"Instructor Logan?"
Gamora looked at James, who had suddenly gone blank while clutching his chest, and asked with a strange expression.
After spending so much time together, she and Nebula had more or less come to understand that this mysterious instructor's physical condition was abnormal. For a moment, she suspected that James might be feeling unwell.
"It's nothing, Gamora. I just have a feeling that we'll definitely get that Stone this time."
Rumble...
A Chitauri whale warship poked out from the clouds and dove down. Its long tail, sheathed in metal armor, swayed along with its short, narrow fins as it soared through the sky like it was swimming underwater, descending at high speed.
The belly of the whale ship then hovered close to the ground. Its more than ten-meter-tall head lowered and rushed toward James and the other two, slowing gradually as it approached so they could leap up onto it.
The Chitauri's technological civilization relied on extensive combinations of biological and mechanical modification. From every individual Chitauri warrior to armored vehicles and floating dreadnoughts, all were fusions of living creatures and machines.
This was fundamentally tied to the unique lifeforms of Chitauri.
"If things are really as you said, then in a few years, Morag's tides will recede. We'll be able to get another Infinity Stone then. Heh, if Gamora hadn't failed to find any information about the Soul Gem, Father's plan would already be halfway complete!"
Nebula could barely hide her smugness as she shot Gamora a glance. She looked exactly like a younger sister constantly trying to outdo her elder sister in front of their parents. Gamora said nothing, merely staring ahead impassively as Morton's mountains and forests rushed past on either side of her vision.
"Hm?"
James's heart suddenly stirred. The roots of his ears