Chapter 249: Full Firepower, The Foundation of Star Umbrella
"Left wing escort formation, charge energy deflection shields to full power. Main cannon matrix, lock onto those three white iron shells, open fire and intercept!"
The order was issued.
On the outer left flank of Sanctuary II, six dark purple frigates, each the size of a city block, simultaneously turned their cannons.
High-energy particle beams streaked through the vacuum, leaving dazzling purple trails as they collided head-on with the three ghostly blue plasma beams fired from the Star Umbrella helicarriers.
In Ebony Maw's understanding, a backward civilization like Earth, which had barely moved past the internal combustion engine era, could not possibly have an energy level comparable to the technology of the Black Order, even if they had built starships capable of space travel.
In a head-on collision like this, the Earthling starships would be completely vaporized within half a second.
Two vastly different levels of destructive energy collided violently in near-Earth orbit.
There was no stalemate, no mutual cancellation.
The super-magnetic conduction barrels, forged from twenty tons of pure Vibranium, combined with the extreme compression of the Arc Reactor matrix, gave Star Umbrella's orbital main cannons a piercing power that defied the laws of the Universe.
The ghostly blue plasma beams tore directly through the energy structure of the purple particle beams, slicing through the deflection shields of the six alien frigates as easily as a hot knife through butter.
The heavy alien metal armor vaporized instantly under the extreme heat.
Six massive fireballs exploded silently in the vacuum, turning into countless burning metal fragments that scattered in all directions.
The remaining power of the light beams did not diminish, slamming fiercely into the dense cluster of Outriderslanding craft behind them.
Tens of thousands of hideous alien creatures didn't even have time to scream before they, along with their assault craft, were completely evaporated into cosmic dust.
Three large, glaring vacuum zones were cleared in Earth's outer space.
Inside the bridge of Sanctuary II, piercing alarms stung the eardrums of all the alien officers.
On the main display screen, all the signal dots representing the left wing escort formation had gone dark.
On Ebony Maw's withered face, arrogance and contempt were replaced by extreme astonishment.
He even took half a step back, nearly colliding with the console behind him.
"This is impossible!"
Ebony Maw's voice was sharp, having lost his usual demeanor as a preacher, "How could they possibly possess this level of energy penetration? That is definitely not conventional nuclear fusion!"
"Old monster, the sea of learning is boundless."
Lin Nuo's mocking voice came through the speakers at the right moment.
On the Kamar-Taj plaza.
Lin Nuo stood at the edge of the ruin crater, leisurely rolling up the cuffs of his black shirt.
He looked up at the near-Earth orbital battlefield, which was ablaze with fire on the holographic screen, his tone righteous.
"I spent hundreds of billions of dollars, plus dozens of tons of Vibranium to build this firepower network; did you think it was just for you to watch fireworks?"
Lin Nuo turned his head and issued an order to the quantum terminal on his wrist.
"Wanda, don't give them a chance to breathe. Rip the turtle shell off that main ship for me."
New York underground command center.
Wanda stood in front of the main control console, her wine-red hair dancing wildly in the violent energy vortex.
Hearing Lin Nuo's command, the dark red glow in her eyes brightened to the extreme.
"As you command, Master."
Wanda spread her fingers and grabbed fiercely at the holographic star map in front of her.
The dark red energy of Chaos Magic followed Star Umbrella's quantum network, spanning tens of thousands of kilometers, and infiltrated directly into the bottom layer of Sanctuary II's defense matrix.
Inside the bridge of Sanctuary II.
Ebony Maw was preparing to mobilize the main ship's defense system, forcing it to raise heavy energy shields to withstand Star Umbrella's subsequent artillery fire.
"Main shield charging! Thirty percent... fifty percent..."
The alien officer's report came to an abrupt halt.
All the green indicator lights on the console turned a glaring crimson.
"My Lord! Our energy circuits have been infiltrated by some unknown force! The underlying code is being forcibly tampered with!"
Ebony Maw hurriedly looked up.
He saw that the dark purple energy shield, which had just been half-raised around the exterior of Sanctuary II, was suddenly covered in eerie dark red patterns.
Those patterns were like living vines, crazily devouring the shield's energy nodes.
In less than three breaths.
The main shield, capable of withstanding a Planet-level explosion, let out a teeth-grinding cracking sound and disintegrated directly into a sky full of light rain.
Chaos Magic's unreasonable ability of Reality Warpingwas fully displayed at this moment.
Wanda, from across half the Earth, had forcefully torn apart the absolute defense of the cosmic overlord.
"Shields failed! Left wing armor zone exposed!"
"Enemy drone swarm is cutting in!"
Losing the cover of the shields, the six thousand Vibraniumdrone swarm, personally coordinated by Potts, swarmed toward the left wing armor of Sanctuary II like sharks smelling blood.
Dense micro-missiles and high-frequency cutting rays poured down.
Massive fireballs erupted one after another on the hard metal shell of Sanctuary II, with large sections of armor plates being forcibly ripped away, revealing the intricate pipes and passages inside.
The situation completely overturned the combat common sense of the Black Order.
They were accustomed to relying on the absolute firepower and shields of Sanctuary II to directly crush the defenses of those backward Planets.
But today, they had kicked a titanium alloy steel plate wrapped in iron spikes.
The young mages of Kamar-Taj were dumbfounded.
They had studied mystic arts for years, following ancient traditions, believing that technology was merely an auxiliary tool used by mortals to improve their lives.
But now, those pure white warships and drones in the sky were rubbing the cosmic overlord's fleet against the ground in space.
Wong swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his fat hands barely able to maintain the Rings of Raggadorr.
The Ancient One leaned on her staff, her cloudy eyes flashing with extremely complex emotions.
She had always tried to use the magic of the Vishanti to maintain the balance of Earth.
Lin Nuo had used the most barbaric and pure violence of capital and technology to directly riddle the alien fleet with holes.
This unreasonable domineering nature was not in the trajectory of any magical prophecy.
Jean Grey stood beside Lin Nuo, watching Sanctuary IIconstantly exploding on the screen, her lips curling into an extremely dangerous arc.
"The firepower is not bad."
Jean commented, "But it's not thorough enough. Leave that ship to me, and I can burn it until not even ashes are left."
Hela snorted coldly, her tattered black cloak fluttering.
"There's no need for your little sparks. Once the Destroyerarmor launches, I will board the ship myself and twist that purple potato's head off to use as a wine cup."
Lin Nuo ignored the clamoring of these two women.
He stood with his hands in his trousers pockets, looking through the screen directly at Thanos, who had been sitting on the floating throne.
"Purple potato."
Lin Nuo's voice, through the translation matrix, clearly spread to every corner of Sanctuary II.
"Your fleet doesn't seem very durable. With just this little bit of assets, you dare to come to Earth to collect protection money?"
Lin Nuo pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, extreme mockery showing behind the lenses.
"Get out of my solar system now, leave that broken ship as compensation, and I might consider sparing your life."
Extreme provocation.
Treating Earth as private property, and the flagship of a cosmic overlord as a trophy.
Ebony Maw was trembling with rage, his withered chest heaving violently, but he couldn't say a word.
His art of command, which he was so proud of, had become a complete joke in the face of Star Umbrella's completely unreasonable firepower suppression.
Thanos sat on his throne.
He watched the red damage reports flashing constantly on the main display screen, watching the fire spreading across the left wing armor zone.
On that dark purple face covered in vertical lines, there was no anger, nor panic.
Only that extreme chill of someone who had walked on the edge of death for years.
He finally understood that the Earthling wearing gold-rimmed glasses in front of him was not bluffing.
This Planet had been forged into a veritable interstellar fortress.
Relying solely on those mindless Outriders and conventional firepower, it was impossible to tear through the defenses here.
Thanos slowly stood up from his floating throne.
His massive body cast a heavy shadow within the bridge.
He raised his right hand, wearing dark gold armor, and casually crushed a console that was sounding an alarm next to him into scrap metal.
"Interesting."
Thanos's deep voice overpowered all the alarms inside the bridge.
"You have proven your value with these iron shells. You are qualified to witness true destruction."
Thanos turned around, his gaze sweeping over the lower part of the bridge.
Four figures exuding terrifying bloodlust stood there.
Except for Ebony Maw, the other four members of the Black Order had been waiting for a long time.
Corvus Glaive, holding the legendary blade.
Proxima Midnight, holding the divine spear.
Black Dwarf, the size of a hill, holding a giant axe.
And Supergiant, who possessed super speed and the ability to control energy.
They were the sharpest butcher knives of the Black Order, each possessing the terrifying combat power to single-handedly take on an interstellar fleet.
Thanos looked at these four confidants and coldly issued his order.
"Ebony Maw, stay behind to reorganize the fleet's defense."
Thanos pointed to the coordinates of Kamar-Taj on the holographic screen, his tone filled with an irresistible will of death.
"The four of you, take the main ship's assault pods and drop directly."
"Go to that coordinate point. Cut that bespectacled Earthling, along with everyone around him, into pieces and bring them back to me."
Corvus Glaive licked the blood groove on his blade, letting out a cruel, sinister laugh.
"Gladly, Father."
The four figures turned and walked toward the drop pods.
Thanos turned his head again, staring at Lin Nuo through the screen.
"Earthling, your iron shells cannot save you. I want to see how long your pathetic pride can last in the face of absolute force."
On the Kamar-Taj plaza.
Lin Nuo looked at the four high-energy reaction sources that were locking onto this location on the screen.
He did not dodge, nor did he call for the helicarrier to return for defense.
He just raised his hand, took off his gold-rimmed glasses, and handed them casually to Jean beside him.
"Perfect."
Lin Nuo twisted his neck, his bones making a crisp popping sound, "The Star Umbrella security department is just short of a few high-level alien skeletons to use as specimens."
Chapter 250: The Black Order Descends, The Red-Haired Witch's Flames
The clouds in the sky were violently torn apart.
Four blinding meteors, dragging dark red trails behind them, tore through the snowstorm over the Himalayas and slammed directly into the bluestone plaza of Kamar-Taj.
The Earth trembled.
The hard stone slabs shattered under the gravitational impact, and the air was obscured by a mixture of stone dust and snowflakes.
The mages of Kamar-Taj retreated in terror, their magichalos flickering unsteadily in the gale.
Ancient One stood on the steps, leaning on her staff, watching the sinister silhouettes emerging from the depths of the dust and smoke.
"Weak natives, unable to even foresee the arrival of gods."
A hoarse voice pierced through the dust.
Corvus Glaive slowly walked out, dragging his glaive that emitted an eerie blue light.
His face, like that of a desiccated corpse, was full of cruelty, and his grayish-white cloak snapped in the wind and snow.
Beside him, Proxima Midnight held her three-pronged sacred spear, her blue eyes filled with disdain.
"The will of My Lord Thanos is the end of the Universe."
Proxima Midnight raised her spear, pointing the tip from afar at Lin Nuo. "Kneel, or become nourishment for these ruins."
The fingers of Mordo and the others turned pale as they gripped their magical artifacts.
The aura of slaughter emanating from the intruders made the flow of magic energy within them sluggish.
Hela stood beside Lin Nuo, the Night Sky Sword already beginning to coalesce in her hand.
But before she could act, a fair arm barred her way.
Jean stepped forward.
Her red hair was exceptionally striking in the snowstorm.
She didn't even look at the two clamoring aliens, just tilted her head to look at Lin Nuo beside her.
"Lin Nuo, can I burn them?"
Her voice was very soft, even carrying a hint of a little girl's request, but the crimson flames dancing deep in her eyes caused the surrounding space to begin to distort.
Lin Nuo had one hand in his trouser pocket, while the other took the gold-rimmed glasses handed to him by Jean, slowly putting them back on the bridge of his nose.
"Go ahead."
He issued the command indifferently, "Leave two alive; the research department of Star Umbrella needs to know their physiological structure."
"Okay."
Jean replied.
When she turned to face Corvus Glaive, her gentle demeanor vanished completely.
Boom.
Dark red Phoenix Fire spread from beneath her feet.
The bluestone slabs beneath her feet vaporized the instant they touched the flames, leaving behind no magma, only a void of black holes.
The snowstorm over Kamar-Taj was forcibly erased over a large area, and the air vibrated violently due to the extreme heat, emitting piercing explosions.
"Arrogant woman!"
Corvus Glaive was enraged by this sudden energy fluctuation.
His figure left an afterimage, and the glaive in his hand carved a line of death in the void, aiming straight for Jean's neck.
This divine weapon had severed the bodies of countless interstellar powerhouses and could even cut through atomic structures at the microscopic level.
But when it was three meters away from Jean, the blade stopped.
It wasn't blocked by a defensive shield; rather, the tip of the blade was turning red and melting at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Jean didn't even raise her hand.
The core temperature of the single-Universe-level flames had surpassed the limits of physical constants.
The tip of the glaive turned into molten iron and dripped down, then was evaporated into nothingness in mid-air.
The cruel smile on Corvus Glaive's withered face froze.
"How is this possible..."
As long as his glaive was not destroyed, he possessed immortality.
But now, this divine weapon, which was connected to his life, was being forcibly erased from existence by some unreasonable fire.
"Your blade is too slow."
Jean raised her right hand and gently clenched her five fingers in the void.
The dark red flames transformed into a giant bird's claw, tightly gripping Corvus Glaive's massive body.
"Ah!"
A shrill scream echoed through Kamar-Taj.
The heavy armor on Corvus Glaive, which was capable of withstanding the bombardment of a starship's main cannon, turned to ashes in the flames.
His proud super-healing ability operated frantically, attempting to repair the burned skin and muscles.
But the rules of destruction contained within the Phoenix Fire directly burned his genetic chains to pieces.
The speed of self-healing could not keep up with the speed of vaporization.
"Let him go!"
Proxima Midnight's eyes were splitting with rage.
She threw the sacred spear in her hand.
The spear split into three blue beams, carrying soul-locking tracking rules, and attacked the back of Jean's head.
Jean didn't even turn her head.
She just turned slightly to the side, scooped with her left hand in the air, and caught the high-speed flying sacred spear with extreme precision.
Sizzle.
The energy impact attached to the sacred spear was directly devoured by the core Phoenix power within her the moment it touched her palm.
In Proxima Midnight's horrified gaze, the weapon, forged from stellar core metal, bent like a noodle in Jean's palm, then turned into a puddle of blue liquid, dripping onto the void-like ground.
"Is this your confidence?"
Jean looked at Proxima Midnight, the crimson light in her eyes shining blindingly bright.
She shook her head with some boredom, "Too weak. Even more boring than Apocalypse."
She waved her hand casually.
The violent firestorm transformed into a wall of fire, engulfing both the struggling Corvus Glaive and the stunned Proxima Midnight.
The mages of Kamar-Taj watched this scene, feeling a chill run through their bodies.
The two infamous members of the Black Order in the Universe were like two moths thrown into a furnace before that red-haired woman; even struggling seemed completely superfluous.
Hela looked at Corvus Glaive screaming in the flames and pursed her lips with some displeasure.
"You burned their physical bodies; how am I supposed to use necromancy to awaken them?"
Jean withdrew her hand, and the flames slowly subsided around her.
She walked to Lin Nuo's side and naturally took the man's arm, with a trace of warm sparks still lingering on her fingertips.
"Lin Nuo said to leave them alive, so I saved their brain tissue."
She tilted her face up, as if waiting for a reward, "I controlled the temperature; their nervous systems have not completely necrotized."
Lin Nuo patted the back of her hand and turned his head to look at Corvus Glaive, who was dying in the flames, with only half of his charred body remaining.
"Well done."
Lin Nuo said.
On the ruins of Kamar-Taj, the firelight gradually dimmed.
Just when everyone thought the battle was over, a strange vibration suddenly came from beneath the ground where Lin Nuo was standing.
Without any warning, two massive shadows erupted from the shadows beneath the bluestone slabs.
Black Dwarf held a giant axe, veins bulging on his thick mechanical arm, and smashed it toward the top of Lin Nuo's head with the force of splitting a mountain.
And behind Lin Nuo, the figure of Supergiant emerged in the void, her eyes emitting a ghostly blue light, staring fixedly at the back of Lin Nuo's head, as powerful mind-control energy transformed into countless psychic spikes, attempting to directly take over Lin Nuo's consciousness.
They never intended a frontal assault from the beginning; Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight were just decoys to attract attention.
"Got him!"
Supergiant's voice screamed on the psychic plane.
But the moment her psychic spikes touched Lin Nuo's brain, they collided with an iron wall made of endless darkness and violent blood energy.
Lin Nuo didn't even turn his body.
He just turned his head slightly, his eyes behind the gold-rimmed glasses cold and devoid of any warmth.
"Sneak attack on me?"
Lin Nuo's voice rang out across the deathly silent plaza, carrying a chilling calmness.
Black Dwarf's giant axe stopped in mid-air, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't make it fall even a fraction.
Because Lin Nuo's left hand had already firmly grasped the blade of the axe that was capable of splitting mountains and shattering rocks.
Where metal met skin, a teeth-grinding friction sound was emitted.
Lin Nuo exerted a little force with his five fingers, and clear finger marks appeared on the steel axe blade.
"Too little strength."
Lin Nuo commented indifferently, then his right hand shot out like lightning, directly gripping the neck of Supergiant, who had emerged in mid-air.
The moment Supergiant's psychic spikes touched Lin Nuo's brain, they were shredded by the massive and chaotic rule energy within Lin Nuo.
Fragments of the Space Stone's origin, the power of Reality Warping, and physical adaptive evolution.
This was simply not a domain she could invade.
"You..."
Supergiant was held by the neck and lifted into the air, her ghostly blue eyes full of horror.
She tried to struggle, but found that the energy within her was being forcibly extracted by a domineering force.
"Since you've come, stay here."
Lin Nuo's voice was very soft, yet it sounded like an unchangeable verdict.
He exerted a little force with his five fingers, and Supergiant's neck bone emitted an unbearable cracking sound.
Black Dwarf saw the situation was bad and wanted to abandon the axe and retreat.
But Lin Nuo's left hand had already followed the axe handle and grabbed his wrist.
"Why run?"
Lin Nuo pulled a corner of his mouth into an extremely malicious arc, "Star Umbrella's laboratory is still missing a big specimen."
The sound of bones breaking was exceptionally clear in the wind and snow.
Black Dwarf let out a scream, his entire thick mechanical arm was torn off by Lin Nuo, and blood sprayed wildly.
The mages of Kamar-Taj had completely lost their voices.
They watched the man wearing glasses and a black shirt, without using any magic, destroying the strongest member of the Black Order, Black Dwarf, with pure physical strength alone.
This was simply not a power that a human could possess.
Ancient One closed her eyes.
She knew that Thanos's Black Order had kicked a steel plate they couldn't afford to offend today.
And the fate of Earth, at this moment, had completely fallen into the hands of this suave scoundrel.
Lin Nuo threw the crippled Black Dwarf onto the ground like trash.
He was still holding the pale-faced Supergiant in his hand.
Supergiant's body was trembling constantly; she could feel that Lin Nuo was reorganizing the genes and energy structure within her in an extremely bizarre way.
That was the power of Mutant extreme microscopic atomic reorganization.
"My Lord Thanos... will not let you go..."
Chapter 251: Carnival of Death, Asgard's Resentment
Supergiant's gray-white face turned bluish-purple due to hypoxia. She was suspended in mid-air, held by her neck by Lin Nuo, her limbs kicking weakly in the air.
Lin Nuo's expression remained calm, yet the force in his finger bones increased inch by inch. The Mutant's ultimate power of microscopic atomic restructuring flowed from his palm, silently infiltrating Supergiant's skin, beginning to savagely dismantle the energy circuits within her body.
Black Dwarf had lost an arm, and the scalding blood gushing from the wound dyed the broken bluestone floor a deep scarlet.
This giant Beast, known in the Universe for his strength, fell into complete madness under the stimulation of the excruciating pain.
His remaining left arm grabbed the shattered fragments of his battle axe from the ground, and the muscles bulging like rocks on his body swelled high at this moment.
A visible ripple of gravity expanded from him as the center, forcibly crushing the gravel under his feet into powder.
He leaped from the flank, the remaining battle axe carrying the force of a thousand jun, smashing straight down towards Lin Nuo's head.
This strike condensed all his life force; the void seemed to deform slightly under this heavy blow, as if it were about to collapse.
Hela had long been waiting impatiently on the side.
Watching Jean kill two Black Order members as soon as she made a move, the jealousy and frustration in her heart had long accumulated to the extreme.
If she let this brainless Beast disturb Lin Nuo again, her status in Star Umbrella would likely plummet.
To prove her value in front of Lin Nuo, Hela went for the kill the moment she acted.
The lightless Night Sky Sword condensed in her hand out of thin air, the power of death transformed into a dark green arc of light, meeting Black Dwarf's heavy strike at an extremely tricky angle.
Snap.
The steel-forged battle axe fragments were as brittle as dry wood in front of the Night Sky Sword, and were cut in half on the spot.
The remaining power of the dark green sword energy continued, sliding down Black Dwarf's shoulder, neatly severing his only remaining left arm as well.
Having lost both arms, Black Dwarf let out a painful howl, his massive body falling forward due to inertia.
Hela stepped on the ground with one foot and pressed both hands downward.
"Die."
Countless sharp dark green bone spurs rose from the flat ground. These spikes, composed of the power of death, were extremely sharp, piercing directly through Black Dwarf's thick leather armor, running from his chest to his back.
Puchi sounds rang out one after another.
Black Dwarf's massive, heavy body was nailed in mid-air by dozens of bone spurs. Blood dripped down the bone spurs, gathering into a small stream on the bluestone floor.
His proud life force became a tool for his torture at this moment; unable to die for a while, he could only twitch continuously on the bone spurs.
Supergiant, held in Lin Nuo's hand, saw this scene, and the fear in her eyes finally broke through the dam.
She knew very well that the Black Order had completely failed today.
"Die together!"
Supergiant let out a sharp shriek, her eyes emitting a ghostly blue light shining terrifyingly bright at this moment.
She simply gave up the defense of her physical body, squeezing out all the mental energy in her body, turning it into a brainwave shock capable of shattering souls, heading straight for the seas of consciousness of Hela and Lin Nuo.
This kind of mental attack was invisible, extremely fast, and impossible to guard against.
Lin Nuo had one hand in his pocket and didn't even raise an eyelid.
"In my territory, who allowed you to use this kind of disgusting energy?"
Lin Nuo's voice was extremely flat.
Deep in his sea of consciousness, the crystal of the Tier 3 Reality Warping power emitted a strange fluctuation.
Physical laws were forcibly rewritten at the microscopic level.
Supergiant's brainwave shock, which could have originally destroyed a city, was forcibly twisted in direction by a more overbearing force the moment it touched the surface of Lin Nuo's body, and then rebounded with ten times the power.
Bang.
A dull explosion sounded in Supergiant's brain.
Her ghostly blue eyes dimmed in the blink of an eye, and black-red blood sprayed from the corners of her eyes, nostrils, and ear canals simultaneously.
Her originally powerful spiritual body was shattered into void fragments on the spot under this rebound.
Supergiant's brain structure was experiencing a disaster at the microscopic level under the rebound of the Reality Warping power.
Her originally powerful spiritual network was forcibly reversed in a very short time, and the brainwaves originally used for attack turned into high-frequency vibrations at the physical level, shaking her brain matter and nerve centers into a pulp.
Blood flowed from her seven orifices, and before it hit the ground, it was directly evaporated into void red mist by the holy factor energy field emitted from Lin Nuo's body surface.
Lin Nuo let go, and Supergiant's shell, which had completely lost its vitality, fell into the ruins like a bag of flour, making a dull thud.
Hela turned her head, looked at Black Dwarf nailed in mid-air, and pulled a cruel sneer on her face.
She walked forward a few steps, stepping on those green bone spurs, and walked all the way to Black Dwarf's painfully twisted face.
"The death of Asgard is far more sophisticated than the methods of you alien scum."
Hela stretched out her hands and pressed them directly on Black Dwarf's head.
Dark green death energy poured into it continuously from her fingertips.
Black Dwarf's massive body began to tremble violently. His life force was forcibly drained by Hela using her Death Divinity, and his originally full muscles withered and shriveled at a speed visible to the naked eye, finally turning into a dried corpse with a grayish-white metallic luster.
The next moment, two ghostly green flames suddenly ignited in Black Dwarf's eye sockets, which had already lost their luster.
His body, nailed to the bone spurs, regained its ability to move, and with his only remaining half-shoulder and remnant body, let out a low roar that did not belong to the living.
Undead puppet, transformation complete.
Hela stood on Black Dwarf's shoulder, looking down at Lin Nuo on the ruins.
"Officer, are you satisfied with this specimen?"
Hela's tone carried a hint of imperceptible ingratiation, her tattered black cloak fluttering in the wind and snow, trying her best to show her value.
Lin Nuo pushed his gold-rimmed glasses, looked at the huge puppet exuding death energy, and commented lightly: "So-so, it's enough to be a security guard."
Jean sat on the side, playing with Lin Nuo's glasses case, looked at Hela's fawning appearance, snorted coldly, but surprisingly did not make any sarcastic remarks.
She knew that this woman was nothing more than another chained hound in front of Lin Nuo.
"Hela, don't treat your backward necromancy as some amazing trump card."
Jean stood up straight, her red hair dancing in the cold wind, her voice cold, "In the face of absolute temperature, your bone racks are just fuel that can be vaporized in a few seconds."
Hela stood on the shoulder of the huge undead and looked down at Jean coldly: "Is that so? Then before my undead army tramples your Fire out, you'd better keep this arrogant posture."
Lin Nuo ignored the verbal dispute between the two women.
He walked to Supergiant's limp shell, nudged her shoulder with the tip of his shoe, and turned to give instructions to Hank in the holographic projection.
"Hank, collect this woman's brainwave transmitter and gene telomeres. Star Umbrella's quantum network needs her brain domain structure as a blueprint to upgrade our mental defense wall."
On the other side of the screen, Hank nodded repeatedly, his expression full of awe: "Understood, Officer. I have already sent the transport plane, and it will arrive at Kamar-Taj within five minutes."
On the ruins of Kamar-Taj, the mages had long been numb.
Mordo's hand holding the magic artifact was trembling slightly. He looked at the Black Dwarf puppet exuding terrifying death energy, and then looked at Lin Nuo, who was standing on the side with a calm expression, only feeling that the scene in front of him was as absurd as a nightmare.
The Black Order under the command of the cosmic overlord had two burned to ashes and two turned into puppets and cripples in less than five minutes.
And that young human wearing glasses didn't even pat the dust off his suit.
Ancient One leaned on her staff and walked slowly to Lin Nuo's side.
"Odin's eldest daughter has actually become your lackey."
Ancient One sighed, "Lin Nuo, what you brought back is not just power, but destruction that this Universe cannot bear."
"Destruction?"
Lin Nuo sneered, turned his head to look at Ancient One, "Old nun, put away your stale savior thinking. In my dictionary, this is called asset restructuring. Since Thanos's fleet dares to come, they must be prepared to be fully accepted by my Star Umbrella."
He turned around and looked at the huge Sanctuary II on the holographic screen.
On the screen, Thanos was still standing in the center of the bridge.
He looked at the picture of the Black Order being wiped out on the big screen, and the coldness on his purple face with vertical lines was almost enough to freeze the air.
Ebony Maw stood on the side, not even daring to breathe heavily.
"Father..." Ebony Maw's voice trembled slightly.
Thanos ignored him.
He took heavy steps, walked to the weapon rack on the side of the bridge, and reached out to grasp the huge double-edged battle blade.
The sound of metal collision rang in the dead silent bridge, carrying a suffocating sense of oppression.
On the bridge of Sanctuary II, the Earth defense line data projected on the screen was like death notices at this moment.
"Father, our flank escort warships have all been damaged, and the red shield on the periphery of Earth has extremely strong high-dimensional assimilation attribute energy."
Ebony Maw bowed, his withered fingers operating rapidly on the console, "If we force an orbital bombardment, the reactor of Sanctuary II may suffer a backlash."
Thanos did not look at the jumping data; his indifferent eyes stared fixedly at Lin Nuo on the screen.
"That Earthling, the energy in his body is not a product of this Universe."
Thanos's voice was as dull as rolling thunder, "He took away the Space Stone and is trying to turn this Planet into his private property."
He slowly pulled the double-edged battle blade from the weapon rack, the snow-white blade reflecting a dazzling light under the cold light.
"I came for the balance of the Universe, and any obstacle that attempts to stop this process must be cleared."
Thanos turned around, his broad shoulders casting a huge shadow on the bridge.
"Have the Black Order ships adjust their landing trajectory and lock onto the coordinates of Kamar-Taj."
Chapter 252: The Overlord Descends, A Desperate Purple Shadow
The image on the holographic screen had not fully faded when a dull thud echoed above Kamar-Taj.
A dark purple beam of light, over a hundred meters in diameter, pierced the sky and Earth, crashing straight into the center of the bluestone plaza.
Fierce winds whipped up a sky full of stone debris and snow, forming an extremely violent cyclone.
The physical space around the beam showed visible refraction and distortion; the temperature in the air climbed sharply, and the surrounding oxygen was directly displaced by this high-dimensional energy.
Mordo, Wong, and the other sorcerers could not even stand.
In the split second the beam landed, their pride and joy, the Rings of Raggadorr, shattered one after another like cheap glass bubbles.
Dozens of sorcerers knelt on one knee in the ruins, hands gripping the stone cracks, their lungs convulsing violently, yet unable to inhale a single breath of air.
That extreme trembling, born from the instinct of life, stripped them of even the strength to lift their heads.
The Ancient One leaned on her wooden staff, attempting to withstand this devastating pressure.
But her already withered shell was long since exhausted by the backlash of the Vishanti laws.
Having held on for less than three breaths, the Sorcerer Supreme's knees made a crisp cracking sound as she crashed heavily onto the temple steps.
The old nun's cloudy eyes stared fixedly at the blinding beam, and her withered chest held only irreversible decay.
She could clearly see the situation within the beam.
On the left hand of that massive shadow was a dark gold gauntlet crafted from high-order alien metal.
Four Infinity Stones, swirling with the fundamental laws of the Universe, were embedded in the gauntlet's slots, emitting a dazzling radiance.
The purple of the Power Stone, the red of Reality Warping, the orange of the Soul Stone, and an unknown stone belonging to Thanos himself.
Four great powers capable of reshaping the laws of the Universe converged on one person, forming an airtight force field of laws.
No defensive measure on Earth could withstand this level of dimensional erasure.
Before these four stones, the magic books of the Vishantiwere not even worth a pile of waste paper.
"It's too late."
The Ancient One's raspy voice was filled with absolute despair, and the bitter taste of blood overflowed in her throat. "He has obtained four stones; the variables of the timeline have been completely locked."
Heavy metal combat boots stepped out of the beam, landing on the shattered bluestone.
Thanos was clad in full heavy armor; his dark purple face held no superfluous emotional fluctuations, only the extreme coldness settled after slaughtering thousands of galaxies.
He did not even look at the sorcerers collapsed all over the steps.
In his eyes, these so-called Guardians of Earth did not even qualify as obstacles; they were just a group of low-level life forms waiting to be liquidated.
Hela stood on the shoulder of that undead puppet, a slight stiffness appearing in the wrist holding the Night Sky Sword.
The instincts of the Asgard Goddess of Death were screaming warnings within her nervous system.
She could clearly perceive that the Power Stone on the opponent's left gauntlet contained terrifying kinetic energy capable of completely vaporizing the entire Asgard along with her.
That death sentence hanging over her head caused even her undead death energy to be greatly suppressed.
Jean Grey stepped half a step to the side, and dark red Phoenix Fire ignited around her without reservation.
This was the instinctive rebound when single-Universe-level energy encountered oppression of the same level of rules.
The high temperature melted a lava pit beneath Jean's feet; she looked up, her scarlet eyes locked on the purple giant who had walked out.
But Thanos only tilted his head slightly, his gaze lingering on that mass of Phoenix Fire for a very short time.
"A clump of manic, raw energy fragments. It has utility value, but the host is wrong."
Thanos gave an extremely indifferent evaluation.
Subsequently, he cast his gaze straight past Hela and Jean, past all living beings in the ruins of Kamar-Taj, and locked onto Lin Nuo standing at the edge of the crater with extreme precision.
Lin Nuo did not strike any battle stance as if facing a formidable enemy.
He leisurely raised his right hand and adjusted the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose.
Then, he lowered his head and used his slender fingertips to pat the non-existent dust on the shoulder of his black shirt.
Under the terrifying pressure of the four stacked Infinity Stones, this perfect body, reconstructed through extreme microscopic atomic reorganization of a Mutant and Hulk Gene modification, showed not the slightest sluggishness or retreat.
Level 3 Reality Warping authority was operating at full power in his sea of consciousness, supporting a physical isolation layer on Lin Nuo's body surface that the naked eye could not capture.
No matter how Thanos's aura pressed down, as long as it came within three feet of Lin Nuo, the physical constants would be forcibly rewritten by microscopic laws, sliding into nothingness.
"You brought four broken stones to crash my venue."
Lin Nuo strode with his long legs, his leather shoes making crisp echoes as they stepped on the shattered stones.
Facing the oppressive force of Thanos that could make galaxies tremble, he walked step by step until he stopped less than ten meters away from the other party.
With both hands tucked casually into his suit pockets, Lin Nuo looked up slightly at this cosmic overlord who was more than half a head taller than him.
In the ink-colored pupils behind the gold-rimmed glasses, there was no reverence for a god, only the extreme contempt a capitalist feels when seeing a robber.
"You certainly made a scene, but it's a pity your brain does not work very well. Do you really think that by putting a few stones together, you can set the rules on my turf?"
Lin Nuo's tone was righteous and confident, even carrying the arrogance of lecturing a junior.
Thanos looked down from above at this Earthling who did not know the meaning of death.
He had lived for thousands of years and had used his fleet to slaughter countless species that claimed to be advanced civilizations.
Those people, before him, would either kneel and beg for mercy or counterattack in despair.
Never had anyone dared to talk to him in such a tone, like lecturing a low-level employee, in front of the Infinity Gauntlet.
"You stole the Space Stone that belongs to the Universe, treating it as private property. You also tried to use those ridiculous metal weapons to block the inevitable direction of the Universe."
Thanos's voice was as low as thunder, and every syllable made the remaining buildings of Kamar-Taj tremble.
"You possess combat power far exceeding this backward galaxy, proving you have the qualification to survive. But you are severely lacking in reverence for great things."
Thanos slowly raised his left arm.
The Power Stone embedded at the base of his index finger erupted with an extremely blinding destructive purple light.
The surrounding gravitational field completely went out of control at this moment.
Large pieces of bluestone and collapsed load-bearing columns detached from the ground and floated into mid-air, then were directly ground into extremely fine powder by the violent energy.
Hela was forced to control her undead puppet to retreat by this aura.
Jean fully urged the Phoenix Fire, forming a thick wall of telekinetic fire in front of her, only then barely stabilizing her figure to avoid being thrown away.
Only Lin Nuo remained standing in place.
Not even the smallest arc of the hem of his black shirt changed.
Thanos looked at Lin Nuo, slowly clenched his left fist, and the light of the Power Stone illuminated most of the ruins with extreme oppression.
"Hand over the Space Stone."
Thanos delivered his final ultimatum, his tone filled with the majesty of judging everything. "Kneel and swear allegiance. I will let you live to see how the remaining life on this Planet gains a new life in my balance."
Lin Nuo looked at that gauntlet flashing with destructive purple light.
Far from retreating, he unexpectedly pulled out a wicked, suave-villain-exclusive arc.
He pulled out his right hand and tapped his knuckles in the void in an extremely provocative manner.
"Old eunuch, your understanding of power is so shallow it disgusts me."
Lin Nuo brushed off his cuffs.
"Holding a borrowed gauntlet, you think everything has to go your way?"
Chapter 253: Physical Collision, Hulk-level Savagery
Thanos's dark purple face was cold as frost.
He did not utter another unnecessary syllable, his left hand clenching tightly.
The Power Stone embedded at the base of his index finger erupted with a blinding purple light capable of destroying continental plates.
The violent energy pulse transformed into a destructive beam of light over several meters in diameter, tearing through all the air in its path and blasting straight toward Lin Nuo's chest.
Wherever the beam passed, physical space underwent extreme, twisted collapse.
The crimson in Jean's eyes leaped wildly.
The single-Universe-level Phoenix Fire condensed between her hands, attempting to forcibly construct a defensive matrix in front.
Lin Nuo did not need protection at all.
He raised his left hand, gripped Jean's shoulder with extreme dominance, and shoved her backward.
"Stay put."
Lin Nuo's voice was low.
He didn't even make any unnecessary evasive maneuvers; he simply raised his right hand and casually tore open the collar of his black shirt.
The expensive, high-end fabric shattered directly in the violent airflow, revealing his highly aggressive upper body lines.
There were no exaggerated or deformed muscle masses piled up.
That was a Hulk-level violent body purified by the forgiveness-green great love system.
It had shed the ugliness and loss of control brought by mutation, retaining only the purest foundation of destruction and the perfect muscle contours of the golden ratio.
The purple destructive beam crashed down.
The extreme heat and crushing force field completely submerged the location where Lin Nuo stood.
The bluestone slabs on the ruins of Kamar-Taj were plowed into a pitch-black trench over ten meters deep.
The violent Impact swept indiscriminately in all directions.
Mordo and dozens of other mages, even while lying flat on the ground, were still sent flying over ten meters away by this overflowing kinetic energy, slamming heavily into the ruined walls and vomiting large mouthfuls of blood.
The fingers Ancient One used to grip her staff trembled violently.
In her long years of guardianship, this pure destructive power from the Power Stone was enough to evaporate any carbon-based life form on the surface of Earth into nothingness within a millisecond.
Smoke and dust rose into the sky, obscuring all vision.
The entire scene fell into an extremely oppressive silence.
"Ignorant."
Thanos lowered his left hand, looking down at the scorched Earth still emitting pungent smoke, and delivered a verdict befitting a god.
Just as he prepared to turn and settle accounts with the remnants of Kamar-Taj.
A scalp-numbing sound of bones cracking echoed from deep within that purple ruin.
Extremely heavy.
Extremely savage.
The smoke and dust were ripped apart to both sides by a pair of rough, large hands.
Lin Nuo stepped onto the rubble that had been burned into magma and walked out with large strides.
The destructive energy of the Power Stone was still raging on his body surface.
Those purple electric arcs were crazily cutting into his skin tissue.
But under the full-power operation of the Mutant's ultimate micro-atomic reconstruction ability, any cells crushed by the high temperature completed adaptive reconstruction and evolution within an extremely tiny unit of time.
Violent blood energy emitted a dull thunderous sound within his body.
The Asgardian Divine Factor seeped out from deep within his blood vessels, condensing into a layer of dark golden materialized film on the surface of his skin.
Not only was he not vaporized, but he instead walked out against the residual power of the Power Stone, forcefully resisting that rule-breaking crushing force.
A chilling luster flowed over his perfectly smooth muscle lines.
"Is that all the strength you have?"
Lin Nuo grinned.
The gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose had long since melted in the high temperature; having completely shed his gentle disguise, the purest brutality of a Raiders shone in his eyes.
Before his voice had even faded.
Lin Nuo's legs suddenly exerted force.
Boom!
The ground within a radius of thirty meters collapsed downward in a terrifying manner.
His entire body was like a heavy railgun shell fired from a chamber, forcefully pushing aside the air pressure barrier in front, crossing a distance of tens of meters, and crashing directly into Thanos's absolute defense field.
Too fast.
That was an explosive power that completely defied the movement limits of carbon-based organisms.
In Thanos's eyes, which had remained calm for ten thousand years, an unprecedented look of extreme astonishment appeared.
He had lived for so long and slaughtered countless alien races known for their tough bodies, yet he had never seen an existence capable of withstanding a direct hit from the Power Stone with physical body alone without dying.
But he was, after all, a Universe overlord who traversed the sea of stars.
Combat instinct allowed him to react within 0.1 seconds.
His right fist clenched fiercely, carrying the momentum of a thousand jun, and smashed down hard toward the charging Lin Nuo.
Two disproportionate fists collided in mid-air without any fancy tricks.
There was no magical effect enhancement.
Only the most primitive, most brutal physical crushing.
Bang!
An extremely dull sonic boom exploded at the point where their fists met.
A visible circle of white high-pressure airwaves swept wildly in all directions, cutting the remaining huge load-bearing pillars of the Kamar-Taj main hall in half, causing the huge beams to crash down.
Crack.
A crisp sound of metal breaking rang out.
The layer of dark golden alien armor on the back of Thanos's hand, which was strong enough to withstand the bombardment of starship main cannons, was actually forced to develop several fine cracks.
That completely unreasonable counter-shock force traveled up Thanos's arm directly to his shoulder.
His massive purple body slid backward half a step uncontrollably.
The rock beneath his feet was plowed into two deep grooves by his combat boots.
Lin Nuo didn't give him any chance to regain his balance.
Extremely skillfully, he used the recoil to make an incredibly vicious twist in mid-air.
The endless rage brought by the Hulk Gene was perfectly suppressed on his fist.
His left leg, like a mountain-splitting battle-axe, carried a shrill scream that tore through the air as it smashed hard into the side of Thanos's ribs.
A dull Impact sound rang out again.
The armor on Thanos's waist dented inward directly.
This tyrant who had swept across half the Universe let out a suppressed grunt.
Lin Nuo landed smoothly, his right leg arched forward, his waist and core exploding with kinetic energy like nuclear fusion.
His right fist clenched again, with the Asgardian Divine Factor and micro-reconstruction power all superimposed onto this punch.
A simple, unadorned uppercut smashed heavily onto Thanos's broad jawbone.
The terrifying power, enough to overturn an aircraft carrier, exploded completely at point-blank range.
Thanos's dark purple face was knocked violently to one side.
A wisp of purple blood overflowed from his thick lips, dripping onto the broken bluestone slabs, making a harsh, corrosive sound.
His massive, mountain-like body could no longer maintain its balance.
Thanos retreated three full steps backward in succession.
With every step back, the entire mountain of Kamar-Tajtrembled violently.
The whole scene was dead silent.
Ancient One widened her turbid eyes, her breathing completely stopped at this moment.
The magical artifact in Wong's hand clattered to the ground.
The cognitive World of all the mystic mages was directly shattered in a physical sense at this moment.
That Thanos who brought absolute destruction in the prophecies had been beaten back in a direct hand-to-hand fight by a human who relied purely on physical strength.
What is this?
Since when had carbon-based life on Earth evolved to the point of being able to tear apart a Universe overlord by hand?
Hela stood on the shoulder of an undead puppet, her hand holding the Night Sky Sword trembling slightly.
That was extreme excitement originating from the depths of her soul.
She watched the muscular man ahead, whose body exuded an aura even more terrifying than the God of Death, and the sense of submission in her heart was completely filled at this moment.
Jean stood in the back.
The dark red Phoenix Fire circled around her extremely obediently.
She looked at Lin Nuo's bare upper body; there was no fear in her scarlet eyes, only a pathological obsession that was almost overflowing.
This was the anchor point she had chosen.
A god who could smash all laws with his fists.
Lin Nuo stood steadily in the center of the ruins.
He shook his right wrist, his knuckles emitting an extremely crisp friction sound.
His rough fingertips wiped away a trace of blood that had oozed from the corner of his mouth due to the counter-shock force, and he flicked it onto the ground indifferently.
"I told you earlier."
Lin Nuo lifted his head, his pitch-black eyes staring directly at Thanos over ten meters away, "Your understanding of power is too shallow."
Thanos stopped his retreating steps.
He raised his left arm wearing the Infinity Gauntlet, his dark golden backhand wiping away the bloodstains on his jaw very slowly.
In those bottomless eyes, the arrogance and contempt belonging to a superior were gone.
Replacing them was that extreme coldness and killing intent that had settled over countless years of traversing the sea of stars.
He finally realized that the human before him could not be defined by conventional life forms.
Within that shell, too many strange energies that defied physical common sense were stitched together.
"Pure physical defense and reconstruction."
Thanos's voice became even deeper, every word carrying a pressure capable of crushing the air.
He slowly raised his left hand high.
The gem matrix embedded in the gauntlet began to operate at full power.
Except for the Power Stone representing pure destruction, the other two dormant stones lit up with extremely blinding radiance at the same time.
The scarlet Reality Stone, the deep blue Space Stone.
The spatial dimensions around the ruins of Kamar-Tajbegan to show geometric fragmentation, and the stones on the ground were directly rewritten into crows flapping their wings within a very short time of touching the red light.
The power of rules was crazily rewriting the underlying logic of this area.
"Physical laws protected this strange shell of yours."
Thanos stared directly at Lin Nuo, his dark golden gauntlet clenching fiercely.
"But rules are not within physics."
Chapter 254: Rule Collisions, the Edge of Reality Warping
Thanos raised his left arm, clad in dark gold armor.
The scarlet stone embedded in the gauntlet erupted with a blinding red light that engulfed everything.
This light lacked the destructive kinetic energy of the Power Stone.
It radiated outward silently, like some irresistible virus, penetrating directly into the underlying physical space of Kamar-Taj.
Wherever the red light swept, the inherent form of matter was violently stripped away.
The massive load-bearing pillars of the collapsed grand hall twisted and deformed in mid-air, their hard wooden textures turning into soft, dark red tentacles.
The shattered bluestone tiles on the ground churned like a boiling swamp, then disintegrated into tens of thousands of black-feathered crows flapping their wings.
Those crows let out shrill cries, circling around Thanos's mountain-like physique.
Ancient One sat slumped on the steps, her withered fingers gripping her staff tightly.
She watched helplessly as the Vishanti magic arrays melted into puddles of foul-smelling green slime in the red light.
This was the absolute authority of the Reality Stone.
Turning the illusory into reality, rewriting indestructible matter into fragile dust.
Thanos's cold eyes were locked onto Lin Nuo, a dozen meters away.
He slowly and firmly clenched the five fingers of his left hand toward Lin Nuo.
The scarlet halo descended like a massive, all-encompassing net.
He intended to rewrite this Earthling, with his bizarre physical defenses, from his genetic chain down to his cellular structure, completely into a pile of harmless soap bubbles.
Once the physical form was altered, even the most violent energy would be rendered void.
Hela stood on the shoulder of an undead puppet, her dark green death energy retreating steadily under the approach of the red light.
Her pride, the Death Divinity, appeared extremely flimsy in the face of this reality-rewriting rule.
Jean Grey took a step forward.
Dark red Phoenix Fire compressed madly between her hands.
She attempted to use single-Universe-level energy to burn through this rewritten reality zone.
A rough, large hand pressed onto Jean's shoulder.
Lin Nuo forcibly pulled her back behind him.
He was shirtless, his perfectly smooth muscle lines exuding an aggressive sense of oppression under the reflection of the scarlet light.
No evasion.
No defensive stance.
Lin Nuo didn't even lift his eyelids, facing that reality-modifying light capable of erasing everything, completely unguarded.
In the split second the red light touched Lin Nuo's skin, the anticipated scene of his body collapsing and turning into bubbles simply didn't happen.
Deep within Lin Nuo's sea of consciousness, that crystal-clear Level 3 Reality Warping authority crystal operated at full power.
This was a high-dimensional law he had obtained through a critical hit after intercepting Raven from a Mutant parallel Universe.
It did not belong to the underlying logic of this current Universe at all, and naturally, it was not subject to the absolute jurisdiction of this Reality Stone.
The Reality Warping law belonging to the Master of the Star Umbrella forcibly intervened in the collision of rules in this area in an extremely domineering and unreasonable manner.
There was no earth-shattering energy explosion, only the teeth-gritting sound of rules rubbing against each other.
The scarlet Reality Stone energy was like crashing into an invisible Wall of Sighs.
Two completely different modification laws collided violently and tore at each other in the air, three feet in front of Lin Nuo.
The physical space could not withstand this level of underlying logical conflict.
The air was forcibly torn into countless pitch-black cracks.
At the edges of those cracks, eerie electric arcs intertwined with deep blue and scarlet flashed, swallowing all surrounding light.
The extreme coldness in Thanos's eyes finally showed a crack that could not be concealed.
He looked at the Reality Stone glowing brightly on his gauntlet, then looked at Lin Nuo, who stood unscathed behind the cracks.
The rules of the Reality Stone had actually been forcibly blocked.
And the opponent hadn't used any power from the Infinity Stones; he had simply wiped out the reality-rewriting command on the spot, relying solely on an invisible authority surging within his own body.
"What exactly are you?"
Thanos's voice carried a hint of rare gravity.
Lin Nuo had one hand in his trousers pocket.
He strode forward, his leather shoes stepping on the black-feathered crows crawling all over the floor, walking straight through those pitch-black spatial cracks.
Violent energy and divine factors flowed over his skin, crushing all the residual waves of the rules that attempted to approach.
"Old bastard."
Lin Nuo stopped less than five meters in front of Thanosand tilted his head slightly.
His ink-colored pupils revealed the extreme mockery of a capitalist looking at a bankrupt bumpkin.
"Holding a Universe-level source stone, and you only know how to perform such low-level tricks?"
Lin Nuo curled his lips into an extremely malicious arc.
"Turning stones into crows, turning me into bubbles. Your understanding of rules is just like a primitive man who just learned how to use fire."
Lin Nuo raised his right hand, his slender fingers tapping the void twice, extremely casually.
"Let me teach you what true Reality Warping is."
In the split second after his words fell, the Reality Warpingauthority within Lin Nuo bypassed Thanos's defensive force field and locked onto the area beneath Thanos's feet extremely violently.
There was no guidance from any energy beam.
Lin Nuo pressed his hand downward.
The gravitational constant in the area beneath Thanos's feet was forcibly rewritten at the underlying logic level.
One hundred thousand times gravity.
The bluestone plaza of Kamar-Taj didn't even have time to make a cracking sound before it turned into fine powder under the extreme pressure.
The ground within a ten-meter radius collapsed with a roar, forming a bottomless rule-based void.
Thanos's mountain-like physique sank abruptly.
He couldn't make any reaction in time; one hundred thousand times gravity acted directly on every inch of his bones, every muscle, and even his internal organs.
The dark gold heavy battle armor emitted an extremely piercing sound of metal twisting.
Large sections of armor plating buckled inward, with fine sparks bursting from the edges.
This tyrant who had swept across half the Universe saw his knees buckle downward uncontrollably.
He gritted his teeth tightly, the veins on his thick neck bulging.
The Power Stone on his left gauntlet flickered wildly, attempting to use extreme physical destructive power to offset this pressure.
But it was meaningless.
Gravity was not a physical attack applied from the outside; the physical constants of this space had been completely rewritten by Lin Nuo.
Standing here, he had to bear one hundred thousand times his own weight.
Thanos's body was pressed toward the ground inch by inch.
Those eyes of his, which had once looked down upon countless galaxies, could now only stare fixedly at Lin Nuo's spotless leather shoes.
The sounds of bones cracking under the unbearable load echoed continuously in the collapsed pit.
Purple blood poured out of his nose and the corners of his mouth, dripping onto the shattered rock layer.
Hela watched this scene, a morbid flush rising on her pale face.
That arrogant Universe overlord was having his noble head forcibly pressed down by the man she served, using the purest power of rules.
The Phoenix Fire at Jean's fingertips gradually subsided.
She looked obsessively at Lin Nuo's straight back; the thrill of being conquered by absolute power surged up her spine and straight into her brain.
Lin Nuo walked to the edge of the pit, looking down from above at Thanos, who was still struggling desperately.
"Kneel."
"In my private forbidden zone, you don't even have the qualification to stand and breathe."
Thanos braced his hands tightly on the ground.
The bracers of his battle armor had completely shattered, revealing the thick purple muscles beneath.
His knees were less than three inches from the ground.
Extreme humiliation and anger burned madly in his chest.
He raised his head; his face, covered with vertical lines, was extremely congested due to the heavy pressure, looking hideous and terrifying.
Physical heavy blows couldn't kill the opponent.
Reality rewriting was forcibly wiped out by the opponent.
In front of this bizarre Earthling, the power and laws he was so proud of were being torn apart layer by layer, brutally.
The dark gold gauntlet on Thanos's left hand turned with difficulty under the heavy pressure.
The light of the scarlet Reality Stone and the purple Power Stone gradually converged.
Replacing them was the gem embedded on the back of the gauntlet, emitting an eerie orange light.
The wailing of souls faintly echoed over Kamar-Taj.
Thanos stared at Lin Nuo, purple blood dripping down his chin.
"Your vessel and rules are indeed impeccable."
Thanos's voice was like that of a demon crawling out from the depths of hell, filled with the ruthlessness of mutual destruction.
"But your soul, are you sure you can withstand it?"
Chapter 255: Soul Shock, Protection of Phoenix Fire
The gem on Thanos's left hand, radiating an eerie orange light, shone to the extreme at this moment.
A circle of orange ripples, impossible for the naked eye to capture, spread silently in all directions with Thanos as the center.
That was a rule erasure acting directly upon the origin of life.
The air above the ruins of Kamar-Taj did not even produce the slightest change in airflow.
Those stones that had been turned into black-feathered crows by the Reality Stone, within a very short time of touching the orange ripples, could not even emit a scream before directly turning into pools of deathly ashes.
The false souls bestowed upon them were forcibly extracted by this power.
Ancient One slumped on the steps.
This Sorcerer Supreme, who once relied on absorbing power from the Dark Dimension to extend her life, had a perception of souls that far exceeded ordinary people.
She could clearly see that the orange ripple was laden with the grievances of tens of billions of dead souls.
That was the sin accumulated by Thanos from slaughtering half of the Universe.
Now, these sins were integrated by the Soul Stone, turning into an invisible dagger, stabbing directly into Lin Nuo's mental sea.
Hela controlled the massive Black Dwarf undead puppet to retreat wildly.
The authority of the Asgard Goddess of Death was greatly suppressed in front of the Soul Stone.
She controlled the shells of the dead, while the opponent deprived the origin of the living.
"Officer!"
Hela issued an extremely sharp warning.
Lin Nuo stood on the edge of the collapsed pit.
His ink-colored pupils reflected the increasingly close orange halo.
The Hulk-level violent physical body could not block this non-material infiltration.
The Reality Warping power could change physical constants, but could not interfere with the pure mental dimension.
Lin Nuo stood in place.
Deep in his consciousness sea, the underlying defense mechanism of the forgiveness-green great love systemhad already been quietly activated.
As long as that orange ripple dared to cross the line, the system's high-dimensional barrier, which far exceeded the single-Universe level, would crush it directly.
But he didn't need to use this trump card at all.
Just at the moment when that deadly soul spike was about to touch the center of Lin Nuo's eyebrows.
An extremely shrill scream, filled with endless violence, exploded over the sky of Kamar-Taj.
Jean Grey moved.
The red-haired woman's eyes were completely swallowed by scarlet Fire.
Looking at Thanos's actions, the fury of having her territory violated so rudely directly ignited the single-Universe level Phoenix core power within her.
Lin Nuo was her anchor.
He was the only private possession in this World that she could cling to, and the only one who could bear all her madness.
Whoever dared to touch her anchor had to die.
Even if the opponent was a god holding the origin of the Universe.
Jean didn't care at all about the soul ripple sweeping toward her.
She thrust her hands forward abruptly.
The dark red Phoenix Fire directly crossed the limitations of physical space.
It went through no energy conduction.
This Fire, capable of burning through dimensions, materialized extremely arrogantly around Lin Nuo's mental sea.
A dark red wall of Fire, composed of pure destruction rules, blocked the front of that orange soul ripple.
Boom!
A terrifying tsunami that only high-level life forms could perceive erupted in the mental dimension.
The orange soul ripple slammed fiercely against the Phoenix Fire wall.
Two completely different high-dimensional forces began an extremely tragic mutual tearing.
Extreme madness shone in Thanos's bloodshot eyes.
He poured all the remaining vitality in his body frantically into the Soul Stone, attempting to forcibly break through this line of defense.
The orange light flared.
The Soul Stone's rules attempted to analyze and strip away that dark red Fire.
But this was completely futile.
The Phoenix Force was not conventional magic energy; it was the most primitive origin of destruction and rebirth at the beginning of the Universe's birth.
It had no soul that could be stripped away; it was itself the ultimate entity that burned all rules.
"Burn him to death."
Jean let out an extremely morbid murmur.
The dark red wall of Fire expanded outward abruptly.
The Phoenix Fire began an extremely unreasonable reverse invasion along that orange soul ripple.
The Fire ignited the ripple.
Those tens of billions of grievances of dead souls, within a very short time of contacting the Phoenix Fire, were burned into extremely pure nothingness.
The tongues of Fire followed the connection of rules, crossed a distance of more than ten meters, and directly rolled back to Thanos's left hand.
Sizzle.
An extremely harsh sound of energy burning rang out in the deep pit.
The Soul Stone on the back of Thanos's left hand let out an unbearable wail.
That originally brilliant orange light, under the licking of the dark red Fire, dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The energy circuit inside the gem was forcibly burned off.
"Argh!"
This tyrant who had swept across half the Universe finally let out an extremely shrill scream.
The Soul Stone was damaged, and the backlash descended directly onto his mental origin.
That pain was tens of millions of times more cruel than having the body torn apart.
Thanos only felt as if his consciousness sea had been poured into a whole furnace of scalding magma.
Those grand memories of conquest and balance in his mind began to collapse in large swathes under the extreme high temperature.
One hundred thousand times the physical gravity was still continuously crushing.
The backlash at the soul level became the last straw that broke the camel's back.
Crack.
The bones of Thanos's arms could no longer support him.
That body, as massive as a mountain, slammed heavily onto the rock layer of the deep pit.
The dark gold heavy battle armor shattered completely.
Purple blood poured frantically from his seven orifices.
His once arrogant eyes were now unfocused, without a trace of focus.
He lay on the ground, vomiting mouthfuls of black blood mixed with fragments of internal organs.
Four Infinity Stones.
Four kinds of Universe origin laws.
In front of this weird Earthling and that red-haired witch, they became a complete joke.
The ruins of Kamar-Taj fell into a dead silence.
Mordo lay in the pile of rubble, forgetting even to breathe.
He looked at that Universe hegemon, who was pressed to the bottom of the pit and twitching like a dead dog, his mind blank.
This was Thanos.
This was the God of Death who had descended with a fleet of destruction.
Just crushed like this?
Without even a chance to fight back?
The dark red Phoenix Fire gradually converged in mid-air.
Jean Grey withdrew her hands.
Her red hair calmed down slowly in the cold wind.
The scarlet in her eyes faded, returning to their original clarity.
Stepping on the ashes all over the ground, she walked quickly to Lin Nuo's side.
There was no restraint of any superhero.
She stretched out her arms extremely naturally, wrapping them around Lin Nuo's lean and strong waist.
Her cheek pressed against the man's chest, which was filled with dark gold holy factors.
"He wanted to touch you."
Jean looked up, her red lips pulling into an extremely dangerous arc, but her tone was like a little girl waiting for praise, "I burned a piece of his soul away. That stone is already ruined."
Lin Nuo lowered his head.
He looked at the woman in his arms who had just blocked a fatal blow with single-Universe level power.
His rough fingertips pinched Jean's fair chin, and Lin Nuoapplied a little force, forcing her to look up at him.
"Well done."
Lin Nuo's voice was low, revealing the extreme satisfaction of a capitalist inspecting a perfect product.
He didn't need to explain that he originally had the ability to block this blow.
What he wanted was this unreserved protection of the master and obedience.
Hela stood on the distant undead puppet, watching this scene, her pale face filled with extreme unwillingness.
Her death laws, which she was proud of, had no use in the previous confrontation.
That red-haired woman had once again proven her irreplaceable value in front of Lin Nuo.
Lin Nuo released his hand pinching Jean's chin.
He patted Jean on the back and pushed her half a step away.
"Go stay to the side."
Lin Nuo gave the order.
Jean nodded extremely obediently and retreated to a position three steps away from Lin Nuo.
Lin Nuo turned around.
He was shirtless, and his perfectly smooth muscle lines revealed an extremely oppressive silhouette under the cold light.
He took long strides, following the edge of the collapse, walking down into the deep pit step by step.
His leather shoes stepped on the shattered rock layer, making an extremely crisp echo.
With every step he took, the one hundred thousand times gravity in the deep pit would automatically push aside to both sides, clearing an unobstructed path for him.
Thanos lay at the bottom of the pit.
He heard the approaching footsteps.
This Universe hegemon lifted his head with extreme difficulty.
His purple face was covered in blood, and the dark gold gauntlet on his left hand was severely deformed.
The light of the Power, Reality, and Soul Stones was extremely faint, with only the unknown gem still radiating eerie fluctuations.
He looked at Lin Nuo who had walked up to him.
In those unfocused eyes, a kind of emotion called fear finally emerged.
Physical defense could not be broken.
Reality Warping was crushed.
Even the trump card attacking the soul directly was casually burned through by the woman beside the opponent.
This omnidirectional dimensionality-reduction strike completely shattered the invincible belief that Thanos had held for tens of millions of years.
Lin Nuo stopped in front of Thanos.
He looked down from a high position at this tyrant who had once made the entire Universe tremble.
There was no mercy of a victor in his ink-colored pupils, only the extreme coldness of looking at a bankruptcy liquidation target.
Lin Nuo slowly squatted down.
His rough, large hand grabbed the neck edge of Thanos's battle armor extremely arrogantly, forcibly pulling up that heavy purple head.
"Old wretch."
Lin Nuo stared at those bloodshot eyes, his tone so steady it made people's hair stand on end.
"Your tricks are done."
Lin Nuo slowly curled the five fingers of his right hand.
The Hulk-level violent blood energy emitted a dull thunder on his knuckles.
"Now, I am going to peel off this purple skin of yours, along with your bones."
Chapter 256: Desperate Counterattack, the Warlord's Final Madness
Lin Nuo gripped Thanos's dark purple neck with his right hand, his five fingers suddenly tightening.
Without any unnecessary buildup, the Mutant's ultimate microscopic atomic restructuring ability flowed through his fingertips, cutting directly into the depths of the cosmic warlord's flesh.
The sound of bones cracking under the immense pressure was deafening within the deep pit.
Lin Nuo's knuckles dug directly beneath Thanos's thick collarbone, forcibly severing the energy circuits throughout his body.
He twisted his wrist and gave a violent tug outward.
Large chunks of purple flesh, along with fragments of dark gold armor, were brutally stripped away.
Scalding blood gushed out, splashing onto the absolute physical isolation layer on Lin Nuo's body made of Asgardian Divine Factor, emitting a harsh corrosive sound before being completely evaporated into a void of red mist.
Thanos let out a deeply suppressed grunt, and large mouthfuls of black blood mixed with organ fragments spilled from his thick throat.
Lin Nuo did not give him any chance to breathe.
He grabbed Thanos's remaining chest armor with his left hand, and Hulk-level violent power exploded from his core.
He clenched his right fist, and Asgardian Divine Factorcondensed into a tangible dark gold halo on his knuckles, slamming down heavily toward Thanos's vertically-lined face.
A dull sonic boom exploded where the fist met flesh.
Thanos's right cheekbone shattered instantly, and his massive body was knocked backward by this unreasonable kinetic energy.
Lin Nuo pressed his advantage, driving his knee hard into Thanos's chest.
A crisp sound of sternum fracture echoed out.
Thanos's body, capable of withstanding the main guns of a starship, was as fragile as a cheap plastic toy under Lin Nuo's physical crushing.
He vomited blood in large mouthfuls, his once arrogant aura completely crushed.
At the edge of the pit, Hela watched this scene, the bloodlust in her eyes shining to the extreme.
The Asgardian Goddess of Death would never allow herself to be useless in this hunt.
She gripped the Night Sky Sword with both hands and thrust the blade heavily into the rock beneath her feet.
Dark green death divine power spread wildly along the Earth's veins.
Thick, sharp bone spurs broke through the soil all around the pit.
The surface of those bone spurs was covered in extreme corrosive death energy, turning any rock they touched directly into black water.
The bone spurs intertwined and closed, forming an airtight death dungeon in a very short time, completely sealing off any physical or energy escape routes from this space.
"Officer."
Hela stood above the bone dungeon, looking down at the bottom of the pit, her tone filled with a fawning desire to demonstrate her worth.
"Even if he initiates a space jump, this broken body won't be leaving my territory in one piece. I will smash his bones inch by inch and turn them into a stepping stone for your throne."
Lin Nuo didn't even lift his eyelids.
He shook the purple blood from his right hand, his gaze locked firmly on Thanos.
Jean Grey stood not far away, dark red Phoenix Firedancing obediently at her fingertips.
Watching Lin Nuo, shirtless and radiating a violent aura, her scarlet eyes were filled with a morbid obsession.
She didn't need to intervene at all; she only needed to quietly admire how her anchor tore this ignorant alien invader to shreds.
On the outskirts of the ruins, Mordo and dozens of other sorcerers lay in the rubble, their basic breathing rhythms completely disrupted.
They watched Thanos, who in prophecy brought absolute destruction, being unilaterally torn apart at the bottom of the pit by an Earthling.
Ancient One slumped on the steps, her cloudy eyes fixed on the deep pit.
The universal balance she had spent her life maintaining seemed utterly laughable in the face of this refined scoundrel's violence.
Thanos lay at the bottom of the pit, his only remaining left eye covered in blood.
He gasped heavily, each breath bringing up bloody foam from his ruptured lungs.
But he did not beg for mercy.
There was no fear of death in that single eye; instead, it revealed a skin-crawling, extreme fanaticism.
"Earthling."
Thanos's broken lips parted, his voice as hoarse as rusted gears grinding, "You possess a body that defies logic. You have proven your strength in the most savage way. But you do not understand the weight of the Universe at all."
Lin Nuo sneered, his leather shoe stepping directly onto Thanos's collapsed chest, forcibly suppressing his attempt to rise.
"Old bastard, stop trying to disgust me with your grand narrative."
Lin Nuo looked down at him, his ink-black eyes filled with the coldness of a capitalist, "I only understand one thing. Whoever dares to reach into my plate, I will take their bones apart to make soup. Save your balance and tell it to the ghosts in hell."
Lin Nuo formed his right hand into a blade.
The power of ultimate microscopic atomic restructuring reinforced his palm into a high-dimensional blade capable of cutting through any material.
He aimed directly at Thanos's heart, ready to end this farce once and for all.
"Do you think I brought the Black Order out in full force just to show off my brute strength on the front lines?"
Thanos suddenly laughed, the laughter pulling at his broken ribs and causing him to cough up even more blood.
At the very instant Lin Nuo's hand-blade was about to pierce Thanos's chest.
Thanos's battered right hand reached abruptly toward an intact hidden compartment at his waist.
Two blinding rays of light erupted from his palm.
A stone emitting a faint green glow.
A crystal flickering with pure yellow light.
Time Stone.
Mind Stone.
Two completely different universal fundamental laws surged violently in the deep pit, forcing the physical isolation layer on Lin Nuo's body to cave inward.
The moment Ancient One saw that green stone, her withered body trembled violently, and a large mouthful of blood sprayed from her throat.
"eye of agamotto!"
Ancient One's voice was filled with utter despair and disbelief. She gripped her staff tightly, trying to stand up, but her legs had no strength, "The defense array of the New York Sanctum... When did he..."
Thanos grinned with his broken mouth, revealing blood-stained teeth, his single eye staring fixedly at Lin Nuo.
"You built Earth into an iron fortress. Your fleet and drones did indeed block my frontal assault."
Thanos's voice was filled with the paranoia of a successful plot, "But you were too arrogant. During those ten minutes when Ebony Maw took over your global communication frequency, my assassination squad used the signal cover to infiltrate the New York Sanctum. Those sorcerers were fragile and vulnerable before my elite troops."
He held up the two stones, the intertwined yellow and green light illuminating his blood-stained face, making him look extremely ferocious.
"As for that Mind Stone."
Thanos continued, "The ruins of Sokovia are not only accessible to people from your Star Umbrella. You put all your attention on Kamar-Taj, on the front lines. You won the battle, but lost the war."
Lin Nuo stopped his movement.
He was neither furious nor panicked.
His ink-black eyes narrowed slightly, staring at the two stones in Thanos's hand.
"Luring the tiger away from the mountain?"
Lin Nuo pulled his lips into an extremely malicious curve, "Old thing, you certainly know how to exploit loopholes."
"This is destiny!"
Thanos clutched the two stones tightly in his palm, his broken body erupting with a final burst of vitality.
He used the last ounce of his strength to slam his right hand hard onto the severely deformed Infinity Gauntlet on his left hand.
The sockets on the Infinity Gauntlet emitted an extremely greedy energy suction.
The laws of Time and Mind instantly filled in the last two pieces of the puzzle.
Six Infinity Stones.
The ultimate rules of the Universe were finally complete at this moment.
A terrifying energy storm that surpassed the limits of the individual Universe exploded from Thanos as the center.
Lin Nuo's impregnable physical defense layer made a cracking sound of being overwhelmed for the first time in the face of these absolute rules.
The death dungeon around the pit turned into powder the moment it touched the storm.
Hela was blown backward, slamming heavily onto the broken bluestone slab.
Thanos stood up slowly in the energy storm, the six-colored light stitching his broken body back together, his fractured bones and torn flesh instantly restored under the influence of the Time law.
Lin Nuo was pushed back half a step by the energy storm, his leather shoes plowing two shallow pits into the rock layer.
He steadied himself, raised his hand, and casually brushed the stone dust from his trousers.
Facing the cosmic warlord who had gathered all six stones, Lin Nuo showed no fear at all.
He touched the corner of his eye, his ink-black eyes filled with extreme disdain, as if looking at a nouveau riche.
"You gathered six broken stones and think you're something now?"
Lin Nuo looked straight at the radiant Thanos, his tone righteous, "Old bastard, you have no idea; the things in your hand are nothing more than asset restructuring projects that are worth a little money in my eyes."
Thanos did not get angry.
Feeling the mighty power within him capable of erasing half the Universe, he slowly opened the five fingers of his left hand, aiming at Lin Nuo.
"Then use your life to set the price for this restructuring project."