"Is this place safe?" Gamora, clad in Thanos's armor, asked.
As Black Strange tried to warm up with a few spells, he replied, "There are obviously too few intelligent life forms here to attract Ultron's attention, unless we lure him over."
Ever since his universe had been destroyed, he had not used magic in battle for a very, very long time.
This body had absorbed numerous creatures from other dimensions and undergone corresponding modifications. He needed to see what condition he was in now.
As Black Strange chanted, his left hand suddenly went berserk, transforming into countless wildly writhing tentacles!
"Ah—"
Black Strange clutched his left hand in agony and used all his strength to force it back to normal.
Captain Carter saw the scene and asked, "Can I ask what happened to you?"
Black Strange clearly did not want to go into detail. Smiling, he said, "The same thing you went through."
His attitude was friendly, as though he were speaking with an old acquaintance, which made Captain Carter curious. "So, did you know the Captain Carter from your universe?"
"No. Captain America. In our universe, Steve Rogers received the Serum."
Carter looked intrigued. "Wow—that really makes me want to see him for myself."
Obviously, Steve Rogers had also been very curious about what Captain Carter was like.
Though they came from different Parallel Universes and were strangers in the strictest sense, the similarities between those universes always gave them a sense of familiarity toward people with the same name and the same face.
Take Gamora, for example—in her universe, she and Thor had been battle-hardened comrades.
Gamora stood at the cliff's edge, leaning on Tyrant's Twin Blades as she watched the outskirts of the campfire's glow. There, Kermango was fiddling with the Ultron robot's head, occasionally flashing a