In the corner, the man who had been slumped like a vagrant slowly raised his head at Steve's call.
Robert Reynolds.
On this desperate, ruined battlefield, his messy blonde hair obscured half his face, and his eyes were as lost as a runaway child's. But the torn golden bodysuit he wore emitted a chilling, ancient aura amidst the dust.
Frieza, suspended high in the sky, instantly froze the elegant smile on his lips the moment he saw the man stand up.
His pair of scarlet pupils immediately contracted into needlepoints.
A chill he had never felt before shot up his tailbone straight to the crown of his head. Even his expensive white suit felt cold and piercing.
"Sen... try?!"
Frieza gasped internally.
As a transmigrator familiar with the Marvel world, how could he not recognize this cheat?
The man with the power of a million exploding suns.
The crucial point is that this was only the power he convinced himself he had in order to suppress the Void within him.
His true strength, according to Marvel lore, was potentially the strongest besides OAA.
A terrifying existence comparable to the God of the Old Testament.
He wasn't sure if Marvel's established lore would be retconned here.
But—
Even if it was only one-tenth, no, one-hundredth of that, that was still an existence capable of tearing him apart.
If this guy awakened, never mind his current standard form.
Even if he brought out the non-existent Golden Frieza, whether he could win would be a huge question mark.
"Damn it! Steve, this seemingly trustworthy guy, actually dared to wake him up?!"
Frieza watched Sentry on the ground whose eyes were slowly beginning to focus, and the alarm bells in his mind were ringing wildly like an air raid siren.
Following the usual villain trope, he should cross his arms, wait arrogantly for the opponent to transform.
Then scoff, "Oh? That's slightly interesting," and subsequently get slapped in the face.
But—
Who is he, Frieza?
He is the man who is determined to become the Universe's greatest Real Estate Mogul.
This kind of stupid joke with his own life is something the original Frieza would do, but he, Frieza, absolutely would not.
This is called prudence.
"I must kill him! Now! Immediately! Right away!"
The killing intent in Frieza's eyes instantly surged to the extreme, even surpassing the cold indifference he showed when destroying the moon earlier.
"Since you want to play big, I will play big with you."
Boom!!!
There was no wind-up, no nonsense.
In the sky, Frieza's formerly elegant human form underwent a terrifying transformation in an instant.
That was Frieza's Third Form!
That Xenomorph Form, born for battle, was ugly but extremely ferocious.
His head elongated backward, becoming grotesque like a Xenomorph. His back arched, and the armor on his shoulders became sharp and piercing.
His original height of just over a meter instantly surged to over two meters.
That terrifying aura, which had been suppressed, now poured out like a burst dam.
[Ding! Host has switched to Third Form! Power Level surges to 2,000,000!]
At this moment, the entire Earth's atmosphere let out an overburdened groan under this pressure, as if it were about to disintegrate the next second.
"Die!!!"
Frieza let out a shriek that was not human.
The energy gathered at his fingertips was no longer a playful, thin beam. Instead, all five fingers lit up simultaneously, converging into an incredibly thick purple Destruction Cannon.
Target—Robert Reynolds, who hadn't fully woken up.
On the ground.
Steve felt the sudden burst of evil aura above his head, which was several times more terrifying than before and face instantly turned deathly pale.
He guessed Frieza would attack, but he hadn't expected the demon to be so decisive.
Not even saying a word of pretense, just launching his ultimate move directly?
"Ancient One! Hold him back!!!"
Steve roared, pulling out the special syringe that S.H.I.E.L.D. had kept sealed for half a century.
Inside was a highly concentrated Golden Serum, the only key to waking the Sentry.
"God, forgive me."
A flicker of pain crossed Steve's eyes.
He knew that once he injected this, Earth might be destroyed by another monster, but he had no other choice.
He violently raised the syringe and stabbed it fiercely toward Sentry's carotid artery.
At the same time.
The Ancient One, who had been waiting on the side, also moved.
She knew this was the last chance.
She quickly formed hand signs, and the eye of agamotto on her chest suddenly opened, emitting emerald green light like a blooming lotus.
"Time... Stop!"
Ancient One strained with all her might, trying to use the power of the Time Stone to freeze the purple monster diving down.
However, all of this, in the eyes of Frieza, who had activated his Third Form and whose Power Level had soared to two million, was too slow.
It was like an old slide show playing frame by frame.
Steve's stabbing motion was so slow it looked like slow-motion replay.
Ancient One's hand signs gesture was so slow it made him want to laugh.
"In the face of absolute speed, even time must make way for me."
Whoosh!
Frieza's figure vanished into the air.
That wasn't instantaneous movement, it was physical movement at its absolute peak speed.
One microsecond before the Ancient One's Time Magic took effect.
Frieza's large, grotesque, Xenomorph-like hand had already appeared before the Ancient One.
"I think this thing will be safer with me."
Frieza revealed an extremely hideous grin on his elongated face.
Pfft!
Just like crushing a piece of tofu, Frieza's hand pierced straight through the Ancient One's chest, grabbing the green-glowing Time Stone.
"Ugh..."
The Ancient One's eyes widened, and the light within them quickly dimmed.
She had calculated everything, only failing to account for this monster's speed, which was so fast it surpassed the casting time.
"Goodbye, baldy."
Frieza casually tossed the Ancient One's corpse onto the ground like garbage.
The next second.
He looked toward Steve, whose needle had already pierced Sentry's skin.
"Wait! It's not over yet!"
The alarm bells in Frieza's heart rang loudly.
Although the Ancient One was dead, if the serum in that syringe was injected, who knew if the Sentry would instantly turn into the Void?
This was the biggest unstable bomb in the Marvel Universe.
He absolutely couldn't gamble!
Frieza looked at the Time Stone in his hand, without any hesitation.
Although he didn't understand magic, the System did.
At worst, as long as energy was poured into it, violent activation would work.
"Reverse!!!"
The Ki inside Frieza surged wildly into the Time Stone.
Buzz!
Green light instantly erupted, enveloping the area within a hundred meters.
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