Chapter 511 From Ant-Man
Chapter 511
Unwittingly, a month had passed.
A month of peace, a month of tranquility, a month of happiness.
Right at this moment, his fingers paused, and a sudden sense of crisis welled up in his heart.
That feeling was very peculiar; it wasn't the temperature of the tea, nor the sound of the wind outside the window, nor any information that could be captured by the senses.
It was a subtler, more essential feeling, like someone gently plucking a string on his timeline.
That feeling was very light, so light like a breeze flowing through his fingers, so light like a sigh dissipating by his ear.
But he caught it.
His eyes narrowed slightly.
He felt the crisis.
It did not come from the depths of the Universe, nor from a spatial rift, nor from any source he could locate.
It was right there, at the edge of his perception, like a blurred shadow, like a footstep that had yet to land.
He could sense its existence, but he could not determine where it came from, what it was, or when it would arrive.
His fingers tapped lightly on the windowsill.
"Master, what is wrong with you?" Tifa's voice came from behind him.
She noticed the pause in his fingers, and the flash of vigilance in his eyes.
Loren turned around and looked into her black eyes.
"I sense a crisis spreading, but I cannot pinpoint where it is coming from."
"What kind of crisis?"
"I don't know, a very strange feeling. It seems someone in the shadows wants to harm me!"
Tifa walked up to his side and placed her hand on his.
Her fingers were warm, intertwining with his.
"Is there anything we need to do?"
"I haven't sensed the location yet, so I can't do anything!"
Tifa didn't speak again; she just stood there, holding his hand, and looked out the window with him.
Loren's grey eyes pierced through the clouds, through the sky, through the barriers between dimensions, and fell upon a certain edge he could not clearly define.
He could sense the existence of that crisis, but it was obscured by some force, hidden by an existence more familiar with the rules of time than he was.
That wasn't an enemy who would actively attack; that was a hunter waiting in ambush.
"Master, a man named Scott wants to see you!"
Right at this moment, a Faceless Ones robot came before him to report.
"Scott? The Ant-Man of the Avengers?" Tifa's brow furrowed slightly.
"That is what he calls himself, Master. Should we see him?"
"Let him in! Just as I sensed a crisis, he arrives; this is by no means a coincidence!"
Finished speaking, his grey eyes looked towards the direction of the Morgan Manor gate, where a person was walking over.
Not tall, not burly, wearing ordinary casual clothes, his pace somewhat hurried.
His eyes were very bright, a light mixed with anxiety and hope.
In his hand, he held a small device, which flashed with a silver-white light under the sunlight.
That person was precisely the second-generation Ant-Man, Scott.
When Scott walked into the gate of Morgan Manor, his expression carried that complex look of "I know I shouldn't come, but I have to come."
His pace was fast, but not the fastness of confidence; it was the fastness of anxiety.
The device held in his hand flashed silver-white under the sunlight; he gripped it so tightly that his knuckles were somewhat pale.
Loren stood at the doorway of the study, watching Scottwalk towards him.
He didn't speak, just waiting.
Scott stopped at a position less than two meters away from Loren.
He was slightly shorter than Loren, wearing a grey jacket and jeans, his hair somewhat messy, as if it hadn't been properly combed for days.
There was a layer of fine sweat beads on his forehead, not from the heat, but from tension.
"Mr. Loren." Scott's voice was somewhat hoarse.
"I am Scott, the second-generation Ant-Man. You might not know me..."
"I know you, have a seat!" Without waiting for Scott to finish, Loren interrupted him.
Scott nodded, sat down on the chair opposite the desk, and placed the device in his hand on the tabletop.
He took a deep breath and then began to speak.
"Mr. Loren, I need your help."
Loren sat down behind the desk, his grey eyes looking at him.
"Go ahead! What is this all about?"
Scott's fingers tapped uneasily on the tabletop a few times.
"Do you know about the Quantum Realm?"
"I know, a subatomic-level space where time and space lose meaning."
Scott nodded.
"Over a dozen years ago, Hank Pym's wife, Janet Van Dyne, went missing in the Quantum Realm."
"Everyone thought she was dead, until I accidentally entered the Quantum Realm once and discovered the secret of the Quantum Realm."
Loren's grey eyes narrowed slightly.
"You discovered that Janet is still alive, right?"
"As expected of Mr. Loren, you actually know all about it."
"She survived in the Quantum Realm for decades, and I saw her inside."
"It was also thanks to her help that I was able to escape from the Quantum Realm."
There was a trace of trembling in Scott's voice.
"Then I told Hank this news. Upon learning that his wife wasn't dead, he insisted on entering the Quantum Realmto look for her."
"I advised him, telling him the Quantum Realm was too dangerous and that he might not return."
"But he wouldn't listen. He said he had waited for decades and finally waited for a glimmer of hope; he couldn't give up."
Scott paused, his fingers clenching into a fist on the tabletop.
"Then he went in, three days ago, and... he didn't come back."
The study fell silent for a few seconds.
The sunlight outside the window poured in, falling onto the desk and onto the device emitting a silver-white light.
"I tried contacting him, tried using my equipment to pinpoint his location, but the signal in the Quantum Realmis too unstable, only able to locate some fragments."
"I know he is still alive because my device can detect his life signal, but I can't contact him."
"I don't know where he is, what he encountered, or whether he can come back."
Scott raised his head and looked into Loren's eyes.
"Mr. Loren, I know I shouldn't come to disturb you, but Hank is somewhat my mentor and a good person."
"I cannot let him die in the Quantum Realm, so I need your help."
Loren was silent for a moment, his grey eyes looking at Scott, then looking out the window.
Outside the window, those women were still busy in the garden, a scene of tranquility.
But deep within his consciousness, that faint sense of crisis was becoming a bit clearer.
Like a mist blown away by the wind, it was slowly condensing into something with shape.
Quantum Realm, Kang the Conqueror, Time Variance Authority—one noun after another appeared in his mind.
Chapter 512: Entering the Quantum Realm
"Do you know what is in the Quantum Realm?" Lorenasked.
Scott's brow furrowed slightly.
"I know a little. Tiny creatures, miniature plants, spatially distorted channels..."
"More than that." Loren stood up from his chair and walked over to the window.
"The Quantum Realm is not just subatomic space; it is also the intersection of timelines.
All timelines, all possible histories, possible choices, and possible futures intersect, overlap, and intertwine within the Quantum Realm.
There is an entity there who controls the flow of these timelines."
Scott's eyes widened slightly.
"Who?"
"Kang the Conqueror, a time traveler from the future.
He has established a stronghold in the Quantum Realm, using the temporal properties of the Quantum Realm to control the trajectory of timelines.
There is also an organization, the Time Variance Authority, referred to as the TVA.
They are responsible for managing timelines and preventing conflicts and disasters between timelines.
He Who Remains established the TVA, but Kang replaced him in a certain timeline and became the ruler of the TVA."
Loren turned around, his gray eyes looking at Scott.
"When you entered the Quantum Realm, did you see any anomalies?
Have you seen anyone you don't recognize? Did you feel like time flowed differently than outside?"
Scott's face turned a little paler.
"I... Once I saw a golden speck of light, very far away, but very bright.
I thought it was the reflection of my equipment, but later it disappeared."
Loren tapped his fingers gently on the windowsill.
"Janet van Dyne has survived in the Quantum Realm for decades.
This is unusual; she likely knows some secrets about the Quantum Realm.
But she didn't tell you, because telling you would only put you in danger."
Scott's lips moved.
"You mean—"
"I mean, Kang may have done something in the Quantum Realm, causing fluctuations in the timeline.
That fluctuation spread to me and made me feel a crisis. You coming to me is not a coincidence; the timeline is pulling us toward the same matter."
Loren walked back from the window to the desk and sat down. He looked at Scott, calm and firm.
"I will help you, but I won't go. I will send a few people to go with you to the Quantum Realm to investigate this matter.
At that time, find Hank and Janet, and figure out what Kang is doing."
Scott's eyes lit up.
"Really? Thank you!"
"Don't rush to thank me." Loren raised his hand to stop him.
"Entering the Quantum Realm is dangerous. Time is chaotic there, and space is distorted.
You may get lost, be swallowed by the timeline, or meet Kang himself.
I need to confirm that you have the ability to deal with these dangers." He pressed a button on the desk.
The study door was pushed open, and three women walked in.
The first was A2, her silver-white long hair draped over her shoulders, and her black combat uniform clinging tightly to her slender body.
Her red eyes swept across Scott, then landed on Loren, her expression calm without any fluctuations.
Hanging at her waist was a Tang dao, the scabbard was black, and the hilt was tied with a dark red knot.
Her steps were light and steady, like a feline before hunting.
The second was Tsunade, her golden long hair tied into two ponytails, and her green eyes gleaming with a calmness forged after countless battles.
She wore a loose dark green jacket and black trousers, her arms exposed with well-defined lines and no excess fat.
Her fists clenched slightly and then loosened, as if feeling her own power.
The third was Mei Terumi, her brown long hair coiled into a bun at the back of her head, with a few stray strands hanging beside her ears.
She wore a dark blue robe, the hem of which dragged on the ground, with silver-white patterns along the edges.
Water vapor condensed, rotated, and then dissipated between her fingers.
Her eyes were light brown, looking like amber in the sunlight.
The three women stood in front of the desk, looking at Loren.
"A2, Tsunade, Mei Terumi." Loren's eyes swept across the three people.
"You will enter the Quantum Realm with Scott. The mission is to investigate timeline anomalies and find Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne.
If possible, figure out what Kang is doing. If you encounter danger, prioritize your own safety and report back."
A2's red eyes looked at Loren without asking why. "Okay."
A trace of seriousness flashed in Tsunade's green eyes.
"The Quantum Realm, although we don't know what kind of place it is, we will be careful."
Mei Terumi's mouth curved up slightly in a gentle arc.
"Master, did you sense something?"
"Not sure. Precisely because I'm not sure, someone needs to investigate."
Mei Terumi nodded. "We will find out."
Scott stood up from his chair, looked at A2, and then looked at Tsunade and Mei Terumi.
His lips moved, seeming to want to say something, but in the end, he only said, "Thank you."
A2 didn't answer; she turned and walked toward the door without any hesitation in her steps.
Tsunade followed behind her, and Mei Terumi walked at the end.
The three people walked out of the study, their footsteps echoing in the corridor, growing fainter and farther away.
Scott stood in front of the desk, looking at Loren.
"I... What should I do?"
"Take them into the Quantum Realm, tell them everything you know. They will protect you, and they will protect Hank and Janet."
Loren's gray eyes looked at Scott.
Scott nodded and took a deep breath.
He turned and walked toward the door, took a few steps, then stopped without looking back.
"Mr. Loren, thank you."
"You're welcome."
Scott walked out of the study, and the door closed gently behind him.
The study quieted down. Loren sat in the high-backed chair, his gray eyes looking out the window.
The sunlight outside the window was still warm, the squirrels on the lawn were still chasing each other, and the branches and leaves of the oak tree were swaying gently in the wind.
But Loren knew that that tranquility was temporary.
His gray eyes pierced through the clouds and the barriers between dimensions.
They fell upon that labyrinth known as the Quantum Realm, where time and space intertwined.
"Is the crisis from you, Kang the Conqueror?"
No one answered.
Only the sound of the wind outside the window and the sound of flowing water from the distant Hudson River.
In the backyard of Morgan Manor, in an open space surrounded by trees and lawns,
Scott took the silver-white device out of his backpack and placed it on the ground.
The device gleamed in the sunlight, with complex energy lines flowing across its surface.
He squatted down, adjusted a few knobs on the device, and then stepped back a few paces.
"The entrance to the Quantum Realm requires specific coordinates and energy frequencies," Scott explained.
"My device can open a miniature tunnel, but it can only last for thirty seconds. Within thirty seconds, we must all pass through."
Chapter 513: The Magical Quantum Realm
Chapter 513
A2 stood beside him, her red eyes gazing at the glowing device.
Her Tang sabers were crossed behind her back, with no extra equipment at her waist; her weapon was herself.
Her expression was calm, devoid of any tension or hesitation.
Tsunade stood to A2's left, her eyes fixed on the device with a serious expression.
She held no weapon in her hands, but her fists were her weapons.
Her monstrous strength was enough to shatter a mountain, and her medical ninjutsu could bring a dying person back to life.
In the unknown environment of the Quantum Realm, both her survivability and combat capability were top-tier.
Mei Terumi stood to A2's right, the glow of the device reflected in her light brown eyes.
Water vapor was condensing between her fingers as she sensed the surrounding moisture and humidity, confirming whether the environment was safe.
Her Lava Release and Boil Release were unbeatable in close-quarters combat, but in the Quantum Realm, she needed to adapt to a new environment and new rules.
Scott took a deep breath.
"Are you ready?"
A2 did not speak, but she took a step forward.
Tsunade nodded.
The corners of Mei Terumi's mouth curved up slightly in a gentle arc.
"Let's go."
Scott pressed the button on the device.
Silvery-white light surged from the device, condensing in the air into a rotating, glowing halo.
The edges of the halo shifted constantly in color—blue, purple, gold, and crimson.
Each color represented a different temporal layer and a different spatial dimension.
The interior of the halo was a profound, starlit glow.
Innumerable tiny spots of light spun inside, resembling a river made of stars.
The entrance to the Quantum Realm.
Scott was the first to walk in.
His body vanished the moment it touched the surface of the halo, as if swallowed by the light.
A2 followed closely behind without any hesitation; Tsunade was third, and Mei Terumi was fourth.
The four of them disappeared into the light.
The halo contracted behind them, turning into a speck of light before extinguishing.
The Quantum Realm was not a place that could be described with words.
The moment A2 entered the Quantum Realm, her primary sensation was that "existence itself became uncertain here."
Her body was still there, and her consciousness was still there.
But she felt as though she were floating in boundless water, every movement within it aimless.
Everything around her was changing; colors flowed, shapes twisted, and space rapidly switched between expansion and contraction.
She saw things she could not name—tiny creatures emitting a faint glow.
They were like flowers woven from light, floating in the vacuum.
Peculiarly shaped rock structures resembled sand dunes swept by the wind, yet they hung suspended in the halo like the boundary between dream and reality.
There were also constantly shifting geometric patterns, as if the folded space itself were breathing, stretching, and contracting.
Scott stood beside her, holding a small device that emitted light to guide her way.
His expression was tense, but his movements were practiced; he had been here before and knew how to navigate.
"Follow me," Scott said.
"The Quantum Realm will alter your perception, making you feel like you've lost your bearings."
"But your body is still on Earth, merely shrunk to the subatomic level."
"Our positions are fixed; we only appear to be moving."
Tsunade followed behind them, her eyes sweeping over everything around her.
Her brows furrowed slightly, not out of fear, but because she was sensing the environment here.
She could feel that water vapor existed differently in the Quantum Realm, suspended within the energy field in the form of particles.
She could feel biomass glowing in the distant darkness.
She could even feel the flow of time here like a river—sometimes fast, sometimes slow, complete with whirlpools and undercurrents.
Mei Terumi walked at the rear, her light brown eyes watching the constantly shifting colors around her.
The water vapor between her fingers had transformed into another form within the Quantum Realm.
Liquid, faintly glowing droplets of water spun at her fingertips, as if endowed with a new form by her power.
"The energy here... is very chaotic, as if the energies of all timelines intersect, collide, and separate here."
"I can feel different timelines flowing through every corner of the Quantum Realm, spreading across the entire space like blood vessels."
"Those are branches of the timeline," Scott said.
"I've seen them in the Quantum Realm; different possibilities occur on different timelines, but they can all be perceived."
"If you can find the correct timeline, you can see the past, the future, and all possibilities."
"But if you take a wrong turn, you might get lost in a labyrinth of countless possibilities."
A2's red eyes flickered faintly in the darkness.
She watched the flowing energy and the timelines that were splitting and fusing.
Something in her consciousness was operating at high speed; she was analyzing, calculating, and searching for the correct path.
"Where is Hank Pym's signal?" A2 asked.
Scott looked down at the device in his hand.
The screen displayed a faint point of light moving constantly, like a firefly trapped in a maze.
"Over there," Scott pointed ahead.
"But the signal is very weak; he might be moving, fighting something, or being chased by something."
"Then let's hurry," Tsunade said.
Her voice was not loud, but it carried an unquestionable firmness.
The four of them accelerated.
They traversed through the Quantum Realm, passing through those faintly glowing biomes and the geometric patterns suspended in space.
In those places, they could see blurry images—images of the past, images of the future, and possible images.
They saw cities on Earth collapsing and stars being born and destroyed.
Scott did not look at any of the images.
He kept his head down, looking at the device in his hand, intently tracking Hank's signal.
He didn't want to see those possibilities, because he knew that once seen, some possibilities would remain in his memory and could never be erased.
"We've arrived," Scott said.
They stopped in front of a huge, golden-glowing structure.
The structure looked like a palace, a fortress, and a colossal machine all at once.
Golden energy flowed across its surface, constantly changing—sometimes into text, sometimes into symbols, and sometimes into patterns.
Its door was open, and the interior was pitch black, yet golden points of light flickered within the darkness like distant lighthouses.
"What is that?" Tsunade asked.
"I don't know, I didn't see this when I came here before."
"Is Hank's signal inside?"
"It's inside, very strong and very stable. He's right in there."
Tsunade and Mei Terumi exchanged a glance.
"Let's go in," A2 said, and then she was the first to walk toward the entrance of the golden structure.
Chapter 514: This Punch Shatters Space-Time!
At A2's command, she took the lead and stepped into the dark doorway, her Tang sword vibrating slightly behind her as she entered combat standby mode.
The other three closely followed, walking together into this mysterious golden space-time fortress.
The moment they stepped inside the fortress, the chaotic space-time turbulence of the outside World was completely cut off, and the entire space became quiet, orderly, and icy.
On both sides of the straight metal corridor, rows of glowing energy pipelines were embedded, and the entire fortress operated perpetually on autonomous energy.
Thin space-time dust floated in the air, with each speck carrying a sealed memory of time.
Scott's expression changed abruptly: "The front lines are currently in battle!"
This was not simply a building at all, but rather the core base of the space-time mothership anchored by Kang the Conqueror deep within the Quantum Realm.
In the center of the battlefield, the old man firmly imprisoned on the energy pillar by energy shackles was none other than the target everyone was searching for — Hank Pym.
His body was covered in abrasions, his Pym Particlesgenerator had been forcibly removed, and he struggled powerlessly, able only to watch the cruel battlefield before him with helpless eyes.
Just as the legion soldiers were preparing to launch a general assault to completely annihilate the resistance, a cold and indifferent female voice suddenly echoed across the entire battlefield.
A2 slowly walked out of the passageway, her crimson gaze sweeping over the enemy troops across the field, and an invisible sense of oppression instantly suppressed half of the gunfire sounds on the battlefield.
The legion Commander stared at the three strangely dressed individuals devoid of any technological equipment, a look of disdain crossing his face.
"Outsider wanderers? You dare meddle in Emperor Kang's battlefield? Clear them all out on the spot!"
Scott immediately raised his hand to activate the Ant-Mansuit to shrink and evade, but the next second, the scene before him made him freeze completely in place.
The next moment, the space beneath A2's feet trembled slightly, instantly completing a supersonic charge and plunging straight into the enemy formation in the blink of an eye.
Blade lights crisscrossed with no flashy moves; every single slash accurately severed energy firearms and shattered armor platings.
It was a pure and ultimate melee crush, and in a mere three seconds, more than ten soldiers in the front row all lost their combat capabilities.
"Cyborgs? Unconventional carbon-based life forms! Fall back everyone, activate heavy firepower!"
The Commander turned pale with fright and immediately issued a retreat order.
Tsunade slowly stepped forward, bare-handed, without condensing any Chakra, simply tapping her right foot gently against the ground.
Terrifying monstrous strength spread along the ground, causing the entire mothership platform to shatter with a roar, and spiderweb-like cracks instantly spread to the base of all turrets.
Before the fully automatic heavy turrets could even fire a single shot, they were directly uprooted by the impact of the ground tremor and blasted into pieces.
The remaining enemy troops grew timid, wanting to scatter and flank around.
The free-floating space-time water vapor particles in the air of the entire battlefield were instantly mobilized entirely, and light blue water mist swept across the entire area.
Immediately after, the water vapor underwent a qualitative change, and high-temperature Boil Release steam spewed out, shrouding the enemy's retreat routes and sealing off all flanking space.
At the same time, highly corrosive dark-green lava-release mucus descended from the sky, landing on the armor and instantly dissolving the hard sci-fi alloy armor.
Three powerhouses from different worldviews, three completely different combat systems, instantly routed the frontline main force of Kang's legion.
All members of the resistance were stunned, gazing blankly at the suddenly arrived reinforcements, reigniting hope in their previously despairing eyes.
"Scott? How could you bring people here?" Hank regained his freedom, panting heavily with a look of extreme shock on his face.
"Do you have any idea how dangerous this place is? Kang is right inside this mothership; he is a madman who controls space-time, and no one can oppose him!"
A gale suddenly swept across the entire platform, and the golden space-time energy surged backward crazily.
All the smoke, steam, and rubble on the battlefield were forcibly smoothed out by an invisible force.
Kang the Conqueror officially made his entrance.
"Three variant life forms from an alternate plane, breaking away from the main timeline and trespassing into my territory. Interesting!
Within the multiverse, I have seen psionics, gods, and interstellar overlords, but I have never seen freaks like you."
Janet's face turned pale, and she immediately stepped forward, shouting to remind everyone.
"Hurry and leave! Do not fight Kang under any circumstances!
He can manipulate space-time, freeze time, rewind damage, and rewrite the current state of the battlefield; your attacks are completely meaningless against him!
I personally witnessed him destroy a complete time branch back then!"
In the blink of an eye, the time of the entire battlefield was directly and forcibly frozen.
But the next second, three figures still stood steadily, unaffected in the slightest by the time freeze.
The three of them broke free from the time stop simultaneously.
"Controlling space-time and you think you're invincible?"
Tsunade clenched both fists, her Chakra erupting completely, a golden Chakra halo enshrouding her entire body.
"In my Master's eyes, time is no different from rock; both can be shattered with a single punch."
The visible space-time barrier dented and cracked, and the space-time shield Kang used for defense directly developed fine cracks.
Kang was forced to take half a step back, completely taking the blonde female ninja before him seriously in his heart.
Kang raised his hand to summon countless space-time blades, launching a pincer attack simultaneously from the dual time points of past and future.
At the same time, he activated space-time rewind, forcibly reverting Tsunade's punch attack by one second to negate the monstrous strength damage.
Meanwhile, A2 shuttled through various time fragments, ignoring the physical damage brought by space-time disorder, and wielded her blade directly toward Kang's true body.
She didn't need to understand space-time; she only needed to lock onto her target and launch continuous attacks.
For a time, Kang the Conqueror, who controlled space-time, was actually tightly pinned down by the three of them, unable to end the battle quickly.
Illusions from countless parallel space-times poured down wildly—images of future defeat, memories of past pain.
The deepest obsessions within everyone's hearts were all transformed into realistic scenes attacking their minds.
Mental attacks were far more fatal than physical attacks.
"This storm will tear apart all timelines once the reactor is completely overloaded.
All of us will be scattered into infinite parallel space-times and will never be able to go home!"
Janet shouted aloud, revealing the most fatal crisis.
"I'll go destroy the reactor, the two of you pin down Kang!"
Tsunade made a prompt decision, her Chakra surging to its peak around her.
Her blonde hair fluttered without wind, the Strength of a Hundred Technique was fully activated, and undying vitality lingered around her entire body.
Seeing this, Kang wanted to turn back to intercept, but was tightly entangled by two attacks.
The battlefield was completely split into two parts: on one side was a life-or-death space-time battle where powerhouses confronted each other, and on the other was a monstrous strength impact breaking the deadlock alone.
"In the name of Tsunade, this punch shatters space-time!"
Boom——————
Lacking the reactor's augmentation, Kang the Conquerorwas no longer invincible.
Three ultimate attacks transcending dimensions hit simultaneously.
The smoke cleared, and the battlefield returned to calm.
Scott walked to the side of the three individuals, looking at the scarred mothership platform with lingering fear.
"We won, we really won.
If it weren't for the three of you, all of us would have been trapped to death here, and the Universe would also face a massive catastrophe."
"You have merely won this single battle."
"The three of you, as alternate-plane variables, have been completely exposed to multiverse observation.
Soon, more and stronger Kang Variants will cross space-time to come find you."
The entire scene fell into silence.
Scott snapped back to his senses and immediately activated the repaired navigation device.
Relying on the residual teleportation energy, he rebuilt the space-time channel back to the real World.
The four of them looked back at this chaotic yet magnificent Quantum Realm, and at the thousands of timelines still covered in wounds and with undercurrents still surging.
The crisis of the multiverse, the pursuers from alternate planes, and the upcoming space-time war had already quietly set their sights on them.
Chapter 515: Spacetime Embers and Kang's Pursuers
The teleportation aperture of the Quantum Realm slowly closed, and the last wisps of starlight completely dissipated into the air.
The warm sunlight enveloped them, completely sending everyone back from the chaotic and disordered subatomic space to the stable and peaceful real Earth.
There was no tearing from spacetime turbulence, no intertwined and chaotic timelines, and no omnipresent spacetime illusions.
Beneath their feet was solid and flat ground, above their heads was a clear and cloudless blue sky, and by their ears were the constant, unidirectional sounds of time flowing in the real World.
That familiar sense of security rushed over them!
Compared to the terrifying environment of the Quantum Realm that was enough to crush one's mind, the real World at this moment was like paradise.
Scott, Hope, and Hank's group still had lingering fear, and the cold sweat on their bodies had not yet dried.
That life-and-death battle just now, where they faced the spacetime overlord Kang the Conqueror directly, and the desperate situation where they almost all got trapped in the multiversal spacetime maze, were still clearly branded in everyone's minds.
Janet looked at the distant city skyline, let out a long sigh of relief, and her nerves that had been tightly wound for many years finally relaxed a bit.
She had been trapped in the Quantum Realm for decades, always fearing that Kang would break free from his cage and wreak havoc on the multiverse; now, witnessing with her own eyes this Main Universe Kang being defeated, the heavy boulder hanging in her heart for years finally fell mostly back into place.
"This time, thank you three very much." Scott looked at A2, Tsunade, and Mei Terumi, his tone full of sincere gratitude.
Without their backup, their group would never have been able to leave the Quantum Realm alive from Kang the Conqueror's hands, let alone successfully rescue Hank and disrupt Kang the Conqueror's plans.
"We will immediately report this multiversal crisis to the Avengers, and if there is any subsequent trouble on the spacetime level, we will contact you at the first opportunity."
A2 nodded slightly, with no superfluous polite words; her crimson eyes remained calm and indifferent, only her overloaded mechanical core slowly cooling down inside her body to calm the residual energy fluctuations after the battle.
Tsunade flexed her wrists, and the Strength of a Hundred Technique circulated spontaneously, completely smoothing out the minor injuries left behind from forcibly resisting the spacetime storm just now, lazily brushing aside the golden long hair on her shoulder.
"No need for courtesy, we entered the Quantum Realm to save people by Master's order, and merely solved that guy who controls spacetime along the way."
Mei Terumi reined in the remaining Boil Release and Lava Release energy at her fingertips, a trace of solemnity flashing across her elegant brows and eyes.
"But this matter is far from over. Kang the Conqueror's warning before death was by no means empty words; there are countless Kang Variants within the multiverse, and this crisis has only just begun."
The three did not stay long. After bidding farewell to Ant-Man's family, they followed the established coordinates and headed straight back to the private estate located in the outskirts of the city and hidden within an independent space.
This estate was personally built by Loren, layered with multiple spatial concealment barriers and offensive-defensive arrays to isolate all external detection methods. It was both a secure residence and a frontline stronghold for dealing with multiversal crises.
Inside the estate, it was divided into an independent rest area, a combat power training ground, an energy monitoring center, and a spacetime early-warning hall.
At this moment, Loren was sitting in the main control seat of the spacetime early-warning hall, his fingertips tapping lightly on the floating holographic light screen in front of him, his expression always carrying a trace of lingering gloom.
As early as the moment he let Tsunade's group step into the Quantum Realm, Loren had captured a cold and domineering spacetime fluctuation originating from the foundation of the multiverse.
This fluctuation was extremely covert, dormant in the crevices of all timelines, and impossible to detect without touching the core of the Quantum Realm.
For some time now, the sense of crisis inexplicably lingering in his heart had never faded, yet he could never lock onto the source of the crisis.
Hearing footsteps coming from the doorway, Loren raised his eyes to look at the three returning people.
"How did the trip to the Quantum Realm go? Has the source of the high-risk spacetime fluctuations I continuously captured earlier been identified?"
A2 stepped forward first and recounted everything that happened throughout the Quantum Realm word for word.
From the eerie perception of the spacetime corridor, the encirclement by Kang's legions, the desperate struggle of the resistance, to Kang the Conqueror's time freeze and spacetime storm.
To the three of them joining forces to shatter the spacetime reactor, defeating the Main Universe Kang, and the opponent's warning before death about the army of Kang Variants, they stated everything objectively without omitting a single detail.
Tsunade and Mei Terumi supplemented the details on the side, meticulously describing Kang's terrifying ability to manipulate time and create mental illusions, as well as the special status of the entire Quantum Realm as the origin point of multiversal timelines.
After listening to all the reports, Loren immediately confirmed that all his unease and sense of crisis came from the depths of the Quantum Realm, from the Kang Variantsspread across every timeline of the multiverse.
The doubts in his heart were thoroughly settled, but far from relaxing, Loren's expression became even more solemn, and the aura around him grew a few degrees colder accordingly.
Previously, unknown crises were still baffling, but now that the enemy was clearly identified as the Kang Dynasty, which sat upon infinite variants, controlled global spacetime, and spanned all parallel Universes, the danger level was directly raised to the highest level.
Kang the Conqueror's individual combat power was already terrifying enough, capable of freezing time at will, reversing attacks, tearing spacetime, and creating inner-demon illusions that struck straight at the soul.
Meanwhile, the endless Kang Variants, the uniformly commanded Council of Kangs, and the standardized spacetime legions would form an overwhelming global spacetime offensive.
"I see. The root of all crises lies in the Quantum Realm." Loren tapped his fingertips lightly on the table, calmly sorting through the overall intelligence.
"I always thought the crisis came from deep space or supernatural threats native to Earth, never imagining that the enemy was rooted in the most core spacetime origin point of the multiverse."
"That Kang we defeated said that stronger pursuers will definitely cross spacetime to come find us later. Master, we need to do something!" Mei Terumi reminded him in a deep voice.
"I understand." Loren stood up, his gaze looking towards the multiversal star map floating in the center of the hall, where countless timelines crisscrossed densely, and a Kang Variant lay dormant in every single branch.
"From now on, the alert level is raised to the highest red level. All spacetime monitoring equipment will run 24 hours a day without interruption, and once any spacetime jump fluctuation is captured, a global early warning will be issued immediately."
"Everyone will stop going out on field missions, and all personnel will be stationed in the estate to be ready to deal with sudden spacetime raids at any time."
He no longer held any false Hopes, completely put away his relaxed mindset, and began laying out plans earnestly to face the upcoming global spacetime crisis head-on.
Inside the estate, all members of the Harem Team received the highest alert order.
Under Loren's command, there were a total of twenty-three top-tier combat dependents, divided into two major echelons, all stationed in the estate and performing their respective duties, with each person possessing formidable combat power capable of standing alone.
They covered a full system of abilities including taijutsu, ninjutsu, super physical stamina, magic, divine realm power, mutant abilities, Agent assassination, and elemental control. Offense, defense, and support were all complete without any combat shortboards.
Chapter 516: Purging Foreign Variables, Loren
First echelon: 14 wives personally created by Loren, with absolute loyalty in character and highly adapted combat power.
They are 2B, A2, Tifa, Commander White, Marie Rose, Android 18, Tsunade, Hinata, Mei Terumi, Mai Shiranui, Hancock, Ikaros, Nymph, and Astraea.
Second echelon: 8 powerful beings recruited locally from Marvel, possessing Asgardian divine power, mutant abilities, Agent secret arts, and Inhumans talents.
They are Viper, Sif, Scarlet Witch Wanda, Crystal, Daisy Johnson, Medusa, Gwen Stacy, and Black Widow Natasha.
At this moment, the entire group gathered in the early warning hall, quietly listening to Loren issue combat readiness instructions. Everyone's expression was calm, without a trace of panic.
They had followed Loren through countless dimensional battlefields, having seen gods, exotic beasts, dimensional monsters, and cosmic overlords. Even when facing a multiverse spacetime dynasty, they still had plenty of confidence.
At the exact same moment when Earth was on full alert and building a solid defense, in the crevices of the multiverse, lay the spacetime sanctuary of the Kang Dynasty.
This place detached itself from all known timelines, independent of the multiverse, and served as the central hub for all Kang Variants. The entire sanctuary was constructed from solidified spacetime crystals, with thousands of long rivers of time flowing above the dome.
The phantom images of countless Kang Variants were reflected in the river water, and the air was filled with an overbearing, indifferent, and supreme spacetime coercion.
Inside the spacious and grand council hall, hundreds of Kang Variants of various shapes and forms stood densely packed.
There was Rama-Tut dressed as an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, the classic Kang the Conqueror clad in blue armor, and Iron Lad in his youthful form.
There was the aging and dormant Chronos-Sapiens; every variant possessed the basic ability to manipulate spacetime, each ruling over a parallel Universe.
Sitting atop the supreme throne at the very top of the main hall was the true ruler of firearms and time—Kang the Conqueror.
He was the origin of all Kang Variants, with experiences spanning hundreds of millions of years of spacetime, seeing through all futures and pasts. His disposition was ruthless and cold, without any emotional flaws.
Controlling all permissions of the Kang Council and wielding the ultimate spacetime weapon capable of purging an entire timeline with a single click, he sat with his eyes closed. Just by sitting there, he suppressed the aura of all variants within the hall.
In the center of the main hall, a shattered spacetime phantom slowly emerged. It was precisely the basic Kang the Conqueror who had been jointly defeated and completely annihilated by Tsunade and the other two in the Quantum Realm earlier.
The weak residual soul fragments trembled as they reported the entire battle: "Supreme Majesty, the Kang Variant at the Main Universe node was defeated and annihilated by three out-of-dimension powerhouses."
"Those individuals belong to a branch of the Sacred Timeline, possessing ultimate mechanical combat power, monstrous physical strength, and elemental abilities. They can directly immune basic time freezes, destroy spacetime reactors, and shatter spacetime barriers head-on."
"At the same time, there is a human Commander at that node coordinating all foreign powerhouses, possessing stable spacetime coordinates. They pose a huge threat to the entire Kang Dynasty."
As the words fell, an uproar broke out within the main hall, with shock and disbelief flashing in the eyes of countless Kang Variants.
As spacetime overlords spanning the multiverse, the Kang Dynasty had roamed countless dimensions. Very few living beings could defeat orthodox Kang Variants head-on, let alone three women.
"How dare humble foreign variants slay our own kin?"
"Foreign fellows don't understand the power of spacetime at all; they purely won by luck."
"They must be eradicated immediately to prevent the variables from continuing to expand and avoid contaminating more timelines."
The noisy discussions rose and fell. Kang the Conquerorslowly opened his eyes, dead spacetime flowing lights swirling in the depths of his eyes. There was no anger, no ripples, only a calm gaze overlooking below.
"The foreign variables have deviated from observation records, broken the balance of spacetime, slain dynasty variants, and threatened the timeline of the entire domain. Everyone, discuss countermeasures."
The lengthy council debate lasted for a full three hours.
One faction of conservative Kang Variants advocated dispatching a large-scale spacetime legion to directly cover Earth's entire timeline, crushing and annihilating all targets with absolute firepower;
Another faction of radical variants advocated directly backtracking time to erase the roots before Loren's party was born; yet another faction of variants worried that the variables were uncontrollable and feared that rashly making a move would trigger a larger spacetime storm.
In the end, Kang the Conqueror raised his hand to stop all arguments and finalized the final decision.
There was no need for a massive army encirclement or time backtracking; dispatch his premier vanguard warrior, Scarlet Centurion Kang, to take full charge of this purging mission.
Accompanied by the explosion of red spacetime light, an upright and cold figure stepped out of the spacetime rift.
Scarlet Centurion Kang was clad in full-coverage dark red spacetime battle armor.
The armor was engraved with densely packed spacetime runes, and his eyes streamed with scarlet time light. His combat power far exceeded ordinary Kang Variants, making him a radical variant of Kang.
His armor integrated multiple energy absorption and release systems, which could bounce back energy attacks and convert them into his own power. It was also equipped with a potent hypnotic device, capable of silently knocking down enemies or creating illusions in combat.
Furthermore, due to frequently traversing unstable timelines, he had extremely high resistance to reality-distorting environments. His individual combat power reached the multiverse level, and he was also Kang the Conqueror's most trusted direct general.
He slightly lowered his head, knelt on one knee, and said in a cold, clanging voice: "I obey Your Majesty's command."
Kang the Conqueror's gaze was indifferent: "Go to Main Universe Earth, purge the foreign variable Loren, and all out-of-dimension warriors following him, leaving no hidden dangers."
After receiving the order, Scarlet Centurion slowly stood up, his scarlet eyes filled with arrogance and contempt.
As a top-tier combat power of the multiverse who had fought across countless spacetime battlefields year-round, he had seen Celestials, dimensional evil gods, and cosmic overlords.
In his eyes, Earth was merely a barren and weak low-level Universe, and Loren's party was nothing more than a group of ants that had managed to defeat low-level Kang Variants by sheer luck.
He didn't take Loren and all the dependents inside the manor seriously at all, completely looking down on this mission from the bottom of his heart.
In his view, taking action personally was overkill; there was simply no need to use his full combat power, nor was there any need to lead a legion on an expedition.
Thus, the arrogant Scarlet Centurion acted on his own accord, ignoring the council's suggestion to dispatch the entire army. He merely casually selected two ordinary Kang Variants of upper-middle strength as subordinates, opened a short-range spacetime jump channel, and headed straight for Loren's manor in the suburbs of Earth.
He stood outside the spacetime channel, gazing from afar at the manor hidden within the spatial interlayer. A mocking smile curled up the corner of his mouth as he gave a calm command to his two subordinates.
"The two of you are enough. Break into the manor, slay the target Loren, clear out all obstacles, and finish it quickly without wasting time. I will just wait here for the results."
The two Kang Variants bowed to accept the order, likewise carrying the innate superiority of spacetime powerhouses. They activated a small spacetime teleportation, directly tearing through the manor's outer spatial barrier and launching a sudden raid without any warning.
Two figures clad in blue-silver battle armor descended out of thin air into the open-air courtyard in the center of the manor. Spacetime fluctuations violently spread, stirring up a strong gale of airflow.
Chapter 517: It was I who took you too lightly and underestimated you
Kang Variant No. 1 wielded a space-time energy longsword, swept his gaze across the entire estate, and shouted coldly,
"Area-wide lockdown, everyone is forbidden to move. By the order of My Lord Scarlet Centurion, we have come to execute the variable Loren. Irrelevant personnel must retreat immediately, otherwise you will be obliterated together!"
Kang Variant No. 2 raised his hand to deploy a miniature force field shield, surrounded by countless tiny space-time fragments, ready to launch a time-freeze attack at any moment.
"Resistance is futile. All your attacks will be offset by space-time rewind; give up struggling."
The sudden space-time intrusion instantly triggered the estate's highest red alert, and harsh alarms echoed throughout the entire property.
Inside the hall, Loren raised his eyes to look at the two space-time red dots lighting up on the light screen. His expression was calm, without the slightest surprise: "They're here, the first batch of pursuers from Kang."
He did not choose to take action personally, but lazily leaned against his seat and spoke softly: "Commander White sister, I will leave this for you all to handle. You set the tactics, no need to hold back, just annihilate them on the spot."
"Yes, Master, I certainly will not let you down."
The Commander White sister smiled charmingly, her eyes filled with confidence. Among the harem team, her strength was not the strongest, but her command ability was unmatched; mere two Kang Variants were not worth mentioning.
As her voice fell, her gaze had already landed on A2 and 2B, and she then commanded: "A2 and 2B, the two of you make a move! Everyone else stand by in place."
"Yes!" A2 and 2B, having received the order, immediately nodded, then simultaneously stepped out of the hall, gathering in the courtyard to face the two arrogantly invading Kang Variants.
The expressions of the two were identically icy, their powerful auras overlapping to instantly suppress the space-time coercion brought by the two Kang Variants.
Behind them, everyone else also wore solemn expressions, ready to enter battle readiness at any time.
Tifa clenched her combat gauntlets, gathering the energy of the ice box of winter around her body, waiting for the opportunity for a close-range surprise attack;
Marie Rose had an agile posture, building up momentum for high-speed martial arts combos;
Number 18 was expressionless, her endless infinite energy primed and ready, immune to all energy impacts;
Tsunade clenched her fists tightly, her Chakra boiling, ready to tear apart space-time shields with a single punch at any moment;
Hinata activated her Byakugan, seeing through all space-time rifts and hidden displacement points;
Mei Terumi's fingertips flowed with Water and Fire elements, preparing to dismantle the opponent's space-time energy structure;
Mai Shiranui's posture swayed gracefully, ninjutsu and taijutsu complementing each other;
Hancock's eyes rippled with seductive light waves, simultaneously condensing petrification attacks to doubly restrict the enemy's movements.
Twenty-three powerhouses surrounded them with complete system coverage, having no offensive or defensive shortcomings.
Upon seeing this, the two Kang Variants were stunned at first, then burst into laughter, full of disdain.
"A group of warriors from a low-level space-time; no matter how many of you there are, it is completely meaningless. You do not understand the laws of space-time, and all your attacks can be easily rewound by us."
Kang Variant No. 1 stopped talking nonsense and directly raised his hand to activate his ability: "Time Freeze!"
The familiar power of space-time confinement instantly enveloped the entire courtyard; the flow of time suddenly stagnated, and the air completely solidified. Yet, the next second, the expected scene of everyone freezing in place did not appear.
The twenty-three figures still stood steadily, moving freely without a single person being affected by the time freeze.
Because they were Loren's subordinates, they had long received Loren's blessings, all coming with their own space-time resistance, and the entire group collectively immune to time stopping.
The smiles of the two Kang Variants instantly froze on their faces, panic welling up in the depths of their eyes for the first time.
"How is this possible? So many people are all immune to time freeze?"
"It's merely a clumsy space-time trick."
2B took a step forward, her silver hair fluttering in the wind, her tone indifferent.
"Our people have already defeated your kin before; the same move is completely useless."
Kang Variant No. 2's expression changed drastically, and he immediately activated his backup plan, spreading both hands simultaneously: "Space-Time Rewind, push all enemies back three seconds ago, clear all attacks!"
Space-time ripples spread out, attempting to reverse the battlefield state.
The next moment, Wanda stepped forward, scarlet Chaos Magic sweeping across the entire field, whispering softly: "Chaos order, fix space-time."
The higher-level rules originating from Chaos Magicdirectly and forcibly overwrote the space-time authorities of the two Kang Variants. The opponent's space-time rewind skill was instantly and forcibly sealed, the space-time ripples directly dissipating and failing completely.
"My magic surpasses ordinary space-time laws." Wanda's eyes were scarlet, her aura icy.
The situation completely reversed; the two core space-time skills upon which the two Kang Variants relied for invincibility were directly sealed by the combination of full-group resistance and Chaos Magic.
"Now it's our turn to strike." A2 said coldly.
Just as her voice fell, her and 2B's figures disappeared simultaneously. When they reappeared, they had already arrived in front of the two Kang Variants.
Subsequently, the sharp Adamantium Tang sword and Miao blade pierced through their bodies, taking less than ten seconds in total.
There was no thrilling tug-of-war, no evenly matched battle—pure, all-around suppression.
The two Kang Variants, originally extremely arrogant and boasting of controlling space-time invincibility, had their skills completely sealed, shields shattered, armor damaged, and bodies imprisoned, completely losing all combat capability.
"Impossible... We are Kang Variants, Masters of space-time, how could we lose..." Kang Variant No. 1's eyes were full of unwillingness, his tone full of disbelief.
The Commander White walked slowly out of the hall, standing atop the courtyard steps, calmly overlooking the two people lying on the ground: "You were arrogant and took things lightly, so failure was doomed from the very beginning."
As the words fell, the Commander White gently raised her hand, and thereupon, the twenty-three sisters synchronously launched their final strike.
A torrent of energy, monstrous physical impact, magicbeams, elemental storms, and the cold light of blades merged into one as a composite attack traversing the courtyard crashed down.
Two faint space-time lights flashed past. The two Kang Variants had no time to deploy any space-time self-rescue methods before they were completely annihilated, without even remnants of their souls surviving, completely dissipating into the real World.
The courtyard instantly returned to calm, all battle fluctuations completely dissipated, and the estate barrier closed once again, as if the space-time raid just now had never happened.
The twenty-three people calmly retracted their moves, their postures upright and breaths steady. To them, this battle was merely a relaxed actual combat drill.
Outside the space-time channel, the Scarlet CenturionKang, who was quietly waiting for the outcome, saw his expression suddenly darken to the extreme.
He clearly sensed that the space-time signals of his two subordinates had been completely cleared to zero and completely annihilated, with no escape fluctuations whatsoever.
The Scarlet Centurion, who originally wore a look of contempt and was full of arrogance, saw the scarlet space-time energy around his body begin to run amok wildly; the air temperature dropped sharply, and towering anger swept across the entire space-time rift.
He never expected that the two subordinates he casually dispatched would be easily and completely wiped out by the entire group within a short minute.
He finally put away all the contempt in his heart, facing this group of opponents inside the Earth estate squarely for the first time.
"A group of lowly, low-level creatures actually dare to slay my subordinates."
The Scarlet Centurion gritted his teeth and whispered, his scarlet eyes boiling with killing intent, all the runes on his battle armor lighting up: "It was I who took you too lightly and underestimated you."
"Since casually dispatching people is not enough, next, I will take the field myself."
He no longer held back, tearing open a wider and more violent giant space-time channel around him, preparing to personally step into Earth and face Loren and all his dependents head-on.
Chapter 518: Who on earth are you?
A much wider and more violent giant spacetime channel tore open around him.
A blood-red spacetime storm gushed out from the channel, whipping up shattering spacetime fragments all over the sky.
The space of the entire manor began to vibrate violently, and dense cracks appeared on the spatial barrier.
A tall and upright blood-red figure stepped out of the channel. The runes on the scarlet armor burned completely, and with every step he took, solid spacetime crystals condensed beneath his feet.
The Scarlet Centurion was surrounded by dozens of floating blood-red spacetime longswords, and the scarlet light in his eyes shot directly into the courtyard. The sense of oppression was dozens of times stronger than that of the two ordinary Kang Variants just now.
He was not in a hurry to make a move, but instead looked down condescendingly at all the dependents in the courtyard, his voice cold and carrying the arrogance stemming from a multiverse conqueror.
"I have to admit that you guys really have some skills. Being able to wipe out two of my commanders in a short period of time is enough to qualify you to be slain by my own hands."
"Previously, I was too arrogant and underestimated you variables who broke away from the main timeline."
"But from now on, I will use all my spacetime authority to let you witness what the true multiverse-level spacetime power really looks like."
As his voice fell, the Scarlet Centurion suddenly pressed down with one hand.
Without any sign of charging, the global time freeze covering the entire manor spread out instantly.
Compared to the crude time imprisonment of ordinary Kang Variants, his time stop had no flaws at all, directly severing the connection between the entire area and all external timelines, completely stripping the entire courtyard from the reality time stream.
The air completely solidified; falling leaves, raised breezes, and even the trajectories of energy flow all stood still, with only the Scarlet Centurion able to move freely.
Even the crowd, who had previously easily been immune to low-level time stops, felt their bodies sink at this moment, and the circulation of energy in their bodies suddenly stagnated.
Even Wanda's Chaos Magic experienced a brief stutter. Clearly, the multiverse-level time stop could already suppress everyone's passive spacetime resistance.
"You think that by being immune to low-level time freezes, you can ignore all spacetime abilities? Ridiculous."
The Scarlet Centurion walked forward slowly, tapping his fingertips lightly. Several blood-red spacetime longswords instantly pierced through the air, heading straight for Tsunade and No. 18 in the front row of the team.
"What I control is the multiverse Sacred Timeline. Your resistance is worthless in the face of an absolute hierarchical gap."
"That's not necessarily true!" Wanda frowned, her face full of defiance. She was the powerful Scarlet Witch, an existence capable of altering reality, and she was not afraid of Kang Variants at all.
She forcibly urged her Chaos Magic, using chaotic and disordered magic rules to Impact the opponent's orthodox timeline.
And then, with a loud bang!
The solidified time barrier shattered with a roar, and time in the entire courtyard resumed flowing.
But everyone's faces were still slightly pale. The imprisonment of just a few short seconds had made everyone truly feel the combat power gap between the two.
The Scarlet Centurion before them was simply not an enemy of the same magnitude as the ordinary Kang Variants defeated previously.
"To actually break free from my global time stop is indeed beyond my expectation." The Scarlet Centurion raised his eyebrows slightly, yet still without any panic, instead raising his hand to tear open three parallel spacetime rifts.
"Since a single time imprisonment is useless, I will open past, present, and future triple spacetime avatars simultaneously, flanking you from three time nodes at once. Let's see how you defend yourselves."
Three identical Scarlet Centurions walked out of the rifts, standing on three different timelines of the past, present, and future respectively, raising their blood-red spacetime longswords at the same time.
Three completely identical slashes crossed spacetime, blocking all dodging space for everyone.
This was a trump card belonging to top-tier Kang Variants—triple spacetime simultaneous slashing, where the exact same attack landed on the enemy's past, present, and future simultaneously.
Even if the attack was dodged in the present, the body in the past or future would still be hit by the slash, inescapable and unavoidable. In an instant, three blood-red blade lights enveloped the entire field, with nowhere to hide.
Just when everyone thought they couldn't resist this move, Wanda stepped forward once again.
"You think you are the only one who can affect the past, present, and future?"
Wanda looked coldly at the Scarlet Centurion. Chaos Magic erupted with a roar, and the terrifying magic directly invaded the past and future, blocking his attacks directly.
"Your spacetime attacks are meaningless in front of Chaos."
Seeing that his attack was cracked, the Scarlet Centurionfinally understood that the group of people in front of him did not win by luck, but that all of them possessed trump cards to keep spacetime abilities in check.
Pure spacetime law attacks simply could not crush this team.
"Since law attacks are ineffective, I will directly destroy this space and drag all of you into the spacetime collapse. Go to hell!"
Murderous intent soared in the eyes of the Scarlet Centurion. A huge spacetime roulette appeared behind him. He grabbed the huge spacetime roulette behind him with both hands and forcefully bent it downwards, shouting, "Spacetime Collapse · Global Annihilation!"
The huge spacetime roulette began to spin in reverse, and the interlayer space where the entire manor was located began to collapse rapidly. Spatial cracks spread all around, and fierce winds wrapped around spacetime fragments raged wildly.
Even with its own spatial barrier, the manor began to crack and shatter under the rapid collapse.
This was his trump card ultimate move: abandoning precise spacetime manipulation, he directly detonated all the spacetime energy of an independent space, wiping out all enemies with large-scale destruction.
Even if he himself suffered heavy injuries, he would completely slaughter the entire field.
The power of the spacetime collapse far exceeded the attacks everyone had faced before. The crowd was forced to retreat to one place, jointly supporting a joint energy shield to resist the constantly falling spatial fragments and the annihilation Impact.
The shield vibrated violently. The defense of the twenty-three people joining hands was about to reach its limit. If they continued to defend passively like this, everyone would be swallowed by space annihilation.
"Defense ends here."
At this moment, Loren, who had been watching coldly from the sidelines, finally walked slowly down the steps.
He did not burst out with exaggerated energy light or flashy moves; he merely looked calmly at the Scarlet Centurion, who was reversing the spacetime roulette, and spoke softly.
"Your biggest mistake was ignoring my existence and insisting on stepping into my territory."
Loren controlled the spatial authority of this Universe. This interlayer space was constructed by his own hands in the first place, and the spatial rules, time flow rate, and energy veins here were all defined by him.
For the Scarlet Centurion to detonate space within the Master's domain was no different from courting death.
Loren gently lifted his fingertips, and the space that was previously collapsing frantically instantly stopped shattering. The reversely rotating spacetime roulette was directly and forcibly locked, unable to turn even a fraction anymore.
"What? My spacetime roulette has been imprisoned?"
The Scarlet Centurion's pupils shrank, his face full of disbelief. He could feel that his connection with the entire spacetime roulette had been completely severed, and the spacetime energy stored within himself began to leak out uncontrollably.
"Who on earth are you? How can you directly seal my spacetime supreme treasure?"
"You don't even know my strength, yet you dared to come find me. You really have a lot of nerve. But it doesn't matter; today is your doom anyway."
"I am the Master of this space, and the end point of all your timeline variables." Loren's tone was flat, and then he turned to look at the woman behind him, issuing the final encirclement order.
"Space has been sealed by me. He can no longer perform spacetime jumps, cannot backtrack his own injuries, and cannot open spacetime rifts to escape. I have completely sealed off all his retreats. Therefore, you can finish him off."
Chapter 519: Complete Eradication
Having lost all spacetime ability backups and unable to shift or escape, the Scarlet Centurion instantly fell from his pedestal, left with only a physically formidable armor body, completely reduced to a living target.
A new round of general offensive instantly commenced. Everyone no longer held back their combat power, unleashing their strongest moves to cover and blockade in all directions.
The front line's defense was breached. Tsunade fully erupted with the Strength of a Hundred and monstrous strength, her fists continuously bombarding the exact same spot on the Scarlet Centurion's armor, forcefully cracking the runes on the surface of the armor and shattering its outer defense.
Number 18 released the infinite energy within her body, condensing a giant energy sphere to continuously bombard his body and wear down his physical resistance.
Mei Terumi released the ultimate concentrated melting release strong acid, which seeped into the interior along the cracks of the armor to corrode the spacetime lifeform core; Crystal mobilized all the elements of the Earth veins, condensing a giant elemental prison to completely lock down his body;
Wanda urged Chaos Magic with all her might, directly distorting the spacetime factors within the Scarlet Centurion's body from the root, causing his own spacetime energy to begin backfiring on him.
Countless moves landed on the Scarlet Centurionsimultaneously, leaving no blind spots and no possibility of escape. The armor shattered inch by inch, and the spacetime core inside his body constantly cracked.
With his own spacetime energy completely backfiring, he could clearly feel that the spacetime link between himself, the Kang Dynasty council, and Kang the Conqueror was breaking bit by bit.
He exhausted his last bit of strength trying to open remote spacetime communication, wanting to transmit the intelligence here back to the sanctuary and inform Kang the Conqueror of the terrifying combat power on Earth's side.
But Loren had long ago sealed off all spacetime signals in the entire region in advance, preventing any information from being transmitted outward.
"No... I am a centurion under His Majesty the Conqueror, I am a warrior of the Kang Dynasty, I cannot die here... I still have to go back and report..."
The Scarlet Centurion spat out blood, his scarlet eyes revealing extreme fear and panic for the first time. He finally realized that from the moment he stepped into this manor, he had already fallen into a dead end.
He underestimated the enemy and rushed forward rashly, trespassing alone into the enemy's home court. With all his spacetime abilities sealed, unable to escape, unable to call for reinforcements, and unable to transmit intelligence, he could ultimately only perish completely right here.
"You severed my return path, you severed all my spacetime connections... If His Majesty the Conqueror finds out, he will definitely not spare you!"
His voice gradually grew weak, and the blood-colored light on his body extinguished little by little.
Loren walked slowly up to him, looking down condescendingly at the centurion on the verge of annihilation, his tone indifferent.
"From the moment you arrogantly sent two subordinates to their deaths, from the moment you insisted on stepping into my territory, you never had the chance to go back and report again."
All spacetime invaders who covet this World and want to obliterate us can only remain on this land forever, including you, and including the so-called Kang the Conqueror you speak of."
As his voice fell, Loren raised his hand to condense a colorless and lightless space annihilation beam, accurately striking the Scarlet Centurion's completely shattered spacetime core.
There was no violent explosion, no dazzling light.
The Scarlet Centurion's body was as if erased by an eraser; from his physical body to his lingering soul, from his spacetime imprint to all traces of existence within the Universe, he was completely, cleanly, and thoroughly eradicated.
He did not exist in the past, did not exist in the present, and did not exist in the future. On the entire timeline, there was no longer a shred of trace belonging to the Scarlet Centurion.
Neither did a lingering soul escape back to the sanctuary of Kang, nor was any intelligence transmitted back to the council. Even Kang the Conqueror could no longer observe the scene of his death through spacetime backtracking.
This Universe-level vanguard warrior of Kang completely evaporated from the human World. Until his death, he failed to transmit a single message back to the Kang Dynasty, completely losing contact and forever unable to report back.
The dust of the battlefield settled. The collapsed space quickly recovered under Loren's restoration, and the courtyard returned to its original state, as if this perilous spacetime war had never happened.
The twenty-three dependents slowly retracted their moves. Although all members had minor consumptions, not a single person was heavily injured, and everyone was completely intact.
Tsunade retracted her fists, the Strength of a Hundred technique quickly smoothing away the fatigue brought by the battle, and looked at Loren to softly say: "This Kang Variant is much stronger than the previous enemies. If you hadn't sealed the space, we would have had to pay quite a price to slay him."
Wanda walked to the side of the crowd, her scarlet eyes gazing toward the distant direction of the Universe, her expression solemn.
"We completely eradicated all his spacetime traces. The Kang Dynasty side will only perceive that he has completely lost contact, will never be able to investigate the cause of death, and will not obtain any battlefield intelligence."
"This is precisely the result I wanted." Loren looked at the circulating spacetime monitoring light screen in the air, where the red dot originally representing the Scarlet Centurion had completely disappeared and could no longer be retrieved.
"Let Kang the Conqueror lose a top warrior while remaining completely oblivious, falling into an intelligence blind spot."
"He doesn't know our true combat power, doesn't know our trump card to keep spacetime abilities in check. Every step he takes next will become even more cautious."
A2's scarlet eyes flickered, calmly analyzing the subsequent crisis: "The Kang Dynasty has lost a capable general and will definitely dispatch stronger pursuers again. The strength of the enemies attacking next will definitely be even stronger!"
"That's for sure, but no matter how strong the opponent is, this war has already been stirred up, and running away is out of the question. So prepare well to meet the enemy!" Loren's gaze looked toward the depths of spacetime where the Quantum Realm was located.
"Understood, no matter what kind of enemy it is, we will definitely not retreat. Even if we die, we will protect Mastersafely, and we will never let them harm a single hair on your head!" Commander White said respectfully.
"Rest assured, you won't die. Just a mere Kang Variant can't make any major waves. However, since he made a move against me, naturally we shouldn't just wait around. It's time to take the initiative!"
Hearing Loren's words, all the members present revealed full fighting spirit in their eyes, seemingly filled with a look of anticipation for the upcoming battle.
Inside the sanctuary of the Kang Dynasty, Kang the Conqueror upon the supreme throne suddenly opened his eyes, the spacetime flowing light at the bottom of his eyes violently fluctuating.
He could not sense any existence signal of the Scarlet Centurion, could not trace back the scene of his death, and could not retrieve his battlefield intelligence. This direct lineage warrior he trusted the most had completely vanished into thin air from the Universe.
All the Kang Variants inside the grand hall were in an uproar, and everyone's hearts grew cold.
Kang the Conqueror remained silent for a long time, his fingertips tapping the armrest of the throne, an elusive solemn emotion appearing in the depths of his eyes for the first time.
"These variables are far more terrifying than I imagined."
No one knew the cause of death of the Scarlet Centurion, and no one knew the true combat power trump card inside the manor. A fog shrouding the entire Universe completely enshrouded the skies above the Kang Dynasty.
Within the Earth manor, everyone finished their rest, and the global spacetime early warning system maxed out its alert level once again.
A new round of spacetime crisis was brewing, but at this moment, Loren and all the dependents under his command had already made foolproof preparations to meet the battle.
Chapter 520: Taking the Initiative
In the courtyard, the evening breeze swept across the flattened lawn after the battle.
The lingering, tiny space-time fragments were slowly absorbed by the manor's spatial barrier, completely dissolving between heaven and Earth.
Loren's women lined up on both sides, their breaths steady.
Having experienced two consecutive space-time battles, everyone already had a complete understanding of Kang's space-time laws and combat patterns.
Their team coordination became increasingly tacit, and their resistance to space-time attacks was passively enhanced once again.
Loren stood in the center of the courtyard, raising his head to look at the invisible space-time veins above his head.
Touching the void lightly with his fingertips, he could clearly perceive the River of Time spanning thousands of parallel Universes flowing slowly.
And the convergence origin of all long rivers was precisely the Space-Time Sanctuary of Kang deep within the Quantum Realm.
Previously, passively waiting for the enemy to come to the door for defense was ultimately treating the symptoms rather than the root cause.
The endless variant army and infinite space-time pursuers of the Kang Dynasty would never be completely cut off.
Defending all the time would only lead to an endless war of attrition.
Rather than sitting back and waiting for a stronger space-time overlord to lead troops to attack, it was better to take the initiative and strike directly at the enemy's heart.
Loren withdrew his gaze, turned around, and looked at the wives behind him.
His tone was calm yet carried unquestionable resolution: "Consistently guarding the manor and taking passive beatings would ultimately fail to end this war."
"The Kang Dynasty is rooted in the Quantum Realm, controlling the global timeline. As long as the council still exists, the crisis will never disappear."
"Next, I plan to enter the Quantum Realm alone, head straight to the Kang Dynasty Space-Time Sanctuary, and actively overturn their council center."
As his voice fell, all of his wives' expressions changed simultaneously, and they stepped forward to dissuade him.
A2 stepped forward, her scarlet eyes filled with worry: "Master, you cannot go rashly."
"The Sanctuary of Kang is the core battlefield of the multiverse, gathering the strongest Kang Variants in the entire Universe."
"There is also the ultimately evolved Kang the Conquerorsitting in command. The risk far exceeds the Earthbattlefield, and all of us should accompany you to protect you."
Tsunade also knitted her brows tightly, crossing her arms as she spoke.
"Kang the Conqueror is the ultimate evolution target of all Kang Variants, and his combat power far exceeds the Scarlet Centurion by several tiers."
"It is too risky for you to go alone. Let us participate in the battle together; our chances of winning will be higher if we join forces."
The remaining wives also chimed in, and no one was willing to let Loren step into the enemy's Base alone.
Loren shook his head gently, raising his hand to signal everyone to rest assured.
A gentle yet extremely dominant spatial coercion slowly spread from around his body, appeasing everyone's restless emotions.
"You just need to stay behind to guard the manor. Inside the sanctuary, the laws are chaotic, and thousands of timelines intersect and overlap."
"Large-scale personnel entering it will easily trigger uncontrollable space-time turbulence, which will instead drag down the battle situation."
"Moreover, this manor is our last rear Base, and someone must garrison it."
"Defend Earth's main timeline to prevent other scattered Kang Variants from taking the opportunity to sneak attack the present World while I am away."
He paused, his gaze firm, and continued: "My strength is already at the multiverse level."
"I have long been unbound by conventional space-time laws, and acting alone is actually the most flexible."
"In this attack, I want to completely sever the command center of the Kang Dynasty and solve this space-time disaster once and for all."
Wanda stepped forward, scarlet Chaos Magic flowing at her fingertips, and spoke solemnly.
"Master, I can bless you with a Chaos barrier to shield all your space-time signals."
"Making it impossible for Kang the Conqueror to predict your whereabouts in advance, while I can remotely link to your aura."
"Once you encounter a fatal crisis, I can immediately open a Chaos portal to receive and bring you back."
"Sorry to trouble you." Loren slightly nodded.
Wanda immediately urged her full power, and the sky-full of scarlet Chaos mist wrapped around Loren's entire body.
Completely erasing all of Loren's time marks, spatial coordinates, and life signals.
Making him completely drift outside the space-time detection of all Kang Variants, like a blank person who did not exist in the multiverse.
Having finished all preparations, Loren said no more, raising his hand to tear open a spatial channel leading straight to the core of the Quantum Realm.
Inside the channel, it was pitch black and deep, filled with rolling subatomic turbulence and intersecting time fragments, far more dangerous than the outer periphery of the Quantum Realm that everyone had entered before.
"Guard the rear well."
Leaving these four words of exhortation, Loren stepped into the channel, and the spatial fissure closed instantly without leaving the slightest fluctuation.
The core of the Quantum Realm, deep within the space-time crevice.
There was no alternation of day and night here, and no boundary between heaven and Earth.
As far as the eye could see, there was only the boundless flowing silver River of Time, in which the rise and fall of countless parallel Universes were reflected.
Every drop of river water represented an independent timeline, and every wisp of wave carried the destiny of a parallel World.
The Space-Time Sanctuary of Kang suspended in the exact center of the thousands of long rivers was entirely piled up from solidified primitive space-time crystals.
The body of the palace was engraved with ancient space-time runes that had existed since the beginning of the Universe's birth, and its coercion spanned across the entire multiverse.
Inside the sanctuary council hall, the atmosphere was depressed to the extreme.
Over a hundred Kang Variants of various forms stood quietly, the whole audience was silent, and there was no longer the previous arrogance and clamor.
The matter of the Scarlet Centurion perishing out of thin air and having no intelligence transmitted back was like a giant boulder pressing on everyone's heart.
Making this group of space-time conquerors who claimed to control time and overlook all things feel fear for the first time.
Someone tried to trace back time, wanting to watch the whole process of the Scarlet Centurion dying in battle, but all the traced-back images were completely blank.
Someone tried to cross the timeline to track down the killer's coordinates, only to find that the area of Earth was completely blocked by a layer of supreme spatial barrier, and all space-time explorations were completely invalid;
Someone wanted to mobilize the space-time legion to directly crush Earth, but feared the unknown terrifying combat power and dared not make a move rashly.
Above the supreme throne, Kang the Conquerorcontinuously tapped his fingertips on the armrest.
The dull sound echoed in the hall, and every tap made the minds of all the Kang Variants below tremble.
He had lived for hundreds of millions of years, witnessed the birth and destruction of the Universe, and suppressed countless dimensional rebellions.
Never had a direct descendant warrior completely annihilated within his perception range, unable to leave even a trace of lingering sound.
"The opponent has the ability to ban global space-time signals and erase the traces of existence. Their combat power tier has already touched the origin of space-time."
Kang the Conqueror slowly opened his mouth, his voice cold and hollow, "Previously underestimating the variable was my mistake."
"Next, I will personally take action, flatten Earth, and obliterate all variables."
Just the moment he was about to issue the order for the whole army to attack and personally lead the expedition simultaneously.
The void right in the center of the hall cracked open a flat spatial fissure without any warning.
There was no space-time storm, no energy fluctuation, and no prior warning; it was as simple and crude as tearing a piece of thin paper.
Loren slowly walked out from the fissure, dressed in black without a single speck of space-time dust.
His gaze calmly swept across the magnificent council hall, looking at the more than one hundred Kang Variants with different expressions before him.
Like a lone wolf breaking into a flock of sheep, calm, unhurried, and fearless.