Five against one, a clash of laws!

Link's arrival was like a spark dropped into boiling oil, instantly igniting the atmosphere across the battlefield.

The suffocating pressure emanating from Thanos seemed to be savagely torn apart and scattered by an invisible hand. The heroes and soldiers found they could breathe again, could think again.

They looked at the man standing before Thanos, his frame somewhat slight yet his presence every bit as imposing, and an indescribable tangle of hatred and hope surged through their hearts.

And Thanos, the Mad Titan, finally shifted his full attention away from those "ants" and, for the first time, truly regarded the opponent before him.

"Link." Thanos uttered the name in a low voice, as though savoring a main course he had long awaited. "You finally deigned to come down from your Throne."

"Well, if I didn't, you, an uninvited actor, would tear my stage apart." Link shrugged, his tone as relaxed as if he were chatting with an old friend. He slowly raised his left hand, revealing the Infinity Gauntlet set with five Infinity Stones, which had long since become Earth's iconic "symbol of divine authority."

Five different colors—the red of reality, the purple of power, the green of time, the orange of soul, and the blue of space (the law deciphered from Darkseid's battle-axe)—shone together in the sockets of his gauntlet, radiating a primordial aura that made even the universe tremble.

"Five." For the first time, naked greed and envy flared in Thanos's eyes. "You, a mortal, actually collected five."

"Just good luck." Link smiled. "Unlike you, who toiled for decades only to get one—and even that was scavenged from the ruins of destruction."

Those words struck Thanos precisely where it hurt. He wasted no more words. The battle erupted in an instant!

Thanos struck first. He drove his sole