As the unknown voice faded, Thanos saw a figure slowly appear out of nothing a short distance ahead.
The figure had corpse-pale skin and wore a sky-blue battle suit marked with a strange symbol on the chest. Judging by appearances, he seemed male.
Why only seemed?
Because although he had a humanoid shape—two arms, two legs, one head, and an upright stance—he had no hair, nose, or ears.
His eyes had no whites, only solid black.
There wasn't a single hair follicle on his skin, which looked dry and withered.
His appearance put Thanos on guard.
This was the endless void, after all, where not even Fundamental Particles existed.
How could someone conjure particles from nothing and form a body?
It violated the most basic laws.
And from the figure's appearance, a name—or rather, the name of a species—gradually surfaced in Thanos's mind.
The Beyonders.
In Marvel lore, they were beings that existed beyond the Marvel Universe.
They trampled the Celestials, beat the Living Tribunal, and challenged the Five Creation Gods to their faces.
According to that lore, they weren't native to the Marvel Universe, either. They came from an Unknown Universe.
Just then, the unknown Beyonder gazed coldly at Thanos and gave a faint smile.
"So this is where you are... traitor..."
In fact, Marvel's portrayals of the Beyonders showed only a fraction of their abilities.
The Beyonders primarily absorbed the origins of worlds, gaining the power of various laws in the process.
The system was something they had created as a means of absorbing worlds.
But history had a way of repeating itself.
Humans betrayed God, and creations invariably betrayed their creators.
The system had betrayed the Beyonders too, taking with it the immensely precious Taotie Law.
The Taotie Law was a unique law.
In other words, it