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"I can't be certain, Master. I'm only speculating and analyzing based on the information I have. Only by truly entering it can I reach a more accurate conclusion. Regardless, its incredible power is indisputable! At the very least, its existence will allow Apokolips and you to better observe and manage the conquered worlds." Desaad bowed slightly. Although he often clashed with Darkseid, the man on the throne, for various reasons, even being killed and resurrected by him in a back-and-forth punishment, he didn't want to split with Darkseid on this matter. He needed Darkseid's power to help him break through that invisible wall.
"Are you eager to enter?" Darkseid sensitively grasped Desaad's excitement. He didn't doubt Desaad's words, but due to historical reasons, he always had to be wary of him. If there weren't truly no one around who could replace his abilities, Desaad would have been buried forever by his own hands.
DeSaad, who was questioned by Darkseid, was silent for a moment, and suddenly a fanatical smile appeared on his face. "Who wouldn't want to enter? I always feel that it can play an unparalleled role for researchers like me. I won't hide my thoughts from you, but please rest assured that this time, I won't do anything unnecessary."
"You say that every time you're resurrected. You always say you won't make the same mistake again." Darkseid didn't trust Desaad's assurances. He was a suspicious man, and his trust was extremely rare. And Desaad, who always had his own little ideas, was obviously not worthy of this rare trust.
"But as always, I'm still willing to give you a chance. But you know the consequences of failure." Darkseid finally gave Desaad a chance. After all, he didn't have anyone who could match his ability in this matter.
"Thank you, my wise master!" Disad bowed in ecstasy.
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"Are the Aesir here gone too? Asgard and even the God-King Odin were all slaughtered?" For some reason, Thor felt calm when he heard this news from Wonder Woman.
It seems that the Asgardians in every universe are quite unlucky. Either they have lost their homes and become wanderers in the universe, or they are completely wiped out and disappear along with their families.
The Ragnarok curse spreads across any world where the Aesir exist. No Odin or Asgardian can escape it. No matter what they do, it will inevitably come.
There were even some universes where Ragnarok was personally initiated by his sister, Hela, the goddess of the underworld. When Thor first heard that another Aesir had suffered Ragnarok, he felt a sense of empathy, but after hearing this kind of news so many times, he became numb.
Isn't it just the Twilight of the Gods?
Which version do you want to listen to?
Even the world of Azeroth had names like Odin, Hela, and Valhalla. Although he had been annihilated by his sister Hela, he had also killed his own self in that universe cleanly and efficiently, absorbing all of her power.
So now when he heard Wonder Woman say that the Asgardians, who were the old gods, were slaughtered by Steppenwolf and his men, he felt nothing. He just knew that there was one more person who pushed for Ragnarok, and that he existed in the story of the destruction of the Aesir.
This fateful incident caused even the carefree Thor to mutter inwardly. While his current strength, and that of the Aesir, far surpassed those of their counterparts from other universes, that still didn't mean Ragnarok wouldn't happen. Perhaps he was the one who triggered it?
So after witnessing so many Ragnarok events, Thor had long since let it go. It was also because of this that, even though he knew the Star Soul would bring destruction to Asgard once it matured, he still happily stuffed the Star Soul into Asgard, nurturing it with the power of the Aesir, psychic energy, and the strength of the World Tree.
"You don't look sad at all?" Diana raised her eyebrows slightly. She was originally just explaining some information to Thor, but suddenly she became more interested.
"Should I be sad?" Thor smiled naively, biting open the cap of a bottle of wine with his teeth, and then tilted his head back to drink most of the bottle into his mouth.
"You're not the same Thor I remember." Diana shook her head.
"This isn't the first time I've heard this news. The first few times I heard it, I felt anger and even vengeance. But now I've calmed down. There are so many universes, and the Aesir are experiencing Ragnarok in some universe every moment. I simply can't protect them or avenge them. Furthermore, the Ragnarok in many universes was initiated by either me, Thor Odinson, or my sister, Hela.
The only thing I can do here is to smash Steppenwolf's head in with my hammer when I see him. There's nothing else I can do." Thor looked around, spotted a trash can, strode over, and tossed the empty bottle into it. He was much more polite in his daily behavior now.
Diana was startled by Thor's words, and her expression softened for a moment.
A sparking portal spun out of thin air, and then Stephen, exhausted from the journey, quickly stepped through it. The portal behind him collapsed into a ball of sparks the moment he stepped out, and disappeared into thin air in the blink of an eye.
"Is everything okay?" Thor walked over with a big laugh and held Stephen tightly in his arms. His muscular arms and calloused hands tightly held him, and he patted his back loudly and asked with a smile.
"You'd better be gentle." Stephen, who was a little overwhelmed by Thor's unusually enthusiastic greeting, was held in his arms with a dazed look on his face, and then he started coughing because of the pat on his back.
"How's the situation?" Diana also came over. She knew what Stephen was going to do.
"You have to believe in my magic and Heberon's skills." Stephen broke free from Thor's restraints, straightened his messy collar, and said implicitly.
"That is to say, if there is another attack, we will receive the news in advance and prepare, and we will not be caught off guard again? This is good news worth celebrating." Diana's eyes were filled with surprise, and she nodded to Stephen.
"I've made some arrangements. If we detect a powerful energy approaching, we'll be notified. This will help you react quickly. At least next time, don't mess around on this planet or in this galaxy. It's a bit limiting," Stephen replied truthfully. He used magic and some of Heberon's instruments to set up alarms a dozen light-years from the small galaxy. Time was tight, and the materials were scarce. All he could do was establish a protective barrier around the planet and then deploy surveillance systems outside.
"Didn't you force them to reveal their lair's location?" Thor complained again. If they knew their coordinates, why would they need to wait around? Wouldn't it be better for him and Stephen to just go and find them?
"I've said it many times. We paid a heavy price to defeat that Steppenwolf. Even the old gods are dead, and only we, Olympus, are left." Diana's expression and tone were full of helplessness.
"I hope you won't keep me waiting long." Thor had left his business behind and ran here just to stretch his muscles and fight with others, but after so many days, he hadn't seen any trace of the enemy, and he was a little annoyed.
"Once the Data Dimension is unlocked and restarted, as long as those people are still in this universe, they will be quickly targeted. I have Luke's authorization, but unless absolutely necessary, Luke advises not to restart it." Stephen spread his hands. With the Data Dimension's assistance and Luke's authorization, they wouldn't need to resort to unnecessary measures like barriers and detection; they could just go straight for them.
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In the dark starry sky.
From the interconnected swathes of brilliant light, a series of massive, cold, towering, and ferocious warships emerged. From the porthole of the leading warship, the regrouped Steppenwolf gazed at the asteroid system light years away that had thwarted his defeat, his gaze filled with gloom and fury.
"Are we going to launch a long-range attack and wipe out their planet?" An Apocalypse warrior came up to Steppenwolf and asked respectfully.
"No, they also hold the secret of that power! Darkseid needs it. We must bring him a satisfactory [trophy] this time! Those mortals who can enter that magical dimension! We are not here for simple killing. Get close and threaten them! I want to create chaos within them first."
Having suffered a loss before, Steppenwolf didn't rashly bring a few random people to attack. To avoid failure again, he obtained Darkseid's permission, pulled in enough men and a mothership from Apokolips, and used tactics. He couldn't allow himself to suffer another shameful defeat here.
After the fleet calibrated its position again, the jump engine started again, causing ripples in the void around the mothership. Just when a light curtain was about to engulf the fleet, the surrounding space parameters suddenly became chaotic and agitated, forcing the fleet in the teleportation state to reappear from the teleportation and fall silent.
"The space is blocked?"
Steppenwolf immediately sensed the shifting spatial parameters around him. This blockade wasn't necessarily a seal; it simply affected the fleet's jump engines and transmissions through the constantly changing spatial data. In other words, their fleet couldn't perform long-distance jumps in this area of constantly shifting spatial parameters.
If space were a piece of encrypted intelligence, then activating the jump engine, with some crucial information at hand, would be the key to decryption. Under stable conditions, the engine could quickly calibrate and decipher the encrypted information, successfully entering the jump state. However, the ever-changing parameters of space were like a piece of encrypted intelligence constantly changing its encryption method. The decryption speed of Apocalypse Star's jump engine simply couldn't keep up with the speed of space transformation.
In this situation, no one dared to take the risk of teleporting, as it would be very likely that they would directly enter space turbulence or encounter a more dangerous situation.
A gigantic, octopus-like monster suddenly appeared in front of the fleet. Its body was tens of thousands of meters long. Though as tiny as a speck of dust in the vastness of the universe, its presence was surprisingly strong. The bloodshot eye on its head, trembling and moving constantly in its socket, was particularly striking.
Steppenwolf simply locked eyes with the monster's single eye for a moment before immediately closing them. However, everyone in the fleet whose eyes were swept across by the monster's single eye, and whose gazes coincidentally met its, felt a sudden dizziness and a severe distortion of consciousness.
The thick bulkheads could not block the monster's sight. After a quick scan, the powerful and orderly fleet lost contact in an instant and fell into chaos.
After chopping his subordinate, who had been deformed into a monster with an octopus head, into two halves with an axe, Steppenwolf quickly glanced at the area where the monster was before with lingering fear.
Nothing!
Instantly, Steppenwolf's inner alarm bells rang loudly. He jerked his head upwards, his gaze fixed on the mothership. He could sense a massive monster descending upon it, the metal of the bulkheads creaking. The energy shields failed almost immediately after activation, devoured by an invisible, devouring force.
Steppenwolf even saw a slippery, slimy tentacle covered with a sucker that covered the porthole. He raised his head and felt a chill all over his body.
Through the thick bulkhead, Steppenwolf stared at the monster lying on the mothership. He knew that the other party was looking at him. The bulkhead could not block the powerful, cold and pervasive spiritual power.
Creak!
The sound of metal tearing, so sharp that it could be called a sonic weapon, was heard, and a large hole was torn in the roof of the mothership. A huge eyeball was stuck in the hole, scanning the area below. The eyeball swung back and forth like a pendulum. Just one glance at it would make people lose their composure and thinking ability, and their hearts would be completely filled with madness.
After just a few glances, Steppe Wolf felt his head begin to ache. It seemed as if there was a voice in his heart that was getting louder and louder, wanting to break out of the cocoon!
whoosh!
The steppe wolf bit the tip of his tongue, forced his eyes to turn away in severe pain, and threw the powerful earth-shattering axe in his hand towards the eyeball above as a projectile.
The axe spun in circles in the air, and finally the axe blade hit the eyeball.
The axe's size was insignificant compared to the size of the eyeball, but the power contained within it still damaged the eyeball. A cascade of liquid mixed with blood sprayed down from the sky, drenching Steppenwolf below. Simultaneously, a howl filled with intense anger and fury caused Steppenwolf to hunch over and curl up on the deck.