Chapter 534: The Soul Gem of a Demon
As Thanos grabbed the two gems, he chased after him, and Vola Zun swung a dark green blast behind him again.
But this time, Thanos didn't even flash at all, and a red light suddenly floated behind him, easily turning Volazun's extremely sharp void slash into invisible, and after dissolving this attack, this red light merged into his body between Thanos's breathing.
Then when Vola Zun was momentarily stunned because of the failure of the attack, I saw Thanos turn around and throw a punch, and purple energy beams shot out from the fist, slamming into her body, directly blasting her dozens of meters away.
Blocking the red light of Vola Zun and the purple light that flew her away was undoubtedly the power of the Infinity Stones, the Reality Gem and the Strength Gem.
Among them, the reality gem can realize all the ideas of the user, and completely regard all the rules of the universe as nothing, or in other words, the reality gem itself represents, in fact, it is the rules of the universe, only the user can't think of it, and no reality gem can't do it, it can be said that it is an infinite gem with both offense and defense.
However, although this Infinity Stone is powerful, the cost of using it is also huge, because the operation of the Reality Stone requires the user's own strength to support, otherwise it will extract the user's life force.
In Thor 2, don't look at the dark elf leader Spicy Chicken Shredded...... Oh no, it's Malekith who is shouting that he wants to use the Reality Gem to plunge the universe back into darkness, but in fact, the strong people in the universe who have a little bit of knowledge, including Malekith and the god king Pol at the time, actually know that it is impossible at all, because to plunge the entire universe into darkness, the energy required is extremely terrifying, not to mention the spicy chicken silk himself, even if the entire dark elf clan is sacrificed, it is impossible to do it, unless like Thanos, he collects all the Infinity Stones, This is only possible with the support of other Infinity Stones.
So from beginning to end, Malekis's so-called return of the universe to darkness is actually limited to the nine kingdoms...... Otherwise, why is there only one Asgard and its vassals who fight the Dark Elves from beginning to end? Are the hidden powerhouses in the universe really vegetarians?
Not to mention the Power Gem, a gem that exists purely for the sake of destruction, and those who are not strong enough will be turned to ashes by its extremely destructive power before they can use it.
But the above two situations did not happen to Thanos, because Thanos's strength was strong enough, even without the carrier of the Infinity Gauntlet, with the strength of Thanos's physical body and energy at the peak of the tenth level, it could still support the use of two gems for a long time.
So with two Infinity Stones in hand, Thanos' current strength has changed dramatically.
He could clearly feel that the bottleneck of his strength, which had not increased for nearly a hundred years, was directly broken under the impact of the power of the two gems...... He has officially stepped into the threshold of level eleven.
If Phoenix had a three-tier win rate against Thanos before, if he cooperated with Nova and Volazun, he could win completely. So now, the three of them combined, I'm afraid they all only have a five-layer win rate.
However, at this time, Thanos did not show any joy because of this, because there were six Infinity Stones, and he only got two of them, and he never wanted Infinity Stones, not to make himself stronger, nor to whisper for anything else, but to make the universe more balanced...... Although this is only what he thinks, and to do this, just two Infinity Stones are useless.
What made him frown even more was that there were obviously six Infinity Stones, but why were there only five rays of light?
Thinking of this, Thanos began to observe the whereabouts of the other Infinity Stones, and when he recognized the whereabouts of the other Infinity Stones, the already not so good mood was even worse, because the remaining three gems all fell into the hands of the enemy......
When the Infinity Gauntlet was destroyed, as one of the most recent people, although Nova was injured by the energy impact, but as a tenth-level powerhouse, she was not as unbearable as Wanda and Alice, and when the gem flew out, she still desperately caught one, and it was also a time gem that belonged to their world.
And Phoenix, who arrived one step late, grabbed the remaining two Infinity Stones very smoothly...... Space and soul gems.
"You're from another plane, just like me? Coming for the Infinity Stones? From the beginning of the fight to the present, Thanos has had time to pay attention to these opponents who suddenly appeared, and asked Nova recently.
But Nova, who was holding the Time Stone, just looked defensive, stared at Thanos coldly, and didn't answer at all.
"You are very powerful, I am curious about your origins, those earthlings collect Infinity Stones because they miss the glory of the past and want to restore everything in the past, although I disagree with this, but it is understandable, so what is the purpose of your desire for Infinity Stones?" Thanos asked again.
In response to him, Nova still had a cold face.
However, the indifference on the surface could not hide the anxiety in her heart.
Originally, it should have been Thanos who was in a hurry, because although he got two Infinity Stones and broke through the limit of strength, although he didn't know the origin of Nova, Vola Zun, and Phoenix, he knew very well that these three tenth-level powerhouses were in a group, and they also got three Infinity Stones now.
Under normal circumstances, no matter how strong he is Thanos, there is not much chance of victory.
But this is not the case at all.
Phoenix, who was supposed to come over to join her with Thanos, stood still for some reason after receiving the two Infinity Stones, and even Chris didn't respond to his orders in the communication...... That's how this kind of thing, which simply couldn't have happened to Phoenix.
And the other Vola Zun who can help Nova has just been injured after being attacked by Thanos' energy from a power gem, and he has just gotten up at this time.
Even if she rushes over, Nova and her only have one Time Stone, and they don't have much chance of winning in the face of Thanos who is holding two gems, not to mention that both of them have suffered a lot of injuries.
How can Nova not be in a hurry because of this situation?
"Nova, drag Thanos with the Time Stone, don't let him get the Time Stone, and don't let him get close to Phoenix!" Just when Nova was anxious, Chris's voice sounded in her head.
It's not a communicator, it's a telepathic connection, because Nova's communicator has been destroyed in the energy storm that the Infinity Gauntlet destroyed just now, and Chris can only use the telepathic connection to give her commands through psionic energy.
"Got it!" Hearing Chris's order, Nova immediately understood what she had to do.
And at this time, Thanos, who did not wait for the siege, seemed to realize something, and suddenly rushed towards Phoenix's position, although he didn't know why this gold-armored warrior suddenly didn't have any reaction after getting the Infinity Stones, but obviously this is an opportunity that must not be missed.
Seeing this, Nova hurriedly chased after her.
But when she was injured and Thanos' strength skyrocketed, she couldn't catch up with Thanos at all.
Seeing that Thanos was getting closer and closer to Phoenix, but Phoenix still didn't react and was stunned in place, Nova immediately used the time gem in her hand without hesitation.
Then Thanos, who was about to take the Infinity Stones from Phoenix, found that he didn't know why he was back to the time when he faced Nova before, and then he subconsciously rushed to Phoenix again.
But the next moment he was back in front of Nova...... After going back and forth like this a few times, although because of the reversal of time, Thanos's memory also returned to this time, but the sense of déjà vu from his subconscious still made him quickly understand that he had been hit, and the reason was the time gem in Nova's hand.
"Damn, aren't you afraid of falling into the loop of time and never being able to transcend life if you change time so wantonly?" Thanos, who understood all this, couldn't help but shout angrily at Nova.
As one of the Infinity Stones, the Space Gem, although the danger is not as intuitive as the Reality Gem and the Power Gem, but the price is also expensive, and the slightest carelessness will be swept into the infinite repetition of the torrent of time and space, unable to get out, and even directly erased in all the timelines.
This is also the reason why Kama Taj has the time gem, which is an arcane treasure, but rarely uses it unless it is in a crisis.
Like Strange when he first inherited the Supreme Mage, he dared to use the Time Stone unscrupulously, one is that the ignorant are fearless, on the other hand, it is also a helpless move, and more importantly, the majority of the use of the Time Stone is actually mainly when Dormammu's dark space and the main universe space are connected, and the influence of the dark space has become minimal.
If it is directly in the main universe and then uses the Time Stone without moderation, it is definitely Strange himself who is unlucky.
In Avengers III, the relatively mature Strange is also aware of this, so he just uses the time gem to deduce the future and rely on the surviving Stark to save the world. It's not like in the face of Dormammu, using the infinite loop of time to persecute Thanos.
Thanos also knows this, so he is so angry when he guesses that Nova is constantly using the Time Stones to organize herself to snatch the other two Infinity Stones.
Of course, his anger was more due to Nova ruining his business.
"As long as I'm alive, you won't want to get a few other Infinity Stones!" In the face of Thanos's anger, Nova seems quite calm, and she doesn't care about the sequelae of using time gems at all, in fact, the abuse of time gems, in addition to the fact that users may be lost in the torrent of time, has a great impact on the world, but for Nova who appears in this universe completely relying on the interstellar system, although she doesn't want to die, she is definitely not afraid of things, as for the impact on the world...... Please, this world is not Chris's own world, I'm afraid of a ball.
"In that case, then you should die, do you really think that with the Time Gem, you will be foolproof?" Facing Nova who did not enter the oil and salt, Thanos was even more angry, and immediately stopped insisting on grabbing the other two Infinity Stones, but rushed straight towards Nova.
Seeing Thanos attacking her, Nova was still very calm in her heart, and instead of directly using time rewind, she adopted a dodge strategy to delay time...... Although time rewind is easy to use, but Nova is not a Kama Taj mage who is proficient in magic after all, she can accurately control time rewind on a single object, and the way she uses it is very simple and crude, that is, she uses psionic energy to guide the time gem, which leads to the time of the entire earth every time she goes back.
In this way, her time rewind doesn't actually have a real delaying effect on Thanos, and Chris also doesn't have a chance to get the two gems in Phoenix's hands.
Yes, while Nova and Thanos were confronting each other, Chris had already left the lifeship under the sea and was speeding towards Phoenix's location, trying to get the two gems in Phoenix's hand before Thanos could react.
And the reason why he is so anxious is also because he knows the reason why Phoenix is suddenly "in a daze" on the battlefield.
It's all a pot of soul gems.
All Infinity Stones have a price to use, and the most mysterious of the Infinity Stones is naturally no exception, and it is even bigger.
The price of the use of other Infinity Stones is at most the annihilation of the body, and the price of the Soul Gem is the soul.
This is very clear from the experiences of Thanos and Hawkeye Patton in obtaining the Soul Gem.
However, for greedy soul gems, the cost of using it is much more than that.
That's right, it's greed, Chris has known from the system a long time ago that every Infinity Stone is actually self-aware, but the self-awareness of most of the Infinity Stones is very simple, just like a computer machine, except for two, these two are the Mind Gem and the Soul Gem, which are not only conscious, but also have their own emotions.
It's just that the Mind Gem is more eager for "self", so its consciousness will give birth to Ultron and Vision ...... These two have never been simple artificial intelligence, they are actually just an extension of the consciousness of the mind gem in a large sense, and artificial intelligence is just a carrier.
The Mind Gem craves itself and does not want to be a tool, so Vision will have the idea of destroying the Mind Gem when he learns that Thanos has collected the Infinity Stones...... It's not because of how great Vision is and dares to sacrifice himself for the peace of the universe, but the Mind Gem that gave him this idea.
The soul gem is different, it has emotions, but it is more longing...... And just like its name, it craves souls, and the more souls it absorbs, the more powerful it becomes.
But under normal circumstances, soul gems cannot actively absorb souls, because the souls of the entire universe have masters, that is, death.
If the soul gem absorbs the soul unscrupulously, isn't it robbing the job of death? Can death go around it?
Therefore, soul gems take another way to obtain souls, and that is through trading...... If you want to use it, you have to trade your own soul.
This is where soul-for-soul comes from.
But there are exceptions, and that is if the soul is not part of this universe, then the soul gem will not be afraid of death...... Phoenix, on the other hand, is obviously not the soul of this universe.
Although this soul gem itself is also from another universe, but the soul of this world, it does not dare to snatch it casually, after all, this world also has death, but for Phoenix, which also does not belong to this universe, it has no scruples at all.
So Phoenix suddenly became "in a daze", just because of the soul gem at this time, trying to seize Phoenix's soul.
And the system, which felt this, also told Chris the news for the first time.
As for why the soul gem didn't attack Alice, who is also not in this universe, it was because of the Infinity Gauntlet, of course.
The Infinity Gauntlet is not only an artifact that uses Infinity Stones, but also a container that restricts Infinity Stones to a large extent, and now that this is easy to be damaged, the suppression of Infinity Stones is naturally gone.