Death's Call

"Marvel's Magnetic Field Rotation"

"Add a rubber man, and you can put together a bootleg Fantastic Four."

In a bar owned by SHOCKER, Doctor Death, now in a new body, looked at the Great Leader, who was holding an old, yellowed document in one hand and drinking beer in the other.

Although they are essentially one person, their different choices and experiences have made them completely opposite in many ways, and he couldn't understand what this Great Leader wanted to do.

The Great Leader laid out the documents in his hand and pushed them in front of Doctor Death: "Take a look at this."

Doctor Death glanced at it and found it was a set of experimental data. After some calculations, he discovered that it was actually a set of spatial data, describing a special space constructed around nine special celestial bodies. However, the person who recorded this data clearly did not know what he had discovered, because he was able to discover this data with the help of a powerful tool.

"The Tesseract?"

Wei Xiuming himself was studying the S.H.I.E.L.D. in an underground base of Tesseract. He was extremely familiar with its various values. It was obvious that Hydra had come into deep contact with the Space Stone inside the Tesseract while studying it, and thus glimpsed the spatial distribution of the Nine Realms. However, this was not the direction they wanted, so they did not continue.

"While Hydra was researching the Tesseract, they inadvertently opened a portal to other realms within the Nine Realms. Monsters from those places descended into their base through the portal, killing a group of Hydra scientists and soldiers before being annihilated by energy weapons... The rest is self-explanatory."

"With this data, combined with the power of the Tesseract, I can open a spatial passage to other dimensions when the Nine Realms reach a special position and the spatial barrier is at its weakest."

Wei Xiuming had done this before, offering the bodies and souls of United States soldiers as sacrifices to various demons in exchange for immense magical power. He then summoned magical creatures from another dimension—many of which were magic books formed from the Demon Capturing and Ghost Restraining Seal, which were lying in his bookshelf, where he used the knowledge recorded on them to construct new monsters.

With the spatial barrier of the Nine Realms weakened, Wei Xiuming only needs a small portion of his magic power to summon, and can even arrange a ritual called "Demon Feast".

"Don't forget, Helheim also within the Nine Realms' network. This information can guide us there," the Great Leader said. "Having been sealed in Helheim by Odin for thousands of years, the Death Goddess is bound to be restless. Now that we have a way to release her ahead of schedule, she can't possibly refuse. After all, the throne of Asgard should rightfully be hers."

"Especially since All-Father Odin, is too old, and Thor, as his successor, is too immature, unable to even control his own power, the Death Goddess doesn't need to unleash all her power; even one of her avatars is invincible."

The Doctor Death understood what the Great Leader wanted to do. "We need a great knightly war, a sacrifice of war, death, and the souls of heroes to the Death Goddess. The final victor will obtain the ultimate Kingo... and gain the authority of the gods."

"In exchange, we can glimpse the power of death, even if that power is limited to the Nine Realms," the Great Leader added.

In the Marvel Universe, the destination of people's souls after death is governed by various customs, much like in the American TV series "American Gods," where it is said that the place where your soul goes after death depends on your beliefs during your lifetime.

After Mages dies, their soul will, according to the contract, return to the hand of the daemon who endowed them with magic. For example, after the death of the Sorcerer Supreme, represented by the Ancient One, their soul will go to the side of the Vishanti.

If you believe in the Norse pantheon, your soul will return to the realm of the dead after death, enter Helheim, and fall under the control of Hela.

If you devoutly believe in God, your soul will go to Hell after death and be in the hands of Mephisto or other Hell Lord. Only a very few people can be guided to Heaven by angels. Primitive superstitions are basically based on creating terror: those who believe in me live, those who do not believe in me die.

However, the souls of the vast majority of lives are still guided by Death and returned to the Hand of Death, one of the five cosmic entities in the Marvel Universe. She is the origin and end of all life, and the souls of the dead are born as new life entities in the universe after passing through her hands.

Somewhere in the universe, Thanos, sitting on his throne and contemplating the Thanos of the cosmos, suddenly heard a call. The voice did not come from the outside world, but from within his own heart, from the depths of his soul.

"Did you hear someone calling my name?" Thanos asked.

Four of the Black Order fought for his cause, leaving only the Ebony Maw, who was in charge of logistics and also the wielder of the Mind Stone, before him.

Of course, there's also a green-skinned woman, Thanos's adopted daughter, Gamora.

"Father, we didn't hear anything."

Ebony Maw activated the Mind Stone and scanned its surroundings. With its powerful mental abilities enhanced by the Mind Stone, Ebony Maw was the universe's most outstanding scout; nothing could hide from it.

However, the investigation revealed that there were no psychic beings around, and no one dared to probe Thanos's consciousness.

With a blink of an eye, Thanos was shocked to find himself standing on the surface of a barren planet, where he could see neither stars nor signs of life.

A beautiful "woman" appeared before him without his noticing.

She was incredibly beautiful, every feature of her perfectly matching Thanos's aesthetic standards, as if all the most beautiful things in the entire universe were concentrated in her alone.

Thanos fell in love with her at first sight.

Thanos has always been a man of boundless love; he loves the future of the entire universe and the future of all humankind. His only act of love was for his adopted daughter, Gamora, who was the only soft spot in his heart as the emperor of the universe.

But today, Thanos realized that his great love was so insignificant. Only this woman was truly worthy of his love. She was his one and only. The balance of the universe and the future of life were not worth mentioning in front of her.

"My suitor, I need your help."

The skeleton, draped in a long black gauze dress, removed her hooded cape, allowing Thanos, who only had eyes for herself, to see her more clearly.

"Who are you?" Even amidst his overwhelming love, Thanos retained his rationality—though he was willing to sacrifice everything for this beautiful skeleton, even his own life, he at least needed to figure out who the person he loved was.

The skeleton took Thanos's hand and spoke slowly, like a long-lost lover:

"I am death."