Before Heisenberg completely mastered part of Phoenix's power...
Even if he was at the level of a super multiverse, there was no way he could block Gungnir's attack head-on!
If you asked why?
It was fate!
The word fate...
Whether in Eastern mythology or Western mythology, every mythology placed this word at nearly the highest position!
In the East, there was a saying: first fate, second fortune, third feng shui; fourth virtue, fifth education.
And the greatest challenge Eastern immortals always had to face was to defy fate and change their destiny!
Even the three calamities and five tribulations every immortal had to undergo...
On the surface, that was crossing tribulations.
But in truth, wasn't that the destined ordeal every immortal had to experience as they gradually grew stronger?
Of course, that was the East. The East delighted in challenging fate and reversing destiny, placing resistance against fate at the highest point of life.
As for the West...
Whether it was Greek mythology, Norse mythology, or Mesopotamian mythology.
In those mythologies, fate was likewise a supreme manifestation.
Asgard spent its entire existence preparing to face the destined Ragnarok.
Because of a prophecy—namely, the fate revealed to him by the goddess of fate—Uranus was told that he would fall from the throne of King of Gods because of his ugly children.
So, he killed all of his ugly children.
And that provoked Gaia's fury. Thus, Gaia got him drunk, slept with him, and had their youngest son, Cronus, seize the chance to rush out and cut off Uranus's manhood.
And Cronus, because of the curse his father left him—that is, Uranus's curse that Cronus would inevitably fall at the hands of his own child!
Therefore, whenever Cronus had another child, he would swallow that child.
And Zeus was the only child