Three hundred meters beneath the Avengers Base.
At the core of a meditation chamber forged from vibranium and uru metal, Levi floated three feet above the ground.
Thirteen different lights of law revolved and intertwined around him, like the stained-glass windows of a cathedral on the verge of shattering beneath the pressure of divine radiance from within.
Gold for Space. Purple for Power. Green for Time. Red for Reality…
Every color represented one of the universe's fundamental pillars.
Yet among them, the most unruly flame—a crimson-gold inferno originating from another universe, the lingering remnant of the Phoenix Force—raged like a star-beast imprisoned within a cage formed by the other twelve laws.
The balance was already on the edge of collapse.
Cold sweat slid down Levi's temples as his consciousness sank into the violent sea of laws within his body.
With every heartbeat, the Phoenix Force let out furious roars. Merely suppressing it was already exhausting nearly all of his focus.
Three days ago, a single moment of lost control had nearly ignited Earth's core and reduced the entire planet to cosmic dust.
He needed a vessel.
A furnace capable of containing the fire of creation itself.
And his other self was currently searching for the answer from the far side of the cosmos.
At that moment, Levi's eyelids twitched sharply.
Deep within the fabric of dimensions, a familiar aura sharing his very origin was returning at a speed beyond light—beyond causality itself.
The clone had returned.
And it carried with it an ocean of energy vast enough to birth an entirely new universe, brutally forcing apart the barriers between multiverses as it approached.
Levi opened his eyes.
Within those bloodshot eyes, strained to their limit from suppressing the Phoenix Force, a faint smile finally appeared.
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Outside the chamber.
Tony Stark stared fixedly at the monitoring screen. The cup of coffee beside him had long gone cold, though he had already forgotten it existed. Three days and nights without rest had left heavy dark circles beneath his eyes.
Beside him, Thor gripped Stormbreaker tightly. The six Infinity Stones embedded in the axe emitted unstable, flickering light, as if warning of some catastrophe even they could not comprehend.
Doctor Strange floated in midair. The Eye of Agamotto hanging before his chest no longer rotated steadily—instead, it trembled violently like a frightened eye. Green sands of time leaked from within, only to be smoothed away instantly by an invisible force.
In the corner, the boy from the future, Nathan, crouched on the floor. The streams of data on his holographic wrist display had completely collapsed, replaced by countless twisted and meaningless symbols flickering wildly.
Then suddenly—
An indescribable silence descended.
Not the absence of sound, but something greater.
A higher-dimensional existence had crushed reality itself beneath the sheer "weight" of its presence. The tremor came from the very foundations of dimensions. Silent and invisible—yet enough to make every soul shudder.
The coffee cup slipped from Tony's hand soundlessly.
Before it even touched the ground, it decomposed into its most fundamental particles and vanished.
"JARVIS, report!"
"Sir… I… cannot report."
For the first time ever, JARVIS's voice glitched with distortion, as though some invisible hand were crushing his logical core.
"An… an energy source is arriving. Its mere existence is rewriting the physical constants within my database. The Planck constant is fluctuating. The speed of light… the speed of light is no longer constant. Sir… calculations… are meaningless."
Thor roared and raised Stormbreaker overhead. The six Infinity Stones erupted with brilliance, attempting to carve out a safe domain.
He had witnessed Odin at the height of his power. He had stood face-to-face with Thanos wielding the Infinity Gauntlet.
But what he felt now was entirely different.
This was not the pressure of the strong crushing the weak.
It was the confusion and insignificance of a single musical note standing before an entire symphony.
"This power…" Thor's voice was unbearably strained. "It isn't stronger than my father. It's… something else entirely."
The Eye of Agamotto completely lost control.
Countless futures reflected within Strange's eyes—only for every single one of them to be swallowed, overwritten, and consumed by a crimson-gold ocean of light.
"I can't see the future," Strange whispered, cold sweat pouring down his face. "Every possibility converges into the same path… no, not a river. A star that burns everything to ashes."
Nathan's display finally stopped flickering.
All the corrupted symbols vanished, replaced by a single emblem he had only ever seen in the highest classified records of the Council of Kangs.
The symbol representing:
Unknowable.
Unmeasurable.
Unstoppable.
"Ω-∞"
Across all timelines recorded by the Council of Kangs throughout endless histories, no existence had ever triggered this designation before.
The giant vibranium-uru door of the chamber began emitting a mournful hum.
No external force struck it.
Instead, the metal atoms themselves were collapsing from within before a higher order of power—like mortal faith shattering upon witnessing divinity firsthand.
No cracks appeared on the door.
It simply… became transparent.
Crimson-gold light seeped through from beyond, gentle as morning sunlight.
Yet this sunlight scorched the soul itself.
The next moment, the vibranium door dispersed silently like smoke.
Levi stepped out from behind it.
And yet—
He was no longer entirely the Levi they knew.
Beneath his skin, molten stars seemed to flow slowly through his veins. His eyes no longer held human pupils, but two slowly rotating and burning nebulae.
"The clone has returned."
His voice was calm and flat.
Yet every syllable struck their souls with the weight of a neutron star.
A spatial tear suddenly ripped open above the chamber ceiling.
It was not a physical crack, but reality itself being torn apart.
Beyond the rift surged an endless sea of crimson-gold energy flames.
A figure identical to Levi stepped out slowly.
The clone.
The energy storm surrounding him was over ten times more violent than that of the original body. Golden cosmic energy and crimson Phoenix fire intertwined behind him into a pair of wings vast enough to eclipse the heavens.
Every flap of those wings seemed capable of triggering the birth and destruction of universes.
"I'm back," the clone said with a smile. "And I brought gifts."
The original Levi nodded and extended his right hand.
The clone did the same.
Their palms met lightly in midair.
At that instant—
The world lost all sound and color.
No.
Not lost.
Replaced.
Replaced by a brand-new, singular sound and color unlike anything before.
An indescribable tone of creation erupted from the point of contact—not spreading outward, but resonating simultaneously in every corner of the universe at once.
On Earth, the auroras of the north and south poles instantly spread across the entire planet. Multicolored curtains of light gently enveloped every inch of land.
The tides of every ocean froze completely, as though the seas themselves were holding their breath in reverence.
Within the Solar System, Jupiter's Great Red Spot quietly dissolved into serene clouds. The countless icy fragments of Saturn's rings trembled together like silent cosmic wind chimes.
In the Milky Way, within a stellar nursery on the Orion Arm, tens of thousands of protostars ignited simultaneously, blazing brighter than the galactic core itself.
At the edge of a black hole preparing to devour its companion star, crimson-gold ripples spread gently across the event horizon, as though touched by an invisible hand.
Far deeper in the universe, countless galaxies subtly tilted their rotational axes toward the insignificant blue planet within the Milky Way.
Even the cosmic microwave background—the residual warmth of creation itself—formed a brand-new, perfectly harmonious pattern never before seen.
On the dark side of the moon, the Watcher Uatu trembled for the first time in his existence.
He had seen a future unlike any he had ever known.
A future that could not be recorded.
Only witnessed in awe.
Galactus, who was in the middle of consuming a dead planet, abruptly stopped feeding.
He sensed a brand-new source of energy rising into existence—greater and purer than all the worlds he had ever devoured combined.
Inside the chamber, the tide of energy had surpassed the level of a mere storm.
Existence itself was expanding violently.
Thor's divine barrier evaporated instantly like ice thrown into the sun. He and Stormbreaker were blasted away.
The hundreds of magical formations before Strange shattered one after another like sand paintings scattered by a hurricane. He coughed up golden blood as he retreated violently.
Tony's armor overloaded and burned out in an instant.
Nathan was knocked unconscious outright.
At the center of the storm, the clone's body transformed into a stream of pure crimson-gold consciousness, flowing slowly into the original through their joined hands.
At that moment, Levi's awareness expanded beyond all previous limits.
He no longer merely sensed power.
He became power.
The clone's memories merged with his own.
The loneliness of watching a star decay into a white dwarf over ten thousand years blended seamlessly with peaceful afternoons on Earth drinking soda with Tony Stark.
The thirteen laws within him were no longer prisoners restraining one another.
They had each found their rightful place, composing together a brand-new symphony of creation.
Space became his skeleton.
Time became his pulse.
Power became his blood.
Soul became his breath.
And the Phoenix—
The Phoenix became his endlessly burning heart.
His lifeform was evolving.
Every cell in his body disintegrated and reassembled into a completely new state based on energy rather than matter.
His consciousness spread infinitely outward—past Earth, past the Solar System—
Until the entire single universe itself felt like the air he breathed.
Like part of his body.
Above the shattered remains of the base, an enormous crimson-gold Phoenix phantom spread wings vast enough to cover the entire Solar System.
Its feathers seemed woven from newborn galaxies.
Then slowly, the great bird folded its wings and released a long, tranquil cry.
That cry was both proclamation and reassurance.
It soothed every ripple in universal law caused by Levi's ascension.
It stabilized distorted physical constants.
It returned disturbed stars to their proper orbits.
Then the giant bird transformed into a stream of light and merged into Levi's forehead.
Silence returned to heaven and earth.
Levi opened his eyes.
His pupils had returned to ordinary black.
Yet within that darkness, countless stars flickered and revolved—as though an entire galaxy had been compressed into his gaze.
He lowered his head and looked at his hand.
No different from an ordinary human's.
And yet he knew:
Every atom within him had become a miniature self-sustaining energy singularity.
Single-Universe Level.
He could clearly feel that his relationship with the universe had reversed.
In the past, he had merely been a traveler within the cosmos.
But now—
Wherever his will extended, he was the law of the universe.
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