The silver-gray spacecraft was covered in countless scratches.
The enormous vessel stood before everyone, and they all gathered around it.
"This is what Galactus sent back, isn't it?"
"He sacrificed his life to complete his mission."
"Galactus, we'll never forget your sacrifice!"
After such an enormous upheaval throughout the Multiverse, the Ultimate Nullifier had finally been brought back.
For the moment, the crisis had been averted.
The weight hanging over Eternity's heart finally eased.
Galactus's death had bought them a temporary respite.
The power Abraxas had unleashed this time had been terrifying.
It had even cost them Galactus.
Everyone fell silent.
But Gaea knew that they couldn't allow grief to distract them from the danger before them.
Abraxas was determined to destroy the Multiverse!
Karl watched the chaotic situation with an oddly detached attitude.
At first, no one had paid much attention to him.
That changed when he demonstrated his control over the Law of Time!
After seeing that power, no one dared underestimate him anymore.
Now that the Ultimate Nullifier had been brought back, they needed to activate it as quickly as possible.
It was their only way to deal with Abraxas.
"We don't just need to kill Abraxas. We need to avenge Galactus too!"
Everyone clenched their fists.
Then, almost simultaneously, every pair of eyes turned toward Karl.
Karl had made his name in a single battle!
"This kid can even manipulate the Law of Time. Let him do it!"
"Exactly... Galactus is already dead. Who else would dare try?"
"Gaea, what should we do?"
Although they voiced the question, everyone already knew the answer.
Subconsciously, they had all decided that Karl was the only one capable of completing this task.
Abraxas was radiating such overwhelming violence and hatred that no one else dared step forward.
Karl took a deep breath and was just about to speak when he suddenly felt the entire Multiverse shake.
This disturbance—
Abraxas had attacked again!
Karl's personal universe had once again suffered damage.
He couldn't simply sit there and wait for death!
Abraxas's power twisted physical space itself, and the distortion continued spreading.
Before long, a massive cosmic vortex appeared before everyone.
The vortex continued expanding.
"This is bad!"
"The Multiverse really is going to be destroyed this time!"
"With a vortex this enormous, we'll all be sucked inside! We'll barely be able to save ourselves!"
"We have to activate it now!"
Once the Ultimate Nullifier was activated, the entire Multiverse would reboot.
Abraxas would disappear along with it.
Even so, Gaea hesitated.
"Karl! Get out here!"
"Our previous duel doesn't count!"
"If you've got the guts, come out and fight me instead of hiding like a coward!"
"You don't actually think rebooting the Multiverse will be enough to kill me, do you?!"
Abraxas's booming voice instantly drew everyone's attention.
Karl casually cleaned out his ear.
Karl had already displayed astonishing power, but no matter how extraordinary a Sorcerer Supreme he might be, he was still a sorcerer.
Even a god had already died here.
Could Karl truly be stronger than a god?
Meanwhile, the vortex continued growing.
Its gravitational pull was terrifying.
If anyone was dragged all the way into its depths, what happened afterward would be an entirely different matter.
Everyone braced themselves.
As the danger drew closer, Karl could also feel his personal universe beginning to collapse under the disturbance.
Karl knew that if they waited any longer, they were all going to die.
He raised the Ultimate Nullifier and flew straight toward Abraxas!
His speed was astonishing.
"Karl!"
Everyone's hearts tightened as they watched him charge forward.
The vortex was now completely out of control.
Everyone desperately used every ounce of their strength to resist being pulled inside.
A tremendous, piercing noise erupted.
Everyone felt as though their heads were about to split apart.
Everything around them turned gray and indistinct.
Karl felt his body plummeting at tremendous speed.
He couldn't control his descent at all.
The force here was simply too powerful to control.
"Damn it!"
Karl realized that he couldn't press the trigger of the Ultimate Nullifier.
He focused his will, forcing himself to stabilize his mind despite the tremendous gravitational pull.
Karl concentrated.
Suddenly, pale-blue arcs of energy appeared around his body.
They formed something resembling a shield, keeping the raging gravitational force outside.
Abraxas was stunned.
Even beings on the level of the Five Great Gods had been disrupted by this gravity to the point where they could barely use their abilities.
Yet the man before him seemed to possess an endless reserve of power erupting from within his body.
This gravitational force didn't merely pull in everything around it.
Even the energy inside their bodies was continuously draining away.
Eternity had already noticed this, but there was nothing he could do.
This power wasn't something even a being at his level could control!
"This gravity..."
"My body feels weaker and weaker!"
Under gravitational force this powerful, no one should have been able to endure.
So how could Karl?
Karl, however, had finally adapted to the situation and now appeared completely composed.
All kinds of objects beneath him continued being dragged into the vortex.
Abraxas panicked.
He charged forward, intending to seize the Ultimate Nullifier from Karl.
"You can withstand gravity this powerful?!"
"No!"
"That's impossible!"
But it was already too late.
Those outside suddenly felt the gravitational force disappear.
The vortex vanished as well.
Abraxas felt his body slowly fragment.
In an instant, he crumbled into countless pieces!
The entire universe was left devastated.
"It rebooted?"
"Where's Karl?"
"The vortex disappeared. Does that mean Abraxas is dead?"
"Stop standing around! Hurry over there and see!"
Gaea stepped forward and ordered everyone to regroup.
Amid the ruins, Karl slowly rose to his feet.
From behind, his figure seemed impossibly imposing.
"He succeeded?"
This kid—
He had actually succeeded?
Gaea and the others could hardly believe what they were seeing.
Karl stood up and brushed the dust from his clothes.
"I almost got sucked away."
Eternity and the others were deathly pale.
That gravitational force had drained far too much from them, and they staggered toward Karl.
Yet Karl looked completely calm.
Everyone stared at him in astonishment.
This Sorcerer Supreme really was far more capable than they had imagined.
He had gotten so close to that vortex and emerged completely unharmed.
He had even taken Abraxas down in the process!
His strength didn't appear to have diminished at all.
He was still full of energy.
Everyone could only stare at him, open-mouthed.
After a brief silence, Gaea walked over to Karl.
"What exactly happened to you just now?"
Karl didn't think it had been anything extraordinary.
Did they really expect him to start explaining everything from the most basic training onward?
Karl didn't want to stay here any longer.
His personal universe had suffered some minor damage during this battle, and he wanted to return as soon as possible to repair it.
As for the aftermath—
They could deal with it themselves.
At first, the Five Great Gods hadn't thought this kid would amount to much.
Now they could only stare at him in stunned silence, no longer daring to say anything.
Karl quickly departed.
But he had only traveled halfway when he noticed something unusual near the edge of the universe.
At first, he assumed it was simply a natural phenomenon caused by the Multiverse reboot.
But that faint glimmer was drawing closer and closer.
"This is bad!"
(End of Chapter)
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