"That crazy woman doesn't play fair!" Shanhai barely had time to shout before white light flooded his vision.
His plan to stall had failed. Hela had triggered the collapse of the M'Kraan Crystal in an instant.
Before anyone could react, white light had blanketed the entire world.
Compared to the light Lin Jili had produced earlier, this glow was noticeably dimmer.
But the destruction it caused was on an entirely different scale.
The moment it flashed, everyone felt as though they had fallen into a thick cream cake. Their bodies no longer seemed entirely under their control.
Even the smallest movement seemed to take tremendous effort.
Moving became extremely difficult, and their minds grew hazy.
Meanwhile, the center of the white light exerted a pull like a black hole, slowly dragging them toward it.
Tony opened his mouth to speak, only to find he couldn't make a sound.
Warnings flashed frantically inside his helmet, but he couldn't hear a thing.
He felt as if his soul had left his body. Even thinking took effort.
The same thing happened across countless parallel universes.
Pedestrians stopped dead in the streets, staring blankly ahead.
Passenger jets crossing the sky and freighters sailing the seas hung motionless, as though time had stopped.
Out in space, planets that had orbited for untold years froze in place.
The bubbles surrounding the universes stopped changing color.
Countless universes ground to a halt.
The collapse of the M'Kraan Crystal spread through the worlds linked to it, and they began to crumble along with it.
Unless something changed, all those universes would be annihilated before long.
Who knew what the big shots who always lurked behind the scenes thought of so many universes being destroyed at once?
Maybe they were all like Bighead, content to hide where no one