Both start in hell: but their talents are multiplied a hundredfold.

"The primordial magnet rotates through the nine heavens."

Shen Jue read it out softly.

Sound cannot travel in a vacuum, but it resonates in the underlying structure of the universe in a more fundamental way.

The void itself began to tremble.

The Chitauri commander's compound eyes all lit up to their maximum brightness simultaneously; it sensed it.

Throughout the entire mothership group's cellular network, sensors on every warship simultaneously emitted piercing alarms.

The alarm echoed in the hive's consciousness, sharp enough to be almost tangible.

"Energy reaction! Incalculable!"

"Exceeds all known thresholds!"

Source: That Human!

On the command platform, the thought signals of countless Chitauri officers and soldiers were in complete chaos.

The Chitauri commander no longer had time to manage his subordinates.

It simply stood there, all its compound eyes locked onto the black figure suspended in the void.

Then, it saw it.

Behind Shen Jue, the void began to distort, centered on him.

Those distortions are not visual illusions, but real spatial bending.

As the light passed through that area, it was stretched into an arc, the starlight was broken into vortexes, and even the dark green light from the distant Chitauri homeworld was deflected there.

gravitational.

That human is manipulating the gravitational field to cause distortions in space.

The commander's core processor instantly reached a conclusion.

But the phrase "manipulating gravity" is far from sufficient to describe what it sees.

It was a power almost divine.

Shen Jue gently raised his left hand, his five fingers spread, his palm facing the Chitauri mothership fleet arranged like a black mountain range.

"Phantom Breath Technique - Gravity Manipulation".

In an instant, all the motherships lost control simultaneously.

Those enormous, mountain-like biological warships began to tilt in the same direction.

Their engines emitted a mournful wail of overload, and their bio-armor creaked and groaned under the invisible pull of gravity.

The three motherships closest to Shen Jue were the first to lose control. They spun and crashed into each other, their bio-armor shattering in the collision. Their internal organs and pipes were exposed to the vacuum, spewing out blue bodily fluids and green energy streams.

The impact spread like a chain reaction, and a corner of the entire black mountain range began to collapse.

Countless Zeta Swiss soldiers were thrown from the warship, tumbling and scattering in the vacuum. Their armor shattered under the gravitational field, and their bodies twisted in the lack of oxygen.

Within the cellular network, the commander's thought signals were cut off.

On the command platform, the biomechanical entity, covered in armor and modified over a hundred years ago, slowly and solemnly knelt down.

Its compound eyes close simultaneously, and all its tentacles retract at the same time.

The body was curled up in an extremely unnatural posture, with its forelimbs crossed and pressed against its chest, and its head hanging low, almost touching the ground of the command platform.

This is the oldest form of repentance used by the Chitauri civilization before they were conquered by Thanos.

It is a ceremony to apologize to one's clan, confess to one's ancestors, and ask for forgiveness from the entire civilization.

This ritual had been forgotten by the Chitauri for over a century.

At least, the commander himself hasn't done this action in over a century.

On the command platform, all the Chitauri officers who witnessed this scene were stunned.

Within the cellular network, the thought signals of countless soldiers simultaneously freeze.

"commander?"

"What are you doing?!"

"This is! This is that?!"

No Chitauri said the name of the ritual.

That was an old ritual, something forbidden by Thanos, something backward, belonging to the Chitauri civilization before they were conquered.

The commander ignored them.

It simply maintained that posture and spoke into the Hive Network, but the voice was no longer the cold, mechanical signal that belonged to Thanos's tools.

The voice carried a tremor that had been dormant for hundreds of years, a tremor that seemed about to shatter.

"Forgive my decision, my people."

The entire Hive Network fell completely silent at that moment. Even the warships that were tumbling, breaking apart, and dying in the gravitational field stopped emitting any signals.

All the Chitauri who could still think were listening to their commander.

"We once had our own names, cities, cultures, and hometowns."

"We were once a complete civilization."

The commander's voice echoed through the Hive network, like a stone sinking into the deep sea, slow and heavy.

"Until that great one arrives."

"He gave us power, he gave us the Hive Network, he gave us biological warships, and he gave us the glory of conquering countless galaxies."

"And the price is..."

It paused for a moment.

"We are no longer Chitauri."

"But rather, they are his pawns, tools, and weapons."

"Our children were turned into soldiers, cities into factories, and our home planet into shipyards."

"Until our art, history, and soul."

"They all turned into dust on his chessboard."

The commander slowly opened his compound eye a crack.

From that crack, the dark green light was no longer just a cold calculation, but carried a painful, hazy, almost tearful moisture.

"I've always thought about what would happen if the Chitauri could one day become a civilization again."

Even if it's just for one day.

Even if we all die after that day.

It closed its eyes again.

"But I never imagined that this day would come in this way."

Above the command platform, the gravitational field in the void continued to rage, causing more motherships to shatter in collisions and more Zeta Rex soldiers to die in the vacuum.

Shen Jue slowly closed his left hand, and the moment his five fingers came together, a loud sound came from the depths of the void that could not be heard but could be perceived by the soul.

That was the sound of space itself being torn apart.

In the core area of ​​the Chitauri mothership fleet, the three largest motherships were squeezed together by an invisible gravitational force, their bio-armor instantly collapsed, and their internal organs and energy cores were compressed to their limits in a very short time.

Then, they exploded.

The chain reaction spread throughout the entire mothership fleet at near the speed of light, with the destruction of each warship becoming the funeral of the next.

The Chitauri's all-out space fleet transformed into a fireworks display spanning millions of kilometers within Shen Jue's gravitational field.

The blue, green, and purple energy streams intertwined, like the Big Bang of the universe being condensed and replayed in a small area of ​​stars.

The wreckage of the biological warship spun, shattered, and shattered again in the gravitational vortex until it turned into atomic-level dust, which was then thrown in all directions.

Tens of millions of Zeta Swiss soldiers vanished in the vacuum, their souls simultaneously uttering a silent lament at the last moment before the Hive Network shattered.

And on Earth, everyone saw it.

In the skies above New York, the Chitauri fleet on the other side of the portal suddenly transformed into a dazzling nebula.

People stop walking on the streets, look up at their windows, and hold their breath in front of their screens.

At the United Nations headquarters, representatives from various countries stood up simultaneously.

"What is that?" someone murmured to themselves.

"Is the Chitauri fleet self-destructing?" another voice trembled.

"Idiot! Is that even possible?!"

"No matter what Father Shen Jue did, at least the crisis on Earth has been temporarily resolved..." someone said in a low voice, their tone full of unease and relief.

Inside the S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft carrier, Director Fury stood in front of a giant screen, his single eye reflecting the dazzling destruction.

His lips parted slightly, but he couldn't utter a single word.

The two people below the portal, Barton and the Doctor, remained motionless, as if frozen in place.

Tony had already arrived below the portal under the falling material snow.

Watching the Chitauri army explode like fireworks on the other side of the portal, he couldn't help but say, "Jarvis."

Am I hallucinating?

"No, Mr. Tony," Jarvis replied helplessly. "Father Shen Jue is a complete mystery."

"In a sense, my birth and that of the red bean bun were just a passing interest of that person."

"I am not surprised that sir was able to do such a thing."

Tony was speechless, and could only silently calculate in his mind what kind of power it would take to single-handedly defeat a space fleet.

Thor also captured the scene on the other side of the portal.

The Asgardian crown prince touched the head of the Mjolnir hammer and, for the first time, felt insecure.

His face showed an expression as if he had witnessed Ragnarok and the world-destroying black dragon Nidhogg.