After traveling through the wormhole space tunnel for seven days, Skyblade VII finally approached the Milky Way galaxy.
Suddenly, a massive wormhole opened in space.
Moments later, an invisible warship emerged silently from within it.
Soon after, the wormhole collapsed and vanished.
Haohan immediately informed Karl that the warship had arrived in the Milky Way.
Karl was slightly surprised.
He hadn't expected wormhole travel to be this fast.
Technically, Karl could have returned even faster by using long-distance teleportation through the Vast Knowledge Treasury.
However, doing so would have consumed an enormous amount of energy—nearly the equivalent of one hundred stars.
That cost was simply too high.
Even for Karl.
So he had chosen the more efficient method: opening a wormhole corridor and traveling through it.
After all, a hundred stars were still a considerable resource—even for someone at Karl's current level.
Once Morgan's first birthday celebration was finished, Karl planned to begin collecting more stars.
At the same time, he intended to eliminate several dimensional lords.
Their dimensional energy would become food for Ganata.
Any remaining energy could then be used as a massive power reserve.
Exactly how much energy would remain afterward was impossible to estimate.
After all—
Ganata was hungry again.
Every time she came to Karl asking for food, he would pinch and rub her soft cheeks.
Ganata never resisted.
In fact, she seemed rather happy.
She didn't fully understand her feelings toward Karl.
But she knew one thing clearly—
She enjoyed being with him.
Karl always tried to feed her properly and take care of her.
Over time, Ganata had become somewhat dependent on him.
However, when it came to matters of love, she was rather clueless.
She didn't know whether what she felt was truly affection.
But after living together for several years, feelings could easily grow.
Karl certainly enjoyed teasing her.
And as for letting Ganata go?
That was impossible.
Better to keep her by his side.
After all—
Karl was now a Single-Universe-level powerhouse.
He possessed:
The Doomsday GeneA Super Celestial ComputerThe Infinity Stones
Once the Doomsday gene finished evolving, Karl's physical strength alone would reach Single-Universe level.
Supporting someone like Ganata was hardly a problem.
The universe contained countless dimensions.
If necessary, Karl could simply allow Ganata to devour several dimensions.
As for why Galactus himself did not normally devour entire dimensions—
Karl suspected it was because Galactus represented a form of cosmic balance.
That was why he consumed planets instead.
Although Karl didn't fully understand the cosmic rules behind that balance, one thing was certain.
He would never allow Ganata to starve.
Soon afterward, Haohan began steering the warship toward Earth.
Karl intended to land directly on the planet.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have a place to stay.
Besides—
With his current strength, there was no one on Earth he needed to fear.
Haohan locked onto Tony Stark's secluded residence and prepared to land nearby.
The moment the warship entered Earth's atmosphere, the stealth system was temporarily deactivated.
Immediately, monitoring systems around the world detected the massive object.
Many governments quickly realized something.
The warship looked identical to the one Karl had used when he left Earth several years earlier.
Its sudden appearance meant only one thing.
Karl had returned.
Karl ignored the reactions of the world's governments.
He simply ordered Haohan to land the ship above Tony's house.
At that exact moment—
Tony stepped outside.
He looked up just in time to see the enormous warship descending above his home, completely blocking the sunlight.
"Shit!"
"That damn bastard parked his warship right here!"
Tony shouted angrily.
"Jarvis! Clear the open area outside the valley and tell Karl to park it there!"
When Haohan reported Tony's message, Karl simply smiled.
He had been deliberately provoking Tony.
Under Haohan's control, the warship moved away and hovered outside the valley instead of landing.
A moment later, the ship's doors opened.
Pietro and Peter instantly rushed out of the warship.
They didn't even care that it was still ten meters above the ground.
Just as they began falling—
They suddenly took flight.
Both of them had awakened their Kryptonian biofields.
Which meant they could now fly freely.
Previously, they had begged Karl to let them go into space to play because the testing chamber was too small.
But Karl had refused.
He warned them that the ship had been traveling through a wormhole corridor.
If they accidentally drifted into a spatial rift, even Karl might not be able to retrieve them.
Spatial rifts were extremely dangerous.
Entering one could cause:
Uncontrolled time travelRandom intergalactic displacementOr total destruction within spatial turbulence
After hearing Karl's explanation earlier, the two had reluctantly returned to the testing room.
But now that they were finally back on Earth—
They rushed outside immediately.
Soon, a sonic boom echoed across the sky.
Peter and Pietro began performing all sorts of fancy aerial maneuvers above the valley.
Seeing this, May rubbed her forehead helplessly.
Karl simply smiled.
Then, instead of using the warship's teleportation device, everyone floated out of the ship manually.
During the journey, they had continued evolving by absorbing stellar radiation.
Most of their Kryptonian abilities had already awakened.
Now almost everyone could fly.
Even Juggernaut and Samuel.
Karl had personally dragged Samuel out of the laboratory.
Otherwise he would still be busy researching alien genetic samples.
Soon afterward, the entire group flew toward Tony's house.
Behind them, the warship's doors slowly closed.
Its stealth system activated once again, making the massive vessel invisible.
Tony stood at the entrance of his house.
When he saw Karl and the others flying freely through the air, he was completely stunned.
Jarvis had already analyzed their energy signatures.
Every person standing beside Karl now possessed physical strength comparable to a standard Hulk-level powerhouse.
And that didn't even include their unique abilities.
Tony couldn't help feeling jealous.
When the group landed in front of him, Tony walked toward Karl and sighed helplessly.
"Shit…"
"You've all become this powerful."
"So what the hell am I supposed to do now?!"
Everyone burst into laughter.
Karl simply patted Tony on the shoulder.
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