The Light of Inheritance

"I have to admit, you really are gifted."

Lucifer stood with his hands behind his back, looking down at the panting Noah as he spoke calmly.

"You were tougher than I expected. Without this new power, I might have already been defeated by now."

"You talk too much!"

Dark Zagi shouted and lunged at him again from behind. Lucifer nimbly shifted aside, dodging two consecutive punches before raising a hand to seize his wrist.

Zagi roared and drove up a knee, but he was too slow. Lucifer struck first, pressing a hand against his chest and unleashing a massive surge of energy from his palm that blasted him away.

Seizing the opportunity, Noah tried to rise and attack as well, but before he could steady himself, he felt another heavy blow land on his chest.

He could not see where the attack had come from. It felt like an attack that completely transcended the very form of reality itself, impossible to defend against or evade.

That was the power of the Beyonders.

The Beyonders were a race infinitely close to Marvel's ceiling, gods from beyond the small box known as the "multiverse."

No one knew where they came from, but anyone who had heard that name knew how terrifying they were. Their abilities could basically be described as omnipotence. Anything connected to the Beyonders in the Marvel setting was a top-tier divine artifact.

For instance, the most famous of them all: the Cosmic Cube.

The principle behind the Cosmic Cube was to breach the barriers of space and draw energy from the Beyonders' dimension. Because that energy automatically took the shape of a cube when formed, it was named the "Cosmic Cube."

Within the multiverse, the Cosmic Cube possessed the power to rewrite reality at will and affect the very