"Who are you?"
Stop me from judging Earth? Who do you think you are?
Where did you get such courage?!
Do you think you're the Ancient One or Odin?
To Arishem, the man before him seemed completely insane.
Sersi and Phastos beside them were infinitely relieved when they saw Alaric!
Alaric truly appeared!
He came to stop the Celestial!
Especially Sersi endless hope was reignited in her heart!
In her eyes, the fact that Alaric had the courage to show up meant he was extremely confident in his strength to do so!
In other words, they might have a chance to survive!
But Kingo, the Indian movie star, was full of doubt.
He, too, had heard of Alaric from the news, especially because the red levitation cloak behind him had not only engraved itself into his memory, but became famous worldwide ever since the Battle of New York.
Everyone recognized it!
So Kingo wondered: why did Alaric come here? And why did he come to stop Arishem?
Because when Sersi and the others tried to stop the awakening of the sleeping Celestial, Kingo was the first to leave due to differing beliefs.
Because of that, Kingo never saw the moment when Alaric killed the awakened Celestial.
"My name is Alaric, a mage."
Alaric's posture did not fall short in the slightest; he showed none of the fear others felt before Arishem.
"Leave. For the sake of the Sorcerer Supreme, I will not act against you."
Although it seemed to Arishem that this tiny human had offended his innate divinity, he still chose reason and decided not to fight here.
If he were to draw the Ancient One or Odin's attention, and the two joined forces, he would not have a good outcome.
He didn't come here to battle.
"It seems you still don't understand, I'm not standing here because of the Sorcerer Supreme, but due to my own strength."
Alaric shook his head and said.
"Don't overestimate yourself."
Arishem spoke in a deep voice.
What was this human talking about, because of his own strength?
Was he joking?
In the entire Earth and the Nine Realms, aside from those two, who else had the ability to stand before Arishem and try to stop him?
Arishem felt that this man, because of his own power, had forgotten the massive difference between them.
If this weren't happening on Earth, Arishem would have crushed Alaric with a single finger.
That was why he didn't want to waste more time and began to teleport.
"Eh, it seems you still don't understand how serious this is."
Alaric sighed, raised his hand, and snapped his fingers.
Sn‑ap!
"Hm?"
Arishem frowned.
At first he didn't understand what happened, until his mind sensed the boundary of the universe.
Why was this universe so small?
Yes, Arishem noticed not only that the three Eternals had vanished, but that the universe he was in had become limited.
If the identical Earth before his eyes didn't give him an illusion for a moment, Arishem would have thought he hadn't moved at all.
But whether it was the boundary of this universe or that exact same Earth, Arishem realized he had been moved into another world.
One could say he had been pulled into a pocket universe.
And the one who caused it was the man in front of him.
"You surprise me, you actually possess such strength."
Arishem had no choice but to start taking Alaric seriously.
To pull him into a small universe without him noticing, that ability was worthy of caution.
"I told you, you still haven't understood how serious this is."
"What do you mean?" Arishem was confused.
"Earth is not a place your Celestial group can come and go from as you please."
At least not from this moment on.
Alaric flew up to Arishem's head level and declared fiercely.
Arishem fell silent.
Honestly, this was the first time he had heard such words.
Not even Odin, who had slain several Celestials, ever dared to speak something so insane!
And now you, a human with no name recognized among the great powers, want to naturally stand above Odin?
This shocked and enraged Arishem!!
He thought: who do you THINK you are!!
Outside world.
When Alaric and Arishem suddenly vanished, the three were confused and didn't know what had happened.
"Where did they go?!" Phastos asked in the spiritual space.
"I don't know, did Alaric drag Arishem away?! Maybe they wanted to fight, so to avoid destroying Earth, they changed locations!?"
Sersi guessed.
"You're close with Alaric?" Kingo suddenly interrupted their conversation.
"He's the one who saved us and he's the one who stopped Tiamut." Sersi replied.
"He was there that day!?" Kingo couldn't believe it!
"Yes."
Inside the small universe.
Arishem's level of anger was reaching the point of losing control…
He felt that one tiny, unknown lifeform provoking him this much, even if he feared the cooperation of the Ancient One and Odin, he still wanted to kill this insignificant human who spoke so arrogantly!!
Thinking so, Arishem expanded his spirit, intending to first teach Alaric a painful lesson, then leave this small universe and finish what he came to do.
In his opinion, as long as Alaric wasn't stronger than him, this pocket universe couldn't restrain him.
Just as Arishem was about to act, he suddenly noticed something on that Earth.
"This is… a Celestial?"
"This is the Celestial who was supposed to awaken!? You killed him!?"
"And what are these humans doing? They actually want to study a Celestial!?"
Arishem sensed Tiamut, the one who previously sent out the energy signal!
He initially thought it was Sersi and the others who had killed Tiamut!
But he didn't expect it to be this human named Alaric!
What angered him even more was that those tiny human beings were trying to seize the Celestial's power! Trying to steal the secrets of gods!!
How dare they!?
Using others for research should have been their job!!
"Uh… shame you noticed that."
Alaric only now remembered that Tony and the others were studying the Celestial's body inside the small universe.
But it didn't matter, what was discovered was discovered.
Inside this small universe, he was the only god!
Alaric had absolute control.
"Alaric!!"
Boom!!
Arishem truly exploded in fury!
He spread his arms and roared!
A massive aura struck Alaric and the Earth behind him.
A violent storm raised winds and clouds; heaven and earth changed color!
Tony, Banner, and all the personnel working there were also affected.
They had no idea why the sky, which was always clear, suddenly looked so bizarre!
Huge powerful winds whipped the land, making it impossible for anyone to even keep their eyes open.
"Tony!" Banner shouted.
"Hey! Don't you dare transform now! This equipment was extremely hard to obtain!"
Tony cried with a broken heart.
"…I mean, look at the sky! Doesn't it seem familiar to you!!?"
Banner nearly lost control, barely holding back his urge to curse. How long has it been, and you're still worried about equipment? Why don't you lift your head and take a proper look at what's up there!
Tony forced his eyes open, looked up, and then screamed in terror.
"WTF!!"