With a deafening roar—
The barrier known as the Wall of Sighs shattered.
The Ark charged through like a beast gone berserk, breaching a region every known civilization had declared forbidden.
Then the fundamental nature of the world changed.
There was no starlight here, nor darkness.
As far as the eye could see, there was only white.
It was a purity of white that threatened to break the mind. Nothing existed here. Even the concept of existence itself seemed meaningless.
Inside the control room, piercing alarms wailed without end, their shrill pitch like the final cries of the dying.
Tony jerked his head up.
Static flickered violently across his nanotech armor's faceplate, while JARVIS's voice broke into fragments:
"Sir... systems collapsing... physical laws... no longer exist... I..."
The transmission cut off, as though an invisible hand had seized it by the throat.
"Damn it!"
Reed gripped the console so hard his knuckles turned white. Cold sweat soaked his face.
The genius renowned for his unmatched intellect looked as helpless as a child.
"My brain can't process this! The spatial dimensions here refuse to be comprehended by any mind! The physical constants underpinning the universe have been altered tens of thousands of times in a single second!"
Clark clamped his hands over his eyes and groaned in pain.
His Super Vision, powerful enough to perceive atomic structures, had become a curse. Images of himself from countless parallel timelines overlapped, tore at one another, and screamed in his sight, like thousands of blades churning through his mind.
Stormbreaker wailed in Thor's grip, its sharp blade riddled with hairline cracks.
But the most incomprehensible sight was on the Infinity Gauntlet. The Six Infinity Stones, said to embody the Law of the Universe, trembled violently, their light dimming almost to extinction.
Within this realm,