The outermost runes of the Kamar-Taj dimensional barrier were mostly shattered, and thick, dark energy leaked from the cracks, carrying an aura of decay and burning.
Thor glanced down at the cracks beneath his feet, mentally going through all the possibilities within three seconds.
Want Wanda to come with me? No way.
If the barrier is left unmaintained, the power of these five things will directly flow into the real dimension, and the people on the Wakanda side will be reduced to ashes.
Let Wanda fight while I defend the barrier?
Even more ridiculous— Wanda's Chaos Magic is powerful, but her current limit is at most the Highfather Level. Facing five dimensional demons at the same time would be like sending her to her death.
There is only one option.
He did it himself.
Thor turned to look at Wanda and spoke without hesitation.
"The barrier is yours; don't let anything slip in."
Wanda's Chaos Magic had already ignited dark red runes at her fingertips. Without saying a word, she nodded.
Are you alone?
That's enough.
Thor didn't explain further. A flash of lightning appeared beneath his feet, and he stepped into the dimensional rift.
The colors of the real world faded rapidly behind them, replaced by a chaotic and intertwined space. There was no sky above, no earth below, and distorted and surging dimensional energy in all directions. Streams of light of various colors eroded and devoured each other, creating a scene that would drive an ordinary person to the brink of insanity at a glance.
Five distinct auras are sweeping in from the depths of the dimension.
Thor stood in the very center of the crevice, Stormbreaker held horizontally beside him, his lightning contained, calmly waiting for his opponent to reveal himself.
He simultaneously activated his perception of more than thirty laws, precisely capturing, analyzing, and categorizing the characteristics of each aura.
The first one—scorching heat, oppression, and distorted space.
Dark red flames surged from the dimensional rift, and a giant face made of magma and flames slowly took shape.
Dormammu, the ruler of the Dark Dimension.
The second one is cold and suffocating.
Hell green flames burned silently in the void, and the phantom of chains moved in the shadows. A slender red figure emerged from the flames, a chilling smile forever gracing his lips.
Mephisto, Lord of Hell.
The third one is chaos and madness.
Countless tentacles emerged from the spatial folds, each covered with eyes that opened and closed erratically. Those eyes all turned toward Thor, with a chilling gaze.
Eye Demon Shuma Gorath.
The fourth one is rotten and sticky.
Thick black fog billowed out, and dark red runes spontaneously combusted within it, spreading a suffocating feeling as if life force was being drained away.
Chthon, the god of dark magic.
The fifth is insidious and corrosive.
Dark golden scales shimmered in the void, enormous vertical pupils opened from the darkness, and Venom dripped from the void rifts, causing the dimensional structure at the point of impact to immediately begin to decay.
Set, the snake god.
Five dimensional demons have gathered in the dimensional rift.
Thor scanned the area and already had a good idea of what was going on. Judging from the strength of their auras, all five were within the range of Universe Level.
No one would dare to move their entire original dimension over, as doing so would be tantamount to colliding with the laws of the entire material universe, something even a dimensional demon would find unbearable.
Therefore, they only brought out this level of power.
That makes things easier.
Mephisto is the easiest to fight. His strengths lie in Soul Stone contracts and cunning schemes; head-on confrontations are never his style.
The other four are the truly troublesome: Dormammu's Dark Dimension energy is almost inexhaustible, the Eye Demon's mental pollution is impossible to defend against, Chthon's Chaos Magic can distort the very foundations of reality, and Set's serpent god power is extremely difficult to break free from once it entangles you.
It doesn't matter.
They're not in their home turf, so Thor doesn't need to break in and fight.
In this dimensional gap, in a fair fight, he alone is more than capable.
Mephisto spoke first.
Those green eyes sized Thor up and down, with the same interest one might have for prey, and slowly uttered a sentence.
"Interesting... You're a rare Thor in all the multiverses."
He paused, then the smile on his lips widened even further.
"I've seen Thor across countless timelines, some heroic, some corrupt, some tyrants, some dying in mediocrity... but the aura you exude is different from theirs."
The phantom of chains writhed behind Mephisto, green flames leaping around them.
"Perhaps we can talk? I have a document here—"
Thor had no interest in hearing him finish.
In his past life, Mephisto's greatest skill was using words to shake the mind of his opponents before the battle even began.
Every word he says is a hook, every sentence is a test to find your weaknesses, and the moment you respond, you've already fallen into his rhythm.
Therefore, Thor's response was very simple.
He raised his hand.
With the Stormbreaker raised high above his head, he simultaneously drew upon, compressed, and superimposed over thirty kinds of cosmic laws. The Law of Thunder formed the framework, the Law of Power the engine, the Law of Space the blade, and the Law of Destruction the core.
A rainbow of light converged at the edge of the battle axe, with seven bolts of lightning—red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple—intertwining and unleashing a terrifying radiance powerful enough to scorch the dimension itself.
The entire dimensional rift was trembling.
Mephisto's smile froze on his face.
The rope slashed down fiercely.
A torrent of seven-colored lightning poured out from the blade of the Stormbreaker, its width covering half a dimensional gap. Its speed was so fast that even space itself could not dodge it, and it was directly torn open with a shocking crack.
Wherever this strike landed, dimensional barriers shattered, Law of Energy twisted, and even the void itself groaned in agony.
The reactions of the five dimensional demons exploded simultaneously.
Dormammu's massive face instantly lost all its contempt, and dark red flame energy surged forth, constructing a Dark Dimension energy barrier in front of him.
The Eye Demon's countless tentacles stretched forward simultaneously, each eye shooting out chaotic rays, attempting to dismantle the energy structure of the thunder torrent from the side.
A thick black fog erupted from Chthon, dark red runes burned wildly, and chaotic energy formed a vortex, colliding head-on.
Set's enormous serpentine body shot out from the shadows, its dark gold scales gleaming with poisonous light. Its tail lashed fiercely at the bottom of the torrent of thunder, attempting to sever it at its very foundation.
Mephisto's laughter vanished completely. He poured his full power into the Hell green flames, and the illusory chains materialized, wrapping around the energy of the other four demon gods, acting as energy relays and amplification nodes.
Five forces converged at the same moment.
boom--
A terrifying shockwave, powerful enough to tear apart multiple dimensional barriers, erupted from the center of the dimensional rift. Seven-colored lightning collided head-on with the power of the five-colored demon god, and the aftershocks of energy swept in all directions, shattering dozens of dimensional folds around them.
The thunderbolt was blocked.
But it was merely blocked.
All five dimensional demons simultaneously bore the full impact of this attack.
Cracks appeared in Dormammu's Dark Barrier; three tentacles of the Eye Demon were blasted off by lightning and burned to ashes; half of the chaotic vortex in front of Chthon was cleaved apart; charred marks appeared on Set's dark gold scales; Mephisto took three steps back, his green flames flickering.
For the first time, a genuine seriousness appeared on Dormammu's fiery face.
"That Thanos-- "
His voice resounded powerfully in the dimensional rift.
"They didn't even tell us that something of this caliber exists on Earth!"
Thor sheathed his axe, stood still, his body enveloped in lightning, neither advancing nor retreating.
He is not in a hurry.
One strike revealed their opponent's true strength—it took five people working together to barely withstand one of his axe blows, and each of them was injured.
In a one-on-one fight, no one present could match him.
Even if all five of them attack together, it will only prolong the battle.
This was a good opportunity to extend the battle and comprehend the laws governing the enemy. The Celestials had only been gone a short while when someone else came knocking on our door to offer help.
That's so heartwarming!
--Wakanda.
The situation on the battlefield is tilting in the most dangerous direction.
Thanos has completely Thanos control of the entire battle.
Each swing of the Tyrant's Blade precisely targeted a gap in the encirclement formation, while the purple light of the Power Stone intermittently erupted, forcing the attackers to retreat and regroup each time.
Mighty Thor Jane, swung her hammer, Thanos lightly raised his left hand, the Power Stone flashed, and a purple pulse blasted her away.
Female Thor stepped in from the other side, and with Mjolnir crackling with lightning, he slammed it down with all his might. Thanos tilted his neck, swung his blade back, and smashed her and the hammer into the ground.
The Chibi Hulk leaps up from behind, wielding Vibranium hammer, shouting, " Hulk Smash!"
Thanos didn't even turn around. He stabbed backward with his sword, the back of the blade wedging perfectly against the Hammerhead of the Vibranium. With a twist of force, he flung the small green guy, who was fifty or sixty centimeters tall, away.
Superman Wolverine Logan, roared and pounced, his Adamantium claws slicing across Thanos's arm, finally leaving a shallow bloodstain.
Thanos glanced down at his wound, his brow furrowing slightly. He then threw a backhand punch, and the force of two 10,000-ton punches collided head-on. Logan was forced back more than ten meters, his feet carving two deep furrows.
Vision unleashed a golden beam from the Mind Stone on his forehead, Thanos easily blocked with a swift stroke of his blade, without even pausing.
He could easily take on five opponents single-handedly.
Within the Mirror Dimension.
Iron Man Sword of Vishanti in his left hand and the Palm Cannon in his right, while six drones above him provide crossfire, locked in a fierce battle with Ebony Maw, who has been enhanced by the Dark Vortex.
Ebony Maw's psychic barrier was more than one level thicker than the original, so Tony's energy output, which was enough to blast through an aircraft carrier, could only create ripples when it hit it.
Tony kept talking as he dodged the flying debris controlled by Ebony Maw's telekinesis.
" Squidward, you're much more troublesome than that bootleg Superman I encountered before."
Ebony Maw hovered above the fragments of the Mirror Dimension, and with a slight lift of his withered fingers, the entire ground flipped over and crashed down on Tony.
"Shut up, you tiny insects. You should be grateful for Thanos's mercy towards you."
Tony sidestepped the flipped ground, Chains of Cyttorak shot out from his wrist, catching a piece of debris and using it to propel himself away.
"Wow, you're really obedient. Did you and Thanos form an organization called the 'Cosmic Family Planning Commission'? Eradicating half the population to alleviate resource depletion, tsk tsk tsk... I think your Thanos should go back to school."
Ebony Maw did not respond, and his psychic power suddenly intensified.
Tony's shield trembled.
Just as the two were gathering their strength again, preparing to attack—
boom!
The barrier of the Mirror Dimension was forcibly torn open from the outside, and two figures tumbled in through the opening.
Strange crashed into the shattered ground, tumbling twice before awkwardly pushing himself up on one knee. His Cloak was torn in several places, and there was still blood at the corner of his mouth.
Following him crashing in was the Supergiant, that blue-skinned woman.
It was clear that she used her mental manipulation to forcibly drag Strange out of the original battlefield and blast him in along with the Mirror Dimension.
Tony glanced down at the disheveled Strange, his expression beneath the visor utterly fascinating.
"Well--"
He drew out the sound.
" Strange, your goatee is a disgrace to the Avengers."
"You think my workload isn't heavy enough, so you specially sent me a partner, right?"
Strange wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, stood up straight without a word, formed a hand seal, and his tattered Cloak unfurled behind him.
He ignored Tony's trash talk, his gaze fixed on the Supergiant.
Supergiant and Ebony Maw exchanged a glance in the Mirror Dimension, then simultaneously turned to Tony and Strange, and the four forces began to converge.
Tony closed his visor, and his palm cannons shone brightly.