Learning
[Abnormal individual, you are the biggest variable and need to be eliminated!]
The Ivory King was at the head of the group, had just finished speaking.
A golden beam of light struck his body from behind.
In an instant, his body was destroyed.
No one expected such an attack; even the Five Cosmic Entities and the Living Tribunal were shocked.
Even when they teamed up, they were overwhelmed and eventually defeated by Kino's sneak attack.
The Beyond God Race are very strong, but they also have fatal weaknesses.
First: Their time is unidirectional.
Second: Entering the Marvel Universe requires wearing a "Exo-material Shell," and if the shell is destroyed, they will die.
The remaining two Ivory King fixed their cold gazes on Kino, their eyes no longer displaying the indifference of assessing a sample, but rather pure killing intent.
[An unknown, fatal vulnerability exists in the Exo-material Shell defense mechanism!]
[Variable "Kino"... Threat Level: ∞!]
[Clear! It must be cleared!]
For the first time, the voices of the two Ivory Kings were no longer calm statements, but rather rapid and shrill, like the beeping of a high-level alarm.
They raised their hands almost simultaneously, and a deep red energy, far more concentrated and deadly than when they attacked Galactus, rapidly gathered in their palms! Their target was singular— Kino!
The entire thin space groaned under the strain.
A massive, three-dimensional grid composed of countless deep red geometric lines unfolded instantly!
This grid is not an energy attack, but rather a reweaving of existing rules!
It disregarded distance, directly covering the entire battlefield and encompassing all the gods, including Kino, the dying Galactus, and the astonished Eternity!
[Command: Rule Stripping.]
[Target area: physical laws, conservation of energy, continuity of time, spatial dimensions... Delete.]
Where the grid passes, the space itself begins to fade!
The boundary between "reality" and "nothingness" that constitutes the thin space is washed away by bleach, quickly losing its color and texture, transforming into an absolute, cold, and meaningless pure white!
This is not destruction, but rather the removal of "existence" itself from the underlying logic!
The Eternity manipulated river of time solidified and shattered the moment the grid touched it, turning into countless transparent fragments before disappearing.
The dimensions of infinite perception began to collapse and flatten.
The force of Annihilus attempted to resist this erasure, only to discover that even the concept of "Annihilus" was being analyzed by the grid, its very foundations stripped away!
The remaining golden light on Galactus's body was extinguished instantly, like a candle flickering in the wind, and his massive body began to become illusory and transparent—their existence was being forcibly removed from the cosmic code!
"Command cancelled."
Kino uttered a simple syllable.
The crimson grid, which had been expanding wildly and trying to paint everything pure white, came to an abrupt halt! It was as if it had crashed into an invisible, absolutely insurmountable barrier!
The data stream in the Ivory King's eyes flickered wildly, far exceeding the speed when he faced the attack from Galactus!
[Error! Target region rule anchoring!]
[Anchor source: Unknown!]
[Parsing failed! Re-parsing... failed! License conflict!]
Where the crimson grid was frozen, a completely different set of rules was taking effect!
Kino slowly raised his right hand, his five fingers spread, his palm facing the solidified deep red grid.
Click! Click! Click!
Like the deafening sound of millions of panes of glass shattering simultaneously, it resounded deep within the heart of every being!
The crimson grid, woven from power Beyond God Race and representing the rule of "erasure," instantly spread with spiderweb-like golden cracks from the position directly opposite Kino's palm along the invisible boundary of "stagnation"!
The cracks spread faster than time could carry them, instantly covering the entire solidified grid!
There was no earth-shattering energy impact, only countless deep red rule fragments, like data debris, silently dissipating.
The areas covered by the grid, which had begun to fade and blur, regained their original color and texture like a tide the moment the grid broke, restoring them to their true "realistic" appearance!
The Eternity shattered river of time flows anew, the dimensions of infinite perception expand anew, the power of Annihilus coalesces anew, and the illusory figure of the Galactus solidifies once more.
The expressions of shock froze on the three faces of the Living Tribunal.
He knew better than anyone what that deep red grid meant—it represented an absolute control over the underlying logic of the universe that Beyond God Race!
And this "variable" before them was shattered so easily?
Is the essence of His power above the source code of the universe?
"Impossible!"
For the first time, the voice of the second Ivory King showed a fluctuation that could be described as "emotion"—pure astonishment stemming from a logical conflict.
He couldn't understand how an existence that appeared within their experimental field (the multiverse) could resist or even shatter the rules that originated from the "Lightless Universe"!
For the first time in a real sense, the two Ivory King actually "moved"! They surrounded Kino in the center.
At the same time, they raised their hands, palms facing each other, and a dark red energy vortex, far deeper and more unsettling than before, appeared out of thin air at the center of the triangle they formed!
The core of the vortex is not energy, but a singularity that is constantly collapsing inward, a passage to "Absolute Nothingness"!
Kino did not run away or fight back; the pupils in his eyes split into twelve concentric rings.
He is learning how the Beyond God Race use the rules.
[Command: Existence Zeroing.]
[Target: Individual 'Kino'.]
[Implement!]
The dark red vortex expanded instantly, transforming into a sphere that devoured everything, silently engulfing the location where Kino was!
This time, instead of stripping away the rules, it directly forces all the elements that constitute the "existence" of the target, such as "information," "concepts," "energy," and "matter," to zero and sends them into the "Absolute Nothingness" where even "nothingness" does not exist!
This is a method of annihilation that Beyond God Race' most thorough approach to a single target; theoretically, even the Living Tribunal itself cannot resist it!
The thin space fell into a deathly silence. The heart of the god of Eternity sank to the bottom; could this sole variable also...?
"Study complete."
A calm voice emanated clearly from the center of the dark sphere that represented "Absolute Nothingness"!
Then, a point of pure gold, seemingly containing the light of the origin of all things, pierced through the deep darkness!
The golden light expanded rapidly, like the first ray of light at the beginning of creation, tearing apart the curtain of end!
Amidst an unprecedented, near-chaotic alarm that erupted from Ivory King's core data stream.
That absolutely dark sphere was easily pierced, ignited, and purified by the Golden Flame bursting forth from within!
The golden flames did not dissipate, but gently surrounded Kino, forming a slowly rotating vortex of fire.
This flame is the embodiment of existence itself, the absolute "being" that opposes "nothingness"!
I need to take the day off tomorrow. I've been quite busy lately, and I'm almost out of drafts.