With Female Adam and Captain Marvel reassuring them, everyone slowly calmed down.
But watching the universe darken bit by bit, slowly vanishing, was unbearable.
Many of the Superheroes turned away and closed their eyes.
Thanos ignored the weaklings. He raised his head, his expression grave, and looked toward the darkness.
Light traveled through a vacuum at 299,792 kilometers per second.
To ordinary life on a planet, that speed was unimaginable.
But on the scale of the universe, it was barely faster than a crawl.
And there was no way they should have been able to see what was happening billions of light-years away.
Normally, it would take at least billions of years for anyone here to notice that the light over there had gone out.
Yet they could already see it. That could mean only one thing.
Something had made the light disappear ahead of time.
And to do that, it would need to be at least Universal Level.
Was there a Universal Level being in this universe?
As far as he knew, there was not.
If there were, how could he have failed to sense it?
That left only one answer.
Something he could not observe had made a move.
A thoughtful look flashed through his eyes.
Eternity?
Ever since the Celestials appeared, the once-active Four Creator Gods had vanished.
He could no longer sense Death at all.
For a while, he had even wondered whether the Four Creator Gods were afraid of the Celestials and dared not show themselves.
But the Four Creator Gods did not fear the Celestials, so he quickly dismissed that idea.
After all, Behind the Celestials stood Above All, the ruler of the Marvel Universe and even the Omniverse.
If they did not fear Above All, then what the Four Creator Gods might fear