Asgard

Two and a half trillion kilometers from the Asgard Continent.

Spaceships suddenly emerged from the void one after another.

At first, there were only small Escort Ships. Soon, medium Escort Ships began appearing, followed by large Escort Ships.

Next came assault ships, carriers, and logistics ships.

Finally, the flagships of the Black Order arrived as well.

The reason they had jumped to a point two and a half trillion kilometers from their destination was naturally because they had carefully analyzed the technology of the Asgardian Gods after the war.

After learning that the enemy possessed neither long-range spatial blockades nor Spatial Corridors, they had confidently arrived from such a distance to prevent the enemy from deploying space mines in advance.

For an enemy without Spatial Corridor technology, traveling at light speed would take a hundred days to cover this distance.

As for jumping through space, that was even more impossible.

To prevent the enemy from escaping, they had already imposed a spatial blockade on them.

If the enemy dared come over, Thanos would laugh himself to death.

With such a technological advantage, he could afford to be this overbearing.

Besides, it would only take one day to reach their destination from this distance, so there was no need to rush.

It also gave them a day to assemble their forces instead of hastily engaging the Asgardian Gods in battle.

An hour later.

An enormous warship appeared in space.

It was Sanctuary II, where Thanos was stationed.

As Sanctuary II appeared, everyone immediately felt a crushing pressure.

After all, this Titan-class Spaceship was simply too massive.

Even large Spaceships looked like insignificant little brothers before it. They were not on the same level at all.

Inside Sanctuary II's control room, Thanos sat upon his throne, coldly gripping the Mind Stone as he constantly sensed the power within it.

The Mind Stone could compensate for the shortcomings in his mental strength, so naturally, he had to cultivate at all times.

After a while, projections of the Black Order appeared in midair.

They still respectfully dropped to one knee.

"My lord."

Thanos opened his eyes, nodded faintly, and said, "How are things?"

Corvus Glaive raised his head and spoke first. "My lord, according to our reconnaissance craft, the enemy has assembled more than fourteen thousand small Spaceships, over seven hundred medium Spaceships, and eleven large Spaceships.

"It is clear that the enemy severely lacks medium and large Spaceships, and their firepower is seriously insufficient.

"Furthermore, based on our previous analysis of their technology, they do not distinguish between Escort Ships, assault ships, and supply ships. Their tactics remain stuck five hundred years in the past.

"We can completely implement encirclement and annihilation tactics."

Thanos nodded and asked, "Does anyone else have any tactical suggestions?"

Proxima Midnight, Supergiant, Cull Obsidian, and Ebony Maw all shook their heads, indicating that they had no objections.

Seeing this, Thanos said, "Very well. Head for the destination and begin the war."

With that, he closed his eyes.

Though the Black Order was somewhat lacking in strategy, there was absolutely no problem with their tactical arrangements.

After all, after a thousand years of warfare, even a pig would probably have learned something.

Once the decision was made, Sanctuary II quickly took the lead in opening a Spatial Corridor.

Then they flew toward their destination at one hundred times the speed of light.

One hundred times lightspeed sounded fast, but in this boundless universe, it was already quite slow.

Meanwhile.

In Asgard.

After Odin initiated war mobilization, miniature spaceships rose into the sky one after another.

In this war that concerned their very survival, even knowing that these miniature spaceships would only serve as cannon fodder, no one refused.

The honor of the Asgardian Gods could not be insulted.

Asgard had warriors who died in battle, but no Asgardian Gods who fled.

In that respect, they differed from those who had spent their entire lives outside and never returned to the Asgard Continent.

The more than one thousand Asgardian councilors had also always lived on their own Planets. They had long grown accustomed to acting as petty emperors, so naturally they lacked such fighting spirit.

Perhaps Odin had always opposed the Asgardian Gods splitting away precisely because he knew this.

At this moment, Odin sat in a large Spaceship, quietly awaiting the enemy's arrival.

Thor and Heimdall were beside him.

Frigga had exhausted her magic while treating Thor some time ago and had yet to recover.

At this moment, another thought began forming in Odin's mind.

Although Thor and Heimdall were both Sub-Celestial Father Level, he felt that it was still not enough.

The two of them probably could not cause Thanos much trouble at all.

If only Frigga were here.

With strength at the peak of the Sub-Celestial Father Level, along with her incredibly strange witchcraft, she could fully support him.

As for those two warriors, Thanos would probably take only a few slashes to deal with them.

He might even have to divert his attention to save them.

Thinking of this, he began to miss his daughter, Hela.

If Hela were here, her witchcraft and strength could completely help him restrain Thanos.

At that thought, he began considering whether to release Hela.

But after thinking it over, he ultimately gave up on the idea.

It had not been easy to imprison that troublesome thorn in his side. If she came out again, she would probably be difficult to deal with.

Time passed second by second.

Besides the fifteen thousand Spaceships, over a million miniature spaceships had gathered nearby.

These spaceships had no ability to make spatial jumps, possessed little energy, and were not even particularly fast.

But they had strength in numbers, and they were not afraid of being expended.

A few hours later, an Asgardian suddenly hurried over and dropped to one knee.

"God King, we have detected intense spatial fluctuations ten million kilometers ahead, but they are not caused by a spatial jump."

Upon hearing this, Odin immediately stood up and said gravely, "Could it be new enemy technology?"

He quickly turned to look at Heimdall.

Thanos possessed too many new technologies that he knew nothing about. Only Heimdall, who had been observing the war in Asgard, was likely to understand them.

Heimdall did not disappoint him. Rising to his feet, he said, "God King, during the first war, I saw them use a technology capable of traveling at one hundred times lightspeed, and it did not produce intense spatial fluctuations."

"One hundred times lightspeed..."

Hearing this, Odin fell silent again.

The reason he knew the enemy would arrive a day later was also Heimdall's guess.

He had been wondering what Heimdall's basis was. So they had technology capable of traveling at one hundred times lightspeed.

The more he learned about Thanos's technology, the more alarmed he became.

How many technologies did Thanos possess that he himself had yet to master?

Although the Marvel Universe valued strength above all else, that did not mean technology was unimportant.

If he had possessed these technologies before, perhaps they would not have lost.

At this moment, Thor impatiently asked, "Father, what do we do now?"

Having matured considerably, he no longer opened his mouth and immediately called for slaughter.

This pleased Odin greatly.

After thinking for a moment, Odin said, "We wait for them to come."

Clearly frightened by Thanos's technology, he now only wanted a head-on clash and had no desire to consider any other tactics.