The Ultimate Nullifier!
That thing resembling a lighter.
Actually possesses an utterly unreasonable and terrifying power!
It can erase any living or non-living entity from the very logic of existence itself!
As if that other side had never appeared.
This irrational method of erasure is like breaking the fourth wall, taking the draft straight from the writer's hand, and burning it.
That's why the Ultimate Nullifier is often jokingly called the editor-in-chief's lighter of Marvel!
And right now…
With a soft click.
The Ultimate Nullifier was being used just like a lighter.
Aron pressed the button!
The flame ignited!
The fire rapidly expanded, transforming from a spark into a flaming dragon!
Heading straight into the full-force strike of the ancient god!
Two forces met in space!
There were no explosions!
No violent reaction!
Only slow erasure.
The power of the ancient gods melted away as quickly as ice touching the flame of the Ultimate Nullifier.
It played no role in stopping that flame.
The shape of the Ultimate Nullifier's flame, even while keeping its original form, continued forward.
Spreading toward the First Ancient God and the fleshy toys around him!
"What is that!?"
The First Ancient God panicked a little.
He had seen this thing earlier in the hands of the Devourer of Worlds.
But the arrogant Galactus hadn't immediately used the Ultimate Nullifier.
He had been deceived by the modest, plump appearance of the ancient god.
And now…
The First Ancient God made the same mistake as Galactus.
After defeating Galactus, he allowed this object to fall into Aron's hands.
After all…
It was just a lighter.
What could be so terrifying about a lighter, right?
"You, forward!"
"Stop that thing!"
The ancient god pushed forward one by one the children he had created.
But as soon as those handsome men and beautiful women came into contact with the Ultimate Nullifier, even the shape of the flame didn't change.
One by one, they vanished completely.
This method of erasure was utterly horrifying and unreasonable!
Their bodies, their souls, even the power within them!
Everything they possessed was instantly erased!
As if they had never existed!
All energy and matter in the universe, at the beginning, return to dust and to earth.
Everything a being possesses returns to it upon death.
But those erased by the Ultimate Nullifier are no longer among them!
"!"
With the last child perishing in the flame,
the First Ancient God completely lost his mind.
Instead of retreating, he turned and faced the flame of the Ultimate Nullifier!
"So brave?"
Aron was not polite in the slightest.
After all, all he needed to do was keep pressing the button.
Simple and easy, even a three-year-old could do it.
But for the ancient god…
This was the greatest crisis of life and death since his birth!
"You should not have driven me to this point!"
The ancient god paused.
No longer disguising his appearance, he reverted to the blue fat man who had moments ago not a scrap of cloth on him!
But this wasn't to commit suicide.
He wanted to gather all his power.
To save it for the next strike!
"I have witnessed many miraculous sights at the dawn of the universe's birth…"
"They benefited me greatly…"
The ancient god, who had been stammering before, now spoke clearly.
His humility and stupidity had vanished.
Only cunning and deceit gleamed from his narrowed eye slits.
The one who had schemed countless parallel universes, forged Ragnarok, and treated gods as his meals.
How could that one be stupid?
Rumble!
A new power appeared within the ancient god.
It was the power he had grasped from the wondrous vision at the beginning of creation!
"This is the power of creation!"
The ancient god raised his hand.
One to seven pillars of multicolored light burst from his palm.
The flame that had been erasing everything was actually stopped by that colorful pillar of light!
Boom——!!
The two forces collided.
In an instant, the flash was like the Big Bang.
One was the power from the beginning of creation, the rise of entropy!
The other was the power of erasure, the reduction of entropy!
The two forces obliterated everything around them, causing violent quakes in space.
Even several nearby dimensions of reality erupted in a storm powerful enough to destroy an entire galaxy!
An incomparable light of annihilation!
Billions of degrees of light and heat!
Enough to vaporize everything a human could ever perceive or imagine!
"Go!"
Odin raised the spear Gungnir.
Almost burning himself, he opened a portal for Hela and Thor.
"Father!"
"Shut up!"
As soon as Thor spoke, Odin's scolding met him.
"You are the King of Asgard now!"
"My end is sealed."
"You go!"
Odin forcibly shoved Thor and Hela through the gate.
He sent them back to their original world, their original timeline.
And he stayed behind.
"God Butcher, aren't you leaving?"
Odin turned and looked for Gorr the God Butcher, who had also remained, and asked.
But Gorr, obviously, didn't care.
"I have to stay, because I still have one unfinished job."
"Convenient, so do I."
Odin and Gorr simply stayed.
Watching as the blinding light of destruction drew near…
"Need help, God Butcher?"
"Take care of yourself, Old King of Gods."
After that final line of conversation.
The white light struck.
… …
The light of destruction lasted who knows how long.
After the power of annihilation dissipated,
this primordial universe from 14 billion years ago, stolen by the ancient gods, was gone.
The original deep, dark space vanished…
In its place was a space of white background.
Like a painter's hand.
A blank sheet of paper without a drawing.
"Khmm…"
Odin survived, but was on his last breath.
The majestic armor of the King of Gods could no longer sustain him.
He could only barely rise, leaning on the spear Gungnir.
"Ahhh…"
Gorr crawled out of a black cocoon.
His body thin and exhausted.
The power of the ancient gods that the All-Black the Necrosword had absorbed earlier was burned away.
"Is the battle over? Are they…?"
Gorr struggled to stand and asked.
"No, it's not."
Odin's answer made Gorr's heart sink to the bottom.
His gaze turned forward.
Indeed.
In this white-background space,
Aron and the ancient god, both were alive and well!
"Impossible…"
"Why are you still alive?"
The ancient god stared at Aron in disbelief.
He had just used the power from the beginning of creation.
More precisely…
It was an imitation of the power of creation!
He had witnessed many miraculous sights at the dawn of the universe's birth, which taught him many secrets.
He had also imitated a fragment of the power of creation!
Although just a clumsy parody,
it was still quite powerful!
"The power of creation?"
"Call it coincidence, two days ago I used that same power to make popcorn and Coke."
"If it weren't for that Lucifer Morningstar."
"I'd already have shown you what true creation power is…"
Aron sneered, the power imitated by the ancient god was nothing more.
That was the power of creation derived from gathering six stones!
In other words, a reflection of the Big Bang!
But what the ancient god had exerted with all his might was just a little "pseudo-god."
At least to Aron, who had truly mastered that power…
"You imitate and resemble nothing!"
"Now…"
"Allow me to show you what true creation power is, shall I?"
Golden energy appeared in Aron's palm.
If the power of the Infinity Stones was only a fleeting glimpse of the Big Bang,
then the power of the Morning Star, given by Lucifer Morningstar, was the true power of creation!
Because it had another name, God Will.
"I said…"
"I want you to die."