The sight wiped the smug look off Odin's face. He had still been pleased with himself for tricking Thanos, but now he was stunned.
Calling it a pile was no exaggeration.
Not in the slightest.
Odin stared, dumbfounded, as Zhang Yang pulled a heap of Infinity Stones from a shabby cloth bag no bigger than his palm.
Mind Stones, Soul Stones, Reality Stones, Time Stones, and Space Stones—the Tesseract, in other words.
There were more than ten of each kind, all glittering in the sunlight.
Odin's eyes swam.
Thanos was no better.
Both he and Odin stared at the Infinity Stones Zhang Yang had produced, their eyes gleaming.
Thanos's eyes shone brightest. His snake mouth fell open, and a glistening strand of drool slipped from it.
It was not that Thanos wanted to drool.
As a snake, he simply could not help it.
Then Zhang Yang pulled another artifact from the little cloth bag.
In an instant,
Thanos's mouth dropped open even wider.
Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!
He screamed it three times in his head.
What was he looking at? Was that not the Infinity Gauntlet?!
It was the Infinity Gauntlet!
Thanos had thought coming to Kamar-Taj would be torture.
Now he realized he had struck gold.
Five Infinity Stones and the Infinity Gauntlet. Once he got the Power Stone, he could invade Earth in minutes... No, that was not it. He could achieve his goal of cutting the universe's population in half!
The thought thrilled him.
Tears of joy—that was exactly what Thanos felt.
He really was on the verge of crying with happiness.
Who could understand what it had been like to be treated as a pet in Kamar-Taj, have his head patted every day, swallow his pride around Zhang Yang, and be sent ahead whenever