The moment the purple energy ripples exploded, the six people surrounding Thanos were simultaneously blasted away by the shockwave.
Storm barely managed to steady herself in mid-air, Iceman's ice bridge shattered into dust, Mighty Thor Jane shocked that her hands were split open, the Chibi Hulk tumbled several times on the ground, and Superman Wolverine Logan only managed to stop himself when his claws dug into the mud.
Female Thor reacted the fastest, swinging Mjolnir back with blue and white lightning, but Thanos it with his left hand. The purple light pulse from the Power Stone deflected the hammer, leaving Female Thor's entire arm numb.
Thanos stood still, not giving chase.
The Tyrant's Blade was stuck diagonally at his side, and his left hand slowly rose, spreading out each of his Five Fingers one by one.
On the back of his hand, the purple light of the Power Stone and the orange light of the Soul Stone lit up simultaneously.
The two Infinity Stones operate in sync.
Immediately afterwards, a layer of dark green magical ripples surged from Thanos's body.
Three forces combined.
The orange light of the Soul Stone transformed into countless fine threads, spreading in all directions and penetrating the spiritual realm of everyone present.
The purple light from the Power Stone transformed into a substantial pressure field, distorting and deforming the air within a radius of 100 meters.
Dark green patterns of black magic weave between the two, acting as a catalyst and amplifier.
A three-pronged approach.
Soul Stone erosion + physical suppression + mental pollution.
Storm had just raised her hands to summon lightning when she froze.
The orange threads of the Soul Stone were drilling into her mental barrier, her mind was buzzing, and she couldn't help but want to put her hands down and kneel on the ground.
The Iceman's situation was even worse; frost flickered on his body, and his consciousness was being slowly eroded.
Mighty Thor Jane, gritted her teeth and resisted, but she was just a mortal wielding a divine weapon, and her spiritual power was far inferior to that of a true god.
Orange threads wrapped around her temples, and she began to hallucinate—she saw the pain of the Aether backlash, and she saw herself lying on a hospital bed, dying.
Female Thor is in slightly better shape, after all, she is the real Thor, and her mental strength is much stronger than that of ordinary people. But Thanos has activated a triple buff, and she is also struggling to hold on.
Just when everyone's mental defenses were about to be breached.
A golden beam of light descended from the sky.
Vision hovered above the battlefield, the Mind Stone on his forehead operating at full power, its golden Mind Stone spreading out to forcefully block Thanos's Soul Stone- corroding attack.
Thanos's Soul Stone and Vision's Mind Stone clashed head-on.
Orange and golden light clashed, crushed, and devoured each other in mid-air.
A faint hissing sound came from the air, and countless tiny cracks were torn open in the void between the two gems.
Vision's body was trembling slightly.
He is not afraid of the Mind Stone against the Soul Stone in a one-on-one fight.
But Thanos also had the added boost from the Power Stone and the dark magic of the five dimensional demigods. Three against one, he could hold on, but that was all he could do; he had no free hands to do anything else.
Thanos noticed Vision's presence, and his deep purple eyes narrowed slightly.
Annoying bugs.
However, he did not shift his offensive focus to Vision —this AI entity has the ability to become ethereal, and cannot be locked down without the Space Stone.
You can't kill him or lock him down, but you still have to expend energy to suppress him—that's what makes Vision so disgusting.
Thanos's combat experience led him to make the most ruthless judgment at this moment.
Don't attack Vision, attack the people he's protecting.
Of the six people, four are melee fighters and two are ranged fighters.
The four melee fighters— Mighty Thor, Female Thor, Chibi Hulk, Superman Wolverine Logan —are all tough and resilient; they won't die even if you cripple them, making their damage output too low.
But Storm and Iceman Beast are different.
These two Mutants have ridiculously powerful abilities; one can control the weather, and the other can create ice. Their ability to wear down enemies from a distance is extremely annoying.
But their physical bodies are only at the mortal level; a single hit would be an instant kill.
Thanos's combat experience spans hundreds of years of battlefields, so this kind of target selection only takes him a fraction of a second.
He moved.
The Tyrant's Blade swept across the land.
The purple light of the Power Stone surged to its limit on the blade, and with a single strike, it sent the charging Mighty Thor Jane flying, sending her and her hammer flying more than forty meters. She rolled three times on the ground and couldn't get up.
Female Thor attacked from the side, but Thanos dodged and slammed his left hand into her breastplate. The purple light of the Power Stone exploded, and Female Thor was slammed into the ground, cracks appearing on the surface of her armor.
The Chibi Hulk leaped up with a roar, and his Vibranium hammer slammed down from above.
Thanos kicked the little green guy, who was less than 60 centimeters tall, sending him spinning seven or eight times in the air before flying away.
Just as Superman Wolverine Logan charged within three meters, Butcher's Blade swept backhand, the back of the blade striking Logan squarely in the waist. The Adamantium skeleton emitted a muffled thud, and Logan was sent flying backward, embedding himself in a tree.
All four melee fighters were wiped out in less than three seconds.
Thanos pointed his sword at the sky, and the purple light from the Power Stone converged into a thick beam, blasting straight towards the direction where Storm and Iceman were located.
The beam of light was over two meters in diameter, instantly ionizing the air along its path and leaving a charred trench several meters deep in the ground.
Iceman Bobby's pupils suddenly contracted.
He had less than a second to react.
He pushed his hands forward, unleashing the full power of frost, and a three-meter-thick ice wall rose from the ground in front of him.
The surface of the ice wall was also covered with a layer of extremely cold crystals, the temperature so low that even light was distorted by refraction.
The purple beam of light slammed into the ice wall with a loud bang.
Click...
The surface of the ice wall instantly cracked with countless tiny fissures; the extreme cold crystals were as brittle as paper in the face of the power of the Infinity Stones.
Two and a half meters of the three-meter-thick ice layer evaporated in 0.3 seconds, and the remaining half meter was also rapidly disintegrating.
Storm Ororo was two steps behind Bobby; she didn't have time to fly away.
Bobby didn't have time to build another wall.
"It's over"—the thought had barely crossed their minds when a dark shadow swept past them.
It's Superman Wolverine Logan.
The man who had just been swatted away by Thanos and embedded in the tree had somehow been pulled out of the trunk.
Three Adamantium claws popped out from between his fingers, but instead of using them, he stood directly in front of the ice wall, spreading his arms and using his body to block the gap left by the collapsing ice wall.
The purple beam pierced through the last half-meter of ice and struck the Superman Wolverine directly in the chest.
At full power output of the Power Stone.
Superman Wolverine Logan's skin was burned through in the very first instant.
"Ugh... Ahhh!"
The muscle tissue evaporated completely in the second instant.
The internal organs vanished into Void in the third instant.
The whole process took less than a second.
After the beam of light dissipated, only a silver-white metal skeleton remained where Superman Wolverine had stood. The composite skeleton of Adamantium and Vibranium glowed faintly in the purple afterglow, maintaining the posture of outstretched arms.
Storm and Iceman stood unharmed behind the skeleton.
Ororo's hands were trembling; she didn't know Logan well.
But this man, this stranger who had barely spoken a few words to her, had just risked his life to shield her and Bobby from that fatal blow.
Bobby turned his head slightly, looked at the skeleton, and said nothing.
He was not good with words, but silently took a step forward and reconstituted an ice shield in front of him.
The two exchanged a glance, understood each other's meaning, and decisively joined forces, for a terrifying blizzard was about to descend!