High above the clouds, Alex stood like a god looking down from above.
He watched as S.H.I.E.L.D.'s flying carrier broke apart and disintegrated, saw Thor and Iron Man and the others save themselves, and finally, as fragments of the carrier of all sizes crashed to the ground, erupting into flames and sending up clouds of dust, Alex held Loki's scepter and turned into a shooting star, streaking away at high speed and disappearing into the sky.
Next, the stage of battle would shift to New York, but Alex wasn't in a hurry to join it.
Holding Loki's scepter, he flew out over the ocean, found an uninhabited island, and landed on it, startling a flock of birds in the forest.
The island was lush with trees, with no sign of human life. It was the perfect place.
Alex planned to run some experiments here.
He knew that in the Marvel universe, these mysterious stones could grant humans certain powers.
For example, the "Scarlet Witch" gained her abilities from the Mind Stone.
"Captain Marvel" got her power from the Tesseract.
Now that Alex had Loki's scepter, he knew the gem embedded in it actually contained the Mind Stone.
As long as he could trigger the Mind Stone's power, it was possible to gain certain abilities or talents.
When it came to power, it was like money. Who would ever think they had too much?
Although Alex felt he was already very strong, able to go toe-to-toe with Superman, and completely overwhelming the Phase One Marvel superheroes.
But what about later?
Just within the Marvel universe alone, beings like the Celestials would appear.
Not to mention other multiverses, with countless powerful existences.
So Alex would never be satisfied with the current state.
If he wanted to do whatever he pleased across the multiverse, he needed absolute strength.
Of course, triggering the Stone's energy came with certain risks.
And to ensure the energy was used as efficiently as possible, he needed to create a sealed, limited space.
For the first issue, Alex had the "Cloak of Justice," which granted him a one-time immunity to fatal damage. That was the core reason he dared to attempt triggering the Stone's power.
As for the second, creating a sealed, limited space wasn't difficult. Alex could simply expand his own bio-force field and construct a closed environment.
After picking an open area, Alex first released his bio-force field, shaping it around himself into a spherical space with a diameter of ten meters.
At once, faint streaks of light appeared in the surrounding space, most of them invisible to the naked eye, with only a small portion becoming visible due to the activation of the bio-force field.
A faint sphere could now be seen around Alex.
He floated at the center of it, then raised Loki's scepter, adjusted the level of solar radiation, and fired two golden beams.
The moment the heat vision touched the gem embedded in Loki's scepter, the gem lit up. First it released a sky-blue glow that spread outward like flowing water, rippling again and again.
But that wasn't the Stone's true energy.
So Alex increased the solar radiation output, gradually raising the temperature of his heat vision.
From 1000 degrees to 2000 degrees to 6000 degrees to 10,000 degrees.
When the heat vision reached ten thousand degrees, Loki's scepter began vibrating at high frequency. Then, with a buzzing sound, a brilliant golden light suddenly surged out from within the blue gem.
This was the true power of the Mind Stone.
The energy wasn't overwhelmingly violent, but it carried a feeling of absolute invincibility. It quickly slammed into Alex's bio-force field, trying to break through and spread outward, but was forced back.
The Stone's energy flowed back, colliding with newly generated waves of energy, and instantly the spherical space formed by the bio-force field was thrown into a raging storm.
And this was exactly what Alex wanted.
As he wished, the surging, terrifying Stone energy howled toward him. Alex spread his arms wide to receive it.
But when the energy waves struck his body, they triggered the Cloak of Justice's bio-force field. Protected by this layer, the energy splashed like water and retreated, colliding with other waves, causing the entire spherical space to rumble endlessly.
'This…'
Alex had not expected this outcome at all.
The corner of his mouth twitched. He had planned to use the cloak's death immunity to test whether he could withstand the Stone's transformation.
But the Stone's energy couldn't break through the cloak's field, causing it to reverberate between the two layers instead.
Alex immediately stopped triggering the Stone's power and opened a gap in the spherical field. At once, the Stone's energy inside found an outlet and surged out in a torrent, forming a golden stream that shot into the sky.
After the energy inside the sphere had completely drained away, Alex looked at the scepter in his hand. If he wanted to continue the experiment, he would have to temporarily put away the Cloak of Justice and use his own body to endure the impact of the Stone's energy, to see if it would trigger some kind of change.
But that was extremely risky.
After all, the Stone's energy was dangerous. One mistake and he could cripple himself.
"Wait…"
"What am I afraid of?"
"The Scarlet Witch and Captain Marvel were just ordinary people when they endured the Stone's energy."
"If they could withstand it, what do I have to fear?"
"Even without the bio-force field, I still have a body of steel. Is my body worse than an ordinary human's?"
Thinking this, Alex decisively put away the Cloak of Justice and looked at the scepter in his hand.
"There's no such thing as getting something for nothing in this world."
"If you want huge rewards, you have to take equally huge risks."
"All in!"
His eyes lit up again, and he fired golden beams onto Loki's scepter once more.
As the temperature rose, the gem on the scepter again released golden energy. It surged and collided within the spherical space, rising higher and higher until it filled the entire space.
This time, without the protection of the bio-force field, Alex finally faced the full force of the Stone's energy. He felt it pouring into his body through every pore.
It washed over his flesh, his bones, his blood vessels, his nerves, his organs, and every single cell.
"Ahhhhhh!"
Alex let out a scream. He had already stopped firing his heat vision, and Loki's scepter fell to the ground.
But the overwhelming Stone energy continued to gush out from the gem, forming massive waves like a tsunami that slammed into Alex again and again.
Changes began at the cellular level. His genetic sequence started to tremble, creating more gaps so newly formed sequences could insert themselves.
But at that moment, Alex felt like he was falling apart.
His nails detached from his fingers. His hair turned black. His eyeballs felt like they were trying to escape their sockets.
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