Arishem the Judge's Fury
The deepest reaches of the universe.
An absolute dimension independent of space and time.
World Forge.
There is no starlight here. There is no gravity. There is only an endless Abyss, and huge hibernation pods floating in the Abyss.
Sudden.
In the center of the darkness, six enormous eyes, like red dwarf stars, lit up.
An ancient god, so enormous that it could not be measured by numbers, slowly rose to his feet.
He had no facial features. On his dark red cylindrical helmet were only six light holes radiating cold logic.
He is the supreme leader of the Celestials.
The Judge, Arishem.
"An error occurred during the calculation."
Arishem did not open his mouth. The strings at the bottom of the universe vibrated, emitting a loud sound wave representing his will.
The balance has been broken.
His six red eyes instantly pierced through the barriers of countless dimensions.
His gaze traversed the sea of stars, locking onto that tiny galaxy at the edge of the Milky Way.
The Solar System. Earth.
In Arishem's mind, the entire sequence of events that had just occurred replayed in an instant.
The Council of Kangs was destroyed. In his calculations, this was insignificant.
But the next two things crossed the creator's bottom line.
"The gene pool has been illegally stolen. The DNA of the gods has been entered into the database by low-dimensional carbon-based life forms."
"The body of the Cosmic the Devourer is damaged. The chain of laws of 'hunger' and 'destruction' has broken."
variable.
A fatal variable, capable of threatening the underlying structure of the entire Multiverse, was born on Earth-616.
Arishem raised his right hand, which blotted out the sky.
Palm down. A blinding red light, representing "erasure," illuminated the palm.
"Execute the Last Judgment."
"Earth-616, along with its star system, will not be retained and must be destroyed immediately."
Rumble!!!
With Arishem's verdict delivered.
The entire World Forge was in complete uproar!
In the dark Abyss.
One after another, hibernation pods, larger than planets, exploded with a deafening roar!
Explorer Yinsen. Collector Gamiel. Exitar. Calculator...
One statue. Ten statues. Fifty statues. One hundred statues!
Over a hundred Celestials beings of varying sizes, clad in ancient cosmic armor, simultaneously began to stride forward!
They did not travel on a spaceship.
They directly used their powerful divine bodies to smash through the boundaries of dimensions.
It swept towards the Solar System in a mighty, overwhelming force!
Earth.
The sun was shining brightly, and a gentle breeze was blowing.
On the streets of New York, people are rebuilding their homes from the ruins.
The Moon. The main base of the Plumbers.
Tony Stark, wearing goggles, was directing hundreds of engineering robots in preparation for cutting the purple-gold severed arm of the god that had just been brought back.
" On Friday, set the energy conversion furnace's threshold to maximum..."
Tony hadn't finished speaking.
Click!
The entire base's lighting system went out instantly.
Immediately afterwards, all the emergency lights turned an extremely glaring blood red without warning!
"What's going on? The power lines are overloaded?" Tony shouted.
There was no response.
"Friday?!"
"Sir..."
On the main screen, Friday's virtual face was distorted into a jumble of gibberish. The electronic voice conveyed utter despair.
"It's not a malfunction... it's dimensional suppression... my underlying logic code is being forcibly frozen by some higher-dimensional force..."
"They... are here!"
Smack
My computer completely crashed on Friday. The screen went black.
Steve grabbed his shield and rushed to the circular floor-to-ceiling window.
Gwen Doctor Strange followed closely behind.
When they looked up and gazed into space.
The sky cracked open.
At the edge of the Solar System's universe, space is like a tattered rag, torn apart with hundreds of enormous black cracks.
One after another.
A terrifying deity, whose size even surpassed that of Earth and Jupiter, squeezed through the crack!
One hundred Celestials!
They had all sorts of strange and ancient heads. Some had six eyes, and some had faces shaped like giant crosses.
They possess the dark matter energy that flowed from the beginning of the universe.
Despair. This visual shock is enough to drive carbon-based life forms mad instantly.
Previously, Jiang Li transformed into a million-meter-tall celestial being, which was a [certain type of being].
Now, a full one hundred true creator gods have completely surrounded the Solar System!
The sun's rays were completely blocked by their enormous bodies.
The entire Earth was plunged into eternal night in an instant.
Even more terrifying is gravity.
One hundred gods, each with a mass exceeding that of a planet, simultaneously descended upon the Solar System. The mechanical balance here instantly collapsed!
Jupiter was forcibly pushed out of its original orbit.
The Earth's oceans surged wildly upwards, reaching the heavens, and the Earth's crust fractured extensively. Even the moon seemed to be groaning in despair, on the verge of disintegration.
No hands are needed.
If they just stand here, the Solar System will self-destruct due to mass overload!
Buzz--!!!
In space.
Judge Arishem's phantom, larger than the sun, slowly appeared above the gods.
Earth-616.
The pronouncement, devoid of any emotional fluctuation, resonated directly in the minds of every living being on Earth.
"Variables. Evil. Violation of the law."
"Verdict: Absolute erasure."
There is absolutely no room for negotiation. There is no possibility of bargaining.
Whoosh!
The hundreds of Celestials surrounding the Solar System simultaneously raised their enormous arms.
One hundred palms.
One hundred bursts of destructive light, enough to reset the galaxy, are simultaneously beginning to charge!
In just half a second, the entire Solar System would be completely wiped off the map of the universe.
Just then...
On the throne.
Jiang Li, who had been resting with his eyes closed, slowly opened them.
He didn't look at the terrifying image of a hundred gods descending in the sky.
He stood up.
There wasn't a trace of panic in his eyes. Only an extreme calm... arrogance.
"You want to start a group fight, huh?"
Jiang Li twisted his neck, and his joints cracked.
He didn't transform into a million-meter-tall Celestials. Facing a hundred Celestials, hand-to-hand combat would be pointless.
He slowly raised his left hand.
On his wrist, the newly transformed, jet-black, dark gold Omnitrix, shimmering with endless starlight, displayed a virtual interface.
Jiang Li's right index finger.
Slide gently within the holographic projection.
It surpassed [Upgrade]. It surpassed [Atomix]. It surpassed [Clockwork].
They slid all the way to the absolute deepest part of the system's gene pool.
There, there exists a force that transcends all laws of time, space, causality, and other dimensions...
A silhouette against a black starry sky.
"Jiang..." Gwen watched Jiang Li's retreating figure, her heart pounding like a drum.
Jiang Li did not turn around.
He looked up at Judge Arishem, high above in space.
A wildly arrogant smile spread across his lips.
"What kind of bullshit rule is this?"
Jiang Li's right hand hovered above the silhouette of the starry sky that represented the highest authority in the Omniverse.
"Today, Lao Tzu is the law."