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Only after Ebony Maw and the others had restrained Loki and Heimdall once more did they turn their attention to the battlefield between Thanos and Future Thor.

Although Future Thor had displayed strength far beyond what he had shown before, Ebony Maw and the others were not particularly worried about Thanos's safety.

That was because he was naturally gifted with the physique of a Deviant Eternal. Among all the characters who had appeared in this era, Thanos's raw physical strength was absolutely at the ceiling.

Captain Marvel's physical body was not especially powerful either. The toughness of her body came almost entirely from the cosmic energy enveloping her, making her virtually indestructible—so resilient that nothing below the level of the Infinity Stones could harm her.

In terms of pure physical strength, Thanos far surpassed Captain Marvel's body, Carol's body, not to mention that he was now fully armed and equipped with an Infinity Gauntlet set with the Power Stone.

Those two simple advantages alone were enough to place Thanos in an invincible position and let him look down upon the universe.

It was precisely because of this that, at this point in time, he had formally begun his plan to collect all six Infinity Stones, no longer fearing anything.

Perhaps it also had something to do with Asgard's elite forces being nearly wiped out, and even Asgard itself having become cosmic dust.

But Thanos's own power was his greatest support in conquering the universe.

However...

Just as four of the Black Order—Ebony Maw, Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, and Cull Obsidian—turned to look through the enormous hole Thor had blasted behind them and out beyond the refugee ship—

Boom—

A rainbow pillar of light that reached from heaven to earth instantly illuminated the pitch-black universe like a flashbang at maximum brightness.