The difficulty of the mission determined the system's rewards.
Something he needed to gather all six Infinity Stones to accomplish could be achieved ahead of time simply by defeating one person. What did that represent?
It meant that, in the system's eyes, the other party was more valuable than all six Infinity Stones.
He should have realized it long ago. It was merely his confidence in his own strength that had kept him from ever considering the possibility of defeat.
Was he going to die?
He should have died long ago.
Even if he had transmigrated into another world and lived in a new form, did that truly count as a new beginning for him?
A world from a movie in his previous life could not make him feel as though he was truly alive. Everything he saw and felt seemed false.
That was why he could casually mobilize armies to invade other planets, without caring in the slightest whether Earthlings lived or died.
Even death, now so close at hand, felt illusory to him, like falling from a great height in a dream. As long as he closed his eyes, he would always slowly descend through that sensation of weightlessness.
"Is it over? So, it is."
"A game that was never particularly exciting from beginning to end."
With that final sigh, Thanos welcomed his death. In truth, with his regenerative abilities, even having his heart pierced and his brain blown through would not have killed him. But he no longer had any desire to keep living.
Perhaps transmigrating into Thanos had never excited him, nor had living another life made him happy. Instead, death brought him an unprecedented sense of peace.
Bang!
The instant Thanos died, a sphere of light flew out of his body and toward Bai Xuan,