Chapter 54: The Real Mole
The Tower of Babel, carrying Beckett and others, slowly landed.
One by one, Beckett, who threw the two captives directly out of the Tower of Babel, slowly walked in front of him under the gaze of his adoptive father Thanos.
"Welcome back, kid."
"Father, mission accomplished." Beckett saluted respectfully towards Thanos, and behind him, the two captives who had been thrown out of the Tower of Babel looked at each other, not knowing for a moment what to say. Diana, in particular, was already a cripple waiting for death.
"Well done." Thanos didn't ask where Beckett's original battleship went, he didn't have the slightest interest in this tedious process, what he saw was that his son Beckett had once again completed the task he had set perfectly, bringing a lively target to him.
"Wow, oh, oh, why am I floating????!"
After seeing Thanos, he put away the wine bottle he found in the Tower of Babel, and before he could speak, Astra found that his body was flying uncontrollably in the direction where Thanos was.
"Beckett, who is that woman?"
Ebony Throat, who used magic to levitate Astra, glanced at Diana, whose face was full of vigilance, and asked.
"It's just an inconsequential little person, don't care."
"Excuse me, can you put me down? You've made it hard for me to get up and down. Astra, whose feet did not touch the ground, panicked in her heart, interrupting the conversation between Ebony Throat and Beckett, but as she said this, her eyes turned to Thanos.
Astra knows that Thanos is the real master here.
"I admire your courage, Astra." Thanos waved his hand and motioned for Ebony Throat to put it down. Astra, who had regained his freedom, stood by Beckett's side, breathed a long sigh of relief, and regained the feeling of being grounded.
"Thank you for the compliment." Astra moved her muscles and put away the contrived pompousness on her face.
Even on Tofa, which is far away from the Centaur planetary system, Astra has heard of Thanos' great name:
Born of Sin, a Titan survivor, Beckett's adoptive father, and the last Eternal Titan in the universe. The guardian of the cosmic order, the leader of the Dark Quadrant, the well-deserved overlord of the centaur planetary system, and the emperor of the destruction of the world - Thanos.
In the face of such a bigwig-level figure, even if Astra has the bottom in his heart, his cheeks can't help but tremble, and he is afraid.
"Looks like you know very well why I'm looking for you, now, tell me where it is." Thanos's tone was calm, but it made Astra feel an inexplicable pressure. Staring at Thanos's face, Astra's heart suddenly had an urge to blurt everything out, but in the end he endured it.
"I'm sorry, I can't. You should also be aware of the purpose of this news that I am revealing to you. ”
The hatred surging in his heart made Astra gradually calm down, but the calm words sounded like a thunder in the ears of everyone except Thanos!
Yes, this so-called kidnapping operation has been a drama directed and acted by Astra from the very beginning!
That's why Astra didn't act like a captive at all along the way. He was not afraid that he would be taken to some strange place by Beckett, because he knew that Beckett would definitely send him safely to Thanos.
On Tofa, he deliberately set up the captain of the guard so that he could face Beckett who came to kidnap him alone, and test whether Beckett had enough strength with a plasma cannon. After discovering that Beckett had enough strength, Astra did not make any trouble in the subsequent "journey".
Beckett's brow furrowed slightly, and his gaze immediately fell on Astra's body.
"I want the Skru Empire to fall, or rather, I want the Skru Empire's Second, Third, and Tenth Armies to be wiped out."
Ignoring Beckett's gaze, Astra, who stabilized his emotions, told Thanos the terms of his trade word by word.
A few months ago, Astra, who stepped into a mysterious place due to a research accident, was fortunate enough to see the magic of the universe, and also received a gift from the universe in the magic.
Astra called that gift a cosmic force.
The so-called hundred-fold increase in energy is the effect of the power of the great universe. Of course, this was only the result of Astra's test, because he himself was only a gift.
But it is precisely because of this gift that the hatred buried in Astra's heart began to grow irrepressibly. He wants revenge, he wants revenge for his family.
The Kree Empire's team of accusers is rotten in Astra's opinion, and because of the problem of sending troops to the Skrull Empire, Astra even directly caused trouble at the headquarters of the accuser team on Harra, and it was after that he left Hara and came to the war reserve star Tofa. In Astra's opinion, the supreme accusation group, which had been controlled by the mediocre and corrupt aristocracy, was no longer reliable, and in Hara he could not even see the supreme wisdom.
So, after receiving a gift from the power of the universe, Astra had the idea of relying on a third-party force to help him complete his revenge, and Thanos, who made a name for himself in the centaur planetary system, also came into his eyes.
With the goal in mind, Astra's next step is simple. At first, it was just to spread the news of the [100-fold power amplification formula] around the battlefields of the two empires, and then admitted that it was indeed the case in the Kree Empire's accusation team, and gave the results of the experiment, a firearm containing the energy of the great universe.
After deciding this fact in the hearts of the high-level leaders of the two empires, Astra began to contact Thanos, he believed that a person of Thanos' level would definitely be interested in the mysterious cosmic power, and he also knew that the identity of the mysterious intelligence merchant he had fabricated could not be hidden in front of Thanos for too long, but he didn't care.
His bet is that Thanos can fish him out of Toffa safely, and he bets that Thanos can ignore his calculations for the mysterious cosmic power, as long as Thanos can accept this deal and help him complete his revenge, he is willing to give everything, even if Thanos may lose his life after the fall, he has no regrets.
"Baltan, Gosla, Augustus, Magma, I want them to die, I want them to pay for the destruction of L77 back then!"
"I want to avenge my family."
"So, Sanos. Do you accept this deal? Astra slowly walked up to Thanos, her eyes seemed to be burning with a pitch-black flame, and asked knowingly.