The Vanished Earth

Chu Hang stood amid the ruins of Andromeda Nine and closed his eyes.

Thor supported Jean while Clark stood beside them. The three waited for him to speak.

His consciousness sank into the Inner Universe. Fourteen laws became threads that stretched toward every corner of the Multiverse.

Wanda and Strange's life signals were weak, like flames struggling beneath water.

Tony and Starlight's signals were even more chaotic, trapped in a temporal-spatial current with coordinates changing every second.

But what truly unsettled him was another signal—Nathaniel Richards.

The boy should have remained at the Avengers Compound as the timeline anchor for the entire plan.

Chu Hang had stripped the Dimension Beacon from Nathaniel's wrist, but he had left behind a Law of Alchemy mark that allowed him to locate him at any time.

Now, the mark had vanished.

It had not been destroyed or blocked. It had been erased from the Multiverse's sensory range along with Nathaniel himself.

Chu Hang opened his eyes, his expression darkening.

"What happened?" Thor asked.

"Nathaniel is out of contact."

Clark frowned. "Wasn't he at the compound? Tony's defense systems are there, along with the Ultron Legion."

"That's exactly why something is wrong."

Chu Hang looked toward the depths of the void, where a twisted fluctuation could faintly be sensed.

"The Anti-Monitor said he would start with the people I cherished most."

"I thought he would keep coming after you, but he didn't."

He paused.

"He went after our home base."

Jean's face went pale. "Earth?"

Chu Hang did not answer. He raised his right hand and traced a dark-gold arc through the void.

[Law of Space]

[Law of Time]

[Inner Universe Detection]

The three powers activated at once, attempting to lock onto the coordinates of Earth in the Main Universe.

He quickly found