Just as Dormammu stabilized his foothold and prepared to wield his authority as a dimensional demon god to forcibly reunite the two severed Dark Dimensions, something even more outrageous happened!
Within the source of the Dark Dimension opposite him, a sludge-like figure emerged from the deepest darkness as though climbing out of a swamp.
Thick darkness dripped constantly from the muddy figure as his features, hairstyle, and physique gradually became clear.
Finally, as his feet fully emerged from the deepest darkness, the dense darkness turned into flames that blazed over his body!
With that look, that getup, that sheer presence, anyone who saw him would have to respectfully address him as the "Lord of Darkness"!
Dormammu: !!!
-I know this process!!
After all, he was not native to the Dark Dimension. Back when he was still an ordinary sorcerer, he had accidentally discovered and entered our lord's Dark Dimension, and only through a series of coincidences had he become the notorious evil god he was today, a dimensional demon god who ruled over darkness.
And what had just appeared before Dormammu's eyes was clearly...
The very process he had once undergone: abandoning his physical body and becoming one with the Dark Dimension!
Dormammu: Folks, this was basically a reenactment!
The shock Dormammu felt as he watched himself become a dimensional demon god from a third-person perspective was easy to imagine!
What Dormammu did not know, however, was that the situation across from him differed from his own back then.
Dormammu had resolutely discarded his human body because it was too frail, reshaping a divine body from primordial darkness.
But Josen's Shadow Clone had the same bodily composition as his original: both were formed from Infinity Power, which combined all the divine power of the six Infinity Stones.
Infinity Power encompassed