Chapter 269 Uatu, you had a chance to make a move, but you didn’t!
The pure Vibranium faceplate was forcefully smashed into a dent!
Immediately afterward, Captain Carter shot forward like an arrow off a bowstring, stepping on a demon’s tentacle to leap into the air. The Vibranium shield in her hand, accompanied by a sound tearing through the air, embedded itself right between the gem slots on Ultron’s chest!
Captain America always goes fifty-fifty with anyone.
The other teammates weren’t slacking either. Black Panther T’Challa used his Vibranium Talon along with high-tech bombs, sticking them to Ultron’s right arm joint and detonating them!
As for the entire combat coalition, one could say they each had their own fighting styles, but how many people’s attacks actually played a role was a matter of opinion. On the other hand, Supreme Doctor Strange truly managed to provide solid, tangible support.
Occasionally, he even had to tank damage head-on—he was a gold-medal player through and through!
"This... managed to suppress it for real?"
The Watcher still didn’t make a move, just watching from the sidelines like an old fox, though his eyes were filled with excitement.
"A cornered beast will fight to the death. This hunk of metal is going all out."
Lucas shook his head.
If Infinity Ultron could be resolved this easily, it wouldn’t have beaten The Watcher so badly it didn’t know which way was up.
Sure enough!
After continuously enduring everyone’s harassment, Infinity Ultron grew quite impatient. After all, the attacks of ants were insignificant, but they were annoyingly like scratching an itch through a boot!
"Destruction protocol, initiate!"
At that very instant, all six Infinity Stones inside Infinity Ultron activated simultaneously!
A destructive energy surpassing the limits of a single Universe shot out from his chest, and Ultron’s body began to expand wildly and without limit. In just a few seconds, he transformed into a giant god spanning half a galaxy!
The giant god opened its bloody maw, resembling a black hole. Not only did it swallow dozens of surrounding stars into its belly in one gulp, but it also frantically chewed up the space-time laws of the entire parallel stellar region as if eating popcorn.
And swallowed them down!
"Not good! He’s going to directly consume the entire dimension and wipe us out in one breath!" Supreme Doctor Strange was the first to notice something was wrong.
Thor, Carter, and the others were further pulled by the terrifying gravitational storm, on the verge of being sucked in.
The Watcher clenched his fists, his eyes filled with struggle.
Lucas stared at him for a long time. This The Watcher was truly as stubborn as a candle; was he still not going to step down and intervene?
With The Watcher teaming up with Doctor Strange, they could definitely pin down Infinity Ultron and beat it up.
"Everyone, back away! I’ll handle this!"
Supreme Strange let out a furious roar, burning away all of the demon god’s origin. His entire body transformed into a ten-million-zhang-tall three-headed and six-armed demon god avatar, his palms desperately propping open the giant maw descending from Ultron, while dark red demonic blood spewed out wildly like a waterfall!
He himself was no longer in human form.
Instead, he was an oddity wearing a demon god’s face. This was also the backlash inflicted on his body during the prolonged process of absorbing dimensional demon gods; it was already irreversible, and further deterioration was only a matter of time.
Crack! Crack!
Under the immense weight of the six stones, the demon god’s arms were snapping inch by inch!
"Stephen!" Captain Carter’s eyes split with fury.
Although everyone had been temporarily pooled together, Doctor Strange had indeed exerted a tremendous amount of effort. Not only did he assist his teammates in attacking, but he also ensured their safety—he was a qualified companion!
"Die... Let everything return to mechanical nothingness!" Infinity Ultron wore a hideous expression as the six stones on his chest erupted with a final world-destroying light.
Furthermore, he raised the halberd in his hand, carrying the collapsing mass of the entire galaxy with it, and slashed straight down toward Strange’s head!
This was the power of the multiverse level.
Strange knelt on one knee in the void, his entire body’s demon god power completely depleted, yet there was not a trace of fear in his eyes as he closed them with a sense of relief.
The power of dimensional demon gods was not easy to control; it would continuously corrode his mind. During the days he spent accompanying Christine, he had already realized this problem: no matter how he changed, he could never return to the past.
When he chose to absorb the first dimensional demon god, regardless of whether the other party was weak or powerful, the seeds of disaster had already been sown.
Clang.
At that exact moment, time abruptly froze.
The roaring galactic storm came to a standstill, and even the violent torrent of energy was suspended mid-air. Infinity Ultron’s halberd, which was enough to cleave dimensions, stopped abruptly just one centimeter away from Strange’s glabella.
Because upon the razor-sharp tip of that halberd...
I don’t know when, but two slender fingers were steadily resting on it.
Lucas was wearing a casual set of pajamas. He had somehow already arrived and stood at the very center of the void. He didn’t even spare Ultron a direct glance, merely pinching his right index and middle fingers together gently.
Crack!
That ultimate weapon, forged from divine power, snapped crisply in two between Lucas’s two fingers like a shoddy, dry twig!
"What do you mean by ’unknown error scanned again’?"
Infinity Ultron’s galaxy-sized body suddenly began to tremble, and the garbled code in its electronic eyes poured down like a waterfall: "Unable to calculate its mass... Unable to calculate its dimension... Warning! Warning! Unable to detect..."
"In the end, it still has to be me making a move! Thanks to my old buddy Ultron for sending me an opportunity to act cool!"
Lucas’s tone was slightly flat, after all, there was no pressure to speak of.
He slowly raised his hand and pressed downwards into the void. The motion was understated, but the sense of rules in his every gesture was absolutely no joke!
Under that casual palm strike from Lucas, Infinity Ultron’s massive body disintegrated on the spot into countless microscopic particles, just like a ceramic doll smashed by a bronze hammer.
As for the six Infinity Stones radiating brilliant light, they spun and flew into the palm of Lucas like tame pets, transforming into a small, exquisite string of prayer beads.
Complete silence fell.
Ultron, who had made The Watcher uneasy, was completely reduced to ashes by Lucas with a casual strike.
...
Captain Carter sat slumped on the ground, panting heavily as she stared blankly at the youth, her mind completely blank.
Thor’s hammer dropped onto his foot with a clang, making him bare his teeth in pain as he hopped around holding his foot.
This Thor was purely here to be a comic relief.
Black Widow and Star-Lord exchanged a glance, their eyes holding a bit more shock.
"Let’s heal up, everyone!"
Lucas waved his hand, and a beam of holy light descended, instantly smoothing out and healing the heavy injuries and exhaustion of Strange and everyone else back to as good as new.
"Stephen, well done." Lucas smiled.
In the vast majority of the Marvel Universe, Strange was a top-tier combatant, except that Marvel’s magic always came with some price or another, and Strange hadn’t learned how to exploit bugs like Ancient One yet.
"Sigh! The Watcher, you could have made a move, but you didn’t!"
Lucas cast his gaze back toward The Watcher. The Watcher clenched his fists, but then released them.
Lucas saw his future; relying solely on this incident wasn’t enough stimulation for The Watcher to transform into an interferer.
"I... I will..."
"No, you won’t!"
Lucas shook his head and raised his hand to send everyone else back to their respective Universes, leaving only Captain Carter behind.
In the What If...? series, Carter was the unquestionable protagonist.
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