Inside the Ark's main control room, shrill alarms echoed without pause.
Tony stared at the stream of red ERROR messages flashing across his helmet display, his face turning pale.
Thor gripped Stormbreaker so tightly that veins bulged across the back of his hand.
Even the six Infinity Stones had begun emitting a low, ominous hum.
Reed had collapsed into his seat, cold sweat soaking through his clothes.
Everyone's gaze was fixed on a single coordinate—
A dimensional coordinate hovering before Levi, radiating an aura of utter destruction.
"Zero."
Levi stood with his hands clasped behind his back, his voice calm.
"Yes, Master."
"Overload all engines. Lock onto that coordinate."
Slowly raising his right hand, he continued:
"Prepare for dimensional ascension."
"This is insane!"
Reed shot to his feet, his voice cracking with agitation.
"Levi! That's a conceptual vacuum zone! A forbidden region of the entire multiverse!"
"The Ark's armor can't withstand that level of dimensional pressure! We'll all be crushed into elementary particles!"
Levi merely turned his head and looked at him.
The look in his eyes was that of someone examining a particularly noisy ant.
"Can't withstand it?"
A faint chuckle escaped him.
"Then let it evolve until it can."
The moment the words left his mouth—
BOOM!
A surge of energy powerful enough to make every soul present tremble erupted from within his body.
A pillar of gold-and-crimson light shot skyward, piercing straight through the Ark's hull.
WARNING! Energy levels exceeding threshold! Forced injection in progress!
Detected higher-dimensional conceptual crystals... beginning absorption!
Zero's electronic voice rang out.
Calling it excited would be an understatement.
The conceptual crystals harvested from the Void Sweepers were shattered and activated by Levi's power.
Purple-black energy surged through the vessel's framework as the liquid-metal armor writhed and reassembled itself.
A form of matter Reed had never seen before was taking shape.
The laws wouldn't allow it?
Then smash the laws.
"Command confirmed."
Zero's voice had changed, carrying a manic excitement that sent chills down everyone's spine.
"Ark, War Form—full-power restrictions released."
"Target locked: Summit of the Multiverse."
"All hands—"
"CHARGE!"
BOOM!!
The Void let out a scream.
Not a vibration.
A genuine scream.
As if some ancient existence were shrieking in agony.
The Ark's main engines roared.
The sound drowned out everything else.
In the next instant, the entire battleship transformed into a streak of light and hurtled toward the theoretically unreachable coordinate—
Crashing toward it with reckless ferocity.
---
The cockpit exploded into alarms.
Tony gripped the console so hard his knuckles turned white.
The data streams across the holographic displays had descended into complete madness. Countless red warning windows cascaded downward like waterfalls.
"This is insane!"
Tony roared, eyes nearly popping from their sockets.
"The energy output is climbing vertically! Three hundred... five hundred... and it's still increasing!"
"The velocity parameters have turned into gibberish! The physics engine has completely collapsed!"
He took a shaky breath.
"This isn't under Newtonian mechanics anymore!"
Reed's reaction was even more dramatic.
His hands flew through the air frantically as he attempted emergency calculations, but every model produced the same result.
ERROR.
"This isn't flight..."
His voice was hoarse.
"We're performing dimensional transit! Zero is rewriting reality itself!"
"He's altering the Ark's relative parameters with respect to the entire universe!"
After a brief pause, he uttered words that made everyone's scalp tingle.
"He's forcing the universe itself to make way for us."
---
By the observation window, Clark suddenly stepped forward.
The Man of Steel—known as the god among men—wore an expression of pure shock.
Through his super-vision, the sight beyond was enough to shatter the sanity of any mortal being.
The endless galaxy was breaking apart.
Violent spacetime storms retreated backward.
Ancient conceptual ruins sped away into the distance.
No.
They weren't retreating.
The Ark was crushing through them.
The dimensional hierarchy of the entire three-dimensional universe trembled beneath the Ark's pressure, forced to lower itself and make way.
"Three-dimensional layer separation complete."
Zero's voice was terrifyingly cold.
As though crushing a universe's physical laws were nothing more than routine.
"Encountering fourth-dimensional membrane ahead."
"Resistance coefficient—"
"Infinite."
As the words fell, a transparent barrier materialized at the edge of the Void.
A dimensional chasm.
A forbidden zone established by creation itself for lower-dimensional life.
The laws embedded within it could reduce any trespasser to elementary particles.
"That's the Dimensional Wall!"
Tony shouted.
"We'll disintegrate if we hit it!"
"Disintegrate?"
Zero scoffed.
The contempt in its voice stunned everyone.
"My dictionary contains no word for slowing down."
"Only—"
"Crush it."
BZZZZT—
A burst of purple-black light erupted from the Ark's ram.
It was a forbidden power beyond even the Gods Beyond.
Something even deities coveted.
Twisted runes danced across the hull, combining into a formula Reed couldn't comprehend.
The Ark did not slow down.
It accelerated.
Faster.
And faster.
Then the battleship slammed headfirst into the Dimensional Wall.
---
WARNING! Dimensional membrane strength exceeds threshold! Hull integrity reduced to 73%!
Red warning lights flashed wildly across the bridge as violent tremors shook the ship.
"You're insane!"
Reed shouted while clinging desperately to the console.
"Levi! We have to stop! The ship's circuits are overloaded! If we keep this up, the entire vessel will explode!"
Thor staggered backward from the impact, Stormbreaker humming violently in his grasp.
Nearby, Wanda gritted her teeth as layer after layer of her Chaos Magic barriers shattered.
At that moment, everyone's eyes turned toward the man standing with his back to them.
Levi remained motionless.
Then he slowly turned around.
His gold-and-crimson eyes contained no emotion whatsoever.
"Overloaded?"
A smile tugged at his lips.
"Then let it overload."
"But—"
"Silence."
Levi cut Reed off immediately.
"All you need to do is watch."
He raised his chin slightly.
"Zero. Funnel all the energy harvested from those hundred-plus Void Sweepers into the ram."
"Inject conceptual toxins as well."
"Execute collision."
"Command confirmed."
"Full-power output commencing."
The instant the order was given—
A black energy beam streaked with violet light erupted from the Ark's prow.
It could no longer be called energy.
It was the physical manifestation of destruction itself.
CRACK.
The supposedly indestructible fourth-dimensional membrane split open like torn paper.
Cracks spread rapidly across its surface before triggering total structural collapse.
The Ark burst through.
Tony's pupils contracted.
For a split second during the breakthrough, he saw three versions of himself overlapping.
Past.
Present.
Future.
Something like that...
Had been rammed through by Levi.
"Fourth dimension breached."
Zero announced.
"Fifth dimension breached."
"Sixth dimension—"
Reed slumped into his chair.
His theories.
His science.
His logic.
All of it was meaningless before such unreasonable power.
Technique?
Calculation?
In the face of absolute strength, they were jokes.
---
The moment the Ark entered the Eighth Dimension, Superman groaned and clutched his eyes.
"My vision..."
The Man of Steel's super-sight had failed.
Outside was pure chaos.
A forbidden realm even gods dared not gaze upon.
Levi stood before the observation window, staring into the void capable of driving gods insane.
His eyes burned with excitement.
"So this is the higher-dimensional world?"
He chuckled.
"Nothing special."
WARNING! Contact with Ninth-Dimensional Membrane in countdown!
External law instability exceeds threshold! Spatial structure collapsing!
The control room flashed crimson.
Alarms screamed.
The turbulence of laws was sufficient to pulverize entire galaxies.
Levi sat calmly upon the command throne.
His expression didn't change.
He raised his right hand and pressed outward.
HUMMMM—
A golden-red halo spread from his palm.
It was an absolute domain.
Behind it lay a will transcending dimensions themselves.
The Ark, moments from collapse, immediately stabilized—as if a lone boat in a raging storm had entered a sheltered harbor.
Outside the domain, the universe crumbled.
Timelines collapsed into chaos.
Yet within it, not even a speck of dust was disturbed.
"Push through."
The Ark became a sword.
And pierced the Ninth Dimension.
BOOM!
The vista ahead suddenly opened.
Every pupil present shrank to pinpoints.
"T-That is..."
Reed collapsed onto the floor, trembling violently.
"The ceiling of the multiverse..."
"The Wall of Sighs?!"
---
At the farthest reaches of the Void stood a wall.
A wall capable of inspiring absolute despair.
It had no edges.
No end.
Its entire surface radiated a dead, gray silence.
It was not built from stone.
It was formed from the compressed corpses of countless destroyed universes.
Every line etched across it represented the dying screams of billions of civilizations.
Every scar upon it marked the gravestone of an entire cosmos.
Ding! High-Energy Warning!
Even Zero's voice trembled.
"Target identified: Wall of Sighs. Defense system of the Beyonders."
"Constructed from 137,629 formatted universe remnants."
"Core directive: Erase upon contact."
"Erasure execution speed: 0.001 seconds."
"Estimated survival probability: 0%."
"We're finished..."
Reed's face turned deathly pale.
"This is conceptual-level erasure! Even a single-universe god would die upon impact!"
"Levi, retreat! This is a dead end!"
"A dead end?"
Levi rose from his throne.
A smile appeared on his lips.
Hands behind his back, he stared through the observation window at the colossal wall that had driven countless gods to despair.
As if evaluating merchandise.
"Reed."
"Your perspective is too narrow."
He stepped forward.
With each step, his pressure doubled.
"In my eyes, there is no obstacle that cannot be crossed."
"And if there is—"
"It simply happens to be standing in my way."
A vast, supreme, indescribable presence erupted from within him.
The authority of the Living Tribunal.
At this moment, he was no longer mortal.
He was the judge who walked the multiverse.
The embodiment of order itself.
"No need for a detour."
Levi raised a finger toward the Void.
His voice rang like divine law.
"I hereby declare this wall an illegal structure."
Words became reality.
A colossal golden scale materialized behind him.
Forged from pure law.
Vaster than galaxies.
Suppressing eternity itself.
"In the name of the Guardian of Multiversal Order, I render judgment—"
Levi's gaze swept across existence.
"The Wall of Sighs is guilty of unlawful obstruction and stands in violation of Article One of the Multiversal Transit Code."
"Judgment:"
"Forced demolition."
BOOOOOOM—!!
A torrent of golden judgment light poured from the scales.
It transformed into a beam that pierced past and future alike before crashing into the Wall of Sighs with unstoppable force.
Conceptual erasure.
Universe-corpses.
All of it was meaningless before authority from a higher dimension.
Crack...
A crisp fracture echoed through existence.
Reed's eyes widened in utter disbelief.
A crack had appeared on the supposedly eternal Wall of Sighs.
The crack spread like a spiderweb.
Then the entire structure collapsed.
The combined remains of more than one hundred thirty-seven thousand universes exploded into dust.
Beautiful as fireworks.
Tragic beyond words.
"Trying to escape?"
Levi sneered.
A terrifying suction force erupted from his palm, forming a black devouring vortex.
"If I've already demolished it, then the debris shouldn't go to waste."
"Come to me."
WHOOOOSH—
The essences of countless universes, carrying fragments of innumerable laws, surged toward him like rivers flowing into the sea.
On his system interface, values representing experience and law comprehension skyrocketed at a rate capable of horrifying any observer.
Only a few breaths later, the Void became clear once more.
The Wall of Sighs had vanished completely.
Not even a trace remained.
---
Silence filled the control room.
Then Zero's ecstatic electronic voice broke it.
"Route cleared!"
"Master... you... you are a miracle!"
Levi lowered his hand and felt the surging power within him.
He flicked imaginary dust from his sleeve.
"Making a fuss over nothing."
"It was just code enforcement."
Turning around, he looked toward an even deeper stretch of the Void.
Brilliant light flashed within his eyes.
"Full speed ahead."
"Next."