Thanos felt that ever since he had come of age, he had never experienced such humiliation. His opponents were merely a group of robots, yet they had crushed him so thoroughly he could barely breathe.
Thanos was immensely powerful on his own, easily capable of smashing Hulk to pieces with his bare hands. Yet even ten Hulks could not withstand the siege of an army of a million. Thanos was no different—at most, he could handle twice as many attackers.
That was why, over all these years, Thanos had continually expanded his forces in pursuit of his grand goal of enforcing family planning across the entire universe. The Chitauri, the Black Order, the Outriders—these were all subordinates loyal to him.
Yet before the power of the Infinity Stones, everything became so fragile.
Yes, even now, Thanos believed the reason Luo Xia's AllSpark faction had risen so rapidly was the power of the Infinity Stones. Every planet destroyed by the AllSpark Troops had been blasted to dust by the Power Stone.
Meanwhile, Thanos possessed only one Mind Stone. The disparity in power was simply too great. If Ebony Maw had not cunningly used the Mind Stone to control a group of Earth's superheroes, capturing Luo Xia and his family would have been nearly impossible.
Unfortunately, just when he thought he had pulled off a decisive move and was about to play his trump card, he discovered the card could not be played at all. That protective barrier operated on some unknown principle and completely blocked all damage.
Thanos had tried every possible method: laser cutting, impacts of ten thousand tons, flames, extreme cold, vacuum, even corrosive toxins. Nothing harmful could damage the barrier. The people inside even seemed to exist in another world, free from the problems of oxygen deprivation and