Chapter 214: Two-Pronged Operation

The ripples stirred by Johnson entering the Strange Tale World directly caught the attention of Dormammu.

"You dare to come again? Do you really think this place can be entered and exited at will?" Dormammu captured the spreading ripples and, from the imaging within them, saw Johnson entering the Strange Tale World once more.

Dormammu immediately prepared to forcibly descend into that world. In an instant, the entire world began to churn wildly, like water dripped into boiling oil. The world began to struggle; it was different from the Dark Souls world—it still possessed the strength to resist.

Seeing a massive Strange Talk—one that belonged neither to the world itself nor to Dormammu—beginning to take shape, Dormammu abandoned his plan to descend. This world was desperate, and the time bought by its desperation was enough for Johnson to exit it once again. Furthermore, Dormammu deeply suspected that the Ancient One, that old woman, was hiding somewhere peeking again.

This was because Dormammu had seen the power belonging to the Ancient One in the ripple imaging from just a moment ago.

Since descending was not an option, he would have to pit soldier against soldier and general against general.

Dormammu pointed his right hand, and the main body of the Dark Ring began to vibrate, transmitting streams of repeated information through this channel toward Earth.

Although every piece of information suffered severe loss after passing through the Earth Defense Barrier, as long as the repetitions were frequent enough, they could eventually be assembled into a complete Oracle.

Immediately following this, Dormammu stationed himself outside the world barrier at hand; as long as the Ancient One appeared here, the initiative would fall into his hands. After all, he was not the only one eyeing Earth.

While stationed there, Dormammu reached out to scoop up several scattered world fragments, fused them with his own power to create a new Energy Entity, and after inputting partial information into this entity, he cast it toward the universe where Earth was located.

At the same time, on the outskirts of the Galaxy, at a space station of a planet affiliated with the Dote Civilization.

Blood and cries for help echoed here as Thanos led his subordinates in executing a population elimination plan.

The reason for choosing this location was that the reach of the Doran Civilization was too close to the Galaxy. Although this civilization might not have had contact with Earth or Asgard and could not be counted as their ally or enemy, it was precisely because the situation was unclear that Dormammu could not leave them behind.

Better safe than sorry; if a war were to break out with Earth and Asgard, and this civilization were to have a lapse in judgment and provide full support, the trouble would be significant.

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An affiliated planet had no ability to resist before Thanos, but if the main fleet of the Doran Civilization were to arrive, it would be quite troublesome. After all, it was not a weak force; if the Chitauri were left alone to face this civilization, it was estimated that the Chitauri would be completely wiped out in less than ten years.

Boom!

A wall was smashed through directly, and Cull Obsidian, one of the Black Order under Thanos, emerged from the shattered opening, holding a humanoid mecha in his hand.

"My lord, this is the highest military commander here; I have captured him for you." Cull Obsidian shook his right hand and said to Thanos.

During this process, all the resistance from the mecha caused no damage to Cull Obsidian.

"Just kill him. There is no Planetary Transformation Device here; Ebony Maw has already gone to release the Spoken Spirit to make them slaughter each other." Thanos walked to the edge of the space station, looking at the deep yellow planet below, and said without looking back.

"Understood." Cull Obsidian threw a punch with force.

The fist pierced directly through the light mecha. As he opened his five fingers, some visceral fragments fell from Cull Obsidian's palm, and the Doran person impaled on his hand gradually ceased to move.

A moment later, Ebony Maw returned to report. This guy didn't look like a good person; if he walked side-by-side with Voldemort, people might even think Voldemort was the hostage being held.

"My lord, the Spoken Spirit has begun to take effect. Within about three months, the population of this planet will drop to below one hundred thousand. Additionally, according to the planetary census results, I have recorded the number of excess kills." Ebony Maw held his right hand horizontally across his chest, speaking with a gentlemanly demeanor, though he was not doing human work.

"Hmm, summarize all the data for me when the time comes, and then we will adjust the target number for cleaning." Thanos was still very kind; since there were extra kills this time, the number could be slightly reduced when averaging out to two kills for one in the end.

"Yes." Just as Ebony Maw finished responding, a small black hole opened and closed a few dozen kilometers away in space, spitting out an Energy Entity lifeform.

Ebony Maw looked up in that direction and extended a finger, "Life should reside in flesh..."

Just as the Spoken Spirit left his lips, Thanos backhanded the spreading power away. "It's Dormammu. Interesting. What does he want with me? Cull Obsidian, go grab that thing."

"You got it, my lord." Cull Obsidian patted his chest and jumped directly into space. The immense power contained within his body allowed him to surge to top speed in a short time; in less than a minute, he had grabbed the Energy Entity and brought it back.

The moment the Energy Entity saw Thanos, it exploded, and the scattered information assembled into coordinates and language.

"An invitation to target the Ancient One..." Thanos wiped the blood off his War Blade. "Interesting."

"Cull Obsidian, Ebony Maw, which of you will go to the world at these coordinates and finish this person off?"

Following Thanos's words, Johnson's appearance appeared before the two.

"Leave it to me; I will twist his head off and bring it back," Cull Obsidian said cruelly, grinning.

Ebony Maw stood by without a word, like a mute. He had no desire to go to Dormammu's territory; it was dangerous and meaningless. If the Ancient One could really be killed there, he wouldn't go either—what kind of nonsense was that? He didn't even ask if he was worthy.

Without Thanos leading them, the Black Order together wouldn't be enough to fight the Ancient One alone, not to mention that person had the Time Stone in their hands.

"Go quickly and return quickly," Thanos said, waving his hand at Cull Obsidian.

"No problem."

As Cull Obsidian turned to leave, he gave Ebony Maw a provocative look: didn't beat me to it, did you? Even your speech was a beat slower?

Ebony Maw lowered his head, not looking at Cull Obsidian, while cursing in his heart: idiot.

"Ebony Maw." Thanos looked at this old guy with too many thoughts in his head.

"Listening to your instructions," Ebony Maw said respectfully, his body tensing up.

"Go tell the Chitauri to speed up; they are too slow." Thanos tapped his fingers on the sharp edge of his War Blade. "Within a month, I want to see them land on Earth."

"Yes! My lord!" As Ebony Maw agreed, he was already regretting it in his heart.

Who didn't know that the Chitauri were almost there, only to be thrown a light-year away? It must have been the Ancient One who acted.

Going there now meant facing the Ancient One head-on; the problem was huge. But Ebony Maw dared not disobey, or Thanos would have him killed right now.

After Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian received their orders and left, Thanos closed his eyes, various possibilities flashing through his mind. He had already applied pressure on two fronts; as long as the news from Dormammu's side wasn't fake, this operation would at least be of some use.