Gems Against Gems

Tears welled up instantly in his eyes, and Parallel Rocket trembled, showing such vulnerability for the first time. "What about Layla and the others?"

Mentioning that name again felt like returning to that Wutian prison, where he could feel the touch of Layla's simple mechanical arm, her warm embrace, and the company of Banban and Big Tooth.

The Rocket's smile froze. "Your Layla, she..."

The next second he rushed in front of Parallel Rocket, shaking him violently. "You dare! Your awakened Killing Curse is just for show? You piece of trash! You... you..."

Looking at the horizontal Rocket with its head down and not saying a word, he was speechless for a moment, unable to utter any more sarcastic words.

Parallel Tony couldn't help but step forward, "Our world has no Duel Arenas, and he has no magic."

Parallel Rocket looked up and asked in a somewhat timid tone, "I can... I mean, Layla?"

Rocket shoved him away, saying irritably, "She's against Anti-Earth, taking care of our kids. Big Tooth and Banban are there too."

"I have a baby!" Parallel Rocket roared.

"No, I have a child!" Rocket rolled his eyes at him.

"Ahem, I mean," Parallel Rocket added, "It's good that Big Tooth and Banban are alright too."

He had no doubts about how a raccoon could have offspring with an otter.

Reproductive isolation is a mere formality; High Evolutionary technology can solve this problem.

This person also claims to have mastered all the technologies of High Evolutionary.

"What?!" Rocket almost got a stomachache from anger again. "Big Tooth, Banban and the others... could it be that you were the only one who escaped?"

Parallel Rocket's smile faded, and his voice deepened, "Yes."

"Let's not talk about sad topics yet." It was Star-Lord who spoke. After noticing that Rocket Raccoon was not there, he said goodbye to Black Bolt and brought his team over. He had listened to most of what was going on. "Let's talk about parallel universes."

"How is your body?" Nebula looked at her other self, her words filled with undisguised envy.

"Groot." Groot wondered where he had gone.

Drax the Destroyer, Gamora, Mantis share the same question.

The Floating Nebula couldn't help but look at Gamora's face, but at the same time, they didn't forget to answer the question, "Don't misunderstand, this is the help of the Sorcerer Supreme. My situation is the same as yours."

Gamora, who was partly the instigator, thought that her sister had not yet reconciled with the other her, and shrank her neck somewhat guiltily.

Ping Nebula raised an eyebrow. "Don't misunderstand, 'you' and I have already made up."

Drax the Destroyer finally couldn't hold back any longer, "Where is my mighty figure here? Could it be—"

"Because you Blip by Thanos' The Snap." Parallel Tony, who already had a bad impression of this guy who didn't follow the plan, complained.

"Me too—" Quill was the first to react.

Seeing Quill, Parallel Tony got even angrier. "Of course you were involved. If it weren't for you, we would have already removed the Infinity Gauntlet from Thanos's hand, which was being hypnotized by this girl with long tentacles. But you were in such a hurry to find out where Gamora was that you woke Thanos up at the last moment of success."

The flat Nebula explained, "Gamora, you weren't Blip; Thanos took you to retrieve the Soul Stone."

Star-Lord coughed awkwardly, then casually straightened his collar. "Indeed, not every 'me' in every universe is as good as me."

Gamora, on the other hand, fell silent.

Since Thanos of this universe had already obtained the Soul Stone, Gamora learned about the mechanism for acquiring it from her father, who never hid his problems from her.

She thought the reason she wasn't allowed to sacrifice herself was because she had value, and also because Thanos didn't have anyone he truly loved.

And now.

She suddenly realized that her father, Thanos, actually loved her as a daughter.

"Happy." Mantis placed her hand on Gamora's shoulder, using her power to hypnotize even the crippled Celestial Ego, casting sunlight into the storm-soaked corner of Gamora's heart.

"Thank you." Gamora looked up. "I was just thinking about my father."

"Gamora." Thousands of light-years away, Thanos, having learned of everything that had happened at Hogsmeade, also thought of his daughter. "You sent Black Bolt back, what a pity."

He regretted that Black Bolt hadn't died by that sword.

For most high-level duelists in this universe, Black Bolt and Tony Stark are perfect opponents who combine strength and intelligence.

For him, both of them were too unbalanced in their studies.

What he truly feared was Black Bolt's power and Tony Stark's intellect.

If one of them were missing, his great undertaking would certainly be much easier.

But.

The only consolation is that most of the wizards Maximus sent back have no intention of returning to Attilan.

He finally achieved his goal.

"My lord," Ebony Maw said worriedly, "That sword..."

Thanos waved his hand, "No one but the Sorcerer Supreme can unleash the true power of that sword."

Even from such a distance, he keenly perceived the essence of the Sword of Truth and Good.

"Only the purest and most holy good heart can move it."

"Steve Rogers?" Ebony Maw tentatively suggested a possible name.

Thanos shook his head. "He's no good. He's not pure enough, nor is he righteous enough."

The purple head gazed toward the Milky Way, a glint of orange light flashing in the pupil of its left eye. If Basil had seen it, he would have been astonished that the Soul Stone was embedded in its left eye.

"I've seen it; there aren't enough holy souls there."

"The earth does not have enough holy souls," Basil said to Tony and Dumbledore, who had come to borrow his sword.

He wasn't lying.

The Sword of Truth and Good, forged from the goodness drawn by King Arthur of the Fairy Tale Kingdom, is in the hands of his son Tedros only as a shiny butter knife, capable at most of releasing a few shockwaves.

But the Sword of Truth and Good in Basil's hands, which is powerful enough to face true Multiverse- level beings and has been forged to an immeasurable degree, is even more difficult to wield and places higher demands on the user.

Without the [Grimoire], even Basil would need to transform into a [Divine Body] or a [Benevolent Body] to fully unleash his power.

Basil's transformation wasn't for power or style, but to maximize the sword's brilliance.

"What about Steve?" Tony asked. "Dr. Erskine's Super Soldier Serum makes the good more good and the evil more evil. If it's him..."

He didn't finish his sentence because Basil opened a portal.

Two Captain Americas and Carter figures appeared in it.

"Catch the sword." Basil threw it out directly.

Captain America was the first to react, but the next second his hand, which was gripping the sword hilt, was pulled down.

The sword plunged directly into the stone floor.

Parallel Captain America wasn't surprised. "This is the same as Thor's hammer?"

"That's one way to put it," Basil said. "There's no one in this universe who's good enough for it yet."

"I hope I'm mistaken," he said as he rose and went into the box, closing the door behind him. "I have a date, Stark. Dumbledore, you can arrange for someone to pull out the sword."

"He who can draw this sword is the one who can contend with Thanos, who Thanos the power of the six Infinity Stones."

This sentence quickly spread throughout the entire universe.

The street where the sword was inserted has become Hogsmeade's most popular photo spot.

Wizards, humans, Inhuman, and even aliens from afar have all shown great enthusiasm for it.

With the Sorcerer Supreme's endorsement and having personally witnessed the holy and pure sword light, they all believed that this sword could rival the six gems.

Thanks to the cover-up by Tony and others, the Thanos after the 'six Infinity Stones' and the statement 'There is no one in this universe worthy of it' did not spread.

They wouldn't believe it without trying it.

Furthermore, Tony does not accept Hela's claim that Thanos's destiny is true.

But whether he admits it or not, Basil's words also hint that Thanos will eventually collect all six Infinity Stones.

Then

"Humans have migrated to the Merlin Dimension." Ron put down his newspaper. "Is that true?"

"It's true." Peter shook his phone. "It can connect to the internet even outside the computer room. You know, before, unless you went to Hogsmeade, its signal would always be zero. I can even see reports in the Daily Bugle."

"It is said that the Sorcerer Supreme created several new continents."

"The buildings above were also built on a one-to-one scale with the Earth."

"Using the magic satellite, I can even see my house number and the apple pie that Aunt May made and placed by the window."

"To be honest, this really startled me. I almost thought they had brought the Earth directly into the country."

"So there are no traces of humans left on Earth now?" Harry asked curiously.

Peter shook his head. "The guardians of the gems still exist."

"It's full of legendary and higher-level powerhouses, led by Black Bolt and Iron Man."

"I wish I could draw that sword and protect the jewel together."

"That sword?" Ron said indignantly. "It's unbelievable that even Harry couldn't pull it out. Maybe the rumors are true, and there really is no one in this universe who can pull it out."

Space base.

"Maybe no one in this universe can actually pull out this sword," Tony said dejectedly.

"We, the Guardians of the Galaxy, can protect the Infinity Stones even without that sword," Star-Lord said confidently. "Besides, we have these friends from parallel universes. In another universe, our team almost defeated Thanos."

"If you weren't so obsessed with Gamora, we would have won." Parallel Tony rolled his eyes. "You've said that a hundred times already."

"I think," Captain America said, "That perhaps we should believe what the Sorcerer Supreme said."

"Those three methods?" Doctor Strange shook his head. "The Darkhold, the creation of the Sorcerer Supreme —the Potala Earrings— are all beyond this universe, entities I cannot perceive through the Time Stone."

"And Harry Potter, in my vision of the future, is just an ordinary person."

"Don't even mention the future you saw," Parallel Tony said irritably. "There were so many ways to achieve this, but all you saw was the successful timeline where I the Snap and sacrificed myself."

War Machine Rhodey suggested, "Perhaps Harry Potter also possesses the potential to transcend this universe, but he's just ordinary in his normal state, so you can only see his ordinary future, not his extraordinary one."

"Rhodey!" Parallel Captain America said seriously, "Are you prepared to hand over the world's crisis to a child?"

Thor shook his head. "Perhaps he really can. He is the disciple of the Sorcerer Supreme. My father told me when he was alive that the Sorcerer Supreme is the strongest being in the universe, and the one you absolutely cannot offend."

Gamora chimed in, "My father, Thanos, said the same thing."

The obese Thor stroked his axe, saying, "He once chopped off Thanos's head, and he can do the same in this world."

Doctor Strange countered, "Our universe is quite unique within the Multiverse. Almost everyone in it is the strongest version of anyone in the Multiverse. Thanos in our universe is not as simple as Thanos in your universe."

"The most obvious example is that he didn't need to go to Nidavellir to have the dwarf king Eitrich forge the Infinity Stones for him."

"In one future I envisioned, he directly transformed himself into a human-shaped Infinity Gauntlet."

"His forehead is the Soul Stone, his left eye is the Soul Stone, his right eye is the Space Stone, and his heart is the Power Stone."

"I was the first one to be knocked down?" Tony jumped up.

Because his trump card against Thanos was an armor set made with the Space Stone as its core.

Doctor Strange lowered his head with a pained expression. "Your soul was directly taken away, and he controlled your body to kill Thor. In the realm of spirit and soul, he is invincible, powered by the Power Stone as his heart and driving the other two stones."

Tony frowned. "I've conducted experiments. The powers of the gems can cancel each other out. And the way I pilot the armor is completely different from the other me."

"My Mark 108 is a solid body that I created directly for my informational self, just like I became J.A.R.V.I.S. and combined with Ultron's body to become Vision."

"My soul, my body, all my information are trapped inside the Space Stone, how did he manage to do it?"

"He has three gems."

"And we also..."

At this point, Tony thought of a gem they had been neglecting, "The Reality Stone!"

"I have mastered the Space Stone perfectly."

"Strange, you are the Time Stone."

"The Reality Stone is unused; it is even still in the form of Aether, which are the habit of the Dark Elves."

"That's why our strategy of using gems against gems failed."

"Black Bolt!"

"Speak," Medusa said on behalf of Black Bolt.

"I will give you the Dark Elf technology from the technology library, along with the Aether," Tony said. "No, I'll join you too. We'll build a suit of armor together, for you. That way, it'll be three against three."

"Me, Doctor Strange, and you."

"Don't refuse. The Black Bolt armor I created has technology specifically designed to Sonic Scream. With a few modifications, it can be used."

"Black Bolt Armor?" Parallel Tony was somewhat skeptical.

His anti-XX series armor was a complete failure when it came to the real thing.

The most prominent example is the anti- Hulk armor.

"It's feasible." Floating in mid-air, using the Time Stone and rotating his head left and right, Doctor Strange spoke, "Of the 1,853,924,593 futures this time, there are three chances of success."

"Three times?" Parallel Tony, a victim of Doctor Strange, became even more suspicious. "Perhaps we should send Star-Lord and T'Challa instead."