In the depths of space, the Celestial's body did not look small even compared to Earth.
Although the dark red outer armor outlined a humanoid form, the three pairs of six glowing points on its head clearly indicated that the being beneath the armor could not possibly resemble a human.
With its back to the sun, it completely blocked the light. A hazy sheen clung around its head, making it appear even more sacred.
Before such a colossal body, aside from Earth itself, any creature living on that planet had every reason to fear it.
Arishem—or more accurately, the Judge.
There were many Celestial individuals in the universe. Some possessed title-bound authorities, while others were merely ordinary beings.
Arishem the Judge was undoubtedly the unquestioned leader among the many Celestials.
The Judge's role could roughly be defined as this: Arishem could determine whether a planet was qualified to possess life and whether a species was qualified to continue surviving and reproducing.
Similar beings included Searchers, Eradicators, Collectors, Surveyors, Analysts, and so on.
Each possessed different cosmic functions.
At times, Hong Fei had to admit that the structure of the Marvel Universe was profoundly strange from top to bottom. Overall, there were simply too many higher life-forms at the top, completely at odds with a pyramid-shaped hierarchy. It seemed as though any one of them could make the universe tremble, yet such an environment had somehow remained peacefully stable from the birth of the universe until now.
The limits of the Celestials' power had never been clearly defined. Their lives were immortal, and time held no meaning for them.
But they were not incapable of dying.
Otherwise, there would not be a place like "Knowhere," which had developed around the head of a Celestial.
In short, the Celestials possessed immense power