Thor took a single step, and his figure vanished into the ruins of time.
When he reappeared, the sight before him made him pause for a moment.
A chaotic energy storm raged here, and countless fragments of shattered timelines flew everywhere like glass.
At the eye of the storm, a blazing fire and a deep green light are colliding violently.
It's a zither.
She hovered in the air, her body engulfed in Phoenix Fire powerful enough to incinerate the universe. With each flap of her wings, she stirred up waves of the laws of creation and destruction.
But her opponent, the enormous green creature, was in no way at a disadvantage.
Another Hulk?
Before Thor could even get a good look at the Hulk's differences, his gaze was drawn to another person at the edge of the battlefield.
Loki, God of Time.
His younger brother sat on that illusory golden throne, his hands outstretched, doing his utmost to stabilize the timelines that were on the verge of collapse due to the battle.
Countless green and gold threads spread from his fingertips, like the most skillful weaver, trying to stitch this tattered "fabric" back together.
But his face was unusually pale and strained.
Thor walked up to him in a few steps.
"Brother."
With a casual toss, the fragment of Loki's Time Authority, which he had just seized from Pharaoh Kang, flew in a green-gold arc toward the throne.
"Don't tell me you got tricked like this by Kang and his bunch of noobs." Thor's tone was full of mockery. "You're someone who single-handedly held up all the timelines of the multiverse, how could you be so weak?"
Loki merely glanced at him, extended a finger, and the fragment silently merged into his body.
He maintained the stability of the timeline, his voice calmly conveying, "What I can see is limited. If it's merely a crisis within the multiverse, then I can trace all the causes and effects."
Thor understood immediately.
He muttered to himself: I get it, the person behind this isn't from the multiverse at all.
"Are you talking about those Beyonders?" he asked.
Loki nodded, then shook his head.
"More than."
He gestured with his chin, indicating that Thor should look at the green creature in the distance that was fiercely battling Jean Grey.
"There are many even more ancient beings, some even dating back to before the birth of the multiverse."
Thor then focused all his attention on the Hulk.
This Hulk was larger and more... twisted than any he had ever seen.
It was entangled with visible negative laws: hunger, death, end, Void... These powers were as thick as green butter, and with each punch, the surrounding spacetime groaned in agony.
"Is it related to the negative laws surrounding this guy?" Thor asked Loki beside him. "If you only said his anger had no limit, I really don't believe he could fight Jean to this extent right now."
Loki gave Thor a deep look.
"You should know this exists." His voice was devoid of any emotion.
"Its birth was an accident, but its status is extremely high. It is currently sealed within the multiverse, that is, within the lower realm. You can call it, the One-Below-All, or, OBA."
Thor's expression froze instantly.
He took a step back, then another, until he was almost completely hidden behind Loki's golden throne before stopping.
"Are you sure?!" His voice changed. "If it's true, then I'm running away. I definitely can't beat this thing. You'd better pray for yourself."
This reaction even made Loki was usually as calm as a still pond, twitch at the corner of his mouth.
"To be precise, it's a puppet bewitched by it," Loki explained.
" Bruce Banner from Earth-109527. There, he lost all his comrades, partners, lovers, family, and his world. Despair and anger turned him into a vessel for ' One-Below-All '."
"His purpose in coming here is to destroy me."
"If I die, the timeline of the multiverse will be left unprotected, and it will completely collapse, causing countless universes to perish."
Loki paused, then added, "Actually, you should be wary. I believe you can handle the Council of Kangs. But the Council of Mephisto might be a bit more troublesome."
"There's another council you probably haven't heard of. It's made up of a group of Hulk, but you should have fought one of the four-armed ones before. You should also know their leader, he's called War Master Hulk. As for their goal, it's to open the Green Door inside Banner Bruce in Earth-616."
Thor listened to this series of reports and looked at Loki's calm face, feeling a chill run down his spine.
"Is it true that everyone has absolutely no secrets from you?"
This guy is terrifying.
They're practically like those account opening specialists who rattle off your entire family history the moment you meet them! How can this be allowed?
Loki simply smiled and remained silent.
After a moment, he finally uttered, "I can only see the first half of your life clearly, but I can't see the future."
Thor no longer cared about these things.
His gaze returned to the battlefield, his expression grave. "Can that zither... defeat this guy?"
Loki shook his head.
"What are you thinking?" he asked, as if stating a fact.
"Where do you think those negative laws on the other side came from? This being was born to destroy everything. As for Jean Grey, although she absorbed power Beyonders and is somewhat special, she's just a forced Omniverse Level being. In this level, she's at the bottom."
It was as if to verify Loki's words.
On the distant battlefield, the Hulk, possessed by the One-Below-All, let out a roar that shook all timelines.
It ignored the Phoenix Fire that burned everything and unleashed a punch with the purest brute force.
boom--!
Jean Grey's figure flew backward like a meteor that had been knocked away, shattering countless afterimages of timelines along the way, before finally crashing heavily not far from Thor and Loki.
"Puff!"
A mouthful of blood mixed with golden flames spurted from her mouth.
Thor stepped forward and reached out to support her swaying body.
A pure Law of Life flowed from his palm into Qin's body, helping her stabilize her life essence, which was on the verge of collapse.
"Can you hold on?" Thor asked.
He then gave a wry smile and added, "Although I really want to help you, I really can't be of any help in a fight of this level."
He was internally ranting and raving.
Are you kidding me?!
My cheat ability is Heaven-Defying Comprehension, not invincibility with a single click.
It completely prevents me from directly jumping a level to go head-to-head with something of this final boss caliber.
I am merely a weak, pitiful, and helpless Multiverse Level. Why am I being matched with such a top-tier, Omniverse Level opponent?
Is there something wrong with this matching mechanism?!