After all, strictly speaking, the Guardians of the Galaxy had only stolen the Sovereign's energy batteries. The two sides were not mortal enemies. Even if the Sovereign wanted revenge on the Guardians of the Galaxy, there was no need to pay such an enormous price.
And according to the Sovereign's previous habits, they should have issued a bounty and had bounty hunters from all over hunt down the Guardians of the Galaxy. Taking action personally was not the Sovereign's style at all.
"We were simply too angry before, and on top of that, our former High Priestess Ayesha bewitched us, which was why we made such an irrational choice..." Seeing that the Avengers had all fallen silent, the Sovereign also knew that what they had done before really had been far too outrageous, so they spoke up again to salvage some dignity.
"Huh? Where's your High Priestess? Isn't she coming out to apologize?" Hearing the Sovereign's words, Star-Lord began looking for Ayesha, but after looking around, he could not tell who Ayesha was. After all, Star-Lord had never actually met Ayesha before.
"She is no longer our High Priestess. We have imprisoned her. The previous orders to attack you were all issued by her." The Sovereign answered Star-Lord's question, but they did not look at Star-Lord. Instead, they looked at Tony Stark as they spoke.
The Sovereign's attitude was very clear. If it had only been the Guardians of the Galaxy, then even if they had been defeated, the Sovereign would not have thought they had done anything wrong. Taking revenge on the Guardians of the Galaxy, those thieves, was only natural.
But the Sovereign had not only lost to the Avengers in strength. What made them even more unjustified was that they had attacked the relatively innocent Earth, and