Disaster Was Always One Step Behind Me

They began gathering energy and preparing to fire within three minutes. Normally, no one could have known their plan, much less reacted in time.

So the Chitauri General was not worried in the slightest. Though this battle would cost the Chitauri army some losses, Blue Planet would pay for it in blood.

The combined volley from more than a dozen large Cosmic Battleships would be enough to wash the surface in blood and erase vast stretches of Blue Planet’s land.

"Kill them. Kill them. Soon, none of you will be able to escape."

Through the shared vision of other Chitauri, the Chitauri General spotted a purple suit of armor rampaging wildly and a swordsman. A cold smile appeared on his face.

The Chitauri had attacked countless planetary civilizations and encountered no shortage of superpowered individuals.

Those superpowered beings each possessed the strength to fight thousands, even tens of thousands, alone. Ordinary Chitauri soldiers were powerless against them, yet in the end, the Chitauri still wiped them out.

What did they rely on? Catastrophic weapons capable of scouring the surface and destroying the environment.

Such weapons were strictly prohibited from being equipped by the major empires. But the universe was vast, and not every race or planet had to obey Xandar’s rules.

Besides, Blue Planet was so far from Xandar that ordinary travel would take three days. Even blindly passing through spatial wormholes would take at least half a day.

At such a distance, even if Xandar wanted to interfere, it could not reach them in time.

Of course, the Chitauri knew that Blue Planet was God King Odin’s territory. But behind them stood an important figure no less formidable than God King Odin. Why would they be afraid?

Before overwhelmingly destructive weapons, even a god who took the full force of the firepower head-on would be lucky not to die, let alone escape unscathed.

Unfortunately, these superpowered individuals were defenders of Blue Planet, so there was no chance to recruit them under Lord Thanos’s command.

Still, as long as their objective was achieved and they successfully collected the Tesseract and recovered the Mind Scepter, everything would be worth it.

The Precognitor watched as the Chitauri not only failed to slow their attacks or reduce their numbers, but instead sent even more forces forward. He had long anticipated this.

Moreover, after joining the Void, his precognitive ability had grown stronger, and his true body’s strength had also increased. When facing desperate situations, he now had more ways to respond. Naturally, he feared even less.

He was confident that no matter what disaster he faced, disaster would always be one step behind him.

"Ignorant insects incapable of seeing through the future, perish in the future destined for you."

The Precognitor saw a far more distant future and spoke in a low voice.

In just over a minute, Tony and Renoli had killed more than ten thousand Chitauri soldiers.

Though both of them were powerful, they faced wave after wave of enemies pouring forth like an endless flood or collapsing mountain, never retreating.

After more than a minute of fighting and slaughtering at full strength, both had begun to feel numb. Yet the Chitauri continued charging as though they feared no death.

If they let their guard down and allowed this enormous Chitauri army to descend upon the ground, it would bring about a horrifying disaster.

Thus, both of them kept their minds taut as bowstrings. Even through their numbness, neither dared relax for even a moment.

They could kill the enemy, but the energy blasts continuously fired by the Chitauri were also exploding throughout New York.

Looking at the vast army overhead, so numerous that it nearly drove people to despair, the people below felt a measure of relief.

Fortunately, Blue Planet did not possess only Mushroom Clouds, that last-resort safeguard of mutual destruction with the enemy. It also had powerful beings capable of charging into battle and protecting them.

Second by second, time passed. Two minutes went by.

Tony and Renoli did not know how many souls had fallen by their hands, but both of them were now stained with blood.

At that moment, Tony and Renoli saw that the Chitauri army had stopped charging. Instead, it turned around and rushed toward the spatial vortex.

"Thor, close the Space Teleportation vortex immediately."

"Jarvis, go."

Seeing this, Tony glanced at the remaining one hundred and seventy-eight seconds on the countdown. While silently marveling at the Precognitor’s terrifying ability, he immediately issued his orders.

Following the command, twenty Iron Man armor suits that had been lying in wait shot into the sky, each holding a mushroom cloud in both hands, and charged toward the spatial vortex by the shortest route.

Aside from Kyle and the others, Thor was the only one Tony dared trust with the task of closing the spatial passage.

Furthermore, this battle was not only a war of civilizations between Blue Planet and the Chitauri. It was also Thor’s battle to defend the Nine Realms. Having Thor carry out the final closure could not have been more fitting.

Upon hearing the order, Thor immediately began closing the spatial passage.

As the Tesseract shut down, the towering beam of energy it had released began to shrink, and so did the spatial vortex.

"Why would they choose to close it at this moment?"

"Shouldn’t they be pressing their advantage and pursuing us?"

"Did they see through our plan?"

"No! That’s impossible."

"Those insects from Blue Planet haven’t even left their planet yet."

"They can’t possibly know the true might of our Chitauri army."

When the Chitauri General saw the Space Teleportation vortex beginning to shrink, shock first appeared on his face. Then came self-doubt, followed by contempt, and finally fury.

What the Chitauri General found even more unbelievable was the sight of twenty Iron Man armor suits rushing toward them while carrying something dangerous.

"Retreat immediately! Activate the shields!"

The Chitauri General’s mind went blank for a moment. Once he recognized the object in the Iron Man armor’s hands, his face drained of color as he shouted in alarm.

He immediately turned and ran, searching for shelter.

But his reaction had been delayed by only a few seconds. Before the spatial vortex closed, the Iron Man armor passed through the spatial passage and arrived before the Cosmic Battleship fleet of the Chitauri army.

Then the Arc Reactors of the Iron Man armor began spinning at extreme speed, activating self-destruct mode.

With a BOOM, they exploded like fireworks on the other side of the universe.

At the same time, twenty massive mushroom-shaped blasts erupted and swept across the Chitauri fleet.

Though their shields were extremely powerful, they lasted only a little over twenty seconds against the impact of twenty Mushroom Clouds before shattering.

Once the shockwaves subsided, of the Chitauri fleet’s more than a dozen large Cosmic Battleships, only four Cosmic Battleships barely managed to retreat.

The Chitauri General, positioned at the very front, had barely endured the impact by hiding inside an escape pod.

But his body had been shaken as though it were falling apart. Blood foam spilled from his mouth, and his consciousness grew hazy.

"If I get another chance, I will never be careless again. I’ll unleash the weapons right away and blow you insects to pieces."

With timely rescue, the Chitauri General could have survived.

But the impact from twenty Mushroom Clouds carried his escape pod deep into the far reaches of space.

Within just an hour, the Chitauri General, half-dead from the shock and affected by radiation, stopped breathing completely and died in space.

Second update.