For the vast majority of life in the universe, time is the fairest and most ruthless existence. Seventeen years have passed since the decisive battle between superheroes and aliens who invaded the earth on the top of the Himalayas that shook the world, the entire nine realms, and even most of the universe.

Seventeen years is enough time for a lot to happen. However, Earth, the atrium of the Nine Realms, the backward planet known as Tra in the wider universe, did not fall into an endless war after encountering a crisis that was considered a sentinel war, as many expected. On the contrary, in the past 17 years, human beings have been the masters here, and their society and their civilization have continued to develop and move forward in a relatively stable state. Hydra, the League of Assassins, and various mercenaries are gradually disappearing, and the superheroes who were once the focus of attention are gradually retiring from the stage. The general qualities of people, both physical and mental, are constantly increasing. In the whole universe that is becoming more and more chaotic, the earth and human beings are swimming against the current, and everything seems so beautiful.

It seems that really, as someone said, that humans don't need protection at all. After seeing the strength of the aliens, human beings finally "woke up" and embarked on the right track of independent evolution.

And someone is in a much more difficult situation than the thriving earth.

At that time, Zoro, who was carrying the Space Gem Cosmic Rubik's Cube, the Mind Gem Scepter and the Power Gem Hammerhead, as well as the reality gem aether particles to his own queen Galadriel, had just gotten the Eye of Agomo, which was the main body of the Time Gem, and the cosmic overlord Thanos forcibly opened the space door and stretched out his hand across countless galaxies, wanting to grab Zorro. After avoiding the sudden and thunderous blow, Zorro immediately used the magic taught to him by Galadriel, borrowed the energy of the Cosmic Rubik's Cube to teleport himself to the moon, and then began his long cosmic escape with the moon as a point.

For the first two or three years, he was hunted down by the Obsidian Five, the strongest under Thanos. The strength of each of these five guys is not too strong, that is, the level of Thor who has not opened the protagonist template, but as long as they cooperate, even Zorro, who is holding four Infinity Stones, will not dare to fight hard. In this case, Zorro did not dare to go back to Swartheim at all, so as not to expose Galadriel and his ultimate plan. With his strong physique, and increasingly comfortable teleportation magic, he is like a kite flying in a video game, carrying the obsidian five generals behind him through planets and galaxies.

As Thanos' most powerful subordinate, the Obsidian Five is not a muscular and mindless guy. They kept a close eye on Thanos' eyeliner throughout the universe, mobilizing Thanos' army more than once to surround or trap Zorro, who had been exposed. On several occasions, Zorro was even blocked by the Obsidian Five, sealing the effect of teleportation magic, and almost died there, but finally escaped by narrowly fying his life.

At the same time, Thanos' side is not the only force that Dozzoro is interested in. After the great war at the top of the Himalayas, many forces in the universe either actively or passively knew about the fact that there was a Tra person who carried a heavy treasure wandering in the vast universe. It's not that these people don't know that Thanos is eyeing Zoro earlier, even so they still send their subordinates or release bounty warrants or even go to fight in person, it is conceivable that their own strength is not weak.

During those years, Zorro spent the years in a state of almost universal enemy. Almost every planet, every place where you can stop, has enemies who want to capture him and rob him of his treasures. Due to problems with breathing, food, and water, he had to find a place to land every once in a while, which made it more difficult for him to escape. You must know that it is not the earth, and the appearance of the earthlings is too obvious. Still, he persevered. Thanks to his ability to use magic from time to time to speak to Galadriel in Swaltheim. Otherwise, not to mention the several crises, he had to get through it with Galadriel's advice, and that loneliness alone was enough for him.

Well, and Kwai Ra. Long before killing Fenrir to seize the Cosmic Cube and the Mind Gem Scepter, Zorro teleported Kwara, who had never doubted his decision, to Swaltheim to prepare for the recasting of the One Ring with Galadriel. No one knows that a female elf and an undefined female human lifeform are in Swartheim, trying to awaken the Doomsday Volcano that has been sleeping for thousands of years with the Gem of Reality. This is thanks to Zorro diverting the attention of most of the forces, including the already crippled Asgard.

In addition to dodging and eliminating one pursuer after another, and chatting with Galadriel and Kwai La from time to time to enhance their relationship, in addition to discovering and understanding the planets and races that he had heard of or never knew about in various film and television works in his previous life, and who were obviously integrated by the superbody Lucy and Dr. Manhattan, Zorro's understanding and familiarity with several Infinity Stones was also constantly improving. By the way, there are other treasures he found from Earth. On top of that, Zorro didn't forget to take a hand on the energy-shaped gem that happened to appear near his escape route. It's a bit ironic - so many people want to take the Infinity Stones from Zorro's hands, but Zorro has more and more treasures in his hands. In addition to the accumulation of these treasures as Zorro's ultimate plan, one or two pieces were occasionally thrown by Zorro as bait. On more than one occasion, Zorro took advantage of the pursuers' ignorance of the Infinity Stones and their contradictions to get out of various crises. Finally, seven years after leaving Earth, he faked his death in an explosion and found a chance to return to Swartheim.

Bomb fake death again, just as he had escaped from the forcible identity of the fake Bruce Wayne and the control of the Owl Court not long after he had just arrived in this world. Looking back, it seems that there is a sense of fatalistic reincarnation in the dark?

Well, it's just an illusion. The point is that the trick of exploding and feigning death is easier to use, that's all.

With the intense preparation of Galadriel and Aoi Lana, and the help of the dwarves, the prerequisites for Zorro's ultimate plan have been completed—the Doomsday Volcano, which the Demon Lord Sauron used to forge the One Ring, has been revitalized after thousands of years of sleep. And thanks to the influence exerted by the Reality Gem, it is more active than any previous period, generating heat that even exceeds the limits of Swartheim itself. It was also thanks to Zorro's timely return, otherwise the scattered heat would have an incalculable negative impact on the dwarves and even on the whole of Swartheim.

So, after working with Galadriel to use the energy of the Cosmic Cube to create a shield that would prevent heat loss, protect the dwarves, and prevent the next energy from escaping into space to attract those pursuers, Zorro began to forge his version of the One Ring. However, as he once said to Galadriel, the so-called "One Ring" was just a concept or a structure that he borrowed.

At this time, Zorro's accumulation in the process of fleeing, and his understanding of the rules of several Infinity Stones, as well as some other treasures, finally came in handy. Borrowing the heat of the Doomsday Volcano, which is much more terrifying than the sun on Earth, he restored the Cosmic Rubik's Cube, Aether Particles, Eye of Agomoto, Loki's Scepter and Ronan's Hammer to the original Infinity Stone form, and then took some of the treasures he obtained from Earth with various kinds of huge energy - that is, the treasures he asked Quicksilver to take or excavate or seize before the Great War on the top of the Himalayas, the source of fire on Cybertron, the frost box of the Frost Giant, the crystal skull of the Mayan civilization, Ancient Babylon's Code of Hammurabi's Clay Tablets, etc., and the ones he took with him during his escape, such as the lamp ring that Loki once wanted Thanos to help him collect, etc. He used elven techniques to arrange and integrate those treasures from different systems, and then compressed, forged and shaped them by dwarven forging techniques.

The finished product took a lot longer than Zorro had imagined. Until a pillar of light penetrated the heavens and the earth, from the volcano of Doomsday Volcano**, broke through the protective shield jointly arranged by Zorro and Galadriel, and shot into the vast space, releasing the news of its birth to the entire universe.

To get to this point, it is far from as simple as Zorro who strategized before to defeat a group of superheroes to get the second, third, fourth, and fifth Infinity Stones. How much effort, energy, and sweat went into it—in the narrow and general sense—only he knows. Not to mention anything else, not counting the years of his escape, the day the finished product appeared, it was 4,100 days before Zorro entered the Doomsday Volcano with those treasures. That's eleven years on Earth!

After 11 years of staying in the Doomsday Volcano, and finally waiting for the casting to be completed and the finished product to be released, because the movement it released was too large, Zorro once again faced the situation of being the enemy of the world and endless pursuers. Thankfully, with that finished product, Zorro could easily deal with most of the enemies he had previously managed to escape, but it also meant that the enemies he faced would escalate. For example, Thanos, who has been said many times before, such as the Apocalypse Star Monarch who is trying to master a certain ability called the anti-life equation, and then the Monitors, Anti-Monitors, and the Celestials, etc......

With Galadriel and Quela, Zorro struggled his way through his bloody path. Now, he took the finished product and appeared in front of the blue humanoid creature with a naked fruit, Dr. Manhattan, who was once also a human.

No, I should say that Dr. Manhattan found him.

"So, this is what you spent so long forging to defeat Thanos, Darkseid, and the others?" Looking at the spherical object Zorro held in his right hand, Dr. Manhattan spoke in his characteristic whisper that was not mixed with any emotion-*-color. "No, I don't feel much energy from this thing. The energy level is very high, it is already the pinnacle of the material universe, almost close to me, but those people also have treasures or abilities in their hands. That was an important basis for me and Lucy to balance the energy distribution of the universe in the first place, so that the existence of things like the Infinity Stones would not affect the balance of power in the new world. In terms of the power level of your thing, its power should be not bad, after all, it is forged based on five of the six Infinity Stones. However, it is not enough to suppress the treasures in the hands of those people. Or is this just one part of your finished product that combines a variety of supreme treasures? ”

Speaking in a whisper, Dr. Manhattan's voice reached Zorro's ears half a light-year away in the vacuum.

"I thought that of the two so-called creators, the first one to come to me was the superbody Lucy. I didn't expect ...... Yes and no. Standing on a spaceship snatched from the Apocalypse, Zorro shouted to Dr. Manhattan from afar. Naturally, his voice can't break through the limits of physics like Dr. Manhattan, but he also believes that Dr. Manhattan will not miss his every word. "Thanos is also thinking the same as you, the other cosmic-level overlord kings you think of. Thanos thought that he still had the soul gem in the Infinity Stones in his hand, and he could use his own stronger strength to rob the five gems on my side. But it didn't occur to him that even if I only had one gem on my side and he had five, he would not be able to snatch it from me. I have copied the basis of the One Ring forged by Sauron, the Demon Lord of Swartheim—to command, to command, to command, to suppress the others, that is, to command, to master, and suppress the others. With that, Zorro shook his wrist and lit up the baseball-sized ball in his hand. And I let it take this attribute to the extreme. Not only Infinity Stones, but also those with a lower energy level, whether it is an object, pure energy, or other types of attacks, it can resist, eliminate, and even control the effects of its release. Its energy level, you said, is almost close to your level. So, whether it's Thanos or the other guys you thought would be able to kill me, I killed them with their own attacks. ”

Listening to Zorro's words, Dr. Manhattan was silent for a moment before continuing to speak in an emotionless voice.

"Now that I've come to you, there's no chance for Lucy. I knew she wanted to build a weapon that would threaten me. I thought it would be a person, but I didn't expect it to be something made by someone she found. But now you will this ...... Hmm, the characteristics of an unknown weapon tell me, meaning you think it can beat me?! ”

Zorro smiled. Don't have Super Lucy? It doesn't matter, it's just as useful to have Dr. Manhattan present.

"The name of this weapon? Well, I'm going to call it 'bastard'. Hehe, it doesn't mean anything else, it's just that no matter what others give it, how many attacks are sent to it, it will return it, and even intensify its efforts to get back to the field. Does it feel a bit like the jerks you encounter from time to time in life? Oh yes, I forgot that the last time you lived in human society was many, many years ago, no, many, many times ago, right? He looked in Dr. Manhattan's direction and said, "As for whether it can be used to beat you, you can try." ”

Dr. Manhattan was silent again. Before, Zorro said that those with a lower energy level than that "bastard" would be attacked by the rebound or even lose control, but he didn't say what would happen if the energy level was higher than it. He suspected that Zorro had set a language trap here. If he had tried to unleash a small attack as he had originally thought, even though his small size was not small for all life except Superbody Lucy, he might have been taken advantage of by the bastard.

The next moment, Dr. Manhattan unleashes the most peculiar of all his abilities - predicting the future through the trajectory of elementary particle motion. However, he found that Zorro had been prepared, and in the Apocalypse Star spaceship, there seemed to be a stream of particles traveling close to the speed of light or even faster than the speed of light affecting his field of vision.

"Looks like Lucy told you a lot of my secrets." said this lightly, but Dr. Manhattan misunderstood. Using a stream of faster-than-light subons to interfere with Dr. Manhattan's ability to predict the future was the solution Zorro had learned from his previous life in the Watchmen movie.

The obstruction of the view into the future does not really affect Dr. Manhattan's abilities. Originally, he still had a bit of a cat playing with rat mentality, and he had already killed Zorro. After three or two more breaths of silence, an invisible energy completely enveloped the space where Zorro was, surging towards Zorro in the center without warning.

This one still fell into Zorro's calculations.

As Dr. Manhattan's colorless energy approached Zorro infinitely, a suction force suddenly came from above the "bastard" and sucked the energy through. Zorro let go of his hand, and the "bastard" floated in the air, and the colorless energy gradually manifested into the material, wrapped in the form of azure light layer after layer outside the "bastard", so that the volume of the "bastard" became larger and larger, and Zorro, the owner of the bastard, had to let Aoira, who was in the spaceship, drive the spaceship back again and again.

Soon, the "bastard" became a blue "planet". This is just the appearance. On a deeper level, Dr. Manhattan sensed that the current "bastard" had broken through the pinnacle of the material universe and was really about to be on par with himself.

Dr. Manhattan immediately unleashed another stream of energy, trying to strip the energy that had come from him from the "bastard". However, those energies had become entangled with the "bastards", and instead blocked his attacks...... No, it's gradually assimilated and absorbed!

"What are you doing!" He asked in a deep voice. This is probably the first time since he left the human body that he has brought emotion into his words, right?

"You used to be a scientist, and you were the best of the best, I don't think you didn't fail to see it." This time it was Zorro's turn to pretend to be forced in a light tone - he also enjoyed the state. "The 'bastard' is absorbing the high-level energy you release. And as you can see, its absorption efficiency is decreasing. ”

Dr. Manhattan could naturally see the state of the "bastard", but that wasn't the question he asked.

"It has absorbed my energy and has transcended the pinnacle of the physical universe. And your body is still in the realm of the material universe, and you can't control it as much as you did before, and use it to defeat me. So, what are you doing?! ”

Zorro smiled again in the direction of Dr. Manhattan before returning to the spaceship's cabin.

"I never expected to beat you with it. I'm still self-aware, you're not like Thanos and the anti-surveillance guys, you're far above them. Those who stop you may only appear in the next cycle. I have no intention of getting involved in the competition or the battle between you and Lucy the Superbody, but Lucy the Superbody is right about one thing, this new world and new universe is becoming more and more contradictory and more and more porous as you continue to integrate new things. I don't mind doing you a favor, and it's a one-and-done solution. But most of all, I seem to have found enough energy and the right way to do what I've tried and failed so many times – go home. ”

The next moment, under the pilotship of Aoira, the spaceship that had been snatched from the Apocalypse took her, as well as Zorro and Galadriel, and plunged headlong into the azure energy wrapped outside the "bastard". When the ship completely disappeared, the azure energy collapsed violently, and all of it entered the baseball-sized volume of the "bastard". And then......

"Boom ......"

Well, theoretically there was no sound from this explosion, after all, this is a vacuum. This "boom" just makes the explosion more vivid. In fact, the explosion brought a terrifying light that even Dr. Manhattan himself could not see with his own eyes, and the infinite heat that could still be felt from a distance of half a light year, began to spread outward with an efficiency beyond the speed of light and even above time, and one planet after another touched by the blast wave was broken down into atoms within an infinite fraction of a second. After the explosion, the atoms, whether infinitely distant or infinitely near, converge towards the location of the "mixed ball" with an efficiency no higher than the diffusion speed of the previous explosion wave, wrapping the "mixed ball" into an infinitely large "planet". Then, the "bastard" begins to compress, compress, and compress again...... It ended up being an atom size.

The entire universe, no, the entire infinite universe, was destroyed by a "bastard" in this way, leaving only one seed.

Well, in addition to "seeds", there is also Dr. Manhattan. At his level, he has long been out of time, and he will not be affected at all. Seeing all this happen, he didn't stop it, even if he had this opportunity, even if he spent a lot of effort to integrate the new world and new universe from infinity to an origin in an immeasurably short time. Instead, he looked in the other direction of the space that had become nothing—that was the direction of the superbody Lucy, who was rushing over—and laughed like no other.

"The next reincarnation? Perhaps! ”

(.: It just so happens that today is the last day of the month.) End of full text. ）