Immortus's roar echoed in the deathly silence of the dimension, carrying with it a last, desperate hope.
Before he finished speaking, the void before him seemed to be torn open like a scroll by an invisible hand, revealing three enormous openings leading to the unknown depths.
Three enormous, indescribable humanoid statues slowly descended from the crack.
Their bodies seemed to be composed of pure time energy, with countless microcosms of the birth and death of universes flowing across their surfaces. Their mere existence caused the entire spacetime of the Limbo Dimension to become disordered and distorted.
Ast, Zanth, Vorth.
The three of them are the Time-Keepers in the multiverse.
The aura emanating from these three statues was many orders of magnitude stronger than that of Immortus from before.
That was the true pressure emanating from the top of the food chain in the multiverse; each statue was enough to easily restart a timeline.
Immortus is a time agent who exists to hunt down a Thor.
These three are gods who govern all agents of time.
Thor easily sensed the opponent's strength.
The pinnacle of the multiverse, roughly the same as my current state.
In terms of the depth of the laws of time, these three old fogies are indeed stronger than him, but that's about it.
Moreover, the laws he has mastered are not limited to time alone.
The power of dozens of laws within his body had begun to subtly boil, eager to be unleashed.
To put it simply, they're just three mascots responsible for overseeing the timeline.
If a real fight breaks out, it's uncertain who will live and who will die.
"My lords! Save me!" Seeing his support arrive, Immortus on the ground grasped at a last straw and desperately reached out his hand.
The three Time-Keepers ' indifferent gazes first swept over the half-dead Immortus on the ground, and then landed on Thor.
After lingering on Thor for a moment, their gaze moved past Thor to Jean Grey behind him.
There, they "saw" a cosmic flame that was being suppressed but still exuded a terrifying aura.
The very nature of that power stirred even their eternal divinity.
The Phoenix Force.
Moreover, it is Phoenix Force of terrifying magnitude.
This woman's strength far surpasses theirs!
The three enormous statues exchanged a silent glance.
The next second, the central statue, an entity named Ast, emitted a grand yet emotionless voice that resounded throughout the entire dimension:
"Time Agent Immortus has violated the contract by arbitrarily activating the Eternity Crystal in an attempt to erase multiple timelines and disrupt the balance of the multiverse. His crimes deserve death. We will not protect him."
"..."
The entire dimension fell into an eerie silence.
Where did that earth-shattering entrance go?
What about that suffocating divine pressure?
Is this betraying your teammates?
Immortus was lying on the ground full of hope, suddenly froze on the face, replaced by utter despair and disbelief.
He couldn't understand why.
Why would three supreme Time-Keepers stand by and watch their loyal agent perish?
Would they even fear a mere Asgardians?
"Ha." Thor chuckled, his laughter filled with undisguised mockery.
He didn't bother to look at the three pretentious statues again, and looked down at the Immortus he was carrying in his hand, his eyes indifferent.
"Fool, do you only realize it now?"
Thor suddenly exerted force with his palm.
There were no screams, no struggles.
Under Immortus's desperate and bewildered gaze, the power of the Law of Destruction surged from Thor's palm, directly disintegrating and erasing his very concept of existence from its very core.
His body, his Soul Stone, and everything he represented instantly transformed into countless golden grains of time, which then vanished into Void.
In the moments before he was completely reduced to ashes, Immortus's lifeless eyes stared intently at Thor, and with his last ounce of will, he uttered a few broken syllables:
"They... are... almost... successful..."
Thor loosened his grip, letting the last wisp of time slip through his fingers.
What "they"?
Who succeeded?
He frowned. Were they those rats from the Council of Kangs?
But now was not the time to think about such things; he was far more interested in the spoils he had just acquired.
He looked down at the fist-sized Crystal in his palm, which emitted a faint blue light.
This thing is way more powerful than the Time Stone from the Infinity Stones.
The Time Stone merely flounders within the long river of time in a universe, while this Crystal can leap directly off the riverbank, pointing and gesturing across the entire river, and even fill it up.
Rewrite the timeline, delete causality...
A thought suddenly popped into Thor's mind.
Loki is still stuck on the throne at the end of time, miserably playing the role of the Golden Toilet God, single-handedly maintaining the stability of countless timelines.
if...
If we could use this Eternity Crystal, combined with Valeria's genius mind, to create a super-upgraded version of the TVA system, to replace Loki in sorting out and maintaining those messy timelines...
Does that mean we can finally pull that unfortunate guy off that damned throne?
Once the idea took hold, it couldn't be stopped.
Thor thought about it more and more and it seemed feasible. He didn't lack power or technology; what he lacked was a core like the Eternity Crystal.
He stuffed the Eternity Crystal and a few other trinkets into his spatial pocket, and his mood improved considerably.
The three enormous statues stood silently watching from beginning to end, watching Thor completely obliterate their agent right before their eyes, watching him stuff the stolen goods into his pocket, not daring to utter a single word.
"That's enough for now, let's go."
Thor clapped his hands and turned to Jean, who was still somewhat dazed.
However, in the instant he turned around...
"Click--"
A sickening cracking sound resounded without warning throughout the entire Limbo Dimension.
The sound wasn't like shattered glass, nor like space being torn apart, but something more fundamental... like a huge crack appearing in the very "existence" of the entire world.
Immediately afterwards, an indescribable, eerie wave swept in like a tsunami, instantly engulfing everything within the dimension.
Thor's expression changed. He was about to activate his law shield when he discovered that the wave had directly penetrated his body and was affecting a deeper dimension.
He, Jean Grey, and the three colossal time statues all felt, in that instant, a violent tremor emanating from the very depths of the multiverse.