Ding!
Sure enough, the system's voice rang inside Ethan's mind.
"Unknown cosmic energy detected. Ability generated: Reality Stone LV1."
A pleasant surprise had arrived.
Praise Oracle.
Ethan opened the character template in his mind and quickly noticed a new ability listed there.
"Reality Stone LV1: All scientific rules and natural laws are meaningless before it, because it can modify them at will."
The description was simple, but it revealed the true charm of the Reality Stone.
Without question, this was the most powerful of the Infinity Stones.
Of course, it was also the hardest one to use.
As the longest-standing host of the Reality Stone, Malekith had only dug out a few interesting magical tricks. He used illusions so realistic that people mistook them for truth, then relied on that belief to erase his opponents.
Most of the time, however, he simply created weapons from thin air and used them to fight.
"Like this."
With a thought, a sharp blade appeared beside Ethan.
The energy of the Reality Stone made the entire weapon glow a strange blood-red color.
With another thought, flying swords appeared all around him.
They seemed to form a sword formation, much like Hela's ability.
"But using the Reality Stone like this is a complete waste."
To alter reality itself, scientific rules and natural laws meant nothing as long as he willed it.
Snap!
Ethan snapped his fingers.
Hum!
An invisible wave radiated outward.
The earth beneath his feet disappeared.
In its place appeared a lake.
Ethan walked across the surface of the water, and ripples spread beneath each step.
When he tried to turn a mountain into ice cream, however, Ethan felt a trace of difficulty. Clearly, Reality Stone LV1 alone was not enough to accomplish something that absurd.
But that did not matter.
The energy stored inside his body was enough to advance it quickly.
Ding!
"Reality Stone LV2."
"Reality Stone LV3."
"Reality Stone LV4."
Energy absorption moved freely as well.
A terrifying vortex formed above Ethan's head.
Like a black hole, it swallowed all the energy in the Dark World.
This time, the promotion speed became faster and faster. Even though the Reality Stone ability consumed an enormous amount of energy, Ethan's foundation was more than enough to support it.
A long while passed.
After around half an hour—
Ding!
"Reality Stone LV12."
Considering how much energy this ability consumed, Ethan nodded with satisfaction.
Then he thought again.
Snap!
With a snap of his fingers, a volcano in front of him transformed into a snow-covered mountain.
Under the blood-red sky, amid a volcanic land that resembled hell, such a snow-capped mountain looked unbelievably abrupt. It did not belong there at all.
This was the Reality Stone.
It changed reality and realized the thoughts in his mind.
Although Ethan still could not permanently alter reality, the remaining fluctuations of the stone's power were enough to maintain the snow mountain for a long time.
"Not bad."
Ethan praised it sincerely.
Compared with the Power Stone's pure destruction, the Reality Stone offered far more room for manipulation. It truly deserved to be called the most powerful and most difficult Infinity Stone to use.
"Of course, this is now my fourth stone."
Space.
Power.
Mind.
Reality.
The four energies intertwined inside his body and merged with one another. Their integration greatly increased the effect of each stone, and even Ethan's original strength leaped to a terrifying level.
He clenched his fist and felt unprecedented power brewing within his body.
The four stones granted Ethan monstrous strength.
Even more terrifying was the fact that he was already a Silver Age Superman.
That foundation gave him power far beyond ordinary imagination.
In the Silver Age Superman stage, Ethan still had a long road ahead of him.
At the strongest level, a single sneeze could blow the entire solar system out of the Milky Way. His flight speed could become so fast that he could pierce the time barrier and break through dimensions one after another.
Ethan was still far from that point.
And yet, Silver Age Superman was already terrifyingly powerful.
Above that level, there was still Golden Superman.
There was even the strange and incomprehensible Thought Robot Superman.
That was a frightening power even six Infinity Stones could not grant.
From that alone, one could imagine how terrifying Golden Superman, known as the "final madness," truly was.
Hum!
The four Infinity Stones finally merged and converged into one place, perfectly integrated.
At that moment, the energy Ethan accidentally released from the Dark World shook the strings of the universe.
All at once, many ancient beings across the cosmos froze in shock.
In Knowhere, the Collector, Taneleer Tivan, was wiping his newest collection before placing it into a cabinet with satisfaction.
At that moment, his hands suddenly trembled.
Bang!
The porcelain in his hand smashed against the ground.
Tivan did not care about the collection at all.
Instead, terror filled his face.
"Damn it..."
"This is the fluctuation of an Infinity Stone."
"No."
"This is the fluctuation of several Infinity Stones mixed together."
"Someone in this universe has already collected so many?"
"It cannot be Thanos."
Tivan knew very well that the Titan had been collecting Infinity Stones.
"What does he want?"
"Dominate the multiverse?"
"Or slaughter the five cosmic creation gods?"
Thinking about Thanos's usual methods, Tivan could not help shuddering.
"They should have felt this power as well."
"I wonder what the other Elders of the Universe will think."
As a highly intelligent race that appeared shortly after the Big Bang, the Collector belonged to the Elders of the Universe.
This ancient society of elders secretly observed the movements of the cosmos.
Compared to the Collector Tivan, who had always loved collecting, the Grandmaster preferred gambling of every kind.
He had his own planet, Sakaar, where he hosted arena battles.
At that same moment, the Grandmaster also felt the strings of the universe being disturbed.
He put down the wine glass in his hand and narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Who is it?"
"Infinity Stones."
"What a dangerous force."
"No matter what, six Infinity Stones must never gather in one place."
"That would be the greatest threat."
"I believe the other members of the Elder Council already know as well."
"I just do not know what they are thinking."
And it was indeed so.
More than a dozen members of the Elders of the Universe—the Gardener, the Trader, the Possessor, the Champion of the Universe, the Runner, and even Ego, who had long lived away from the group—all felt that heart-stopping cosmic power.
"Who is this?"
"What does he want?"
"It is terrifying."
"It is frightening."
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