Chapter 521: A Clash of Two Supreme Law Powers
In an instant, the pupils of all the Kang Variants contracted sharply, and their bodies tensed collectively.
They uniformly looked at the sudden, unfamiliar intruder, monstrous waves surging in their hearts.
They guarded the spacetime sanctuary and controlled the region-wide spacetime monitoring network.
Theoretically, no person or life form could quietly break into the council hall.
Yet the person before them completely detached from all spacetime detection systems, appearing here as if out of thin air.
"Foreign variable? You actually dare to actively break into the Kang Sanctuary?"
The orthodox Kang Variant clad in classic blue battle armor rebuked sternly, time fluctuations instantly surging around his body.
"A mere Earth native, daring to step alone into the spacetime nexus, you are simply seeking your own death!"
The Ramtuthan Kang dressed as an ancient Egypt pharaoh held the spacetime scepter, the top of the scepter circulating with divine time light.
With a gloomy gaze, he said, "Did you slay the Scarlet Centurion? Did you shield all spacetime signals?"
The adolescent-form Iron Lad clenched the fists of his battle armor, young yet sharp spacetime energy surging around his body.
His figure flashed instantly, preparing for a sneak attack.
Various Kang Variants simultaneously locked onto Loren, hundreds of spacetime coercions gathering together.
Layer upon layer rolled over, enough to instantly crush an ordinary Universe.
If it were the Scarlet Centurion here, facing such an encirclement offensive, he would also instantly fall into a disadvantage.
Yet Loren stood rooted in place, unmoving, an invisible spatial barrier automatically unfolding around his body.
The moment all the incoming spacetime coercions touched the barrier, they were all silently swallowed up, without stirring up the slightest ripple.
"No need to guess." Loren raised his eyes, his gaze looking straight at Kang the Conqueror above the throne, his voice light yet echoing through the entire hall.
"I killed the Scarlet Centurion, and all the pursuers you sent to Earth have been completely wiped out.
Today I came here, not to passively meet the battle, but to actively end your Kang Dynasty."
Arrogance, extreme arrogance.
Entering the council hall of over a hundred spacetime conquerors alone, he threatened to destroy the entire Kang Dynasty.
The next second, all the Kang Variants in the audience flew into a rage, simultaneously activating their spacetime abilities.
Region-wide time freezing, parallel spacetime pincer attacks, spacetime blade rain, past wound retracing, future disaster pre-judgment, spatial rift banishment...
Various dazzling and diverse spacetime law attacks swept over simultaneously, covering every inch of space in the hall.
Attempting to seal off all of Loren's dodging, defense, and escape routes.
In the eyes of this group of Kang Variants, Loren was already a corpse.
"A bunch of ants, yet you dare to falsely claim to be masters of spacetime."
Loren gave a soft cold snort, no longer holding back, and raised both hands simultaneously.
On one side was absolute space confinement, and on the other was spatial rift annihilation, dual primordial spatial powers erupting simultaneously.
Others manipulating spacetime needed to follow timeline rules, consume spacetime energy, and have move pre-animations and cooldowns;
But Loren's strength surpassed the laws of time!
Time could be frozen, could be retraced, could be split, but his strength had already transcended outside of time.
In an instant, all the flowing rivers of time within the hall were forcibly fixed.
All the released spacetime attacks were completely frozen in mid-air, unable to move.
Over a hundred Kang Variants maintained their spell-casting postures, their bodies along with the time force fields they controlled.
Were all locked dead by the spatial confinement, unable to move even a single finger.
The encirclement offensive that was just so mighty completely collapsed in an instant.
"How is it possible... My power of time has been completely confined!"
"The spatial law suppressed the law of time? This violates the basic rules of spacetime coexistence!"
"Lift the confinement! Quickly lift the confinement!"
The crowd of Kang Variants panicked and roared, trying their best to urge the spacetime cores within their bodies, wanting to break free from the shackles.
Yet the spatial cage created by Loren firmly locked all their power, and the more they struggled, the tighter the confinement power tightened.
Above the throne, Kang the Conqueror finally stood up, the dead-silent spacetime flowing light in the depths of his eyes churning violently, revealing obvious anger for the first time.
"Primordial spatial power, no wonder you could erase all traces of the Scarlet Centurion.
No wonder you can ignore all spacetime retracing, you indeed possess the qualifications to challenge me."
He controlled the region-wide timeline, while Lorenwielded the spatial origin, the two inherently being two major supreme laws complementing each other in the Multiverse.
Loren ignored Kang the Conqueror on the throne, his gaze sweeping over the immobile crowd of Kang Variantsbelow, his eyes without the slightest ripple.
"You cross parallel Universes all year round, wantonly interfering with the timelines of all living beings.
Wantonly obliterating civilizations and slaughtering living creatures, your sins are already monstrous."
As his words fell, Loren closed his five fingers.
Snap——
Crisp shattering sounds rose one after another.
The over a hundred Kang Variants confined by space, their bodies together with the spacetime cores in their bodies, and their own bound exclusive timelines.
Were completely crushed and shattered together by the spatial power!
No screams, no struggles, too late to leave any last words!
The Kang Variant legion of the entire council hall was unilaterally slaughtered by Loren in a short span of three seconds.
All-sky spacetime fragments scattered across the hall, and the originally magnificent and noisy council hall instantly became dead silent.
Only Kang the Conqueror above the throne and Lorenstanding in the center of the hall remained confronting each other.
The hundreds of Kang Variants were completely wiped out, the Council of Kangs was completely destroyed, and the command system of the Kang Dynasty directly and completely collapsed.
Extreme fury finally swept through Kang the Conqueror's mind and soul, emotions that had not violently fluctuated for tens of thousands of years completely losing control at this moment.
Spacetime divine light intertwined with scarlet and silver erupted from his body, shooting straight to the dome of the hall.
Thousands of rivers of time rolled violently, and the entire spacetime sanctuary was shaking violently.
"You are courting death!"
A roar resounded through the entire Quantum Realm, and countless parallel Universes could hear this furious roar originating from the spacetime origin.
Kang the Conqueror leaped down from the supreme throne, the battle armor around his body completely unfolding.
Without any reservation, he directly released all his primordial combat power.
Behind his body emerged endless time phantoms spanning hundreds of millions of years of past and future.
Phantoms of countless Kang Variants who died in battle in the past.
Phantoms of countless Kang Variants about to be born in the future emerged simultaneously, all blessing his own combat power.
He was no longer a single Kang the Conqueror, but the time origin itself that gathered the power of all Kang Variants.
Region-wide time zeroing, eternal time cage, time causality erasure, years retracing annihilation, final time torrent...
Raising his hand was his trump-card supreme time divine skill, without any probing, going straight for the absolute kill.
As the time origin, he clearly knew that ordinary spacetime moves were ineffective against Loren.
As soon as he made a move, it was the ultimate time attack capable of erasing spatial existence.
Wanting to directly erase Loren the person himself from the causal level, wiping away all traces of Loren's existence.
Time can obliterate causality, space can isolate causality, the peak showdown of the two supreme laws thus officially begins.
Chapter 522: You are wrong, dead wrong!
Loren's expression remained calm as he faced the sweeping ultimate torrent of time head-on.
His feet rooted in the void of the grand hall, and his hands propped open a boundless spatial domain.
With himself at the center, endless spatial barriers piled up layer upon layer.
Constructing an absolute spatial domain that isolated all causality, all time, and all past and future.
Rumble——
The torrent of time collided head-on with the absolute space, and the terrifying law Impact instantly tore apart most of the temple's walls.
Crystals of time and space shattered and flew all over the sky, and the long river of time flowing in the distance was forcefully impacted out of a huge gap.
Kang the Conqueror manipulated time!
Constantly backtracking the battlefield, constantly rewriting attacks, and constantly returning Loren's spatial defense to a shattered state.
Loren, on the other hand, constantly reshaped space, constantly sealed off the backflow of time, and constantly severed the causal chains corresponding to the attacks.
Kang the Conqueror could trace back to the past, making it so Loren never raised his defense in the first place.
Loren could then isolate the past, preventing the opponent from touching his own past.
Kang the Conqueror could foresee the future, locking onto all of Loren's attack trajectories in advance.
Loren could then seal the future, erasing all his own future possibilities and making the opponent's pre-judgment completely ineffective.
The fierce battle between the two went all the way from the council hall, out of the Temple of Time and Space, and broke into the outer long river of time.
Hundreds of millions of long rivers of time shook wildly because of the collision of their laws.
The history and future of countless parallel Universes began to become disordered, Planet operations shifted, and civilization history was briefly rewritten.
This was a ceiling-level duel in the multiverse, and every clash affected the foundation of the entire multiverse.
The more Kang the Conqueror fought, the more alarmed he became; he had wielded the origin of time for tens of thousands of years.
This was the first time he encountered an opponent who could completely restrain and crush him in all aspects.
All his proud temporal authorities completely failed in front of absolute space.
No matter how powerful the time moves were, they would be directly isolated, sealed, and disintegrated by Loren.
He could dominate all time, but could never dominate independent and free space.
The battle lasted for ten minutes, and Kang the Conqueror's armor was covered in cracks.
The origin power of time in his body was more than half consumed, his aura began to continuously weaken, and a trace of despair finally emerged in the depths of his eyes.
"Why... as supreme laws, why is my power of time completely inferior to your power of space?"
Kang the Conqueror panted heavily, staring fixedly at Loren, full of unwillingness.
"I am the master of time in the multiverse. I have seen the birth of the Universe and personally experienced the annihilation of the Universe. I shouldn't be defeated here!"
"Shameless boast, do you even deserve to call yourself the master of time?"
You are merely a thief who stole a shred of the authority to manipulate time; the law of time has never belonged to anyone."
Loren walked forward slowly, the power of space around his body becoming more and more condensed, and said in a calm tone, completely disregarding Kang the Conqueror.
"Time exists attached to space. Without space to carry it, time has nowhere to flow.
Yet you vainly attempted to make time transcend space; the two major laws have never been independent.
Therefore, from the beginning of the duel, you were destined to fail without a doubt." Loren looked at Kang the Conqueror before him with full mockery.
As his voice fell, Loren stopped dragging it out, urged his origin with all his might, and condensed a colorless giant spatial blade traversing the entire long river of time.
There was no energy light on the blade, yet it could sever all time and space, all causality, and all life and death.
"This battle ends here."
With a horizontal slash of the blade.
Kang the Conqueror exhausted all his remaining original power of time, propping up the strongest time shield of his life.
He attempted to mobilize thousands of timelines to wrap around himself, wanting to block this fatal blow.
But in the next second, all timelines snapped instantly, and the invincible time shield was easily cut open like a piece of paper.
The blade sliced straight through Kang the Conqueror's body, completely severing his time origin core.
"No——!!"
The heart-rending roar resounded through the Quantum Realm.
Kang the Conqueror's body slowly split apart from the middle, and the origin of time that had flowed in his body for hundreds of millions of years completely collapsed.
All the past and future phantoms blessed upon him shattered completely.
This Lord of Time who ruled the Kang Dynasty and overlooked the boundless years of the multiverse had completely reached the end of his life.
He was about to perish completely, but there was no despair of complete annihilation in the depths of his eyes; instead, a trace of extremely crazy viciousness emerged.
He knew very well that he was bound to die, and he also knew that Loren would not let go of the remaining spacetime chaos.
Since he was going to perish, and the Kang Dynasty was going to perish, he would drag the entire multiverse down to be buried with him.
At death's door, Kang the Conqueror burned all his remaining time origin.
Disregarding the taboo of multiverse collapse, his hands abruptly tore open the barrier of the long river of time behind him.
"Loren, do you think that by killing me, this World will become stable?
You are wrong, dead wrong. Without my Kang Dynasty to maintain the stability of the Sacred Timeline,
the multiverse will fall into complete chaos, and by then, dangerous figures from major Universes will all step onto the stage!
Stirring up one multiverse dispute after another; by then, I hope you can still be as relaxed as you are now.
If I perish, all things will be buried with me. You defeated me, but you will also have to bear the collapse of the entire multiverse!
Hhahahaha, leave this mess to you to handle!"
Rumble——
An unprecedented loud noise shook all parallel Universes, a streak spanning endless dimensions.
A dark, huge fissure without visible boundaries was forcefully torn open.
From within the fissure, countless disorderly auras of parallel Universes surged out crazily.
The parallel timelines that were originally distinct and did not interfere with each other completely lost their isolation barrier.
The past and future collided, high dimensions and low dimensions merged, and adjacent parallel Universes began to forcibly squeeze and invade each other.
Ancient giant beasts from some parallel Universes broke into modern Earth, and some doomsday wasteland Universes collided with prosperous interstellar Universes.
Some magic dimensions and technological dimensions completely merged, countless World laws conflicted with each other, and the rules of heaven and Earth fell into chaos.
Two Suns appeared in the sky simultaneously, and ancient mountain ranges rose out of thin air on land.
In the cities, three versions of crowds from the past, present, and future appeared simultaneously; time and space were disordered, and living beings wailed.
The entire multiverse completely fell into an unprecedented spacetime chaos.
Loren looked at the expanding multiverse fissure behind him that could not be easily closed, his brows furrowing tightly.
He immediately mobilized all his strength to repair this chaotic timeline.
In an instant, one timeline after another was pulled back onto the right track by him, but a small portion of the timelines still intertwined together.
He could slay Kang the Conqueror, and could seal single space and time, but he could not instantly repair the barriers of the entire multiverse.
The chaotic spacetime turbulence all over the sky swept around, and shattered images of countless parallel Worlds flashed past in the void.
The aura of doom shrouded the entire multiverse.
Loren looked toward the chaotic thousands of Worlds outside the fissure, his expression solemn.
He won the war, slaughtered all Kang Variants, destroyed the Kang Dynasty, and killed the time-origin Kang the Conqueror.
But at the same time, he also ushered in a global crisis far more terrifying and irresolvable than Kang's pursuers.
The multiverse fusion chaos, parallel Worlds invading each other, and spacetime order completely collapsing.
This spacetime war was far from ending with the death of Kang the Conqueror; the real global calamity had only just arrived.
Loren took a deep breath, turned to look at the spatial channel leading to Earth, and immediately set off on his return journey.
Right now, he must immediately return to the manor, integrate all combat power, and face this ultimate calamity sweeping across the entire multiverse.
Chapter 523: Taking Over the Time Variance Authority
After returning to the manor, Loren gathered all his harem beauties together.
Just now, using his own spatial origin as the pivot, he re-delineated the boundaries of the multiverse, isolating the vast majority of colliding parallel Worlds.
He stripped away and straightened out the misaligned and entangled timelines one by one, repaired the shattered space-time barriers, and stabilized the order of the multiverse, which was on the verge of complete collapse.
In the void, countless colliding Worlds slowly separated.
The chaotic sun, moon, and stars returned to their proper tracks, the rampant space-time turbulence gradually subsided, and the multiverse, teetering on the brink of destruction, finally halted its global collapse.
After spending a full three hours, Loren slowly withdrew his power, his aura fluctuating slightly, and a trace of unmaskable fatigue flashed in the depths of his eyes.
He had guarded the bottom line of the multiverse and prevented the worst-case scenario of all Universes perishing together, but he still left behind sequelae that could not be completely eradicated.
Throughout the void, hundreds of thousands of micro space-time cracks of various sizes that could not be completely closed were scattered everywhere.
These cracks were sporadically distributed within the interlayers of various parallel Worlds, varying in size, and constantly connecting different dimensions and different worldviews of alien Worlds.
The cracks could neither heal on their own nor be forcibly sealed all at once by Loren.
As long as the fissures existed, creatures, viruses, monsters, and laws from different Universes would shuttle back and forth and launch cross-border invasions.
The barriers of parallel Worlds that were originally unrelated to each other were completely breached. Visitors from other realms traveled freely, and worldview conflicts, laws colliding, and alien disasters descending became normalized crises that all Universes had to face.
To completely cure this catastrophe, relying solely on the power of the origin to repair it was no longer feasible; a complete, global, and all-weather space-time control system had to be established.
To monitor cracks in real-time, capture cross-border anomalies, repatriate alien creatures, and clean up alien pollution, controlling all space-time anomalies from the source.
Just as Loren was pondering a solution, a regular space-time portal slowly opened in front of him.
Suddenly, a group of staff members wearing grey standard uniforms and holding space-time control firearms stepped out neatly. The person at the head had a solemn expression and bowed to salute Loren.
This was the Time Variance Authority, abbreviated as TVA, remaining in the interlayers of the timeline.
It was an official space-time management institution that originally took orders from Kang the Conqueror, responsible for pruning divergent timelines, controlling space-time anomalies, erasing cross-border variables, and maintaining the order of the Sacred Timeline.
Following the death in battle of Kang the Conqueror and the destruction of the Kang Dynasty, the entire TVA was left without a leader. All space-time control commands completely stagnated, and the previously controlled divergent timelines completely went wild, further intensifying the chaos of the multiverse.
The TVA Director stepped forward and respectfully reported: "My Lord, we sensed the fall of the Time Master, the complete collapse of the Sacred Timeline, and the total loss of control over global space-time."
"All TVA permissions are idle, and all space-time capture devices have stopped running. We are powerless to control the current chaos of the multiverse."
"We earnestly implore you to take over the Time Variance Authority and retake command of global space-time order."
Loren looked at the space-time management hub before him that spanned all timelines and stood independent of all Universes, and instantly finalized his plan in his heart.
There was no platform more suitable for controlling space-time cracks than the TVA.
The TVA itself possessed top-tier space-time technology, a global time monitoring network, space-time cages, cross-Universe teleportation devices, and time reset weapons.
Coupled with his own spatial origin power and the full combat power of his dependents, it was just right to build a complete space-time repair system.
At this thought, he nodded and agreed readily, "Starting from today, I officially take over the Time Variance Authority and become the supreme ruler of the TVA."
Loren took a step forward, and the power of spatial origin directly covered the entire TVA headquarters.
He forcibly rewrote the underlying operating programs of the TVA, erased all remaining brands of Kang, and brought the entire space-time management bureau completely under his own control.
From then on, all TVA equipment, staff members, and space-time capture legions obeyed Loren alone.
After taking over the management bureau, Lorenimmediately launched a global remodeling plan.
He engraved the top-tier Dark Magic runes he had mastered onto all TVA monitoring instruments, using Dark Magic as the energy core to ignore the interference of multiverse laws and penetrate all World barriers.
Combined with the top-tier space-time technology accumulated by the TVA over hundreds of millions of years, he reconstructed the global monitoring array and, taking two days, built a giant device spanning the void and suspended in the center of the multiverse—the Global Space-Time Anomaly Traceback Detector.
This machine possessed three core capabilities: First, it scanned all hidden space-time cracks around the clock, precisely locating the coordinates, connected World type, and danger level of each crack.
Second, it captured the signals of all alien creatures shuttling across borders and locked onto their invasion trajectories.
Third, it generated space-time repair anchors to assist combat personnel in rapidly closing cracks and isolating alien pollution.
The moment the machine started, a sky full of blue space-time light curtains covered the entire void, and the coordinates, danger levels, and connected Universeinformation of hundreds of thousands of space-time cracks were clearly listed on the light screen.
The danger levels ranged from D-Rank space airflow leaks to S-Rank apocalyptic alien World invasions, all at a glance.
Standing before the main console and looking at the densely packed anomaly points on the light screen, Lorenissued official mission instructions to the 22 dependents assembled behind him.
They were still divided into two major echelons, each performing their own duties and executing space-time repair missions in groups.
First echelon: The 15 exclusive dependents personally forged by Loren:
2B, A2, Tifa, Commander White, Marie Rose, Android 18, Ikaros, Nymph, Astraea, Alice, Tsunade, Hinata, Mei Terumi, Mai Shiranui, and Hancock.
They excelled in battlefield coordination, precision hunting, crowd control, and high-intensity endurance, and were responsible for clearing S-Rank high-risk cracks.
Second echelon: 7 top powerhouses native to Marvel—Viper, Sif, Wanda, Crystal, Daisy, Medusa, Gwen, and Natasha.
They excelled in magic sealing, Asgardian divine power realm-breaking, element locking, stealth assassination, and global shockwave purification, and were responsible for crack sealing and alien virus purification work.
"Everyone, remember the mission guidelines." Loren's gaze was solemn, and his voice spread through the main control hall into everyone's ears.
"First, for alien creatures that mistakenly entered this Universe and are harmless, forcibly repatriate them to their native Universe. If they refuse to listen to advice, they may be executed on the spot!"
"Second, for dangerous alien individuals with aggressiveness, infectivity, and destructiveness, show no mercy, and clear and annihilate them on the spot."
"Third, protect the native Universe's civilians and superheroes, prioritize isolating the source of pollution, and then close the space-time cracks."
"Understood!" 22 people answered in unison, their auras piercingly cold, and the entire team made preparations for cross-border combat.
The next second, the global detector emitted a piercing red highest-level alarm, and right in the center of the light screen popped up a space-time anomaly point that was closest and had a danger level reaching SS-Rank.
[Anomaly Coordinates: Main Universe Earth, stratosphere above New York]
[Crack Connected Universe: Marvel Zombies Parallel Universe]
Chapter 524: Marvel Zombie Parallel Universe
[Contamination Type: Global contagious zombie virus, virus characteristics: ignores Mutant genes, ignores divine realm physique, ignores Super Hero self-healing abilities, ignores basic magic resistance.
Flesh contact results in immediate infection, complete loss of sanity within ten minutes of infection, retaining all combat power from life, maximized aggressiveness]
[Current Contamination Progress: The virus has seeped into Earth's atmosphere through high-altitude rifts, starting to land and spread, small-scale urban infections have begun]
Looking at the glaring red warning on the light screen, everyone's expression changed.
This was the space-time rift closest to the Main Universeand also the most dangerous one.
It directly connected to the doomsday zombie Universe, and unexpectedly, this zombie virus could immunize against all innate resistances of Super Heroes.
"The first repair mission targets the Main Universe we are in, clearing the zombie Universe invasion crisis, closing the high-altitude space-time rift, and thoroughly purifying the zombie virus. Everyone, set out immediately!"
As Loren's voice fell, 22 figures stepped out of the TVA space-time portal simultaneously, instantly returning above New York, Earth.
At this moment, the crisis had completely erupted.
Thirty thousand meters above New York in the stratosphere, the originally clear and blue sky was torn apart out of thin air, revealing a giant space rift over five hundred meters long and nearly a hundred meters wide.
The space at the edge of the rift twisted and vibrated, and the pitch-black space-time mist churned constantly. Opposite the rift was a dead, gray, lifeless doomsday sky.
There, high-rise buildings collapsed, the Earth cracked dryly, and the sky was shrouded in blood-red haze all year round. Looking as far as the eye could see, walking corpses were everywhere; it was the completely fallen Marvelzombie Universe.
When the multiverse collided and squeezed, two parallel Universes with highly similar worldviews but completely different developmental endings completely overlapped in planes, thus propping open this giant space-time rift that could not heal on its own.
At first, the rift only overflowed with weak space-time turbulence. Humans on the ground only felt the sky suddenly darken, and the airflow became bone-chillingly cold, with no one realizing that a fatal crisis had quietly descended.
Following that, naked-eye-invisible off-white microscopic virus aerosols poured out silently from the rift along the stratospheric airflow and atmospheric circulation.
This zombie virus was not an ordinary biochemical virus, but a quantum zombie virus from the quantum space.
It did not require blood transmission or biting as the sole pathway; droplets, skin contact, and bodily fluid contact could all complete the infection.
The virus particles came from the quantum space, so they were extremely microscopic and could directly penetrate protective suits, bulletproof glass, and special combat armor of Super Heroes.
They directly invaded the gene chains inside living organisms and rewrote the fundamental structure of life.
Human immunity, Black Panther's Vibranium armor protection, Spider-Man's own Mutant physique, Thor's divine Asgardian body, Scarlet Witch's basic magicresistance, and Hulk's super self-healing flesh were completely useless in front of the quantum zombie virus.
Following the atmospheric circulation, the virus first covered the sky above the entire city of New York, slowly drifting down to every corner of the city like an invisible gray drizzle.
The first to be infected were ordinary civilians on the street without any protection.
On the streets of Manhattan, traffic was bustling, and pedestrians were shopping, commuting, and playing as usual. The city was still prosperous and lively, and no one knew that the doomsday had descended from the sky.
A young white-collar worker drinking coffee by the street was the first to show infection reactions.
At first, it was just mild dizziness and limb weakness; he only thought he was over-fatigued from recent overtime work, and lowered his head wanting to take a sip of coffee to relieve the exhaustion.
The next second, the whites of his eyes instantly filled with bloodshot veins, his pupils completely clouded and darkened, his complexion turned pale and livid at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the veins on his neck bulged frantically.
The coffee cup in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter, his body convulsed violently out of control, his skin quickly lost color, his body temperature plummeted sharply, and all reason, emotion, and thought within his body were completely wiped out within a short thirty seconds.
There was no painful roaring, no drastic mutation or deformation, and his appearance was still that of a human, but at the bottom of his eyes remained only pure bloodthirsty desire and feeding instinct.
This white-collar worker abruptly raised his head, looked at a passerby brushing past him, stepped with stiff limbs, lunged forward without warning, and bit fiercely into the carotid artery of the passerby's neck.
Fresh blood gushed out instantly, and before the bitten passerby could scream, the virus instantly invaded the entire body along the wound.
Completing the mutation within thirty seconds as well, he turned around and joined the ranks of zombies, continuing to attack others around him.
The infection chain reaction was triggered instantly.
In street-side parks, subway stations, shopping mall buildings, crossroads, and overpasses, more and more citizens simultaneously developed symptoms of dizziness and convulsions.
In one minute, hundreds of zombies appeared on the streets;
In three minutes, the district completely fell, and the number of zombies exceeded three thousand;
In five minutes, the entire Manhattan urban area was completely out of control, and the zombie horde was fully formed.
Frantic screams, desperate cries, and the explosions of chained car collisions echoed through the entire city. The once prosperous New York instantly turned into a living hell.
At the very first moment of the urban Riot outbreak, the S.H.I.E.L.D. alarm sounded across the entire domain, all members of the Avengers assembled urgently, rushing to the New York disaster area to control the field at the first moment.
Captain America led the team airborne holding a Vibranium shield, Iron Man's Mark Eighty-Five armor took off at full speed, and Thor descended with lightning holding Mjolnir.
Hulk transformed in rage, Peter Parker fused with Venom started city-wide web rescue, Black Widow and Hawkeyewere in position simultaneously, and the main force of the Avengers all arrived.
At first, everyone thought this was just an ordinary biochemical virus leakage incident.
Iron Man activated the armor's global air purification system at the first moment, releasing high-intensity sterilization light waves, attempting to directly purify the virus aerosols in the air.
But after the light waves swept past, the virus did not attenuate at all, still spreading wantonly in the air.
"Detection failed, the virus does not belong to any known biochemical sequence on Earth, and cannot be disinfected or killed through high temperature, ultraviolet rays, or light waves. The armor's internal filtration system has completely failed!" Jarvis's cold alarm made Tony's heart sink.
The next second, a sudden change occurred on the frontline battlefield.
A lightning-fast zombie broke through the defense line, its fingernail scratching the skin of Peter's wrist.
It was just a minor skin contact, with no biting and no wounds.
Peter Parker instantly stiffened all over; his proud Venom physique and Super Hero self-healing genes were completely unable to block the virus invasion.
He covered his chest and bent over in pain, the sanity at the bottom of his eyes rapidly dissipating, and his originally clear eyes quickly turning turbid.
"Not good! Peter has been hit!" Captain America was shocked, immediately stepping forward wanting to support.
But after just ten seconds, Peter completely mutated.
The zombie version of Venom no longer retained any sanity, directly turning its direction to launch a surprise attack on the Avengers crowd.
Black simulated Silk bound the teammates, and the movements still retained all of Peter's agile body techniques and combat power.
The entire audience of Avengers instantly clamored, and a chill rose in their hearts.
Even Mutant Super Heroes cannot immunize against the virus?
Isn't that completely over!?
Chapter 525 Reinforcements Have Arrived
Chapter 525
The chaos continues.
Thor waved Mjolnir, bringing down a large-scale lightning strike to purge the zombies on the ground.
The lightning obliterated a large area of ordinary zombies, but the number of zombies was simply too great, and some still rushed in front of him, leaving a wound on his body with their sharp claws and fangs.
As the prince of Asgard, born with a divine Asgardian body immune to all toxins, viruses, and plagues on Earth, his Asgardian physique was completely useless in front of this rule-based zombie virus.
Thor's movements abruptly halted, the lightning in his eyes dissipated, replaced by a lifeless ash-gray. The next instant, the Asgardian Thor completely degenerated into a zombie, raising his hand to indiscriminately bombard the Avengers' front lines with lightning.
Immediately after, Hulk furiously charged into the zombie horde and suffered the exact same fate as Thor.
Suddenly, the invincible Hulk's self-healing ability completely failed. The savage green giant quickly stopped roaring, his eyes turning ash-gray, and he turned to attack Dr. Banner and his comrades.
In a flash, the three mainstays of the Avengers—Peter, Thor, and Hulk—were all infected by the virus and turned traitor.
Morale collapsed across the entire field. Captain Americawatched his former comrades turn into bloodthirsty zombies, his hands holding the shield trembling slightly, his heart filled with a sense of helplessness.
Iron Man's armor closed layer by layer, completely isolating the air, and with a solemn expression, he shouted into the communication channel.
"Everyone listen up, this virus ignores mutated physiques, ignores Asgardian divine power, and ignores self-healing abilities. You must not inhale the virus gas, and even more so, you must not be wounded by zombies. This is the most terrifying infectious disaster we have ever encountered!"
The high-altitude rift in the air was still expanding continuously, with endless viral mist descending onto the ground. The city's fallen area grew larger and larger, the number of zombies breaking through one hundred thousand, and it was still skyrocketing at a geometric multiple.
If this continued, the entire New York, and even the entire Earth, would be completely swallowed by the zombie virus.
Just as the Avengers were retreating step by step and on the verge of collapse, dozens of stunning figures with fierce auras descended from the sky, steadily landing in front of the Avengers' lines, facing the tide of zombies surging like a flood head-on.
Loren stood tall above the high-altitude clouds, overlooking the entire fallen New York, his gaze icy cold. He simultaneously connected to Iron Man's global communication channel, his voice clearly reaching the ears of every Avenger.
"The Avengers will hold the ground civilian rescue channels and block the advancement of the zombie horde. My people will be responsible for high-altitude rift sealing, global virus purification, and the eradication of mutated superheroes. We will coordinate on dual fronts."
Tony looked up at Loren above the clouds and instantly breathed a sigh of relief.
During several previous space-time crises, Loren and his party had long interacted with the Avengers. Everyone knew the terrifying combat power of the group under Loren's command. Now that reinforcements had arrived in this desperate situation, everyone instantly regained their fighting spirit.
Loren then issued detailed combat orders. His harem beauties immediately divided into five combat squads, each performing their duties, seamlessly connecting their operations, and comprehensively covering all the pain points of this crisis.
Group One: High-Altitude Rift Sealing Squad (Wanda, Crystal, Daisy)
The three of them rushed straight toward the giant space-time rift 30,000 meters high in the sky, cutting off the virus invasion from the source.
Wanda activated Chaos Magic, weaving multi-layered chaos barriers to cover the rift entrance, twisting the rift's space-time rules to prevent the zombie Universe's air from continuing to circulate.
Crystal mobilized the four elements, constructing a four-fold elemental barrier of wind, fire, water, and Earth to physically seal the rift passage.
Daisy continuously released high-frequency spatial shockwaves, vibrating the unstable space at the edge of the rift, shrinking the rift opening, and preparing for its subsequent permanent closure.
Group Two: Global Virus Purification Squad (Mei Terumi, Viper, Medusa)
Mei Terumi released a large-scale high-temperature Boil Release steam, enveloping the skies above all of New York. The ultra-high temperature burned the microscopic virus particles floating in the air, purifying the atmospheric pollution.
Viper released the reverse biochemical toxin developed exclusively by Loren to counter the zombie virus, fighting poison with poison to neutralize the activity of the residual virus.
Medusa controlled hundreds of millions of strands of hair to form a global filter net, adsorbing the residual virus particles in the air. The three-layer purification was carried out simultaneously, rapidly reducing the virus concentration in the city.
Group Three: Mutated Superhero Eradication Squad (Tsunade, Android 18, Sif)
This group specifically targeted the three strongest traitorous combatants who were infected: Zombie Thor, Zombie Hulk, and Zombie Spider-Man.
Relying on the physical strength of the Strength of a Hundred Seal, Tsunade hard-resisted Hulk's berserk attacks. Her physique crafted from nano-Vibranium feared no biological viruses at all, so they didn't have to worry about the invasion of the zombie virus at all.
Relying on her monstrous strength, Tsunade frontally restrained the Hulk, while Android 18's infinite energy provided continuous long-range bombardment, precisely suppressing Zombie Thor's lightning attacks.
Asgardian warrior Sif held a divine sword, coordinating with Asgardian divine power to restrain Zombie Thor, who also possessed an Asgardian body. The three of them joined forces to hold off the three infected superheroes without taking any damage, preventing them from slaughtering civilians and Avengers.
Group Four: Ground Zombie Horde Harvesting Squad (2B, A2, Tifa, Marie Rose, Mai Shiranui)
Five melee powerhouses landed on the ground, sweeping across the tide-like ordinary zombie horde.
The YoRHa duo 2B and A2 danced with dual blades, their high-speed blade light forming a lethal blade wind to slaughter zombies in batches, while their Vibranium bodies completely immunized them against virus contact.
Tifa engaged in ultimate close-quarters combat, her icy fist wind directly freezing the zombies' bodies.
Marie Rose used agile taijutsu to maneuver and harvest, while Mai Shiranui's Hellfire burned the zombie corpses to prevent secondary diffusion of the virus, quickly clearing the massive number of low-level zombies on the ground and easing the pressure on the Avengers' front defense line.
Group Five: Battlefield Reconnaissance + Fixed-Point Control Squad (Hinata, Commander White, Hancock, Gwen)
Hinata fully opened her Byakugan, overlooking the entire city, seeing through all the hidden locations of the zombies, high points of virus concentration, and trapped civilian locations, providing real-time global navigation.
The Commander White's airborne battlefield system analyzed the zombies' combat power and virus transmission rhythm in real-time, simultaneously optimizing everyone's combat tactics.
Hancock released a large-scale petrification light wave, collectively imprisoning patches of zombies and directly stripping all zombies of their mobility.
Gwen relied on her ultimate stealth movement technique to maneuver along the flanks of the battlefield, clearing out any escaping fish and rescuing trapped civilians.
The five squads went into battle simultaneously with tacit coordination, maximizing offense, defense, support, and control, instantly reversing the crumbling situation across the battlefield.
On the ground battlefield, the zombie horde was still charging frantically, and the infected zombie Avengersbecame the ultimate lethal weapons.
Zombie Hulk's eyes were ash-gray, and his entire green skin swelled with fury, devoid of any reason.
He only knew how to charge forward recklessly, smashing entire block buildings to pieces with a single punch. The Impact swept across all directions, and ordinary Avengerssimply could not resist it head-on.
Just as Hulk was about to crash into the civilian shelter, a golden light soared into the sky. Tsunade leaped forward to face Hulk directly, without any dodging, taking Hulk's full-strength punch head-on.
The ground street instantly split with spiderweb cracks, and the road beneath Tsunade's feet collapsed entirely, yet she didn't budge an inch.
"Brute strength is nothing worth mentioning."
Tsunade sneered, and with a backhanded punch, she fiercely smashed it into Hulk's chest. Her ultimate monstrous strength erupted, directly sending the enraged Zombie Hulk flying hundreds of meters and crashing heavily into a ruined building.
Chapter 526 Closing the Space-Time Rift
With a Vibranium body, even when in close contact with Zombie Hulk or contaminated by viral mist, one would not be infected by the virus.
On the other side, Zombie Thor swung Mjolnir, and lightning filled the sky, bombarding the ground indiscriminately. The power of the lightning was indistinguishable from that of the normal Thor, and its lethality was extremely terrifying.
Sif met him head-on with a divine sword of Asgard. As fellow deities of Asgard, she was extremely familiar with all of Thor's attack patterns. Divine power collided with lightning, and the golden divine radiance neutralized the purple pillars of lightning.
"Thor, you have lost your mind. We will temporarily suppress you. Master has already developed the antidote, and soon you will be able to recover." Sif's expression was icy, her sword moves steady, pressing forward step by step, firmly suppressing Zombie Thor.
Android 18 hovered in mid-air, her hands continuously releasing high-energy light beams to precisely intercept the lightning overflowing from Thor. With endless energy and no stamina pressure, she provided full support for ranged output throughout, restricting the combat power of the two Asgardian zombies.
Zombie Spider-Man roamed the city at ultra-high speed, his webs wrapping around buildings as he constantly raided the rear of the Avengers and harassed the teams rescuing civilians.
Hinata's Byakugan locked onto his movement trajectory the entire time, pre-judging all displacement routes and synchronously sharing the coordinates with Gwen and Natasha.
The two top Agent closed in from the left and right, using a special restraining device to temporarily trap Zombie Spider-Man and cut off his threat to the civilians in the rear.
The melee battlefield was an even more one-sided steamroll.
2B's white clothes were like snow, her blade light elegant yet fatal. Every swing of her blade precisely severed a zombie's head, and her Vibranium body isolated all contact with the virus. No matter how the zombie blood or mist invaded, they could not harm her in the slightest.
A2's crimson eyes were cold, her heavy blade sweeping horizontally. A single slash could clear out the zombie horde in an entire block, brutal and efficient.
Tifa shuttled through the crowd of zombies, her neat martial arts landing every punch with flesh-and-blood impact, precisely shattering zombie heads with crisp and clean movements.
Mai Shiranui released raging Hellfire to burn the entire zombie cluster, the high temperature completely destroying the viral carriers and preventing secondary transmission. Marie Rose nimbly roamed around, finishing off all low-health zombies and clearing the dead angles of the battlefield.
Hancock stood in the center of the battlefield, Sweet Captivation paired with a large-area petrification light beam instantly petrified and froze the thousands of zombies charging from the front.
They completely lost their mobility, turning into motionless statues, which were subsequently cleared uniformly by the melee thralls, greatly reducing the combat pressure on the battlefield.
Everyone in the Avengers looked at the crushing combat situation before them, all feeling deeply shocked.
The zombie horde that they could not stop despite trying their utmost was rapidly suppressed under the onslaught of this group of people, and even the unresolvable superhero zombies were easily contained and suppressed.
Captain America gripped his shield tightly and sighed with emotion: "The combat power of these people is simply too terrifying. If it weren't for them, New York would definitely have completely fallen today."
The ground battlefield gradually stabilized its situation, and the high-altitude sealing battlefield ushered in its final stage.
At an altitude of 30,000 meters, the giant space-time rift was still continuously gushing out viral mist. Opposite the rift, several giant zombie exotic beasts were even preparing to pass through the rift and invade the Main Universe.
Once the otherworldly giant beasts, whose sizes far exceeded ordinary zombies, landed on Earth, the disaster would escalate once again.
"Close the rift with all your might!" Wanda let out a cold shout, and the crimson Chaos Magic around her soared into the sky, covering the entire sky with blood-colored magic.
Chaos Magic directly rewrote the space-time rules of this region, forcibly stripping away the plane connection between the native Universe and the zombie Universe, and cutting off the causal entanglements of the two Worlds.
Under Crystal's control, the four major elements condensed into a solid elemental giant wall, completely blocking the entrance and exit of the rift. Daisy stacked multiple layers of spatial shockwaves to block the zombies' attack from the root of the rift.
Three top-tier powers erupted simultaneously.
The 500-meter-long giant space-time rift rapidly shrank, healed, and closed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The last wisp of mist from the zombie Universe was completely blocked outside the rift, the sky restored its original clear blue, and the virus source from the parallel Universe World was completely cut off.
With the source sealing complete, the next step was the ultimate purification of the residual virus in the region-wide air and ground.
Mei Terumi's Boil Release high-temperature steam enshrouded the entire city of New York, and all free-floating viruses on the surface, buildings, and in the air were killed by the high temperature. Viper's reverse toxin landed, neutralizing the residual virus factors in the soil and water sources.
In just twenty minutes, the city's air was restored to cleanliness, and the outdoors no longer possessed conditions for viral infection. The remaining zombie corpses on the ground were all centrally incinerated to prevent the virus from breeding again.
When the three traitorous zombie superheroes were imprisoned by multiple seals and placed in an isolated space-time cage, the zombie crisis throughout New YorkCity finally temporarily subsided.
The streets were devastated, with damaged buildings, wrecked vehicles, and blood everywhere. The city was scarred, countless civilians were frightened, and the casualties remained heavy.
This disaster originating from the collision of parallel Universes brought indelible damage to the Earth of the Main Universe.
All members of the Avengers gathered in the air, looking at Loren slowly descending from above the clouds, their expressions full of awe and gratitude.
Tony removed his armor mask and stepped forward to speak: "Loren, thank you and your people for coming to our aid. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't be able to stop this zombie virus that can immunize against all resistances. But now Thor, Hulk, and Peter are still in an infected state, and we don't have any antidote. How should we handle this?"
Loren's gaze was calm as he looked at the three zombie superheroes trapped in the magic cage, and he slowly spoke: "I have already developed the antidote for this virus, and soon they will be able to recover."
He then supplemented the explanation of the core hidden danger of this crisis: "Although the high-altitude rift has closed, the space-time imprint caused by the plane overlap cannot be completely eliminated. In the future, this region still has a probability of cracking open again."
Loren looked at his thralls who had finished assembling by his side with steady breaths and not a single injury, his eyes resolute: "This is only the first otherworld invasion crisis; next, there are countless catastrophes waiting for us to handle."
He took over the TVA, wielded space-time order, and all his thralls went into battle. From then on, they would no longer passively wait for enemies to strike.
Instead, they would actively shuttle through thousands of parallel Universes, repair space-time rifts, clear out otherworldly invasions, and protect the Main Universe as well as all innocent parallel Worlds.
Wanda walked to Loren's side and reported softly: "Master, the global detector has refreshed its data again. A total of 732 secondary space-time rifts have started to become active. We're going to be busy."
Loren raised his head to look at the boundless multiverse void in the distance, the power of Silver Superman slowly circulating.
The Kang Dynasty had perished and the Time Rulers had fallen, but the catastrophe of the multiverse chaos had only just begun.
Above the clouds, Loren turned around to open a space-time portal, followed closely by his thralls, preparing to return to the Time Administration to review the data of this zombie crisis and start the repair mission for the next space-time rift.
Chapter 527: It Is Time to Restore Everything to Normal
The gigantic, horrific spacetime rift spanning across the sky above New York completely disintegrated and closed under the triple crushing force of Chaos Magic, elemental barriers, and spatial shockwaves.
The twisted and churning pitch-black spacetime mist above the firmament abruptly receded, and the sky's color, forcibly altered by the plane overlap, slowly recovered to reveal a clear, azure blue sky once again.
As the rift was completely sealed, the fluctuation of the zombie Universe's laws—which had shrouded the entire city with a cold, dead, and apocalyptic decaying aura—instantly cut off all subsequent sources.
At this point, the invasion channel from the parallel zombie Universe was completely severed.
However, the crisis had not truly ended.
The high-altitude rift could be forcibly closed, and the plane channel could be completely severed, but the zombie law virus that had already penetrated into the city, merging into the air, soil, water sources, and biological bloodlines, still stubbornly existed.
This was not an ordinary biochemical virus, nor was it a low-level pollutant that could be eradicated by high-temperature scorching, liquid purification, or radiation disinfection.
It was a mutated product born from the Quantum Realm, taking root at the quantum level, entangling itself upon the genetic chains of living beings, and hiding within every inch of space in the city.
On the ground, hundreds of thousands of infected individuals who had just stopped their bloodthirsty riots, yet were still imprisoned by the virus shackles, stood stiffly in place.
Across streets, ruins, high-rise windowsills, and main urban thoroughfares, densely packed zombies maintained their postures from the very last moment—some reaching out to pounce and grab, some opening their mouths to bite, some with twisted and stiff limbs, their grayish-white pupils hollow and dead, emitting a cold and decaying aura all over their bodies.
Among them, the most eye-catching and the ones that left the entire Avengers completely helpless were the three top-tier infected individuals confined layer upon layer by multiple magic cages and Asgardian divine power shackles: Zombie Thor, Zombie Hulk, and Zombie Venom.
They still retained their peak combat power, with divine power, mutated genes, and raging fury energy surging endlessly within their bodies, yet they had been completely stripped of their sanity by the virus, reduced to killing machines that only knew bloodthirsty slaughter.
As long as the virus was not eradicated for a single day, they would not be able to return to normal for a single day, remaining as three fatal blades hanging over Earth's head.
Iron Man hovered mid-air, his armor's scanning beam constantly sweeping across the entire city, while Jarvis's cold system prompt echoed repeatedly:
"Quantum virus residue detected. Earth's existing technological system cannot analyze, strip, or purify it. The virus has been deeply bound to biological genetic chains, and conventional disinfection methods have all failed."
Captain America looked at the scarred and dead New York, gazing at the countless innocent civilians standing stiffly in place and devoid of consciousness, his eyes filled with heaviness and helplessness.
This disaster was too bizarre and too insoluble.
It did not simply rely on wound transmission or bodily fluid infection; merely a plane overlap and an air infiltration instantly caused the entire superpower city with a population of tens of millions to fall.
Even Asgardian deities, top-tier mutants, and super-healing constitutions could not escape unscathed; now they could only place all their hope on Loren.
Just as the atmosphere of the scene was depressed to the extreme and everyone had fallen into a desperate situation, above the clouds, a gentle, vast, and transcendent invisible force slowly descended.
Loren stepped out from the space gate once again, standing high above the entire New York, overlooking the scarred land below and hundreds of thousands of living beings trapped within the virus shackles.
"Everyone back up. It is time to restore everything to normal."
Loren's voice clearly resounded across the entire sky above New York, calm yet carrying unquestionable majesty, piercing through the wind, the echoes of ruins, and everyone's eardrums.
The Avengers immediately retreated, pulling away to an absolute safety distance with the remaining rescue team. Loren's women stood quietly in the void, guarding the airspace where Loren was casting his spell to prevent all external interference.
The next second, Loren closed his eyes slightly, his hands slowly forming hand seals in front of his chest.
The entire heaven and Earth darkened for an instant.
It was not the gloomy and oppressive darkness of destruction, but a profound, pure, and all-inclusive dark energy of order.
Wisps of pitch-black magic particles, as fine as morning mist and as warm as flowing light, endlessly spread, diffused, and rose from around Loren's body.
Dark Magic was not restricted by spacetime barriers, nor bound by air resistance, ignoring terrain, distance, and law barriers.
With Loren as the center, it instantly covered the entire urban area of New York, and then spread outward, enveloping the airspace of the entire New York State.
Billions of strands of Dark Magic particles, like a gentle drizzle of redemption, silently permeated into the air, soil, water sources, and building gaps, drilling into the bodies of every infected individual.
The core program of Dark Magic had only one rule: strip the virus, reshape native life order, and restore living beings to their original state.
Under the scouring of Dark Magic, the grayish-white zombie virus that had tightly entangled human genetic chains melted, disintegrated, and dissipated rapidly like snow meeting the scorching sun.
The first to undergo a reverse change was an ordinary little girl on the street who had mutated not long ago.
Her hollow grayish-white pupils were the first to recover a clear black color, her stiff and livid skin instantly regained its rosy complexion, her tense and twitching limbs slowly relaxed, and her clouded consciousness, like parting the mists, returned to clarity bit by bit.
She blinked blankly, looking at the dilapidated streets, the crowds fallen on the ground, and the bloodstains everywhere. For a moment, she was still terrified, subconsciously hugging her arms tight, her eyes filled with lingering fear and incomprehension.
Shortly after, the second, the third, and tens of thousands of ordinary infected individuals awakened one after another.
The stiff crowds slowly moved their limbs, their grayish-white eyes returned to brightness, their cold body temperatures returned to normal, their bloodthirsty and crazy instincts completely faded, and their thoughts, emotions, and sanity altered by the virus all returned to their rightful places.
In a mere dozens of seconds, hundreds of thousands of zombies on the streets all turned back into innocent civilians.
The originally dead and gloomy purgatory on Earthinstantly regained the warmth of mortal life.
And the most shocking reversal occurred in the three top-tier infected individuals.
Trapped by Asgardian divine power shackles, the violent lightning swirling around Zombie Thor slowly converged and receded, his grayish-white and dead pupils once again lit up with the golden light of a deity, and his out-of-control, berserk aura completely calmed down.
Thor slowly lowered Mjolnir, raised his hand to rub his glabella, his eyes carrying a brief daze. He could clearly perceive the terrifying state of his recent out-of-control bloodthirst and slaughter of all things, and his heart was filled with lingering fear.
"I... was just controlled in mind by a foreign entity?"
Before everyone could respond, on the other side, the enraged and out-of-control Hulk's body quickly shrank and receded from its green mutation.
Dr. Banner's human form slowly appeared, his tense and furious nerves completely relaxed, panting heavily with a face full of lingering fear.
The last to recover was Venom Peter Parker.
His clouded eyes became clear once again, and the young teenager's face regained its past vigor and greenness.
He looked blankly at the magic cage surrounding him, looking at the Avengers in the distance with solemn faces.
He asked softly, "What happened? I remember I was just saving people on the street..."
Chapter 528: Crisis Resurfaces, Aimed at Gwen?
The three infected superheroes fully returned to normal, with no aftereffects, no genetic damage, and no residual virus imprints, as if that terrifying mutation had never happened.
When the final wisp of the zombie virus laws was completely stripped away, purified, and annihilated by the Dark Magic, Loren slowly withdrew his spell-casting gestures, and the black magic particles filling the sky turned into specks of flowing light, dissipating between heaven and earth.
The air throughout New York became fresh and clean once again, the chilling apocalyptic aura completely dissipated, and sunlight fell upon the earth anew, warm and bright.
The insurmountable cross-border crisis of the zombie Universe that had ravaged the entire city—from the sealing of the rifts and virus purification to the redemption of living beings and the recovery of the strong—had thus come to a thorough, complete, and perfect end.
On the ground, all members of the Avengers looked up at the young figure high in the sky, the awe, gratitude, and shock in their eyes growing ever more intense.
They had seen gods and cosmic overlords, but they had never seen anyone able to reverse the contamination of the zombification virus so effortlessly, redeeming hundreds of thousands of fallen souls and erasing an apocalyptic catastrophe with a mere wave of the hand.
Tony Stark hovered mid-air, silent for a long time, until it finally turned into a soft sigh: "This is no longer a suppression at the level of combat power; this is truly the power to control the World."
After the crisis was completely quelled, New York officially entered the post-disaster reconstruction phase.
S.H.I.E.L.D., the Avengers, and local officials coordinated fully to search for survivors, clear ruins, treat the wounded, repair city facilities, and comfort the emotions of the citizens.
The once shattered and chaotic streets recovered order bit by bit, and the devastated city gradually regained its vitality.
Loren did not linger long, quietly leading his dependents back to the manor.
Having gone through this high-intensity global catastrophe, everyone felt physically and mentally exhausted, and they welcomed a rare period of stable and peaceful rest and reorganization.
The manor was hidden by him in an independent spatial interlayer, isolating all outside noise and detection. Inside, it was peaceful, quiet, and spring-like all year round, with array barriers running steadily, making it the only pure land in a chaotic World.
The next seven days were rare and peaceful.
There were no space-time turbulence, no cross-border invasions, no cosmic-level enemy sneak attacks, and no outbreak of law catastrophes.
The data of the global space-time detector was stable and flat. Although abnormal red dots still lit up, fortunately, they were not in this Universe, so their World temporarily entered a brief stable window period.
The dependents each rested and cultivated, reviewing the combat shortcomings of the previous zombie crisis, honing team coordination, and enhancing their ability to cope with law-level disasters.
Some sat quietly to adjust their breathing and stabilize their cultivation, some polished their combat moves, some studied TVA space-time data, and some chatted, rested, and relaxed their body and mind.
Loren also temporarily put down his tense vigilance and enjoyed the brief peace.
Having gone through a series of high-intensity battles such as slaying Kang the Conqueror, pacifying the global space-time collapse, and purging the zombie Universe invasion, he also needed time to settle and recover.
Every day, he presided over the manor's main control hall, monitoring global space-time data, fine-tuning space-time repair anchors, and sorting out the chaotic causal lines of the multiverse; the days were plain and stable.
It was just that Loren always knew deep down that this peace was only a temporary illusion.
The cracks in the multiverse barrier torn open by Kang the Conqueror before his death were deeply rooted, and countless residual space-time rifts spread across the heavens and myriad Worlds. The hidden dangers of parallel Universes penetrating each other and cross-border creatures shuttling randomly would always exist.
Beneath the calm, undercurrents surged, and a new catastrophe was forever lurking in the very next second of peace.
On the seventh day, in the afternoon.
In the manor's main control hall, the global space-time detector's originally stable and flat blue data stream suddenly jumped without warning.
A harsh red warning sound resounded through the entire hall, and the screen instantly highlighted and locked onto a precise coordinate. The alarm was urgent yet short, extremely eerie.
Unlike the characteristics of previous space-time rifts that continued to overflow with fluctuations and exist for a long time after being opened, this anomaly was extremely abnormal, indicating that this was a space-time anomaly happening right in their Universe.
[Space-Time Anomaly Coordinate: Brooklyn Suburbs, New York, Near Gwen Stacy's Residence]
[Anomaly Type: Man-Made Controllable Space-Time Rift]
[Rift Status: Instantly Generated, Instantly Closed, Duration 0.3 Seconds, No Energy Overflow, No Law Contamination, No Random Shuttle Traces]
[Judgment Result: Non-Natural Universe Collision, Non-Residual Rift Rampage, Man-Made Precise Cross-UniverseShuttle]
The moment he saw this line of detection data, Loren's originally relaxed eyes suddenly turned sharp, the gentle aura around his body instantly retracted, and extreme vigilance was pulled to the maximum in an instant.
Ordinary space-time rifts were the sequelae of Universecollapse: disordered, random, violent, and uncontrollable, inevitably accompanied by space-time turbulence and energy overflow between opening and closing.
Yet this rift was precise, stable, brief, and controllable.
With a 0.3-second instantaneous open and close, precise fixed-point shuttle, carrying not a bit of extra fluctuation, and perfectly evading all TVA conventional warning scans, it was definitely not formed naturally.
There was only one possibility: a powerhouse who mastered advanced space-time shuttle technology had actively, consciously, purposefully, and precisely crossed boundaries to descend into his Universe.
Furthermore, the opponent's landing spot was precisely right at Gwen Stacy's doorstep.
The purpose was extremely strong, and the targeting was extremely obvious.
"The target is Gwen."
Loren murmured in a low voice, a trace of icy cold light flashing in the depths of his eyes.
Gwen was one of his women, with considerable combat power, and at the same time bore the special space-time imprint of the spider Universe, possessing a special coordinate positioning within the multiverse spider lineage.
The opponent deliberately controlled the duration of the rift to avoid large-scale early warnings and performed a single-point precise airborne landing. Obviously, they did not want to attract large-scale attention; it was a targeted covert capture and hunting operation.
Without the slightest hesitation, Loren's figure instantly became illusory, tearing apart short-range space. With one step, he stepped out of the manor and arrived in the Brooklyn suburbs of New York in an instant.
Silently hovering behind the clouds high in the sky, concealing all his aura, energy, and spatial fluctuations, he overlooked the street outside Gwen's residence below.
At this moment, the street was quiet and serene, with afternoon sunlight spilling down and few pedestrians. Everything seemed as usual, but a trace of extremely obscure space-time fluctuation remaining in the air confirmed that the previous cross-border shuttle was definitely not an illusion.
Under his focused gaze, two figures in the center of the street were rapidly entangling and fighting fiercely.
Enveloped closely in a silver-white, smooth-lined, and supremely technological nanotech Spider-Woman, Gwen's figure was light and nimble, her hair flying with the high-speed entanglement, and the snow-white Spider-Womanparticularly striking under the sunlight.
She had already entered a full combat state, her wrist Silkshooters continuously spraying high-strength nanotech Silk to precisely block the opponent's positioning, her figure continuously bouncing and shifting with the help of high-rise walls, the ground, and railings, her speed so fast that it pulled out layers of afterimages, and her Spider-Sense warning her of all the opponent's attack trajectories throughout the entire process.
Yet at this moment, Gwen was completely suppressed.
Her opponent was a tall and straight stranger dressed in a dark black form-fitting battle suit, with a stern face and sharp eyes.
Chapter 529: Two Female Spider-Man from a Parallel Universe
The man had no unnecessary fancy moves, purely relying on extreme physical strength, overwhelming reaction speed, and terrifying close-combat skills to fight head-on.
Every lift of his hand, every punch, and every block carried a terrifying explosive force far exceeding human limits and far exceeding the level of ordinary Spider-Man.
Bang!
A muffled impact exploded.
The man precisely blocked Gwen's high-speed whip kick with one hand, his arm muscles instantly tightening, and the terrifying brute force directly shook Gwen's figure to a standstill, causing her to lose her balance.
Before Gwen could leverage the force to retreat and adjust her posture, the man smoothly closed in, his elbow striking swiftly and hitting the weak point of Gwen's protective defense with precision.
Thud!
Gwen let out a muffled grunt, her entire body sent flying heavily for several meters, smashing hard onto the roadside lawn as the grass on the ground instantly cracked and sank.
The nano-suit's cushioning protection was instantly pierced through, and the violent impact caused her chest to surge and her blood to churn.
She quickly flipped and leaped up, not daring to slack off in the slightest, her fingertips shooting out spider Silk that wrapped around the top of a tall building, pulling herself at high speed to leverage force as her figure turned back in mid-air, attempting to launch a surprise attack and contain the opponent from the side.
But the man's speed completely crushed Gwen's prediction.
He anticipated the landing spot a step in advance, dodged sideways, and precisely grabbed Gwen's wrist with a backhand, unleashing brute force from his palm to lock her joints completely.
"The mutated physique of the spider lineage is indeed special."
The man looked down at Gwen, who was locked by him, his tone cold and indifferent, carrying a condescending scrutiny and control with no redundant emotions, only a pure task-oriented purpose.
"Catching you means half of my mission is completed."
Gwen's heart shook violently, and she struggled desperately, but the opponent's strength was too terrifying, like steel shackles, not moving an inch.
Spider-Sense went wild with alarms, telling her that the person in front of her was extremely dangerous, and life and death hung in the balance of a single instant.
In just a few dozen seconds of combat, the victor was instantly decided.
Whether in absolute power, burst speed, combat experience, or battlefield prediction, the strange man comprehensively crushed Gwen; if he hadn't deliberately held back, wanting only to capture rather than kill, Gwenwould have already been heavily injured and defeated.
Loren hid behind the clouds, watching the whole battle with cold eyes, and had already roughly determined the opponent's combat power level in his heart.
Far exceeding ordinary superheroes, close to the top-tier mutation level, and proficient in spacetime travel, stealth infiltration, and close-quarters capture and assassination, he was definitely a professionally trained cross-border hunter.
Just at the moment when Loren was about to make a move to suppress this cross-border intruder.
Hum!!
The void trembled again, and in mid-air over the street, a brand-new spacetime rift suddenly tore open.
This time the rift was no longer short and controllable, but a normal cross-border travel channel, slightly vibrating and flowing with the spacetime light of the Universe.
Two young female figures with light postures and different suits leaped out of the rift one after the other, landing steadily on the street.
The person on the left was wearing a black and white color-matched Spider-Woman similar to Gwen's.
However, her face was covered with a red mask, her temperament was heroic and agile, and her gaze was sharp; she was none other than Silk, Cindy Moon, from the Universe.
The person on the right was wearing a red and yellow color-matched suit, whose color combination was somewhat similar to Iron Man, but she was not Iron Man, rather Spider-Woman, Jessica, from another Universe.
The two people had the same goal, which was this cross-border hunter.
"People of the Inheritors Family, you are courting death!"
The moment Silk landed, she immediately saw the battlefield situation, her tone carrying obvious anger and vigilance, and without hesitation, she raised her hand to spray spider Silk, heading straight for the strange man's face.
"This guy specializes in cross-border hunting of spider lineage mutants! Gwen, let's team up!"
Spider-Woman didn't say another word, her figure instantly catapulting out, advancing at high speed with fierce punches and kicks, cooperating with Silk to form a pincer attack posture from left and right.
Gwen, who was originally unilaterally crushed, instantly gained powerful support, her spirits refreshed as she immediately adjusted her posture and counterattacked upward.
The next instant, the three Spider-Man belonging to different Universes instantly formed a triangular encirclement array, trinity-like, with complementary offense and defense, unleashing a set of multi-dimensional spider joint combat systems that could be called perfect, instantly reversing the overall battle situation.
Gwen was containing the opponent in the center, her silver-white nano-suit drawing fragmented streams of light under the sunlight, and she was well-versed in guerrilla pulling and rhythm crowd control.
Tipping her toes on the ground, she instantly catapulted into the air, her posture as light as down, completely avoiding the opponent's frontal brute force impact; her dual-wrist launchers sprayed dense nano-spider Silk at a high frequency, not seeking strong attacks for casualties, but aiming only to lock positions and control distance.
Stream after stream of silver-white spider Silk precisely wrapped around the opponent's shoulders, waist sides, and leg joints, binding layer by layer and pulling crosswise, deliberately sealing off the hunter's dodging footwork and advancing angles.
Constantly pulling the opponent's center of gravity, disrupting their inherent combat rhythm, she firmly locked the opponent within the core battlefield of the three-person encirclement.
Silk, attacking from the left wing, focused on ultimate extreme speed and tricky assassination, serving as the breakthrough sharp knife of the three-person lineup.
Her figure was low and crouching, rushing swiftly close to the ground, with overlapping afterimages of her figure and a speed so fast that it was hard for the naked eye to capture, perfectly utilizing the advantage of her nimble body shape to avoid the opponent's heavy-fisted head-on clashes.
Taking advantage of the gap created by Gwen's spider Silkcontainment, she flashed close-range several times, wandering in the opponent's offense and defense blind spots, her fists as fast as a rainstorm, densely striking the opponent's protective weak dead corners such as the armpits, waist and abdomen, and knee bends.
Every blow precisely landed on the junction of muscles and fascia, constantly paralyzing the opponent's limbs, dismantling their force-exerting structure, forcing the opponent to retreat frequently and parry with exhaustion, utterly unable to stabilize their offensive.
Spider-Woman, guarding the right wing, bore the brunt of frontal pressure resistance and finishing suppression, serving as the offense and defense cornerstone of the entire combined attack system.
Her strength was robust and her fighting style was steady, neither greedy for speed nor cleverness; every punch and kick was heavy and powerful, steadily withstanding the hunter's remaining counterattacking offensive.
While the two were pulling and containing, launching surprise attacks to break defenses, she steadily advanced, heavy elbow-striking, sweep-kicking to break momentum, and palm-striking to lock the chest, frontally sealing off all breakout retreat routes of the opponent.
At the same time, she raised her hand to shoot out thick and tough main spider Silk, intertwining three layers with Gwen's spider Silk and Silk's spider Silk, crossing horizontally and vertically, densely covered with warp and woof, instantly weaving a wind-tight giant inescapable net.
Locking down the entire battlefield in all directions from the ground, mid-air, and flanks, completely cutting off all possibilities of the opponent retreating, teleporting, or fleeing.
The three had no verbal communication at all, yet relied on the homologous Spider-Sense to form a seamless battlefield tacit understanding, with offense and defense connecting in a seamless cycle and rhythm progressing layer by layer.
Gwen controlled the field, locked positions, and pulled the rhythm; Silk stayed close to break defenses and continuously interfered; Spider-Woman steadily suppressed from the front and finished the suppression.
One control, one break, one defense; one fast, one clever, one heavy—the triple combat powers perfectly complemented each other and suppressed in a cycle.
The Inheritors hunter, who originally relied on strength and speed to crush individual Gwen, instantly and completely fell into a desperate situation.
His proud high-speed advance was restrained and pulled by Silk's afterimages, his brute force crushing was firmly blocked by Spider-Woman's heavy offense and defense, and his dodging footwork was globally locked down by Gwen's spider web.
His advantages were all dismantled and offset, completely falling into a dead end of being passively beaten.
Dense fists and kicks landed on his body in turn, heavy impacts came one after another, the suit on his body surface shattered in multiple places, and large bruises appeared on his skin and flesh.
Every struggle and counterattack would be met with tighter encirclement suppression; his offense and defense rhythm completely collapsed, and he could only retreat step by step, parrying wretchedly, with no trace of his previous arrogant posture of crushing the battlefield.
Chapter 530 Raise Hand to Crush
His superior speed and superior strength were completely nullified by the trio's flawless coordination.
Flustered and exhausted from defense, constantly suppressed at close quarters and forced back, he quickly sustained several bruises from fists and kicks, and his offensive and defensive rhythm completely collapsed.
"Damn it."
The man let out a low, cold cry, a flash of brutality and impatience crossing the depths of his eyes.
He had originally intended to precisely capture Gwen at a single point, finish the fight quickly, and complete the mission quietly, but he hadn't expected a sudden space-time anomaly to attract two other spider combatants from parallel Universes, throwing all his plans into disarray.
Seeing that he was about to be completely suppressed by the trio's joint effort and captured without a fight, the impatience in the man's eyes instantly transformed into a ferocious madness.
"Since you insist on courting death, don't blame me for going berserk and turning this into a slaughterhouse!"
Rumble——!!
A terrifying energy storm instantly exploded from within the man!
His body expanded violently at a speed visible to the naked eye, his muscle lines stretching and surging frantically. The black combat suit around him was strained to the absolute limit, his veins bulging, his skin flushing red, and the ultimate power hidden within his body was completely unsealed and erupted wildly.
A terrifying pressure, far more formidable than before by several times over, swept across the entire scene. Gale winds howled, and the gravel on the ground all soared into the air!
Limit Break: Global Amplification!
At this moment, his strength, speed, explosive power, and combat Impact surged directly by more than three times!
The disadvantage of being suppressed was instantly turned around, and the battle situation was completely reversed!
Bang!!
The man threw a berserk punch, the wind of his fist shattering the air as it forcefully smashed through three intertwined spider-web nets. The terrifying Impact directly blew away the closing Spider-Woman.
Spider-Woman barely adjusted her posture in the air and landed, yet she was still shaken back repeatedly, her arms numb and the web between her thumb and index finger split open. She looked at her berserked opponent in utter shock: "How is this possible! He still has a trump card?!"
Before the two could react, the speed of the berserked man surged to the absolute limit, his figure transforming into a black shadow as he instantly broke through the encirclement.
With a sweep of his gaze, he locked directly onto Silk!
"Talk about finding it without looking! Silk, I've been looking for you for a long time!"
The man sneered, his figure launching a sudden assault with a speed so fast it left multiple afterimages, closing in front of Silk in the blink of an eye.
Silk's expression changed drastically, alarm bells ringing loudly in her heart. She immediately shot out a large amount of web to block him while side-stepping backward and evading at high speed.
But her opponent, after going berserk, completely overwhelmed her reactions with his speed!
The man casually slapped out with a palm, his brute force directly shattering all the webs. His palm precisely grabbed Silk's shoulder, his grappling and locking moves clean, crisp, and vicious to the extreme.
With nowhere to dodge, Silk hastily raised her hand to block, but her defense was directly shattered by the opponent's terrifying strength, leaving her arms numb and her body stiff.
The next instant, the man's five fingers closed in, about to completely lock down Silk's shoulder and capture her alive!
"Not good!" Gwen's pupils shrank sharply, and she rushed to the rescue at full speed regardless of the cost.
Spider-Woman also immediately counterattacked to intercept, but the distance was too great and her speed fell short, making it already too late for rescue.
Just as Silk was about to fall into enemy hands, at that split second when she faced being captured alive and her fate unknown.
Hum——
The entire space instantly came to a standstill.
Gale winds stagnated, gravel hung suspended, figures froze, and energy solidified.
Everything was frozen in mid-air.
Only a single figure, calm and unruffled, stepped out slowly from the void.
Loren slowly landed, his expression calm and his eyes indifferent as he looked at the berserked stranger hunter in front of him.
Before absolute power, the opponent's proud strength, ultimate speed, and combat skills were as insignificant as ants.
The man instantly perceived a fatal crisis of life and death. Every hair on his body stood on end, and an unprecedented fear surged from the bottom of his heart. He tried his utmost to break free from the spatial confinement, continue moving, and immediately retreat.
Yet his flesh and blood, bones, energy, and aura were all locked down completely by the invisible spatial power, unable to move even a fraction of an inch.
"Who?!"
He roared fiercely, the depths of his eyes filled with panic and disbelief.
"Who are you?! Why can you confine my body!"
Loren did not answer, merely raising his eyes slightly and gazing with indifference.
Swish!
The man finally broke free from a trace of the restraint. Exerting all his strength and driving all his combat power, he poured everything into a single punch, violently blasting toward Loren!
This was the strongest strike of his life, enough to tear through steel plates, smash concrete to pieces, and severely injure superheroes!
Yet when the fist landed an inch in front of Loren, it was like crashing into a boundless spatial barrier.
The gale winds stopped abruptly, the kinetic force dissipated, and all Impact power, explosive power, and destructive power were silently swallowed up.
Even though he attacked with all his might, fought desperately, and exhausted his trump cards, he couldn't even touch a corner of Loren's clothes, nor could he injure even a single hair of his.
It was like an ant trying to shake the heavens—ridiculous and impotent.
The man's pupils dilated sharply, his face turning pale instantly as the fear in his heart completely overwhelmed his rationality.
Having roamed across multiple Universes and hunted countless powerhouse spider lineages across boundaries, he had witnessed countless space-time combatants, yet he had never seen such an unsolvable, terrifying suppression.
"Impossible... Absolutely impossible!"
He muttered out loud, trembling violently all over.
Loren's eyes were indifferent as he spoke softly: "Cross-border invasion, unauthorized hunting and killing of this Universe's living beings—who gave you the guts?"
The ultimate oppression of death shrouded his entire body, and the man panicked completely. He no longer had a shred of ferocity or arrogance, leaving only the ultimate fear and desire to survive.
He immediately reined in all hostility, shouting hoarsely and hastily reporting his identity and background, trying to use them to deter the opponent and trade for a chance of survival.
"I'rather'warning you! I am a direct subordinate under Morlun! I am a member of the Inheritors Family!!"
"If you dare to kill me, if you dare to touch a member of the Inheritors Family, the Inheritors forces of the entire Spider Multiverse will absolutely not let you go! Endless cross-border hunters will trample your Universe flat!!"
"Spare me a path to life, and I can pretend this never happened. Otherwise, you will surely invite disaster upon yourself and be doomed eternally!"
This sternly-worded threat and extreme intimidation were his last bargaining chips to save his life.
Yet after hearing this, Loren merely curved his lips faintly, his eyes devoid of the slightest ripple, holding only icy indifference.
Morlun? The Inheritors Family?
Mere forces from a corner of the Spider Multiverse dared to act so rampantly and issue threats and intimidation in front of him.
He could even uproot and completely annihilate Kang the Conqueror and the entire Kang Dynasty; how could he possibly fear a mere cross-border hunting family?
"Noisy."
With a single word falling.
Loren raised his fingertips slightly, and the spatial power instantly tightened, compressed, and annihilated.
Ah——!!
The man let out a short, miserable scream. From the outside to the inside, his body was instantly crushed, torn apart, and dissolved by the ultimate spatial annihilation force.
There was no explosion, no aftermath, no debris, and no bloodstains.
The Inheritors Family hunter, who was berserk, invincible, and suppressing the entire scene just a second ago, directly turned into specks of flying ash the next second, completely dissipating between heaven and earth without leaving even a trace of his existence.
In a flash, the fatal kill came to an end.
The entire scene fell into absolute silence.