BOOM!
The catastrophic kinetic impact of their landing violently shuddered through the Pacific Ocean! The tectonic plate beneath them groaned as shockwaves rippled outward, displacing millions of gallons of seawater and kicking up an apocalyptic tsunami that threatened to swallow the California coastline!
Deep beneath the ocean's surface, the sheer velocity of their collision had carved a massive, jagged crater into the bedrock. As the initial impact faded, the displaced seawater came violently crashing back down, seeking to fill the void.
However, right in the center of the crater, a perfectly spherical area ten meters in diameter remained completely dry. The raging ocean currents violently smashed against an invisible, impenetrable spatial barrier, utterly incapable of advancing a single millimeter!
Within that ten-meter absolute domain, Su Mu had Ikaris' face pinned firmly against the bedrock!
Combining the absolute spatial suppression of the Limitless, the localized gravitational repulsion of Cursed Technique Reversal: Red, and his cursed-energy-reinforced physical strength, Su Mu held the Eternal down effortlessly.
Even though Ikaris possessed a physical constitution vastly superior to a baseline Hulk, he was completely, utterly incapable of breaking free from the crushing spatial gravity!
Simultaneously, Su Mu manipulated the Level 4 Limitless to continuously generate overlapping spatial slashes at point-blank range.
The invisible blades began methodically tearing through the indestructible Celestial-forged combat armor, biting deep into Ikaris' pseudo-divine flesh, and violently shredding his absolute pride as an Eternal warrior!
Ikaris roared in agonizing pain and sheer, unadulterated fury. The strongest warrior of the Eternals on Earth was currently pinned to the ocean floor like a pathetic cockroach, completely incapable of moving a single muscle!
Su Mu looked down at Ikaris. The Eternal's body was trapped in a continuous, violent loop of being spatially shredded and rapidly regenerating.
Hmm, Su Mu analyzed silently.
Having just unlocked the Level 4 Limitless, his mastery over the localized spatial slashes was still relatively raw and unrefined.
Against ordinary humans, or even mutants, these spatial slashes were instantaneous, absolute death. But against a pseudo-divine, Celestial-engineered physical vessel like an Eternal, while the slashes could definitely breach his defenses, the lethal efficacy was significantly reduced.
If Su Mu relied solely on the spatial slashes, it would take quite a while to completely whittle Ikaris down and permanently exhaust his regeneration.
Seeing Ikaris still struggling fiercely beneath him, Su Mu offered a brilliant, mocking smile.
Under Ikaris' increasingly terrified gaze, Su Mu casually shifted his posture. He lifted his hand off the Eternal's head and simply stepped on his face, pinning him to the bedrock with his foot.
Then, Su Mu raised both hands, fingers poised in a highly specific configuration.
His left hand was open, fingers splayed. His right hand hovered over it, curled in a loose grip.
Within the dry, ten-meter bubble at the bottom of the ocean, a blinding azure black hole and a terrifying black-red singularity rapidly materialized and violently merged!
Accompanied by screaming arcs of jagged purple lightning, a sphere of pure imaginary mass began to form right in front of Su Mu's chest!
"Hollow Technique: Purple."
Seeing the terrifying, apocalyptic purple sphere that had effortlessly erased half of his torso just moments prior, Ikaris' fear of death peaked into absolute, primal panic!
He thrashed wildly against the spatial gravity. Blinding golden cosmic rays erupted from his eyes in a desperate, point-blank counterattack! But every single ounce of cosmic energy he unleashed was simply devoured by Su Mu's Energy Absorption, instantly converted into cursed energy!
Realizing his physical struggles were entirely futile, Ikaris resorted to desperate threats.
"Mortal! Release me!" Ikaris roared from beneath Su Mu's boot. "I bear the sacred mission bestowed by Arishem the Judge, the Prime Celestial! If you kill me, the Celestials will descend and execute you!"
Continuing to condense the Purple sphere, Su Mu scoffed in profound amusement.
"You mean your 'sacred mission' to foster the growth of the human population, using them as living batteries to feed the incubating Celestial Tiamut inside the Earth's core... ultimately destroying the entire planet?"
Hearing Su Mu casually reveal the absolute, darkest secret of the Eternals, Ikaris' eyes widened in sheer, paralyzing shock.
"How... how could you possibly know that?!"
Su Mu didn't bother answering.
Seeing the terrifying purple sphere reaching critical mass, the terror in Ikaris' heart finally shattered his resolve. The image of another Eternal—Sersi—violently flashed in his mind.
Sersi! No... I can't die here! I have to return to her! I need to preserve my memories of her!
He struggled with absolutely everything he had!
But the sphere of imaginary mass was complete. With a casual flick of his fingers, Su Mu sent the terrifying Purple singularity screaming directly toward Ikaris' head!
Under Ikaris' absolute, horrified stare, the Purple sphere struck.
His head was instantaneously and entirely erased from existence.
The singularity didn't stop there. It violently tore through the bedrock beneath them, carving a bottomless, dozens-of-meters-wide trench deep into the oceanic crust!
With his entire head atomized by the absolute erasure of Purple, not even the miraculous Celestial regeneration of the Eternals could save him. His life force was permanently extinguished.
The strongest Eternal warrior on Earth had been executed at the bottom of the ocean by the White Demon!
Using a localized gravitational pull, Su Mu levitated Ikaris' headless corpse. He generated a miniature, thumb-sized Purple singularity at the tip of his index finger, using it as a hyper-precise scalpel to slice through the indestructible chest cavity.
Slowly, he pulled out a brilliantly glowing, golden cosmic core.
Even after millions of years of continuous operation, the core still pulsed with a terrifyingly vast, majestic cosmic energy!
A look of pure excitement crossed Su Mu's face. He tossed the cosmic core into his spatial pocket dimension. Instantly, he felt a massive, steady, and incredibly pure stream of cosmic energy flowing into his physical vessel through the dimensional link. He smiled radiantly.
Loki and Jane Foster's packages haven't even arrived yet, but Ikaris was kind enough to deliver one straight to my door! What a generous guy!
Casually discarding Ikaris' mutilated corpse into the bottomless oceanic trench he had just carved, Su Mu shot up toward the surface and flew away.
I recall Tony mentioning he had a backup vacation home a few miles up the coast...
...
Onboard the SHIELD Helicarrier, Nick Fury and Agent Coulson stood in dead silence.
They had just reviewed the final satellite telemetry.
The White Demon had flown out of the ocean completely unscathed. Ikaris did not emerge.
The victor was terrifyingly obvious.
The strongest warrior of the Eternals—a being who had actively shaped human civilization and possessed millennia of combat experience—had been slaughtered by the White Demon!
While the outcome was incredibly shocking, what truly paralyzed Fury was the footage of the White Demon breaking the surface. Aside from a slightly damp hem on his shirt, the boy was absolutely pristine. He hadn't suffered a single scratch!
This proved that the power gap between the White Demon and Ikaris wasn't just large; it was an absolute, insurmountable chasm!
Fury repeatedly replayed the footage, pausing exactly on the frame where the White Demon emerged from the water.
What the hell is happening to him?! How did he achieve such an overwhelming, effortless victory against a literal immortal?!
Fury muttered the question under his breath over and over again, entirely unable to comprehend the reality of the situation.
After a few minutes, Fury finally managed to drag himself out of his shock, only to be hit by a suffocating wave of powerlessness.
With SHIELD's current capabilities, they would struggle immensely just to take down Ikaris. Fighting the White Demon was a mathematical impossibility.
However, as the world's most elite spymaster, Fury quickly compartmentalized his despair. He turned to the equally stunned Coulson and issued rapid-fire orders.
"Coulson. Leak the intel of Ikaris' death directly to the remaining Eternals. Provide them with the White Demon's complete, updated threat dossier and the combat footage.
"While losing Ikaris severely cripples their combat power, the other Eternals possess highly unique, esoteric abilities. There's a chance they could at least slow the White Demon down, or, by some absolute miracle, find a way to kill him!
"Furthermore, contact Dr. Reed Richards immediately. I want him to develop a massively scaled-up version of the Spatial Disruption Device. Tell him I also need an entirely new prototype designed specifically to counter or overload the White Demon's Energy Absorption.
"Authorize the transfer of all available black budget funds directly to Dr. Richards' lab. SHIELD will operate on a skeleton budget if we have to.
"If the White Demon has no weaknesses... then we are going to manufacture one!"
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