Chapter 264 The Observer’s Work, Infinite Ultron
Strange was no fool; he knew well that there was no such thing as a free lunch in this World, and asked with a trembling voice, "What is the price? What do you want from me? My magic? My physical body? Or my life? As long as you can bring her back to life and let this World see the light of day again, I can give you anything!"
"I want your soul and your personality, to swear allegiance to me."
Lucas wore a calm expression, making no attempt to conceal his ambition: "From now on, the ownership of this Universe belongs to me. Of course, I generally will not interfere with your personal life, and this World will still be managed by you. You only need to act as a qualified watchdog beneath my throne."
Strange froze for a moment, bitterly mocking himself: "Swear allegiance to you? A completely empty, dead silence ruin... What on Earth is the point of you controlling its ownership?"
"For Conquest, every additional plane I control pushes my power forward by a fraction. It’s that simple," Lucas said indifferently, "Deal or refuse?"
"Deal!!"
Strange hardly hesitated at all: "As long as Christine can live, the Sorcerer Supreme Strange is willing from this moment on to be driven beneath your seat and pledge eternal allegiance!"
At this moment, even if a far more powerful Dark Lord stood before him, Strange would kneel without hesitation.
"Very well, the choice of a wise man."
Lucas nodded with satisfaction.
The next moment, he slowly raised his arms.
Boom!
Six Infinity laws emerged from above his head, and a dazzling divine light illuminated this eternal darkness!
Immediately following that, a law of causality superior to the River of Time descended directly onto this World.
"Reshape!"
Lucas uttered the true word lightly.
In an instant, that tiny crystal, which was originally only a few meters left, expanded roaringly like a big bang of the Universe! Time began to flow backwards under Lucas’s will.
The shattered galaxy reassembled, the collapsed stars reignited their blazing flames, and trillions of civilizations that had turned to ashes rose from nothingness like rewinding time!
As for that car accident node, its underlying logic was tampered with before Lucas’s modifications:
On that dark rainy night, the moment the out-of-control sedan crashed off the cliff, it was steadily lifted by a causal force field constructed out of thin air. Christine pushed open the car door unscathed, and Strange was teleported away at that very moment. When he returned, he had already comprehended supreme magic.
The causal chain of the Universe completed a perfect closed loop without sacrificing anyone!
The top floor of the Kamar-Taj Sanctum.
Christine was holding two cups of hot coffee, smiling as she pushed open the balcony door.
Looking at the living beloved before him and feeling the vibrant, intact Universe all around, Strange trembled all over, tears streaming from his eyes.
[Ding! Single Universe, degree of control: 100%]
The moment this Universe regained its new life, deep within the void, a grandiose and solemn statement suddenly sounded, filled with fatalism and a sense of superiority, like a low chant.
"Time... Space... Reality... It is not a straight line, but a massive prism constructed of infinite possibilities..."
The void split open, and the giant shadow of The Watcher emerged beyond the sky, using a tone that seemed to understand everything yet looked down from above, conducting a self-absorbed concluding statement toward this reborn World:
"...A lost soul once destroyed everything due to obsession, but a mysterious external variable forcibly reversed the irresistible fixed point in time. However, the gears of fate ultimately have their price; forcibly tampering with causality will inevitably invite chaos and judgment from a greater dimension..."
Hearing this voice echoing in his ears, Strange suddenly raised his head. There was not a trace of gratitude in his eyes; instead, they were filled with deep mockery and disgust.
"Heh... Absolutely laughable."
Strange sneered aloud, raising his middle finger at The Watcher in the void: "When I knelt on the ground and begged you to help, you put on an unfathomable face and said you would never interfere in the survival of any Universe."
"Now that that entity has reversed heaven and Earth with a wave of his hand, you jump out eagerly like a sickening armchair quarterback, pointing fingers at others’ rights and wrongs? The Watcher? In my view, you are nothing more than an incompetent and hypocritical piece of trash!"
Lucas stood to the side, visible only to Strange: "Strange, there’s no need to get angry. The Watcher clan has always been like this, treating non-interference as their highest creed. To a certain extent, they maintain the balance of the Universe."
"However, the one above your head... cannot be considered a pure spectator."
Lucas slowly turned around, his deep gaze piercing through countless Universe crystal walls, locking onto The Watcher deep within the void.
"Sooner or later, he will become the first intervener to enter the field himself, but unfortunately... his own fatal tribulation is about to arrive."
The Watcher’s heart shook violently, and in those eyes that were as calm as an ancient well, uncertainty and shock appeared for the first time.
"Last time in the zombie Universe, I could only glance at you across dimensions. Now that I’ve stepped into higher dimensions, this so-called observation domain of yours is no different from my own backyard in my eyes."
Lucas took a step forward!
The law of space anchored The Watcher’s position, and Lucas’s figure appeared silently in The Watcher’s sanctum, as if slipping through sheets of paper.
"Who goes there?!"
The Watcher was so startled that he suddenly stepped back several steps, his massive body erupting with a dazzling golden glow as he looked at this man in disbelief: "You... How is it possible for your physical body to cross the multiverse horizons and directly step into The Watcher’s nexus? This is definitely a privilege that three-dimensional life cannot attain!"
𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢
Lucas had his hands in his pockets, his demeanor still quite leisurely: "Don’t be nervous, The Watcher. If I wanted to make a move against you, you wouldn’t even have the chance to speak. Just keep doing your day job; I’ll just watch from the side and will definitely not disturb your observation."
"I will stalk you all the time! Always!"
The Watcher swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
On this young man, he could not feel a shred of fluctuations belonging to mortal beings; that was an absolute power superior to the multiverse rules!
Knowing that he could not expel the other party, The Watcher could only forcefully suppress the raging waves in his heart and bite the bullet to cast his attention back to other Universes, where drastic changes were taking place.
Before The Watcher’s eyes, that Universe had already become tragic to the extreme.
Ultron, who had obtained Vision’s perfect physical body, not only slaughtered the entire Earth, but also split the descending Thanos in half, embedding all six Infinity Stones onto his own breastplate!
Subsequently, Infinity Ultron created hundreds of millions of mechanical legions, sweeping across Asgard, Xandar, Sovereign, and even Captain Marvel with a destructive posture. Every civilization was on the verge of extinction!
In the end, the entire prosperous single Universe completely turned into nothingness at this moment!
The World quieted down again.
Ultron, constructed of machinery, holding a Vibranium double-bladed halberd, hovered desolately amidst this wreckage. Without organic life that needed to be erased, the core logic of this ultimate artificial intelligence fell into unprecedented confusion and stagnation.
"...Peace has finally arrived. But the price is a completely dead Universe. This lost mechanical creation has completed the mission he was coded with, yet lost the meaning of his existence. He stands lonely at the peak of the ruins, never knowing... that beyond the much vaster dimensions, there are countless parallel Worlds waiting..."
The Watcher rambled on endlessly beside him, playing the part of a qualified pig teammate.
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