"No—!"
Wanda let out a cry of despair. The Chaos Magic energy in her palm drove into the yellow Stone on Vision's forehead like a crimson sword.
"Hum..."
The Mind Stone, a marvel that held the source of the universe's thought and will, let out an anguished hum as it collided with Chaos Magic, another primordial power.
Its brilliant yellow light flickered wildly. Finally, after a violent burst of energy, it went completely dark.
"Crack... crack..."
Like the finest diamond shattered by a hammer, countless hairline fractures spread across the Mind Stone's surface.
At last, with a faint crack that sounded almost like a sigh, the entire Stone crumbled into a handful of golden dust and dispersed into the air.
With the Stone's destruction, all signs of life instantly vanished from Vision's nearly perfect body of vibranium. The last gleam in his eyes went out, leaving him a cold, gray statue that collapsed limply onto the laboratory table.
After doing all this, Wanda seemed drained of every last ounce of strength. She fell to her knees and let out a heart-wrenching wail.
High above, the tragedy unfolded clearly before the eyes of the two God Kings.
Thanos watched the Mind Stone turn to dust. For the first time, a trace of genuine disappointment and exhaustion appeared on his deeply furrowed purple face.
The ideal he had spent half his life pursuing, his grand plan to bring balance to the universe, vanished like a dream with the destruction of the last Infinity Stone.
It was all over.
Without so much as another glance at Link, he slowly turned away, seemingly ready to order his invincible fleet to withdraw from this place of sorrow.
Link's reaction, however, stood in stark contrast to Thanos's disappointment.
As he looked at the destroyed Stone and