The powerful beings of the universe

(A quick note: the next two chapters focus on setting up the plot for the major event ahead. Readers unfamiliar with Marvel's top-tier powers may want to read carefully.)

Xiao Han looked around at everyone's puzzled expressions and slowly began to speak.

"The Beyonders exist outside the omniverse."

Tony's lips twitched. "That's one hell of an arrogant name."

His head was starting to hurt. He had no idea what powerful beings existed in the universe, but these guys seemed to want to destroy it at the drop of a hat.

"I've never heard of this race," T'Challa said gravely.

As the most advanced nation on Earth, their country knew something about all three great empires of the Milky Way.

They had even detected the Kree surveillance warships in space, but they had never found any records of the Beyonders.

Wanda frowned. "There's nothing about them even in dark magic!"

Knull's scarlet eyes flickered.

Beings above the Living Tribunal? If that was true...

He suddenly felt ordinary.

As a dark god who had lived for hundreds of millions of years, he experienced an unfamiliar emotion for the first time: helplessness.

He had never even heard of this race. Until now, the most powerful being he knew of, at least on the surface, was the Living Tribunal.

That was the fellow he hated most and least wanted to see—the one with three heads and a cloth draped over them.

The Living Tribunal

But soon, he remembered someone else, a being who might be even stronger than the Tribunal.

He had discovered a rift in the universe amid the darkness, and there he had seen that being. He had no definite form, only eyes made up of countless stars.

From what he later learned, he knew that being was a remnant of the