In the center of the ruins, Thanos revealed a brutal smile to Heisenberg.
"You killed Supergiant and took away Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight, all while I was not paying attention to you! And this timeline before us, is this the trap you set for me, junior?"
"Heh..."
Heisenberg immediately let out a light laugh. As he laughed, he responded with disdain.
"Who knows which year's version of me did those things you mentioned? But rest assured, I will definitely go and do them, boy!"
"Hah, your arrogance makes me want to laugh. I have lived for six thousand eight hundred years, yet I cannot see through that foolish gaze of yours, so utterly self-absorbed that it blinds you to the world!"
"Hmph, if not for being imprisoned for fully over eighteen thousand years, you probably would not have the right to stand before me and bark, Thanos!"
"It seems you are actually a resister from an older generation. But you were imprisoned, you lost to them. And I will ultimately usher in victory!"
"Hahaha, fool! You probably cannot even imagine the heights I stand at, and you will never guess who exactly it was that imprisoned me. And you are absolutely unworthy of being their opponent!"
As he spoke, Heisenberg shook his right arm.
The Origin Matter within his system was rapidly consumed. In just a short moment, his hand had already returned to its normal state.
[Respected Host, reconstructing your Ancient Kryptonian Elder-level flesh and replenishing the corresponding yellow sun radiation. A total of sixty-four thousand four hundred units of Origin Matter has been consumed!]
Heisenberg ignored the system notification and instead clenched his fist tightly.
Opposite him, Thanos also slowly took his helmet off the blade of his sword and placed it on his head.
"You do not like using weapons?" he asked Heisenberg, who merely smiled at him contemptuously.
"If I used a weapon, you would die too quickly!"
"Heh, we shall see about that!"
Boom!!!
Heisenberg's fist instantly smashed against Thanos's double-edged sword, directly knocking Thanos's upper body backward.
"What incredible strength!"
He suddenly slanted his blade, allowing Heisenberg's fist to slide past the side of the heavy weapon. At the same time, he spun the sword and slashed directly toward Heisenberg's neck.
Heisenberg neither dodged nor evaded. He pulled his hand back and clamped down tightly on the blade, simultaneously launching a kick at Thanos's thigh.
However, the difference in strength between the two was truly not that great. Thanos cleanly yanked his sword out of Heisenberg's grip, then turned the sharp edge of the blade directly toward Heisenberg's incoming kick!
Boom!!!
With a loud crash, Thanos was kicked directly away by this strike, flying a distance of over eighty meters.
As for Heisenberg, the sole of his shoe had been completely snapped in two.
Seeing this, he simply stood in place and kicked his leg, sending the ruined shoe flying off.
Being barefoot was not the end of it. He then took off his suit jacket and casually rolled up the sleeves of his dress shirt.
At this moment, his left sleeve was rolled up to the elbow joint, revealing his robust forearm, while his entire right arm was fully exposed.
That was because when he snapped his fingers, the energy of the Infinity Stones had breached his bio-force field, completely obliterating the right sleeve of his clothes.
He looked at the rising Thanos with this uninhibited posture, and the disdain in his eyes similarly caused the Mad Titan to involuntarily burn with rage.
Right at this moment, two furious roars suddenly echoed from the distance. It was Captain America and the Hulk bellowing in unison.
Meanwhile, Iron Man, flying high in the sky from afar, fired a scorching laser beam straight at Thanos!
Thanos casually raised his sword to block Iron Man's laser. At the exact same time, Heisenberg unexpectedly lifted his right hand, using his force field to transport Captain America and the other two far away.
"Do not interrupt us!" he could be heard roaring at the trio.
"This might be my most meaningful battle under this starry sky, haha!"
His laughter instantly infected Thanos. Raising his double-edged sword, he similarly waved his hand dismissively at the trio.
"Listen to him, you weaklings. Go find opponents that match your own level!"
As Thanos's voice fell, he violently raised his empty left hand.
Following that, exactly five teleportation portals rapidly descended from the Sanctuary II flagship in the sky.
Right after, just Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian, leading the countless forces of Thanos's army, poured out endlessly from the portals!
Meanwhile, Thanos turned his back to his massive army and sighed at Heisenberg.
"It has been far too long since I met an opponent like you!"
His tone was desolate and lonely, and a golden silhouette gradually flashed across his pupils.
"After my defeat at the hands of Odin, you are the first person qualified to truly fight me! Of course, this is a real battle of life and death, not playing house like it is with those few weaklings."
"Therefore!" Heisenberg picked up the conversation and continued, "Either I become a dead soul beneath your blade right here, or..."
"I will pave the only path for you to step onto the throne using flesh and dry bones!" Thanos roared heroically while raising his sword high.
Heisenberg then violently took flight, his incomparably scorching heat vision blasting fiercely against Thanos's double-edged sword!
Thanos gripped his blade tightly, staggering backward more than two full steps!
"Guys who can fly are so annoying!" He roared loudly, simultaneously spinning his blade at high speed.
Heisenberg's heat vision was thus completely blocked out by his windmill-like weapon!
Consequently, Heisenberg dragged his heat vision along as he charged all the way right in front of Thanos, grabbing firmly onto Thanos's glowing red blade with both hands.
Taking a deep breath, he violently exhaled his freeze breath, causing Thanos's weapon to be covered in a layer of frost in the blink of an eye!
Thanos immediately guessed what Heisenberg was trying to do. Just as Heisenberg's next punch was about to smash into the blade, Thanos forcefully tossed the weapon in his hands into the sky.
At the same time, he threw both fists out in unison, slamming ruthlessly toward Heisenberg's ears.
Heisenberg quickly retracted his fists, raising both arms to forcefully block the strike, while hurriedly lifting his knee to block a front kick from Thanos.
Following that, he simply hooked Thanos's right arm and directly hurled the purple Titan away, slamming him viciously onto the ground in the distance.
Boom!!!
The earth trembled violently. Captain America and the other two, who were struggling to resist Thanos's army, could not help but look in that direction.
The already ruined ground over there now featured an additional deep crater with a radius of two hundred meters. And in the very center of that crater, the one climbing to his feet was none other than Thanos himself!
Seeing this, Captain America, who was wielding Mjolnir and continuously smashing Outriders away, let out a cold laugh. He roared at Ebony Maw, who was standing not far away and repeatedly knocking the Hulk back.
"That is your king, a destined loser!"
"But he will not lose to you fragile Earthlings!"
As Ebony Maw responded, he spread both hands wide. The ground behind him instantly roared upward like a massive dragon, lunging straight toward the Hulk, who was constantly trying to break free from the magic!
In just a short moment, the giant dragon of sand and stone swept Banner up, violently plunging hundreds of meters beneath the surface of the earth.
Upon seeing this, Captain America swung his Mjolnir and charged in that direction. Lightning surged from the path of his swing, completely obliterating dozens of Outriders along the way.
But when he finally arrived at the spot where Banner had disappeared... the ground there had long since calmed down, as if the Hulk and the dragon of sand and stone had never even existed.
"Ebony Maw!!!" Captain America shouted loudly, charging straight at the alien.
Ebony Maw merely smiled faintly, entirely unconcerned.
"His Majesty Thanos and I have conquered countless planets and leveled entire galaxies. As for you lot, we have never even considered you worthy of our attention!"
"Then I will give you a taste of what Earthlings can do, you scrawny, blue-skinned monster!" Iron Man cursed as he fired lasers at Ebony Maw.
Yet Ebony Maw neither dodged nor evaded, and Cull Obsidian beside him violently hoisted his massive shield, firmly blocking Iron Man's attack.
Next, Ebony Maw sneered and looked at Captain America and Iron Man.
"Weak humans!"
As his voice fell, he casually waved his hand, and Captain America was immediately swatted away. Instantly, over forty Outriders pounced onto his body, tightly swarming over him.
Iron Man immediately intended to go forward and rescue him, but Ebony Maw abruptly soared into the sky. Carrying an immeasurable amount of sand and stone, he swatted Iron Man right out of the air.
At the same time, Thanos slowly climbed up from the ground. He shook his body, dusting off some of the dirt and ash.
Then he looked toward Heisenberg, who was playing with his double-edged sword in the distance.
At this moment, the blade was still covered with the frost caused by the freeze breath. And Heisenberg was posturing as if he were about to snap the weapon in half.
When Heisenberg raised his fist against the weapon, Thanos actually felt a slight sense of relief.
But when he realized that Heisenberg was merely making the gesture and did not actually snap the blade...
"Bastard, are you pitying me? Go ahead and destroy my weapon! By failing to hold onto it, I have long lost the right to wield it!"
Hearing Thanos's words, Heisenberg raised his eyes and glanced at him.
"Since you feel it is a humiliation to have your weapon taken by me, then do not use it anymore. This way, it can also become my trophy, to be kept forever!"
"Shameless boasting!" Thanos roared out loud, simultaneously violently charging out of the crater he had crashed into, sprinting all the way toward Heisenberg.
Heisenberg instantly flew over at high speed, parallel to the ground. Thanos desperately swung his fists, smashing toward Heisenberg's upper body.
Heisenberg, however, suddenly wrapped his arms around Thanos's arms, pushing the Titan straight backward!
Boom!!! That was them crashing into a mound of earth.
Bang!!! That was them smashing through a perimeter wall.
Crackle and crash! They simply plowed right into the last relatively intact section of the Avengers Compound, the building that Heisenberg had previously protected with his bio-force field.
But immediately after, the immense impact directly caused this building to collapse viciously!
"You... urgh, ahhh! What kind of lifeform are you exactly!!!"
Thanos cried out as he felt the irresistible pushing force from the front, while simultaneously enduring the continuous tremors coming from his back.
That was right! The obstruction of Earth's puny buildings was nothing more than that. To him and Heisenberg, they could not feel any pain from it whatsoever.
The only thing that could truly make them feel pain was each other's purest attacks!
So what was the purest attack?
Heisenberg abruptly released Thanos, ruthlessly driving a fist into the Titan's face right in midair.
Even though Thanos had not landed, he still managed to use his forearm to block Heisenberg's punch at the critical moment.
Boom!!!
He was still smashed away, kicking up a violent shockwave as he crashed into a room that was destroyed beyond recognition in the blink of an eye!
And right beside Thanos, a corpse-like figure suddenly opened his eyes.
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