The moment the signal vanished, Chu Hang gave no one time to react.
He tore through the void with his right hand. Golden-red light ripped through the laboratory's spatial structure like lightning.
Flames of the Phoenix Origin burned along the edges of the rift, radiating suffocating heat.
Tony's vision blurred, and an irresistible force swept him into the rift.
Nathaniel had no time to scream before he followed Chu Hang into the twisted dimensional passage.
Strange tried to cast a spell and follow, but Chu Hang glanced back at him.
The coldness in Chu Hang's eyes told the Sorcerer Supreme that this mission needed no one else.
The sights inside the dimensional passage left Tony dizzy.
Countless fragments of shattered universes streaked past him. Eerie white flames burned on every fragment, traces left by the Beyonders.
He saw the ruins of civilizations, the skeletons of planets, even time itself twisted into indescribable shapes.
Chu Hang raced through the passage like a meteor.
He drove the full force of his origin power into a seamless barrier around them, shutting out every danger and lethal threat he sensed.
Nathaniel clutched Chu Hang's coat. The time-sensing ability he had inherited from the Council of Kangs blared warnings through him, as though telling him that something beyond comprehension waited ahead.
In less than three seconds, the three of them pierced layer after layer of dimensional barriers.
The moment they emerged from the rift, Tony Stark froze.
What lay before him sent a tremor through the soul of a man who had seen almost everything.
This was a special space outside every known universe.
In theory, it was the Reed Council's headquarters, a sanctum where the greatest minds from countless parallel universes gathered.
Now, only deathly silence remained.
Thousands upon thousands of corpses floated in