Retaliation

Beneath the planet's wreckage, vast patches of dim blue light were revealed.

A closer look showed that it was a brain spanning over a thousand kilometers. Half of it remained wrapped inside the planet, while the other half lay exposed before them.

This was Ego's true body—the Cosmic Brain!

The Cosmic Brain was surprisingly almost identical in shape to a human brain, with a circumference of several thousand kilometers.

Its entire surface was blue, protected by a natural layer of glowing blue energy.

At that moment, the blue light atop the Cosmic Brain surged continuously.

This was Ego's consciousness.

Apocalypse's Thousandfold Nuclear Blast Fist had blasted away nearly half of Ego's Planet, terrifying Ego half to death.

In his billions of years of life, this was the closest he had ever come to death.

For all he knew, today might be the day of his end!

The spindle-shaped metal construct in space abandoned its attack on Apocalypse and instead transformed into a massive protective net, shielding the exposed portion.

At the same time, the three blue-light tentacles fighting Star-Lord, Wanda, and Mantis jerked violently, flinging the three away before rapidly retracting underground.

The hypnotic attacks from Wanda and the others had only disrupted Ego's offense.

They were nowhere near enough to defeat Ego.

The Cosmic Brain alone was hundreds of millions of times larger than a human brain. Combined with Ego's billions of years of accumulation, his mental power was unimaginably greater than that of humans.

If the ones opposing Ego had not been Star-Lord and Wanda—

One was his biological son, sharing the same origin, while the other was a gifted wielder of Chaos Magic. Ordinary people would have long since died from the backlash.

Ego said, "Quill, you carry my bloodline. As long as this planet's light does