Trimmaw / Duel Invitation

Given Earth's unique historical position, once Dane became its leading figure and held several Infinity Stones, he would rise in a single leap into a mighty ruler on par with Odin, the All-Father.

By then, the Nine Realms would likely be even more tightly united than they were now, making it far more difficult for Thanos to obtain the Infinity Stones.

Therefore, Dane Davis had to be killed as soon as possible while he was still weak, and the Infinity Stones he had collected had to be taken from him.

Fortunately, without the Infinity Gauntlet, an ordinary person could not use multiple Stones at once. Otherwise, Thanos felt he might as well give up on his ideals. Being an ordinary farmer was actually quite nice.

If not for his ideals, Thanos would have preferred to be a simple farmer, enjoying the quiet life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset.

As he agonized over a way to defeat Dane Davis, he gradually fell asleep without realizing it.

In his dream, he seemed to be standing naked at the boundary between life and death. Directly ahead of him stood a woman shrouded in a cloak, though it could not conceal her alluring figure.

Thanos immediately frowned and said in a deep voice, "Death!"

The woman standing before Thanos was Lady Death, one of the five Creator Gods—the origin of the concept of death in all pantheons and the mistress of every soul in the world.

"Thanos of Titan, we meet again."

The mature woman's voice drifted from beneath the cloak, pulling Thanos's memories back several decades.

That day, he had witnessed Titan being driven to the brink of death by overexploitation of its resources.

Yet the culprits who had reduced the planet to such a state shamelessly prepared to flee