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C'Thun on the planet was enraged. These Chitauri weren't calmly accepting their deaths; they actually dared to fight back?!

C'Thun's true form rapidly materialized inside the planet, and a gigantic octopus head appeared in the air. The Eye of C'Thun was embedded in this octopus head, creating a strange sense of harmony, as if a chaotic and disordered mass had been condensed together.

On the head of this giant octopus, countless squid-like tentacles waved incessantly, drawing all the energy from the surrounding air.

C'Thun's claw-like limbs gripped the atmosphere, and its massive, rubbery body, covered in sticky scales, lay sprawled on the ground.

Compared to C'Thun's enormous body, Nasus's true form as the Grim Reaper is like an underdeveloped dwarf.

What the hell is this thing?

Nasus stopped moving, momentarily speechless. It was such a huge thing; thankfully, the primary target of their hatred wasn't them, otherwise, things would have been much more troublesome.

C'Thun's facial tentacles flipped over, and its tentacles suddenly unfurled, shooting out beams of light that intercepted some of the artillery fire outside the planet.

Nasus was a little taken aback. He thought for a moment that if C'Thun were facing the Shurima Ascended Legion, there would probably be considerable casualties.

Moreover, even if he, Azir, and Renekton combined, they might not be able to take down this behemoth. From this perspective, the current estimate of the mystical forces on Earth needs to be raised by another level.

But if that happens, their hope of restoring Shurima will be almost nil, since there isn't enough space on Earth for Shurima.

Mind Blast!

Just as Nasus was a little distracted, Ebony Maw, who had been beaten down for half a day, emerged from the ground. With a tap of his staff, a surge of mental power exploded in Nasus's heart once again.

Taking advantage of Nasus's momentary lapse in concentration, Ebony Maw escaped Nasus's attack range. In close combat, he was not on the same level as Nasus at all. Ascended beings were basically dual cultivators of magic and martial arts, and each one fused the two better than the last.

Once away from that spot, Ebony Maw turned his attention to the massive C'Thun. The Mind Stone's barrier lit up spontaneously, blocking the foul language that C'Thun was constantly emitting.

brush!

Suddenly, C'Thun moved, its claw-like hands and feet tearing through space and grabbing onto a destroyer, then pulling the warship toward the ground.

One short-range tactical missile after another was launched from the missile bay and exploded directly on the hook claw. Unfortunately, it didn't even penetrate the shadow around the hook claw, let alone break it.

The destroyer's multiple thrusters were turned up to maximum, and the brilliant flames scorched the grappling hooks, which actually made C'Thun feel a little uncomfortable.

Click!

In pain, the grappling hook exerted a sudden force, and the destroyer's nanoarmor began to split apart. In just a second or two, the entire destroyer was completely severed in two and floated in space.

More than a dozen warships were also caught by the grappling hook, and most of them were on the verge of destruction.

Ebony Maw realized this wouldn't work. The Chitauri's total number of spaceships was less than 1,500, and nearly half of them were being assembled and repaired on several other nearby planets. Currently, only 500 to 600 ships were operational, and only about 150 ships were capable of reaching the Chitauri.

If C'Thun continues to cause trouble like this, what will be left of this expeditionary fleet?

Ebony Maw glanced at the staff in his hand and the Mind Gem at the top of the staff, then pointed the staff at C'Thun's giant octopus head. The mental power, amplified by the Mind Gem, rushed straight towards C'Thun.

Chapter 197 Ebony Maw: "I am a servant of the Twilight Lord! Praise be to the chaotic and disordered universe!"

Ebony Maw's mind invasion went very smoothly, almost abnormally so. When he entered C'Thun's mind world, he found himself surrounded by chaos, as if a veil had been drawn over his eyes, and all his senses began to dull.

Just then, a folk song began to echo in the depths of Ebony Throat's heart.

"Look up at the sky, it's high and clear~"

"There are stars~" (Night falls, and the stars fill the sky)

"Eons have passed ~" (The golden age is over, the end is near)

"Prison walls break, old ones awake~"

"They will return, mankind will learn~" (A powerful return, blood stains the earth)

"Madness will reign terror and pain~"

The singer's voice was clear and high-pitched, as if telling a story from the end of the universe. The panic permeating the song seeped into Ebony Throat's heart, and gradually, he saw a horrifying scene.

The scene contains all the creatures in the universe. Their souls begin to twist and spin, their bodies begin to decay and proliferate. Clusters of proliferating flesh emerge from the host's body, and at the top of this flesh, blood-filled eyeballs suddenly open, radiating the most depraved gaze in the world.

Under that gaze, Ebony Maw felt as if he were spinning along with the people in the picture. Itching began to appear in the gaps of his body, and clusters of fleshy buds mischievously emerged from the gaps in his bones and from his diaphragm, wrapping around Ebony Maw's body.

The sky and the earth began to merge, the ocean was inverted on the horizon, and in the center of the deep sea, a huge body seemed to be waiting for something.

Fear, fear, boundless fear, terror, terror, terror that grips all things in the world!

Ebony Maw's mind began to twist. He increasingly felt that his current body was the most reasonable body in the world. It was as if he had been wrapped in a prosthetic body before. Now he was free, completely free!

Amidst this corruption, a sliver of clarity remained deep within Ebony Maw's consciousness. He could not discern what was right for him, nor could he see clearly what the surface and interior of this world should be like.

All he knew was that there was one thing he hadn't done yet.

The long-dormant gem of the soul burst forth with tremendous light. Under this light, the volume of the nursery rhyme grew softer and softer, and the whole world seemed to return to its original tranquility. The murmurs and the indoctrinations all vanished.

Ebony Throat's throat was itchy, and there was a sentence he felt compelled to say. His deformed body was leaping with joy, cheering, and urging him to utter that sentence from the depths of his consciousness.

"Praise be to the great Lord of Twilight, praise be to the chaotic and disordered universe!"

Ebony Maw loudly proclaimed to the world that he had accepted that disorder and chaos were the true nature of the universe.

It's too late. The power of the Mind Stone has come too late. Ebony Maw has already constructed a new worldview from the depths of his heart, and he now feels extreme disgust for this world where order has manifested.

"Destruction, let everything return to nothingness!"

Ebony Maw roared within C'Thun's body, roaring like the rest of the flesh, its gaze guided by C'Thun to the fleet floating in space.

These products of industrialization themselves represent a part of the power of order, and are now the very things that Ebony Maw despises most.

The power Thanos had instilled in him rendered his loyalty to Thanos utterly meaningless at that moment.

Thanos is nothing more than an ignorant Titan with a physical form. Compared to the primordial chaos of the universe, he is insignificant and not worthy of even a glimpse into the true nature of the universe, nor of Ebony Maw's loyalty!

Outside C'Thun's body, Nasus was horrified to discover that the body left behind by Ebony Maw was undergoing a transformation, changing into the likeness of C'Thun. The surrounding mental realm began to collapse, replaced by something indescribable, manifesting from the core of chaos.

This performance alone was enough to shock Nasus, and the Death Domain swirling around his body began to stop.

The space and time surrounding the site of the change were rapidly corroding. The staff itself collapsed in an instant, and only the Mind Stone, representing one of the rules of the universe, escaped.

The Mind Stone, now free from Ebony Maw's control, began to move spontaneously toward the most orderly being in this region, namely Nasus, the only legendary powerhouse in this small star system.

With the Mind Stone's enhancement, Nasus emerged from that fear and panic, and wisdom and reason regained control of his mind and body.

He raised his scepter, both as a declaration to the fleet in space and as a declaration to C'Thun, the enemy of all currently ordered beings.

"Chaos will be buried in the sea of ​​sand along with evil, and the ancient gods will vanish with the stars. All things are subject to the cycle of birth and death. I swear, we live, you die!"

The surging power of the mind transported Nasus to that wild and ancient era. The information he gained from the universe during his ascension began to reorganize within his body, and everything would become completely different from before.

Renekton and Azir's power crossed the endless sea of ​​stars and landed on Nasus, and Shurima's last glory was revived!

Standing a thousand feet tall, Nasus is backed by a sun disk of equal height, and at the center of this sun disk, the Mind Stone radiates boundless mental power, aiding all acts of conquering chaos.

boom!

The enormous scepter fell straight down, cutting a gash the size of a small mountain into C'Thun's body. One of his arms fell to the ground, vanishing under the crushing force of the Order.

The fleet in space continued its bombardment, but they suddenly discovered that their power—capable of altering or even destroying a life-bearing planet—seemed to be overshadowed by two other forces.

They went from being a force that everyone had to fight against to a group of supporting characters who could be cheered on from the sidelines.

C'Thun's resurgence continues. Ebony Maw's sacrifice has allowed it to surpass the level originally depicted in Yang Qiu's scenario. After gaining even greater power, the Eye of C'Thun swept across the starry sky, and more than a dozen warships suddenly collapsed, becoming sacrifices to the chaos.

After doing all this, C'Thun turned his gaze to Nasus. He sensed the aura of death emanating from the man, a death that also belonged to order, to his opposing faction.

The grappling hook tore through the air above the planet, piercing straight toward Nasus. Flames erupting from the sun disk burned across the land, and the forces of order and chaos began to collide at that moment.

This collision drew the attention of all advanced civilizations, including Thanos, who had just been betrayed.

Chapter 198 Eternal Titan

While Nasus and C'Thun were locked in a fierce battle, Thanos was deep in thought. He had sensed something was amiss before the two sides even began fighting. Ebony Maw, one of the five generals, had suddenly disconnected from the consciousness network, and the last thing he heard was endless hostility towards him. This should have been enough to alert him.

Now, Thanos is pondering why, after so many years of traveling around the world, he has destroyed countless first and second-level civilizations, and a whole bunch of third and fourth-level civilizations, yet he has never seen a chaotic aggregate like C'Thun before.

How come so many unheard-of and unseen things appear as soon as we get involved with that remote galactic atrium and that Earth civilization that hasn't even broken away from planets? Surely that can't be the center of the world, right? What? Is Earth the origin of the entire universe?

Thinking about it this way, it actually makes some sense. Of the six gems that represent the authority of the universe, the Time Stone is firmly on Earth, the Space Stone is also said to be on Earth, and the Reality Stone has been rumored to be related to the Nine Realms, so it probably can't bypass Earth either.

From this perspective, half of the Authority Stones in this universe are located near Earth. If the selection is conducted in this way, then Earth truly is the center of the universe.

After thinking about all these random thoughts, Thanos shook his head and brought his mind back to reality. He was definitely going to Earth; it was just a matter of time. Right now, he needed to deal with the trouble caused by that idiot Ebony Maw.

He sacrificed himself to C'Thun, the Old God of Chaos, and the Mind Stone he took with him ended up in the hands of Nasus, the Desert God of Death. He was practically a deliveryman, and the kind who did it for free, even if it meant paying out of his own pocket.

We've arrived. The only one who can solve these problems, clean up Ebony Maw's mess, and scatter this traitor's ashes is none other than him, the Eternal Titan, the only Eternal Titan in the world.

Meanwhile, on Asgard, Odin, with the help of Heimdall's power, remotely observed the battle on the Chitauri planet.

"Heimdall, turn the Rainbow Bridge up to maximum power to preheat it. Frigga, bring me my Gungnir," Odin suddenly said.

"My lord! Are we going to get involved in this battle?" Heimdall asked instinctively.

Since Odin's health began to decline, Asgard has not fought a major battle for many years.

“It’s not this battle, it’s Thanos. You’ll see, it won’t be long before he has to make his move. Otherwise, if he loses his power, he won’t be able to continue living like this in the universe,” Odin explained. Thanos has enemies all over the universe.

Thanos is still roaming around peacefully, mainly because he generally avoids making mortal enemies with advanced civilizations, and everyone is concerned about whether they will lose money.

If they join forces to defeat Thanos, I can't speak for others, but the civilization at the forefront will definitely suffer the most. They might even have their entire resources wiped out. Thanos, with his individual strength at the top of the universe, is a terrifying rogue.

Furthermore, Odin left something unsaid: if Asgard didn't display its strength under such intense public scrutiny, the prestige it had built up thousands of years ago would almost completely vanish.

To buy Thor and Loki some more time, this time he had to take action, and he had to make a big move.

Just as Odin had guessed, after Thanos left his ship, he directly extracted the power of the Superstar from the consciousness network.

As one of the five generals on par with Ebony Maw, Superstar's abilities are somewhat similar to Ebony Maw's, but their main branches are different. She is the true master of mind abilities. If the Mind Stone were in her hands, she could at least not completely control C'Thun, unlike Ebony Maw who was completely corrupted by C'Thun in such a short time.

Moreover, it's highly likely that Superstar, equipped with the Mind Stone, can go toe-to-toe with C'Thun, even if C'Thun keeps regenerating.

On the main planet of Chitauri, the battle between Nasus and C'Thun has turned this vast continent into scorched earth.

Both sides are constantly vying for the intelligent life that died in the aftermath. Nasus needs to merge their souls into the realm of death to strengthen his own power, while C'Thun needs to corrupt these lives and souls to replenish his depletion and accelerate his resurrection.

Suddenly, the white clouds in the sky began to swirl, and a giant vortex appeared above C'Thun and Nasus. Then, spiderwebs, accompanied by the sound of space shattering, echoed throughout the entire planet.

The Eternal Titans are a terrifying race that grows stronger with each smaller population, a god-like race with astonishing potential for development. As the last surviving member of this race, Thanos's power is on a completely different level from his strength thousands of years ago.

With a snap, the space was shattered, and a giant purple hand emerged from the broken space. Sharp spatial fragments continuously grazed the giant hand's skin, without cutting off a single hair.

On Asgard, Odin gripped Gungnir tightly, his whole body tense, gathering all his power into a single point, and then forcefully hurled Gungnir out.

The Unstoppable Shot streaked across the endless universe like a rainbow, traversing galaxies like a shooting star, and instantly appeared outside the Chitauri home planet.