Outside the Gate of Hell, Thanos's Avatar watched it slowly repair itself, then flew away without looking back.
As an object governed by the rules that sealed away Below All, the Gate of Hell could repair itself.
It probably would not take long to return to its original state.
A little later, the Avatar's flesh rippled and took on the appearance of a Blue Star native. He opened a Space Rift and plunged inside.
He needed to find out what had happened in this Multiverse over the past century.
Why had the Celestials and Dimension Lords come into conflict? And why had someone tried to open the Gate of Hell?
In Universe E39537.
This was the universe where Thanos had once planned to search for the Dwarves, only for Gamil to trick him into assembling the Infinity Stones for Gamil.
Worse still, Gamil had even tried to seize his Milky Way empire.
But Gamil was dead now, and the debt had died with him. Thanos no longer held a grudge.
A little later, he arrived on Blue Star.
After more than a century, Blue Star had recovered from the Dimension Lords' invasion.
And without those Superheroes, the Supervillains seemed to have vanished too. People lived in peace and prosperity.
It was ironic, but it was the reality.
It seemed the Supervillains had only arisen because of the Superheroes.
Yet beneath Blue Star's harmony, its technology had hit an inexplicable bottleneck.
It was as though an invisible hand were holding back technological development.
Even now, Blue Star's technology had yet to carry its people beyond the Solar System.
Meanwhile, its resources were dwindling, its population was growing, and its conflicts were mounting.
When Thanos arrived in the United States, it was noon, and the place was in chaos.
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