First tier: the fourteen wives Loren had personally brought together. Their loyalty was absolute, and their combat abilities complemented one another.
They were 2B, A2, Tifa, the Commander, Marie Rose, Android 18, Tsunade, Hinata Hyuga, Mei Terumi, Mai Shiranui, Boa Hancock, Ikaros, Nymph, and Astraea.
Second tier: eight powerful women recruited from Marvel's own world, wielding Asgardian power, mutant abilities, covert agent skills, and Inhuman gifts.
They were Viper, Sif, Scarlet Witch Wanda, Crystal, Daisy Johnson, Medusa, Gwen Stacy, and Black Widow Natasha.
Now they had all assembled in the warning hall, quietly listening as Loren issued combat-readiness orders. Every face was calm; not one of them showed the slightest panic.
They had followed Loren across countless dimensional battlefields and faced gods, strange beasts, dimensional monsters, and cosmic overlords. Even against a dynasty that spanned the Multiverse, their confidence remained unshaken.
While Earth went on full alert and reinforced its defenses, within a rift between universes lay the Kang Dynasty's Temporal Sanctuary.
It stood outside every known timeline, separate from the Multiverse—the central seat of all Kang Variants. The entire sanctuary was built from solidified spacetime crystals, while countless rivers of time flowed across its vaulted ceiling.
Reflections of innumerable Kang Variants shimmered in those waters. An overbearing, cold, supreme pressure over spacetime filled the air.
Within the vast council hall stood hundreds of Kang Variants, packed together in a multitude of forms.
There was Rama-Tut, dressed as an ancient Egyptian pharaoh; Classic Kang the Conqueror, clad in blue armor; and Iron Lad, still a youth.
There were aged sages of time, withdrawn and watchful. Every variant possessed the basic ability to control spacetime, and each ruled a parallel universe of his own.
Upon the supreme throne at the hall's far end sat the true ruler of the Kang Dynasty: