A New God's life in Marvel

Chapter 89: Explanations

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"Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame."

—Vikram, [The Office]

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Johnny Blaze was more than happy after getting back his lost love Roxanne. In fact, they were so happy that they had gotten too much excited with all their kissing and stuff as they couldn't keep their hands off each other. Rudeus just hoped that she wouldn't die or leave him for some reason in this timeline. But that would ultimately depend on Blaze himself.

Blaze had heartily acknowledged Rudeus' help and had even thanked him repeatedly before leaving. He had retained all his memories from his Ghost Rider transformation and had even apologized to both Rudeus and Morgana for trying to pick a fight with them.

Rudeus tried to offer him a job as a demon hunter in the new supernatural faction of his organization but unfortunately, Johnny considered himself a free spirit and only a part-time hunter of evil. So he didn't accept Rudeus' offer but he did promise to help Rudeus whenever he needed it.

Rudeus was of course satisfied with this since he loved doing people favors so that he could collect them later whenever he needed and he knew that a favour to the Spirit of Vengeance would go a long way in the world of Marvel.

After the angel-possessed stuntman left in style with his girlfriend on his motorcycle, Rudeus and Morgana both decided to return to the base as well. They portalled to Rudeus' mansion through a boom tube.

"So I assume you are done with conquering Avalon since you are here in the mortal mundane world?" Rudeus asked Morgana after reaching the living room of the mansion.

"Well, I didn't exactly conquer Avalon. It turns out that it's no longer the dream utopia that it once was, no longer the legendary piece of haven that I coveted to protect. Arthur and his stupid knights have ruined the entire nation. The development of science and technology has completely stopped there, even the quality of magic has deteriorated from its previous standards.

The current military of the nation is still mainly composed of knights wearing ancient steel armor and wielding swords. The remaining mages can barely be considered above the apprentice level. Even the quality of nature and the environment of the nation seems to have fallen as the forests and farms have lost their freshness. So I did the smart thing and ignored the dying country. After all, Otherworld is quite a big place and Avalon is only a small part of it. So I went ahead and just conquered the rest of the dimension of Otherworld except Avalon" Morgana said with a small proud smile on her lips.

"Wait, you conquered the entire dimension? Cool. But didn't the current people of Avalon try to oppose you since you just conquered everything around them?" Rudeus asked curiously.

"No, not really. The old fogeys were just happy that they were not the ones being attacked. More than half of them don't even believe that I am free now. They just think that it's some small rebel forces trying to take control of minor areas. The stupid idiots don't even realize that their entire country is now surrounded and I can take over their pitiful nation whenever I want." Morgana snorted.

'Hmm. I guess their weak-ass society is similar to the Wizarding World in Harry Potterverse. Maybe staying alone in a different dimension without any apparent threats does decrease people's intelligence.' Rudeus thought to himself.

"Anyways, as I was saying after I completed my conquest of most of the Otherworld, I was thinking about whether to come to fetch you to start your mystic lessons or to conquer Avalon as well. But then I sensed something extremely powerful and... wrong from this realm, I sensed something which felt very much like the phoenix force, only darker.