The moment Heisenberg finished speaking, Little Spider among the onlookers suddenly froze.
He tilted his head and asked softly, "Heisenberg's most worthy opponent? Wouldn't that be Einstein?"
Instantly…
Countless Avengers: …
That collective stare made Little Spider flinch hard.
"Okay, okay, my bad. Sorry, I always do this. My mind just wanders a lot. Maybe it's a spider thing, or maybe it's my powers? Okay, I'll stay quiet!"
Under the weight of so many eyes, Little Spider finally shut up.
That silence lasted a good ten seconds before the black lines on Heisenberg's forehead slowly faded. He raised both hands, gripped Thanos's massive head tightly, and stared straight into the titan's eyes. With a sudden burst of force he twisted Thanos's skull a full one hundred and eighty degrees.
Crack!
The rotation sent a visible ripple through the air itself.
That single motion showed exactly how much power Heisenberg had used.
Even without the strength to fight back, Thanos was not someone any ordinary person could kill. Yet the moment his skull and spine shattered completely, Thanos still managed to give Heisenberg one last look full of expectation.
A moment later Thanos died in silence. His pupils turned the dull black of the dead.
Heisenberg released the titan's head, floated above the corpse, and spoke quietly to himself.
"Only by letting your opponent die more greatly and with greater dignity can your victory shine even brighter."
He said it coldly, then swept his sharp gaze across the crowd in a full circle.
Even though everyone knew Heisenberg was on their side, many Avengers still tensed up and raised their weapons under that stare.
Ignoring the brave cowards, Heisenberg let out a long sigh and continued.
"It is just a shame that while we have sent off a great enemy, these卑劣 battles are still not over."
The instant the words left his mouth he curled into a ball and shot upward, stopping three hundred meters in the air.
His eyes locked onto the edge of the crater, where a figure glowed with four different lights and sneered at him without stopping.
The next second Ebony Maw placed his right hand over his chest and formed a sword-finger stance.
He slashed forward.
Violent spatial ripples howled straight toward Heisenberg.
This was Ebony Maw's combined use of the Space Stone and Reality Stone. He turned the impossible into reality and used space itself as the key to create a dimensional-level attack.
Facing the seemingly casual but fully powered strike, Heisenberg shook his head in disdain and murmured softly.
"System, come collect the payment."
He immediately issued a string of commands in his mind.
"First, upgrade my bloodline to the level of the Kryptonian God Rao."
"Two hundred and forty million origin points consumed."
"Next, upgrade my body to the level of the Origin Universe and fully fuse it with my soul from the Origin Universe."
"One billion two hundred and fifty million origin points consumed."
"Solidify my dimensional rank so I am immune to any dimensional strikes."
"I am sorry. Your origin points are insufficient. Please collect more in a timely manner…"
"Uh…"
The suddenly icy system voice left Heisenberg awkwardly pressing his lips together. He kept asking inside his mind.
"How much do I need?"
"Defending against a two-dimensional downgrade strike requires four hundred and eighty-six billion four hundred million origin points. Defending against a one-dimensional downgrade strike requires 2 to the power of 92."
…
Heisenberg's heart cooled considerably. He blinked helplessly and finally told the system, "Forget it. Keep the remaining origin points for now."
The system instantly carried out his orders.
In that moment Heisenberg underwent true sublimation.
The bloodline of Kryptonian God Rao, the strongest Kryptonian lifeform of the ancient era, etched mysterious Kryptonian runes into even his bones.
Then the perfect fusion of his Origin Soul and Origin Body brought him one step closer to transcending three dimensions.
Of course, Heisenberg knew perfectly well how far he still was from becoming a true four-dimensional lifeform.
The distance was about the same as the gap between him and Golden Superman.
Because to Golden Superman, the difference between three-dimensional and four-dimensional beings was almost meaningless.
So Heisenberg, fully aware of his own limits, enjoyed his current power while keeping a clear head.
And with that clear head, he would never let any spatial energy hit him directly in the face.
Heisenberg thrust out his hand. His invisible bio-force field formed at more than twice its previous speed.
Facing the incoming spatial fissure, he tried his best to separate the strong and weak nuclear forces inside the field.
He was attempting to solve the spatial problem in his own way.
Unfortunately, after only three months of practice, his bio-force field could not effectively block a fissure created by the Space Stone.
As for tanking the fissure with his body…
Heisenberg was not an idiot. He had never considered such a stupid idea.
So he simply flashed sideways and dodged the spatial tear.
His neural reaction speed increased rapidly under his control. The whole world slowed down dramatically in front of him.
Feeling the spatial fissure behind him stretching toward Earth, Heisenberg finally understood a feeling Superman experienced all the time.
That feeling was: I cannot dodge the enemy's attack, or once I do, if the attack hits Earth…
Earth would be gone in an instant.
Exactly.
If the spatial fissure behind him extended all the way to the planet, even if it did not turn into a black hole it could easily pierce straight through Earth and even the core.
So if he did not want the Earth behind him destroyed, Heisenberg had only one path.
He had to kill Ebony Maw completely before the fissure reached the planet, take back the Infinity Stones, and close the troublesome tear.
Once he decided, he accelerated instantly and appeared in front of Ebony Maw in the blink of an eye.
Just how terrifying was a truly serious super Kryptonian?
Even when Ebony Maw held four Infinity Stones.
Heisenberg simply used speed far beyond any living being, arrived right beside Ebony Maw, and under the alien's shocked gaze gently grabbed his right hand.
Then Heisenberg curled his lip in disdain. He formed a knife-hand with his right hand and chopped straight down on Ebony Maw's gauntlet-wearing forearm.
In a single blink Ebony Maw lost control of the Stones.
After all, Ebony Maw's physical body was nowhere near as strong as Thanos's. He was basically a mage who had completely wasted his skill points.
You are a mage. Why did you put so many points into spell skills? Shouldn't you have maxed out your Light Spell and then learned Charge and Half-Moon Slash for close combat?
If your close combat sucked and your body was weak, then when a top-tier combat tank like Heisenberg got in your face, wasn't it basically instant death?
Even after his right arm was severed, in the slowed world Heisenberg saw, Ebony Maw could not even let out a scream.
Heisenberg's eyes flashed. Scorching heat vision shot straight at the top of Ebony Maw's head.
In the next instant Ebony Maw's skull turned to ash, and the ambition that had only just risen in him vanished along with it.
But it was not over yet. The dead Ebony Maw had left Earth with one last huge problem.
Heisenberg grabbed the gauntlet, turned, and looked at the steadily accelerating spatial fissure.
Tsk tsk. Dealing with this thing was actually a little troublesome for him right now.
If Heisenberg were Silver Superman he could simply add a freeze breath setting that could freeze space-time and solve it with one exhale.
If he were Super Kryptonian Hyperion he would already be able to manipulate space himself.
But the current Heisenberg had only just stepped into the level of Kryptonian God. His rank had risen, yet his abilities had not yet caught up.
So…
Heisenberg sighed. In the end he still needed to use external tools.
He moved to put on the Infinity Gauntlet. Fight fire with fire. Whatever had created the fissure could fix it too.
But just as he was about to slip the gauntlet on, a golden light flashed across the corner of his eye.
The light moved at extreme speed. Even Heisenberg could barely track it.
He knew exactly who she was.
Captain Marvel.
The legendary woman who could lead entire fleets through faster-than-light jumps with her own body.
An undefeated cosmic myth since the day she debuted.
The epic figure who had inherited and elevated the Supreme Nova title of the Kree Empire.
And… a raceless philanthropist who had left Earth yet barely cared about Earth's safety.
To Earthlings she also had one other rather cute nickname.
The Late Hero.
No one understood that nickname better than Nick Fury.
Captain Marvel shot straight to the front of the spatial fissure. Brilliant flames of light erupted from her body.
The holy-light special effects were turned up to maximum. Even Heisenberg felt a little envious of the sheer spectacle.
Next, the Nova Force rooted in her bloodline gathered rapidly around both arms.
She crossed her arms and slammed them against the two-kilometer-long spatial fissure.
In that instant her Nova Force clashed fiercely with the power of space.
The holy flames on her body flickered wildly, but the spatial fissure slowly began to shrink.
Finally, with a loud shout, she shattered the fissure completely.
Heisenberg smiled and pulled his hand back from the gauntlet.
When it was not necessary, he preferred not to rely on any external power.
Around the crater, the moment Captain Marvel destroyed the fissure and Heisenberg killed Ebony Maw and reclaimed the Infinity Gauntlet, the Avengers forces snapped out of their brief daze and erupted into wild celebration.
The few remaining members of Thanos's army could no longer pose any threat, especially now that his portals had been destroyed and no more reinforcements could arrive.
The big shots began searching for their teammates and gradually moved toward Captain Marvel and Heisenberg.
Heisenberg carried the gauntlet over to Carol's side.
But right now Carol, true to her nickname, stared in astonishment at Thanos's corpse in the distance.
"How is this possible? Didn't Thanos already die?"
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