Just as Thanos was absorbing the Fixed Star, he suddenly sensed a presence appear outside the dimension.
He immediately took control of an Avatar and went out to meet it.
Soon, he spotted a massive figure in yellow and blue.
It was Exitar, with whom he had become fairly well acquainted.
"Kronos, hello."
Thanos smiled at the greeting.
"Hello, Exitar. What brings you here this time?"
Over the past century, Exitar had dropped by to chat now and then, so Thanos was no longer as wary of him as he had been at first.
Exitar nodded. "I found some Chaos Ruins. Want to take a look together?"
The Celestials were fairly tolerant of developing planets these days, so Exitar had little work to do. When he was bored, he wandered through the Chaos Universe.
Thanos's eyes lit up at the mention of Chaos Ruins.
"Chaos Ruins! Let's go take a look."
He had heard plenty about them, but had never visited one himself.
This time, he was determined to see what the Chaos Ruins were really like.
Seeing how interested Thanos was, Exitar was ready to set off at once.
But after a moment's thought, Thanos asked him to wait while he went back to switch to a stronger Avatar.
The Dimension Lords he knew had described the Chaos Ruins as extremely dangerous. His previous Avatar had only been at the Sub-Celestial Father Level and would probably have been killed the moment it entered.
His new Avatar was only at the peak of Skyfather-level power, but at least it could protect itself.
If he had been willing to pay the price, he could have created a Universal Level Avatar.
But that would consume nearly half the mass and energy of his galactic Black Hole, and he could not bring himself