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Nolan could feel the storm of power coursing through his veins.
When he had merged with the Power and Reality Stones, it had been monumental but now, with the Space Stone added into the equation, everything changed.
It was as if the missing piece of an unfinished puzzle had suddenly snapped into place.
The material side of his being, strength, endurance, speed, and perception, all surged to godlike levels.
Superhuman strength.
Superhuman durability.
Superhuman speed.
Superhuman breath and perception, every metric that defined a physical being, now pulsed with the essence of three Infinity Stones.
Nolan flexed his hand, feeling the vibration of cosmic energy ripple outward.
Right now, he was certain: one punch could kill an ordinary Sky Father-level entity.
Even Odin himself, armed with Gungnir, would struggle to pierce Nolan's defenses.
His lungs expelled a breath that crystallized the air the temperature plummeting close to absolute zero.
His speed and awareness evolved beyond comprehension.
Unless another god specialized in velocity itself, none could touch him.
And his dual domains, the Psionic Dimension and the Particle Dimension, thrummed in resonance, their limits expanding exponentially.
This was the first time Nolan truly felt the Infinity Stones transforming him from within.
And the best part it wasn't borrowed power.
It was his own.
As long as the universe existed, the shared resonance of the Infinity Stones within him would remain active.
The more stones he analyzed and integrated, the closer his body would come to becoming a self-sustaining Infinity system, aligning with the fabric of reality itself.
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Nolan didn't stop there.
He began examining the structure of the Time Stone.
Time and space were inseparable and he had possessed the Time Stone longer than any other.
He even understood its associated Temporal Magic.
He had rarely used it, though the Ancient One had once warned him that time magic was not to be wielded carelessly.
Even brief manipulations of the timeline could cause catastrophic consequences across dimensions.
At most, it could be used to observe a timeline and then immediately reset it to prevent corruption.
In the Marvel multiverse, Time is one of the pillars upon which reality stands.
For certain cosmic beings, it's a toy — but for most, tampering with it risks unraveling existence itself.
The Zombie Universe was a perfect example.
The Watcher had trapped it in a temporal loop to protect other universes but for those living inside, it was a curse.
Countless souls had lived, died, and lived again endlessly.
Time was a forbidden force for a reason.
Nolan rarely touched it.
His own nature made it too dangerous for even minor interference to trigger massive anomalies.
Even when he had reversed an entire universe's timeline to ascend to the Sky Father tier, the consequences were still unknown.
The Ancient One's expression that day had told him enough that there would be consequences.
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A faint green radiance filled the chamber.
The Time Stone's structure had long been under analysis, and its geometry was among the most complex second only to the Soul Stone.
Inside, countless ouroboros-like rings coiled endlessly, each serpent devouring its own tail, symbolizing the eternal cycle of time.
Now, Nolan had finally decoded it completely.
He activated the transformation.
In an instant, his soul sank into the river of time.
He lived through eons in the blink of an eye the sensation of infinite ages compressed into a single heartbeat.
When Nolan opened his eyes again, they gleamed with the depth of millennia.
But almost immediately, his focus sharpened.
At the moment of his transformation, he had witnessed the first time this universe entered its temporal loop when Magneto had brought back the virus from another reality.
He saw the time aura enveloping the entire Zombie Universe.
It wasn't metaphorical it was literally embedded in every molecule, every living being.
Even the researchers of Osborn Corporation, the people he had just saved, now carried faint traces of that temporal signature.
"If this isn't corrected," Nolan muttered, "they'll eventually fall into the same loop. This whole universe… is a temporal trap."
If no singularity of will existed, no being with temporal uniqueness, then the loop could never be broken.
The universe would reset again and again, forever.
His gaze lifted to the sky to the interdimensional rift that housed the Watcher's Hall.
That fracture between dimensions was where the time-loop mechanism had been anchored.
And now, he could feel the Watcher's gaze upon him.
The Watcher was a Sky Father-level entity at minimum.
Constructing and maintaining a dual-universe time loop required a soul of that magnitude even with Doctor Strange assisting, it would be impossible otherwise.
"A fascinating specimen," Nolan mused.
"The Watchers themselves might be worth studying."
Born at the dawn of the universe, the Watcher species possessed technology millions of years beyond any other civilization.
Their inherent abilities spanned molecular manipulation, energy projection, temporal and spatial control, and vast psychic power.
They were, in every sense, godlike observers.
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Without pause, Nolan summoned the Mind Stone.
Its structure had long been mapped across both Universe-199999A and his own.
The Mind Stone had once hosted Vision's soul, and thus had been extensively studied by both Tony Stark and Shuri.
At Oscorp Corporation, it was second only to the Space Stone in terms of progress.
Golden light rippled across Nolan's form.
This time, the change was different.
The transformation didn't reshape flesh it expanded consciousness.
The Mind Stone unlocked something deep within his psyche.
It could defend, alter, or dominate thought itself.
It could rewrite memories, project illusions, or invade the minds of others.
Vision had barely scratched its potential.
He had used it as a battery, not a weapon wielding it like a child smashing things with a loaded gun.
His energy blasts and density shifts were crude applications, mere echoes of what the Mind Stone could truly achieve.
Now, as Nolan's mind merged with three separate versions of the Mind Stone from across different universes, he felt something staggering awaken.
Every conscious thought on Earth came into focus a billion voices whispering at once, threads of emotion and will intertwining.
Nolan stood still, eyes glowing gold, his perception stretching across the planet like sunlight.
The Mind of Infinity… had awakened.
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