Never Sit Back and Wait for Death When Trouble Strikes

"Father...?"

Beckett's face was still filled with uncontrollable astonishment.

He was puzzled.

Especially after Thanos clenched his right fist and walked towards him step by step.

The expression on his face was completely unfamiliar to Beckett.

"I have no choice, Beckett."

"Believe me, making this choice was also very painful for me."

"But, like I said."

"The most difficult choices often require the strongest will."

The light from the six Infinity Stones illuminated the entire alternate dimension as Thanos finished speaking. Beckett, his eyes wide with disbelief, was suddenly enveloped in an incredibly sinister purple light!

Boom!!!

Two surging energies clashed fiercely in an alternate dimension!

"No!"

"Father!"

Wake up!

You've been scammed!

"Didn't you even consider that the Soul Stone might be a lie?!"

Upon landing, Beckett staggered back several steps, his bulging veins gleaming on his bare skin. His once flamboyant and seductive magenta hair had lost its former spirited charm.

He found it hard to believe, hard to believe that his kind and calm adoptive father would so easily choose to believe in the Soul Stone.

In his view, there was clearly a better solution to this problem.

"You don't understand, Beckett."

Thanos showed no surprise at his failed attack.

After all, this was the successor he had personally groomed.

Thanos probably knows better Beckett himself just how powerful Beckett was.

"Just as the Soul Stone says, I am destined for greatness."

"None of the creations of the rules, including the Soul Stone, can deceive me."

"Because I am the one who can perfectly unleash their power."

Boom!!!

In the cloudless sky of another dimension, several bolts of lightning suddenly appeared, their booming sounds resounding in Beckett's heart!

"To hell with rules and destiny!!!"

With his arms crossed in front of his chest, barely managing to block the energy shockwave from Thanos's punch, Beckett uncharacteristically swore.

His veins bulged, and his face was contorted in a ferocious expression.

He lost his composure.

His most beloved adoptive father and most trusted father abandoned him and even wanted to kill him himself.

It was all because of a few words from the Soul Stone.

Beckett didn't understand.

I don't understand at all.

"Thanos is right."

"He was ultimately a man of destiny."

"And you are just a lowly outsider."

Seeing Thanos choose to attack Beckett, the face formed from a portion of the Soul Stone's energy felt gratified.

As Thanos said, he was able to perfectly control and utilize the power of the Infinity Stones, and naturally he could also use energy vibrations to discern whether the Soul Stone's words were true or false.

"The Heart of the Universe is located at the deepest part of this alternate dimension."

"After killing Beckett and eliminating this outsider, Thanos, you will become the sole ruler of this universe."

"You can effortlessly achieve what you've pursued your entire life—"

Before he could finish speaking, Beckett's Energy Annihilation Cannon had already shattered the face conjured by the Soul Stone's energy.

"Shut up!"

For the second time in his life, Beckett felt a tightness in his chest.

My throat feels blocked.

My whole body is blocked up.

He felt a surge of emotion welling up inside him, as if something was about to fall from the corner of his eye, but Beckett forcefully held it back.

"Do you remember what I once told you, Beckett?"

Thanos remained calm despite seeing his adopted son's unusual behavior.

He could unleash the power of the Infinity Stones with a mere thought, leaving the agitated Beckett struggling to cope.

"This universe is cruel, this world is cruel."

"I thought you should have gotten used to this cruelty by now."

"But now it seems that you haven't."

Reality, illusion.

The shift between reality and illusion directly targeted the power gap within Beckett's body caused by the loss of his tail.

The shock originating from the soul level made Beckett feel dizzy, and the energy he had painstakingly accumulated in his palm was weakened by three-tenths before he could even unleash it.

Bang!

With the Power Stone's enhancement, the terrifying elbow strike aimed straight at Beckett's face!

Just as Beckett was about to react, he instinctively leaned back to avoid the attack, but Thanos raised his knee and hit him in the abdomen.

A dull thud of flesh colliding rang out, and Beckett collapsed to his knees, clutching his abdomen, enduring the excruciating pain of his torn nerves without uttering a sound.

"You've slowed down, Beckett."

Thanos, having finished his attack, stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the figure lying before him, a hint of regret in his voice.

"Why..."

"Why..."

"All the data about you is in my mind. In other words, I know your weaknesses better than you do, and I know yourself better than you do."

Without his tail, Beckett's internal power was no longer a perfect closed loop.

Such a flaw naturally couldn't escape Thanos's data collection.

"You're hesitating."

"You're struggling with this."

You are confused.

Thanos walked step by step to the fallen Beckett, and with his right hand adorned with the Infinity Gauntlet, he reached out and grabbed Beckett's hair.

"You have completely forgotten all the teachings I gave you back then."

"You have disappointed me, Beckett."

Grabbing his lifeless magenta hair, Thanos slammed him to the ground!

Thump!

The Power Stone flashed by, and Beckett, like a club that had been thrown to the ground, smashed a bottomless crater into the earth.

"With you like this, I can kill without any mental burden."

"Now, give your life."

Thanos stood at the edge of the pit, his right hand outstretched. His palm faced the bottomless crater beneath his feet, and dense energy instantly gathered in his palm.

Boom!!!!

Thanos instinctively closed his eyes, but the blinding beam of energy still made him feel as if it were daytime.

"I refuse."

Dark, rippled flames gathered on Beckett's body, with floating sand grains and pebbles and dense purple Flash flashing within. Beckett, clutching his shoulder, gradually returned to Thanos's sight, illuminated by thousands of pillars of light emerging beneath his feet.

"I haven't killed Frieza yet."

"I cannot die yet."

His words, spoken with heavy breaths, were filled with a firmness that Beckett had never shown before. "The most difficult choices often require the strongest will. Father, that's what you taught me."

"You are no match for me now." Thanos's expression remained calm as he raised his right hand.

He clearly knew Beckett's data peaks, characteristics, and weaknesses at each stage.

"When faced with a problem, one must never sit idly by and wait for death."

Beckett chuckled, and with a "snap," he put his dislocated arm back in place, causing a surge of purple lightning to erupt from his body!

"Father, these are your teachings to me!"