The Aether

A few minutes later.

Deep inside Blue Star.

With the constant rumbling of tunneling in his ears, Thanos had already burrowed more than five hundred kilometers into Blue Star.

At this depth, he had pierced Blue Star's crust and entered the mantle.

As he advanced at full speed, he suddenly came to a halt with a bang!

He had hit something incredibly hard.

Watching a red glow fade before him, he reached out to feel ahead.

The red glow lit up again, blocking his hand.

"So this is the magic barrier the Celestial set up?"

The red magic barrier cast a faint reflected glow into the surrounding darkness.

Its energy was extraordinarily pure, even purer than what Death had rewarded him with.

Smelling the earth in the air, Thanos sent world-destroying power surging through his body, forcing open a space around him.

But when his world-destroying power touched the magic barrier, an even brighter red light instantly flared, and the barrier absorbed his energy.

This surprised Thanos.

He had not expected the magic barrier to be so formidable that it could even absorb his energy.

What would happen if I used the Star-Absorbing Technique on the entire magic barrier?

But he soon abandoned the idea.

Even if he could absorb it, he would waste a considerable amount of time.

And time was what he lacked most.

As the magic barrier absorbed more energy, its runes grew brighter and more distinct.

He could even make out rows of wondrous, incomprehensible runes across its surface.

These runes formed an impenetrable barrier. No matter how much force he exerted with his arm, he could not push through.

He could not even make the slightest dent.

Yet his mental power could not sense the magic barrier's existence at all, as though his hand were