Annihilation

"Mephisto, thank you."

Wang Bert sincerely thanked Mephisto. After all, he had given everything for him. He deserved praise.

"Blood God, curse your ancestors for eighteen generations."

Mephisto viciously gave Wang Bert the finger. Then, his body turned to ash and dispersed—both his body and soul had been sacrificed.

"Blood God, you will die a horrible death."

Knull’s soul roared. Wang Bert politely asked Death, "Death, will I die a horrible death?"

Death sighed. "Troublemakers live for a thousand years. Someone like you will live a very, very long time."

"Death said I won’t die a horrible death. Knull, obediently become my food. Oh, and when I return to the Main Universe, I’ll devour the version of you from that other world too."

Wang Bert laughed heartily. Once he devoured Knull, his strength would soar. He would go from a newly ascended ancient god to an established one.

"Blood God!"

Knull was still roaring, but Wang Bert could not be bothered to listen any longer. He snapped his fingers, and Knull was directly muted.

Before long, Knull would become a thing of the past.

"Blood God, I truly underestimated you. Knull has existed longer than the universe itself, yet you actually defeated him and even turned him into food."

Within the sea of consciousness, Death exclaimed in amazement. Then, her skeletal face transformed into an incomparably beautiful visage. Even Wang Bert, who had seen countless beauties, was stunned by her beauty.

Death’s beauty was the kind that drew moths to a flame—one knew she was dangerous, knew getting close to her meant death, yet could not resist rushing toward her.

Showing Wang Bert her face meant that Death had formally acknowledged him.

"If you entered a beauty pageant, you’d definitely win first place."

Wang Bert looked at Death and praised her. "Uh, you should go back to the skull face. I’m afraid I’d be betraying my wife. I’m very faithful."

Death sneered. "You? Faithful? Since 2008, you’ve slept with a total of—"

"Stop. That was the original body, not me. I, Dragon King Bert, am the most faithful man in the world. In this life, I love only Wanda."

Wang Bert spoke righteously while inwardly grumbling. Could Death have been secretly in love with him all along? She had actually kept track of how many women he had slept with? "The more you say that, the more I want to develop some kind of special relationship with you."

Death smiled dangerously. At that moment, she sensed something and abruptly turned to the side, discovering a woman in red glaring viciously at her, her gaze filled with menace.

"She actually threatened me?"

Death was somewhat annoyed. Were these people taking her, a Creator God, far too lightly? Wang Bert followed Death’s gaze but saw nothing. He asked, "Death, what is it?"

"Nothing."

Seeing the woman in red vanish, Death snorted and said, "Blood God, are you really not considering becoming my subordinate god? I can give you the position of first subordinate god. In a sense, the first subordinate god is equivalent to my husband."

Given Death’s status, she normally would not issue invitations repeatedly. But Wang Bert’s stunning performance, along with the threat from the woman in red just now, had changed her mind.

"I told you, I’m very faithful. If you’re interested in me, go find my original body. He has no taboos."

Wang Bert shrugged. "Enough talk. I need to devour Knull as soon as possible, then return to Earth and deal with your Thanos."

Death laughed. "You may not necessarily be able to deal with him."

"Could Thanos still have Death Power he hasn’t used?"

Wang Bert was astonished. With his current strength, where did Death get such confidence? In fact, even before this, Wang Bert could have easily crushed Thanos.

Death gave a mysterious smile. "Perhaps."

"I see."

Wang Bert thought for a moment and said, "Death, thank you for the warning. I know what to do now."

As he spoke, Wang Bert waved his hand, and the Thunder Pool he had spent so long gathering vanished. Death was stunned, then said, "I wasn’t warning you."

Wang Bert smiled and said, "I understand. You don’t need to say more. Simps never die well."

"I really wasn’t warning you."

Death sighed. It seemed Thanos was doomed. Fortunately, his soul could return to the Main Universe.

At Avengers Base, Thanos was in a miserable state—he was being brutally beaten by a group of Super Heroes, and he was nearly losing all his teeth.

It was not that Thanos was weak. There were simply too many Super Heroes, and they were too strong.

Wanda, two Hulks, two Steves, two Tonys, Captain Marvel, Dr. Strange, Fat Thor, Ivan—facing such a lineup, Thanos could only say, I really can’t take this anymore.

In fact, if the Symbiote had not been constantly helping him, Thanos might already have been lying there dead.

A little longer. It looks like I’ll have to use my other trump card.

Thanos gritted his teeth. He did not possess the Devouring Concept, so devouring Thanos’s power would take at least ten minutes. Only six minutes had passed so far.

"Loki, get down here and save me."

Thanos shouted. Loki had been commanding the battle aboard Sanctuary, only to be beaten black and blue by Doom.

Tony sneered. "Loki? Thanos, did I hear that right? Of all people to call for help, you called that weakling?"

Everyone burst into laughter. Hulk added, "Come on, Thanos. Loki is a comic relief character, okay?"

Fat Thor said in great dissatisfaction, "Hey, that’s mine—my sister. Watch your mouths."

At that moment, snow began to fall from the sky. Hexagonal snowflakes. The moment they landed on someone, they turned into ice and froze them.

Then, Loki, her skin icy blue, descended from the sky like an Ice Fairy. She coldly said, "Who’s a comic relief character? I, Loki, am the Queen of Asgard and the Frost Kingdom."

"Watch out for the snow! You’ll be frozen."

Tony noticed something was wrong and hurriedly shouted. As Doom used High-Temperature Light Beams to destroy the snowflakes, he yelled, "The temperature is dropping rapidly. Take Loki down quickly."

"I’ll do it."

Future Hulk immediately leaped toward Loki. Loki smiled disdainfully, and an ice-blue Casket of Ancient Winters appeared between her hands out of thin air. A vast amount of frigid air then blasted out from the casket. Future Hulk, who was charging at her, was instantly frozen into an ice block and crashed onto the ground with a bang.

"The Casket of Ancient Winters? Wasn’t it already destroyed?"

Fat Thor was stunned. The Casket of Ancient Winters had been kept in Asgard’s treasury. It should have been destroyed along with Asgard.

"The Casket of Ancient Winters is the core of Jotunheim. How could it be destroyed so easily? It was drifting through space all this time. I only paid a small price to obtain it."

Loki said, "Today, I’ll let you witness the true power of the Frost Kingdom, so you stop thinking I’m some comic relief character. Jotunheim is a major force capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with Asgard."

As Loki spoke, the projection of Jotunheim suddenly appeared behind her. Then, bone-chilling winds began howling all around them.

Freezing winds and falling snow, a double assault. The ground and buildings rapidly froze over. Wakandan soldiers shivered violently as frost quickly formed on their hair and clothes.

The Outriders and Chitauri had the Symbiote’s help and were barely affected by the freezing air. They seized the opportunity to launch a fierce assault, forcing the human side steadily back.

"Stop her."

Doom shouted as he fired a Cosmic Energy cannon as thick as a bucket at Loki. Loki turned and glared at it. The energy beam froze on the spot, then shattered with a crash and dissolved into specks of light.

"That’s impossible. How can Loki be this strong?"

Everyone stared in disbelief. The two Tonys refused to accept it and fired missiles at Loki together. Yet before the missiles could get close, they froze into ice blocks.

Loki laughed loudly like a man. "I’m going to freeze the entire Earth and plunge it into an ice age."

Thanos was overjoyed and desperately held back the other Super Heroes. Loki truly had not disappointed him. The Reality Stone combined with the Casket of Ancient Winters had turned her into a true Frost Queen.

Seeing the situation turn bad, Strange and Doom simultaneously cast the Mirror Dimension, trying to pull Loki inside. Loki had been prepared. Blood-red light flashed around her body, and when the Mirror Dimension swept over her, she did not move in the slightest.

"No one can make me go somewhere I don’t want to go."

Loki arrogantly declared, "I will freeze all of you into ice and turn you into decorations."

Loki was feeling incredibly pleased with herself. She had even forgotten that she was an undercover agent. Damn it, they called her a comic relief character every day. Did she not have any dignity? "Damn it."

With the Mirror Dimension ineffective, Doom’s expression darkened. After thinking for a moment, he flew out of the Celestial Head.

Then, blazing white flames erupted around Doom’s body. They were nuclear flames, incredibly hot, and the falling snow around him instantly evaporated into Water Vapor.

"King Doom, don’t attack. If you do, a lot of people will die."

Tony hurriedly shouted. Doom was no different from a nuclear weapon now. If he attacked, he would inevitably cause massive damage.

"If we don’t kill Loki, the entire Earth will freeze. We can’t delay any longer."

Doom said coldly. Tony was about to say something else when a figure suddenly appeared behind Loki and struck her unconscious with the hilt of a blade.

Before Loki passed out, her eyes were filled with shock. What’s going on? Wasn’t this supposed to be my shining moment? Why did it suddenly end? Doesn’t that still make me a comic relief character? "You should just honestly stick to being comic relief. You have no future as a villain."

The one who attacked was Elektra. She had been waiting for an opportunity to ambush Thanos and kill him in a single blow. But the Super Heroes had been so effective that they beat Thanos into a miserable state. Seeing this, Elektra simply stood aside—she did not like stealing kills.

Then Loki came out and drew all the attention. Naturally, Elektra did not stand on ceremony and knocked her unconscious. Elektra knew Loki was an undercover agent, so she had held back.

Once Loki fainted, the phantom image of the Frost Kingdom immediately vanished. Then, the freezing winds and snowfall stopped at the same time.

Doom nodded in satisfaction and had the Celestial Head release a High-Temperature Sun. The surrounding temperature rapidly rose, melting vast amounts of ice into water.

Although the temperature had risen, many Wakandan soldiers had lost their combat ability due to frostbite. Seeing this, Doom sent the Black Widow Corps and Clone Corps down to support them. In any case, the two Sanctuaries had already been mostly dealt with.

"Loki is finally taken care of."

Seeing Loki go down, all the Super Heroes breathed a sigh of relief. Then, they turned their attention back to Thanos.

"Finish him quickly, or when Bert gets back, we won’t even get any soup."

Tony shouted. Everyone nodded and accelerated their attacks. They could not let the Blood God take all the glory for himself.

Hulk’s eyes spun as he picked up the frozen Future Hulk and used him as a weapon, smashing him viciously at Thanos.

Thanos punched the ice, shattering it. Future Hulk grinned and threw a hard punch into Thanos’s left eye, instantly giving him a black eye.

Thanos’s eye stung so badly that he nearly cried. Fortunately, the devouring process was almost complete. He roared with a savage expression, "I’ll kill all of you!"

At that moment, the void shattered, and the area around Thanos transformed into a Thunder Pool composed of Space Energy. Before he could even react, he fell into the Thunder Pool.

"Ah!" The Symbiote screamed as it was instantly destroyed by spatial lightning. Then, the spatial lightning began annihilating Thanos’s body.

"No! Why is this happening? I was about to succeed! I am destiny! I am destiny!"

Thanos roared unwillingly. The remaining Death Power surged from his body as he desperately tried to escape the Thunder Pool. Wang Bert sneered disdainfully and controlled the lightning to transform into countless Dragon Gods that pounced on Thanos.

Three seconds later, the Death Power in Thanos’s body was exhausted. Five seconds later, Thanos turned to ash, leaving only his soul alive.

The Dragon Gods were about to destroy Thanos’s soul when a wave of death surged from the depths of his soul and carried him away from this universe.

"In your dreams."

Sensing Thanos’s situation, Wang Bert snorted coldly and controlled the Thunder Pool to transform into a Dragon God covered in lightning, charging into the Space Channel to pursue Thanos.

The Space Channel could not withstand the Dragon God’s power and shattered with a crash. Thanos’s soul and the Dragon God vanished at the same time.

"Damn it."

Wang Bert cursed and said to Death, "What kind of shoddy construction is this? It broke apart so easily?"

"You’ve got the nerve to blame me?"

Death rolled her eyes at Wang Bert and said unhappily, "The Space Channel shattered. Thanos is definitely dead. Blood God, aren’t you being a bit too ruthless?"

"Even though this isn’t a novel, Thanos probably won’t die. In the future, he’ll definitely come back to cause trouble for me."

Wang Bert said irritably. He had no evidence, only intuition.

"I certainly hope so. Blood God, you won this time, but this is not the end. This is only the beginning. No matter what, I must fulfill my duty."

Death said, "Next, others will come play with you."

"I’ll be ready anytime."

Wang Bert said, "As long as I’m here, no one can touch Earth."

Death glanced at Wang Bert, said nothing more, and vanished directly. At the same time, the Death Power sealed within the Infinity Gauntlet rapidly dissipated.

Death did not want to give Wang Bert the chance to devour Death Power. In the future, the two of them might truly come into conflict.

What a stingy woman. She didn’t even leave a gift behind. Sigh, my strength still isn’t enough.

Wang Bert secretly sighed. His strength was certainly enough for self-preservation—although the Creator Gods were stronger than him, they were gods and had restrictions. Unless Wang Bert obstructed them from carrying out their duties, they would not attack him.

The problem was that Wang Bert wanted more than self-preservation. He also wanted to protect Earth, which meant he would inevitably come into conflict with Death and Galactus.

That was right. Besides Death, there was also Galactus.

The Main Universe had the Fantastic Four, and they looked exactly like they did in the movies. That meant Galactus would come to Earth. The Sorcerer Supreme, Ancient One, was no longer around, so Wang Bert could only carry this burden himself.

"After returning to the Main Universe, I must go to other universes to seize the Space Stone and devour ancient gods."

Wang Bert murmured, "Only then can I rapidly increase my strength and gain true freedom."