Absorbing a Planet

On the other side of the Milky Way.

The Black Order was tracking the traces left behind by the Asgardians' warships.

After being berated by Thanos, they understood the severity of the situation. They pursued the enemy with exceptional zeal, not daring to rest for even a second.

But before long, they discovered a problem.

After the fourth spatial jump, the Asgardians' warships changed direction and flew elsewhere.

After discussing it for a while, they decided to report the news to Thanos.

Once Thanos learned of the situation, he immediately understood that Odin had discovered their pursuit and had chosen to sacrifice the lesser to save the greater.

All he could do was sigh at Odin's ruthlessness and decisiveness.

Those warships were all medium- to large-sized vessels, carrying hundreds of thousands of people.

Moreover, those people had previously fought and bled for Odin, battling the Black Order to the death.

Yet in the blink of an eye, they had been abandoned like this.

There was nothing he could do about it. He could only order his subordinates to continue hunting down Asgard's warships and capture as many as possible alive.

Since those defeated soldiers were not returning, he could only hope to find the coordinates of the Asgard Continent from their warships.

Otherwise, finding such a place in the vast universe would be no different from searching for a needle in a haystack.

As for why Thanos was not personally leading the pursuit, it was naturally because he had more important matters to handle.

He had his subordinates continue constructing an interstellar fortress beside the wormhole while continuing to manufacture warships on the planets in the rear.

As for himself, he went searching for planets to test his skill.

Thus, another two months passed without notice.

The rear sent reinforcements one after another—more than three hundred warships in total—filling Thanos's fleet back up to ten thousand vessels.

Meanwhile, the Black Order destroyed one Asgardian warship after another, yet not a single one surrendered.

When the battle reached its end, the Asgardian warriors chose self-destruction.

They gave the enemy no chance to capture them.

Thus, Thanos gave up and began calmly conquering stars one by one.

At that moment, he stood on a barren planet, purple light radiating from his hand as he continuously absorbed energy.

After destroying a planet for the first time, he had obtained the Star-Absorbing Technique.

However, because he had been focused on mastering the power of the Mind Stone, he had never tried this skill.

After his battle with Odin ended, he found the barren planet beneath his feet and began using the Star-Absorbing Technique.

At the same time, he discovered the Star-Absorbing Technique's flaw: it could only absorb planets whose cores were still burning.

As for dead planets with cooled cores, he could not absorb even a trace of energy from them.

After he had absorbed this planet for two months, its core gradually began to cool, and its atmosphere slowly vanished.

This made him understand that the so-called Star-Absorbing Technique was actually a way to absorb a planet's core and turn a living planet into a dead one.

A buzzing sound suddenly rang out.

Without even looking up, he knew that his subordinates had come to find him.

Since this was his first time using the Star-Absorbing Technique, he did not know when the planet beneath him would be drained dry or what would happen afterward. For safety's sake, he had ordered the ships to remain one hundred thousand kilometers away in outer space.

A short while later, a small silver-white spacecraft with an extremely futuristic appearance stopped not far from him.

The next second, the hatch opened, and a gray-robed figure whose face could not be seen stepped out.

After approaching to within ten meters of Thanos, the figure respectfully dropped to one knee.

"Lord Thanos, we seem to have found traces of the Asgard Continent."

Upon hearing this, Thanos finally raised his head and looked at the newcomer.

This was an executor of the Black Order, also a cyborg. However, unlike the strength-type cyborgs, he was an intelligence-type cyborg.

"How did you find it?"

The dark executor said calmly, "Based on our deductions, a proud man like Odin would certainly establish the Asgard Continent at the center of the Milky Way to display his power and achievements. So we focused our reconnaissance on the Milky Way's central region. Unexpectedly, we really did find a place matching its appearance."

Thanos nodded and said approvingly, "Not bad. Go back first. I'll return shortly."

"Yes, my lord."

Very quickly, the dark executor returned to the spacecraft and left the planet on the verge of collapse.

Seeing this, Thanos immediately increased the suction from his hand.

A massive amount of energy flowed into his body.

Then, a rumbling sound immediately erupted.

For a time, the earth shook, the ground split apart, and volcanoes erupted, creating a scene of utter apocalypse.

However, there was no life on this planet, so an apocalypse did not matter.

Half an hour later, when he sensed the energy in his hand gradually fading away, he stopped absorbing it and flew into the sky.

Rumble...

The planet's endless explosions rang out. From outer space, it was clear that the planet was beyond saving.

Huge chunks of land were blasted free of the planet's gravity and flew into outer space.

Not long after Thanos left, it completely collapsed in a massive explosion.

Countless planetary fragments shot into space, leaving behind only a shattered core roughly one thousand kilometers in diameter.

This was the planet's remains.

The only thing that could prove a planet had once existed here.

In outer space.

Thanos opened his personal status panel.

Physique: 42942.4

Strength: 35121.8

Agility: 29578.0

Mentality: 30448.7

Active Skill: Destructive Power

Passive Skills: Titan Bloodline, Super Recovery, Super Physique, Super Strength, Super Agility, Powerful Mentality, Tough Skin

Unique Skills: Ruler, Star-Absorbing Technique

Equipment: Tyrant's Blade, Tyrant Armor, Mind Stone

Looking at his attributes, Thanos nodded in satisfaction.

Absorbing this planet had increased each of his four primary attributes by over one thousand to over three thousand points.

Naturally, his physique had increased the most.

As for his mentality, after spending a year mastering the Mind Stone, it had also surpassed thirty thousand.

If absorbing every planet could increase his attributes by this much, then after absorbing one hundred planets, he estimated that he could reach the late Skyfather-level.

Although the system panel did not display levels, after so many years of research, he had already established a classification for attributes and levels.

Ordinary Person, Strongman Level, Superhuman Level, Planetary Level, Sub-Celestial Father Level, Skyfather-level, Universal Level, Multiversal Level.

The average attribute of an Ordinary Person was one point.

The average attribute of the Strongman Level was two to ten points.

The average attribute of the Superhuman Level was ten to one hundred points.

The average attribute of the Planetary Level was one hundred to one thousand points.

The average attribute of the Sub-Celestial Father Level was one thousand to ten thousand points.

The average attribute of the Skyfather-level was ten thousand to one hundred thousand points.

Of course, this classification was only promoted by him and the forces under his command. Other places naturally had their own names for these levels.