Becoming the Self Stone?

After shrugging, Thor picked out another three sets from the huge pile of beautiful gems on the ground.

He embedded the blue Space Stones, green Time Stones, red Reality Stones, purple Power Stones, yellow Mind Stones, and orange Soul Stones into all three Infinity Gauntlets.

He even put them on and tested them a few times, snapping his fingers n times, but nothing happened, so he casually tossed them back into the Storage Space.

However, when he stored the remaining ninety-six sets of Infinity Stones in the Storage Space as well—

The number of Infinity Stone sets suddenly decreased by one, and one set directly fused into the inner wall of the Storage Space.

"Good lord, it looks like the Infinity Stones have made a home in my Storage Space. Could there be some trick to this?"

He tried to pry out the six stones with his consciousness, but the other stones from the ninety-six sets automatically filled the gaps again. After repeating this over and over, Thor could only helplessly give up.

"Still, it says they're the pure version, so there shouldn't be any problem, right?"

He discovered that the other ninety-eight sets had also begun to emit different glows.

After sensing them, he realized they felt like a part of his own soul, with no trace of any other consciousness.

"Good lord, have I become the seventh Self Stone?"

After making that quip,

he took out the fully embedded Infinity Gauntlets again and discovered that the Infinity Stones within had begun to nurture extremely faint powers corresponding to space, time, reality, power, mind, and soul.

Even when he snapped his fingers, they produced an extremely faint ripple of power.

It seemed that reaching the same level as the ones in the Marvel universe would truly be a long