"Sorry to bother you. Enjoy your meal."
Snap!
The moment Thor got a clear look at the figure on the other side, he instantly closed the portal and turned to Valeria, his voice urgent.
"Quick, quick, quick! Valeria! Disinfect everything! Don't let the zombie virus drift in!"
"Are you stupid, Thor? That thing obviously doesn't spread through the air."
Valeria once again marveled at Thor's intelligence, but she still pulled out a portable biological purification device and began disinfecting the spot where the portal had just closed.
"Who was that? The pressure he gave off was terrifying. He felt even scarier than Thor!"
Gambit Remy had been so badly startled by the golden figure's gaze and aura that he had involuntarily charged all the playing cards in his hand.
Everyone else was the same. Laura had even extended her claws, Mjolnir in her hand, and her beast sense had gone haywire!
"He's one of Earth's strongest superheroes, with the power of a million exploding suns inside him: Sentry, Robert Reynolds."
"Right now, the only ones who can definitely beat him are other ridiculously overpowered people like Valeria's brother, Scarlet Witch at her peak, and Phoenix."
Thor's expression was unusually grave. He had never imagined that simply opening a portal would send him straight into the Zombie Universe.
Opening a portal to the wrong place was bad enough, but he had just had to run into the zombie Sentry.
If he had reacted a second slower and let the other man charge through, the consequences would have been unthinkable.
There was no helping it. By Marvel's rules, Sentry was absurdly overpowered.
His lower limit was a ceiling the vast majority of heroes could never reach in their entire lives.
Thor could fight him, but he had no confidence in being able to protect everyone around him while taking on a monster like that.
Besides, from what he could sense, the other man wasn't much weaker than Thor, who had now reached the peak of the quasi-universal level. And since Thor hadn't fully mastered the Law of Oblivion, he had no way to kill him for good.
"So that was... the Zombie Universe?"
Betsy raised an eyebrow, remembering the terrifying world Thor had once told her about.
"Yes. In that universe, all the superheroes were infected by a cross-dimensional hunger virus and turned into immortal zombies.
"They retained all their intelligence and power, but had only one thought left: hunting living things."
"Later, to stop the virus from contaminating the entire multiverse, the Watcher locked two universes into a closed time loop, sealing the disaster inside forever."
"Who's the Watcher?"
Betsy asked.
"He's a... let me think how to put it."
Thor thought for a moment, but before he could speak, Valeria had already found information on Sentry and the Watcher.
"Let me see..."
It was time for Valeria's classic information-digging routine again. She brought up her all-purpose personal terminal, opened the database, and began to read.
"The Watchers, one of the oldest races in the universe, uphold absolute neutrality. They observe without interfering and are responsible for recording major events in the multiverse. Their power approaches that of cosmic gods, and they rarely intervene in any conflict."
A 3D image of a big-headed figure wearing a blue cape then appeared before everyone.
"As for Sentry, Robert Reynolds:
"One of Earth's top superhumans. As a young man, he secretly drank the military's enhanced version of the Super Soldier Serum (the Golden Sentry Serum), accidentally connected to a source of Cosmic Energy, and gained the Power of a Million Exploding Suns;
"His mind hosts a dark personality, Void. His power is extremely unstable; even in his normal state, he stands at the ceiling of Earth's combat power. A dangerously overpowered individual..."
"Valeria, how about coming with me? I could use a walking database..."
Thor rubbed his hands together and looked at Valeria longingly.
"Ew..." Valeria took half a step back in disgust. "Thor, you clearly know just as much as I do. And why don't you look in a mirror? You really look like a creepy pervert right now."
"Me? A creepy pervert?" Thor pointed at himself, looked at the little brat, then glanced at the others around him, hoping for their opinion.
"Thor, she's right. You really do look like one right now, hahaha!"
Betsy studied him for a few moments before reaching that conclusion. She also patted Thor's shoulder several times, then leaned against it and burst out laughing.
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Of all people, I never expected you to be the first to stab me in the back, Betsy. Looks like I'll have to find a chance to teach you a proper lesson with a stick. You're already this unruly after going half a day without a beating. What will you be like later?!
Thor silently settled on a punishment plan for Betsy. Go ahead and laugh. I hope you won't beg for mercy when the time comes, Betsy.
He had plenty of strength and plenty of ways to do it!
Tsk, tsk, tsk...
Thor ignored Betsy, who was still laughing at him, and reached out to summon another portal.
He wondered which universe it would open into this time.
After all, he now effectively held a master key that could open the multiverse, but he still hadn't locked onto the Prime Universe's exact coordinates. Every world he hadn't visited was a blind opening, so precisely locating the Prime Universe would take some luck.
The golden portal opened again, revealing a ruined street on the other side. Thor took a quick look and recognized a New York street, but just as he was about to go in and see what was going on, a massive, muscular green monster, a full three meters tall, walked through the portal.
"Well, well, you ants want a piece of me too?"
The pointy-headed Abomination looked at Thor and his companions and gave a cruel smile.
Rumble!
The next second, a thick pillar of purple-black lightning descended from the sky and struck the green monster head-on. In less than half a minute, Abomination had completely vanished, leaving nothing but a blackened patch on the ground.
"Pah! What the hell are you, acting tough with me? You think you're Sentry?"
Thor spat directly onto the ground and started beating the corpse... er, beating the ashes...
Next!
The aura of laws in the universe on the other side was nothing special. Normally, the aura of laws in the Prime Universe should be stronger than in other universes.
Otherwise, how long would it take him to go into each one and look around?
"Valeria, magic little darling, it's time for you to go into battle. Can you tell whether the one on the other side is the Prime Universe?"
Valeria rolled her eyes dramatically. After fiddling with her personal terminal for a while, she gave him an answer. "The one on the other side is Earth-236689, not the Prime Universe."
"Also, which Prime Universe do you want? There's one numbered 616 and another numbered 199999."
"Wait, you actually have them?"
Now it was Thor's turn to be completely shocked. The universe Valeria came from was a little overpowered if it could even observe those?!
"We've only observed them, but we don't have the corresponding coordinates. The dimensional barriers around those two universes are very strong, especially Earth-616's. Even Franklin thinks it's a bit troublesome."
"Skip universe 616 altogether. You really don't have the coordinates for the other universe?"
Unwilling to give up, Thor asked again. It was better to go to the Marvel Cinematic Universe first. The Marvel Comics Universe was far too overpowered; with his current strength, he'd be nothing more than a slightly bigger grasshopper there.
"Let me look. Huh?! I actually do! Let me see what's going on. Franklin, that guy, actually went to universe 199999 in secret?! And he didn't take me?!!"
"Quick! Give me the coordinates!"
"What's the hurry? You're not thinking of going there to find women, are you?"
Valeria looked up at Thor suspiciously. Why was he so excited?
Ahem... Actually, he was going to find Scarlet Witch, who would have multiversal-level combat power in the future. He was only going to recruit an ally. How was that anything as vulgar as the little brat made it sound?
"Well... the laws of the Prime Universe are more complete, so I can get stronger faster. And once I'm stronger, I can catch dimensional demon gods for you to study more easily, can't I?"
Thor promptly started lying and making grand promises.
"Here, I'll give you the coordinates, energy signature, and everything else. You can just open it."
Valeria held out her personal terminal.
Thor hurriedly drew on his divine power and the Laws of Reality and Space to pinpoint the location.
Sizzle...
Whoosh!
A portal four meters high and two meters wide appeared before everyone. Before they could react, a bald woman in yellow robes stepped out.
"Thor Odinson, you stirred the multiversal coordinates and forcibly broke through the dimensional barrier to come to this world."
"For what purpose?"