"Harley!"
For the first time, Link's voice carried uncontrollable fury, but now was not the time to assign blame. He watched the chaos engulfing the world and the Eradicators continually descending from the sky, trying to regain control of the situation.
He rose to his feet. The yellow Mind Stone on the Infinity Gauntlet blazed as he tried to rebuild the Mind Field that had covered the entire world.
But he failed.
The soothing power spread once more, but this time, its effect was greatly diminished. The people who had just broken free of the "Happiness Prison" were like patients recovering from a serious illness, having developed powerful "antibodies" against this mental anesthesia. Rather than calming them, the field stirred up even deeper fear and anger.
"Look! That tyrant's trying to control us again!"
"We're not his puppets!"
The moment their free will awakened, their former reverence turned into the deepest loathing. For the first time, Link's mental power failed before his own "subjects."
His gaze turned cold. If soothing them was useless, he would suppress them with absolute power. He turned his attention to those silent "erasers"—the Eradicators.
They were the real threat.
Link appeared above New York in an instant and threw a punch at an Eradicator who was "erasing" Central Park. Purple light burst from the Power Stone. That punch was powerful enough to shatter an asteroid.
Yet when that terrifying force, enough to tear space apart, struck the Eradicator's mirrorlike body, it passed straight through as though through empty air and slammed into another building in the distance.
The Eradicator was unharmed. They did not even glance back at him, continuing their silent "cleanup."
Link froze.
He immediately changed tactics. Red light flashed from the Reality Stone as he tried to turn the Eradicator into a