Karl immediately launched a relentless assault against the Supreme Intelligence.
Every strike he unleashed was infused with the powers of both the Reality Stone and the Soul Stone, ensuring that his attacks could not be diverted into the Astral Layer surrounding the Supreme Intelligence.
Faced with Karl's overwhelming offensive, the Supreme Intelligence could do nothing but defend.
Countless green tentacles erupted from its grotesque body.
Massive energy constructs continuously formed around it.
Every available resource was mobilized to block Karl's attacks.
Unfortunately, the gap between them was simply too great.
The Supreme Intelligence was steadily pushed back.
Its enormous green face became increasingly grim.
BOOM!
Karl suddenly drew upon the power of the surrounding universe.
The galaxy itself responded.
Matter and energy from every direction surged toward him.
Asteroids, cosmic dust, radiation, stellar plasma, and spatial energy all gathered under Karl's control.
He transformed everything into weapons.
Gigantic asteroids hurtled toward the Supreme Intelligence.
Cosmic energy storms crashed against its defenses.
Golden attacks descended one after another.
The Supreme Intelligence was completely suppressed.
It no longer possessed any opportunity to counterattack.
A true Single-Universe-level powerhouse was not something a pseudo-Single-Universe entity could confront directly.
Then—
Something unexpected happened.
The Kree civilization world below suddenly exploded.
Karl's eyes narrowed.
The remains of the planet rapidly dissolved into vast amounts of green energy.
All of it flowed directly toward the Supreme Intelligence.
For a brief moment, even Karl was surprised.
The Supreme Intelligence had destroyed its own civilization world.
Then he remembered something from Marvel history.
The Supreme Intelligence had never truly cared about the Kree as individuals.
In certain comic timelines, its actions had directly contributed to the deaths of the overwhelming majority of the Kree population.
Compared to those events, sacrificing a single civilization world wasn't particularly shocking.
As endless green energy poured into its body, the Supreme Intelligence's strength began increasing.
Its damaged form started recovering.
At the same time, it launched wave after wave of attacks against Karl.
Planet-sized torrents of energy swept through space.
BOOM!
Karl responded with a single punch.
A golden shockwave erupted from his fist.
The attack was vastly more powerful than the Supreme Intelligence's energy wave.
The green attack shattered instantly.
The golden force continued forward without slowing.
It rushed directly toward the Supreme Intelligence.
Meanwhile, the remaining planetary debris below was completely annihilated by the aftershocks.
The Supreme Intelligence frantically created countless energy tentacles.
At the same time, it mobilized every ounce of its power to establish defensive barriers.
While fighting, it was also calculating.
Survival probability.
Victory probability.
Escape probability.
Millions of simulations were performed every second.
Every result returned the same answer.
Zero.
Victory: 0%.
Survival: 0%.
Escape: 0%.
Even surrender produced the same outcome.
The Supreme Intelligence couldn't accept the results.
It repeated the calculations again and again.
The answers never changed.
BOOM!
Another one of Karl's attacks struck its body.
Karl had no idea what the Supreme Intelligence was calculating.
Even if he did, he wouldn't care.
Earlier, he had already instructed Haohan to seal off the entire galaxy.
Any information stream.
Any data transmission.
Any digital consciousness attempting to escape.
Everything would be intercepted.
The Supreme Intelligence had no route of retreat.
After confirming the results of its calculations, the Supreme Intelligence finally made a decision.
It began mobilizing all of its remaining energy.
At the same time, it sealed the surrounding space.
Then it charged directly toward Karl.
Karl immediately sensed that something was wrong.
The Supreme Intelligence's body was now overflowing with unstable energy.
The next moment, Haohan's warning arrived.
[Warning.]
[Warning.]
[Target has gathered all available energy.]
[Analysis indicates self-destruction is imminent.]
Karl's expression changed slightly.
A pseudo-Single-Universe-level self-destruction was no joke.
WHOOSH!
A miniature dimensional space instantly appeared around Karl.
Countless transparent spatial barriers formed one after another.
At the same time:
Yan.
Black Phoenix.
Hela.
Ganata.
Big Wanda.
Red Crystal.
All disappeared from the battlefield.
Karl teleported them back to Skyblade VII.
Then he immediately activated the Space Stone.
Layer after layer of spatial barriers appeared around him.
After all, the self-destruction of a pseudo-Single-Universe entity could devastate an entire galaxy.
Even Karl treated such an explosion seriously.
At the same time, Haohan attempted to invade the Supreme Intelligence's systems one final time.
Unfortunately, some unknown force continued blocking the invasion.
Otherwise, the Supreme Intelligence would have been under Karl's control long ago.
Now that self-destruction had begun, there was no longer enough time to stop it.
Karl could only prepare his defenses.
Meanwhile, after seeing Black Phoenix and the others disappear, the Supreme Intelligence immediately realized that Karl had discovered its intentions.
It accelerated even further.
BOOM!
Then—
Before reaching Karl—
The Supreme Intelligence lost control.
The violent energy inside its body erupted prematurely.
The creature exploded.
At the final moment, its consciousness transformed into a stream of data and attempted to flee beyond the galaxy.
Even though every calculation predicted failure—
It still tried.
The resulting explosion was terrifying.
An ocean of green energy erupted outward.
The energy wave spread throughout the galaxy.
Fortunately, Haohan had already acted.
Before the explosion occurred, both Skyblade VII warships had begun retreating.
Using ultra-long-distance spatial teleportation, they instantly escaped the star system.
Karl remained behind.
A pseudo-Single-Universe-level self-destruction wasn't enough to seriously threaten him.
Especially not while he wore the Golden Cloth embedded with all six Infinity Stones.
More importantly—
He was searching for something.
The mysterious object that had prevented Haohan's invasion.
The green energy storm swept across the galaxy.
Planet after planet was destroyed.
Entire solar systems vanished.
The event resembled a catastrophic cosmic disaster.
Yet Karl remained untouched.
No energy could approach within a meter of his body.
Finally—
Near the location where the Supreme Intelligence had exploded—
Karl found it.
A small object drifting within spatial turbulence.
It had nearly been swept away into the depths of the universe.
Had Karl arrived even slightly later, it might have vanished forever.
After securing the item, Karl immediately left the galaxy.
Behind him, space itself began collapsing.
From a distance, the entire galaxy looked like a gigantic black scar within the universe.
Although the self-destruction hadn't completely erased the galaxy, only a few fragments remained around the outer edges.
For all practical purposes—
The galaxy was gone.
Aboard Skyblade VII, May, Raven, Pietro, and the others were extremely excited.
They repeatedly asked Haohan to record the event.
Even Tony was doing the same.
Nobody seemed worried about Karl.
Because Haohan had already informed them that Karl wouldn't be injured even if he stood at the center of the explosion.
His Doomsday Gene was evolving continuously.
His power was increasing every day.
Even without the Golden Cloth, he probably wouldn't have been in real danger.
The next moment, Karl appeared inside the central hall of the warship.
Everyone immediately turned toward him.
However, Karl wasn't paying attention to anyone.
His gaze remained fixed on the object in his hand.
A puzzled expression appeared on his face.
Because the item looked completely ordinary.
If someone threw it onto the side of a road—
Most people probably wouldn't even bother picking it up.
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