Inside the Temple in New York.
At the heart of the temple, whose interior was shaped like a sphere, two points of light floated in the space. One moved quickly toward the other, clearly signaling contact, merging, or conflict.
"This energy signal... matches..."
Wanda, whom Aron had left as the temple's guardian, stood beside the core, holding an ancient book in her hands that her leader had never opened. She was focused, analyzing the energy fluctuations coming from the very center.
The core was a relic left by one of the ancient supreme sorcerers — Agamotto.
Not only could it track energy anomalies across the Earth in real time, but it could also simulate them. This allowed the Temple Guardians to immediately know what was happening, without the need for direct insight.
"I found it!"
Wanda suddenly flipped several pages, then stopped when she saw the familiar energy pattern.
"This level of energy reaction..."
"No... this is..."
"The Infinity Stones?!"
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Wakanda.
Aron's arrival was like a thunderstrike. The situation turned in an instant.
Robots under Ultron's control, hundreds of them, which had until then floated in perfect formation, now suddenly went berserk. They all simultaneously redirected their attention and weapons, toward him.
It was a move similar to initiating combat against the primary enemy.
Energy beams rained down like a storm upon the area around Aron.
"Did he violate the Cosmic Law?" Mordo muttered from the side, in shock.
He was trying to understand why all the robots had suddenly focused solely on him. Had Aron perhaps used Ultron's name to deceive them? Or was it something else? Why would Aron come here in the middle of chaos?
Even Aron himself frowned, looking at the thousands of barrels aimed at him simultaneously.
"Ultron? I didn't even touch you..."
But there was no time to think.
The moment the beams came at him, a massive, dense black cloak emerged from the darkness, the Great Demonic Shadow Cloak.
Like a curtain that blocked out the light, the cloak spread out and covered Aron.
A second later, hundreds of beams struck its surface.
And… completely vanished.
No explosions, no impact, no deflection.
The beams were literally absorbed into the fabric, leaving no trace.
The cloak acted like a black hole, devouring everything, without even disturbing the air.
"No damage... Target cannot be harmed... Uploading combat data..."
"Ultron Commander – initiating analysis..."
...
Aron looked at the cloak and raised an eyebrow.
"Good cloak... but did you really have to intervene?"
He recognized that ancient relic, even more powerful than the levitating cloak used by Doctor Strange. Still, he didn't actually need any help.
"It's just a rain of lasers… like someone splashed water on me."
Aron remained completely calm beneath the cloak. From his belt, he drew a combat knife whose blade ignited in an orange-red flame.
He looked up at the robots above.
"Your master is dead."
"Now, serve me. Follow me, we will create a new force, a new future."
Then he raised the flaming knife high.
At that moment, his presence dominated the entire battlefield, the pressure he emitted resembled a divine presence.
"WARNING!"
"High-energy reaction detected! Threat level: EXTREMELY HIGH!"
At the same time, a piercing alarm rang from the body of the command robot.
A wave of flame exploded from Aron's knife, spreading through the sky like blazing lightning.
In a second, it split the sky in half!
Hundreds of robots touched by that fiery wave… were immediately turned into vapor and molten metal.
More precisely, they were torn apart and melted beyond recognition, losing all structure due to the unbearable temperature.
In the molten iron that fell to the ground, the bushes and grass around the battlefield immediately caught fire.
Hell broke out in an instant and Aron stood at its center, as if he belonged there.
"…"
"…"
"…"
The entire battlefield of Wakanda fell silent.
Everyone was stunned.
At this moment, the strongest among them, Hulk, had just stepped onto the threshold of the cosmic level.
And then he appeared…
Aron, who had skipped even two major power levels and effortlessly destroyed what seemed like an invincible army. As if he came from another dimension.
"…"
Hawkeye silently stared ahead. He still held an arrow in his right hand, but now slowly lowered it.
"He… I…"
Steve Rogers opened his mouth. But from the shock, no words came.
"Now I understand why he said we shouldn't fear Ultron's robots..."
"Turns out the robots fear him."
The scene before them looked like something from another world.
Tony Stark stood next to War Machine, suddenly feeling... unnecessary. The power Aron had shown could be compared to that monster from the Second New York War.
"Wait a second..."
"That's... isn't that the weapon of that demon from that war?!"
Tony stared, surprised. Aron wasn't just carrying the same combat knife, he seemed to possess all of its power as well.
"Alright."
"If we have an ally like this on our side... How could we possibly lose?"
Tony lifted into the air, wanting to analyze the robot remains and collect data.
But then the sky thundered.
"Ha ha! Who mentioned a god?"
"How did you know I was coming?"
"Thor Odinson!"
"God of Thunder!"
Thor crashed down from the sky, holding Mjolnir, bathed in lightning and thunder. He landed with the kind of drama he considered impressive. Upon rising, he flipped his long, golden hair back.
"My friends! I'll take it from here, the great god shall handle this! These metal abominations are mine!"
He didn't notice how everyone looked at him silently, with mild disdain. He confidently claimed the title of "great god," unaware that the scene already had a true candidate for that title.
Aron, though he had already met Odin and Hela, was meeting Thor for the first time.
And judging by that first impression…
"Thor, huh?"
"Your sister... is quite... refined."
He said, then left him confused in the dust. He pushed off the ground with such force that the earth beneath him cracked, leaving a deep fissure, and he shot into the sky like lightning.
The Cloak of Great Demonic Shadow barely kept up with his speed.
"Warning!"
"Combat analysis... zero victories..."
"Target cannot be neutralized... Initiating self-destruct protocol..."
The remaining Ultron robots activated the self-destruction procedure.
But Aron didn't give them even a second.
He swung his knife through the air!
Each swing emitted a flaming wave in the shape of a crescent moon that extended across the horizon.
From the ground, the true destructiveness of the weapon couldn't be gauged…
But now, from above, it was crystal clear.
One strike and all the robots in that direction vanished. Evaporated. Turned to ash and molten iron.
And that wasn't the end.
The wave of fire, unstoppable, crashed toward the ground.
A powerful explosion.
One of the rare African forests simply, disappeared.
The hellish fire consumed everything. The ground was torn apart, leaving a charred, black channel hundreds of meters long.
"…"
Thor, who just moments ago imagined himself arriving to "save the day," now stood in silence.
His smile was gone.
He had just been thrilled at the thought of becoming the hero of the moment.
But now, in silence and with his mouth wide open, he watched the power of true might.
So...
When they mentioned the "great god"...
They meant Aron.
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