If there was a chance to win against Thanos this time, Doctor Strange would definitely have reminded everyone, but he didn't. This meant they wouldn't win.
In fact, this crushing defeat might even be a predetermined outcome.
Thanos, having broken free, defeated everyone almost immediately, displaying his terrifying strength to the fullest.
The situation, which had seemed somewhat promising, was completely ruined by Star-Lord.
Thanos was a Celestial-level being, and on top of that, he had the Infinity Gauntlet. They stood no chance.
Then, an even more horrifying scene unfolded. Everyone watched as Thanos used the Power Stone to turn a satellite in the void into countless fragments.
This scene made everyone gasp, as if someone had crushed the moon with the Power Stone.
The moon's hardness is such that even a nuclear strike would only leave a crater. How many high-yield nuclear warheads would it take to completely disintegrate it?
But now, he did it in an instant using the Power Stone!
At this moment, everyone gained a more intuitive understanding of how powerful the six Infinity Stones were.
They knew the six Infinity Stones were amazing before, but their understanding was only at the level of "amazing."
But now, the Power Stone, just by displaying a fraction of its power, made them feel terrified.
Using the Power Stone to crush a satellite... If Thanos hadn't used that power to crush them, he'd be considered quite decent. He really was a rather particular villain.
As the fear in everyone's hearts reached its peak, Thanos used the Infinity Gauntlet to turn the crushed satellite fragments into countless meteorites and hurled them towards the Avengers.
Tony Stark was directly hit and slammed to the ground.
Tony Stark, watching from outside the screen, frowned deeply. He never imagined that one day he would be hit by a meteorite. No one would believe it if he told them, and yet he still survived.
And amidst this rain of fire, Spider-Man, Peter Parker, desperately rescued people, securing them with his webs.
"I'm so sorry, I forgot your names!"
Spider-Man, Peter Parker, said in a hurry.
In the firestorm, Doctor Strange engaged in a fierce battle with Thanos, unleashing all sorts of powerful magic.
He even deployed the famous Mirror Dimension spell, only to have Thanos shatter it with a single punch, absorbing the energy and using it to attack.
This was something everyone had never heard of or seen before. They had previously witnessed beings trapped in the Mirror Dimension, and almost none of them escaped so easily. Even the Sorcerers found it troublesome to leave, and it wasn't a simple feat.
However, now, Thanos demonstrated the power to break through all magic with a single punch.
The Power Stone's effects were on full display at this moment. Among all the Infinity Stones, the Power Stone provided the most obvious boost to combat strength.
Only one punch was enough to shatter the space.
It even sent the spatial fragments right back.
After blocking this terrifying blow, countless hands suddenly appeared behind Doctor Strange. Moments later, they transformed into thousands of Doctor Stranges, all attacking together. Countless strands of light directly locked onto Thanos.
However, Thanos only needed a single strike with the Power Stone to make all these clones disappear.
Then, Thanos reached out, pulling Doctor Strange in front of him. He grabbed Strange by the neck and sneered, "You have quite a few tricks, Sorcerer!"
Thanos only sneered, not taking this level of threat seriously.
Although he wasn't a magic user, he was naturally invulnerable and had very high resistance to magic.
Not to mention the armor he wore, which also provided some magic defense.
If the one using this move was the Ancient One, the Sorcerer Supreme he was incredibly wary of, he might be a bit worried. But it was just Doctor Strange, and that was far from a threat.
In his eyes, Doctor Strange was just an ordinary Sorcerer. Although in the future, Doctor Strange might reach Celestial-level and become a master who shook the universe, the future was the future, and now was now.
Celestial-level masters would only be defeated by Celestial-level masters.
Although Doctor Strange was considered a master on a cosmic scale, because most planets didn't possess any supernatural powers, and the so-called gods might not even be as strong as Doctor Strange.
But this didn't include a Celestial-level big shot like Thanos.
Thanos's eyes were filled with contempt. He also knew a lot about the secret arts of these Sorcerers from Kamar-Taj.
Although Kamar-Taj was a strange term to ordinary people, in the entire main universe and multiverse, Kamar-Taj was renowned.
The Sorcerer Supremes of every generation were well-known masters at the cosmic level, especially the contemporary Sorcerer Supreme, the Ancient One, who was unprecedentedly terrifying, forged from the corpses of countless dimensional demons.
Ordinary people hadn't heard of it, but Thanos had. Even he was wary of the Ancient One. When the Ancient One and Odin were alive, he never personally invaded Earth, only sending the Chitauri to set up a preliminary base.
Even knowing where the Space Stone was, and having a way to sense it, he remained still.
"But you never used your ultimate weapon!" Thanos said, directly grabbing the Eye of Agamotto from Doctor Strange's neck and crushing it. He then realized that there was no Time Stone inside. "It's a fake!"
He'd been tricked!
Enraged, Thanos threw Doctor Strange away, instantly knocking him unconscious.
Just as Thanos was about to use the power of the Infinity Stones again, Tony Stark made his move. He created an Iron Man gauntlet and seized Thanos's Infinity Gauntlet, preventing him from clenching his fist.
At this moment, everyone finally understood why they had to fight for the Infinity Gauntlet. The power of the Infinity Stones could only be unleashed through the Infinity Gauntlet. They couldn't be used just like that, especially with multiple Infinity Stones mixed together.
The Infinity Gauntlet was a platform that allowed the Infinity Stones to exert their combat power.
To use this ability, one had to clench the Infinity Gauntlet. As long as they prevented him from clenching it, there was still hope.
Tony Stark flew down and said angrily, "If you smash me with a satellite again, I won't be polite!"
"Stark!" Thanos said.
"You know me?" Tony Stark asked, somewhat stunned.
"Of course, I know!" Thanos said. "You are not the only one cursed by the Curse of Knowledge!"
"My only nightmare… is you!" Tony Stark still didn't understand what Thanos meant.
Tony Stark outside the screen was a bit dumbfounded. He didn't expect Thanos to know him. That was a cosmic overlord, a being even Lin Feng's diary was extremely wary of.
And what was he? Just a wealthy man from Earth.
It was as absurd as him suddenly knowing the name of a village chief in a certain African tribe.
And what did he mean by being cursed by the Curse of Knowledge?
What does that mean?
He originally thought that Thanos knew him because he successfully used a nuclear bomb to destroy a Chitauri mothership during the New York battle, ultimately thwarting his scheme. He thought this was the reason Thanos, the behind-the-scenes mastermind, knew of him.
But it doesn't seem to be that simple.
Is there another meaning?
"Curse...of Knowledge, how can those two be combined!"
At this moment, Captain America Rogers couldn't help but say, as with his limited knowledge, he couldn't understand this logic.
"I think I understand a little."
Nick Fury, on the side, seemed to understand something. He said, "Is it possible that the various types of knowledge Tony currently possesses are not normal? Don't you all find it strange? It might even be part of a superpower!" Nick Fury continued, "Don't you all find it strange? The speed at which Tony's technology has advanced is simply too fast. From 2008, when he announced he was a superhero and became Iron Man, until 2018, the time shown in the video, Tony's armor had already advanced to the level of nanotechnology in these ten years. I bet that humans won't be able to independently develop exoskeletal armor to this extent within a hundred years!"
Everyone thought about it, and it seemed to be true, because Tony Stark's research speed was indeed too fast.
You have to know that in the human military industry, the later it gets, the slower the upgrades. For example, the F-16, which is still active on the battlefield and is still out of reach for most countries, and which some small islands can't even buy, is already a product from forty years ago.
Not to mention, in ten years he went from the crude first generation of the armor to nanotechnology that could enter space on its own.
Ten years is a tight timeframe just to get an aircraft designed by the Air Force from design to test flight to mature deployment.
Moreover, he developed at least dozens of generations of products in ten years. Even if many were just minor detail modifications, there were at least several major generational changes.
And they were the product of a huge team of designers, manufacturers, and experimenters.
Meanwhile, Tony Stark was flirting, managing the company, designing the armor, attending social events, and still managed to accomplish what a normal human's research progress might take one or two hundred years, or even two or three hundred years, to achieve.
It didn't seem like much before, but now that they thought about it, everyone couldn't help but gasp.
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