressed them all directly, and threw them out.
In an instant, white smoke and explosion sounds formed a patch on the open space.
But what these released universal capsules brought wasn't subsequent more violent explosions, but dozens of fully armed intelligent robots rushing out of the smoke rapidly, launching an offensive against the oncoming demons.
"What a convenient ability!"
Seeing dozens of robots no less inferior to his own armor running out in an instant, Rhodes, who also quickly soared into the sky and started counterattacking, showed an envious look on his face.
However, Luca had no time to pay attention to his praise.
While releasing his guard robots all at once, he naturally wouldn't forget to release the Boxer Gundam.
Luca, who quickly flipped into the Gundam cockpit, completed the mecha startup process in the blink of an eye.
"Hey, transforming into a dragon is nice, but how can it compare to a Gundam?"
"Haro! Boxer, launch!"
(End of Chapter)