Recycling?

Other than that, there was apparently no more intelligence about Dark Lucifer Zagi worth sharing. It seemed he did not know much more about Lucifer than Richard did.

Lucifer was evil, powerful, deeply scheming, and a major villain working behind the scenes. That was all they knew for now.

In the end, Zagi left, specifically telling Richard to be careful. He suspected Lucifer would make a major move soon. But before leaving, Zagi also said they would probably meet again soon.

It had to be said that Zagi was fairly self-aware. Once things were settled, he took off on his own without showing his face to anyone. After all, he was still something of a celebrity on Xandar. When they had fought the Church of Truth, Dark Zagi had shown up in person and nearly blown the entire planet to smithereens. He did not think the Xandarians had such poor memories that they would have forgotten him after so little time.

When they returned to Xandar, Ego and the Novas were still fighting. But judging from the state of the battle, he appeared to have been suppressed by the Nova Corps.

The Novas were, after all, a renowned peacekeeping force in the universe. They had some real skill.

Richard arrived just in time and brought Ego some extremely bad news. His new teammates, those Elders of the Universe, had already abandoned him here and run off on their own.

In other words, he had been sold out...

Ego naturally did not believe it at first. But when he tried contacting his teammates and received no response, he finally had no choice but to accept the cruel truth.

Before him stood an Ultraman on the same cosmic godlike level, along with the entire Nova Corps of Xandar. Ego hesitated.

He had