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Karl couldn't help but recall Adam Warlock from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, who, despite his immense power, was not very intelligent and seemed like a complete fool.
If even that could be considered a perfect human, then this 'perfection' would be too demonic, wouldn't it?
However, Karl vaguely remembered that Adam Warlock's idiotic behavior seemed to be caused by being awakened prematurely from the New Birthing Pod by the High Evolutionary.
So, if he were born 'at full term,' would he be like a normal person?
Putting aside his intelligence, Karl still greatly admired Adam Warlock's strength.
At least at the Skyfather level.
After all, despite his lack of intelligence, he still undeniably crushed all members of the Guardians of the Galaxy...
And in order to obtain the New Birthing Pod where Adam Warlock was located, Karl had already made arrangements in advance using Star-Lord.
Yes, it was those annullas batteries that had been corrupted by chaotic energy and sent back earlier.
However, a mere Adam Warlock alone wouldn't pique Karl's interest to such an extent.
What truly excited Karl was the gene evolution technology that the High Evolutionary possessed, which was about how to cultivate Adam Warlock!
But he was not in a hurry about it.
After all, his style of doing things was to always proceed steadily.
"Oh, Ronan's fleet is finally here?"
Karl seemed to sense something, and the smile on his face grew wider. Then he snapped his fingers, and a Cham blue teleportation portal appeared out of thin air in front of him.
"The show is finally starting!"
...
In the cosmic space outside Earth's atmosphere, the massive Dark Star suddenly appeared from a Jump Point.
However, for some unknown reason, the Dark Star did not immediately attack Earth or initiate a ground invasion, but instead hovered silently in space.
"What exactly is going on?"
Inside the Bridge, Ronan pointed to the empty areas on both sides of the Dark Star on the large screen and asked in a deep voice, "Why haven't the other two starships caught up yet?"
This time, to ensure the plan to seize the Tesseract was foolproof, Ronan brought two other heavy cruisers along with his flagship, the Dark Star, just to be able to use powerful firepower to break through Earth's air defense system in the shortest possible time, bringing a shock from the Kree Empire to the Earthlings, and thus successfully obtaining the Tesseract!!
"My Lord, the two cruisers have completely lost contact with us... Most likely something went wrong during the jump," a staff member reported cautiously.
"What did you say?"
Ronan roared, somewhat annoyed, "How is this possible? The three ships jumped almost simultaneously. Why is my Dark Star fine, but they are missing?"
"This..."
The staff member looked embarrassed and couldn't answer Ronan's question at all.
Nebula, sitting nearby, thought for a moment and said, "Ronan, perhaps the disappearance of those two cruisers is related to the widely rumored Eye of Fear?!"
"Eye of Fear?" Ronan's face showed a puzzled expression, clearly unfamiliar with the name.
"That's right."
Nebula, as if no one else was present, walked to the control console, adjusting the angle of the monitoring device while explaining, "The so-called Eye of Fear is actually a dimensional rift that suddenly appeared recently."
"There are rumors that the other end of this dimensional rift connects to a special dimension called Subspace..."
"It is precisely because of the appearance of the Eye of Fear that the jump channels near the Solar System have become extremely unstable, and there is a certain probability of accidentally entering Subspace during a jump."
"Recently, many spacecraft have met with accidents when passing through the Solar System, most of which are still missing, and only a very small number of lucky ones have successfully escaped from Subspace."
"Hyperspace Dimension?"
Ronan turned to Nebula and asked in an unfriendly tone, "Since you knew there was a risk in coming to the Solar System, why didn't you warn me in advance?"
Facing the questioning, Nebula was not afraid. Instead, she asked with a half-smile, "Even if I warned you, would you not have come to Earth?"
"Hmph."
Ronan snorted lightly but did not refute, clearly acknowledging Nebula's statement.
After all, he had already decided to go to Earth to seize the Tesseract, and he would never give up halfway because of a mere Eye of Fear.
Nebula pointed to a swirling, brilliant area on the large screen and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this should be the Eye of Fear..."
Ronan glanced at it and said disdainfully, "It doesn't look like anything special!"
Then he impatiently ordered, "Forget it. Since those two heavy cruisers haven't appeared yet, we won't wait. According to the original plan, let's launch the first round of probing bombardment on Earth!"
A hint of eagerness flashed in Ronan's eyes. He came to Earth this time, partly to seize the Tesseract, and partly to avenge himself and personally defeat Carol Danvers!
Therefore, to force the Earthlings to hand over the Tesseract and to give Carol Danvers enough 'travel' time, Ronan had already formulated a corresponding battle plan before arriving here.
The first step was to launch a round of probing bombardment on Earth, then publicly demand that Earthlings hand over the Tesseract. The next step, once the Tesseract was in hand, Ronan would personally use the Power Stone to destroy Earth...
Yes, it was that cruel!
As for the rumored 'Earth Guardian' who once defeated the Dark Elves, Ronan completely disregarded him.
Feeling the surging power continuously transmitted into his body from the Power Stone at the front of his Universal Weapon, Ronan's current confidence could only be described as overflowing.
In fact, in his opinion, even if he were to face Thanos directly now, it would at least be a four-six split... and of course, Ronan himself would be the six!
At this moment, a staff member at the control console suddenly reported loudly, "My Lord, the system just detected an unidentified fleet rapidly approaching the Dark Star. Judging from the fleet size and ship models, it's highly likely a branch of the Raiders. Do you need to send out Necro-ships to shoot them down?"
"Hmph? What kind of Raiders? Just a bunch of low-level space pirates."
Ronan slowly stood up and walked to the'super floor-to-ceiling window' made of a transparent energy force field at the front of the Bridge, looking at the attacking fleet composed of hundreds of small ships in the distance, and snorted disdainfully:
"There's no need for such trouble. Watch how I deal with these useless guys..."
With that, Ronan raised the Universal Weapon in his hand towards the direction from which the Raiders were approaching. The Power Stone embedded in the hammerhead immediately burst forth with a brilliant light, and then a purple ray filled with violent energy spanned thousands of meters, shooting straight towards the opposing Raiders fleet.
Boom—!!!
Before the pilots of the nearly hundred Raider ships in the distance could react, a purple ray filled with destructive energy had already swept over.
Even ships made of the strongest alloys, their hull armor would be cut open without hindrance, like a knife slicing through tofu, the moment they came into contact with that purple ray. Then, in a violent explosion, they would directly turn into dazzling fireballs, illuminating the dark starfield around them.
"Quill, I'm really screwed by you this time!"
Seeing the purple ray coming towards his ship, Yondu Udonta had no time to turn around or dodge. He could only let out an unwilling roar before he died, and then his cockpit was engulfed by a sea of Fire, instantly blown to pieces along with the ship.
"Yondu!!"
In the distance, on the milano, which was hiding behind a small star, Star-Lord's eyes immediately turned red when he saw the entire Raiders fleet instantly destroyed, especially when even Yondu couldn't escape.
According to his original plan, after Ronan's fleet completed its jump, Yondu would lead the Raiders members to launch a feigned attack, attracting all the enemy's attention.
Then, Rocket would quietly approach the Dark Star with the milano and blast a large hole in its starboard side near the Bridge, allowing Star-Lord and Gamora to sneak in from there.
Then, they would just need to sneak into the command room on the Bridge amidst the chaos, and then use the High-Energy High-Explosive Strong Neutron Blaster developed by Rocket Raccoon to blast the unsuspecting Ronan into the sky, thus successfully completing the mission of recovering the Power Stone.
But who would have thought that the plan was completely shattered by Ronan using the Power Stone right from the start?
"Oh my God, that... that Power Stone is too powerful, isn't it? It destroyed the entire fleet in one go?"
Rocket Raccoon recoiled, startled by the sudden scene. The power of the Power Stone once again redefined his understanding.
No, it should be said that it redefined everyone's understanding.
Even Drax the Destroyer, who was the least intelligent and claimed to be fearless, couldn't help but pat his chest and say with a look of relief after seeing this:
"Good thing we didn't rush in with them, otherwise we'd be dead too!"
Gamora reached out and patted Star-Lord, who was still immersed in sadness, and comforted him with a feigned ease, "Quill, you've finally completely gotten rid of Yondu. No one will put a high bounty on your head anymore."
"No."
To everyone's surprise, Star-Lord shook his head with a look of grief and indignation, pointing at the Dark Star in the distance and shouting, "You won't understand. Yondu was actually pretty good to me. He's probably the only family I have left in this World, so... I'm going to avenge Yondu!!"
"Rocket, bring the ship closer. I'm going to personally kill that bastard Ronan!!"
Although Yondu always bullied Star-Lord and often made him perform tasks he disliked, and would secretly pocket his share of the commission, Star-Lord genuinely didn't want to see Yondu die in front of him.
Their relationship was definitely not as simple and antagonistic as it seemed.
"What? Quill, are you crazy?"
Rocket Raccoon looked at Star-Lord with an idiotic gaze and said, "Didn't you just see? Yondu and the others were completely destroyed before they even had a chance to get close to the Dark Star!"
"I'm telling you, if you want to go die, don't drag us along!"
"Damn it."
Although Star-Lord was full of anger now, he didn't argue with Rocket Raccoon, because he knew that the other party was right. Without the cover of Yondu and the other Raiders, going up now would be no different from seeking death.
"So what do we do now?"
Rocket Raccoon glanced at the Dark Star in the distance and whispered, "Why don't we escape quietly before Ronan discovers the milano?"
Although Rocket Raccoon had previously mustered the courage to agree with Star-Lord and the others that he would fight Ronan with them.
But that was based on the premise that they had a chance to defeat Ronan.
Now, however, the facts proved that not only could they not defeat Ronan, they couldn't even get close to the Dark Star. So, Rocket Raccoon naturally started to back out again.
After all, who would be willing to throw away their life for a vague, even somewhat ridiculous, slogan of'saving the galaxy'?
At least Rocket Raccoon wasn't willing to do that!
"No, I will never leave until Ronan is defeated." Star-Lord shook his head with a determined expression.
"What, defeat Ronan?" Rocket Raccoon said sarcastically with an exaggerated expression, "Quill, stop joking around. What are we going to use to defeat Ronan now?"
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Gamora quickly stepped forward and said, "You two stop arguing for now. Besides escaping, I'm afraid our only option is to go to Earth and find Mr. Karl to deal with Ronan's fleet!"
"Mr. Karl?"
Star-Lord was stunned for a moment, then reacted, "Are you talking about that guy who called himself the 'Earth Guardian' that we met at The Collector's place?"
"If you ask me, that guy is probably a liar. Otherwise... if he really is a Guardian, then why hasn't he stepped forward to stop Ronan's actions after all this time?"