Chapter 1207 Gaius's Retinue, the Mantis-Eating Orioles

Bucky ran all the way to Shuri's laboratory behind the battlefield.

He ignored Su Rui, who was fast asleep on the lab table, and quickly cleaned up the shards of glass that had been smashed by Vision in front of the French windows. Then he closed his eyes and chanted the name of the God of Contracts.

The three Arks, who had been keeping a close eye on the battle in Gaius's kingdom, exchanged glances and then transferred the equipment and supplies they had obtained from their master.

The next moment, a black sniper rifle and a small bottle of magic potion appeared in front of him.

"Tsk tsk!" Bucky clicked his tongue, then picked up the potion that emitted a pale golden glow, opened the cap, and drank it all in one gulp.

He then set up his sniper rifle, attached the grenade launcher, and used the scope to locate Vision's position.

The Mind Stone is Thanos's ultimate target; staring at Vision is staring at Thanos.

Unfortunately, the prophecy was that Thanos snapped his fingers, which meant that Vision definitely couldn't protect the Infinity Stones.

In addition, his master ordered him to only deliver the fatal blow to Thanos at crucial moments, otherwise he would really be willing to take the gamble.

“Get ready to go.” Ark took a sip of Felix Felicis. “After Thanos snaps his fingers, we need to get to that Garden Planet first so we can catch him off guard.”

......

Ebony Maw flew through the air and used his telekinesis to bury Vision upside down inside a rock.

"To be honest, you're much easier to deal with than I thought."

“You wouldn’t have thought that way a few hours ago,” Vision said reluctantly.

"Perhaps! But I'll gladly accept the Mind Stone." Ebony Maw smiled faintly and beckoned with his finger, attempting to use his telekinesis to extract the Mind Stone.

The Mind Stone trembled slightly, and the excruciating pain made him scream in agony.

Shu Rui had already weakened Vision to an extreme degree simply by using scientific methods to extract the raw stone.

Ebony Maw, on the other hand, was much more brutal, completely disregarding Vision's life or death.

"I'm coming, I'm coming."

Peter Parker just in time shot out a web that stuck Ebony Maw's eyes, stopping him from prying out the Mind Stone.

"Out of control."

Ebony Maw ripped off a spider silk thread, looked at Peter Parker hanging upside down in the tree, and with a slight movement of his fingers, all the withered branches and rotten leaves on the ground twisted and merged into sharp wooden cones.

"Oh no! This is not good!"

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!

The wooden spikes transformed into a rain of arrows, piercing through the trees in the blink of an eye. Peter Parker, sensing the danger first with his spider-sense, shot out two webs and leaped to another large tree.

But before he could even stand up straight, the tree seemed to come alive, its trunk caved inward like quicksand, binding his lower body.

The tree branches transformed into vines, which wrapped around his hands and neck.

"A kid in a tight-fitting outfit trying to join the fun?" Ebony Maw sneered disdainfully. "Stay here, and perhaps you can receive a fair trial."

“Uh… logically I should be anxious right now, but…” Peter Parker said casually, “I think you should look back.”

"Trying to stall for time? How clumsy..."

puff!

An arrow pierced his back and through his chest. Ebony Maw stared blankly down at the blood-stained black arrowhead on his chest, then fell to the ground in despair.

"I warned you."

Peter Parker pursed his lips, then pressed his hands forward forcefully, breaking the vines in his hands.

Freeing his hands, he ripped the vine from his neck and then repeatedly struck the tree trunk beneath his feet.

boom!

As the tree trunk shattered, he performed a backflip and landed steadily on the ground.

"Thank you, Mr. Barton."

You're my idol, that..."

"We'll talk later, kid." Barton strode up to Vision, his face twitching as he looked at Vision, who was practically embedded in the rock. "This... can you come out?"

"It's barely acceptable!" Vision said with a wry smile, enduring the pain to activate the Mind Stone.

As a dim yellow light flickered on his forehead, his body began to become ethereal and slowly flew out of the stone.

"How is the situation now?"

"Strange lost, and Thanos got the Time Stone."

War Machine lost power, Tony was seriously injured, Carol was teleported to an unknown location, and Captain America, Natasha, Quill and the others almost all passed out.

The situation is extremely bad; to put it bluntly, we've already lost.

"What do we do now?" Peter Parker asked anxiously. "Director Fury isn't going to launch a nuclear missile, is he?!"

"Be optimistic, kid."

"Given Thanos's current capabilities, even nuclear weapons can't do anything to him." Nick Fury's slightly hurried voice rang in their ears, "Take Vision and run, run as far as you can."

“You know this won’t work, Fury,” Barton said.

"I need you to buy me some time, even just one more second."

"what are you up to?"

Just as Nick Fury was about to say something, the ceiling of the command room suddenly opened, and several Quinjet fighters carefully lowered down an Omniscient Tree that exuded a fantastical aura.

The Tree of Omniscience took root and stood firmly in the command room.

Nick Fury felt a strange sense of security, paused for a moment, and then said helplessly, "Believe in miracles."

"What?" Peter Parker looked bewildered, but the next moment his hair stood on end. "Thanos is here."

As soon as he finished speaking, a blue portal opened, and Thanos, who possessed the five Infinity Stones, stepped out.

Barton immediately drew his bow and shot an arrow, but the arrow was turned to dust by the purple energy before it even reached Thanos.

Thanos walked toward Vision on his own. Before Barton and Peter Parker could stop him, they were bound by invisible energy and helplessly embedded in trees and rocks.

“This is cheating,” Peter Parker protested, but he soon found his mouth gagged and unable to make a sound.

Thanos stopped and looked at Ebony Maw, who had been shot through the chest, with a complicated expression. Then he grabbed Vision by the neck and lifted him up.

click!

Thanos pinched the Mind Stone on Vision's forehead with a few fingers and pried it off along with a piece of Vision's skull.

Vision's body lost all color and was carelessly discarded to the side.

Thanos embedded the last Infinity Stone into the groove on the back of the Infinity Gauntlet. With all six Infinity Stones gathered, six energies—yellow, green, purple, blue, red, and orange—flickered wildly throughout his body like fine electric currents.

Thanos roared to the sky, and it took him a while to withstand the burden that the six Infinity Stones brought to his body.

The 'destiny' is more than half complete, with only the final step remaining: snapping the fingers.

Thanos looked at the six Infinity Stones on the Infinity Gauntlet, each representing the mind, time, power, space, reality, and soul, and couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion.

boom!

At the height of his triumph, a violent, silvery-white lightning bolt descended from the sky, blasting him dozens of meters away.

With the help of Heimdall's vision, Thor accurately determined the location coordinates and then used Stormbreaker to open the Rainbow Bridge to reach the battlefield.

Thanos hurriedly got up and looked at Thor, who was enveloped in lightning and flying rapidly toward him. Without hesitation, he raised his right hand.

The energy of the six Infinity Stones was released simultaneously, merging into a dazzling white pillar of light.

Thor also threw the Stormbreaker with all his might. The rapidly spinning Stormbreaker, carrying blue-white electricity, forcefully cleaved the white beam of light, which was enough to destroy everything, in two.

"Now's the time." Bucky, who had been waiting for his chance, pulled the trigger at that moment.

The elemental energies of white, cyan, green, red, and yellow, representing the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, converge at the muzzle of the gun, forming an energy vortex with a diameter of more than half a meter.

The violent energy fused and compressed, then struck a single point and exploded, shooting out a multicolored black beam of light.

boom!

Wherever the black beam of light passed, rocks and vegetation were completely erased.

Thanos noticed the destructive light and saw James Barnes lying on a distant building.

He suddenly realized that this unremarkable warrior, whom he had even knocked unconscious at the beginning, was actually Gaius's retinue.

As Aaron Gaius said, his retinue would come to stop his destiny, but the timing was just too perfect!

With the energy of the six Infinity Stones being restrained by Stormbreaker, he couldn't even move his body, let alone defend or counterattack.

Is there no other way but to tough it out?

If you can't get through it, everything will be for naught.

Even if he survived, Thor, whose divine power had reached its peak, was still close to the threshold of the Heavenly Father.

boom!

The black beam of light engulfed Thanos, and the torrent of energy raged against his body, leaving charred black marks like cracks on his purple skin.

But his legs seemed nailed to the ground, enduring the impact and damage from the energy with a heart-wrenching roar.

At the same time, he tried his best to keep his left fist raised, not daring to relax for a moment.

If he let his breath slip now, that axe would definitely chop him in two.

After struggling for an unknown amount of time, the torrent of energy finally ended, and the next moment the Storm Axe struck his chest.

The charred, cracked body was almost torn in half, with purple blood seeping from its chest.

Thanos knelt on the ground, gripping the axe blade weakly. With each breath, he felt as if countless needles were pricking his body.

"Phew!" Bucky breathed a sigh of relief, then put away his gun and stood up. He then saw Su Rui staring at him with wide eyes and an incredulous expression.

"You, this gun..."

"Praise be to the God of the Covenant."

"Also, good luck to you all." Bucky smiled and nodded, then stepped into the rippling spatial portal.

After firing that shot, his mission was complete.

As for how things will develop next, that's not for him to consider.

Thor flew up to Thanos and couldn't help but marvel at his incredible vitality.

Even after all that, he's still not dead.

"Loki, Space Stone, Ragnarok."

"You will pay for this." Thor grabbed Thanos by the back of the head with one hand and pushed Stormbreaker with the other, making the blade advance little by little.

"what!"

Thanos's expression twisted, and he opened his mouth wide, letting out a painful scream.

Then he looked at Saul and muttered weakly, "You should, you should... you should be beheaded."

Thor was confused, then he saw Thanos raise his left hand and snap his fingers.

"No!"

With a snap, Thanos's left hand was almost roasted, emitting a nauseating burnt smell.

The Infinity Gauntlet also seemed to have been weathered by time, with many rust marks and scorch marks on its surface.

"What have you done?" Thor stared blankly at Thanos, then demanded sharply, "What have you done?"

Thanos didn't want to answer at all. With his last bit of strength, he clenched his left fist and activated the Space Stone on his middle finger.

A portal opened behind him, and Thanos lay down inside, leaving behind Stormbreaker stained with purple blood.

Thor swallowed hard. Even though he didn't want to admit it, he had to accept the fact that Thanos had wiped out half of the universe's population.

One life after another turned to ashes and vanished on the battlefield, including King T'Challa and some superheroes.

This snap is fair, random, and does not discriminate based on status or wealth.

Only beings of the Heavenly Father level or higher can contend with this, and those in special domains can also escape this annihilation.

For example, the citizens of Gaius, the angels of Heaven, the demons of Hell, the gods of the City of Omnipotence, and... Nick Fury and a group of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents under the Tree of Omniscience.

At that moment, Nick Fury, Maria Hill, and several other agents suddenly had images flash through their minds: their bodies turning to ashes and dissipating.

“Furry.” Hill swallowed hard, looking at Nick Fury, who was equally dazed. “You saw it too, didn’t you!”

"Fuck you!" Nick Fury muttered under his breath, then touched the Tree of Knowledge with lingering fear. "Fortunately, we believed in a miracle."

......

Garden Planet.

A portal suddenly opened in front of the simple hut, and a battered Thanos staggered out of it.

His injuries were too severe, and he fell to the ground after taking only two steps.

Thanos didn't get up. Instead, he struggled to turn over and looked at the clear blue sky and white clouds. The golden sunlight shone on his face, giving him a long-lost sense of ease.

The goal has been achieved. Now, all that's left is to sit and watch the sunrise amidst the gratitude of the entire universe, and retire.

As he closed his eyes to relax and enjoy a rare moment of tranquility, invisible lines stretched out from the void and slowly pierced into Thanos's soul.

This is Ark's extraordinary ability: the Trickster can control the target's body by manipulating the target's spiritual threads, turning them into a puppet.

At the same time, dreams replaced reality.

Thanos indulged in his dream and began to enjoy his planned retirement.

They work at sunrise and rest at sunset. The only thing to complain about is that the fruit they grow isn't very tasty; it needs to be cooked and seasoned before it can be eaten.

This is Ramon's extraordinary ability: the Dream Thief, combined with mind-reading, can weave a beautiful dream for Thanos, a dream he doesn't want to wake up from.

The disease spread by the Despair Witch Naga also silently invaded his body, causing his consciousness to stagnate and making him completely unable to perceive anything in reality.

Only after they had completely controlled Thanos's body and mind did Ark, Ramon, and Naga reveal themselves and emerge from behind the thatched hut.