"Ajak, is what you said true? If it is, that would be wonderful!"
Hearing Ajak's words, Adam feigned a look of pleasant surprise.
"The Celestials, I have heard of them. They seem to be the Celestials who create Planets and life in the Universe. They must be righteous and benevolent Celestials, which is why they are willing to come to Earth to help us drive away Galactus.
I heard before that your Eternal came to Earth because the Celestials sent you to protect Earthlings. It turns out that's the case."
"Yes, yes."
Hearing Adam's words, Ajak and Ikaris both showed unnatural smiles.
Only the two of them within the Eternal knew the truth.
At this moment, Adam's words were like thorns piercing their hearts, making them both embarrassed and uncomfortable, yet unable to speak out.
"Alright, since we have the Celestials' help, the battle plan will be slightly modified.
We cannot place all our hopes on the Celestials.
If the Celestials are unable to drive away Galactus, and a conflict arises between them, we will join forces with Lord Celestial to drive Galactus away."
After confirming the final plan, Adam dismissed everyone to rest.
Only Ancient One remained, looking at Adam with a hint of awe, saying:
"You truly are incredible. In just a few days, I feel like your strength has increased dozens of times!"
She didn't understand the energy of "Ki," but she could sense the threat Adam posed to her, which had suddenly increased significantly.
Adam smiled at her words:
"No choice. I always feel that the Celestials are unreliable, and in the end, I still have to rely on myself.
Besides, the stronger I am, the greater our chances of winning tomorrow's decisive battle, isn't it?"
"That's not necessarily true."
Ancient One sighed helplessly.
Adam's face immediately showed a puzzled expression:
"Have you noticed anything unusual?"
"Adam, have you ever thought about what would happen if more than just one Celestial came this time?"
Ancient One looked at Adam and asked.
Adam frowned:
"Wouldn't that be even better? If more Celestials come, they can definitely deal with Galactus, and we won't have anything to worry about."
He had considered whether Arishem the Judge would ask other Celestials for help, but he didn't think it was a bad thing. After all, the celestial embryo still needed ten years to hatch.
The Celestials wouldn't do anything to Earth after winning.
Ancient One shook her head:
"Originally, according to the normal development of humanity, the celestial embryo would indeed take another ten years to hatch.
However, because of the League of Heroes you created, the World is at peace, and crime has significantly decreased, which has also led to a much larger increase in the human population than expected. Now, it is estimated that it might hatch in three or four years.
If that were the case, there would still be no rush.
The key is that your strength has suddenly increased dozens of times in the past few days, and your life force has surged, making me feel that those last three or four years seem to have been drastically shortened.
So, I'm worried that after dealing with Galactus, the Celestials won't leave, but will wait directly for the Celestial's manifestation."
She couldn't help it; she hadn't expected Adam's strength to increase so much all at once.
After hearing Ancient One's words, Adam's eyebrows immediately twitched:
"I really didn't expect that."
But thinking about it, it made sense. As an Earthling, he was naturally one of the energy sources the celestial embryo would absorb for hatching.
Previously, he had a combat power of six thousand, and now it had suddenly surged to three hundred thousand. This explosive increase in energy, equivalent to Earth's normal population growth over three or four years, seemed plausible.
He even felt that with his current combat power of three hundred thousand, he could take on a newborn Celestial without any problem.
"If that's the case, then I'll have no choice but to be impolite!"
If the Celestials really intended to manifest after driving away Galactus, he wouldn't sit idly by. He had already prepared for the worst-case scenario.
"As long as you have a plan."
Ancient One nodded, then left to rest.
In the current situation, no one could say for sure. Perhaps it would be a false alarm, or perhaps it would truly be the end of Earth. She could only say she would do her best.
If she died this time, she would go to follow Eternity early.
The next day, early in the morning, everyone arrived on the roof of the Sanctum.
"Lord Celestial has informed us that he is about to arrive!"
As Ajak's voice fell, everyone saw a giant, flat face appear in the sky, as if a Celestial was looking down on the human World.
"Good... So big!"
Including Adam, this exclamation simultaneously arose in everyone's hearts.
Because it was truly massive. Just from the exposed face and half a body, the estimated height of this appearing Celestial was probably around three to four hundred thousand meters.
What is the concept of three to four hundred thousand meters? The diameter of Earth is twelve million seven hundred forty thousand meters. The height of this leading Celestial already occupied one-thirty to one-fortieth of Earth's entire diameter.
Such a colossal being appearing in the sky above Earth was truly more outlandish for humans than an ant looking at an elephant.
"He really didn't come alone."
Adam's eyes narrowed. He noticed that beside this three to four hundred thousand-meter-tall Celestial, there were many other Celestials, though they were considerably smaller compared to Arishem the Judge.
Some were tens of thousands of meters tall, some thousands of meters, and even the smallest were less than a thousand meters tall.
But that was only in comparison to the largest Arishem the Judge. Placed individually in an Earth city, a thousand-meter-tall Celestial would still be a behemoth.
However, Adam was also aware of the Celestials' height, after all, the mere hollowed-out head of an ancient Celestial in Guardians of the Galaxy could be used as a temporary Planet.
In fact, he secretly hoped that Arishem the Judge would be overconfident and come to Earth alone to fight Galactus. The best-case scenario would be for them to be evenly matched and perish together.
Even if one of them died, the other would likely be in bad shape, making it much easier to deal with them.
Unfortunately, Arishem the Judge clearly took Galactus very seriously and brought many Celestials with him, probably because he was uncertain about Galactus's condition.
"It seems we'll have to implement the second plan."
Adam turned to Nick Fury:
"You've prepared for this situation, right?"
"Don't worry, yesterday I already notified all governments and reported it in advance through the news. This is a virtual projection performance specially presented by the League of Heroes for the whole World to celebrate Christmas."
Nick Fury replied.
If such a matter wasn't announced in advance, it's estimated that all humans on Earth would now be plunged into panic. Megalophobia is almost inherent in the instincts of normal creatures.
At that time, Earth wouldn't be destroyed by Galactus and the Celestials, but humanity itself would cause many casualties due to panic.
But now it was different. Everyone thought it was a virtual image, at most they would just marvel that the League of Heroes was indeed the League of Heroes, always doing such unexpected things, and then they would go back to their normal work.