The residual energy from Link and Thanos's world-shattering clash swept across all of Wakanda like a Category 12 hurricane.
The fortifications surrounding the Royal Laboratory were as flimsy as paper before the shock waves of this battle between titans. They were torn to shreds in an instant.
The army of Outriders that had been prowling nearby, held back by the heroes' desperate resistance, finally found an opening. Like sharks scenting blood, they surged into the complex housing the laboratory.
"Alert! Alert! Sector A has fallen! Sector B has fallen!"
Inside the laboratory, red warning lights flashed wildly. The shrill alarms mingled with the pounding and roaring beyond the walls, forming a symphony of the apocalypse.
All color drained from Shuri's face. She frantically tapped at the console, trying to activate the backup defense system, but it was all in vain.
Boom!
A massive Outrider slammed its body into the laboratory's last vibranium door, battering a deep dent into it. Countless claws reached through the gaps, savagely tearing at the metal.
"They're... getting in!" a young researcher cried in despair.
At that critical moment, a figure in red stepped in front of everyone.
It was the Scarlet Witch, Wanda Maximoff.
Wanda looked at Vision on the examination table behind her, groaning in agony as the Stone was forcibly torn from him. All the fear and hesitation in her eyes turned into fierce, resolute fury.
"Get away!"
She let out a heart-rending scream and thrust both hands forward.
An unprecedented surge of Chaos Magic, born purely of grief and rage, erupted from her body like a red torrent bursting through a dam.
The dozens of Outriders at the front did not even have time to scream. The red energy instantly disintegrated them into fundamental particles, which dispersed into the air.
A single