It was a sight that would have driven any god to despair.
With Link at its center, the entire universe seemed to become a canvas being soaked in silver paint. From every direction, from every dimension, endless [Eradicators] converged on him at a conceptual speed that surpassed light and disregarded space.
"They're coming..." On the bridge of the United Fleet's flagship, the Justice, Batman watched the densely packed red blips on the radar jump from "zero" to "infinity" in an instant. An almost imperceptible tremor crept into his voice.
"All fleets, activate the Reality Stabilizing Anchors! Mage corps, open the Spatial Corridor!" Captain America's roar rang out across every channel, jolting everyone out of their suffocating fear.
Humm—
The mages of Kamar-Taj coughed up blood, paying with their lives to tear open a warped passage ahead of the fleet that led into a realm of "nothingness."
The United Fleet, that vast force assembled from the last embers of Earth's civilization, did not hesitate. Following the rainbow beacon ahead, it plunged into the Spatial Corridor, a tunnel that seemed to lead straight to doomsday.
The chase unfolded in the cracks between the laws.
This was no ordinary interstellar pursuit.
The Eradicators did not "fly." They simply "arrived."
At the rear of the fleet, an Eradicator seeping out of space merely brushed against a golden Asgardian warship. The ship and the hundreds of Asgardian honored dead aboard vanished without a sound, as though they had never existed. No explosion, no wreckage—only utter nothingness.
"Rear guard, cover us!" Thor's eyes blazed with fury. Brandishing Stormbreaker, he charged out of his ship, hurling bolts of lightning imbued with the power of a God King at the elusive silver ghosts.
But the instant the lightning touched their mirrorlike bodies, it was completely absorbed and dissolved.