"It's been lifted. I lost some of my Yin Release chakra, but Thanos's men are dead."
Kurenai Yuhi rubbed her temples slightly as she spoke to Tsunade. Although the headache couldn't be relieved this way, it was a hard habit to break.
"Red, that's such a waste. Why not have them attack Thanos, or stay and work as labor?"
Hyuga Mirai suggested from the side. These people meant nothing to them. Even if they thought they were too ugly, they could still have them fight Thanos. It would be a shame to waste them like this.
"Then I'll have them move farther away. His Soul Stone really counters my abilities and makes it difficult for my Rinnegan's techniques to work."
Kurenai Yuhi nodded, then she manipulated the air slightly. Half of Thanos's soldiers on Titan stopped fighting and then scrambled by any means to run far away, because soon, this place would face a bombardment from the Ten-Tails.
The other half couldn't escape because after Black Dwarf died, Thanos walked out of his spaceship.
Upon seeing Thanos, more than half of the soldiers immediately took control and charged at him to kill.
Beam guns, ship cannons, energy guns, and so on. Under Kurenai's control, the barrage of attacks that erupted in an instant was overwhelming, like dense raindrops.
But Thanos raised his left hand wearing the Infinity Gauntlet. The Reality Stone on it flashed red. The next second, all the attacks were rewritten, turning into insignificant particles. Moreover, the weapons in his soldiers' hands also vanished, turning into a pile of powder blown away by the wind.
But the lowest-level alien soldiers still roared as they charged at Thanos. They didn't need weapons; they could rely on their sharp claws and fangs to kill Thanos.
"The power of the Mind Stone again."
Thanos activated the Soul Stone on the Infinity Gauntlet again, instantly affecting all his nearby soldiers. The mind control marks Kurenai had left deep in their souls were instantly destroyed. The energy released from the destruction of these marks also killed all of Thanos's soldiers.
Thirty to forty thousand soldiers fell in droves. Except for those who had initially been controlled by Kurenai and left, all of Thanos's forces on Titan were dead.
"Who is it..."
Before Thanos could finish, he felt the magnetic field of half the planet suddenly spin. Spaceships were disassembled into sharp blades and flying spikes. Countless rock giants rose from the ground. Thanos even felt pulling forces from all directions trapping him in midair.
"Damn it."
Boom!
Countless attacks struck Thanos in an instant. Rock giants dozens of meters tall punched Thanos one after another. Metal giants tried to remove the Infinity Gauntlet from Thanos's hand.
However, Thanos's skin was also extremely tough. After enduring several rounds of attacks, he sensed that the enemy's target was the Infinity Gauntlet, so he clenched his fist and used the Reality Stone's power, instantly nullifying the magnetic field on Titan.
But just after Thanos used the Reality Stone, a mist suddenly appeared behind him. Then Hyuga Mirai walked out from it, holding a ball of dazzling golden light in his hand, and struck directly at Thanos.
"Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion."
A beam of golden light less than a finger wide sliced through, cutting Thanos's body in half, and then he fell from the air.
Bang.
His several-hundred-kilogram body smashed a large crater into the ground, kicking up a cloud of smoke that spread outward.
"He died just like that?"
Hyuga Mirai looked at Thanos's corpse, feeling that it was all too easy. Thanos with three Infinity Stones, having detected the enemy in advance... He sent a signal to Tsunade and Kurenai in space, telling them not to move for the time being.
Then Hyuga Mirai used the Time Stone to accelerate the decay of Thanos's body. Even Thanos, born of the Eternals, could not resist the power of the Time Stone.
Then something surprising happened to the corpse on the ground. As soon as Hyuga Mirai used the Time Stone a little, Thanos's corpse turned into countless particles, and even the three Infinity Stones vanished.
"A decoy made by the Reality Stone and Soul Stone? No wonder I couldn't sense anything unusual."
After this Thanos corpse turned into particles, Hyuga Mirai saw the real Thanos. After coming out of the spaceship, that was no longer him.
Thanos slowly walked out and said, "So you're the owner of that stone on Earth. It seems Ebony Maw has failed."
Hyuga Mirai keenly noticed that the Soul Stone on Thanos's Infinity Gauntlet was constantly glowing faintly, as if guarding against his Mind Stone.
"I've been waiting for you for a long time, Thanos. I know about your deeds. If you give me the Infinity Stones, I won't lay a hand on you."
Thanos raised the Infinity Gauntlet and said to Hyuga Mirai, "This is the goal that has kept me going until now. No matter what your reasons are, they are not as important as a new universe."
"Then take your goal and vanish into the universe."
After saying that, Hyuga Mirai and the other half of Thanos's soldiers were directly enveloped by spatial mist and disappeared from the planet. Meanwhile, beneath Thanos's feet, a sealing technique suddenly appeared. Six Paths Chains suddenly extended from underground, binding him completely.
This was a combination of the Adamantine Chains and the Space Stone's power. Even after eating two God Tree fruits, Hyuga Mirai's fighting style still leaned toward ninja-style sneak attacks and probing. When he sensed something wrong, he split off a clone that sneaked underground and set up this sealing technique.
The moment he used the Space Stone to leave, the Ten-Tails in the distant starfield directly fired the Tailed Beast Ball it had been charging for a long time. This Tailed Beast Ball used almost half of the Ten-Tails's energy and chakra, condensed to about one-tenth the size of the moon.
Because the Tailed Beast Ball was extremely condensed chakra, and Thanos's attention was focused on Hyuga Mirai, he didn't notice the Ten-Tails in space at all.
Thud!
The Ten-Tails threw the Tailed Beast Ball directly at the top of Thanos's head on Titan. Hyuga Mirai even added a sound effect to this Tailed Beast Ball.
No sound came from space. The three of them could only see a massive explosion on Titan. The shockwave from the explosion affected one-third of Titan's area.
From the distant starfield, they could see with the naked eye that this Tailed Beast Ball had blown a huge crater into Titan, an area comparable to the continent of America on Earth, probably a thousand meters deep.
"It didn't even explode from that. Titan is no ordinary planet."
Hyuga Mirai said, then, before the explosion dissipated, he returned to Titan and found Thanos's location within a second.
After using the Reality Stone to break free from the underground seal earlier, he had no way to deal with the Tailed Beast Ball from space. He wasn't yet proficient in using the Infinity Stones and was merely relying on his naturally powerful body to forcibly bear the power of three stones.
The explosion of the Ten-Tails's Tailed Beast Ball had severely damaged Titan. A few more Tailed Beast Balls of the same scale would blow out Titan's core, and then the entire planet would be close to exploding.
Thanos wasn't doing well either. Much of his skin was burned away, and in some places, bone and flesh were exposed. However, as an almost divine being among the Eternals, his regeneration was terrifyingly strong. Even though most of his skin had been destroyed by the Ten-Tails's Tailed Beast Ball, he was quickly recovering.
But Hyuga Mirai didn't want to give him that chance. After confirming his true identity, he charged directly and punched Thanos several thousand meters away. After eating the second God Tree fruit, Hyuga Mirai's body had been strengthened to the point of having power comparable to a star.
The moment Thanos flew away, he appeared behind Thanos again, clasped his hands together, and hammered downward.
Thud!
With a dull thud, Thanos, like an accelerated cannonball, was smashed deep into the ground.
The next second, Hyuga Mirai used the Space Stone's power again, locking the space around Thanos, then yanked upward, pulling him back from the planet's core.
"Thanos, I let you collect the Infinity Stones so that you would get the Soul Stone. Now it's time for me to reap the harvest."
After saying that, Hyuga Mirai kicked him flying again, simultaneously attaching several Truth-Seeking Balls to Thanos's body. After he flew over a thousand meters, the Truth-Seeking Balls exploded instantly. The powerful blast, ten times stronger than Earth's most powerful nuclear bomb, sent Thanos flying again.
"I can't let this continue. I need to counterattack."
Although Thanos thought this, the enemy's several attacks had all landed on his weakest, most wounded spots. Those punches and kicks not only prevented his wounds from healing but also broke his bones again, and his entire arm showed signs of being crippled.
If one arm was broken, his strength would drop significantly...
Suddenly, Thanos sensed Hyuga Mirai using the Space Stone to appear behind him again. But he had been waiting for this opportunity. The moment Hyuga Mirai appeared, the Soul Stone on the Infinity Gauntlet shone brightly, instantly trying to destroy Hyuga Mirai's soul.
However, as Thanos used the Soul Stone, Hyuga Mirai's Mind Stone also shone with dazzling brilliance. The two Infinity Stones, on this nearly shattered Titan, shone like two suns, emitting incredibly intense light.
Hyuga Mirai felt immense pressure coming from all directions, as if trying to crush his soul. Fortunately, he had used the Mind Stone to create a mental barrier around his soul and had Yin-Yang Release protecting it. Otherwise, his soul would have truly struggled to resist that vast pressure from all sides, as if facing the entire universe.
But the moment the two Infinity Stones shone, before Thanos could use the Power Stone to blast Hyuga Mirai away, a woman suddenly appeared in front of him.
This woman wore similar attire to the previous person. Then, her right hand contained terrifying power, and she punched him hard in the face.
With immense force combined with terrifying magnetic shock, Tsunade integrated her Strange Strength and magnetic field manipulation, driving enough magnetic force to control one-tenth of Titan into Thanos's body. As it rampaged inside him, she sent him flying into deep space.
"Father, are you very tired?"
When Thanos opened his eyes, the scene before him suddenly changed. The pain on his body disappeared, and the Infinity Gauntlet was gone from his left hand. In front of him, the one who had just spoken was his adopted daughter, Gamora.
"Gamora? Is that you..."
Thanos found the scene incredibly real. His long-dead adopted daughter appeared before him again, walking step by step toward him.
Gamora was the one he had pushed off a cliff to his death in exchange for the Soul Stone. Although Thanos knew this was fake, he couldn't help but look one more time.
But that one look was enough for Tsunade's massive strength to send him near the Ten-Tails's Tailed Beast Ball.
Thud!
A silent explosion echoed in space, like a massive stellar explosion. Light and flames spread across a galaxy. The shockwave quickly swept over nearby Titan. Even the Ten-Tails itself was sent flying far away by the impact, drifting thousands of miles before slowly stopping.
Just now, the Ten-Tails had condensed all its energy into a final Tailed Beast Ball, hitting Thanos with one hundred percent accuracy.
"Go find Thanos and take the Infinity Stones."
Hyuga Mirai held his head as he said to Tsunade, then shattered the Truth-Seeking Ball gem and gave three Infinity Stones to Tsunade.
The power of the Soul Stone was too formidable. Without a mental barrier created by the Mind Stone, ordinary people could hardly resist its power. Having one's soul crushed was a relief; once tainted by the Soul Stone's power, a person would become the enemy's most loyal puppet.
Thanos was already injured, and now, hit directly by the Ten-Tails's Tailed Beast Ball, his body and mind were extremely exhausted. Then Kurenai Yuhi still didn't let him go, constantly creating illusionary spaces in his mind. Finally, Tsunade cut off his left arm, and Thanos broke free from Kurenai's illusionary space.
"You've already lost, Thanos. The Stones are mine now."
Hyuga Mirai flew over holding Thanos's severed arm. He had given Obito's ability ring and the Space Stone to Tsunade, but Thanos would have no chance to take back the Infinity Stones.
The reason he had let Thanos go after the Infinity Stones was that he was ninety percent sure. The only thing he hadn't fully considered was the Soul Stone. Fortunately, he hadn't let Tsunade and Kurenai face Thanos directly, otherwise the outcome of the battle would have been uncertain.
"The Infinity Stones can satisfy all of a person's selfish desires. I act for the common good. This universe needs balance..."
Before Thanos could finish, he was sliced in half by a Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, and then his body was collected by Hyuga Mirai.
Hyuga Mirai said calmly, "I'm not interested in how the universe develops. As long as I can see my family in the ninja world again, that's enough. Besides, your method is completely wrong. The destruction of the universe has nothing to do with the development of life."
This time, Thanos was truly dead, his body taken away by Hyuga Mirai. Hyuga Mirai took the three stones from Tsunade, placed them on the Infinity Gauntlet, then removed Thanos's severed hand and threw it into the Start Sphere space.
Kurenai Yuhi asked with some anticipation, "Are you going to snap your fingers now?"
"No, I need to study it a bit more."
Hyuga Mirai said, "Let's go back first. I'll use the Infinity Gauntlet after I understand it better."
(End of chapter)