Jean Grey's body tensed involuntarily.
Her experiences in a post-apocalyptic universe have made her extremely wary of any sudden "requests".
Behind every kind smile may lie an abyss capable of swallowing everything.
The other, gentler zither noticed her nervousness and looked over with concern.
"Uncle Thor, are you going to fight bad guys again?" Rachel asked, hugging Thor's leg and looking up at him.
Thor smiled, patted the little guy's head, but his gaze never left the Red Label Phoenix.
He knew very well what the instrument had been through, and he understood her defensiveness.
"Don't be nervous," Thor said, his voice calm. "I'm not sending you to fight an apocalyptic war. I've found a really annoying guy who has a dangerous toy. I'm going to get it back, and I need someone to keep an eye on the others so they don't cause trouble."
He paused, then added, "You just need to look around; consider it a change of scenery."
Jean Grey remained silent.
Her gaze shifted from Thor to Rachel, who was playing with the little phoenix not far away, and then she looked at the hard-won peace on her other self's face.
Frost City is undoubtedly safe.
There are no zombies, no betrayal, and no endless escapes here.
Peter and Jessica were here too; they finally didn't have to risk their lives every day for their next meal and their next safe haven.
She didn't want anyone to break this peace.
But she knew all too well that this peace was built on the protection that Thor had provided.
If danger really comes knocking, running away won't solve anything.
Only by possessing sufficient power and daring to use it can one protect everything they cherish.
She didn't want to go through the pain of losing all her companions again.
"Okay." Jean Grey nodded slightly, saying only one word.
They didn't ask who the enemy was, nor what the reward would be.
For her, protecting Frost City and those around her was the best reward.
Thor was a little surprised; he had prepared a whole set of arguments, but he didn't expect the other party to agree so readily.
"Very good." Thor said no more and closed his eyes.
In an instant, countless timelines throughout the multiverse appeared clearly in his vast divine sense, like interwoven threads.
He ignored the complex details and, like a seasoned hunter, precisely captured the trace he had just encountered amidst countless scents.
Although he erased the energy signal of that Kang variant, the "echo" it left on the timeline still remains.
Following the echo, Thor's consciousness flowed upstream and quickly locked onto a coordinate.
A dimension that exists independently of all normal timelines.
Limbo, the land at the edge of time.
Found it.
Moreover, he sensed another, even more powerful and strange energy source.
That thing was like a black hole in time, constantly devouring and distorting everything around it.
Eternity Crystal.
That's it.
Thor opened his eyes, looked at the empty space in front of him, and casually made a gesture.
Golden sparks appeared out of thin air, quickly outlining the shape of a circular portal.
However, just as the portal was about to stabilize and take shape, a sudden change occurred.
"Buzz--"
The entire portal began to tremble violently, and the golden sparks at its edges seemed to be gripped tightly by an invisible hand, constantly being squeezed and contracted inward.
The surrounding space became as sticky as glue, and an ancient and savage force was trying to crush this door that was not yet fully opened.
"Ha." Thor let out a disdainful sneer.
Playing time-travel blocking in front of him?
To try and teach someone to use their limited skills.
He didn't even bother to analyze the composition of this force; he simply raised his other hand.
The Law of Space were activated instantly, forcibly stabilizing the collapsing portal frame.
Immediately afterwards, he clenched his fist tightly in the hand that was holding the portal in place.
"Crack!"
A thick bolt of golden lightning struck directly in the center of the portal.
That thunder contained the purest and most domineering destruction and the Law of Thunder.
It is not "fighting" against the force that blocks spacetime, but "crushing" it.
It's like trying to smash a piece of glass with a hammer.
"Snap!"
After a crisp sound, as if space itself were shattering, the viscous resistance vanished instantly.
The portal, which had been shrinking, suddenly expanded outward, bursting open and stabilizing into a massive gate with a diameter of over ten meters.
"Let's go." Thor remained expressionless, as if he had only done something insignificant, and stepped inside first.
Jean Grey watched his relaxed and carefree figure as his back receded, and her heart was stirred with considerable emotion.
She had also felt that immense spatial and temporal resistance just now.
Although it was nothing to her, as she could easily burn through it with the Phoenix Force, Thor simply raised his hand and shattered it, as if it were as easy as eating and drinking!
His mastery of the power of laws is terrifying; it would be quite difficult for her to perform such delicate operations.
After all, she has yet to encounter an enemy that the Phoenix Force cannot defeat.
Qin suppressed her thoughts and followed.
The moment you pass through the portal, the warm sunlight and fresh floral fragrance of Asgard Gardens vanish completely.
Instead, there was a cold, dark void.
Countless broken timelines, like shattered glass ribbons, drift slowly all around.
In the distance, there were distorted lights and chaotic energy flows.
The air was filled with a pungent smell, similar to the ozone produced when metal is overheated.
This is the Limbo Dimension.
Before Qin could even adjust to her surroundings, thousands upon thousands of red lights suddenly appeared in the darkness ahead.
Immediately afterwards, a series of clicking sounds of metal rubbing together filled the air.
A colossal black fortress, shaped like an inverted sword, floated silently in the turbulent currents of time.
It was Kang's flagship, the Damocles Base.
Around the base, countless mechanical soldiers floated in dense array.
They come in various shapes and sizes, some humanoid, some animaloid, and some purely war machines.
Without exception, they were all equipped with high-tech weapons that shimmered with psionic light.
At this moment, all the weapons, their dark muzzles, were locked onto Thor and Jyn, who had just arrived.
That's a firepower density capable of instantly destroying half the universe.
However, Thor didn't even glance at those so-called " Time Legion ".
His gaze swept over the thousands of troops and landed on the very front of the army.
There, a figure in purple and green sat leisurely on a floating throne.
He wore a tall crown, his face was old, but his eyes were full of amusement and mockery.
This person is the ultimate form of all the Conversions— Immortus the Immortal.
He seemed completely unsurprised by Thor's arrival, and even tossed something in his hand with great interest.
It was a fist-sized Crystal, completely dark, as if it could absorb all light.
Only at the moment it is thrown into the air does it refract a chilling, eerie light that seems capable of erasing all existence.
Eternity Crystal.
Immortus held the Crystal in his palm, a cruel smile curving his lips, his voice carrying an indifference that seemed to see through the river of time, echoing throughout the entire Limbo Dimension.
"Didn't you want this thing?"
"Come on, come and grab it!"
"If you're still alive."