Over a month ago, several thousand Celestials had surrounded the Fire Phoenix, who had yet to fully recover.
At first, everything went according to their plan.
The Fire Phoenix was desperate to regain her strength and focused solely on escaping the encirclement, so she did not fight the Celestials with all her might.
That let them hold her there without suffering heavy losses.
But then a group of Celestials appeared and ambushed them, causing considerable casualties and breaking their encirclement.
The Fire Phoenix seized the chance to escape.
Both sides were then drawn into a fight to the death.
The Celestials were almost wiped out, and Exitar was left in his current state.
Even so, they held on until the Judge arrived.
The Judge was the leader of the Punishers and one of the five leaders of the Celestials, with Omniversal Level power.
In the end, the badly wounded Fire Phoenix escaped. The Judge killed all the attacking Celestials, then continued his pursuit of her.
Thanos felt a little relieved when he heard the Judge had left.
Just knowing an Omniversal Level being was nearby had almost left him unable to breathe.
A few hours later, Exitar's soul finally shattered.
No matter how much Origin Power Thanos poured into him, he could not keep him alive any longer.
Looking at the body, Thanos chose not to absorb it. He left it drifting in the dimension.
It was the last kindness he could offer a friend.
After that, he continued steering the Milky Way Dimension toward the passage.
Exitar had told him this Multiverse was beyond saving.
The Chaos Current here would only grow stronger. It would not begin to subside for tens of billions of years.
To understand why, he had to consider the structure of the Chaos Universe.
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