Chapter 101 Things are out of control!
In the depths of the Universe, silence and coldness are eternal themes.
Decaying stars emit their last glow, and endless asteroid belts, like scars of the Universe, stretch across the dark void.
In this starfield, where even light seems weary, a throne warship, unimaginably massive, hovers silently like a slumbering ancient beast.
Sanctuary II.
Its hull is as black as ink, filled with irregular, grotesque geometric structures, like a mobile mountain sailed out of a nightmare. Its mere presence is enough to subtly distort the surrounding space, silently pulverizing passing asteroids.
The warship's throne hall is filled with the cold aura of iron and blood.
Thanos, with his burly physique and skin as hard as amethyst, sat upright on his floating throne, crafted from an unknown metal.
He is Thanos, a cosmic overlord whose name alone can make countless civilizations tremble.
His gaze is deep and cold, as if containing the life and death of the Universe. His left hand, covered by the golden Infinity Gauntlet, rested gently on the armrest of the throne, filled with unquestionable majesty.
Just now, he felt an unprecedented tremor, originating from the depths of his soul.
The mysterious link between him and the cosmic origin told him that the six Infinity Stones he had spent his entire life pursuing, their perfect and harmonious balance, had been completely shattered by a brutal and unreasonable force!
He closed his eyes, and a massive surge of mental power poured out like a tide, connecting with the Black Order scattered throughout the Universe.
Suddenly, his brow furrowed tightly.
A thought echoed directly in his mind; it was a message from his most loyal subordinate, Corvus Glaive, filled with terror and confusion.
"Master! Collector Tivan's Knowhere has erupted in chaos! The Reality Stone, the Aether, broke free from its restraints; it… it tore through space on its own and left!"
Before this news could be fully digested, another urgent message followed, from Ebony Maw, stationed in the Andromeda galaxy.
"Master! Xandar has issued a maximum alert! The Nova Corps' headquarters has been completely destroyed, and the Power Stone… it's out of control! It crushed the entire Nova Fleet and flew towards an unknown coordinate!"
Following that, more messages came like an avalanche!
"Master! Asgard reports energy anomalies, and the Space Stone has disappeared!"
"Master! The Time Stone's Guardian, Ancient One, seems to have suffered heavy injuries, and the Time Stone's aura has also vanished!"
Thanos suddenly opened his eyes, and in those deep pupils, for the first time, there appeared intense confusion and a hint of… enraged chill!
Impossible!
This is absolutely impossible!
The Infinity Stones are the embodiment of the Universe's laws; they are proud, they are independent. How could they 'run away from home' simultaneously, like a group of soldiers who heard a command?
This is no longer a coincidence.
This is… a summons!
An unknown, incomprehensible entity, in a way he couldn't imagine, simultaneously issued commands to all the Infinity Stones!
And they… obeyed!
"Where did they go?" Thanos's voice was cold enough to freeze the soul.
Corvus Glaive's trembling thoughts came: "All signs point to the same coordinate… that 'low-level civilization planet' we call 'Midgard'."
Earth!
Thanos's pupils suddenly contracted.
The Mind Stone!
The Mind Stone, which he had bestowed upon Loki, was supposed to open the door to Earth for him and eventually be retrieved by him, was on Earth!
Everything connected!
On Earth, there appeared a terrifying entity, outside of his plans, capable of changing the very nature of the Infinity Stones!
This was no longer a conquest, or a war.
This even exceeded his understanding of power!
"Interesting…" A cruel and intrigued smile slowly appeared on Thanos's face.
He, Thanos, to achieve the balance of the Universe, was willing to bear the sin of slaughtering half the life in the Universe. His will was indestructible, his plan flawless.
But now, on the chessboard, a 'hand' suddenly appeared… no, a 'hand' appeared that could casually take all the pieces!
This hand disrupted everything he had planned.
However, this did not make him afraid.
On the contrary, it ignited an unprecedented desire for conquest, befitting a cosmic overlord!
No matter what that entity was.
Whether it was an ancient God, or a dimensional ruler.
He had to face it! He had to… obliterate it!
Because this Universe only needed one 'God'.
That was him, Thanos!
"Corvus." Thanos slowly stood up, his massive body casting a mountain-like shadow.
"My Master!"
"Assemble the Black Order, and activate all of Sanctuary II's engines."
Thanos's voice, like a cold wind from the depths of the Nine Hells, echoed throughout the throne hall, filled with unquestionable resolve and killing intent.
"We will go ourselves."
"To that small, blue planet."
"To meet that… 'thing'… that dared to touch my destiny!"
Rumble!
The massive warship, Sanctuary II, silent for centuries, had its internal energy core ignited instantly. The enormous hull began to move slowly, and the surrounding asteroid belt was silently crushed into cosmic dust under its terrifying aura.
A vast cosmic fleet, enough to make any Level 5 civilization despair, like the Grim Reaper awakening from darkness, turned its direction.
Their target, that small blue planet, like a speck of dust in the vast Universe.
Earth.
A cosmic-level Shadow, capable of dragging the entire Solar System into war, was quietly descending!
Meanwhile, on Earth, the Avengers, or rather, the employees of the Earth Property Management Office, were still immersed in the absurd miracle of their boss summoning six Infinity Stones with a single phrase, "Meeting time," unable to extricate themselves.
They did not know that the real "big order" had already arrived.
Avengers Tower, conference room.
The atmosphere was eerily silent.
Tony Stark slowly awoke. When he opened his eyes and saw the six Infinity Stones circling Jarvis like docile pets, his recently recovered brain almost crashed again.
He gave up thinking, sitting on the ground like an empty shell from which the soul had been drawn, his eyes vacant.
He was numb.
Not just him; everyone present was already numb.
When the absurdity of Reality surpasses the limits of your imagination, you have no choice but to accept it.
Chapter 102 The Destruction of the Pioneer, What Planet is This?
Captain America Steve, a man whose will was like steel, could only lean weakly against the wall at this moment; he didn't even have the strength to be angry or to question.
Thor, the God of Thunder, bowed his noble head even lower, not daring to look at the figure sitting on the sofa. He was afraid that if he looked one more time, the pride of being an Asgardian God would completely collapse.
In this oppressive silence, Arthur yawned again.
"Ah, it's getting more and more boring."
He had summoned the six Gems, expecting a world-shaking spectacle, but they were even more "obedient" than he imagined; throughout the entire process, there wasn't even a decent struggle.
It was like a max-level expert wanting to find an elite monster to stretch his muscles, only for the elite monster to immediately kneel and sing songs of surrender upon seeing him.
This feeling was truly... bland.
Arthur stood up, stretched, and his figure instantly vanished from the spot.
The next second, he had appeared on the surface of the Moon.
On the silent Moon, he found a relatively flat crater, sat down leisurely, with his legs dangling over the edge of the impact crater, and gazed with interest at the beautiful, azure planet below.
"Hmm... this view is not bad."
But he soon felt it was a bit monotonous.
"Just looking at it isn't very interesting; I need to find some fun."
His gaze swept across the entire Solar System.
He saw the asteroid belt floating between Mars and Jupiter, saw Saturn surrounded by ice crystals in the distance, and saw Uranus, lying proudly and rotating on its own.
An idea flashed through his mind.
"Got it."
The corners of his mouth curved into a playful arc.
He slowly raised his right hand and gently clenched it towards the distant asteroid belt.
Buzz!
An invisible, yet terrifying force capable of distorting the entire Solar System's Magnetic Field, descended instantly!
The entire asteroid belt, with its hundreds of millions of meteorites, large and small, was at this moment as if clutched by an invisible giant hand! They stopped their original trajectories and began to vibrate and rub violently!
Immediately after, under Arthur's will, these meteorites began to rapidly converge, compress, and merge towards a central point in a manner that defied astrophysics!
In just a short dozen seconds.
The entire asteroid belt disappeared.
In its place was a perfect... silver metallic sphere, over one hundred kilometers in diameter, with a surface as smooth as a mirror, formed by countless meteorite materials highly compressed!
A... gigantic, Universe-level... marble!
"Hmm, not bad, the first toy is ready."
Arthur nodded in satisfaction.
Then, his gaze turned to Jupiter.
He extended a finger towards the largest gas planet in the Solar System and lightly flicked it.
Pop.
A soft sound, as if it didn't exist in reality.
The Great Red Spot on the surface of the massive Jupiter suddenly began to rotate wildly at an eerie speed! The entire gravitational field of Jupiter was forcibly altered in this instant!
It transformed into a... Universe-level, super slingshot!
"Ready."
Arthur smiled, locking his will onto the giant silver marble.
"Then, let the game begin!"
With a thought, the silver marble, as if struck by an invisible force, instantly transformed into a silver stream of light, shooting fiercely towards Jupiter!
And just then, Sanctuary II's massive fleet had arrived at the edge of the Solar System, the Kuiper Belt, via space jump.
"Master, we have reached the target star system," Corvus Glaive reported respectfully, kneeling on one knee.
Thanos sat on his throne, coldly watching the blue planeton the star map, his eyes filled with brutality.
"First, send the Outriders to test them," his voice was devoid of emotion, "I want to see what that 'thing' is capable of."
"Yes, Master!"
At his command, countless giant hatches at the bottom of Sanctuary II roared open!
A dense, tide-like army of Chitauri and ferocious Leviathans swarmed out of the hatches! Their numbers, in the tens of thousands, were enough to completely devour an ordinary planet in just one hour!
This massive vanguard legion, filled with destruction and a desire for slaughter, formed a black torrent in space, rushing rapidly towards Earth!
However, their good luck ended there.
They had just stumbled into Arthur's... "marble playground."
On the Moon, Arthur was enjoying himself.
The silver marble, after being accelerated by Jupiter, the "super slingshot," began a frantic ricochet between the major planets of the Solar System at an inconceivable speed!
It collided with Saturn's rings, stirring up billions of dazzling ice crystal ripples, yet remained completely unharmed!
It grazed Uranus's magnetic poles, leaving a dreamlike aurora trail!
It swept past Olympus Mons on Mars, causing even the highest volcano in the Solar System to tremble slightly!
The entire Solar System had become his pinball machine!
Just as he was about to manipulate the marble to execute a beautiful and difficult "Seven Stars in a Row" trick, he suddenly felt that a group of... buzzing flies had flown into his "playground."
"Hmm? Where did this trash come from?"
Arthur frowned, feeling his enjoyment disturbed.
He didn't even bother to look at what those "flies" were; he just felt they were an eyesore, polluting his clean game board.
So, he casually had a thought.
"Clean it up."
The Chitauri vanguard legion, rapidly flying towards Earth, suddenly felt something was wrong.
An irresistible, terrifying force, coming from all directions, even from within every single atom, instantly enveloped them!
It wasn't gravity, not magnetism, but... a more fundamental rule, named "Aggregation"!
There were no explosions, no screams, not even a ripple of energy.
The tens of thousands of Chitauri soldiers, the ferocious Leviathan beasts, and their spacecraft... everything, in this instant, was forcibly kneaded together!
Metal, flesh, bones, energy cores... all matter was forcibly compressed and fused by this unreasonable force, with atomic-level precision!
In Sanctuary II's command center.
Thanos and his Black Order were coldly observing all of this through holographic projection.
One second ago, the screen showed a vast and imposing vanguard legion.
The next second, on the screen, all life signals, all spaceship signals, the dense array of light dots representing his army...
Chapter 103: Ebony Maw's Pride, Mortal, Hand Over the Gem!
In an instant, everything vanished!
In its place was a solitary… black, irregular, metallic trash ball, forcibly fused from countless substances.
In the command hall, there was a deathly silence.
All members of the Black Order stared with wide eyes, their faces filled with incomprehensible horror.
What happened?
Where was their army?
Just then, they saw the solitary trash ball suddenly get flicked by an invisible force, transforming into a streak of light, flying into the dark depths of the Universe at a speed countless times faster than it arrived, never to stop…
Thanos slowly rose from his throne.
For the first time, a look of extreme solemnity appeared on his furrowed purple face.
That wasn't war.
That wasn't even an attack.
It was more like… a housewife cleaning, casually sweeping a bug that entered the house into the trash.
"This…" Corvus Glaive's voice trembled for the first time.
"What planet is this?"
The atmosphere in Sanctuary II's command hall was at a freezing point.
The instantaneous "evaporation" of tens of thousands of Outriders was like an invisible, loud slap, fiercely hitting the faces of every Black Order member present.
They had followed Thanos in conquering the Universe, destroying countless planets, slaughtering countless races; they had seen various powerful civilizations and terrifying weapons.
But they had never seen such a bizarre, such an unreasonable… "cleanup" method.
There was no roar of energy cannons, no fleet engagement, not even the slightest resistance.
It was just silently "pinched" into a trash ball and then "thrown" away.
This feeling was like a group of fully armed elite soldiers, ready to besiege a city, being blown away by a giant on the city wall with a single breath.
This wasn't a difference in power level.
This was… a crushing at the level of life itself!
"Master…" Corvus Glaive's voice was incredibly dry; he didn't even dare to look up at Thanos's expression.
Thanos didn't speak; he just stood there quietly, a dangerous and profound light flickering in his purple eyes.
He knew that ordinary legions were meaningless to that unknown existence.
Numbers, in front of such an existence, were just a joke.
Someone of sufficient "weight" had to personally test it.
"Ebony Maw." Thanos slowly spoke, his voice deep and full of majesty.
Among the Black Order, a slender, pale-skinned, emaciated figure slowly walked out.
He was Ebony Maw, Thanos's most powerful sorcerer, the most terrifying Master of telekinesis. Unlike Corvus Glaiveand Proxima Midnight, he did not advocate violence; he preferred to completely destroy his enemies spiritually and mentally in an elegant and cruel way.
He bowed slightly and said in a melodic, wise, and arrogant tone, "My Master, your most loyal servant is here to hear your command."
"You go down." A cold glint flashed in Thanos's single eye. "Go tell those Midgard mortals, tell that 'thing' hidden among them."
"Hand over the Infinity Stones."
"Otherwise, I will personally descend and turn that planet, along with their sun, into cosmic dust."
A morbid and confident smile appeared on Ebony Maw's face.
"As you command, my Master. I will make them understand your sublime will in endless despair."
He elegantly waved his hand, and a small, Q-shaped warship, like a sharp blade, detached from Sanctuary II, cut through the dark Universe, and plunged straight towards that azure planet!
…
Earth, New York.
The Avengers, who had just experienced the dual miracles of "Cosmic Marble" and "Outrider Evaporation," hadn't yet recovered from their numbness when the piercing alarm sounded again furiously inside the Avengers Tower!
"Alert! An unknown spacecraft detected, rapidly entering the atmosphere! Target, New York Manhattan!"
In the conference room, everyone's expression tightened.
They knew that after witnessing that "cleanup" method, anyone daring to come alone could not be an ordinary person.
Steve Rogers took a deep breath, forcing down the absurd, faith-shaking thoughts in his mind. No matter how outlandish this world became, no matter how perverse their "boss" was.
He, Captain America, his duty to protect innocent civilians, would never change.
"Everyone, prepare to move!" He used all his strength to restore the firmness to his voice.
However, just as they were about to deploy, Arthur's lazy voice echoed through the loudspeaker again.
"What's the rush."
"They're just here to deliver a message. Such a big fuss will scare the guests."
"Everyone stay put and just watch."
"This is… the boss's command."
The last sentence, like a basin of cold water, extinguished the faint spark of fighting spirit that had just ignited in the Avengers.
They could only watch as the Q-shaped warship, like a black meteor, descended into the center of New York City!
The warship did not cause any explosion; it hovered lightly over Greenwich Village in a manner defying inertia.
The hatch opened, and Ebony Maw, like an elegant stage actor, slowly floated out.
He looked down at the steel jungle below and the panicked crowds like ants, his face showing undisguised contempt and arrogance.
He didn't even look at the police and army who were already on high alert.
Because in his eyes, these mortal weapons were no different from burning sticks.
He slowly spread his arms, and his magnetic, seductive voice, amplified by telekinesis, clearly echoed over all of New York.
"Listen, you pathetic beings of Midgard!"
"I am Ebony Maw, son of the Universe's greatest monarch, Thanos the Mad Titan!"
"My Master is about to bring merciful, great salvation to this bloated and unbalanced Universe! And you are fortunate to be witnesses!"
His voice was filled with fanaticism like a charlatan.
"Now, I give you a choice!"
"Hand over the Infinity Stones you possess! Hand over that energy anomaly hidden among you, who has desecrated the power of the Stones!"
"My Master may forgive your ignorance and take only half of your lives."
"Otherwise…"
Ebony Maw's lips curled into a cruel arc.
"…you will experience… despair… ten thousand times more terrifying than death itself!"
As his words fell, he gently raised a hand.
Chapter 104 Who gave you the courage to use telekinesis in front of me?
Buzz!
A powerful, invisible Telekinesis instantly enveloped an area several kilometers in radius!
Cars on the street, fire hydrants by the roadside, even billboards on building facades… everything was lifted by an invisible force, densely suspended in mid-air!
The ground began to crack, and countless sharp stones broke through the earth, like hideous fangs!
The sky, at this moment, seemed to transform into a death sea of steel and concrete, ready to fall at any moment!
New York City citizens let out screams of extreme terror!
At Avengers Tower, the Avengers watching this scene also turned pale.
"How… how terrifying Nian Dong (Telekinesis)…" BruceBanner's voice trembled, "He controlled tens of thousands of tons of material with just his will! This kind of power…"
However, just as Ebony Maw was enjoying the fear of mortals and preparing to further display his god-like power.
A flat, even slightly impatient voice, without any warning, sounded in his ear.
"In broad daylight, what's with all this noise pollution and illegal construction? Are people not allowed to get some proper rest?"
Ebony Maw's pupils suddenly constricted!
He turned around abruptly, only to see a China youth in casual clothes, who had silently appeared behind him at some unknown point, leisurely… picking his ear.
This person completely ignored his Telekinesis field, which was strong enough to distort space!
"You…" Ebony Maw's operatic voice stuttered for the first time.
Arthur lowered his hand and looked him up and down with an expression like he was looking at an idiot.
"Playing with Nian Dong (Telekinesis) in front of me?"
"Who gave you the courage? Liang Jingru?"
Who was Liang Jingru?
Ebony Maw's brain, like a supercomputer, instantly searched the databases of tens of thousands of Milky Way Galaxy civilizations, but found no information about this name.
But this did not prevent him from understanding the undisguised, naked… contempt in that sentence!
"You are… that anomaly?"
Ebony Maw's face instantly darkened, and for the first time, the elegant disguise faded from his gaunt face, revealing a chilling murderous intent.
He could feel that this seemingly ordinary youth in front of him contained a terrifying energy he completely could not comprehend, as profound as a Universe black hole.
But he had absolute confidence in his Telekinesis, which he had cultivated for thousands of years!
Telekinesis is the extension of will.
And his will, through countless slaughters and conquests, had long been tempered to be as indestructible as divine metal!
"Ignorant mortal, you do not understand what great power you are facing!"
Ebony Maw roared, no longer holding anything back!
He pushed his hands forward violently!
"God's Punishment!"
Rumble rumble rumble!!!
The entire New York City seemed to come alive at this moment!
The tens of thousands of cars, stones, metal billboards suspended in mid-air, like a million-strong army receiving an emperor's command, instantly transformed into deadly meteors, fiercely smashing towards Arthur's location from all directions!
The trajectory of every fragment had been precisely calculated, blocking all evade space!
At the same time, the earth beneath Arthur's feet cracked open with a roar!
Giant spikes, each over ten meters in diameter, twisted from high-strength concrete and rebar, wildly thrust upwards like bamboo shoots after a spring rain!
The sky was a meteor shower of steel!
The earth was a thorny forest of concrete!
This was a true, inescapable killing blow!
In Avengers Tower, everyone watching this apocalyptic scene on the holographic projection felt their hearts leap into their throats!
"Quick, get out of the way!" Natasha instinctively cried out.
However, facing this world-destroying attack, powerful enough to instantly crush an army into meat paste.
Arthur just stood there quietly.
He didn't even bother to lift his eyelids.
His face still held that bored expression, as if watching a third-rate magic show.
Just a split second before the overwhelming attack was about to touch his body.
Time seemed to slow down.
No, it didn't slow down.
Instead…
Everything stopped.
Those cars carrying immense force, those incomparably sharp giant earth spikes, everything, stopped abruptly less than a meter from Arthur's body.
They just, eerily, hovered in mid-air.
The entire world seemed to have become a still, destructive oil painting.
And Arthur was the only "person" who could still move in this oil painting.
"This… this is…"
Ebony Maw's confident expression completely froze. He widened his eyes, his face filled with incomprehensible horror.
He could feel that his Telekinesis had not disappeared!
They still existed, still frantically driving those materials!
However, a more vast, more fundamental, and more… unreasonable power, like an absolute "domain," enveloped this space.
In this domain, his Telekinesis was like a mosquito trapped in amber, completely "frozen"!
His will, his power, could not shake this "domain" in the slightest!
"Too noisy."
Arthur finally slowly lifted his eyelids, his gaze calmly falling on Ebony Maw.
"And, the styling is also very ugly."
He said indifferently.
Then, he gently snapped his fingers.
Snap.
A crisp sound.
The next second, a miracle that would make Ebony Maw, and all life watching this scene, utterly terrified, occurred.
Those densely packed cars, gravel, billboards, earth spikes… suspended in mid-air…
Everything, in that instant, lost its "form."
They dissolved silently into their most primitive, billions and trillions of… atoms, like morning dew in the sun.
Yes, atoms.
No explosion, no light, they just suddenly transformed from "macroscopic matter" into "microscopic particles."
The sky-filling steel torrent, the hideous concrete thorny forest, just… disappeared.
In its place was a colorful, dreamlike… mist of atoms, composed of countless atoms.
"No… impossible…"
Ebony Maw's voice, for the first time, carried a tremor and fear from the depths of his soul!
What kind of power is this?
Directly decomposing matter at the atomic level?
This is no longer Telekinesis! This is… this is the authority only a Creator God possesses!
He finally understood why tens of thousands of Outriders had disappeared without a trace.
Chapter 105 This is Omega-level telekinesis!
Because in the eyes of the being before him, a fleet and a stone, in essence, were no different!
They were all made of atoms… toys!
"Now, it's your turn."
Arthur's gaze pierced through the ethereal atomic mist, landing on Ebony Maw.
"Don't you like to play with Telekinesis?"
"Then I'll let you experience it properly."
Arthur slowly raised his right hand.
Then, towards Ebony Maw's direction, gently.
He closed his hand.
In that instant, Ebony Maw felt as if he had been abandoned by the entire Universe.
An absolute, undeniable, terrifying will, impossible to describe with any language, descended like an iron curtain from a four-dimensional space, instantly enveloping him!
His proud, immense Telekinesis, capable of twisting steel and overturning the earth, was as minuscule as dust encountering a star before this will!
It couldn't even stir a ripple before being instantly… swallowed, assimilated!
He wanted to escape, wanted to tear space, wanted to send a final warning to his Master Thanos.
But he couldn't.
His body, his soul, even every thought in his mind, was completely imprisoned by that supreme power!
He became a… statue… with conscious awareness.
"No…"
A thought filled with extreme terror roared madly in his mind.
And Arthur, expressionless, slowly tightened his loosely held right hand.
The movement was so gentle, as if he were merely crushing a walnut.
However, what was inflicted upon Ebony Maw was the most cruel punishment, one that made the entire Universetremble!
"First, the bones."
Arthur's calm voice, like the whisper of the Grim Reaper, resonated directly in Ebony Maw's consciousness.
Crack! Crack crack crack!
A series of ear-splitting, dense bone-cracking sounds erupted wildly from within Ebony Maw's body!
They weren't broken by external force; rather, all two hundred and six bones in his body, from within every bone cell, simultaneously began a terrifying… compression towards a central point!
Ebony Maw could clearly "see" his hard skull being crushed inch by inch, as if run over by an invisible hydraulic press! He could "hear" his thick spine being ground into bone powder, segment by segment!
Excruciating pain!
Pain beyond the limits of life's endurance, originating from every single cell, instantly engulfed him like the most frantic tide!
But he couldn't even let out a single scream.
Because his consciousness was forcibly locked into its most lucid state, compelled to "appreciate" the… deconstruction process of his own body from a first-person perspective!
This was merely the beginning.
"Then, your flesh and internal organs."
Arthur's voice was devoid of any emotion, like a scientist conducting a precise experiment.
As his words fell, that terrifying compressive force began to act upon Ebony Maw's soft tissues!
His heart was instantly crushed! His lungs were squeezed into a thin sheet! His proud brain, containing powerful psychic energy, was directly kneaded into a pulp!
Blood, bodily fluids, cellular tissues… everything was being forcibly dehydrated and compressed in a way that defied biological principles!
Ebony Maw's body began to collapse inward and shrink at a visible rate.
His gaunt body, like a punctured balloon, rapidly shriveled and deformed.
In Avengers Tower.
All the Avengers who witnessed this scene through holographic projection were completely petrified.
Their faces were filled with expressions of horror even greater than seeing the end of the world.
Their throats felt as if they were filled with cement, unable to utter any sound.
Their stomachs were churning, almost making them vomit bile.
Too cruel!
Too terrifying!
This was no longer a battle!
This was an… artistic, utterly malicious… slaughter!
To utterly crush a life, from macro to micro, from bones to flesh, bit by bit, right before its own eyes!
This kind of mental torment was ten thousand times more terrifying than physical pain!
They finally understood how… "gentle" Arthur had been when dealing with Vision, and with them, before!
And at this moment, that terrifying "deconstruction" was still continuing.
When all of Ebony Maw's bones, flesh, and internal organs were compressed to the extreme.
That power began to advance to an even more microscopic level!
"Finally, every… atom that makes you up."
Arthur's five fingers slowly, completely closed!
Buzz!!!
An ultimate power capable of annihilating everything descended!
The atomic structure within Ebony Maw's already compressed, inhuman body was forcibly broken!
Electrons were stripped from their orbits!
Protons and neutrons were forcibly squeezed together!
All the matter in his body was undergoing a… small, artificial, absolutely controllable… black hole generation process!
Endless light and heat erupted from that tiny "singularity," yet they were tightly confined by the invisible Nian Dong (Telekinesis), unable to leak out even a trace!
Finally, when everything settled.
The spot where Ebony Maw had been was now empty.
All that remained was a crystal-clear, marble-sized, peculiar sphere, seemingly containing a brilliant galaxy within, silently suspended in mid-air.
That was the product of all of Ebony Maw's matter being compressed to the extreme.
And his soul, filled with pain, fear, resentment, and bewilderment, was completely sealed within the core of this "marble."
For all eternity, he would experience the endless pain of the moment he was crushed, within this tiny cage.
"Hmm…"
Arthur extended two fingers, picked up this still-warm "marble," brought it to his eyes, and examined it with interest.
"A screaming soul filled with negative energy…"
"It would make a unique keychain pendant, or a not-so-useful paperweight."
He casually tossed this marble, formed by the "concentration" of a Universe-level overlord, into his pocket.
Then, he slowly raised his head, his gaze seemingly piercing through the atmosphere, through the endless vacuum, precisely meeting Thanos's gaze on the Sanctuary II throne.
His voice was not loud, yet it clearly, through some unknown law, directly echoed in every corner of Sanctuary II, and in Thanos's mind.
"Hey, you purple potato sitting on the iron chair."
Chapter 106 Thanos' wrath, the entire army attacks!
"Your trash has fallen, and it's blocking my sun."
"You have ten seconds to remove it from my sky."
"Ten."
"Nine."
"…"
That calm yet utterly domineering countdown slowly tolled in Thanos's ears, like the Grim Reaper's bell.
Sanctuary II, Throne Room.
Dead silence.
A silence so profound it could freeze time itself.
On the holographic projection in the center of the hall, the entire process of Ebony Maw's "deconstruction" and "compression" was clearly displayed.
Every detail, every bone fracture, every inch of collapsing flesh, was presented in the highest definition before the eyes of all Black Order members.
They watched helplessly as their proud "comrade."
That elegant yet powerful "prophet" was crushed alive by an incomprehensible, god-like power into a… glass marble.
And a transparent one at that.
Then, they heard that voice.
That calm, yet utterly humiliating voice.
Purple potato monster?!
Trash?!
Blocking the sun?!
The ten-second countdown, like the heaviest war drum, struck their hearts again and again, striking at their already twisted dignity as conquerors of the Universe!
The air in the hall seemed to solidify.
The Black Order members, usually fierce and tyrannical, were now as silent as cicadas in winter, not daring to even breathe.
For the first time, an emotion called "fear" appeared in their eyes.
They felt they were not facing an enemy.
It was a… monster! A… demon who regarded the laws of the Universe as nothing!
However, Thanos's reaction exceeded everyone's expectations.
He had no fear.
He didn't even have shock.
On his rock-solid purple face, his muscles twisted and twitched violently from extreme rage!
In his deep eyes, a raging inferno, capable of incinerating an entire galaxy, burned fiercely!
Humiliation!
An unprecedented, deep-seated, utter humiliation!
He, Thanos, from the moment of his birth, was destined to bear the mission of correcting the Universe! He destroyed planets, slaughtered lives, not for power, not for desire, but for a noble ideal understood by no one!
He saw himself as the "destiny" of the Universe, an unstoppable, inevitable tide!
He could accept failure, he could accept death, but he would never accept… being so utterly disregarded and insulted!
That entity simply did not consider him an opponent!
But rather, an… annoying neighbor who accidentally dropped trash at his doorstep!
This complete disregard from a fundamental level of existence made him a thousand times angrier than any malicious curse!
"Eight."
"Seven."
"…"
The persistently urge-like countdown continued.
"Master…" Corvus Glaive's voice was already trembling uncontrollably. For the first time, he wavered in his Master's grand plan.
Thanos suddenly turned his head, his eyes burning with rage, like two supernovas about to explode, glaring intensely at Corvus Glaive.
"Shut up!"
A furious roar, like rolling thunder, exploded in the hall!
Corvus Glaive was so terrified by this terrifying aura that he immediately fell to his knees, trembling like a sieve.
Thanos slowly descended from his throne.
Each step he took seemed to land on the pulse of the Universe, causing the entire Sanctuary II to tremble slightly.
He walked to the command console and looked at the holographic projection of that blue planet, which in his eyes was filled with sin.
"Three."
"Two."
"One."
The countdown ended.
"Time's up." On Earth, Arthur's calm voice sounded again, "It seems you chose the… most foolish answer."
However, what answered him was Thanos's roar, filled with endless brutality and madness!
"Fire!!!!!!!"
He pointed at New York on the screen, at that tiny figure, and with all his might, he roared out the angriest command of his life!
"Use Sanctuary II's main cannon!! "
"Wipe that continent from that planet completely!!!!"
"Y-Yes, Master!"
The operator at the command console tremblingly pressed the red button, representing ultimate destruction!
Boom—!!!
The entire Sanctuary II, this colossal war fortress, had its core energy engines begin to operate at a frantic overload!
At the bow of the ship, a cannon muzzle, more than several kilometers in diameter, like the gaping maw of an abyss, slowly opened!
An endless, terrifying energy, enough to vaporize a neutron star, began to furiously gather and compress within the muzzle!
The surrounding Universe space, unable to withstand this immense energy, began to violently twist and shatter, revealing colorful dimensional rifts!
A pure, extremely condensed, civilization-destroying… Doomsday Beam was formed!
In Avengers Tower.
The Avengers, who had just slightly recovered from the shock of Ebony Maw's annihilation, suddenly saw all the instruments inside the Tower emit extremely shrill alarm sounds!
"Alarm! Alarm! Super-standard energy reaction detected outside the Solar System! Energy level… uncalculable! Uncalculable!"
"Target locked on Earth! Estimated arrival in thirty seconds!"
The holographic projection in the conference room switched to a monitoring screen from outer space.
They saw a… light point, countless times brighter than the sun, light up on that mountain-like black warship!
Then, that light point transformed into a thick, incomparable beam of energy that pierced through the heavens and Earth, tearing through the dark Universe, carrying an ultimate will of destruction capable of making even gods despair, and shot fiercely towards Earth, towards New York!
Everyone's faces instantly turned ashen white.
Their minds were blank.
It's over.
Everything is over.
In the face of such a true "natural disaster," capable of wiping an entire continent off the map, all their efforts, all their resistance, seemed so ridiculous, so insignificant.
Earth was going to be destroyed.
However, just as this desperate doomsday arrived.
Arthur, the young man who had always remained calm, slowly raised his head.
He looked at the Doomsday Beam descending like divine punishment, and in his eyes, finally, a trace of…
…interest appeared.
"Oh?"
"Finally, a… somewhat decent fireworks display has arrived."
Chapter 107 You call this the main gun?!
What kind of light was that?
It was indescribable.
The moment it lit up, the sun, the star that had ruled the entire solar system for over four billion years, instantly paled in comparison, as if it had become an inconspicuous, dim light bulb.
The light beam was so thick that from Earth, it seemed to occupy a good part of the sky, like a divine pillar made of pure energy, supporting heaven and Earth, now crashing down upon the human world!
Wherever the light beam passed, space shattered like fragile glass, and everything in its path—asteroids, cosmic dust, even light itself—was completely vaporized and annihilated the moment it was touched!
This was the purest, most unreasonable violence, a culmination of the core energy of an entire Universe-dominating fleet!
This was a true "world-Ending" strike, capable of completely obliterating a living planet, along with its continental shelf, on a physical level!
Inside Avengers Tower, everyone had stopped breathing.
Their pupils reflected the destructive light beam, growing closer and brighter, and their brains, overwhelmed by terrifying information far beyond their capacity, had completely gone blank.
Steve Rogers clenched his fists tightly, his fingernails digging deep into his palms, but he felt no pain. In the face of such immense power, his proud will, for the first time, felt the emotion called "despair."
Tony Stark slumped to the ground, watching the energy readings on the screen soar and then turn into a string of garbled code, a bitter, self-mocking smile playing on his lips. The "Iron Armor" he had pursued his entire life was as fragile as tin foil before this light.
Thor, the Prince of Asgard, was trembling uncontrollably. He recalled his father Odin's words to him: "The Universeis vast, child; always maintain reverence."
He now truly understood the meaning of that sentence. The lightning he commanded was like a child's firework compared to this light.
It's over.
This was the only thought that simultaneously arose in everyone's mind.
No one could stop this strike.
Not even a god.
However, at this final moment of doomsday's arrival.
Arthur, the young man who had stood in the center of New York City, precisely targeted by the world-Ending beam, slowly raised his head.
He looked up at the light beam falling like a divine punishment, feeling the terrifying high temperature that could instantly melt steel, and the energy storm that was disrupting the entire Earth's Magnetic Field.
On his face, there was no fear, no solemnity, not even a hint of seriousness.
He merely raised an eyebrow slightly.
In his eyes, there was a faint hint of… interest, as if he had seen some novel toy.
"Oh?"
"Finally, a… somewhat decent firework."
His voice was soft, yet it clearly reached the ears of every Avenger, as if possessing a strange magic that forcefully calmed their hearts, which were on the verge of being swallowed by fear.
Then, under the gaze of everyone, and Thanos's gaze filled with savagery and delight on Sanctuary II.
Arthur slowly raised his right hand.
He extended a finger.
A fair, slender, seemingly ordinary, even overly clean… index finger.
He casually pointed it at the sky, with a light touch.
The next second.
Boom!!!!!!
That world-Ending beam, capable of destroying continents, that torrent of energy tearing through the vacuum of the Universe, at an altitude of tens of thousands of meters above the ground.
Stopped.
Yes, it stopped just as abruptly, coming to a sudden halt.
There was no Earth-shattering explosion, no world-destroying Shockwave.
The front end of that wildly powerful energy light beam, several kilometers in diameter, was pressed dead against that slender finger.
As if it had crashed into an invisible wall of sigh, formed by a cosmic singularity, absolutely insurmountable!
Countless energies, unable to advance, wildly splashed and surged in all directions, forming a dazzling energy canopy in the high sky, ten thousand times brighter than the sun's surface!
The terrifying energy storm ionized the atmosphere, pulling out billions of brilliant auroras, illuminating the entire New York night as if it were day!
The entire world, at this moment, lost its sound.
Time, as if paused.
Every single one of the Avengers had their mouths wide open, their eyeballs bloodshot from witnessing a miracle beyond comprehension.
In the throne room of Sanctuary II.
Thanos's ferocious smile, filled with the pleasure of revenge, completely froze on his face.
Behind him, Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, and the other members of the Black Order were as if petrified, maintaining the cheering postures from the previous second, unmoving.
In everyone's eyes, that absurd scene, capable of overturning the cognition of all cosmic civilizations, was reflected.
A light that could destroy heaven and Earth.
A finger, calm and effortless.
Between the two, a strange yet absolute balance was formed.
"Alarm! Alarm! Main cannon energy output has reached 300%! Energy conduits are about to overload!"
"Target… target has no damage whatsoever! Energy is 100% blocked! This is impossible! This violates the most basic laws of thermodynamics in the Universe!"
In front of the command console, the operator's screams, filled with terror and collapse, broke the dead silence.
Thanos's pupils suddenly constricted to the size of a pinprick!
He could clearly feel that all of Sanctuary II's energy was pouring out like a bursting flood, yet it was like a clay ox entering the Water, stirring not a single ripple!
That existence was not resisting with stronger energy.
He was using a… higher-dimensional "rule" to "define" the… ineffectiveness of this strike!
Just then, Arthur's voice, full of disdain and contempt, once again traversed the endless distance, echoing clearly in everyone's mind.
"Is that it?"
"I thought it was something incredible; turns out it's just a large laser pointer."
"Hey, Purple Yam."
"You call this a main cannon?"
You call this a main cannon?
This light, rhetorical question, like an invisible heavy hammer forged from billions of tons of humiliation and mockery, slammed hard onto Thanos's soul!
His will, burning with rage, for the first time, showed a crack.
His proud war fortress, capable of conquering the Universe, his ultimate weapon used to destroy civilizations and judge planets.
In the other party's words, it was merely… a large laser pointer?
"Impossible! Increase energy output! Overload it for me! Overload!!!"
Chapter 108 Energy absorption, tastes good!
Thanos's sanity, ignited by the extreme humiliation, completely snapped! He let out a roar like an injured beast, and his left hand, covered by the Infinity Gauntlet, slammed onto the command console, instantly denting the hard metal control panel!
"Master! The reactor has reached its limit! If we continue, the entire ship will explode!" The operator cried out in despair.
However, Thanos was no longer listening to any advice.
He stared intently at the tiny yet god-like figure on the screen, his eyes filled with nothing but pure, unadulterated madness, a desire to utterly crush his opponent!
Buzz buzz buzz—
The hull of Sanctuary II began to groan under the strain of the overloaded energy output. Countless energy conduits glowed red from overheating, some even starting to melt!
The world-destroying beam, hurtling towards Earth, surged in brightness and diameter by another third!
High in the sky, the canopy of energy became even more chaotic and dazzling!
However, all of it was futile.
No matter how violent the light beam, no matter how destructive the energy it contained.
Before that slender finger, it still… could not advance an inch!
On Earth, Arthur looked at the increasingly'straining' light beam and yawned idly.
"Still going on and on?"
"Seriously, no creativity at all."
He seemed to have grown tired of this 'blocking the energy cannon with a finger' game and slowly lowered his arm.
Just as Thanos thought his opponent could no longer hold on, and a cruel smile began to form on his face.
Arthur made a move that silenced the entire Universe.
He tilted his head back, facing the torrent of energy that resembled a celestial river pouring down.
He opened his mouth.
Then, he gently inhaled.
Whoosh—
In that instant, the Universe seemed to turn into a video with the mute and rewind buttons pressed.
The terrifying light beam, several kilometers in diameter, capable of piercing through Earth, seemed to encounter a 'black hole' with infinite gravity, inexplicable by any physics!
Its violent energy form was forcibly twisted and stretched by a more fundamental, unreasonable law, transforming into a long, slender, brilliant ribbon of energy that, at an inconceivable speed, poured madly into Arthur's seemingly small mouth!
How absurd, yet how shocking, was that scene!
It was as if a roaring, surging cosmic river ultimately flowed into a small, inconspicuous bottle neck.
"Gulp… gulp…"
In Avengers Tower, everyone clearly heard the faint swallowing sounds, like someone drinking a beverage, transmitted through the loudspeakers.
Their brains had completely given up on thinking.
If blocking a world-destroying energy cannon with a single finger was a 'miracle'.
Then, sucking that energy cannon into one's mouth like noodles…
This was a scene that could no longer be described by any known vocabulary!
Tony Stark's eyes rolled back, and he mumbled unconsciously, "Energy… conservation… mass… law… my physics… it's dead…"
Meanwhile, on Sanctuary II, Thanos and his Black Orderwere as if they had witnessed the arrival of the most terrifying, unspeakable ancient god in the Universe; the blood in their bodies instantly froze!
They watched helplessly as the strike that Sanctuary II had unleashed with all its energy, the one that concentrated all their hope and rage, was… treated by the opponent as a… beverage?
No, not even a beverage.
More like… mouthwash.
In just a few short seconds.
The world-destroying beam, spanning heaven and Earth, along with all the subsequent energy emitted by Sanctuary II due to overload, was completely absorbed by Arthur, not a trace of energy residue left.
High in the sky, the dazzling energy canopy disappeared.
The ionized atmosphere quickly returned to calm.
The sky reverted to its deep darkness, with only faint starlight twinkling quietly.
It was as if the apocalyptic scene just now was merely a collective, absurd hallucination.
Arthur smacked his lips, still not satisfied, and reached down to rub his flat stomach.
Then, in front of the entire Universe, he let out a… loud, satisfying burp.
"Burp~"
A wisp of gas with a faint golden aura floated out of his mouth.
"Hmm…"
Like a wine connoisseur, he savored it carefully, then gave his evaluation.
"The taste isn't bad."
"It's a bit like the Pop Rocks I ate as a kid, tingly, with a slight electric current, quite a novel texture."
Pop… Pop Rocks?
Boom!
This evaluation, like a final judgment, utterly shattered Thanos's indestructible heart, forged from divine metal!
He could no longer maintain his dignity as the overlord of the Universe, stumbled, and his massive body actually took half a step back!
His eyes, which had been burning with rage, were now completely engulfed by a coldness called 'fear'.
He finally understood.
What he faced was not some unknown powerhouse, nor some ancient deity.
It was a… monster… who treated the laws of the Universeas toys!
An… existence… he could never understand, let alone defeat, in his entire life!
And just then, he saw that the 'monster,' after finishing his 'appetizer,' slowly raised his head and once again turned his gaze towards his Sanctuary II.
That look was like seeing a… main course about to be served.
"Alright, the appetizer is done."
Arthur stretched, his bones cracking with a series of crisp sounds, as if he had just completed a pleasant post-meal warm-up.
He looked at Sanctuary II, lurking in space like an ancient beast, and a benevolent smile appeared on his face.
However, this smile, in the eyes of everyone on Sanctuary II, was ten thousand times more terrifying than the most malevolent grin of a devil in the Universe!
"We in China have an old saying, 'It is impolite not to return a courtesy.'"
Arthur's voice, slow and leisurely, once again crossed space and echoed in Thanos's mind.
"You treated me to a 'Pop Rocks,' so I, in turn, should give you something back, to be polite, right?"
Thanos's pupils contracted to the extreme in an instant!
An unprecedented sense of mortal danger, originating from the deepest part of his soul, instantly engulfed him like a cold tide!
"Defense! Activate all defenses! Transfer all energy to the shields!"
He let out the most terrified, most desperate roar of his life!
However, it was already too late.
Chapter 109: The Four Obsidian Generals? No, they are just four pieces of scrap metal!
Arthur slowly raised his right hand, extended his index finger, and pointed it towards Sanctuary II.
His movement was so casual, so understated, as if he was shooing away an annoying fly.
"The energy you sent earlier, while it tasted good, had too many impurities and was of poor quality."
"I just 'purified' it for you a bit, no need to thank me."
"And, by the way, I'll add some of my own… exclusive seasoning."
The moment his words fell, a wisp of energy, deeper than a black hole, more brilliant than a supernova explosion, and mixed with strands of chaotic lightning, flashed across his fingertip.
That was Nebula Thunder.
A power belonging to Arthur himself, capable of annihilating stars and reshaping laws.
The next second.
A light appeared in the Universe.
It could no longer be called a "beam of light."
Because it had no form, no sound, and even no energy fluctuations.
It was more like a… trace left after the Universe was "erased."
A pure, absolute, and representative of "nothingness" itself… Line of Erasure!
Its appearance surpassed causality, surpassed thought.
When the people on Sanctuary II had just captured its existence on their retinas.
It had already… arrived.
Sanctuary II, a war fortress forged from the most resilient alloy in the Universe, enveloped by a powerful energy shield capable of withstanding stellar storms.
In front of it, it appeared more fragile than a thin sheet of paper.
The energy shield, which was enough to make countless civilizations despair, did not even stir a ripple in front of that "Line of Erasure"; it simply vanished silently, as if it had never existed in this world from the beginning.
Next, came the several-kilometer-thick, ferocious, and sturdy hull armor.
They were not melted, not pierced, not vaporized.
Instead, they were… "wiped" away.
Yes, wiped away.
Just like using an eraser to wipe away pencil marks on paper.
That "Line of Erasure" passed through the center of Sanctuary II's massive hull in a completely unreasonable way, defying all laws of physics.
Then, it disappeared on the other side of the Universe.
The entire process was less than the blink of an eye.
The Universe returned to silence once more.
Sanctuary II remained suspended motionless in space, as if nothing had happened.
However, in the throne hall.
Thanos, and all the surviving Black Order members, stood dumbfounded, like puppets from whom the soul had been drawn.
Their gaze, passing through the massive viewport in front of the command platform, saw the most terrifying sight of their lives.
Beneath their feet, the floor, made of indestructible alloy, had vanished.
Above their heads, the ceiling, covered with complex pipelines and defense systems, had also vanished.
The entire Sanctuary II, from bow to stern, at the position where it was pierced by that "Line of Erasure," everything, whether metal, energy pipelines, weapon systems, or those soldiers who couldn't escape in time…
Everything was completely, conceptually, erased.
What remained was a perfect… circular void, with a diameter exceeding five kilometers, edges as smooth as a mirror, clearly revealing the starry sky on the other side!
This war fortress, which had traversed the Universe and struck fear into countless civilizations, now resembled a black donut… pierced by a mischievous child with a needle.
"Ah—!!!"
A piercing alarm finally arrived belatedly!
The remaining air within the hull was instantly sucked into the vacuum, and countless electrical sparks wildly leaped from the severed pipelines!
The entire structure of the warship, having lost its central support, began to emit a grating, agonizing wail of impending disintegration!
"No… no…"
Corvus Glaive looked at the massive void that pierced through the entire warship, at the cold and profound Universe outside, and his will finally, completely collapsed!
He let out a desperate, inhuman roar, turning to flee this hellish command hall.
However, Thanos's reaction was even faster than his!
This mad Titan, after experiencing the initial, extreme fear, instantly erupted with his true nature as a ruthless hero pushed to the brink!
He knew that fleeing was useless!
Facing such an existence, fleeing to the end of the Universewould only be a different way to die!
The only chance of survival was to… fight!
Use everything to gamble for that sliver of hope!
"Roar!!!"
Thanos let out an Earth-shattering roar, and for the first time, his massive body erupted with a pure, golden cosmic energy belonging to the Titan god race!
He grabbed his iconic double-bladed war axe beside him, and his huge body leaped fiercely, directly plunging from the massive void into the cold vacuum of the Universe!
"For Thanos!!!"
Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive, seeing their Masterlead the charge, had their loyalty, crushed by fear, reignited!
They exchanged glances, also grabbed their weapons, let out desperate roars, and followed Thanos's figure, transforming into two streams of light, courageously charging towards that azure, nightmare-like planet!
Above New York, Earth.
Arthur floated quietly in mid-air; he didn't even bother to look at Sanctuary II, which he had already "punched a hole in."
To him, it was like swatting a mosquito, not worth another second of his attention.
He was looking down with interest.
The streets and buildings previously destroyed by Ebony Maw's telekinesis were rapidly… self-repairing at a visible speed.
The matter that had been decomposed into atoms was reassembling under his will, returning to its original positions and forms.
The broken ground re-merged, shattered glass windows were restored to their pristine state, and even the terrified expressions on the faces of the frightened citizens were quietly smoothed away by an invisible force; relevant memories were also modified into "a sudden, realistic disaster movie promotional event."
"Hmm, that's more like it."
Arthur nodded in satisfaction.
"If you break something, remember to fix it. Littering is uncivilized behavior."
He was like a landlord with severe mysophobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder, meticulously cleaning his own house.
Just then, he seemed to sense something, and slightly raised his head, looking towards the deep space.
Three streams of light, burning with the Fire of anger and despair, were tearing through the atmosphere at an extremely fast speed, plummeting directly towards his location!
Leading the charge was Thanos, wielding his double-bladed war axe, bathed in golden cosmic energy!
Chapter 110: Thanos, roll down here yourself!
Following closely behind were Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight, who poured all their lifelong strength into the divine weapons in their hands, preparing to launch the strongest strike of their lives!
Meanwhile, from two other directions, Cull Obsidian's massive body, resembling a meteorite, along with the chain hammer in his hand that could change form, and Supergiant's invisible mental power, capable of eroding and controlling any intelligent life, also locked onto Arthur from different angles!
The Black Order, together with their Master Thanos, launched a final, desperate charge!
They wanted to defend their final dignity as conquerors of the Universe in the most tragic way!
Inside Avengers Tower, the Avengers, who had just recovered from the shock of the warship being pierced through, saw this scene, and their hearts jumped into their throats once again!
"Are they... are they crazy?!" Tony Stark cried out involuntarily. "Having seen that kind of power with their own eyes, they still dare to charge up?"
"This isn't courage, this is... suicide!" Steve Rogers said with a grave expression.
However, facing the joint attack launched by these five top powerhouses of the Universe, burning their lives away, a strike powerful enough to shatter a planet.
Arthur only lightly frowned.
On his face, there even appeared a trace of... obvious displeasure at having his peace disturbed.
"How annoying."
"I just cleaned up the house, and a few buzzing flies flew in again."
He was too lazy to even raise his hand, and too lazy to use any flashy moves.
He simply moved a thought.
A thought of wanting "silence."
Thus, a domain, with him as the center, silently and instantly expanded, covering the sky for a hundred miles around.
[Absolute Zero]
This was not negative 273.15 degrees Celsius in the physical sense.
But rather... in the conceptual sense, an absolute "stillness."
It was the ultimate domain where the flow of time, the extension of space, the transmission of energy, the movement of matter... absolutely everything was forcibly "paused"!
At that moment, Thanos and the Black Order, who were diving down at sub-light speed, had their movements abruptly stopped.
Thanos's expression, filled with madness and determination, was eternally frozen on his face. His high-raised double-edged sword, still thousands of meters away from the top of Arthur's head, could no longer descend a single inch.
Corvus Glaive's peerless blade, which had been thrust out and was capable of tearing apart souls, stopped in mid-air.
Proxima Midnight's trident, which she had thrown and could pursue an enemy to the ends of the Universe, also came to a standstill.
Cull Obsidian's massive body maintained a posture like Mount Tai pressing down, and every twitch of the muscles on his face was clearly visible.
Supergiant's invisible mental storm, capable of controlling planet-level powerhouses, was "frozen" into billions of crystalline snowflakes of thought the moment it touched the edge of the domain.
The energy flames burning on their bodies, the deadly cold light flashing on their weapons, the sonic boom clouds created by friction with the atmosphere due to their high-speed flight...
Everything, at this moment, turned into a static, violent, aesthetic, and eerie... three-dimensional painting.
A thin layer of frost, as if condensed from starlight, began to appear on their bodies.
But this frost did not come from the outside.
It was born simultaneously from inside every atom and every quark of their bodies!
Their minds were not immediately frozen.
Arthur "mercifully" gave them a few last seconds to feel this ultimate, bone-deep and soul-deep... "tranquility."
Thanos's eyeballs could still move with difficulty.
He saw that his body was ceasing all activity from the most basic particle level.
Electrons no longer jumped, and protons no longer vibrated.
His powerful Titan god-body, capable of withstanding cosmic Radiation, was turning into a... truly, absolutely static... statue.
At this moment, his crazy heart finally, completely, sank into an endless, cold abyss.
He finally understood.
He was wrong.
Absurdly wrong.
He was not challenging a powerhouse at all.
He was just an overestimating mortal, attempting to... shake the Universe itself.
Arthur looked at the five lifelike "ice sculptures" in the sky and shook his head in dissatisfaction.
"The poses are too ugly, there's no sense of art at all."
He waved his hand casually.
The five eternally frozen statues, as if controlled by an invisible giant hand, slowly changed their poses.
Thanos was posed in a kneeling position, holding his battle sword with both hands, head bowed in repentance.
Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight were posed as left and right guardians, crossing their weapons to protect the "King" in front of him.
Cull Obsidian was posed in a cute, weightlifting posture, holding his hands up to the sky.
Supergiant was posed in an... elegant, spinning posture, as if dancing ballet.
"Hmm, this looks much better."
Arthur clapped his hands in satisfaction.
"Black Order? No, now they are four pieces of... somewhat creative scrap metal."
Then, he looked up at the Sanctuary II, which had completely lost power and was floating like space junk, his gaze precisely locking onto the location of the throne room.
He knew there was still one... survivor there.
He showed a kind, harmless smile in that direction.
"Alright, the little ones have all been taken care of."
"Now, it's your turn."
"Thanos, are you going to roll down yourself, or... should I go up and invite you?"
Arthur's voice was not loud, but it carried an unquestionable, ultimate judgment.
However, the five "ice sculptures" in the sky naturally could not give him any response.
On Thanos's eternally frozen face, the madness and determination from the charge remained, but under the law of [Absolute Zero], all of this appeared so ridiculous and pathetic.
"Tsk, rude guy, doesn't even know how to answer when asked a question."
Arthur pursed his lips, seemingly very dissatisfied with this kind of "cold violence."
He looked up, his gaze sweeping across the five uniquely shaped ice sculptures, and then looked at the distant Sanctuary II, which had turned into a "space donut."
"Leaving them here like this takes up too much space, and it pollutes the space environment."
"I need to find a place to properly display these... 'trophies'."
A thought emerged in his mind.
On his face, a smile full of mischievous humor appeared, one that made the Avengers' scalps tingle.
"Got it."
He slowly raised his right hand and beckoned gently towards the distant Sanctuary II, which was floating outside Earth's orbit.
Hum!
An invisible, mighty force that transcended gravity and stood above space descended instantly!
That war fortress, larger than a mountain range and weighing over hundreds of millions of tons, along with the five frozen statues, seemed to lose all weight at this moment, turning into a light... toy model!
They were grabbed by that invisible giant hand and, at a steady and swift speed, slowly descended towards Earth!
Inside Avengers Tower.
Everyone was already numb.
Their nerves, after experiencing a series of bombardments of miracles such as "blocking a cannon with a finger," "swallowing a beam of light," "piercing through with one finger," and "instant freezing," had been completely destroyed, entering a state of "sage mode."
Watching Arthur's actions now, they felt no ripples in their hearts, and even felt like laughing.
"What... what does he want to do?" Natasha asked in a dry voice; she had given up on understanding and just wanted to know the result.