83: Chapter 83 Soul Deprivation! The Fourth and Fifth Gems

"To get this orange stone, you sacrificed your favorite adopted daughter, Gamora, didn't you?"

Lynn looked at the Soul Stone, a mocking sneer curling at the corner of his mouth.

"Sacrificing everything to pursue so-called universal balance, only to end up traveling all this way just to be a qualified delivery man for me."

Lynn's fingers, like iron pincers, clamped directly onto the metal grooves of the gauntlet.

"Crack! Crack!"

Two crisp sounds rang out.

The indestructible Uru metal was forcibly crushed by Lynn. He squeezed the purple Power Stone and the orange Soul Stone directly into his palm.

"You... you cannot wield them..."

Thanos, pinned underfoot, stared fixedly at Lynn, his voice a raspy roar: "A mortal's flesh... cannot withstand the backlash of two stones! You will be buried along with this starry sky!"

"Mortal?"

A flash of violent crimson flickered in the depths of Lynn's eyes.

He had no intention of using the Infinity Gauntlet at all. Under Thanos's horrified gaze, Lynn pressed his right hand, clutching the two Infinity Stones, heavily against the flesh of his own chest!

“Hum——!!!”

The crimson blood watch on Lynn's left wrist instantly erupted with an extremely greedy roar!

Countless dark red biological threads burst from Lynn's chest like tens of thousands of hungry vipers, instantly entangling the Power Stone and Soul Stone in a death grip!

The violent laws of power and the profound laws of the soul attempted to tear Lynn's body apart.

But Lynn's normal human body, nurtured by the Space, Mind, and Reality stones, had long since become a monster that defied common sense!

"Suppress for me!"

Lynn let out a low growl.

The fused Hulk strength, Thor's godhood, and Odin's source within him erupted simultaneously. The laws of reality forcibly twisted and restructured the stones' violent energy.

In just ten short seconds.

The purple and orange lights dimmed completely.

The two Infinity Stones were forcibly dragged into Lynn's body by the Bloodtrix's biological threads, merging completely with his cells and bone marrow!

[Ding! Successfully suppressed and assimilated: Power Stone! Soul Stone!]

[The host's normal physical body has undergone a law-level qualitative change!]

[New normal passives added: Absolute Strength (infinite stacking of strength), Soul Deprivation (look directly at a soul to forcibly extract or obliterate any living being's soul)!]

Lynn slowly stretched his arms, his bones making a series of crisp sounds like muffled thunder.

Space, Mind, Reality, Power, Soul.

Five Infinity Stones gathered in one body.

At this moment, even without switching to any alien form, Lynn's mere presence radiated such terrifying density and gravity that the surrounding space began to collapse and twist visibly to the naked eye.

"No... this is impossible..."

Thanos looked at Lynn—who was unharmed and whose aura had become even more terrifying—and his rock-solid heart of an overlord finally crumbled completely.

The ultimate power he had spent his entire life pursuing was as simple as drinking water to this monster.

"What exactly are you..." Thanos closed his eyes in despair.

"I am your terminator."

Lynn looked down, the Bloodtrix on his left wrist aimed at Thanos's head.

"Alright, the delivery has been received. Now, it's time to settle your remaining value."

"Puchi!"

A dozen dark red biological tentacles suddenly lunged out, brutally piercing Thanos's brow and heart!

"Ugh—!"

Thanos's whole body jolted violently, and his eyes instantly rolled back.

As an extremely rare Mutant Eternal of the Titan race in the Universe, he contained ancient genes from the dawn of the Universe. Now, this extremely pure genetic source was being frantically drained by the Bloodtrix like a bursting flood.

[Ding! High-purity Titan Eternal genes detected!]

[Gene library is undergoing deep analysis and fusion...]

[Bloodtrix repair progress has jumped: 45%... 47%... 48%!]

In just three seconds.

Thanos's burly frame—two and a half meters tall and weighing thousands of pounds—shriveled rapidly like a punctured balloon.

"Bang."

Lynn retracted the tentacles.

A generation's galactic overlord, the Mad Titan Thanos, had completely turned into a lifeless, skin-and-bones corpse, slumped in the rubble like a pile of mud.

There were no grand last words, no tragic finale.

In the face of Lynn, a pure predator of the abyss, he was merely a slightly tougher piece of rations.

"Roar..."

A low growl came from behind.

The four-meter-tall ultimate beast, Godslayer, stepped over the field of Chitauri corpses and ran obediently to Lynn's side, nuzzling Lynn's pant leg like a hound trying to please its Master.

Behind it, Hela, Carol, Wanda, and Proxima Midnight—all stained with blood—stepped over the scattered limbs and knelt respectfully on one knee.

In space, Thanos's army of millions of Outriders had been completely slaughtered by this "Mad Dog Team." The leaderless Chitauri fleet, now a headless dragon, hovered in the vacuum, sending out signals of surrender.

"Well done."

Lynn glanced at the four top-tier combatants kneeling before him, then raised his foot and gave a casual kick.

"Bang."

Thanos's shriveled corpse was kicked in front of Godslayer like a bag of trash.

"Your reward. Crunch it up, bones and all."

"Roar!"

Godslayer roared excitedly, opened its bloody maw full of fangs, and with a "crunch," bit Thanos's corpse in half, swallowing it into its bottomless stomach in a few gulps.

Lynn turned his head and looked at the massive flagship in space, Sanctuary II.

"Frank." Lynn pressed his communicator.

"Boss, the fleet is on standby."

"Take control of Sanctuary II and all surrendered warships. From today on, the fleet size of the Crimson Court will be expanded tenfold."

Lynn's tone carried the absolute majesty of an overlord. With this army, the three great empires (Kree, Skrull, Shi'ar) would all tremble at his feet.

But Lynn's gaze did not linger long on the sea of stars.

The five Infinity Stones within him were resonating intensely. The Bloodtrix's radar pointed fixedly toward an extremely inconspicuous corner of the Universe.

Earth.

The location of the final Infinity Stone—the Time Stone.

A bloodthirsty sneer curled at the corner of Lynn's mouth.

"Let's go. Back to Earth."

"To Kamar-Taj, to find that magician who does tricks and borrow a stone."

...

Meanwhile.

Earth, New York Sanctum.

The Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange, Stephen Strange, was sitting cross-legged on his Cloak of Levitation.

The eye of agamotto (Time Stone) on his chest was flashing wildly with a piercing green light.

Strange was drenched in sweat, his face as pale as paper. His body was trembling violently, as if he had experienced countless hellish tortures in a very short period of time.

"Pffft!"

Strange snapped his eyes open and spat out a mouthful of blood. He fell directly from mid-air and crashed heavily onto the floor.

"Stephen! What did you see?!" Old Wong beside him rushed forward to support him.

Strange gasped for breath, his eyes filled with ultimate despair and fear.

Just now, using the Time Stone, he had looked into the future exactly fourteen million, six hundred and five times.

He wanted to find a way to stop that tyrant, Lynn.

Even if it was only a one-in-ten-million hope!

But.

"There is no... no hope..."

Strange gripped Wong's arm tightly, his voice trembling like a leaf in the wind.

"Fourteen million, six hundred and five futures..."

"Every single one is a dead end! He crushed my throat, tore through time, and destroyed the entire Universe!"

"He... is back!!!"