The God King's fury, Omega's flash!

The entire battlefield fell into an eerie, deathly silence the instant Link's dark golden eyes lit up.

Whether they were roaring Outriders or heroes fighting through blood, Wakandan warriors or the Parademons of Apokolips, every living being felt a terror rooted in existence itself. It was not awe of the powerful, but life's instinctive dread of "the end" and "nothingness."

Link made no sound. His figure vanished from where he stood.

The next second, he was beside Harley as she plummeted. He had not even used the Space Stone. Instead, at a speed beyond light, beyond thought, he had simply "arrived" where he wanted to be.

He gently gathered the unconscious, battered girl into his arms, his movements as tender as though he were cradling the most precious porcelain.

In that moment, even time seemed to stand still for him.

Another blink, and he was back on the ground. He laid Harley flat on the Wakandan king's long-vacant obsidian throne and enclosed her in the gentlest of energy shields.

Only after finishing all this did he slowly turn, inch by inch, to look once more at Thanos in the sky.

Gone were his earlier mockery and composure, gone the domineering arrogance of one who ruled over all.

Only coldness remained.

Like the eternal, utterly heatless absolute zero after the heat death of the universe.

"You deserve to die."

Those words rang clearly in Thanos's mind, like a judgment delivered from another dimension.

Before the words had faded, the dark golden light in Link's eyes surged. Two beams shot from his eyes, no longer traveling in straight lines, but tracing eerie curves through the air in defiance of every law of physics!

This was precisely what he had "stolen" from Darkseid, the most terrifying law-based attack in the universe—the Omega Effect!