The void trembled.
Countless Laws wailed in mourning.
Levi stood suspended in space.
The corpse of the Living Tribunal, an existence once capable of judging the entire Multiverse, was now being treated as the richest nourishment imaginable, frantically devoured by the black vortex in Levi's palm—a vortex that seemed capable of swallowing all creation.
"Devour."
As Levi uttered the command within his heart, the flames of the Phoenix Force surged explosively.
The gold-and-crimson motes of light that symbolized supreme authority were violently swept into his body.
There was no gentle fusion.
No harmonious integration.
Only absolute suppression.
And complete reforging.
Within his Inner Universe, the fourteen Laws that had once existed separately were shattered and recombined by force.
Time and Space ceased to exist as independent dimensions.
Instead, they became the foundation beneath his throne.
Life and Death were no longer opposing endpoints in an endless cycle.
They became strings upon which he could casually play with a flick of his fingers.
As for the Concepts of Judgment and Balance inherited from the Living Tribunal?
Those had once belonged to an old god.
Now they became the neural pathways of a new one.
---
Bzzzz—
Countless incomprehensible runes erupted across Levi's body.
This was not a blessing from heaven.
It was the instinctive trembling of the Laws themselves as they submitted to their new master.
He merely stood there.
Yet within a radius of three meters around him, reality itself collapsed.
Chains of causality snapped apart.
Fundamental constants fluctuated wildly.
He no longer belonged to this universe.
Or rather—
the universe itself was rapidly approaching the point where it could no longer contain him.
A true god.
---
Inside the Ark's command center, silence reigned.
Only the shrill screams of overloaded systems echoed through the chamber.
"Dammit! Dammit! JARVIS, shut down every sensor right now!"
Tony Stark's face had turned pale.
His fingers flew across the holographic interface so quickly they blurred into afterimages.
Yet the crimson warnings on the display remained impossible to ignore.
"Sir, command cannot be executed."
"The armor life-support systems have already undergone four emergency reboots."
"The readings have not exceeded detection limits."
"Their nature has reached a state that can no longer be defined."
"Forty-seven percent of our sensor array vaporized the moment it came into contact with the energy fluctuations."
Elsewhere, Reed Richards—the man renowned as possessing one of the greatest minds in the Marvel Universe—had completely lost his composure.
He knelt helplessly on the cold metal floor.
Both hands clutched his head.
His body convulsed violently.
Blood vessels burst across his eyes.
"Impossible..."
"This violates every known law of physics..."
"My brain... is refusing to process it..."
"This is a miracle..."
"No..."
"It's something more terrifying than divinity itself..."
The agony of informational overload felt as though it were tearing his soul apart.
"So this is... true power..."
Clark gripped the control console so tightly that reinforced alloy crumpled like paper beneath his fingers.
His super-vision allowed him to witness a horrifying sight no one else could perceive.
Behind Levi stood an indescribable phantom composed of pure Laws.
Its eyes slowly opened.
The mere act of being glanced at by that entity caused the Kryptonian hero to tremble to his core.
It was instinct.
The instinctive terror of prey standing before the apex predator of existence.
---
Thor's grip on Stormbreaker tightened.
The axe emitted mournful vibrations.
Even the six Infinity Stones embedded within it shook violently.
Low hums of fear echoed from them.
The Stones were afraid.
These embodiments of universal source power feared one thing:
The new existence being born before them.
---
Wanda's face had gone pale.
She shielded Adam protectively behind her.
Seven layers of Chaos Magic barriers appeared around them.
Yet she quickly discovered a horrifying truth.
The barriers she once considered indestructible were as fragile as paper before the unconscious aura leaking from Levi.
---
Just as everyone's mental defenses approached collapse—
something changed.
The Void Scavengers that had previously assaulted the Ark with relentless bloodlust suddenly froze.
Their attacks ceased instantly.
A moment later, the mindless monsters erupted into terrified shrieks.
Then they fled.
In every direction.
Like a receding tide.
Some smashed into each other.
Others tore themselves apart in their desperation.
But none dared remain even a second longer.
Their chaotic instincts screamed a single warning:
The man floating within the void had awakened.
Divinity had descended.
---
Levi opened his eyes.
The moment he did—
the entire void seemed to freeze.
His gold-and-crimson pupils were gone.
In their place stretched a dazzling galaxy woven from gold, crimson, silver, and white.
Deep within that cosmic sea flickered a trace of lifeless gray.
Anyone who saw it would feel their soul tremble.
It was as though billions of years of universal birth and destruction had been compressed into those eyes.
Levi slowly exhaled.
The countless runes surrounding him flowed back into his body like rivers returning to the sea.
His Inner Universe had finally reached completion.
Under the suppressive authority of Judgment and Balance, it had developed a flawless internal cycle.
The final gift left behind by the Living Tribunal had become Levi's sharpest weapon.
---
He slowly turned.
His gaze drifted deeper into the void.
The Void Scavengers that once ruled this region now fled like rats before a natural predator.
Fear.
Levi could clearly sense the terror boiling within them.
"Only now you've decided to run?"
A cruel smile appeared on his lips.
His eyes were cold.
"When you hunted me earlier, you seemed much more confident."
To him, they were no longer threats.
They were walking bundles of experience points.
Pure energy delivered directly to his doorstep.
His right hand rose.
His fingers spread.
BOOM!
The black vortex in his palm erupted.
This time there was no restraint.
No testing.
The full power of the Concept of Greed was unleashed.
A terrifying force engulfed everything within ten kilometers.
Even space itself seemed to tear apart beneath its pull.
"SCREEEEE—!!"
The scavengers shrieked in despair.
No matter how desperately they burned their life force to accelerate, they could not escape the conceptual attraction.
"Come here."
Levi clenched his hand.
Dozens of colossal scavengers instantly lost control.
It was as if an invisible hand of God had seized them.
They were dragged backward through space.
Before they even reached him, their bodies began collapsing.
Armor shattered.
Rotting flesh split apart.
Their forms twisted into grotesque spirals of blood and meat.
Yet that wasn't enough.
---
Authority of Judgment: Defense Nullified.
Authority of Balance: Impurity Removed.
With a single thought, the two supreme Authorities descended.
The twisted concepts and corrupt energies within the scavengers were purified the moment they entered the vortex.
Their filthy flesh transformed into pure energy.
Not a single fragment was wasted.
Not a single trace escaped.
Everything was swallowed by Levi.
It wasn't a battle.
It wasn't even a slaughter.
It was extermination.
---
Inside the Ark's command center, silence returned.
Tony Stark suddenly looked up from his station.
His helmet retracted.
The confidence that usually defined him had vanished.
Only shock remained.
"Wait."
He pointed toward Levi's godlike figure displayed on the monitor.
His voice cracked.
"Zero... what exactly did you just say?"
"Active assault? Full-power predation?"
"Have you completely lost your mind?"
"Those are Void Scavengers!"
"A few minutes ago, if we'd reacted a second slower, the Ark would've been eaten down to scraps!"
"Tony Stark," Zero replied.
"Please update your data model."
The AI's normally emotionless voice contained unmistakable excitement.
"Threat assessments have been recalibrated."
Target: Void Scavenger.
Previous Threat Level: A-Class (Extremely Lethal).
Revised Threat Level: D-Class (Food/Resource).
The red warning indicators instantly turned green.
The color of harvest.
"The moment the Captain completed his evolution, this void ceased being a death zone."
Zero announced the brutal truth.
"It has become our hunting ground."
"Recommendation: Begin full-scale harvesting operations immediately."
"Projected energy reserve increase: three hundred percent."
---
Reed climbed shakily to his feet.
His fingers trembled uncontrollably.
Not from fear.
From witnessing a miracle.
The streams of data flowing across the screen challenged everything science had ever represented.
"Energy transfer efficiency..."
"Point three percent increase per second..."
"No, it's still accelerating!"
"Hull repairs complete."
"Organic growth detected."
"Damn it... is this even a machine anymore?"
"This is becoming an entirely new lifeform."
The most terrifying part was Zero itself.
Its processing capability had quadrupled in mere minutes.
And showed no signs of slowing down.
Like an ancient beast finally freed from its chains.
Reed gritted his teeth.
Madness flashed in his eyes.
If they'd already boarded this insane ship—
they might as well tear a hole through the heavens.
"Zero!"
He roared.
"Disable all safety protocols!"
"Initiate Predator Configuration!"
"Monitor structural integrity."
"As long as the ship doesn't immediately collapse, push energy absorption to physical limits!"
"Command confirmed."
"Executing."
---
The void resonated.
BZZZZZZZZ—!!!
A soul-shaking vibration erupted from deep within the Ark.
Like a metallic Leviathan imprisoned for countless ages finally roaring its hunger.
The sleek hull distorted completely.
Boiling liquid metal reconfigured itself.
Battle damage vanished.
Thousands of monstrous metallic appendages burst from the ship's surface.
They stabbed into the void like predatory tentacles.
The Ark was no longer a spacecraft.
It had become a cosmic horror wrapped in technology.
---
Far away, the remaining Void Scavengers broke.
Their instincts had encountered something even more terrifying than themselves.
They fled in utter panic.
Run?
Before a god-killing war machine that had completed its evolution?
The very concept was absurd.
"Trying to leave now?"
Reed stared at the screen.
A cruel smile appeared.
"Too late."
BOOM!
The nearest metallic appendage erased three kilometers of space.
It arrived instantly.
Ignoring causality itself.
SPLAT!
A scavenger exploded.
Its source core was pierced before it could react.
Pinned in place like an insect specimen.
"Execute: Devour."
Blue energy surged through the tentacle's conduits.
The scavenger's massive body shriveled.
Collapsed.
Thousands of years of accumulated power.
Conceptual fragments.
Existential foundations.
Everything was stolen.
Everything became fuel for the Ark.
---
High-Dimensional Void Energy Source Acquired.
Conceptual Fragment Analysis Complete.
Hull Evolution Progress Increased by 1%.
Reed stared at the data.
His breathing grew ragged.
This...
This was true power.
Power beyond all rules.
---
A one-sided massacre unfolded throughout the void.
The scavengers that once terrorized countless dimensions were reduced to dried husks.
Their essence stripped away.
Their remains turned into drifting gray dust.
Even their death cries never emerged.
The Ark's monstrous appendages continued growing larger.
Purple-black logic viruses flowed across the armor like living creatures.
One tentacle.
Two.
Ten.
The Ark had become a cosmic beast feeding upon a graveyard of concepts.
---
Clark inhaled sharply.
Even his super-vision ached.
Those appendages no longer attacked physically.
They pierced dimensional seams.
They struck at causality.
At concepts.
This wasn't predation.
It was higher life crushing lower life.
Absolutely.
Completely.
---
"Isn't this feeding style a little too brutal?"
Thor swallowed hard.
His palms were slick with sweat.
For the first time in ages, the God of Thunder felt small.
---
Wanda immediately covered Adam's eyes.
Though still asleep, the Void Source within him resonated violently.
Like a starving predator smelling a feast.
---
"JARVIS, tell me those readings are broken!"
Tony stared at the holographic display.
His eyes nearly popped out.
"Energy reserves: 53%... 78%... 121%... 150%?!"
"That's impossible!"
"Since when do energy reserves exceed design limits?!"
"Did physics get eaten by a dog?!"
"No, Tony."
Reed's voice trembled.
His eyes burned with fanaticism.
"This isn't a bug."
"It's evolution."
"Zero is using absorbed energy to rebuild the Ark's energy circuits in real time."
"The Ark is upgrading itself."
He pulled up a structural analysis.
The results were enough to destroy any rational mind.
"Worse..."
"Zero is extracting the most dangerous twisted concepts from the scavengers."
"Compressing them into high-density conceptual crystals."
"Those aren't waste products."
"Those are ammunition."
"Levi is using slaughter to stockpile conceptual weapons specifically designed to kill Beyonders."
---
At that moment—
a single footstep echoed through the bridge.
Tap.
It wasn't loud.
Yet it sounded like a hammer striking the laws of the universe themselves.
Everyone's heartbeat synchronized with it.
The air vanished.
An overwhelming pressure descended.
Levi emerged from nothingness.
Invisible distortions warped space around him.
Each step he took caused the Ark's core to resonate with something akin to worship.
He was no longer mortal.
He was a sovereign of the void.
---
Levi approached the central console.
Then casually pressed his palm against it.
BOOM—!
Gold-and-crimson light exploded outward.
The entire vessel ignited.
Every circuit.
Every system.
Every corner.
"Master."
Zero's voice no longer sounded mechanical.
It sounded devotional.
"The highest authority level has been updated."
"All Ark systems are now fully unlocked."
"We stand ready to die for you."
Levi said nothing.
He simply closed his eyes.
An immeasurable flood of data crashed into his consciousness.
Along with memory fragments torn from the Living Tribunal's remnants.
Broken images appeared.
Yet they carried a grandeur beyond dimensions.
At the ultimate end of the void floated a colossal structure built upon perfect geometric symmetry.
Its countless runes glowed with a power capable of erasing concepts themselves.
Deep within it—
an indescribable figure was imprisoned.
Six points of primal light held it in eternal suppression.
It was the place where all concepts ended.
---
Levi's eyes snapped open.
Killing intent blazed within them like twin suns.
"I found it."
A cold smile spread across his face.
His voice sounded almost gentle.
Yet everyone felt ice crawl up their spines.
"The engine room of the Beyonders."
"The final incubation site..."
"...of the Everything Dies Bomb."
"Coordinates?"
Tony blurted instinctively.
Levi casually waved a hand.
A string of coordinates formed from pure energy appeared before everyone.
The symbols twisted and rearranged themselves endlessly.
They violated every spatial law of a three-dimensional universe.
Simply looking at them invoked a sense of absolute finality.
Reed took one glance.
Then collapsed into a chair.
Cold sweat soaked his back.
His voice became hoarse.
"That's impossible..."
"That location..."
"It's at the very top of the Multiversal structure."
"According to every theory we have..."
"...there should be nothing there at all."