Revenge.
Dormammu wanted revenge.
After being sealed by the combined efforts of Thanos, Odin, and Agamotto, who knows how long Dormammu had been trapped in that sealed space with no energy or matter. The flow of time was different there. But Thanos could be certain that Dormammu's hatred for him, Odin, and Agamotto was enough to drive him to seek vengeance at any cost.
He had taken the opportunity to ambush the Ancient One while she was in a time-loop standoff with Thanos. If the Ancient One hadn't reacted quickly and been so powerful, she likely wouldn't have survived until now.
He didn't trap Thanos in the Dark Dimension for any specific purpose; it was simply so that Thanos could watch his son be killed with his own eyes. Nothing more.
Odin was dead, and Agamotto was dead. Of the trio from those days, only Thanos was still alive. This left the revenge-driven Dormammu feeling unsatisfied. So he set his sights on Hela, Lothar, and the Ancient One.
Hela was Odin's daughter, his successor, a suitable replacement for Odin. The Ancient One was Agamotto's disciple, the successor to the title of Sorcerer Supreme, a suitable replacement for Agamotto. And Lothar, of course, was the replacement for Thanos.
He would trap Thanos and make him watch Lothar die before his eyes. He would abduct Frigga and force her to watch as Odin's descendants were tortured to death. He would ambush the Ancient One, severely weakening her so she could no longer cause him any significant harm.
This was Dormammu's meticulously planned "End of the Line" scheme. He wanted to terminate the bloodlines of the three people who had sealed him! He wanted to make Thanos feel true pain! He also wanted to make this world, protected by Asgard and the Sorcerers Supreme, suffer!
Dormammu, with his body wreathed in magical flames, seemed to see the future he yearned for, and a cruel smile involuntarily spread across his face. The next second, this "warm, innocent" smile froze when Lothar spoke.
"Dormammu? Are you really that ugly?"
In the Dark Dimension's sub-dimension, the serious and solemn atmosphere vanished the moment Lothar's insult came out. The on-guard Ancient One showed a rare flash of surprise on her face, presumably wondering how Lothar could so effortlessly say such a thing.
"He's always like this. You'll get used to it." Hela, with her hair tied up in her fighting style, shrugged. With a flick of her arms, two long swords emerged from their sheaths with a clang!
The screech of the weapons added a deadly tension to the strange atmosphere.
"You will pay a terrible price for those words, son of Thanos!"
"Your father will watch me skin you alive. I will make him taste pain!"
The giant, flaming figure roared up at the sky. The thick black mist seemed to act as fuel, making the magical flames on Dormammu's body burn even more fiercely.
"My father?" Lothar frowned. He tensed his body, and his hair turned golden.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
He held nothing back. With a single action, a dense network of crisscrossing energy blasts filled the sky.
"Thanos is trapped in the Dark Dimension by Dormammu."
"We were ambushed by Dormammu."
To weaken Dormammu's connection to his dimension as much as possible, the heavily injured Ancient One slammed her right hand onto the ground.
"Including your mother. She, too, is trapped in the Dark Dimension by Dormammu."
The Ancient One's face was a sickly pale as her magical energy surged, and beads of sweat formed on her forehead. For her, in her current state, severing Dormammu's connection to his dimension was not an easy task.
The transforming Mirror Dimension left Hela amazed. With a wave of her hand, she rebuilt several giant metal beasts and sent them crashing into Dormammu, who was still holding up a protective barrier.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
The three colossal beasts, large enough to blot out the sky, exploded without warning the moment they touched the loose flames within a meter of Dormammu. A brilliant display of fireworks filled the sky, creating countless cracks throughout the Mirror Dimension.
Lothar, with his golden hair and green eyes, shot through the fireworks, abruptly appearing in front of Dormammu.
He stomped the ground, put his waist and hips into it, and launched a punch straight at Dormammu's face!
Although this was their first time fighting together, their division of labor was incredibly clear, as if they had reached an unspoken consensus. The Ancient One provided support, Hela handled long-range attacks, and Lothar took on close combat. They formed an incredibly powerful battle axis.
"I hate this feeling." The crooked-headed Dormammu slowly twisted his head back into place. In his murderous eyes, he seemed to see the three annoying figures from the past standing behind Lothar, Hela, and the Ancient One, laughing at him as if to say: Look, you can't even beat our successors.
"ROAR!!!!"
A furious roar shook the heavens and the earth. The magical flames on Dormammu's body surged! Bizarre cosmic elements began to rearrange in his palm. The cracked Mirror Dimension shattered, and a world of endless darkness returned to Lothar's sight!
"This is my world!"
A low, hoarse voice suddenly resounded in the ears of the three. In the darkness where they couldn't see their hands in front of their faces, Lothar, glowing with golden light, became the only source of light. But this intense darkness was constantly devouring the light on Lothar.
The cosmic elements, which had begun to rearrange at Dormammu's will, turned the entire sub-dimension into an execution ground. The attacks hidden in the darkness were endless and impossible to guard against.
"Warning! Warning! The rate of energy loss in your body is accelerating, Your Highness Lothar!"
"Warning! Warning! The rate of energy loss in your body is accelerating, Your Highness Lothar!"
"Warning! Warning! Yo—"
On the light screen that appeared before his right eye, Woz's energy light was rapidly dimming. After four consecutive alerts, Woz entered standby mode for the first time due to lack of energy.
Darkness, an absolute darkness capable of devouring any energy or matter.
"Lothar?!"
In this pitch-black void, Hela could hear him but not see him.
"What is it?"
To maintain some visibility in front of him, Lothar powered up to his Super Saiyan 3 form. The golden light that suddenly surged made Lothar look like a small sun, desperately trying to illuminate the surrounding area.
This won't work...
Feeling the unstoppable rate of energy loss in his body, Lothar frowned. This Dormammu's power was a bit too strange.
I have to destroy this place.
Lothar made a decisive choice. He clenched his fingers into a claw. The muscles under his black battle suit swelled as his power surged! He gathered a terrifying amount of power in his palm and then slammed it toward the ground! The best and fastest way to destroy a sub-dimension was to simply obliterate it.
BOOM!!!!
The moment the energy sphere, powerful enough to make the entire sub-dimension tremble, was released, Lothar felt something was wrong. Why had the ground beneath him suddenly disappeared?
Lothar, now floating in mid-air, didn't even have time to be surprised when the energy sphere he had just thrown at the ground suddenly shot out of the darkness in front of him, heading straight for his position!
"????" A silver-white light illuminated Lothar's astonished face.
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