After Nick Fury returned, he immediately summoned the Avengers scattered across various locations.
Meeting time!
At first, the Avengers were all yawning, but once they heard Nick Fury's shocking news, none of them could sit still.
"Director, are you serious?" Tony looked utterly bewildered.
The others wore much the same expression.
"Boss, you're sure you're still thinking clearly, right?" Natasha's eyes held concern.
Could the director have started hallucinating because there had been too much going on lately?
Come to think of it, those of them who actually carried out the missions had the easiest jobs.
The director, who had to coordinate all the information and then assign everyone their missions, had the most mentally taxing job.
"Director, you should get some rest!" Banner said.
It wasn't that they didn't believe Nick Fury. The news he brought was simply too outrageous, and they instinctively resisted accepting it.
"Sigh, all right. Everything I said is true. He told me himself. It's time to start preparing! After all, we have less than a month left!"
Nick Fury's face darkened even further.
At that, everyone fell silent.
They had abandoned all their wishful thinking.
Since he had said it, it had to be a disaster that was about to happen.
But this disaster truly left their hands and feet cold and their bodies weak.
Mostly, all this talk of worlds being destroyed and universes shattering had genuinely frightened them a little.
Never mind universe-level power. Even planet-level power was currently only within reach of the Sunset Bow in Hawkeye's hands.
The one stroke of luck amid their misfortune was that they wouldn't have to directly face beings capable of destroying the universe with a mere thought. Their mission was confined to Earth.
Even so, it was still an extremely difficult task.
After all,