Thanos stared gravely at the young man. His opponent's strange attack made him wary of acting rashly. "I don't remember ever offending someone like you."
"These people never offended you either. Why did you kill them?" Mercer asked coldly.
Thanos raised both hands, fanaticism spreading across his face. "Their deaths were offerings to that goddess. It was their honor!"
"Heh." Mercer gave a contemptuous chuckle. "Really? Then I'll offer her a little more death."
As soon as he finished speaking, an enormous shape appeared on the horizon. From a distance, it looked like an inverted triangle. Was that an island?
Before Thanos could get a clear look at the thing, dozens of red lights lit up on the inverted cone beneath it. Then dozens of red beams shot toward them.
In the blink of an eye, the red beams arrived.
Boom-!
First came a deafening blast, followed by extreme heat and intense radiation that instantly swept across the entire region.
The devastating attack did not merely explode on the planet's surface. It pierced straight through the entire planet in an instant.
The immense power blasted apart the planet, already piled high with corpses, reducing the whole world to rubble.
A figure flew out of the explosion and landed on a nearby asteroid. It was Thanos.
He was in terrible shape. Purple blood-not red-covered his body, making him look like a giant purple sweet potato leaking juice.
Enduring the searing pain, Thanos stared in horror at the distant planet that had been blasted into rubble. "A madman. He's a madman!"
Destroying a planet so easily required a level of technology even his own warship could not match.
And with such a planet-destroying attack unleashed at the wave of a hand, could that young man still be alive?
While Thanos stared into