Chaos.
Thanos saw that after his confident strike, Lucas's hair was just messy.
His heart, too, was in chaos.
"Why?"
Thanos used energy to create a channel to transmit his voice.
"Why aren't you injured at all?"
Thanos, who had just overdrawn the Mind Stone's power and erupted with full force, had numerous tiny blood vessels broken beneath his skin, and dark red patterns appeared on his right hand.
But Lucas, who had directly taken Thanos's charged punch, had the armor on his head completely shattered, and his hair was severely dented. Under the aftershocks, his clothes also became tattered. But that was all.
It was completely different from Thanos's expectation of severely injuring or even killing Lucas with one blow to turn the tide.
Lucas's aura had not weakened in the slightest. Not a single scratch could be seen on his entire body. Even his hairstyle quickly returned to normal.
Raising his hand, Lucas grabbed two strands of hair. "Not bad, Thanos, you knocked out two strands of my hair."
Seeing Lucas safe and sound, Star-Lord and the others breathed a sigh of relief.
They had thought something had happened to Lucas when they saw Thanos's victorious expression after he sent Lucas flying.
Nebula and Gamora, the two sisters, had inexplicable expressions. They hoped someone would kill Thanos, but seeing Thanos seem so weak made them uncomfortable.
Thanos's face was grim, Lucas's words were undoubtedly a provocation in his eyes, but he was helpless. At this moment, he finally felt the powerlessness others experienced when facing his Titan body.
"Fire!"
Thanos gestured, pointing at Lucas, signaling the other fleets in the distance to unleash a barrage of fire.
He knew that with Lucas's physical defense and speed, these gunfire would not pose much of a threat to him. But as long as it could slightly weaken his stamina, it would be a gain.
In this war of attrition, any factor could become the last straw.
This was the fourth round, a battle of stamina.
Looking at the countless energy shells coming, Lucas was unmoved. There were too many, he was too lazy to intercept them.
Similarly, there were too many fighter jets under Thanos's command, he was too lazy to blow them up one by one.
The next moment, various energy attacks covered the area where Lucas was, completely obscuring everyone's vision.
Thanos hadn't expected Lucas to choose to take the attacks head-on.
The hearts of Star-Lord and the others, which had just settled, rose again.
At the center of the attack, after Lucas activated his talent [Energy Absorption], he no longer paid attention to these attacks. Instead, his gaze turned to the center of this star system, that red dwarf.
Although its mass and temperature were inferior to the sun's, this red dwarf was as passionate and unrestrained as the sun.
The next moment, without anyone noticing, that star's energy, which was originally evenly distributed and radiated in all directions, began to converge in one direction.
The direction where Lucas, Thanos, and his subordinates were located.
More than ten minutes quietly passed.
In the past ten minutes, the battle situation had not changed at all.
The change came from outside the battle.
A terrifying solar storm, without any warning, suddenly swept in. Exposed to the solar storm without any protection, the electronic components of the fighter jets were rapidly burned out. Sparks bloomed in space.
After the solar storm, there were more concentrated, more destructive high-energy plasma energy beams. The targets of these energy beams were the large carriers.
For a time, this cosmic void was constantly filled with dazzling explosion sparks.
"Thanos, the game is over. It's time to end you."
Thanos looked in the direction of the voice, Lucas had already appeared before him at some point.
Seeing Lucas appear safe and sound, Thanos knew in his heart that the solar storm just now must have been his doing.
"It's not that easy to kill me. I don't believe that you aren't tired after clearing out miscellaneous soldiers."
"You don't need to worry about that, Thanos." Lucas had a strange expression.
After Blood God, another enemy appeared who doubted his endurance. He was going to give Thanos a surprise later.
Divine power circulated, and Lucas erupted with full force, throwing a punch.
"Let's see if you can survive my attack first."
Thanos also met the punch.
Now that all means had been exhausted, only a desperate fight remained.
Just as the fists were about to collide, a spatial ripple appeared, and Lucas suddenly appeared behind Thanos. A heavy punch landed on the back of his head.
Caught off guard, Thanos was somewhat stunned by the blow, and his body flew uncontrollably diagonally downwards.
Another spatial ripple, and Lucas appeared below Thanos.
An upward kick landed on Thanos's purple wrinkled chin. Thanos's figure changed direction again, flying backwards.
Lucas flashed again, appearing behind him, intending to give him another fierce blow to the back of the head. However, this time, Thanos adjusted his body in time and blocked it with his forearm.
Lucas discovered an unpleasant fact. Although Thanos had suffered two heavy blows in a row, looking disheveled and spitting blood continuously, his aura had not decreased much.
Although Thanos's tankiness was not as good as his own, his attacks, landing on him, could not cause too much damage either.
This battle would probably truly drag into a war of attrition.
Just as Lucas and Thanos were engaged in a war of attrition, on Earth, in a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. Base, Coulson and Nick Fury were walking side by side.
This base was where S.H.I.E.L.D. stored and researched the Tesseract (Space Stone).
Not long ago, researchers discovered that the Tesseract suddenly emitted a surge of energy on its own. And this energy was continuously climbing, with the danger of exploding at any time.
Nick Fury had no choice but to order the evacuation of all personnel and the transfer of research data.
Soon, he found the project's chief engineer, Erik Selvig, and his assistant Jane Foster.
"Dr. Erik, do you know what the problem is?"
Erik motioned for Nick Fury to follow him, saying as they walked, "The Tesseract itself is an energy source. We can only detect a small amount of gamma rays it releases right now. We don't yet have the technology or conditions to control it."
Nick Fury nodded perfunctorily, then turned to ask Clint, who was in charge of security. He didn't know much about technology and had nothing much to talk about with Erik.
"Clint, have you found anything unusual?"
Clint first gave his assurance, "Director, all researchers have been screened, there are no problems."
Then he looked at the Tesseract in front of him and speculated, "Since the Tesseract serves as a gateway to the other side of the Universe, then the troublemaker might not be on this side, but behind the door."
No sooner had he finished speaking than the Tesseract's energy climbed abnormally, and a blue portal formed.
Thanos's other two great generals,
Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian, emerged from it.