As he watched his army, his generals, and his ship destroyed in the terrifying explosion, Thanos showed neither pity nor sorrow in his eyes.
With the vitality inside him sealed off, his life force continued to drain away under the effects of his injuries. Even so, his weak but anxious gaze remained fixed on Josen, trying to make him spare his most beloved daughter.
Gamora, meanwhile, felt none of her adoptive father's love, as sincere and pure as gold.
She was busy marveling at the fact that she was exposed to the vacuum without any protection, yet felt no discomfort whatsoever.
Josen naturally had his reasons for restraining the father and daughter. He had already carved out a safe space in the vacuum of the universe where living beings could survive, ensuring that the hostile environment of extremely low temperatures, vacuum, and radiation would not freeze Gamora into a lifeless block of ice.
"All right, people can't spend their whole lives sleeping on their past achievements. You have to learn to look ahead."
Turning philosopher, Josen casually patted the Titan tyrant on the shoulder. Under the latter's almost fire-spitting gaze, he gave a positively nuclear smile and said, "Oh, and no need to thank me."
Thanos: "..."
-Oh, I really do thank you!
"Let's go. We still have other tasks to finish."
The rotating golden lines of laws reappeared, and a Dimensional Gateway rapidly expanded before the three of them. Beyond the circular gateway appeared a dead, silent planet, a third of it shrouded in mistlike dust clouds.
2012, Vormir.
Beneath the purplish-red sky stretched an endless, parched desert. A castle-like mountain rose from the desert, with two symmetrical obelisks standing at its summit, like a gateway into an abyss where demons dwelled.
-This is...
Seeing the planet's terrain,