"Fatherly Love and Filial Devotion" - Star-Lord's Death

"Don't be too confident in yourself, Beckett."

Kneeling is impossible, absolutely impossible. He, Ego, has lived this long and has never knelt before anyone.

This is a matter of dignity.

He is a god, a candidate for the top divine order in the universe.

And what about Beckett?

He's just a monkey.

A monkey adopted by a descendant of the Titans.

"Even your father Thanos wouldn't dare speak to me like that." The wildly beating silver tentacles spread out to the sides like an octopus, and Star-Lord, caught off guard, almost died at the hands of his own father.

If it weren't for his quick reflexes, reacting before his mind could even process it...

He probably already has a bloody hole in his chest.

"Yeah?"

"But Hela said that you were beaten badly by my father back then."

Beckett didn't even want to transform into Super Saiyan 3, which consumes too much energy. His blond hair and blue eyes made him arrogant and domineering, but it made Ego's face turn gloomy in an instant.

Boom!!!

Countless silver tentacles sprang up from beneath the plain, their murderous intent condensing into blades as they burst forth from the earth, attempting to sever Beckett's unsuspecting body like a hurricane!

"Whether it's you or Thanos."

"Those I defeated back then were just clones of myself."

"I am God."

"Great God!"

"Since the birth of the universe, anyone who dares to challenge the majesty of God has met a terrible end."

No one is an exception.

Standing atop his own planet, Ego's energy was nearly inexhaustible. Beckett, standing with his hands behind his back, looked as insignificant as a small boat tossed about in a storm in the face of the sudden catastrophe.

"Go to hell..."

"Beckett!"

The space was suddenly sealed off, and the oxygen was instantly sucked out. The area within a hundred meters in diameter centered on Beckett was instantly turned into a vacuum by Ego!

"You want to kill me?"

"You can give it a try."

Beckett's lips moved, but his voice could not escape the confined space.

The energy shield around his body ensured that he could walk freely in this vacuum "universe," ignoring the endless silver tentacles that emerged from under his feet.

His domineering strides crushed all the tentacles that sprouted from the ground beneath his feet.

In his emerald green eyes, only Ego's reflection occupied two-thirds of the space.

Completely ignoring the tentacle attacks, Beckett shattered the "universe" created by Ego step by step, stopping when he was only ten meters away from the god.

"You..." Beckett slowly opened his arms, his eyes filled with disdain and contempt.

"It's still a long way off."

Boom!...

Countless energy blasts emerged from behind Beckett and rained down, causing the entire planet to shake violently in an instant!

Unable to stand, Star-Lord had nowhere to escape and was buried directly in the churning soil!

Holy crap!

With his mouth full of mud, Star-Lord felt as if a million alpacas were galloping through his mind. All the beautiful words he wanted to say condensed into this one essential sentence, which he blurted out.

Why did he get injured when two gods were fighting?

When the dust settled, Star-Lord, who had finally crawled out of the pile of dirt, saw that his nominal father was now dressed in rags.

White strips of cloth barely covered his vital parts, and crimson blood seeped from his bare chest.

Ego's eyes turned red.

His eyes, white with rage, were bloodshot.

I'll say it again.

With his hands behind his back, Beckett walked step by step to Ego: "Kneel down, now."

"Die!" Enraged, Ego instantly drew a long spear with both hands, and the energy flowing into his body instantly healed the wounds on his body!

"A powerless refusal."

Beckett sidestepped, barely avoiding the gleaming spear tip, then swung his hand and slapped Ego across the face.

Snap!

The sound was crisp and clear.

The sudden surge of energy brought Beckett a terrifying power boost, and Ego's body was like a broken doll, slapped into the wasteland on the plain by Beckett!

"I won't say the same thing a third time."

"So..."

"Since you're unwilling to kneel down, I'll help you."

With lightning speed, Beckett grabbed Ego's bruised and swollen head with one hand and smashed the man's knee with a powerful whip kick!

The clear sound of bones cracking and Ego's screams of pain echoed each other, together forming the most beautiful symphony on this blood-soaked plain.

His face contorted with pain, though unwilling, he still "willingly" knelt before Beckett.

"See, kneeling isn't that hard for you, is it?" Beckett leaned down, grabbed Ego's messy white hair with one hand, and whispered in his ear.

Beckett's smile was cruel, making Star-Lord on the side momentarily unable to muster the courage to confront him.

But that old man was his father.

He had no other choice.

I am God, I am God, I am God!

[Come on, come on, you can do it! You can do it!] Pats his cheeks, Star-Lord tries to "wake up".

Then, he summoned his own divine power, a divine power that had only recently awakened.

"Hmm?" Beckett was extremely sensitive to energy, immediately turned his gaze to Star-Lord to the side.

The fact that his energy attribute was the same as Ego's made him feel strange.

"Father, I—"

Pfft!

The divine power fluctuations on Star-Lord's body vanished instantly, and the silver tentacles unexpectedly pierced through his chest!

The splattered blood stained the world in Star-Lord's eyes crimson. He stared wide-eyed down at the energy tentacles on his chest that should have been under his control.

"How... how could this be...?"

The awakened divine power was rapidly dissipating, and Star-Lord felt his eyelids growing heavier and heavier.

His pupils gradually turned white, but the crimson world he saw suddenly changed.

"Eternity ..."

Star-Lord's unconscious mutterings made Beckett frown.

Eternity?

"Cough cough..."

"My son will help me take the final step, Beckett."

Ego, who was forced to kneel at Beckett's feet, coughed up blood, and his crippled legs gradually turned to ash.

"Unfortunately, what you see now is also my clone."

Ego raised his head and looked at Star-Lord, whose body was pierced by several silver tentacles. A kind smile appeared on his blood-covered face, "My dear son, tell him, tell Beckett, what you saw."

"Eternity ..."

"I...I saw... Eternity ..."

His facial features were overwhelmed by the surging divine power, and because no one was there to stop him, Star-Lord's body gradually became emaciated until he was reduced to a skeleton.

The stark white bones were particularly jarring.

"Now, are you ready to face the judgment of the Eternity rules, Beckett?" Ego's clone turned to ashes, while his original brain, hidden deep within the earth, underwent a dramatic transformation after receiving the infusion of Star-Lord's life force!

Rumble!!!