The Dark Demon God struggled, trying to gather the last of his strength for a counterattack.
But before that absolute primordial power born of the Destruction Law,
all his efforts were like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
A cold finality known as "The End" completely seeped into his consciousness.
He seemed to see his hundreds of millions of years of life and ambition
turning into nothingness at this very moment.
He wanted to say that the Death Goddess was the one backing him, but no sound came out.
Yet that was nothing more than his wishful thinking.
Faced with the Demon God's grievous injuries, the Death Goddess did not even blink.
Although Thanos did not fully understand all the mysteries of the fragment in his hand,
the ancient energy radiating from it was incomparably pure and seemed to point directly toward the origin of the universe.
It made the Soul Stone on his Infinity Gauntlet emit a delighted hum,
and made the wisp of Destruction Law origin within him surge to life as if parched land had finally received rain!
The exhaustion and depletion caused by the previous high-intensity battle were swept away.
In their place came an unprecedented fullness and power, as though he could tear apart the galaxy itself!
"Hahahahaha!"
Thanos could not help but burst into wild laughter.
His shattered confidence instantly reassembled and swelled to the extreme!
He no longer hesitated, roughly taking the starlit Starcore Fragment
and slamming it directly into one of the empty sockets on the Infinity Gauntlet!
"Bzzzz—!!!"
An energy shockwave, far more ancient, vast, and wild than that released by the Infinity Stones,
erupted violently from the gauntlet!
The purple-black flames of Destruction winding around Thanos's body seemed to gain a soul.
They surged into the heavens, their edges