The Dimension Firewall's Closed Loop: Arresting the Time Guard Captain in Turn
There was no sound.
The fan-shaped ripple, powerful enough to Pruning existence itself, collided with the "Dimension Firewall" that Lynn had just deployed.
The anticipated earth-shattering energy collision did not occur.
This scene was so eerie, it felt like a hallucination.
The seemingly indestructible ripple slowed abruptly the moment it touched the firewall, as if it had crashed into a viscous swamp. Then, the countless Runes, code, flames, and fissures that made up the firewall seemed to come alive.
The Scarlet Chaos code lit up first, like a greedy virus, frantically attaching itself to the ripples, beginning to analyze and distort its Underlying Logic.
The jet-black death Runes followed closely behind, forcibly defining the concept of "erasure" contained in the ripples as "Ending" and bringing it under the jurisdiction of death.
The Dark Gold Phoenix flames flashed and disappeared, without burning, but instead "formatting" the enormous energy, stripping it of its offensive attributes and transforming it into a pure flow of information.
The spiderweb-like spatial rifts constantly open and close, like countless tiny mouths, swallowing and digesting the processed energy and information flow, and then feeding it back to the entire firewall system to provide it with the energy to operate.
The entire process was completed in the blink of an eye.
That terrifying attack, powerful enough to wipe out a thousand-strong undead army, was silently swallowed up by this seemingly thin wall of light.
Like a clay ox sinking into the sea.
No, it's even more thorough. It's like melting down a bullet aimed at yourself and turning it into raw material for the next bullet.
Inside the main hall, Hela, Wanda, Jean, and Gwen Stacy held their breath.
They stared blankly at the unyielding Defense Line on the holographic Star Map, their hearts churning with turmoil.
That is their strength.
Death, Chaos, Phoenix, Dimension.
However, when these four forces were integrated in Lynn's hands, the form they took was completely beyond their comprehension.
This is not a simple aggregation; it is a perfect, self-sustaining, closed-loop ecosystem. It can not only defend itself, but also digest, and even turn enemy attacks into its own nourishment.
They surrendered their swords, but Lynn used them to forge a mobile war Bastion.
At the front line, the three TVA Adjudicators were also visibly stunned.
Their procedural actions faltered slightly. The scene before them clearly exceeded all the Contingency Plan in their mission briefing. Their infallible "pruning" tool failed for the first time.
The lead Adjudicators seemed unconvinced and reached out again to turn the power of the Time Pruning Device to maximum.
A ripple, more solid and wider than before, swept across the firewall once more.
The result was the same.
The firewall merely flashed its lights more intensely before swallowing the attack completely without even causing a ripple.
In the main hall, Lynn still rested his chin on his hand, his expression unchanged.
It's as if all of this is just verifying a formula that has already been written.
He looked at the three bewildered figures at the front line, a barely perceptible hint of mockery flashing in his calm eyes.
Simply taking a beating without fighting back is not his style.
His fingers tapped lightly on the armrest of the Throne.
The Dark Gold core, which fused four powers and floated in front of him, began to spin rapidly.
Lynn's will, following the guidance of this core, issued new commands.
Command 1: Cross- Dimension channel.
The spiderweb-like cracks on the firewall's surface were no longer passive defenses, but actively extended forward. Gwen Stacy's power, like the most keen hunting dog, precisely caught the extremely faint trace left in the void after the attack's ripples dissipated.
A highly unstable temporary passage, composed of countless tiny cracks, was laid out in reverse towards the source of the attack.
Command 2: Reality Anchor.
The Scarlet Chaos code surged into the unstable passage, forcibly stabilizing it. Wanda's power firmly "anchored" the end of the passage to the coordinates of the Adjudicators led by TVA.
No matter how the other party moves, this Anchor will always follow.
Instruction 3: Stripping exists.
Dark death Runes lit up within the passage. Hela's power flowed upstream along the passage, its target not the other's life, but rather the "connection" between him and the space he inhabited.
It's like carefully cutting out the outline of a figure from a painting.
Command 4: Forced towing.
A faint wisp of Dark Golden Flames ignited at the end of the passage. Qin's Phoenix Force transformed into an invisible giant hand, grasping the stripped-off "outline".
"Return."
Lynn's lips moved silently.
The front lines.
The three Adjudicators finally snapped out of their shock and realized the situation was dire. The captain immediately ordered a retreat and prepared to put away the Time Pruning Device.
However, it was too late.
Without warning, the space beneath his feet became as soft and distorted as the surface of water.
Scarlet code emerged from the void like chains, binding his limbs. His two companions were horrified to find that, although they were standing right next to their captain, they felt as if the other had been pulled into a completely different space—visible but untouchable.
The captain's body began to fall backward uncontrollably, as if being forcibly dragged by an invisible hand.
He tried to struggle, only to find that his prized equipment, capable of correcting time, was completely malfunctioning due to the interference of those Scarlet Code.
"Warning... Unknown detected..."
His voice caught in his throat.
A powerful force, imbued with the aura of death and flames, completely enveloped him.
Under the horrified gazes of his two companions, their captain, a high-ranking Time Guard Captain from the TVA, was abruptly dragged, as if ripped from a painting, into a suddenly opened, pitch-black entrance riddled with spiderweb-like fissures.
The entrance closed instantly.
It was as if nothing had happened.
The remaining two Adjudicators stood frozen in place, and for the first time, their brown uniforms betrayed an emotion called "fear."
Looking at the still-standing, gleaming firewall before them, they dared not make a move. They hastily opened the orange portal, grabbed the malfunctioning device, and fled in panic.
The Great Hall beneath the Bone Throne.
Space was violently torn apart.
A figure was violently thrown out of the crack, crashing heavily onto the cold, bony surface with a dull thud.
It was that senior Time Guard Captain from the TVA.
His uniform was torn in several places, and his once-routine movements had become stiff and chaotic. He struggled to stand up, only to find himself bound by chains woven from Scarlet Code and black Runes, firmly imprisoning him in place.
He raised his head blankly, looking around at the eerie hall.
His pupils contracted sharply when his gaze fell upon the calm figure on the Throne.
Hela, Wanda, Jean, Gwen Stacy stood below the palace, watching their enemy, who had been high above them and "cleaning them out" not long ago, now lying on the ground like a dead dog.
Their feelings were extremely complicated.
The shock stemmed from Lynn's unpredictable and mysterious methods.
The awe stems from this absolute control that manipulates their power at will.
And a trace of... fervor.
They gave their all without reservation, and in return, they achieved such a resounding, Dimensionality-Reduction Strike victory. This feeling was almost addictive.
"Trial."
Lynn's voice broke the silence, still in that calm and unperturbed tone, as if he were simply asking someone to handle a trivial matter.
"Yes."
Jean Grey was the first to respond.
She took a step forward, a Dark Gold flame burning in her eyes. This was her best chance to redeem herself and regain favor.
She had to get this person to talk, obtain the most valuable information, and prove that she was still the most indispensable one among the four.
Her Psychic Power transformed into countless invisible Probe, ruthlessly piercing the captain of the guard's mind.
However, just as her Psychic Power was about to touch the other party's core memory area, a sudden change occurred.
The captain of the guard began to convulse violently, his eyes rolling back.
An extremely complex paradoxical symbol, composed of countless orange rays of light, suddenly lit up on his forehead, radiating a cold, destructive aura that rejected all scrutiny.
Qin groaned, feeling as if her mental Probe had crashed into a wall made of paradoxes. An extremely chaotic Temporal Turbulence back through her Mind Link, relentlessly attacking her.
Her face paled, and she staggered back half a step.
The senior guard captain has Time Paradox Restriction installed in his mind.
Any attempt to forcibly access memories will trigger this restriction, not only completely destroying the target's brain but also causing severe backlash to the interrogator.
How to get him to talk? This became a new problem.