Michael hadn't yet decided what to do with the Power Stone, so he temporarily put it away in his spatial ring for safekeeping.
It was quite miraculous that an ordinary spatial ring could contain a materialized treasure of Universe rules without being affected by even a tiny bit of rule power.
"Perhaps this is because this spatial ring is materialized from a mutated gem?"
Michael speculated.
However, Michael wasn't too concerned about this. He thought of another matter, and a smile involuntarily spread across his face.
"The energy split has reached seven to three!"
Michael smiled, "I get seven, the mutated gem gets three!"
"Tsk tsk tsk."
"Work harder, eight to two! Nine to one! And eventually, complete mastery of the mutated gem!"
"Just thinking about it fills my life with endless motivation!"
The more he thought about it, the better it seemed, simply wonderful! …However, under the bewildered expressions of Skye and the others, Michael quickly stopped his somewhat reverent and lewd smile.
"!"
"You… you've broken through again?!!!"
Although they didn't know what Michael was thinking that made him smile so… happily, Skye and the others could clearly sense that the pressure emanating from Michael was much greater than usual!
In fact, when Michael first appeared via instant teleportation, the immense pressure nearly made it impossible for Skye and the others to breathe! In such circumstances, if Skye and the others still hadn't noticed Michael's breakthrough in strength, that would be truly strange.
"Congratulations!"
"Congratulations, Boss!"
Skye and the others seemed to understand something, congratulating Michael with playful smiles on their faces... "Hahahaha!!!"
"The Boss has broken through again!"
"We should have a grand barbecue feast to celebrate!"
Hulk's huge, bulbous eyes gleamed as he cheered loudly, even drooling! In his excitement, Hulk completely failed to notice that everyone, including Michael, had subtly put some distance between themselves and him.
Watching Hulk, who was already fully immersed in his fantasy of a barbecue feast, Michael looked up at the sky, speechless, and just wanted to complain to Hulk: "Doggy! You've changed! You're no longer the cute doggy you used to be! You've actually become a doggy obsessed with barbecue!"... In fact, Hulk's obsession with barbecue feasts wasn't a big deal.
Who doesn't love the deliciousness of barbecue!
However! Hulk's peculiar preferences were... different from the norm.
Compared to the barbecue ingredients Michael and the others preferred, Hulk was more fond of various arthropods, especially all sorts of juicy ingredients, plump and sticky.
In fact, after spending a few days on Xandar, this guy even developed a liking for various dark dishes that Michael and the others wouldn't even glance at.
Things like dismembered Hamaxian limbs, crushed dog innards, and even carrion beasts – all sorts of dark ingredients whose raw forms would make anyone not want to look twice.
But Hulk, this guy, liked them at first sight, and even kept a good amount of these dark ingredients in the spatial equipment Michael had provided him... Fortunately, someone rescued Michael just in time.
When Hulk took out an exaggerated ton of dark ingredients from his spatial equipment, Michael immediately made his escape, using the excuse that someone was looking for him... "Hela is looking for me."
"Could it be that the Soul Stone is in hand?"
Michael asked Tai Bai, who had informed him, with a hint of curiosity.
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