"Ah, this..."
Hearing The Judge's reply, Adam couldn't help but twitch his mouth.
Although he had thought about this possibility before, encountering it for real still made his head throb.
Using the God Tree to absorb the celestial embryo and transform it into a fruit to elevate his life level would naturally be of great benefit to him, but it was also normal to anger The Judge.
Only one Celestial was born in a billion years, and it was eaten by someone; anger was understandable.
Fortunately, judging by The Judge's stance, he didn't intend to involve Earth and others.
This was also why he hadn't asked everyone to attack The Judge together just now, fearing they would be implicated.
Now, with The Judge focusing all his firepower on him, it was actually a good thing.
It wasn't that he was so great.
Because he had a retreat; if he couldn't win, he could just run away. After all, he could fly and survive in the Universe.
When The Judge chased him into the Universe, Earth would be safe.
And after leaving Earth, he could find a place to hide in the Naruto World for a while, and after The Judge left, he would come out and travel the Universe for a period.
It wouldn't be too late for him to return to Earth after a few years, when his strength was sufficient to deal with The Judge's pursuit. He could also use this time to harvest Ego the Living Planet.
He believed that with his current rate of strength growth, in a few years at most, while he might not be able to defeat The Judge, escaping from a fully recovered The Judge should not be a problem.
This outcome was surely better than Earth being destroyed and him taking a few survivors to live on other Planets in the Universe, right?
"Adam!"
The Judge's words also reached the ears of the others, and they all showed angry expressions.
"Don't agree to him; let's all go together! We can definitely take this guy down!"
Everyone shouted at Adam, one after another.
Among these people, most genuinely didn't want to watch Adam, the hero who saved the World, be killed by The Judge, and wanted to fight alongside Adam to defeat The Judge.
A small number of people, however, were motivated by the fact that their families were with Adam; if Adam died, wouldn't their families be unable to return?
Therefore, they naturally had to advance and retreat with Adam.
"Okay, I agree!"
However, Adam agreed almost without thinking, but a rice cooker suddenly appeared in his hand.
He certainly wasn't truly agreeing to The Judge; he just wanted to stabilize The Judge first and see if he could find an opportunity to use Evil Containment Wave to steal one of the gravely injured Celestials from the battle with Galactus.
Evil Containment Wave was powerful, but there was little hope of sealing The Judge.
However, if he were to seal a Celestial whose strength was similar to his own and who was still severely injured with little fighting power, there would naturally be a high chance of success.
With a Celestial in hand as a hostage, he could make The Judge hesitant to pursue too fiercely when escaping, greatly increasing the chances of a successful getaway.
"Adam... you!"
Hearing Adam's reply, everyone's eyes immediately welled up.
To save Earth, Adam killed the celestial embryo and took on the hatred of the Celestials alone.
To prevent them from dying in the battle with The Judge, Adam did not hesitate to agree to the Celestials' request, at the cost of his own life, to make the Celestials withdraw from Earth.
Who else could be as great as Adam?
"With you on Earth, I can finally rest assured."
Ancient One, who had been controlling the Space Stone to maintain the stability of the Mirror Dimension, heard Adam's words and sighed inwardly. Then she brought the Time Stone and the Space Stone together.
"Today, it shouldn't be you who sacrifices, but me. This is the responsibility the Sorcerer Supreme should bear."
Powerful spatial and temporal energy erupted, and the entire Mirror Dimension rapidly shrank, sweeping past everyone and sealing towards The Judge.
"Mirror—Seal!"
Originally, according to her plan, she was supposed to die nine years later to allow the most talented Stephen Strange to inherit her position, so she could explore the mysteries of the Multiverse with Eternity.
For the past five hundred years, she had lived for Earth, fulfilling her duties as Sorcerer Supreme without the slightest negligence. She was truly tired.
Now she found that there was someone more suitable and capable of protecting Earth than her, so she decided to retire early.
She would use her life and all her magic to fully activate the power of the Space Stone and Time Stone, sealing The Judge with time and space to resolve this crisis.
"Sorcerer Ancient One, what are you doing?"
Feeling the powerful energy Ancient One unleashed, Adam was also stunned; this did not align with his plan.
A super complex magic array rose behind Ancient One. While controlling the two Stones to inject power, she shouted at Adam:
"You all attack together to weaken his resistance, and I will seal him!"
"Holy cow, Big Sister, are you that amazing?"
Adam's spirits lifted upon hearing this. He hadn't expected Ancient One to be confident in sealing the gravely injured The Judge, which was naturally for the best.
If The Judge could be sealed, the other gravely injured Celestials would be nothing to fear.
"Everyone, charge with me!"
Adam roared, holding his Zanpakuto, and rushed towards The Judge, instantly unleashing his strongest combat power and launching a frenzy of attacks at The Judge.
Ki blasts, Ki Blade, various Black Magic, and close-quarters Zanpakuto slashes greatly diverted The Judge's attention, causing his resistance to Ancient One's seal to drop significantly.
Meanwhile, the other gravely injured Celestials, seeing that The Judge was truly in crisis, no longer stood by recuperating and charged forward together.
Fortunately, Earth's Superheroes were not to be underestimated.
Facing these gravely injured Celestials, whose strength had drastically decreased, everyone swarmed them, using every means available, and managed to hold them all back.
"Judgment Force!"
Facing the combined efforts of Ancient One and Adam, The Judge also sensed trouble. He used his strongest power as The Judge to forcibly tear open a gap in the gradually tightening seal.
"This won't work."
Adam saw that Ancient One's physical body had begun to disintegrate, but the seal remained unclosed and had even been forcibly opened by The Judge. He knew that if this continued, it would ultimately fail.
"I can only take a risk and try!"
After thinking for a moment, he once again took out the rice cooker, which was entirely made of Vibranium and inscribed with various seals such as Five Elements, Eight Trigrams, Four Symbols, and Vajra.
That's right, he intended to use Evil Containment Wave to completely seal The Judge.
Before, he certainly couldn't have sealed The Judge with Evil Containment Wave, but now The Judge was being suppressed by Ancient One's full power, combined with the power of the Time and Space Stones.
He felt it was worth a try, like a last resort.