Thanos could only shake his head at the sight.
If that was what the other man said, what more could Thanos add?
It was his world, after all. Thanos was hardly in a position to criticize.
"Enough. I didn't come to see your Elysium. I just want to ask you one thing: what's the benefit of becoming a Chess Player?"
The god gave Thanos an intrigued look.
"You don't know? Then how did you become a god?"
The question made Thanos feel he had overlooked something.
He soon recalled an old theory of his.
Why had Marvel Universe's Four Creator Gods, along with the Celestials, fought so fiercely for control of the universe?
At Omniversal Level, they could have become effectively eternal without lifting a finger.
The only explanation was that they needed more energy to grow stronger.
That energy was Origin Power.
He had never worked out where Origin Power came from, but he knew that most universes shared one fundamental rule: equivalent exchange.
After all, if matter and energy could vanish or appear at will, a universe would soon fall apart.
He had confirmed that much in the Marvel Universe.
And if equivalent exchange applied, Origin Power could neither appear nor disappear from nothing.
So where did Origin Power come from?
After centuries of observation, the closest answer he had found was souls.
Both the Mind Source Stone and the Reality Source Stone used emotions to replenish their origin energy.
Then there was the Deepest Hell.
Its energy grew without pause, fed by all manner of negative emotions.
And those emotions were, in essence, fragments of souls.
That was why life was constantly being born and dying.
Souls were forever dispersing and coming together again.
So Marvel's Four Creator Gods were, at heart, fighting over Origin Power.
Even