Levi's gaze was as calm as the deep sea. In his hand, a pitch-black trident engraved with ancient runes pointed straight at Thanos in the distance. The three blades at its tip carried no visible energy, yet seemed to devour all light around them.
Thanos gripped his double-edged blade tightly. His massive frame radiated a dark purple glow, nearly black—the ultimate manifestation of his Eternal Titan bloodline, the supreme authority derived from the Law of Body: Immortality.
"Your realm… has reached perfection," Thanos said, his voice rumbling like thunder, each word carrying the weight of a planet. He could clearly sense that the man before him had surpassed the limits of a Skyfather-level being, stepping into a domain he could not fully comprehend.
"Five years ago, we were evenly matched," Levi said calmly, his voice light yet heard clearly by everyone present. "But now… you're not even qualified to injure me."
Before his words faded, Thanos moved.
Unprovoked, unangered—driven purely by battle instinct. The ground beneath his feet shattered into dust as he launched forward. His massive body carried unstoppable momentum, his blade slicing through the air, imbued with Immortality, aimed straight at Levi.
This strike could split a small planet in half.
Yet Levi didn't even use the trident.
He simply raised his left hand, fingers spread.
In an instant, the world around Thanos changed.
Space folded into razor-sharp origami, silently slicing through his armor and flesh. Time thickened like amber, slowing his strike a thousandfold. Reality warped—his blade, meant for Levi's head, twisted off course and struck empty air.
Thanos's pupils shrank.
Countless supreme laws wove into an invisible net, binding him completely. His pride—his strength and speed—felt like a lone boat lost in an ocean of laws.
Purple blood sprayed from his wounds—but the moment they appeared, Immortality activated. Flesh writhed and healed at visible speed, restoring him instantly.
"Do you see?" Thanos roared, forcing himself free from the restraints. "This is immortality! You cannot kill me!"
"Immortality is not invincibility," Levi replied evenly, as if stating an obvious truth. "It only means you'll suffer longer."
He raised the black trident.
This time, a point of pure, profound black ignited at its tip.
Not a color—but a concept.
The embodiment of the Law of Death, the end of all things.
Levi vanished.
In the next instant, he appeared behind Thanos—so fast even time itself seemed to yield.
There was no earth-shattering clash. No violent explosion.
The trident pierced cleanly into Thanos's back.
Thanos's body froze.
He looked down in disbelief at the blade protruding through his chest. At the wound, Immortality surged wildly, trying to repair the fatal damage. But another force—more dominant, more fundamental—spread from the trident's tip.
The Law of Death flowed like ink, precisely invading the core of the Law of Body.
It did not clash violently.
Instead, like a higher-dimensional virus, it began to analyze, rewrite—and erase—the very concept of immortality.
Thanos felt it.
The foundation of his existence was collapsing. His indestructible body, his instant regeneration, his near-eternal vitality—all slipping away.
"It's over," Levi said softly behind him.
With a clang, the double-edged blade fell from Thanos's grasp.
He slowly turned, his massive eyes filled—for the first time—with true shock and confusion.
"You've won…" he said with difficulty, a strange hint of relief in his voice. "But you will regret it. To possess the power to erase all things… is to find yourself forever exiled at the peak, with no equal left."
Levi said nothing.
He pulled the trident free.
As it left, Thanos's body began its final disintegration.
With the concept of immortality erased, his thousand-year-strong body lost its foundation.
His purple skin faded to gray, cracks spreading like a web. Then, before the stunned eyes of the Avengers, the Mad Titan—along with his armor—crumbled like weathered sand, disintegrating piece by piece into drifting ash.
Silence fell.
Steve slowly lowered his shield. Thor lowered Stormbreaker. Tony's helmet retracted, revealing a complicated expression.
They watched the ashes scatter in the wind.
There was no overwhelming joy.
Only an immense, unreal emptiness.
The battle had ended—utterly, overwhelmingly—beyond their understanding.
Levi stood alone in the ruins, trident in hand.
He didn't look at anyone.
Instead, he raised his head, gazing at the orange-red sky, where countless lives restored by the snap were beginning to rebuild their world.
No triumph filled his heart.
Only a heavy, near-void calm.
Thanos's words echoed in his mind.
"Forever exiled at the peak…"
Levi looked down at his hands. The nine cosmic laws resonated in harmony within him. The power from the DC Universe lay even deeper, forming the foundation of his strength.
This power allowed him to decide the life and death of a cosmic tyrant with ease.
And it also placed an invisible gulf between him and the companions who once fought at his side.
"Levi?" Steve approached, hesitant. "It's… over."
"Yeah. It's over," Levi replied softly. His gaze shifted from the horizon to Steve, then to Tony, Thor, and the others reborn from death. "But the real trouble is just beginning."
Tony frowned. "What do you mean?"
"Five years is enough to change everything. Over three billion people suddenly returning—how do they reintegrate into a world that adapted to their absence? Resources, order, belief… all of it becomes a new battlefield," Levi said, his gaze distant, as if seeing future chaos unfold. "Defeating Thanos removed the most immediate threat. But rebuilding a civilization that's been torn apart and forcibly stitched back together… is more complex than any war."
Silence followed.
They had been immersed in victory and reunion—overlooking the harsher reality beneath it.
Levi said nothing more.
He dismissed the trident and walked across the ruins, toward the heroes who had just returned from death.
At the front stood Wanda.
There was no confusion in her eyes—only resolve.
As Levi approached, she stepped forward. She said nothing—only stood quietly at his side.
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