The process of passing through the spatial channel alongside the Mutant Universe was extremely brief.
In the blink of an eye, Malrick reappeared outside the God Realm Dimension.
The three Abstract Entities emerged with him and immediately began looking around, sighing with emotion, lamenting how long it had been since they last left their Universe.
As the nostalgia faded, Eternity suddenly recalled something troubling.
In a neighboring comic Universe, one of his m-bodies was still imprisoned by Dormammu of the Split Realm.
He had never expected the situation here to be even more absurd. Several more of his m-bodies were on the verge of being devoured, and the one doing it was his own sibling.
Death and Infinity also voiced their frustration, complaining about how they could only stand by and watch as they were consumed by Malrick.
Perhaps because there was no audience beyond the four of them, the three Abstract Entities completely abandoned their dignified facades.
They became excessively dramatic.
Before the majestic image of the four great cosmic entities completely collapsed in Malrick's mind, he interrupted them.
"Before I start merging this Universe, is there anyone who wants to leave?"
"What, you're really not coming out? You don't want this m-body anymore?"
"If you don't leave now, I will devour you along with it."
Faced with Malrick's repeated warnings, the three Abstract Entities responded with exaggerated determination. They declared they would live and die with the Universe, choosing to remain inside and refusing to come out.
They even continued peeking out at Malrick, pointing at him animatedly while explaining how he should devour the Universe properly.
Malrick felt a growing headache.
Normally, these Creator level beings were mysterious and distant, but in private, their ridiculous side was impossible to ignore.
As the three heads spoke one after another about balancing rules and structural order, Malrick suddenly recalled a comic storyline from his previous life.
It was the incident where the Living Tribunal judged Annihilation.
The cause had been Annihilation accusing Eternity of compressing his conceptual space, leaving him too little room to exist. He had taken the case to the Living Tribunal.
During the trial, Eternity denied everything, insisting he would never do such a thing.
Annihilation refused to back down and even proposed giving Death to Eternity so he could gain more space.
Among the four great entities, Eternity and Infinity were two sides of existence itself, while Death and Annihilation were intertwined concepts.
Yet the verdict assigned Death to Eternity's side.
The balance became three against one.
Annihilation was delighted. With Death gone, he gained freedom and expanded space.
But billions of years later, that freedom turned into unbearable emptiness.
Lonely and hollow, Annihilation demanded Death back.
Eternity, being surprisingly reasonable, agreed.
Then Annihilation changed his mind again, deciding that Death's return would crowd his existence.
So he attempted to kill Eternity.
He transformed into the Cosmic Serpent and wrapped Eternity in his massive coils.
Even while being strangled, Eternity tried to reason with him.
Annihilation ignored every word.
When the Living Tribunal finally discovered what was happening, it descended in fury and struck Annihilation down with a single blow.
The result was not terrifying destruction, but a sobbing Annihilation, covered in tears and mucus.
That storyline had been written to portray internal conflict among cosmic forces.
But to Malrick, it highlighted something else.
Their boredom.
Their absurdity.
Just like now.
The Mutant Universe was on the verge of being devoured, yet Eternity, Death, and Infinity did not flee.
Instead, they stared intently at Malrick, looking heroic, as if prepared to die alongside their Universe.
In reality, they were enthusiastically giving advice.
"When it comes to destruction and creation, we have far more experience than you," Eternity said proudly. "A Universe constantly breathes energy. I know a thing or two about devouring."
"You need to do this first, then adjust that, and handle this detail carefully…"
To be fair, they did understand the theory.
Unfortunately, it was unnecessary.
Malrick placed the Mutant Universe at the outer edge of the God Realm Dimension.
Under his control, the barriers of the two worlds slowly approached each other.
Instead of colliding, the invisible barriers softened and melted, like snow beneath sunlight.
The moment their interiors began to intertwine, the God Realm Dimension released an overwhelming suction.
Vast quantities of space, matter, and energy poured out of the Mutant Universe and into the God Realm Dimension.
"Yes, exactly like that," Eternity said excitedly. "Now control the speed. You cannot let your Dimension convert everything. You must transfer it."
At this point, Eternity resembled an old man watching a chess match at a village entrance.
Experienced, sharp eyed, and incapable of staying quiet.
"Listen to Eternity," Infinity added. "If you want to save the world, you cannot truly devour it. You are only relocating it."
Death nodded along.
One old man, two elderly women.
Malrick ignored them entirely.
He focused on regulating the absorption process with absolute precision.
Having already comprehended an immense number of Universal Rules, he knew exactly what he was doing.
As space, matter, energy, time, and other elements from the Mutant Universe entered the God Realm Dimension, they were not consumed.
Under normal circumstances, when a Dimension devours a real world, everything is converted into nourishment. Matter erodes, energy is absorbed, and life is reduced to dust.
It is no different from digestion.
But Malrick's goal was preservation, not consumption.
Everything he absorbed continued to exist, simply in a different place.
It was like transferring air from one balloon into another.
One by one, massive superclusters entered the God Realm Dimension.
Malrick placed them within a prepared void region.
He then adjusted the dimensional rules, performing the gentlest possible assimilation.
This process would take time.
Several months, at least.
By the end, those superclusters would fully integrate, and the God Realm Dimension would be strengthened by the added space and matter.
Slow, but stable.
Safe.
As Malrick continued absorbing the Mutant Universe, he monitored the galaxies that had already settled.
During this process, he identified a critical problem.
The God Realm Dimension was missing key rules.
Its native rules were chaotic and highly corrosive, but they were complete.
After Malrick confined those native rules to a limited region, the Dimension lost something essential.
There was no Death.
No birth.
No cycle.
Just like the glowing people on Mutant Earth, not a single being had died.
In the newly added galaxies, there was also no new life and no ending of old life.
The reason was simple.
The Six Gem Rules did not include concepts such as Death, birth, or cyclical balance.
As a result, the God Realm Dimension was only a rough framework of a Universe.
The crucial elements required for a complete, self sustaining cosmos were still missing.