The Battle Resumed

In the underground training room of the Avengers Compound, Chu Hang sat cross-legged on the floor.

It was the most heavily fortified place in the entire compound. Its walls, made from a composite of Vibranium and Uru metal, could withstand a nuclear-scale impact.

He needed that isolation, a space where nothing outside could disturb him.

Nine colors of light flowed beneath his skin, as though magma were surging through his veins. He could feel every heartbeat shake the laws within him, every breath reshape his cells.

Chu Hang closed his eyes and turned his awareness inward.

He saw a web woven from nine laws, spinning, colliding, and merging at his core. The Law of Space and Law of Time began to intertwine. The Law of Force and Reality Warp seeped into each other. The Law of Life and Law of Death formed opposing halves of a single whole, like yin and yang.

But it wasn't enough.

This was only fusion at the level of laws. He had yet to reach the Conceptual Layer.

Chu Hang recalled the moment he made the Snap. He had used the Six Infinity Stones to reverse Thanos's Snap and bring back every life that had vanished. In that instant, he had touched the essence of the universe.

Not physical laws. Not the conversion of energy. Something more abstract.

Existence and nonexistence.

Life and death.

Gain and loss.

These concepts were the foundations of the universe, deeper than any law.

And what was his concept?

Greed.

But greed was too broad. It needed a more precise definition.

Chu Hang took a deep breath and began to build it in his mind. He laid out everything he had experienced over the years: arriving on a World War II battlefield, copying Logan's Healing Factor, fighting alongside Steve, spending