What Ronan's Dark Aster rammed into was not a neatly arranged fleet of AllSpark warships, but an indescribable mass of something.
Though the Kree had no idea what fear of the Old One meant, this was probably close enough. Merely looking at that unidentifiable thing filled them with terror from the depths of their hearts.
It was a chaotic region occupying a vast stretch of starry space. On the surface, it looked no different from ordinary vacuum.
Yet as the Dark Aster drew closer, the bizarre void began to shine with brilliant, rainbow-colored light, like countless layers of auroras that had appeared over tens of millions of years all blooming at once.
It looked breathtakingly beautiful, but its effect was as deadly as the poison barb on a flower.
These so-called auroras were actually distortions of light caused by fluctuations in the gravitational field.
The Dark Aster was violently yanked off balance by the terrifying gravitational shifts that erupted around it.
Under the influence of the gravitational field, the Dark Aster first spun counterclockwise several times, then was forcibly stretched by a tenth of its length by the shifting gravity.
The Dark Aster itself looked like two black rectangular loaves sliced into countless layers, but that was only its appearance. It was certainly not as soft as bread, to be stretched or flattened at will.
This forced pulling directly damaged the Dark Aster's structure, inflicting terrifying damage upon the Kree mothership.
Almost instantly, half of the Dark Aster's engines shut down. The remaining engines gradually powered down as well; otherwise, inertia alone would have torn the ship apart and destroyed the mothership outright.
"What is this thing?" Ronan roared within the violently shaking Dark Aster.
It took Ronan's subordinates a long time to respond. "My lord, it is a gravitational-field