He extended a withered finger and pointed at Wanda!
The earth suddenly came alive!
Countless rocks and soil transformed into sharp spikes, shooting at Wanda from all directions!
Wanda was horrified! She tried to defend with chaos magic, but it was too late!
BOOM—!
At that critical moment!
A rainbow beam of light descended from the heavens, crashing between Ebony Maw and Wanda!
Thor, wielding his newly forged Stormbreaker—crafted by the Dwarf King—had arrived like a god descending from the heavens!
"Get off my planet!"
He roared and hurled Stormbreaker at Ebony Maw!
The axe flew with the force of thundering might and endless lightning!
Ebony Maw tried to block it with telekinesis, but that axe contained power rivaling the Infinity Stones—the source power of the King of Asgard!
SQUELCH!
Stormbreaker easily cleaved Ebony Maw and all his spells in two!
After dispatching Ebony Maw, Thor leaped high and slammed Stormbreaker into the ground!
ROAR—!
Violent thunder expanded from him as the center, forming a massive electrical net covering the entire battlefield!
Thousands of Outriders were instantly reduced to charred corpses under this divine, prison-like lightning strike!
"Yeah—!"
A cheer of relief erupted across the battlefield!
Thor's arrival had temporarily turned the tide!
But no one's face showed any joy.
Because they knew the real boss hadn't made his move yet.
They looked up at the ship hovering silently in the sky like Death itself.
There, a massive purple figure was slowly rising from his throne.
The golden Infinity Gauntlet on his left hand flickered with four different colors of light.
Thanos was finally entering the fray himself.
...
[DC Universe, Gotham City]
"Achoo—!"
Cloud suddenly sneezed.
"What's wrong? My little puddin'? Caught a cold?"
Harley immediately rushed over like a nervous cat, even sticking out her tongue to try licking Cloud's forehead to check his temperature.
"Shoo, shoo." Cloud pushed away her fluffy little head with distaste.
"How could I possibly catch a cold?"
He frowned.
Just now, an extremely faint but unsettling twinge had flashed through his heart.
As if something closely connected to him, somewhere far away, was in danger.
"Just my imagination?" he murmured to himself.
He shook his head, temporarily suppressing the unease.
Then he refocused on his current "research."
He was sitting cross-legged, hovering above Gotham City.
Before him was a spatial rift slowly "healing."
This was the "temporary passage" connecting the Marvel and DC universes.
After several days of "field investigation" and analysis of Gotham's unique "chaotic energy field," Cloud had finally made a startling discovery.
This rift wasn't simply an accident.
It was more like a small hole that had been deliberately "poked" through.
And the "needle" that made this hole didn't come from Marvel or DC.
It came from a higher, third-party dimension!
One or more beings that existed above both great universes were secretly orchestrating the "collision" and "merger" of these two universes!
Their purpose was unknown.
But Cloud could sense that the hidden will behind all this was filled with greed and malice.
Like a spectator in a colosseum, watching with great interest as two of the strongest beasts tore each other apart.
They wanted to profit from the chaos!
"Interesting..."
A cold gleam flickered in Cloud's eyes.
"The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind?"
"Someone actually dares to covet my backyard?"
He was preparing to follow this lead, extending his spiritual sense into that unknown third-party dimension to see exactly which deity had the audacity to mess with him—
When suddenly!
The cross-dimensional emergency contact talisman on his chest lit up!
And began burning intensely!
This was the highest-level distress signal!
It meant the personnel left behind at "Infinite Manor" had encountered an ultimate crisis even they couldn't handle!
Cloud's expression darkened instantly!
A terrifying killing intent powerful enough to freeze all of Gotham flashed from his body!
He immediately projected a wisp of spiritual sense back through the talisman!
The next second!
Wanda's voice—filled with anxiety, pain, and tears—rang directly in his mind!
"Cloud! Come back!"
"Thanos... Thanos is here!"
"He has four Stones! We... we can't hold on much longer!"
"Natasha... Natasha she... to protect me, she was..."
The voice cut off abruptly.
Connection lost.
BOOM—!
A world-destroying, heaven-shaking aura erupted from Cloud's body!
In that instant, all of Gotham's weather changed!
Dark clouds gathered frantically in the sky!
Thunder roared furiously within them!
Harley Quinn, who had been curiously watching Cloud from the ground, was so terrified by this sudden, apocalyptic pressure that she fell flat on her rear!
Her "Devotion Hammer" clattered to the ground!
She looked at the man hovering in mid-air—black hair whipping wildly, eyes burning with golden divine fire, as if he would incinerate the entire world.
For the first time, that brain of hers always filled with madness and chaos understood what true terror felt like!
"Tha... nos?"
Cloud slowly pronounced the name.
His voice was ice-cold, devoid of any emotion.
But the killing intent within it was enough to make the entire DC Universe tremble!
"Very good..."
"You dare touch my women?"
"You dare wreck my home?"
He raised his hand toward the slowly healing spatial rift before him.
"You—wait for me!"
"Dimensional Exile: Heaven and Earth Reversal!"
A force billions of times stronger than before—the source power of a "Dimensional Sovereign"—erupted!
That rift that should have been healing was forcibly reversed, torn open, expanded under this utterly unreasonable, domineering power!
A return path large enough to accommodate his true form was brutally carved open!
"Harley, be a good girl and wait for me to come back."
He left those final words.
Then his figure transformed into a golden streak of light, instantly plunging into that spatial rift filled with both destruction and hope.