Dormammu Crushed by a Single "Scram"

"Is cultivation really that incredible?!"

After listening to Natasha's wildly exaggerated praise, Clea found it hard to believe for a moment.

But when faced with knowledge and things beyond one's understanding, disbelief was the normal reaction.

"You're not deliberately lying to me just so you won't teach me magic, are you?"

She could believe what Natasha had said about flying through the skies and burrowing through the earth, commanding wind and rain, and living as long as the universe itself. After all, Dormammu possessed such abilities.

But comprehending and wielding the laws of the universe, casually creating life, matter, planets, and even universes, some supreme Great Dao encompassing countless laws, gathering all of one's timelines and worldlines into one, destroying universes with a single thought... those things were far too horrifying!

Even the five great cosmic entities of the Multiverse, which Natasha had described as merely a single universal law, were still something she could barely imagine.

But everything after that was no different from myth to her. She simply could not imagine how powerful such beings were!

For example, merely speaking the name and title of such a powerful cultivator could allow them to learn everything about you—or even kill you out of thin air.

Yet even a demon god as powerful as Dormammu had to use rituals and magic to establish a connection before he could barely accomplish something like that!

But cultivators could establish a connection simply because their names were spoken. That was way too damn overpowered!

Seeing Clea's shocked, disbelieving country-bumpkin expression, Natasha and the other two felt thoroughly satisfied.

Though they had once looked just as ignorant, that did not stop them from enjoying the superiority brought by this gap in knowledge.

"Whether it's true or not, you'll know once you come back with us."

Seeing how certain the three of them looked, without the slightest trace of guilt, Clea's heart began pounding wildly.

At first, she had only wanted to learn some magic so she could survive better. But this cultivation method could make her ten times stronger than Dormammu!

Thinking of trampling Dormammu beneath her feet one day and making him lick her shoes, Clea was so excited she could barely contain herself.

She immediately tore open space again, revealing a lush mountain range somewhere on Earth.

"Senior brothers, senior sister, let's go quickly, then. We shouldn't keep Master waiting!"

"..."

One second it was "you people," and the next it was "us," and she had already started using the sect's forms of address!

As expected of someone who had been roaming the universe for so long. She was a complete old hand!

Passing through the dimensional portal before them, the four finally returned to Earth in the real universe.

But the moment they stepped out, they realized that the place beneath their feet seemed wrong.

"This isn't the mountain range from before... Is this the Moon?"

Standing on the pale ground under the Moon's weak gravity, feeling the biting cold and inexplicable burning against their skin, and looking up to see the azure planet overhead—

The spiritual energy within Natasha and the other two began circulating frantically, protecting their bodies from hypothermia, low pressure, and cosmic radiation.

Having not yet reached the peak of Body Tempering, they could not withstand the vacuum of space with their bodies alone.

"Clea, what's going on?"

After quickly adjusting to their condition, the three turned toward Clea in unison, doubt and distrust once again coloring their voices.

This unexpected situation left Clea flustered as well.

She did not know why they had suddenly arrived on the Moon. She immediately waved her hands and explained, "I didn't tamper with anything! The destination was definitely on Earth!"

Then she suddenly thought of something, and her face twisted in terror as she tore open space beside her again.

"It's Dormammu. He must have discovered that we interfered with the portal!"

"We need to leave! He'll be here any moment!"

Whoosh—!

Before Clea could finish shouting, the opened portal was pierced by a rainbow-colored crystal pillar.

At the same time, within the cosmic void above the Moon—

A decaying celestial body shaped like a ball on a bat suddenly appeared.

Black-purple mist spread outward like storm clouds bearing down on a fortress, growing larger and larger until it covered the entire sky.

Layer upon layer, an immense and magnificent mushroom nebula of countless colors took shape.

Terrifying flames burned at the center of the nebula, while lightning and storms surged wildly around its edges.

It was an outright scene of the apocalypse!

This was the phenomenon created when Dormammu used the Dark Dimension to erode reality.

It also meant that he had descended here from the Dark Dimension!

"Oh, my dear little loach of a niece, I sealed this place in advance. You can't run away."

"It's been so many years since we last met. I've missed you every single moment!"

At the center of that twisted, rainbow-colored nebula—

Eyes the size of stars appeared first, followed by an enormous pitch-black face, and finally an upper body comparable to half the Moon.

"Dormammu!"

Natasha and the other two looked both shocked and furious.

Clea, on the other hand, had gone deathly pale, her face full of despair.

She could not understand how Dormammu had anticipated her movements, disrupted the portal in advance, and set this ambush.

After greeting Clea, Dormammu turned his face toward Natasha and the other two.

"Nice to meet you for the first time, you damn little rats raised by Ancient One."

Dormammu's enormous black face was filled with malice and mockery, like a cat toying with mice!

"I originally planned to use you as bait to ambush Ancient One. I didn't expect that bastard Ancient One not to come, only for another great gift to arrive instead!"

Compared to Ancient One, who could only disgust him without truly shaking him, Clea, who possessed the inheritance rights to the Dark Dimension, was Dormammu's true greatest threat.

Thus, when Clea opened the portal to Earth, he quietly interfered and shifted its destination.

"What? You discovered us long ago?!"

After being dragged underground by the earth, Natasha had thought they had evaded detection. She had not expected everything to have been under Dormammu's watch.

"Vermin, what made you so arrogant? Arrogant enough to think I wouldn't notice you after entering my territory?"

Dormammu's face was full of disdain, but it soon turned into impatience.

The three were merely Ancient One's disciples and descendants, not Ancient One herself, so he could not be bothered to torture them.

"Your value ends here. Die humbly, as vermin should."

Terrifying dark energy rapidly gathered in Dormammu's mouth.

The next second, rainbow-colored elemental magic transformed into a beam of light and shot out like a long rainbow, aimed directly at Natasha and the other two on the Moon.

Rumble!!!

The pillar of elemental magic instantly swallowed the place where the three stood.

The terrifying torrent of energy twisted and shattered the surrounding space.

The ground turned to dust at once, and massive amounts of lunar soil flew into the vast starry sky.

It blotted out the heavens!

"No!!!"

Clea's eyes split with rage at the sight, and she roared aloud.

"Dormammu, I'll kill you! I'll definitely kill you!!!"

Though they had known one another only briefly, and they had even beaten her up—

Having spent so long fleeing with few friends, she had already come to see them as friends.

What was more, Natasha and the others were her hope of entering Kamar-Taj to cultivate.

"Haha, my lovely niece, continue your powerless rage. Just watch your friends die like this..."

Dormammu laughed wildly, thoroughly enjoying the scene.

But the appearance of a streak of golden light froze Dormammu's laughing face instantly.

Then it turned into shock, terror, and... fear!

This was the first time Clea had ever seen such an expression on Dormammu's face!

"This terrifying power... Damn it, who are you—"

"Ah!!!"

Before he could finish his terrified question, Dormammu let out a scream.

The nebula formed from dark power rapidly contracted and retreated.

At the same time, a terrifying aura descended, one that seemed capable of destroying the entire world.

In an instant, it crushed Clea flat against the ground, leaving her unable to move even a finger.

But after exhausting all her strength, she finally managed to barely shift her eyes.

What she saw was a gigantic humanoid phantom appearing above the place where Natasha and the other two had stood.

The figure resembled an ancient Titan, a primordial god.

Blue robes, long hair, robes fluttering in the wind!

On its blurred face, only a pair of solemn, sacred eyes could be seen clearly.

Black and profound!

As if they could draw one's soul into their depths!

Within them, one could even see countless universes being born and destroyed!

"Scram."

An unknown syllable left the phantom's mouth.

The voice was not loud, yet it exploded within everyone's hearts.

At the same time, a terrifying aura emerged, carrying the energy of the universe as it swept across the entire Moon in an instant.

Countless enormous chunks of lunar soil were once again hurled into space.

They completely obscured everything!

Even distant Mars behind Dormammu, along with the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, was affected.

They began accelerating and colliding, like billiard balls pushed across a table.

Even space and time on the Moon seemed to freeze for several seconds.

Only when a terrifying tidal storm, visible to the naked eye, swept through the cosmic void did that suffocating feeling finally break.

"Spare me! I had no intention of offending you! I'll scram immediately..."

"Ahhh!!!"

After the word "scram" fell, Dormammu, hiding within the black nebula, let out desperate pleas and miserable screams.

In the blink of an eye—

The black nebula scattered and disintegrated like dandelion seeds blown away by the wind.

Dormammu's Falt body, which had been hidden within the nebula, instantly collapsed until only a flaming head remained.

Finally, even the flames around that head went out, revealing Dormammu's twisted features.

He howled and wailed frantically in the sky.

Crushed!

Instantly killed!

Dormammu was like an insect that could be casually pinched to death!

The scene before her left Clea's mind completely blank. In a trembling voice, she stammered out a question.

"Is this... a creator god?"