As mentioned before, Schiller loved twisting his plans into a tangled knot. Countless branches split from within it, and those branches twisted together into even more complicated knots, serving as both cause and effect, echoing one another from beginning to end.
The entire plan looked linear, but in reality, it had become like a city map crammed with subway lines—a chaotic plane of intersecting routes.
But no matter how tangled the lines were, they still had a beginning and an end. Perhaps many people still remembered that when Schiller first sought out Death, he wanted a Valhalla of his own.
Although far too many incomparably complicated side plans had become mixed into it, Schiller had always been someone who never forgot his original intention.
From boarding the Underworld Ship with Moon Knight and racing across the River Styx, to fighting against those lousy game designers who rolled back the servers without handing out compensation—
Along the way, perhaps many people had forgotten, but Schiller never had. He had never forgotten his dream of owning a Valhalla.
Now, he had reached a point close to the end of this tangled path. Although his mind still contained even more knots, he knew it was time to fulfill his ultimate goal.
To that end, he first used his tug-of-war with Eternity to draw Eternity's attention to Death. In secret, he reminded Eternity of Eternal Death's rule-breaking actions and reported Death for abusing resurrection to rig the vote.
Then, by making a huge spectacle out of trading resurrection slots, he forced Death to contact him voluntarily. Death had no way to call him directly, so she would naturally seek out a useful pawn—and Death had only one famous pawn: Thanos.
He laid a trap for Thanos, then borrowed Eternity's hand to teach Thanos a