Without a doubt, this was the source of corruption at the heart of the entire area.
If nothing unexpected had happened, this was also very likely the place where the veil of reality was at its thinnest.
Alvin performed a sacred blessing upon himself and lit the highest-grade psychic incense of the Ecclesiarchy to prevent himself from being corrupted.
Then, thinking that still was not safe enough, he put on the medal suspected to belong to the Solar Lord.
No matter what, this place already belonged to the Warp. There was nothing wrong with taking a few extra precautions.
Without purification rituals and psychic barriers, let alone ordinary people, even Astartes who entered this place would very likely be corrupted and fall. That showed just how dangerous it was.
If this had been the Empire, this entire area would most likely have been directly purified.
And by purification, they meant it literally—absolute purification. Every blade of grass, every tree, and every living thing within several hundred kilometers of this area would be executed!
That was the Empire's attitude toward areas corrupted by the Warp—better to wrongly kill billions than let even one slip through!
But for Alvin, that approach was obviously impossible.
It was not because he was softhearted, but because every person here carried consequences that were far too significant.
Howard Stark, the father of the future Iron Man Tony Stark, went without saying; Peggy Carter, one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s founders; Nick Fury, an important future figure in S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers; Hank Pym, inventor of Pym Particles, father-in-law of the second Ant-Man, and a key figure connected to Endgame.
The slightest mistake could cost the collapse of the entire universe.
"Mar-Vell, you'd better pray I don't find you..." Thinking of how the current situation had all been caused by