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Chapter 549 A Crazy World
"This other Earth this time is also a Mutant World."
"Therefore, without the help of the X-Men, Magneto and the others couldn't quickly break through the other Earth's defenses."
"So Magneto, White Queen, and various factions jointly requested Professor X to take action."
"The reason, naturally, was to protect their own Earth and billions of humans."
"Ultimately, Professor X still agreed to act."
"But he decided that after destroying the other Earth, he would also atone for his sins with Death."
"However, an even worse situation occurred."
"When the second collision ended,"
"A third collision surprisingly arrived quickly again."
"Once the bottom line is broken, it will be broken a second time."
"The X-Men, naturally, joined the operation to destroy the third Earth again."
"That time, the other Earth they faced was very powerful, with Thanos who had gathered four Infinity Stones."
"So they awakened Apocalypse and once again jointly destroyed the third Earth."
"By the time the fourth World collision occurred, they had all become demons."
"Already burdened with the blood debt of tens of billions of souls."
"Whether it was Magneto or Professor X, they had all completely lost their bottom line."
"Even Professor X, when destroying another Earth, no longer had any hesitation."
"When it came to our current World collision, which is the fifth collision,"
Wanda paused.
She said heavily, "At first, although Professor X agreed to Jarvis that he would wait until the World collision ended,"
"In fact, at that time, they were already mobilizing personnel, preparing to break into our World."
"Their plan was to first control all humans, then directly detonate the Earth's core."
Wanda briefly explained the Mutant Earth's experience and the reasons for their actions.
The Avengers fell silent.
Captain America and Carter looked at the Mutants on the ground.
They looked like a group of demonic butchers, but also like a group of pitiful people struggling to survive.
Tony couldn't help but put himself in the shoes of the Mutant Earth.
If the S Earth didn't have Leon, what would happen to them, the Avengers, when faced with a World collision crisis?
Tony recalled everyone's performance during their last visit to the Main Universe.
Captain America would certainly not agree to destroy another Earth.
As for him.
Tony thought of himself.
Although the Avengers could temporarily push the Earth away with the Infinity Stones.
But in that situation, if World collisions occurred continuously, just like in the Mutant Universe?
Would the Infinity Stones still be able to alleviate the situation then?
Tony thought deeply and felt that he, too, might become a demon like these Mutants.
He couldn't help but shiver, a chilling cold spreading from his heart throughout his body.
Now, Tony's gaze towards Wolverine held a hint of sympathy.
"So… what should we do with these guys, send them back?" Tony broke the silence.
Everyone, who had also been immersed in the Mutant Earth's experience, came back to their senses.
But they didn't know what to do for a moment.
These Mutants were utterly sinful butchers.
Even if each person shared the burden, they still had hundreds of millions of lives on their hands.
But everything they did was for survival.
It was to survive that they had no choice but to kill others.
Among the Avengers, no one except Captain America dared to say that they wouldn't do the same if they encountered the same situation.
In this silence.
Wolverine suddenly scoffed.
He forcefully rolled over, from lying prone on the ground to lying on his back.
Under the Avengers' vigilance.
He stared blankly at the Shadow of his own Earth above his head.
Gradually, a mocking expression appeared, beneath which lay deep pain and relief.
"Kill us… kill all of us."
Wolverine said.
"This World is already crazy, and we are all crazy."
"I have seen the cruelty of war, but even a war called a meat grinder is not as crazy as the current World."
"This World is forcing everyone to go crazy, to stop being human."
"Kill me, and then kill that old man, and that beautiful woman, and those bastards, kill them all."
"If Professor knew he was going to be killed, he would definitely be very happy."
"And Jean, Jean doesn't want to live either, she's in pain every day, I've seen her smoking at night, burning her palm with a cigarette butt, she used to hate the smell of smoke the most."
"As for the other bastards, Death is better for them than living."
"Once dead, everything ends, no more waking up from Nightmares, no more constantly hearing the wails of countless spirits."
"Come on, kill us, aren't you some damn Avengers, I beg you, do it quickly."
Perhaps it was because he truly longed for Death.
Wolverine Logan said a lot in one breath.
His eyes were black, but at this moment they were like dusty glass marbles.
As he looked up at the Earth in the sky, that glass marble held the pain of ten thousand blades piercing his heart.
Listening to Wolverine's seemingly self-talk.
The Avengers' expressions became very complex.
Tony wanted to say something.
But his heart was too heavy to say anything.
Finally, Carter said expressionlessly, "Do it, even if they return to their Earth now, only pain will remain, causing more Death in the future."
After speaking, Carter pulled out her Glock pistol and fired continuously at several Mutants with ordinary physiques.
Wanda sighed and also extended her finger to cast magic.
Scarlet Chaos Magic covered all the Mutants.
When the red energy disappeared.
Those Mutants all turned into transparent bubbles, swaying and flying into the sky, all the way back to the other Earth.
"Leon said that some unimaginable crisis is brewing in the Multiverse."
Tony looked up at the bubbles until they disappeared.
He said in a melancholic tone.
"Perhaps World collision is part of the crisis."
"We should be grateful, because we still have Leon."
"But we must also make the necessary preparations in the future to guard against all possible dangers that could jeopardize Earth."
The others nodded in agreement.
Hela, the former God of Death, now a mortal, was also present.
She also stared blankly at the sky, suddenly feeling this Universe was very strange.
Thousands of years ago, when she and Odin conquered the Universe, they had never heard of such a thing as a Multiverse crisis.
Looking at the other Earth.
The arrogance in Hela's heart was suddenly largely worn away.
...
Outside the Universe.
Leon's gaze slowly moved between the two Universes.
He penetrated through unclear interfering factors, searching for the true reason that caused the Universes to collide.
As a string of bubbles floated from the S Universe towards the Mutant Universe.
Leon suddenly reached out and grabbed a black Fire that was flying away beyond the two Universes.
That flame was imprisoned in his palm.
When he opened his hand again.
The Fire transformed into a black Phoenix flapping its wings.
"Is this the Phoenix Force fragment from Jean Grey?"
"After her Death, the fragment will seek a new host… I'll keep it for future study."
Leon put away the Phoenix Force and continued to observe the changes in the timelines, causality, space-time, and other factors between the Universes.
Everything that had happened in the Mutant Universe.
Leon had already discovered it the first moment he observed the Universe.
That's why he allowed those Mutants to invade Earth.
After all, the sense of crisis couldn't just be his alone.
What could bring more of a sense of crisis and urgency than a group of people burdened with heavy blood debts due to World collisions?
Tony and the others also needed to get stronger faster.
Chapter 550: The Reason for the World Collision
Leon continued to observe the collision of the two Universes.
Even though the Mutant World sent out more armies and super-powered individuals, he paid them no mind.
Tony had experienced Cosmic level civilization battles in the Three-Body World.
Dealing with the fleet from the parallel World Earth was, to him, completely stress-free.
Those waves of fighter jets entering Earth were like locusts rushing into insecticide, one after another.
The sky above S Earth was filled with the fiery explosions of fighter jets.
The invasion from the Mutant World was extinguished as soon as it began.
Even if a small number of super-powered individuals survived the explosions,
they could not escape the pursuit of Diana and Kara.
The Avengers had not failed to dissuade the Mutant Earth.
They had repeatedly issued explanations to the other side.
They explained and guaranteed that the two Worlds could safely overcome the collision crisis.
But the Mutant Earth did not believe them at all.
Or rather, they dared not believe.
They had already experienced four World collisions.
They had witnessed the destruction of four Earths and four Universes.
They dared not gamble.
This was a battle for survival; the stakes were the life and death of the entire Earth, or even the Universe.
Most of the Avengers experienced the ruthlessness of the Multiverse for the first time.
Tony, who had only recently returned from the Three-Body Universe, felt this even more deeply.
The Mutant Earth's attack continued.
The fiery explosions in the sky above s Universe Earth never stopped.
Perhaps only when all their fighter jets were expended, all Mutants were dead, and the Mutant Earth was utterly desperate, would they cease their attack.
Until a certain moment.
Leon found the clue he was looking for.
So he pushed the two Universes apart, allowing S Earth and Mutant Earth to move away from each other again.
The attacks from the Mutant Earth then stopped.
And on s Earth.
Beneath the sky, red from the fires.
The Avengers gazed at the sky.
Some sat down, silent on the grass.
Others stood upright, their hearts still shocked and worried by the madness of the Multiverse, unable to calm down for a long time.
Everyone felt a sense of urgency.
Finally, under the command of Captain America and Tony, everyone dispersed to comfort the affected populace.
The gratitude and smiles of the people, having survived the catastrophe, slightly eased the complex feelings of the Avengers.
But the madness of the Mutant World they witnessed this time had already planted a seed of urgency in their hearts.
And outside the Universe.
Leon's mood was quite uplifted.
He finally found the reason for the continuous World collisions.
"Thanks to the peculiarity of my Universe, I finally found the reason."
"It is indeed a timeline issue, and it's highly probable that Doctor Strange did not cause it."
In fact, Leon had already roughly deduced that the World collisions were due to a problem with the timeline.
But every Universe.
Its timeline is not a straight line.
Instead, it is a tree branch that infinitely derives different time branches.
When different Universes collide,
it is actually two time tree branches colliding.
The two branches interfere with each other, and at the same time, their own time branches become chaotic, finally twisting into a tangled mess.
So it was difficult for Leon to determine where the Universe went wrong before.
One reason was that he did not let the World collision proceed to the end.
The other was that when the two Worlds collided, the timeline was already in utter chaos.
But this time was different.
Because among the colliding Worlds, there was the Universe Leon was in.
The 199999-s Universe where Leon was located had a very special timeline.
The timelines of other Universes would have countless branches.
However, the timeline of the s Universe where Leon was located was a straight line.
The starting point of this timeline was the year Leon appeared in the MCU Universe.
In that year, the s Universe extended from the Main Universe's timeline, forming a new Universe.
And because of Leon's uniqueness.
This timeline had no branches from the very beginning.
However, every time Leon returned after traveling between Worlds.
This timeline would be overwritten once, giving birth to a new future.
Of course, that was actually before.
Now that Leon's strength has reached the Multiverse level, he has already half-stepped out of the MCU timeline's restraint on him.
So, the future of this timeline in the s Universe is now even blurry.
Therefore.
In the past, the colliding Worlds were a large string of extended timelines tangled together, blurry and unclear.
Relatively speaking.
This time, when it was the World Leon was in that collided.
All influencing factors became much clearer.
After the two Universes approached each other.
Space, time, reality, and various other factors were separated and observed by Leon.
The past and future of the two Universes transformed in Leon's eyes into one straight timeline and one chaotic, tangled timeline.
Although the Mutant Universe's timeline still became very chaotic after the collision occurred.
The biggest problem, however, was still highlighted amidst the various intricate factors.
All reasons became clear at this moment.
Leon could see no entanglement between the two Universes.
However, the upstream of the two Universe's timelines was converging.
"The source of the timeline has a problem."
Leon's gaze flickered, and he pushed the Mutant Universe far away.
He then looked towards the upstream timeline of his own Universe.
The timeline of the entire Multiverse is actually a huge World Tree.
Shen Loki sits at the end of time, which is the center of this tree, converging all timelines.
And the core of this tree is actually the Sacred Timeline.
Most Universes extend from the Sacred Timeline.
But beyond that.
There are also other different main time branches.
For example, the Sony Spider-Man movie Universe, and Fawkes's X-Men Universe.
The timelines of these Worlds are independent of the Sacred Timeline.
Previously, Leon suspected that the Beyonder from the comic Universe had come and caused timeline contraction outside the Multiverse, ultimately leading to World collisions.
So he didn't pay attention to whether there were problems between the main time branches.
But now, looking back with questions.
Leon found that those main time branches were actually squeezed together like bamboo shoots.
Which means.
The upstream of countless timelines had actually collided and contracted.
This is a very serious problem.
Under the immense scale of the Multiverse.
Even the slightest change at the source of time would produce huge and unpredictable effects.
And the contraction between the upstream main time branches.
Would cause the countless timelines, which unfold like a tree downstream, to be squeezed together.
This is like a string of pressure-activated landmines threaded together.
A whole string of landmines used to be spread out, not touching each other.
But now, because the source has converged and they are colliding with each other, the landmines along the entire string are starting to detonate in a chain reaction.
"No wonder the number of World collisions in the Multiverse is becoming more and more frequent."
Leon's expression was unusually serious.
"It turns out that the World entanglement caused by Doctor Strange's World travel, and the Obliviate spell in the Main Universe, were only local reasons."
"And the real reason is the contraction occurring at the source of the timeline."
Chapter 551: Has the Time Variance Authority Fallen?
"Who did this? Was it the Beyonder? Or Shen Loki? Why is the Time Variance Authority not reacting at all?"
Leon found the true reason for the World collision, but new doubts emerged from his heart.
Before he was sure of the cause of the World collision, he had many suspects.
Now that the cause was confirmed, the scope of suspicion immediately narrowed significantly.
After all, there are too few people in the Multiverse Cinematic Universe who can interfere with the main timeline, only a few.
But it was difficult to determine exactly who did it.
So Leon thought of the Time Variance Authority again.
At a time when even the main timeline was having problems, shouldn't the Time Variance Authority be the first to discover the problem and the first to get anxious?
But until now, Leon hadn't seen the Time Variance Authority come to him for help.
"So, I'm afraid the Time Variance Authority…"
Leon speculated that the Time Variance Authority most likely had a problem, and it was a big one.
He first took out the Time Pad, which had been gathering dust for a long time.
After opening it, this pad, crafted with high-end time technology, now resembled a household appliance short-circuiting, constantly displaying messages of losing connection with the host.
Leon then tried to open a portal to the Time Variance Authority, but the pad still showed no response.
"Sure enough, the Time Pad is useless."
Leon was not surprised.
He casually put away the Time Pad.
Taking a step, he prepared to go to the Time Variance Authority beyond time.
But as he was about to merge into space, he stopped again.
"Oh, I'll bring Jarvis too."
In Mephisto's Hell, Jarvis, Dark Strange, and a large number of mages stood together.
They were waiting for Mephisto to open a spatial passage to take them to another Hell Lord's Hell to launch an attack.
Leon's sudden appearance surprised everyone.
After he explained the whole story, Jarvis expressed his confusion.
"The Time Variance Authority is having problems? How can this be, Young Master?"
"Just the day before you returned, I connected to the sub-body and obtained the latest intelligence from the Time Variance Authority."
Jarvis's tone was very puzzled, and his expression was even more so.
"As far as I know, the Time Variance Authority is still doing its daily work of maintaining the stability of the Multiverse."
"And the World collision has been happening for a long time."
"The Time Variance Authority should still be operating normally and have nothing to do with the World collision."
Jarvis expressed his opinion.
Leon's eyes, however, gradually deepened.
"This is not Strange, Jarvis. Time is a very complex thing, but also very simple."
"For an organization like the Time Variance Authority, which exists outside of time, one day there can be a hundred million years in various Universes, or it can be just one second."
"To you, they contacted you just yesterday."
"But to them, their last contact with you might have been a long time ago."
After Leon finished speaking, he pressed Jarvis's shoulder.
"The Time Variance Authority has undoubtedly encountered a big problem, but your experience confirms one thing for me."
Jarvis asked in confusion, "What have you confirmed, Young Master?"
"I can now confirm that the source of this Multiverse collision crisis has definitely been to the Time Variance Authority," Leon said.
"That source deliberately created the illusion for a key character like you that the Time Variance Authority was still operating normally."
"If I hadn't suddenly returned from other Worlds and re-disrupted your future trajectory, Jarvis, perhaps that source could have allowed you to continue receiving new messages from the sub-body for a long time afterward."
Leon's words made Jarvis suddenly realize.
"So, the Time Variance Authority might have fallen, but they are a key character in maintaining the stability of the Universe. If even they have fallen, then…"
Leon shook his head, interrupting Jarvis, "We don't know what happened yet. There's no need to start speculating about the outcome of things now."
"Let's go, we'll go to the Time Variance Authority first and see."
Leon was about to enter the Time Variance Authority with Jarvis.
"Wait, Your Eminence, please take me with you. I should also be able to help."
Dark Strange, who had been listening to their conversation, quickly spoke up.
He laughed self-deprecatingly, "After all, many Stranges are quite skilled at destroying Universes. Perhaps I can sensitively detect some information."
Leon gave him a Strange look, "You think there might be another Dark Strange who attacked the Time Variance Authority to resurrect Clea?"
Dark Strange gave a bitter smile, "That possibility cannot be ruled out… If the old me knew about the Time Variance Authority, perhaps I really would have acted."
Well, should I say he lives up to being Doctor Strange?
In the Multiverse Cinematic Universe, wherever there's a scapegoat, Doctor Strange might be involved.
"Then let's go together."
Leon also brought Dark Strange along.
He took a step, and the three of them simultaneously merged into space, jumping out of time.
Jarvis and Dark Strange only felt a blur before their eyes, and then they appeared inside a building.
This was a long corridor.
The main colors of the corridor were orange-yellow and off-white.
Various time-related patterns were drawn on the walls and floor tiles.
Jarvis was already very familiar with this place.
To be precise, his sub-body had been working here for over ten years, longer than his main body had spent in the S Universe.
However, this familiar place now made Jarvis feel somewhat unfamiliar.
Because there were clear cracks and scattered pits on the corridor's tiles.
Those cracks and pits clearly indicated intense combat.
And the corridor walls were also battle-damaged.
Splattered blood stains covered the walls.
They were full of knife marks, bullet holes, impact marks, and other traces of battle.
But beneath these traces, there were no bodies.
The entire corridor silently led into the depths, where the lights flickered on and off rhythmically.
Just from the first glance upon entering the Time Variance Authority, it didn't look like the Time Variance Authority outside of the World.
Instead, it resembled a haunted hospital from a horror game.
Jarvis felt a little nervous.
Many people in the Time Variance Authority had a good relationship with him.
People like Casey, O.B., and Miss Minutes, to him, were colleagues he had worked with for a long time.
Unlike Jarvis, Dark Strange looked around and actually felt a slight sense of relief.
"These battle marks are not Strange's style. Perhaps the Time Variance Authority's situation has nothing to do with other versions of me."
Leon nodded, indicating understanding, and walked towards the depths of the corridor.
At the same time, Jarvis also spoke, "Young Master, there's a problem. I… I can still use the Infinity Stones."
Jarvis's words made Leon's steps pause slightly.
The Time Variance Authority has anti-magic devices that can be manually turned on or off.
The Infinity Stones are also within the scope of anti-magic.
Jarvis can still use the Infinity Stones, which means the anti-magic devices are either off or destroyed.
It also means the Time Variance Authority has completely fallen.
After all, the last time the Time Variance Authority turned off the anti-magic devices was when Shen Loki had not yet sat on the golden toilet at the end of time, and the entire Multiverse was about to be destroyed.
Leon didn't speak.
He continued to lead the two further into the Time Variance Authority.
The entire Time Variance Authority was eerily quiet; apart from their footsteps, there was no other sound.
Chapter 552: The One Who Destroyed the Time Variance Authority
The three of them continued walking down the corridor.
The broken and mottled walls and floor moved along with them.
It seemed there was no intact place in the entire Time Variance Authority.
In the eerie silence,
Their footsteps echoed rhythmically behind them.
As the lights flickered, it was as if three ghosts were trailing them.
If it were ordinary people in such an environment, they would surely be terrified instantly.
They might even worry that an unspeakable monster would leap out from the next corner and pounce on them.
But the three of them—Liam, Jarvis, and Dark Strange—were all bold and skilled individuals.
After all, their strength was too great.
They turned down the corridor, opening one sealed or damaged office after another.
Inside the offices were numerous cubicles.
Some were severely damaged, while others were as good as new.
The commonality was that there was no dust on any of the desks.
But this did not mean that the Time Variance Authority had only recently fallen.
The Time Variance Authority is a place outside of time.
Here, the passage of time does not bring about decay, weathering, or a series of other problems.
No dust means nothing.
The entire Time Variance Authority was vast.
But the three of them quickly traversed every part of it.
Yet, even after searching every corner,
They found no living person, not even a corpse.
It was as if Silent Hill from a horror story had invaded this place.
And so, overnight, everyone had inexplicably vanished without a trace.
However, it was impossible for the Time Variance Authority to be invaded by Silent Hill.
The absence of any human presence here could only mean that the person who occupied the Time Variance Authority had no intention of mass killing.
This was good news.
It meant that the vanished Time Variance Authority employees
Might actually still be alive.
They were just taken to another place.
This discovery certainly allowed Jarvis to breathe a sigh of relief.
The three of them finally arrived at the Time Variance Authority's command center.
It was no different from before.
However, there were more traces of battle, and the World Tree mural on the wall was severely damaged.
Liam, Jarvis, and Dark Strange stood before the main control equipment of the command center.
Previously, one could see countless branching extensions of the Sacred Timeline on the large screen here.
But now, the main control equipment was flickering with a series of electrical sparks, indicating that it was already Deprecated.
"The one who invaded the Time Variance Authority deliberately cut off its connection with the outside World."
"Such an action means that the other party still has concerns."
"Concerns about Time Variance Authority personnel outside, such as the Young Master and myself."
"We can boldly assume that, in their eyes, if we had arrived in time, there was a possibility of successfully preventing their invasion."
"In other words, the strength of that person is very likely not that great."
Jarvis analyzed.
Dark Strange also nodded in agreement: "So we only need to find the other party to rectify the current Oops situation."
Jarvis added: "But the biggest challenge now is how to pinpoint their location. The Multiverse is boundless; if he hides in a doomsday World, it will be almost impossible for us to find him."
"No, you are mistaken."
Liam suddenly spoke, resting his hands on the main control equipment, expressing disagreement with their views.
"The main trunk of the timeline has already been disturbed. It can be said that the invader's purpose for entering the Time Variance Authority has been largely achieved."
"Although the Multiverse is vast, finding that person is not difficult for me."
"The difficulty is how to correct the changes that have occurred in the main trunk of the Worldline, thereby completely resolving the Universe collision crisis."
Liam's words caused Jarvis and Dark Strange to fall into deep thought.
They had discovered the problem too late.
The entire Multiverse had already entered a predicament.
Finding the mastermind would not solve the problem.
At most, it would only help them understand how the problem was created.
"Young Master, my sub-entity is stored in the Time Variance Authority's internal network; perhaps it hasn't been cleared yet."
Jarvis suggested after extensive calculations.
"We might as well repair the Time Variance Authority's data system first."
"If my sub-entity still exists, we might be able to understand what exactly happened to the Time Variance Authority before."
"Hmm… we can try."
Liam nodded, extending his palm and lightly stroking the top of the main equipment.
After his hand passed over it, the continuously flickering electrical sparks immediately disappeared.
Even the cracks in the equipment and the energy circuits that had already been damaged within them were instantly repaired.
Liam then pressed a few buttons.
The large screen of the main equipment lit up again after a sharp, noisy sound.
On it was the familiar orange-yellow timeline branch map.
The damaged Time Variance Authority technology was thus repaired.
Liam began to operate quickly.
He checked the timeline through the Time Variance Authority's equipment.
He once again verified the problem he had previously detected.
—The source of the timeline had contracted, and the entire Multiverse was experiencing Worldcollisions.
If this situation was left unchecked,
Soon, the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe would be completely destroyed in the collision.
As Liam was checking the status of the timeline,
A data cable extended from Jarvis's arm and plugged into the main equipment.
In his eyes, a torrent of data flowed down like heavy rain.
A few breaths of time passed.
Jarvis suddenly trembled all over, revealing an expression of disbelief.
"Did you find anything?" Dark Strange asked.
"It seems your sub-entity was not erased," Liam also said, looking at Jarvis.
Jarvis nodded: "I found the sub-entity in the data remnants and have now merged it."
"The so-called invader deleted all data when he left and destroyed all high-tech products in the Time Variance Authority."
"But he didn't expect my sub-entity to still be able to hide among the data remnants."
Dark Strange tilted his head slightly: "You just said… he?"
Hearing Jarvis's pronoun for the invader,
Strange began to think again that the person was another Strange from another World.
Jarvis nodded and then shook his head.
"Rest assured, Mr. Strange, the invader is not another you, but… Doctor Doom."
Doctor Doom?
Dark Strange recalled, but he didn't have a particularly deep impression of that name.
Liam, however, showed an expression of "as expected."
After arriving at the Time Variance Authority and seeing the situation here, he had a preliminary guess.
But hearing Jarvis say that the culprit behind all this was Doom,
Liam still had a bit of a headache.
No wonder that guy had the same face as Tony; it turned out he was preparing to destroy the Multiverse.
"Did your sub-entity record what Doctor Doom did?" Liam asked Jarvis.
Jarvis nodded.
He extended his hand, his fingers turning into a data interface, and plunged them into the main equipment again.
Soon, the screen displayed a recording similar to a surveillance camera.
"Doctor Doom is actually a person who is very consistent with the Time Variance Authority's mission."
Jarvis said, "After joining the Time Variance Authority, he was always the most active in performing tasks, constantly talking about protecting the Multiverse."
"He was particularly keen on tracking down the Kang Council who disrupted the peace of the Multiverse."
"Every time the Time Variance Authority found a clue about a Kang variant, Doctor Doom would immediately go."
"Until recently… of course, 'recently' for Young Master and us."
"The Time Variance Authority located the gathering place of the Kang Council, and Doctor Doomwent there, annihilating all of them, not a single one left."
The screen began to play footage of Doctor Doom slaughtering the Kang Council.
It was a scene similar to a Doom Arena.
Countless Kang variants stood in the arena or in the audience screaming.
Chapter 553: That Man's Ambition
Each of the Kangs howled madly, beating their chests and stomping their feet, like a group of agitated apes.
At this moment, a golden portal opened in the center of the Doom Arena.
Dr. Doom, cloaked in green and wearing an iron mask, stepped out.
He was clearly wearing a mask.
But when he looked at the shouting and yelling Kangs around him, it gave people the illusion that he was smiling.
Upon discovering the uninvited guest.
Some Kangs began to scream in panic, trying to hide behind the audience seats.
But most of the Kang variants roared in anger, shouting to kill the intruder.
They had the numerical advantage, who were they afraid of?
As a blue-skinned Kang approached Dr. Doom with an energy gun.
Dr. Doom also moved.
He rushed towards all the Kangs like a ghost.
Lightning magic instantly covered the entire area.
Missiles, seemingly from nowhere, launched continuously, splitting into numerous smaller missiles after breaking apart in the air, precisely targeting each Kang.
Dr. Doom's magic and technology erupted simultaneously.
Soon, monkey-like screams echoed in the Doom Arena again.
However, this time they were screams of fear.
In the vast Doom Arena.
Dr. Doom was slaughtering madly, while hundreds of Kang variants scattered in all directions like a group of monkeys.
Some climbed up the audience seats.
Some desperately tried to squeeze under the low walls of the audience seats.
At this moment, Immortus Kang, one of the leaders of the Kang Council, shouted, calling them a bunch of idiots.
Then he charged towards Kang, but within half a minute, he too was fleeing with his head in his hands.
He took out his time technology, wanting to quickly escape the Kang Council' gathering place.
But then he discovered that the entire Doom Arena's time had been sealed off.
All the Kangs had no choice but to face Dr. Doom's Carnage directly.
The monkey screams in the Doom Arena grew sharper, then gradually faded, until finally, silence fell.
The vast amount of blood from the Kang variants covered the barren ground of the Doom Arena.
Dr. Doom stood on the thick layer of viscous blood, calmly collecting his spoils of war.
...
Outside the screen.
Jarvis then said, "It can be said that Dr. Doom, with his own strength, prevented the crisis that the Kang Council brought to the Multiverse."
"But correspondingly, all of the Kangs' time technology also fell into Dr. Doom's hands."
"The Kang Council was able to contend with the TVA precisely because of their various time technologies."
"After all, the TVA was actually only established by a Kang who won a Multiverse war hundreds of millions of years ago."
"So, with that technology, Dr. Doom can naturally also contend with the TVA."
"At this point, his ambition finally gradually revealed itself."
"He used the convenience of the Time Variance Authority to secretly investigate various secrets in the Multiverse."
"Until a few decades ago... Yes, young master, Dr. Doom's betrayal was decades ago, at least in the TVA."
"One day decades ago, the Spider-Man team, the Deadpool Wolverine team, and other combat teams were not inside the TVA."
"So on that day, Dr. Doom sealed off the TVA, destroying and demolishing all of the TVA's time technology."
"Those who resisted him were severely injured or knocked unconscious by him."
"For those who were not inside the TVA, he completely severed their connection with the TVA."
"Finally, he took away the remaining people who supported him and were willing to follow him."
"Before leaving, he also erased the memories of the other resisting individuals and threw them into the Multiverse."
"And so, the TVA floated lifelessly outside of time for decades."
As Jarvis recounted the destruction of the TVA.
The screen also showed the detailed process.
The power of Dr. Doom's time technology displayed on the screen truly surprised Dark Strange.
At the same time, Black Strange found it quite unbelievable.
"He betrayed the TVA, and he still managed to have so many followers?"
On the screen, when Dr. Doom left the TVA, those who voluntarily followed him accounted for at least half of the total TVA staff.
Isn't this Dr. Doom instigating a rebellion?
How does it look more like he's here for a talent recruitment drive?
In an organization spanning the Multiverse, half of the people became traitors; how much of a failure must this organization be!
Dark Strange felt there were too many absurdities.
At this point, Leon actually helped explain, "That's not surprising. Dr. Doom actually possesses a very strong personal charisma."
"And the goal he pursues isn't necessarily an unjust one."
"In some parallel Worlds, Doctor Strange might even be his subordinate."
Black Strange immediately denied, "Impossible, Your Eminence, this is impossible! All Stranges are arrogant individuals, it's impossible for them to be someone else's subordinate!"
"Is that so? Aren't you my messenger now? What's impossible about it?"
After Leon finished speaking, he looked at Jarvis again, "The truth about the TVA's destruction is known, but what about the reason for the timeline contraction? How did Dr. Doom achieve it?"
Jarvis shook his head, "I don't know, young master."
"However, the most information Dr. Doom investigated before leaving was about a You-Know-Who who once saved the TVA and the Multiverse."
"In the archives, that You-Know-Who was a Loki variant, and he seemed to have a very important connection to the Multiverse timeline."
"Dr. Doom also launched his rebellion only after collecting a large amount of intelligence about that Loki."
At this moment, the surveillance footage on the screen had played to the end.
Dr. Doom opened a portal, leading many TVA employees to leave together.
He looked back before entering the portal.
It was as if he was bidding farewell to the past, and also declaring war on the future.
"Humans get sick, and the World gets sick. This World is sick, it shouldn't be like this."
Dr. Doom's opening statement was of World War level.
"Those so-called Superheroes seemingly protect the World, but in reality, they make the Worldsicker and sicker."
"To protect the Multiverse and save countless Worlds, everything must be torn down and rebuilt."
"All the answers lie at the end of time, where everything ends, and everything begins."
"Soon, soon, I will soon obtain that power and bring true peace to the Multiverse."
After Dr. Doom finished speaking, he turned and stepped into the portal.
The video playing on the screen also ended here.
"Dr. Doom..." Dark Strange gazed at the screen for a long time, "He is too obsessive. Whatever he wants to do, he will definitely drag the Multiverse into the abyss."
Leon glanced at Black Strange strangely from the side.
How could a blackened Strange have the nerve to call others obsessive? Was this a keen sense for his own kind?
"Now there's no doubt, Dr. Doom is the culprit behind the Multiverse collision."
Leon said.
"As for how he did it, it's probably related to that power he mentioned."
Chapter 554: Plundering Power
After a slight pause, Leon continued.
"Or to put it more bluntly, Dr. Doom's ability to contract multiple main timelines is actually related to Shen Loki, who sits at the end of time."
Jarvis and Black Strange exchanged glances, impressed despite their lack of understanding.
"Shen Loki? Do you mean Loki, the God of Mischief? Is he a particularly special variant of Loki?" Black Strange asked, puzzled.
Jarvis's perpetually rational eyes momentarily lost their focus.
After a quick calculation in his mind, he concluded: "Young Master is likely referring to the Lokiwho saved the Time Variance Authority."
"Judging from the title 'Shen Loki,' it can be inferred that, for the Multiverse, he might serve a role similar to God."
"God?" Black Strange was somewhat astonished.
In different Universes, Loki was almost always just a God of Mischief who played petty tricks.
Could such a person actually become a God-like existence?
Black Strange found it incredible.
But he looked at Leon and saw that Leon had no intention of refuting it; instead, he nodded in agreement.
"That's roughly it."
Leon briefly recounted the information he knew.
"Shen Loki was actually a time criminal inadvertently created after the Main Universe's Blip event, when the Avengers traveled through time to save the other half of the population who had died."
"At that time, the controller of the Time Variance Authority was still Kang the One Who Remains."
"A 'time criminal' at that time referred to an individual whose actions or very existence deviated from the Sacred Timeline, causing the timeline to branch."
"Shen Loki, due to the Avengers who traveled through time, picked up a Tesseract that shouldn't have belonged to him and escaped the scene."
"So he was apprehended by the Time Variance Authority."
"And then, step by step, he uncovered the truth about the Time Variance Authority."
"Finally, at the end of time, he and another Loki variant, Sylvie, killed Kang the One Who Remains."
"After Kang the One Who Remains died, no one maintained the uniqueness of the timeline, and the history of the Time Variance Authority was overwritten by a new past."
"But that was not a perfect ending; instead, it was the beginning of the Multiverse's demise."
"The timeline no longer being unique meant that the World was constantly giving birth to a vast number of new timelines and new Universes every moment."
"The Time Variance Authority's temporal loom device, which sorted timelines, couldn't withstand such an immense energy surge and collapsed."
"As a result, all the timelines became chaotic; they intertwined, interfered, and collided, and the entire Multiverse was perishing."
"At this point, Shen Loki mastered the power of time slipping and time reversal."
"To save the Multiverse, he tried everything. Every time the World was destroyed, he would go back to the past and try again."
"The time travel Loki mastered was true travel."
"His time reversals wouldn't create parallel Worlds but rather new histories that would overwrite past histories."
"Thus, the Multiverse was destroyed again and again, and Shen Loki was reincarnated again and again."
"He even spent hundreds of years in reincarnation, learning all the technological knowledge of the Time Variance Authority."
"But even though he exhausted all his methods, he couldn't prevent the Multiverse's destruction."
"Finally, he realized that to save the World, he had to sacrifice himself."
"Shen Loki realized this was what he, as a god, had to do."
"He walked out of the Time Variance Authority, slowly taking step after step, entering the end of time, and sitting upon the temporal throne."
"He used his own body to serve as the temporal loom device; he used his divine power to bear all the temporal branches."
"In this process, Shen Loki held all the timelines, becoming the supreme deity who wove the story of the entire Multiverse."
"Our current Multiverse, one could say, exists only because of Shen Loki."
"However, for him, it was ultimately a sacrifice."
"He mastered all of time, but he could no longer step down from that divine throne."
Leon explained Shen Loki's identity to Black Strange and Jarvis.
At the same time, he whispered, "How vast are the timelines of the entire Multiverse? To contract them at their source, even I, in my current state, would find it very difficult."
"Dr. Doom's ability to contract the main timeline clearly means he obtained Shen Loki's power."
After hearing Shen Loki's story, Black Strange and Jarvis both showed expressions of shock.
Then, hearing Leon's speculation, Black Strange expressed great confusion.
"Truly an unimaginable past… But how is this possible?"
Although Black Strange knew Leon's speculation was well-reasoned.
He still found it hard to believe.
"If Shen Loki truly controls the time of the entire Multiverse."
"Then Dr. Doom, in front of him, would be nothing more than a smudge on a canvas, easily wiped away."
"How could he possibly have his power taken by Dr. Doom?"
Jarvis listened from the side.
He then offered his own viewpoint: "Mr. Strange, Dr. Doom, after all, took all the temporal technology from all of Kang's variants."
"Perhaps he defeated Shen Loki using that temporal technology?"
Jarvis calculated countless possibilities for the battle between the two.
But the required computational load was too immense.
Jarvis's optical sensors gradually began to turn red, seemingly on the verge of overheating.
He spoke while calculating: "According to Young Master's statement, long ago, Kang the One Who Remains, who had gathered the technology of all of Kang's variants, used that technology to create the Time Variance Authority."
"And in a sense, Shen Loki's ability to control time also seems to come from Kang the One Who Remains."
"Calculating this way… I apologize, Young Master, lacking crucial data, I temporarily cannot calculate the possibility of Dr. Doom taking Shen Loki's power."
As Jarvis spoke, smoke seemed to almost rise from his head, and he stopped calculating.
Black Strange immediately shook his head in denial: "No need to calculate, there's no possibility, Jarvis."
"One controls the time of the entire Multiverse, the other has the temporal technology of Kang's variants; they are not on the same level of power."
Black Strange was well aware that Multiversal level power and the level of the Kang Councilwere incomparable.
He looked at Leon, thinking that his abstract concept god would surely agree now.
But then he noticed that Leon was looking at him with a speechless expression.
"Your Excellency, could it be… that what I said is wrong?" Black Strange immediately hesitated.
Leon shook his head: "Your analysis is correct; normally, it would be so, but a characteristic of the World we are in is that it is often abnormal."
"Often abnormal? What… what does that mean?" Black Strange was stunned.
Leon pointed at him: "You are very abnormal. I ask you, what do you think is the power level of the Eye Demon?"
"Multiversal level, very terrifying," Black Strange replied without hesitation.
"Then is it normal that you, a sorcerer who wasn't even Cosmic level at the time, swallowed several of its tentacles?" Leon asked.
Black Strange hesitated, saying, "It seems… there's nothing abnormal about it, right?"
Well, Black Strange was truly arrogant to the extreme.
His own plundering of the Eye Demon's ability was normal.
Dr. Doom taking Shen Loki's power was abnormal.
Chapter 555 Sudden Emergency Communication
"What do you think is normal?" Leon couldn't help but ask him back.
"Your Excellency, is there… something wrong?"
"For me, devouring the power of the Eyeball Demon was something that was bound to succeed after making ample preparations."
"Because I can accurately grasp the summoning array for the Eyeball Demon, ensuring that only its tentacles can be summoned."
Black Strange's eyes lit up as he recalled his glorious past.
"And I can also immediately use the array to cut off the tentacles the moment they appear, then quickly devour them."
"The entire process is rigorous and without any oversight, which is why I was able to devour the Eyeball Demon; everything is perfectly normal."
Black Strange smiled, his expression confident and understated.
Leon was slightly silent: "What you said… makes some sense."
Makes sense my ass.
"But have you ever considered that the Eyeball Demon might just be too lazy to bother with a weak sorcerer?" Leon added.
Black Strange paused, frowned, and thought for a moment: "That's possible, but before I plundered its power, I did make thorough preparations; I wouldn't fail."
"…Alright."
Leon truly hadn't expected his subordinate to be so confident.
This made him think of a certain spiky Mutant.
However, he had no intention of dampening Doctor Strange's confidence.
Leon then steered the conversation back to Shen Loki.
"Doctor Doom's situation is different from yours."
"The Eyeball Demon would never willingly let someone plunder its power."
"But Shen Loki might not necessarily guard his Time Throne as a treasure."
"His becoming the supreme deity in charge of the timeline was actually a sacrifice he had to make."
"The sacred mission that other Lokis always talk about, he already accomplished it the moment he sacrificed himself."
"But sitting on the throne, watching the stories of countless Worlds unfold and end, might not be what he wants."
"What he seeks now might just be a moment of freedom, just to no longer be bound at the end of time."
"In my opinion, as long as Doctor Doom challenges Shen Loki, no matter how strong those time technologies are, he might succeed in seizing the power."
Leon's words plunged the two into silence.
"If that's the case, then Doctor Doom does have a good chance of seizing the power," Black Strange mused.
"So… if we find him, should we also seize the power of time from him and then correct the source of time ourselves?"
Black Strange suggested: "The Multiverse is boundless, with countless Universes; perhaps only Your Excellency can find him."
Jarvis was slightly puzzled: "But, Young Master, that Loki made a sacrifice to save the Multiverse."
"Why would he give his power to someone who is about to destroy the Multiverse?"
Leon raised an eyebrow and said: "Perhaps Shen Loki believes that the destruction caused by Doctor Doom is not true destruction… Who can say for sure about such things."
"What should we do next?"
Jarvis inquired.
"Young Master, do you need Strange and me to cooperate with you to find Doctor Doom?"
"No, you and Strange stay here and repair all the damaged equipment in the TVA first."
Leon assigned tasks to the two.
"The TVA's duties are very important, so you two need to try and find the TVA staff scattered across the Multiverse."
"If you can't find them, then pull the sorcerers from Kamar-Taj to be temporary workers."
"After that, your mission is to find Worlds that are about to collide, and then report them to me."
Leon waved his hand, and all the equipment in the command center instantly returned to normal.
He then stepped out with one foot, beginning to merge into space.
"As for me, I probably know where Doom will be. I will find him and figure everything out."
After Leon finished speaking, his figure gradually blurred.
But just then.
In the newly repaired command center, a warning light suddenly lit up.
From the amplification equipment embedded in the wall, the system's continuous warning sounds of "Emergency Notification" rang out.
So Leon, who hadn't completely left the TVA, returned.
His figure solidified again.
That warning sound was an emergency call request sent by a TVA field agent when they discovered a major crisis.
None of the three expected that as soon as the TVA's command center was repaired and the "networked" equipment reconnected.
Someone would immediately send a call request.
This indicated that the other party had likely been trying to contact the TVA all along.
Jarvis, at Leon's signal, pressed the connect button.
A graceful, slender blonde figure was projected by the holographic projection equipment.
It was Gwen Spider, from the Spider-Verse, and also a TVA field agent.
The girl was wearing her pink and White Spider suit.
The suit's arms, thighs, and chest had thin cracks.
Beneath the cracks were deep red, scabbed wounds, all lacerations.
She wasn't wearing her mask, her blonde hair was messy, as if she hadn't slept for days and had been on the run, her expression anxious and exhausted.
"Great! Finally connected, B15, is B15 there, why have you been disconnected for so long… "
"Forget it, that's not important. Everyone, listen to me, the Spider-Verse needs support now!"
As soon as the call connected, Gwen's worried expression turned into one of immense surprise.
She was like someone who had finally found her organization.
She rapidly called out for B15, who held a high position in the TVA.
But B15 wasn't here.
B15 had already had his memory erased by Doctor Doom and was thrown into the Multiverse.
However, the moment Gwen saw Leon, an even greater surprise burst into her eyes.
"Leon! You're actually in the TVA! Oh my God, you're actually there!"
Gwen Spider was incredibly surprised, her messy blonde hair seemingly gaining more luster.
"That's great, I'll go find you now, no, can you come over to our side?"
Gwen Spider spoke rapidly, as if she was in a hurry, as if someone was chasing her.
"Don't rush, Gwen, speak slowly. Something unexpected happened at the TVA, and we're dealing with it."
Leon comforted Gwen, "What happened on your side? Is a World collision happening?"
"No, no, it's the Inheritor Family from before… "
"You remember Morlun, he was killed by you, but now he's resurrected from cloning and has even pursued us from another Multiverse!"
"And he's not alone; he has his brothers and sisters from his family…"
"Come quickly, we have… Oh no, they're here again, I have to go help fight, Leon, we need you, quick…"
Gwen's communication suddenly cut off.
Silence fell in the command center.
Chapter 556: The Carnage of Morlun's Siblings
It had been a full year since Gwen had returned to her own Universe after completing her last mission for the TVA.
At first, she thought the Time Pad was malfunctioning and that she just needed to wait for the TVA to find her.
But as several months passed, she realized there might be a problem with the TVA itself.
Gwen's mood gradually sank.
During that time, she was preoccupied every day and even quit the school band.
Until one day, a villain from a parallel World appeared in the city.
While stopping that villain, Gwen met someone from the Spider-Man Alliance.
The Spider-Man Alliance was an organization very similar to the TVA, both aiming to maintain the stability of the Multiverse.
However, the TVA supervised more Universes and was composed of different members from various Worlds.
The Spider-Man Alliance, on the other hand, only existed within the Sony Spider-Verse, and all its members were Spider-Men from different Worlds.
Gwen's original intention in joining this organization was actually to find the TVA and investigate what had happened.
But later, she still couldn't find any information about the TVA.
However, after completing missions with other Spider-Men,
She gradually came to recognize the significance of the Spider-Man Alliance's existence.
Time passed with Gwen traveling between Worlds day by day, maintaining Multiverse peace, and incidentally waiting for the TVA to find her.
After more than half a year had passed,
She would sometimes even wonder,
If everything in the TVA, and those Mutants, Wanda, and even Leon, were just a somewhat exciting dream of hers.
Now, the dream had simply ended, and she had no choice but to return to her own World.
Gwen often thought this way while on missions during that period, feeling distracted.
Fortunately, the Spider-Man Alliance's mission to maintain World peace was essentially to go to Worlds where anomalies occurred, resolve them, and capture them.
These anomalies were generally villains who had accidentally escaped from their own World into other Universes.
These missions might be somewhat difficult, but overall, no accidents occurred.
Gwen's life passed day after day in such tranquility.
She was almost starting to believe that her experiences from a year ago were just a beautiful and ethereal illusion.
But then, Morlun arrived.
The Morlun who had been killed by Leon in Universe 1610 of the Spider-Verse.
He had revived from another Multiverse and pursued them once again.
He didn't initially pursue Gwen.
Gwen remembered very clearly.
At that time, she and Spider-Ham were on a mission in a parallel World.
Suddenly, an abyssal portal opened beside Spider-Ham.
Gwen pulled Spider-Ham away in time.
But Morlun, who emerged from the portal, still tore off Spider-Ham's arm.
That devil with perfectly slicked-back hair and long, dark hair flowing behind him,
Ate greedily, devouring Spider-Ham's arm in a few bites, savoring the fresh blood.
"Mmm~ This is the taste, piglet, spider, hahaha, how can there be such a delicious combination!"
Morlun ate the "pork hock" until only white bone and bloody sinew remained, then threw it on the ground, staring at Gwen and Spider-Ham with a mouth full of blood.
Or rather, he was staring at Spider-Ham.
Even though his crimson gaze wasn't directed at Gwen, it still sent shivers down her spine.
It was like this the last time she fought Morlun, and it was like this again.
Gwen still remembered the information Leon had told her—
Morlun came from a family called the Inheritor Family.
That family fed on animal totems, and because of a prophecy that 'a Spider-Man would destroy them,' they frantically hunted and devoured Spider-Men.
They were the natural enemies of Spider-Men.
In their presence, Spider-Sense was useless.
Once caught by them, any Spider-Man, from flesh to soul, would be eaten until nothing remained.
So before Morlun could act again,
Gwen bit her lip hard, using the pain to suppress her fear, and promptly activated the Spider Alliance's World-traveling wristband.
She carried the bleeding Spider-Ham, rushing into the spacetime tunnel, and randomly escaped into another World.
Because she knew of Morlun's terror,
Even though she had temporarily escaped, Gwen didn't relax her guard at all.
She found a first-aid kit to stop Spider-Ham's bleeding, while also preparing to teleport away again immediately.
But Morlun didn't pursue her immediately.
It turned out he was only using Spider-Ham's coordinates as a springboard.
His goal, from the very beginning, was this entire Spider-Verse.
This Universe, for their Inheritor Family, was both a threat and a vast and delicious hunting ground.
Thus, upon landing,
Morlun directly locked onto the place with the strongest Spider-Man scent.
Which was the headquarters of the Spider-Man Alliance—Universe 982.
Meanwhile, after Gwen had treated Spider-Ham's injuries, she finally realized.
The reason Morlun hadn't chosen to pursue the two of them was, of course, because more delicious treats awaited him.
Gwen immediately opened a spacetime tunnel and returned to the Spider Alliance headquarters.
She wanted to warn all the Spider-Men quickly.
But in the end, she was still too late.
Morlun had already begun a massacre in the Spider-Man Alliance.
Every floor of the entire Alliance building was covered in bodies, stained red with blood.
In the most spacious assembly floor,
The leader of the Spider Alliance, Spider-Man 2099, led the strongest group of Spider-Men in a decisive battle against Morlun.
The most powerful Tyrannosaurus Spider-Man charged forward but was pinned by Morlun, who began to devour his soul.
At this moment, Cowboy Spider-Man, riding a tall horse, shot webs from the horse's hooves, beginning to entangle Morlun.
Spider-Man from Universe 1610 and a large group of other Peter Parkers also swarmed forward.
Morlun's formation was finally disrupted by the Spider-Men's encirclement.
As long as they didn't engage in prolonged physical contact with him,
The Spider-Men could use their twenty-ton-plus punches to teach this guy a lesson.
Dozens of Spider-Men ganged up on Morlun, their punches and flying kicks, like a merry-go-round, continuously swung webs and landed on Morlun.
Just as Morlun was about to be defeated,
Another portal opened.
A pair of blonde male and female figures, dressed in long red trench coats, emerged.
They looked like two elegant Vampires.
As soon as they appeared, they broke the leg of a Little Spider who was about to deliver a flying kick to Morlun.
The leg was torn off, spraying blood.
The blonde man held up the severed leg and drank the Spider blood: "How delicious, look what our elder brother has found."
The blonde woman beside him licked her lips Bloodthirsty: "Of course, a group of delicious Little Spider, our elder brother seems to be selfishly enjoying them alone."
"Yes, look at him, beaten to a pulp by a bunch of food, it's really laughable, hehe, this is the price of selfishness."
The White man sucked the blood dry from the leg and threw it aside.
The Spider-Men watched the two uninvited guests warily, quickly shielding the Peter Parker with the severed leg behind them.
"Enough!!"
Morlun finally got a breather from the beating.
He stood up furiously, his anger burning brightly.
"Blix, Berna, if you two still want to go home, then join me in eating these stinky spiders!"
Chapter 557: Morlun Attempts to Counter-Attack Lyon
Sony Spider-Verse.
Universe 928, New York, Spider-Alliance Headquarters.
A bloody, one-sided massacre was unfolding in the headquarters building.
Even with dozens of Spider-Man present, the three Inheritor Family siblings—Morlun, Berna, and Blix—were an unstoppable force when they joined hands.
Gwen was not one of the stronger Spider-Man.
So, even though she joined the battle, the situation did not improve; instead, it worsened.
The Spider-Man, after all, had no experience dealing with the Inheritor Family.
Even with the information provided on-site by Spider-Man 1610 and Gwen, their numbers were constantly dwindling.
On the other hand, the three Inheritor Family members.
As soon as they caught a Spider-Man, they would devour him without hesitation.
Digesting Spider-Man's soul and physical strength made them stronger.
Thus, the three fought with increasing ferocity, and the bodies of Spider-Man, eaten into dried husks, piled up at their feet.
Those Spider-Man were almost all Peter Parker.
Gwen heard one of the Peter fighting alongside her complain garrulously, "Oh my God, today is truly Peter Parker's Day of Disaster. These guys aren't Spider-Man's bane; they're clearly our Peter Parker's bane."
It could only be said that he was indeed Peter; he could make sharp remarks even in the worst circumstances.
At that moment, Gwen, with her tattered suit and numerous injuries, was both amused and exasperated.
After a brief laugh, she immediately shot out a web again and charged towards Morlun.
Gwen was very careful to avoid the hands of the three Inheritor Family members, preventing herself from being caught.
But because she was constantly restricted during the fight, she quickly became covered in wounds.
When she was almost torn open in the abdomen by sharp claws once again.
Gwen began to feel despair.
Suddenly, she noticed that the alliance leader, Miguel, also known as Spider-Man 2099, had actually opened a portal and fled.
At this moment, not only Gwen but also the other Spider-Man felt despair.
Gwen leaned against the wall, somewhat exhausted; she needed to catch her breath temporarily.
At this moment, she thought of the TVA in another Multiverse, thought of Wanda, and also Lyon.
If only Lyon were here.
Gwen sighed.
She thought to herself, 'Just for the last time.'
Try one more time to see if she could contact the TVA.
Because the chances were slim.
So… consider it the last message.
Gwen found her backpack and pulled out the time tablet she hadn't opened in a long time.
And then… she actually successfully connected to the TVA!
Gwen was incredibly excited.
This time, she truly saw hope in her despair.
Especially the moment she saw Lyon.
Gwen felt her eyes welling up with tears, and her chest felt a painful tightness.
Although she hadn't even managed to say a few words that surged into her heart upon seeing him again after a year.
Gwen had to end the communication due to the screams coming from nearby.
But as she swung back towards Morlun with her web, there was no longer any despair in her heart.
She charged into the battlefield with her usual agility.
She deftly rescued a half-dead Peter Parker from the hands of the three Inheritor Familymembers.
When she threw that Peter to the others, preparing to rescue two more.
Morlun's sister, Berna, threw a silver throwing knife, cutting Gwen's web.
Gwen had to roll in mid-air and swing in another direction.
"Hehehe, what's the use of you saving him?" Berna, who looked like a blonde Vampire noble, cackled.
Half of her face was stained red with Spider-Man's blood.
Yet, that Fishy smell blood made her constantly reveal a look of intoxication.
These man-eating monsters had no humanity whatsoever in their hearts.
Berna's twin brother, Blix, also laughed and said, "Yes, you really don't need to struggle, because all of you Spider-Man will die."
"Want to know why? Because in another Multiverse, we are almost done collecting the Bride, the Scion, and the Other!"
"With them, all Spider-Man in all Multiverses, in all Worlds… will die!"
Blix burst into hearty, bloodthirsty laughter.
Morlun, as the elder brother, also smiled faintly, clearly agreeing.
Gwen half-crouched on the wall.
She looked at them angrily: "You man-eating demons, when Lyon comes, not one of you will escape!"
"Who did you say? Haha, truly the most foolish food I've ever seen, still thinking someone can save you even now?"
Berna and Blix scoffed at Gwen's words.
But Morlun's pupils constricted slightly when he heard the name Lyon.
Lyon? That Sorcerer?
Morlun recalled his inexplicable Death last time.
That unknown feeling made him very agitated.
"You two shut up!" Morlun suddenly roared at his younger siblings.
Then he looked at Gwen coldly, his eyes glinting with bloodthirsty crimson.
"You called that Sorcerer for help? Very good, very good."
Morlun licked his lips: "Last time, he caught me off guard and caused my Death to be unclear; this time, I'll wait for him here and make him watch as I eat him bit by bit."
"As for now, I'm going to kill you and drain your blood and soul the moment he arrives!"
As Morlun spoke, he suddenly exploded into action, like the fiercest predator on the prairie, lowering his body and pouncing on Gwen on the wall like a cheetah.
When facing the Inheritor Family.
The Spider-Sense, the most convenient tool for Spider-Man in combat, was completely ineffective.
So, Gwen's movements were half a beat slow.
The moment she hastily shot out a web and swung away.
Morlun had already pounced in front of her, ready to violently press her head and smash her against the wall.
At this time, the other Spider-Man, who had been taking advantage of Gwen stalling the three to recover their stamina, also moved simultaneously.
They all charged towards Morlun.
Some swung with webs, others shot web balls from their wrists, intending to bind Morlun.
There was also a small Lego Spider-Man who directly pounced on Gwen, preparing to push her away.
The chaotic battle was once again on the verge of breaking out.
But in the chaotic assembly floor.
Suddenly, a figure appeared faintly, then solidified in an instant.
The moment that figure appeared, the entire World was frozen.
All life and all objects in Universe 982, from that figure's perspective, ceased to move.
"Morlun, and Morlun's twin siblings? How did they get here?"
After Gwen ended the communication, Lyon gave Jarvis a few more instructions before crossing the World to arrive.
Even when traveling from one Multiverse to another.
He arrived simply by relying on his physical body.
Superman's characteristic is his ability to achieve everything impossible through his physical body.
For example, reversing time by moving rapidly around the Earth.
Lyon crossing Worlds meant taking a single step, instantly vastly exceeding Light Speed, merging into space, and then instantly entering another space.
Before, he had to use his mind to manipulate rules to cross Worlds.
As for now.
Super Brain: What is a brain? Quickly use your physical body to smash open that spatial opening!
Chapter 558: Leon Takes Action
Leon floated towards the center of the battlefield.
The Little Spiders' fighting style was characterized by using whatever was available.
They used their webs to stick to all sorts of things and hurl them at the three Inheritor Familymembers.
High-hanging chandeliers, sofas, computer hosts... things both imaginable and unimaginable shattered all around the three Inheritor Family members.
Of course, more often, their surroundings were littered with the shriveled corpses of Spider-Men.
When Morlun made physical contact with a Spider-Man, he could devour their life energy, and even their soul.
Their entire Inheritor Family fed on Spider-Men.
Every day, their dinner table would feature Spider-Man posed like a roasted suckling pig.
At this moment, Morlun was reaching out his demonic claw towards Lego Spider-Man.
His original target was Gwen, but Gwen had been pushed away by Lego Spider-Man.
In the surrounding static scene, Leon floated beside Morlun and, with interest, reached out to pinch Lego Spider-Man's head.
This pixelated Spider-Man was surprisingly elastic, not made of the Lego brick material he had imagined.
"As expected of the Spider-Verse, it truly has all kinds of Spider-Men."
Leon looked around.
Lying on the ground were Dinosaur Spider-Man, Spider-Monkey, Spider-Horse, Spider-Monster...
These Spider-Men, transformed from animals.
To Morlun and others, they might be more delicious and would be taken back to the comic Multiverse.
So these few Spider-Men weren't completely dead yet; they had only had part of their souls absorbed and were foaming at the mouth.
As for the others, they weren't so lucky.
The ground was covered in shocking Spider-Man mummies.
But since Leon was already here, he naturally wouldn't stand by and do nothing.
His gaze swept over the Spider-Men on the ground.
And so, every mummy he looked at quickly became full again.
Their withered souls healed, and blood flowed anew within their bodies.
Not only around the three Inheritor Family members, but even the mummies on other floors also regained their vitality at this moment.
For the current Leon, such a feat truly only required a glance.
Having saved all the Spider-Men.
Leon also took the opportunity to look for Holland-Spider, Garfield Spider, and the others.
But they weren't here.
In fact, this was normal.
The comic, movie, and Spider-Verse Multiverses were not truly interconnected.
They should not have influenced each other.
Even gods like the Transcenders, when conducting the "Everything Dies" experiment to destroy the Multiverse, should not have affected the movie Universe.
But ever since Leon and Little Peter were brought to the Spider-Verse by Kingpin's particle collision experiment, it seemed this balance of non-interference had been broken.
The fact that the TVA's Time Pad could travel to the Spider-Man side after being modified by Leon was only one aspect.
The most powerful evidence.
Naturally, was that Morlun had truly crossed the Multiverse and come to kill.
Leon looked at Morlun at this moment.
"Let me see what you've been through."
Morlun's mental World was instantly seen through by Leon.
A large amount of memories were laid bare before Leon's eyes.
After being killed by Leon last time.
Morlun was quickly revived in his family's clone Base.
The reason members of the Inheritor Family cannot be completely killed.
Is because they all store their memories in the clone Base.
Every time they are killed, they immediately use their stored memories to revive in a clone body.
After Morlun's revival, he had been constantly thinking about the Spider-Verse.
He had been searching for a way to return here.
When the comic Multiverse began to experience World collisions, and it grew increasingly intense, Morlun finally found an opportunity.
He always remembered the aura of Gwen, Spider-Ham, and the others.
When a World collision occurred in a certain Universe.
Morlun used the spatial weak point at the moment of the Universe's collision and destruction.
He finally succeeded in crossing into the Spider-Verse.
And his younger siblings, on the orders of their father, Sollus, had come tracking him.
Leon finished reviewing Morlun's memories in an instant.
He frowned slightly.
"It's actually so easy to cross the barrier of the Multiverse..."
"And the comic Universe is also in a period of World collision."
"Their collision crisis will eventually leave no Universe remaining."
"Ultimately, Doctor Doom will build a new World, Battleworld, from the ruins."
"And Doctor Doom is also active on my side... He very likely also plans to build Battleworld."
"What similar fates."
"However, since even Morlun can actively cross multiple Worlds."
"Then the possibility of the Transcenders also going to the MCU Universe has greatly increased."
Previously, when he discovered that the World collision in the movie Multiverse was not caused by the Transcenders.
Leon had truly breathed a sigh of relief.
But now, Morlun's easy crossing of the Multiverse made Leon's relaxed breath catch in his throat again.
Today Morlun could run to the Spider-Verse.
Tomorrow the Transcenders could similarly run to the MCU.
It now seemed that the MCU would likely find it difficult to escape the fate of destruction this time.
While pondering, Leon reached out and touched Morlun's forehead.
A fatal, dangerous power immediately surged out wildly, spreading from Morlun's forehead to his entire body, causing him to rapidly lose his vitality.
This power did not stop there.
It traveled along the mysterious chain of causality, traversing the boundless void, and arrived at World number 01 of the comic Universe.
This was the Inheritor Family's stronghold, and their clone factory was also built here.
Leon's power followed the causal chain directly to the clone factory and exploded with a roar.
No violent explosion occurred.
When Leon's power spread, the entire factory was as if its existence had been erased by the Universe, turning into dust scattering across the sky.
Thus, Morlun, who had crossed the Multiverse to forage, completely died.
And Leon did not spare Morlun's twin younger siblings either.
The three siblings almost simultaneously lost their vitality, and their bodies rapidly carbonized into ash.
The Inheritor Family permanently lost three main members.
It was only then that Leon stopped and returned to his normal state.
The seemingly static time in the Spider-Man Alliance Building finally returned to normal.
In fact, time here had not actually been stopped by Leon.
It was just that Leon's speed was too fast.
His unimaginably high speed made his time scale abnormally vast.
One second of his rapid movement felt like a hundred million seconds to the Spider-Men.
So even though Leon did a lot.
Only an instant had passed for the Spider-Men who were rushing towards Morlun one after another.
They swarmed forward.
But they only felt their fists and feet hitting mud and sand.
Then the ashes of the three Inheritor Family members were kicked all over the place.
"W-what's going on?"
The Spider-Men reached out their hands to catch the falling ashes.
Watching the black fragments crumble into invisible particles in their palms.
For a moment, they were all stunned.
Lego Spider-Man wobbled and fell onto his butt, also looking at this scene in shock.
Only Gwen knew that Leon had arrived.
She also fell to the ground, and seeing Leon when she looked back, she immediately jumped up again.
"Leon! I knew you'd make it!"
Chapter 559: The State of the Comic Multiverse
After understanding the situation, the Spider-Men were naturally both grateful and shocked by Leon.
They surrounded Leon.
Hundreds of chatterboxes chattered away, expressing their curiosity and gratitude.
"Oh my God, how did you do it? You killed the Morlun siblings in an instant! They were so powerful; they killed so many of us!"
"Oh! You resurrected the others! That's amazing! Superman, did you fly around the Earth and reverse time? I've seen that in the movies…"
At the same time, they complained incessantly about their leader, Spider-Man 2099, abandoning them.
"Miguel is such a jerk! How could he leave us and run off? At the very least, he should have taken us with him!"
"Next time he comes back, I won't vote for him. But did we even vote…?"
At this moment, besides not using overly vulgar language,
these Spider-Men were almost indistinguishable from a group of Deadpools.
Could Leon tolerate it?
He couldn't tolerate it for a second.
He let out a breath, and all the Spider-Men flew backward out of the Alliance Building, beginning their freefall.
Before that group of chattering Spider-Men could find their way back,
Leon said to Gwen, who had stayed behind: "I'm going to the Multiverse where Morlun is to take a look and, while I'm at it, send his whole family to reunite. Otherwise, they'll just keep coming after us."
Gwen was startled by his words, her blossoming smile fading as she hastily grabbed Leon's arm.
"Wait, are you going alone? Aren't you taking us? There are a lot of us here. To defeat the Inheritor Family, we should go together."
Gwen was clearly worried, her face close to Leon's.
"No need." But Leon not only refused but also prepared to pull Gwen's hand away.
In her haste, Gwen pulled Leon's arm directly into her embrace.
"If you don't take them, they'll definitely find a way to go themselves. And… if you don't take them, you can at least take me, right?"
Leon turned to look at Gwen.
Take a group of Spider-Men to the comic Universe?
Are you kidding? What could these Little Spiders do to help, cheer them on?
Of course, Leon couldn't take the large group of Spider-Men here.
However, he looked at Gwen's embrace, feeling the soft and elastic youth of the Spider-Girl.
He suddenly remembered the expression on Old Shazam's face when he commented that Leon wasn't pure enough back in the DCEU World.
Hey, the old guy really didn't misjudge him.
However, Leon still refused Gwen.
"Don't drag me down."
Leon pulled his hand out of Gwen's embrace, and amidst the girl's sharp gasp, he flicked her forehead with his knuckle.
"Soon, both your Multiverse here and mine could face destruction."
"We both need to prepare ourselves."
"So don't follow me to Morlun's World. Deal with your own matters first."
"Oh, right, you can take those Spider-Men to the TVA."
"Doctor Doom's rebellion recently caused the TVA to shut down. Take that group of chatterboxes there, let them use their abilities, and stabilize the Multiverse's situation first."
After instructing Gwen, Leon took a step and left the Spider-Verse.
Gwen covered her reddened forehead, hands on her hips, a little indignant.
But she looked at the spot where Leon had stood before leaving, then turned and smiled.
A slight curve appeared on her lips as she shot out a web to find the other Spider-Men, her mood, which had been low for a year, suddenly clearing like clouds parting.
… … … …
The Marvel comic Multiverse.
This was Leon's first time entering this World.
As soon as he passed through the cosmic barrier, he noticed a difference.
This Universe was too vast.
His current mental power level, in the movie World, could instantly cover nearly half of the Universe.
But here, after his mental power spread out, he couldn't even reach the edges of the Multiverse.
Compared to this place, the movie Universe was like a stream compared to a river or sea.
Although both were infinitely large Multiverses,
if the two Worlds were compared to numbers,
then the movie Universe would be an infinite number of positive integers.
And the comic Universe would be an infinite number of positive and negative integers plus fractions.
Leon first observed the surrounding Universe.
The more he observed, the more shocked he became.
Within his field of vision, not a single Universe was safe.
Every World here was colliding with other Universes.
"It won't be long before these Universes are all finished, and this entire Multiverse will turn into nothingness."
Leon determined that the collision event in the comic Multiverse had reached its middle to late stages.
The situation here was much more severe than in his own Universe.
The Infinity Stones here were not formed from the singularity before the birth of the Universe; they had other origins.
Initially, collecting a complete set of Infinity Stones immediately granted the wielder the power to destroy the entire Multiverse.
Later, because Thanos gathered the Stones, bringing a devastating crisis to the World,
after that event, the Life Tribunal, in order to maintain peace in the Universe, chose to downgrade the Infinity Stones.
Since then, the power of the Infinity Stones in the comic Universe has greatly diminished.
Moreover, they can only be effective within their own Universe.
As soon as they are taken out of the Universe, they become useless stones.
So when the collision crisis occurred,
the Superheroes of the comic Universe, even when they wanted to use the Infinity Stones to push away another Earth, couldn't do it.
The truth was that these Infinity Stones were too weak.
Not being able to push away a Universe was one thing.
They would even shatter directly from too much exertion.
In the end, the Superheroes in the comic Universe, to survive the collision crisis, could only do one thing—
destroy the other colliding Earth!
Earth-616, the strongest Earth in the comic Universe, had now completely gone berserk with killing.
The Avengers and the Illuminati of 616, except for Captain America,
all lost their bottom line and fell into the abyss through repeated killings, becoming demons.
Leon looked out at this moment, and every single World was a tragedy.
He thought for a moment, threw out a pile of Rejedo M-bodies into those Worlds, and then headed towards a certain Universe.
… … … …
Comic Earth-13.
While the Multiverse was busy colliding, and Superheroes were busy destroying other Earths,
the Little Spiders also had their own things to do.
Spider-Man and the Inheritor Family were now in full-scale war.
Facing the Inheritor Family's Spider-Slayers, the Spider-Men had no choice but to band together and fight.
Universe 13 was the World of Cosmic Captain Spider-Man.
The so-called Cosmic Captain is an emissary of the great god Eternity, similar to the existence of the Devourer of Worlds's heralds.
The Spider-Man of this Universe gained cosmic power and became the emissary of Eternity.
Within Cosmic Captain Spider-Man's Universe, he possessed terrifying power that transcended the single-entity level and approached the Multiverse level.
The Spider-Men gathered here also to seek the protection of Cosmic Captain Spider-Man.
But what they didn't expect was that,
even with the Cosmic Captain present, the Inheritor Family still dared to come and hunt them!
Sollus, the patriarch of the Inheritor Family, arrived with other members of the family.
Sollus had lived for an unknown amount of time, visited countless Universes, and devoured an uncountable number of powerful Spider-Men.
Even someone as powerful as Cosmic Captain Spider-Man could only fight Sollus to a draw.
Cosmic Captain Spider-Man's power came from Eternity's power of creation.
That terrifying power should have been unrivaled in this Universe.
But Sollus had devoured too many Spider-Men.
Other Inheritor Family members had no way to deal with the powerful Cosmic Captain Spider-Man.
But Sollus could devour this powerful Spider-Man's cosmic power as if it were pure life energy.
The battle between the two caused the ground to shatter and Planets to crack.
All the Spider-Men were powerless to intervene and could only pray for their companion's victory.
However, when Sollus seized an opportunity, clamped Cosmic Captain's head with both hands, and began to devour his life,
the Cosmic Captain completely lost the ability to resist.
All the Spider-Men's hearts also sank.
Main Universe Peter Parker's body turned cold.
But just then,
"Oh? It seems I've arrived just in time."
Leon appeared and kicked away Sollus, who was fiercely absorbing Cosmic Captain's life force.