Ren looked at the group of alien Iron Men before him.
Then his mouth split into a grin, and he burst out laughing.
"Apologize?"
"Looks to me like you don't have a shred of sincerity!"
Ren questioned them with a smile.
"No sincerity?"
"How could that be? We came to apologize with complete sincerity."
"We Celestials have never been this courteous to any civilization."
The Judge's tone remained calm as he tried to keep the situation under control.
"That's right! This is a first for us."
"We've already lowered our heads. How much more do you want?"
Beside him, Eradicator saw the way their leader was acting and immediately sensed that something was wrong.
Even the boss is backing down?
Just how dangerous is this human?
At that thought, Eradicator changed his tune at once. He dropped his earlier arrogance and put on the look of someone terribly wronged.
"Apologize?"
"This is how you Celestials make amends?"
Ren let out a derisive laugh, tearing through their pretense without mercy.
He swept his sleeve.
A huge holographic screen appeared out of thin air.
It showed the depths of space several light-years away.
Three enormous cannons with outlandish, futuristic designs were locked onto Earth's coordinates.
Beside them, three Celestials were working furiously at a control console.
Anyone could see it.
All three cannons were fully charged and ready to fire.
Even through the screen, the destructive energy radiating from their barrels made Ren's heart skip a beat.
The advanced technology of the Marvel Universe had never played fair.
Take Tony Stark. An ordinary mortal, yet with enough tinkering, he had built armor that could go toe-to-toe with Thanos.
Advanced alien civilizations had deeper foundations, and the weapons they built were even more outrageous.
The Beyonders, for instance.
They could supposedly use technology