Control

Let’s turn back time a little. After Knull prayed to Chthon, a cloud of black mist immediately descended from the sky and entered his body. His aura surged dramatically, and strange Black Magic patterns appeared all over him.

"Your time to die has come."

Knull laughed loudly. Jessica threw an irritated punch at him. "Gotten full of yourself, have you? Go die."

Knull snorted. Jessica’s fist immediately slowed down. Then, he suddenly appeared at her side and swung his sword at her neck. Due to the acceleration of time, the strike was unimaginably fast.

"An Elder God’s ability to alter time?"

Jessica’s expression changed. With a shout, crimson light burst from her entire body, forcibly shattering the surrounding space and slowing Knull’s sword for a moment.

Jessica took the chance to fall backward, narrowly avoiding Knull’s greatsword. Seeing this, Knull kicked out, sending Jessica flying.

Knull was about to pursue when a whip gleaming with Black Light smashed toward him from the side. He twisted aside to evade it, then affected time and thrust his sword straight at Ivan. Space cracks filled the area around the blade.

"You ants, I’ll make your deaths as miserable as possible."

Knull’s face was utterly twisted. A dignified Elder God had actually been humiliated by three ants. How could he possibly swallow that rage? "Madman!"

Seeing Ivan in danger, Tony immediately fired lasers at Knull. But whether it was the lasers or Ivan himself, both moved absurdly slowly in Knull’s eyes.

Time had been distorted.

Ivan was not afraid. Instead, he was somewhat excited. He activated the device on his chest with his mind. It immediately detached, then lit up with dazzling Black Light as a massive energy fluctuation violently surged through the area.

The effects of the time distortion were immediately canceled out. Propelled by a burst of force, Ivan rapidly flew backward. He laughed arrogantly and even gave Knull the middle finger.

Knull’s expression changed drastically, and he tried to flee. At that moment, the cluster of Black Light suddenly collapsed, turning into a violent black hole. Everything around it, whether time or space, was sucked inside.

Knull struggled with all his might, but he could not resist the black hole’s pull. His body was slowly dragged into it.

"How is this possible?"

Knull’s face was filled with disbelief. This black hole was as powerful as a real one. If he were still an Elder God, he would have countless ways to escape. The problem was that he was no longer an Elder God.

"Damn."

Tony’s expression changed as well. He desperately fled into the distance, but the black hole’s gravitational pull was too powerful. Even he could barely keep himself from being dragged away.

Ivan was in even worse shape. He had miscalculated the black hole’s pull, and because he was too close, his entire body was sucked toward it.

"These scientists are terrifying."

Seeing this, Jessica immediately threw out two crimson ropes that wrapped around Tony and Ivan. Then she gathered all her strength and pulled hard, dragging both Tony and Ivan toward her.

Having escaped death, both Tony and Ivan gasped for breath. Thinking of something, Tony roared at Ivan, "Are you insane? You actually created something this dangerous?"

Ivan arrogantly replied, "Yeah, I’m insane. Got a problem with that?"

"Damn."

Tony cursed, then asked, "What was that black hole just now? Why was it so powerful?"

"That was an Antimatter Black Hole. Simply put, it’s formed by collapsing an antimatter reactor in a particular way, causing space-time to collapse and create a black hole."

Ivan said proudly, "I completed the theory behind the Antimatter Black Hole last year, but there were still some details I hadn’t worked out, so I never performed a real experiment. I didn’t expect it to succeed this time. I really am a genius, hahaha."

"Antimatter? You never tested it?"

Tony completely lost it. "You’re not a madman. You’re an idiot. Your brain is full of holes. You actually dared to use something like that?"

Jessica nodded deeply in agreement. If she had not acted, neither Tony nor Ivan would have escaped disaster. The Antimatter Black Hole was simply too terrifying.

At that moment, Knull let out a scream and was pulled entirely into the black hole, leaving no corpse behind.

"Why wouldn’t I dare use it? At worst, I die. I can be resurrected anyway. Besides, what experiment doesn’t involve risk? You think everyone is some effeminate pretty boy like you?"

Seeing Knull die, Ivan became even more arrogant. Tony rolled his eyes and was about to say something when his eyes suddenly turned completely black.

Then Tony controlled the Nanoparticles on his arm, turning them into a Vibranium dagger before forcefully stabbing it into Ivan’s chest.

Ivan had no time to react. His armor was instantly pierced, and the Vibranium dagger stabbed viciously into his chest.

Ivan stared at Tony in disbelief. He wanted to say something, but blood spilled from his mouth. His heart had been pierced by the Vibranium dagger.

"Tony, have you gone crazy?"

Jessica’s expression changed drastically. She hurriedly threw Tony aside, then supported Ivan and checked his condition.

"I am crazy. I want all of you dead."

‘Tony’ shouted with a savage expression. Then he activated the device on his body. Nine crescent blades flew into the air and slashed toward Jessica.

"Haha, that bastard Tony got controlled again. Everyone, hurry up and beat him up."

Ivan laughed while coughing up blood. Everyone looked at him speechlessly. He was about to die, yet he was still thinking about beating up Tony. Who would believe they were not true love? And Tony, what was going on? He had been controlled again? "So he was controlled. I’ll deal with him."

Jessica knocked the nine crescent blades away and raised her fist, ready to beat Tony up. At that moment, the Godslayer Armor suddenly stopped. Then Jarvis’s voice rang out. "Mr. Stark’s recording will now play."

"You bastards, I can handle this myself. Don’t take the chance to come beat me up, or I definitely won’t let you off."

Although the situation was terrible, everyone felt like laughing. Tony had gained so much experience from being controlled that he had actually left a recording in advance? Tony truly had experience with being controlled. After Jarvis confirmed that Tony had been controlled, it immediately took over the Godslayer Armor. Then it activated the anti-control system. A wave of magnetic energy enveloped Tony’s body, rendering him unable to move.

Even Knull was stunned. How many times had this guy been controlled for his preparations to be this thorough?

Within the sea of consciousness, Tony roared at Knull’s consciousness, "You actually dared to control my body and hurt Ivan! Do you know what kind of relationship he has with me?"

Knull asked, "An enemy relationship?"

"Uh, that does seem to be our relationship."

Tony froze for a moment, then shouted, "So what if he’s my enemy? You actually dared to use my Godslayer Armor to hurt him?"

"Why wouldn’t I? Mortal, there’s no need to be so angry, because you’ll soon follow that man’s footsteps. I’ll kill you all one by one."

Knull sneered and abruptly transformed into a giant. Then he raised his right foot and stomped down on Tony with a thunderous crash.

"You think I’m afraid of you?"

Tony snorted. His entire body vanished. When he reappeared, he was beside Knull’s face. Then he shouted and kicked out, striking Knull hard in the face. Knull staggered back two steps and nearly fell.

"My territory, my rules. This is my body. Unless I’m afraid, no one can kill me."

Tony said disdainfully. It was only soul control. It was not as if he had never experienced it before.

Uh, why did that sound a little sad?

"Bastard!"

Knull was truly enraged. This mortal actually dared to humiliate him like this? With a roar, his entire body transformed into a huge mouth and bit down at Tony.

Tony was about to use Teleportation when he discovered that the surrounding space had frozen. He asked in astonishment, "What’s going on? Didn’t I say my territory, my rules?"

"You are merely a mortal, while I am an Elder God. What gives you the right to make the rules? Water can extinguish fire, but can a single drop of water put out a raging inferno? No matter how fallen I am, I remain an Elder God—an Elder God who possesses concepts."

As Knull roared, he prepared to swallow Tony. At that moment, a lightning dragon and a Power Dragon descended from the sky, forcibly tearing Knull’s huge mouth apart. Knull let out a miserable scream, returned to his original form, and fled into the distance.

Tony let out a breath of relief and looked up. The lightning dragon and Power Dragon were filled with Ivan and Jessica’s auras, and he immediately understood who had come to help him.

"Madman…"

Tony was somewhat moved. Ivan was nearly dead, yet he had still come to help him.

Ivan mocked, "Tony, will you die if you don’t brag? You actually dared to say you could handle it yourself. If we hadn’t come, you would’ve become digestive waste by now."

Tony’s face immediately darkened. Moved, his ass. Even if this guy died, he would still be a bastard.

"I know what you’re thinking, but I’m not dead. I’m alive and kicking."

Ivan said disdainfully, "The only pity is that I didn’t get a chance to beat you up."

Tony said incredulously, "You’re fine? How is that possible? That stab definitely pierced your heart."

As Jessica chased after Knull, she said, "Of course it’s possible, because Dracula came."

Tony looked completely confused. "What does that have to do with Dracula?"

Let’s move time forward a little. Dracula looked at Ivan, who was continuously coughing up blood, and said with a sigh, "Young people really are no good. Fine, this old man will help you out."

After saying that, Dracula grabbed toward Ivan from afar. All of Ivan’s injuries immediately vanished, while a large amount of blood burst from Dracula’s chest.

As Dracula activated his self-healing ability, he waved at the confused Ivan. "Boy, remember this lesson. Don’t make the same mistake again. Next time, there may not be anyone to save you."

"Boy? I’m practically old already, all right?"

Ivan complained. He and Tony were actually both nearing fifty, though compared to Dracula, who had lived for tens of thousands of years, they truly were nothing.

"Stop looking at me. Go help Tony. He’s about to die."

Dracula continued. Ivan froze, then hurriedly activated Dragon Soul with Jessica and charged into Tony’s body.

"Young people really are full of vigor."

Dracula nodded in satisfaction. Lilith mocked, "Dracula, what the hell are you pretending for? You’re just a damage-transferring sacrificial substitute."

That was right. Dracula was a damage-transferring sacrificial substitute. Since he would not die anyway, his presence ensured that no one else would die.

However, Dracula only transferred fatal injuries. He would not transfer ordinary minor injuries. In his words, such trivial matters were not worth his intervention.

"So what if I’m a sacrificial substitute? Can’t a sacrificial substitute have style? Can’t one be impressive?"

Dracula retorted unhappily, "I may be a sacrificial substitute, but I’m one with ideals, ambitions, and a positive outlook. Unlike you, who has no ambition at all. After all these years, you still haven’t climbed onto the Blood God’s…"

"Shut up!"

Lilith shouted in embarrassed fury. At that moment, the Blood Clan finished off all the insect generals. They looked around, then flew toward the Domain of Death—help was needed there.

"Trash! Why are all my subordinates trash?"

Annihilus was being beaten down by Quake King, Knull was trapped inside Tony’s body, and all the insect generals had been wiped out. Only Hela remained able to fight. Seeing the Blood Clan fly in, she could not help but curse loudly.

Little Hela held the Light Sword and shouted, "Hela, you’ve lost."

"Lost? Hela, you really know how to joke. You think you can defeat me with just yourselves?"

Hela sneered. Her body suddenly vanished, and when she reappeared, she was already outside the Domain of Death.

"Damn it."

Little Hela’s expression changed. She hurriedly tried to rush out of the Domain of Death, but at that moment, countless Soul Stone runes appeared on the spatial barrier. Space shook violently and was completely sealed.

Little Hela was knocked back by the barrier. Looking at the wailing souls on it, her face turned extremely ugly. "So many souls?"

"This is a Seal of Death formed from one million souls. Let’s see how you break it."

Hela sneered. "And let me add this: these runes are made of souls. If the runes are destroyed, the souls die."

Eddie could not help shouting, "Hey, isn’t that too despicable?"

"On a battlefield, there are only winners and losers. What despicable tactics are there?"

Hela sneered disdainfully. She snapped her fingers, and a dense Asgard army appeared within the Domain of Death, looking excitedly at Little Hela and the others.

"Fight for the Goddess of Death!"

As the Asgard army launched its attack, Hela transformed into a streak of Black Light and rapidly swept toward Jessica and the others. She intended to eliminate Jessica and Quake King first, then join forces with Annihilus to deal with Little Hela and the others inside the Domain of Death.

"Damn it."

Little Hela cursed and waved her hand, manifesting countless Light Swords as she prepared to attack the barrier. Seeing this, Steve hurriedly stopped her.

Steve shouted, "No. Those souls are innocent. We can’t sacrifice them."

"If they don’t die, we will. Besides, I’d be helping them transcend."

Little Hela said. Steve shook his head. "No. One million souls is far too many. There must be another way."

"Perhaps there is another way."

Little Hela said, "But we don’t have time. We have to get out immediately and stop Hela."

Steve said, "Wait a little longer. Bert has been nearby all this time. If the situation falls apart, he’ll definitely intervene."

"Master? All right, then we’ll wait."

Little Hela hesitated for a moment, then nodded. Seeing this, Hela sneered disdainfully. What foolish compassion. In that case, she would not hold back.

"Jessica, obediently accept your death."

Hela swung the Night Sky Sword, and countless black swords shot toward Jessica, Tony, and Ivan.

"Something happened outside. Ivan, I’m returning to my body. You and Tony deal with that piece of trash, Knull."

Jessica sensed the danger and immediately returned her consciousness to her body—earlier, her consciousness had been attached to the Power Dragon.

"Fine."

Tony and Ivan nodded together and charged at Knull. Covered in wounds and looking utterly miserable, Knull roared and transformed his palm into a giant hand, viciously slamming it toward them.