As she spoke, Clea, having completed the task of opening the rift to the Dark Dimension, intended to return to the Dark Dimension and no longer cared about the life or death of Earth.
But just as she took a step toward the rift, a slender black hand reached out from within the rift of the Dark Dimension and slammed onto her pretty face.
"Huh?!"
In Clea's wide, incredulous eyes, she felt her face being held by a slender figure wearing a black Symbiote suit, and she was slammed hard onto the floor!
Boom——————
With a loud roar, the floor behind Clea was covered in dense, spiderweb-like cracks!
"Do you think Earth is a place you can come and go as you please? Now, just stay here properly and wait for Ryan to finish dealing with Dormammu and return to judge you!"
The woman who emerged from the Dark Dimension, wearing the black Symbiote suit, was naturally Gwen.
Next, a red-clad figure, identical to the black-clad Gwen, also hopped out from the Dark Dimension.
"Wow, it's actually so lively here. No wonder Ryan let us come here to play!"
Gwen looked at the scene of corpses strewn everywhere and sand filling the air inside the Sanctuary, and her eyes lit up instantly!
Then, opening her mouth, a mouthful of scorching red Fire spewed out, burning toward Sandman, who was entangled in a fight with Strange!
Sandman, who was already being suppressed by Strange's Fire dragon, couldn't possibly withstand this sneak attack from behind by Gwen.
His body's crystallization accelerated, and soon, caught between the flames of Strange and Gwen, he was forcibly burned into a glass statue!
Finally, with a flap of her red wings, Gwen flew over and smashed him into glass fragments with a punch!
"KO!"
Gwen clenched her small fist and made a peace sign.
Sandman had been insta-killed.
Clea wasn't having an easy time either.
She discovered that under the palm of this seemingly slender woman, she felt as if she were being pressed down by a great mountain, unable to break free or get up!
What kind of outrageous strength is this?!
You must know that she was a born heir to the Dark Dimension; her strength surpassed ordinary creatures from birth, so how could anyone possibly suppress her in pure strength!
But Clea was, after all, an heir to the Dark Dimension; it was unlikely she would be subdued so easily.
Seeing that she couldn't break free with brute force, Clea gripped the two indestructible purple blades in her hands and slashed at the black-clad Gwen in an X shape again!
With Spider-Sense and reaction speed increased who knows how much by the Symbiote, the black-clad Gwen naturally couldn't be hit.
She dodged it with a backward step.
However, this also allowed Clea to break free from the black-clad Gwen's clutches and crawl up from the ground.
But immediately, she was faced with two Gwens, Ancient One, and Strange, all four of them surrounding her from four directions.
This time, the roles of attacker and defender had reversed!
Clea's expression turned ugly; she no longer had her previous composure and elegance.
She looked around at everyone, finally fixing her gaze on the black-clad Gwen and the red-clad Gwen, and asked through gritted teeth:
"Why did you two guys come out of the Dark Dimension? You aren't creatures of the Dark Dimension; you shouldn't exist in the Dark Dimension!"
The black-clad Gwen looked at Clea and said indifferently: "To use a phrase often used by Ryan, if the enemy can go there, so can I..."
"What makes you think that only you creatures of the Dark Dimension can invade the Planets of the reality dimension, and that creatures of the reality dimension cannot invade your Dark Dimension?"
"That's right, ta-da! Lady, please look at the big screen!"
The red-clad Gwen also giggled and reached out to Clea, pointing to the X-shaped rift Clea had previously made.
Clea looked over, and through the rift, she was shocked to see a scene she had never even imagined!
Inside the Dark Dimension, a tall figure clad in silver armor, wearing a colorful cape, and holding a red-gold longsword and a six-colored light shield, was battling her uncle Dormammu!
Every sword strike from that person seemed to split the heavens and Earth, and even Dormammu was slashed, letting out a piercing roar!
That person's six-colored light shield could easily block even the attacks of the Dark Lord Dormammu!
"He... who is he? Could he also be a dimension lord? He actually doesn't even fear Dormammu!"
Clea's pupils shook, and her delicate body stiffened.
And to think she had just wanted to return to the Dark Dimension.
If she had really gone back just now, given the terrifying combat power that guy displayed, she would likely have been casually farmed by him as a mini-boss!
"Not at all. Our Ryan isn't any dimension lord. He is currently only the Lord of Earth and the Lord of Jotunheim. He doesn't have any more titles for now~"
The red-clad Gwen shook her head, denying Clea's conjecture.
But this only made Clea even more shocked.
Not a dimension lord, yet possessing power comparable to a dimension lord—is this reasonable?
Wouldn't this disrupt the balance laws of the Universe?
Do those cosmic Police not care?
You must know that they, creatures of the Dark Dimension, cannot exist for long in the Universe of the reality dimension because of the cosmic balance rules established by that group of cosmic Police!
Celestials: Always feeling like the death star of the whole family is shining brightly above our heads!
As for why Ryan was in the Dark Dimension, that goes back to the time when Dormammu had just descended outside Earth.
Kaecilius had taken Clea and the dark disciples to destroy the New York Sanctuary.
And Ryan didn't bother with these small fries.
Instead, he and the two Gwens went straight to Dormammu outside Earth, finally stopping in front of Dormammu.
"Dormammu, I've come to bargain!"
Dormammu watched the three people fly out from Earth, and upon hearing the other party's words about bargaining, he did not immediately attack.
Because He needed to wait for Kaecilius to destroy the Sanctuary, or for the backup plan where Clea used her special ability to open a rift from inside Earth.
So, the bored Dormammu watched the three with great interest and asked in a mocking tone: "Bargain? It's been many years since anyone dared to bargain with me. Tell me, how do you want to bargain!"
Ryan crossed his arms and said with a condescending, granting-a-favor attitude: "The condition is that you voluntarily cede half of the Dark Dimension's authority, and then roll back to your Dark Dimension kennel. I can forgive you for this offense against Earth."
Dormammu: ???
At first, Dormammu suspected that he had misheard.
Is it that I, the Dark Lord, can no longer lift my blade, or have you Earthlings gotten too cocky?
Earth has always been gasping for breath under my oppression; when did it dare to speak to me like this?
You're really holding a lantern in a latrine—you're courting death, aren't you!
It only took Dormammu three seconds to go from shock to astonishment, then to fury, and finally to flipping the table (╯ ‵ □ ′ ) ╯ ︵ ┻ ━ ┻!
"Human, you are courting death. Do you really think the Sanctuary is invincible? Once the Sanctuary is destroyed, your entire Earth will be devoured by me and turned into nourishment for the Dark Dimension!"
"What's more, you are now outside the protection of the Earth's Sanctuary. You won't even have the chance to watch Earth turn into dark nourishment. I will obliterate your physical body and imprison your soul in the Dark Dimension for eternity!"
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