When Mephisto got a look of his handsome face he got the scare of his life. He never expected him to be present here, in his dimension.

"Lucifer... You are not supposed to be here." (yes there is Lucifer in Marvel, though he appeared very rarely.. Even I haven't read any comics of him but he does exist)

"Oh you seem to know me. But I don't seem to remember you. In fact this is the first time I am here on behalf of a long time friend I made. John, you better give me a vacation after this whole shenanigan ends." Lucifer said, looking at John.

"Yeah. Destroy him. And you're free to do whatever you want. Even kill the other Lucifer." John assured him full freedom.

John spent a full 10 billion to bring Lucifer with all his powers from comics. Being the son of God and everything related to him.

"You think I am that easy to destroy." Mephisto said as he proceeded to punch Lucifer on his face. He felt insulted. Lucifer wasn't supposed to come to his dimension. That was the deal between the heavens and hell. Lucifer who saw the most usual punch side stepped and hit him right in the abdomen.

Mephisto was thrown to the side. Dracula who was seeing all this unfold didn't expect that Lucifer would arrive to help him. Since he had taken a side from before he couldn't go back. He turned into a bat and flew to Lucifer's side to take a bite at him. Only to be stopped by Wanda.

Since John had said Chthon was powered by Chaos magic, she made it a point to destroy anything related to Chthon. She didn't want her name to be tainted by an evil demon. She used her magical powers to use telekinesis on the bat and threw him away.

In the meantime, all the demons had started their war against John and others. And even many vampires joined in this assault. John changed his tactic here. He stopped using his Phoenix Force but started using his Gate of Babylon.

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His noble Phantasm was perfect for this kind of situation as he opened thousands and thousands of gates to launch projectiles at the enemies. Spears, knives, swords and all melee weapons known to men were thrown at the enemies, it acted as a bomb the moment it touched any enemy.

John and his whole team was surrounded by the Gate and it just launched projectiles non stop. It was one hell of a spectacle as none of the enemies were able to come close to their team and surrounding them were loud explosion noises.

The demons who saw this constant killing by these weird weapons stopped right on their tracks. They looked scared. Though they are composed of millions and millions, constant killings will dwindle their number down.

The demons, seeing no way in, decided to start an air assault. John felt insulted seeing this and changed the directions of his weapons towards the air. All the flying demons which had wings on their back were shot down by fast projectiles. Only this time the weapons came down as an arc and killed more of the enemies which were far.

John this time didn't use his weapons as an explosion but just for impaling purposes as he wanted to punish these demons for using such an insulting tactic and thus the scenes looked more grotesque and gory as red blood was splattered all over the battlefield.

"Even without the Phoenix Force you are scary." Strange said as he used earth elements magic to kill the surroundings that were trying to sneak in as John was concentrating on flying demons.

"Quit joking around. There are millions of them. We are seriously outmatched. Even if we use all our force and John uses all his weapons, few will still sneak in. Keep on the lookout." Yen yelled as she conjured lightning using magic and blasted away the demons.

The demons realized that using such diversionary tactics stopped assaulting from all sides and let demons with strong skin take the front and stop the weapons that was constantly assaulting them. John who saw that these demons finally started using some brains knew that he had to become serious.

As John maintained the constant barrage of projectiles and explosions, some smaller demons were able to sneak in as the stone skinned demons stopped the spears. Though they died at the end by John's weapons, they were able to slow down John's killing spree. The stone skinned looked vicious as they had grey colored stoned skin and walked on all fours. Their large body structures allowed smaller demons to be under them, thus sheltering them.

"We have a problem now." Mordo said as he saw more demons were able to sneak in. Through the team was able to stop sneaky ones but they realized that their numbers were increasing.