Chapter 468: Unable to Break the Giant Sphere, the Strange Fleet
But when he condensed his Heat Ray, intending to pierce this Light Wall, the Light Wall condensed by the Reality Stone seemed like water, rippling and remaining completely unharmed no matter how he tried to cut it.
"Whoosh!"
Seeing that the Heat Ray was ineffective, Superman Clark immediately flew forward and sprayed a stream of Cold Air at the red Light Wall. The white, mist-like Frost Breath came into contact with the Sanctuary (ship)'s Alloy Casing.
The Alloy Casing was instantly covered in a layer of white frost... Superman Clark continuously exhaled a long stream of breath, freezing the damaged Sanctuary (ship) into a large chunk of ice floating in Space.
Clark Kent moved instantly to stand on this Ice Mountain, his feet firmly planted on the Mountain Peak.
He lifted his foot and stomped down. An immense strength capable of moving mountains and overturning seas spread out from the sole of his foot. Under the force of this stomp, the entire Ice Mountain, nearly ten thousand meters tall, instantly shattered.
Revealing the reddish spherical body below.
The spherical body formed by the dark red light wall was nearly a thousand meters in diameter, and at the same time, this spherical body was continuously shrinking inwards at an extremely fast speed.
Superman Clark flew forward to the top of this orb, raised his Right Hand, and heavily punched down towards the orb.
The moment Clark Kent threw his punch, all the muscles beneath his armor bulged. With a single punch, the Vacuum Environment above the entire dark red orb was indented with a dent nearly a hundred meters in size. *Boom!* Clark Kent heavily punched the dark red orb. Clark Kent let loose, unleashing a great strength capable of directly leveling a skyscraper with that punch, striking the dark red orb.
On the dark red orb, ripples like flowing water appeared. Amidst this flowing liquid, Clark Kent's great strength was instantly dissolved into nothingness.
Clark Kent, refusing to give up, circled the orb at high speed, rapidly punching and striking. His speed was so fast that hundreds, even thousands, of Clark Kent seemed to appear around the orb, completely surrounding the dark red orb.
Hundreds, even thousands, of Clark Kent punched simultaneously, all striking the dark red orb. But with each punch, the dark red orb of light remained completely unharmed. This time, not even a ripple was stirred up.
Inside the dark red space constructed by the Reality Stone, Thanos felt the vibration transmitted from the Reality Stone in his hand. He raised his head, looking up at the ripples appearing on the surrounding dark red wall above.
Thanos waved his hand, and the entire space instantly became a single-sided transparent structure. At the same time, Superman Clark's face clearly appeared before his eyes.
"A guy with decent strength! Is he also one of your companions?"
Thanos lowered his head and looked at his right hand. On the Infinity Gauntlet, several ant-sized figures were quietly using a crowbar to pry off the Reality Stone!
Tony Stark, Bruce Wayne, and Barton stiffened when they heard the muffled, thunder-like voice above their heads. They looked up in unison, directly meeting that giant purple face.
In the eyes of the shrunken figures, Thanos's face was like a cloud in the sky, instantly casting a large shadow that enveloped them.
Seeing that they had been discovered, Tony Stark and the others quickly threw away the crowbars in their hands and fled in all Direction.
But the next moment, the Soul Stone on Thanos's wrist projected an orange light, instantly enveloping the three of them.
Within this orange light, the three only felt their bodies floating lightly. A Heaven-like white light seemed to shine above their heads, and Angel called out to them, inviting them to throw themselves into it.
Their souls separated from their physical bodies and were directly devoured by that orange light.
"Tony! Barton! Mr. Wayne, what's wrong with you?"
From Black Widow Natasha's perspective, the three fleeing figures suddenly froze motionless due to some incident, and then were scooped up by Thanos into his Palm.
Seeing this scene, Natasha Romanoff, who was taking care of Dr. Banner, helped him to the side, flew up, and gripped the Vibranium war spear, aiming directly at Thanos's eyes. But before she could even reach Thanos, a wave of orange light enveloped her. The next second, her soul left her body and was swallowed by the orange light.
"Thud!"
In the orange light, Natasha watched helplessly as her physical body fell onto the red Ground. "What's going on?" Seeing this scene, Diana, whose body was aching slightly but was forcing herself to stay alert and prepare to move forward, stopped in her tracks and asked on the communication channel.
"It should be the Soul Stone's ability. Their souls have been captured!"
Dr. Banner, whose half-face was like a withered tree from resisting the radiation of the Power Stone, keenly sensed the orange light emanating from Thanos's right hand.
"The ability to seize souls!?"
Diana looked at the orange light and Bruce Wayne and the others held in Thanos's hand. She then turned her gaze towards Thor.
"Fatty, can you still hold on?"
"I'm fine!" Thor shook his head.
Thor had also directly withstood the Power Stone's scattered strength. However, the Aesir's physical quality far surpassed that of Ordinary Person, and he was also carrying several jade talismans given to him by Goddess Frigga, which was why he appeared unharmed.
"You distract him from the front in a moment, and I'll try to see if I can snatch that gauntlet!"
Diana said, gripping the Lasso of Truth in her Palm.
"Okay!"
The shrunken Thor flew directly towards Thanos. The moment he touched the edge of the orange light, Thor took a deep breath, *Crackle—*
A golden electric arc instantly circled outside the Ant-Man Suit, spreading throughout his entire body, forming a golden lightning armor around him.
However, under the high-intensity thunder power, the various precision parts inside the Ant-Man Suit were inevitably affected.
With the Pym Particles out of control, Thor instantly expanded to dozens of meters tall. At this immense height, he only reached Thanos's calf.
Thanos was also stunned to see the Giant suddenly appear before his eyes. He subconsciously looked up.
"Whoosh!"
Above his head, a Stormbreaker dozens of meters long crashed down towards him like a Small Mountain.
Thanos snorted coldly, raised his hand, and the purple light emitted by the Power Stone shot out, meeting the great axe chopping down from above.
"Whoosh!"
Diana seized the opportunity, throwing her Lasso of Truth dozens of meters away, accurately looping it around the Infinity Gauntlet on Thanos's right hand! Diana held the Lasso of Truth tightly with both hands, trying to take the opportunity to pull the Infinity Gauntlet off Thanos's hand! Thanos exerted force with his right hand, directly clenching his palm into a fist. The next second, a wave of purple light swept out from his fist in all Direction.
Outside the Sanctuary (ship)—no, it should be outside the dark red orb now.
A figure was heading towards this area at high speed, colliding with a million-ton warship.
Clark Kent flashed aside. The million-ton warship collided with the dark red orb of light at supersonic speed. Amidst the firelight of an explosion, the entire warship was smashed section by section against the dark red orb by Carol, literally being shattered into a pile of scrap metal.
Carol casually threw away the half-section of metal armor debris in her hand. This half-section of armor debris was immediately hit by dense energy cannon fire until nothing was left.
Intense firepower covered Carol and the dark red orb behind her! She floated in mid-air, waves of blue light emanating from her entire body, blocking the laser cannon fire shooting towards her. She frowned, looking at the dark red giant 'egg', and cast a look of doubt towards Clark Kent.
Clark Kent crossed his arms over his chest, and the red heat ray continuously shot out from Clark Kent's eyes, cutting through the protective shields of the alien warships around them.
One after another, alien warships were directly "seen" exploded by his eyes, turning into sparks in the pitch black Night Sky.
Facing Carol's doubtful gaze, Clark Kent gently shook his head at her, indicating that he also had no way.
Carol took a deep breath, raised her hands high. Under Clark Kent's surprised gaze, a wave of flame-like energy surged around her. The next second, she clenched her fists and charged towards the dark red orb at full speed.
Carol, flying at sub-light speed, collided with the dark red orb with her fist. In the Vacuum Environment of Space, a nuclear warhead seemed to explode, and a strong shockwave spread out from the center of the dark red orb in all Direction.
Several alien warships that were close were even flipped over several times by this shockwave.
After the shockwave dissipated, looking at the dark red orb with no mark of damage, Carol pounded it again and again—
Clark Kent shook his head, clearly not believing that Carol could cause much damage to this dark red orb.
"Clark Kent! This orb should be composed of Aether, it's indestructible. Unless there's power of the same origin, you can't enter the orb!"
Steve Rogers's voice sounded from the embedded communicator Clark Kent was wearing. Clark Kent looked in the Direction of the voice, only to see a figure standing by the porthole of the massive Sanctuary II, waving at him.
"Power of the same origin?"
Clark Kent repeated the phrase. Under his own life force field, his voice accurately entered the communicator.
"If we want to break through this Aether layer, we need the power of the Infinity Stones!"
Steve Rogers stood in front of the porthole, simultaneously directing the Sanctuary II to engage in shelling with the alien warships and talking with Clark Kent via the communicator.
The Sanctuary II truly lived up to its name as the Black Order's command flagship. The specially customized warship was not only nearly ten thousand meters long but its energy shield was also nearly three times thicker than other warships.
Furthermore, the surrounding warships were wary because they held hostages, and were hesitant to use their truly high-force main cannons. Coupled with the limited space around them, even though Thanos's side had over a million warships, only a few thousand were actually in direct contact with them.
So, relying solely on one hijacked warship, the strike team led by Steve managed to contend with the several thousand warships around them!
Steve Rogers directed the interstellar version of the Howling Commandos to deal with the attack of the alien warships, while also observing the situation on Clark Kent's side. When Clark Kent shattered the Sanctuary (ship), revealing the dark red orb inside, he immediately realized something was wrong.
Although Steve Rogers hadn't had much contact with the Reality Stone, he had seen it a few times. The radiance emanating from that dark red orb was the unique radiance of the Reality Stone.
"According to the intelligence we currently have, the Space Gem and the Mind Stone are now in Tang Song's hands. To rescue Tony and Mr. Wayne, we need the power of these two gemstones!"
"But the current situation is, we don't know where they are!"
Before Steve Rogers finished speaking, Superman Clark suddenly turned his head to look in the Direction of the Solar System. Steve Rogers followed his gaze, only to see a dense, pitch black steel Fleet sailing towards them from that Direction.
"This is the Fleet that was besieging Titan. Could it be that Titan has fallen? Then Earth..."
Steve Rogers quickly tried to access Nick Fury's communication channel. A full twenty to thirty seconds passed.
Seeing no response from the communication channel, Steve Rogers's heart sank little by little. Just as he thought Earth had also fallen, Nick Fury's slightly fatigued voice finally sounded in the communication channel.
"Captain? How's your plan going?"
"Whoosh!" Hearing Nick Fury's voice, Captain America finally breathed a sigh of relief: "We've encountered trouble here, Tony and the others are trapped by Thanos! I need the Cosmic Cube!"
"The Cosmic Cube and the Mind Scepter were offered as sacrificial offerings to that Deity by the High-level Staff of the World Security Council!" Nick Fury's voice was full of helplessness.
Clearly, he didn't quite agree with the decision of the High-level Staff. After contacting Thor and learning about Asgard, in his opinion, these Deity were nothing more than powerful aliens.
But he couldn't argue with the fact that the miracle displayed by this descending Deity was too shocking. Compared to Him, Thor seemed more like a big, clumsy guy who just held a hammer and could occasionally shoot lightning.
"I know that! What I want to know now is where I can find Him!" Captain America glanced out the porthole at the continuously shrinking dark red orb, a hint of anxiety flashing in his eyes.
"He is on Titan. Just a few hours ago, leaders from various countries went to Titan at His invitation!"
"What's the situation on Titan? I saw a large number of warships sailing out of the Solar System!" Looking at the approaching Fleet group, Captain America ordered his subordinates to be on alert while asking Nick Fury.
"Our personnel have already evacuated Titan. From the current situation, the sacrificial offerings from the High-level Staff were not in vain. That Deity accepted the sacrificial offerings and at least truly protected Earth!"
S.H.I.E.L.D. has been responsible for coordinating the evacuation of personnel with various countries and screening for extraterrestrial life forms that might have mixed in with the evacuating forces and entered Earth. With S.H.I.E.L.D.'s current manpower, even with the cooperation of Special Department from various countries, Nick Fury was constantly busy.
After confirming Tang Song's position, Captain America looked at the continuously shrinking dark red orb. He pressed his communicator, just about to ask Clark Kent to make a trip to Titan.
The dense warships fleeing from the Solar System had already arrived near this battlefield—
Just as Superman Clark was watching intently, Captain Marvel Carol took an attack stance, and Captain America ordered his strike team members to prepare for engagement.
Those alien warships, however, seemed not to notice them. As if being chased by a dog, they sailed directly past them, not only without slowing down at all but even accelerating away from this area.
This strange behavior left not only Clark Kent and Carol at a loss but even some alien spaceships besieging the Sanctuary II stopped their shelling.
(end of chapter)