Fear of Ego

"Kid, forcing me into this form is already something you can take pride in," Ego said.

Ego glanced down at Zane, who, compared to him, wasn't even the size of an ant, and said indifferently.

Ego's voice alone shattered a vast expanse of space, causing a small spatial-temporal storm.

Yet, the shards of space that could easily sever anything could not cut even a single hair of Ego's. They simply passed over him in vain.

"Is that so? You're not the only one who can grow bigger."

Zane looked up at Ego, who had blocked out the light of an entire star, and a smile of excitement appeared on his lips.

As he spoke, Zane's soul suddenly began to vibrate at a mysterious frequency.

Abruptly, it connected with the boundless quantum space.

Countless streams of quantum energy flowed into Zane's body through his soul.

In an instant, Zane, originally just 1.8 meters tall, began to expand rapidly like a balloon.

Seemingly without end, Zane grew from hundreds of meters to thousands, then to tens of thousands, until he was the same size as Ego.

The entire transformation process took less than a second.

In an instant, the two giants stood facing each other in space.

This scene, reminiscent of mythical legends, shocked countless civilizations around the planet Ego.

Although Ego, who witnessed Zane's transformation, was somewhat surprised, he wasn't too shocked.

For beings like them, existing in six dimensions, size and form had no meaning anymore.

They could transform into a speck of dust or into towering giants that touched the heavens.

However, there were limits to such transformations.

If divine power merely altered one's form, growing larger would only result in a hollow giant.

Ego was a little surprised that Zane could easily become as large as he was.

But these thoughts merely flashed briefly through his mind.

The next moment, Ego casually grabbed a nearby planet, sending tendrils of energy into its core.

He then used a special technique to ignite all the energy within the dead planet.

At this moment, the dead planet resembled an unstable bomb, ready to explode at any time.

Ignoring the immense gravitational pull between the planet and the star, Ego lifted it with both hands and hurled it toward Zane, who was adjusting to his new body.

As the planet, covered in molten lava and emanating a destructive aura, rushed toward him, Zane's eyes, now as large as stars, suddenly lit up with ominous blood-red rings.

Following this, the Reaper's Scythe that had grown with Zane sliced through the fabric of space, leaving cracks in its wake.

With a sharp gleam, the scythe traced a line of death across the surface of the planet.

As the scythe passed, the glowing red lava on the planet's surface instantly solidified.

The turbulent energy in the planet's core returned to silence, without a trace of disturbance.

The planet had been conceptually sentenced to death!

Mystic Eyes of Death Perception—everything can be killed!

The next moment, the dying planet split in half, and from the cut surface, there was nothing but pitch-black darkness, with no trace of glowing lava.

It resembled two oversized meteors, sliding past Zane along different trajectories.

With tremendous kinetic energy, the halves vanished into the boundless universe.

Upon witnessing this, even Ego, with a face as large as a satellite, showed a hint of shock.

He had already known that this attack wouldn't seriously harm Zane, at most making him look a bit disheveled.

Ego had considered that Zane might withstand it head-on, or perhaps catch the planet like a ball and throw it back at him.

But he hadn't expected Zane to nonchalantly slice it in half so effortlessly.

And in an instant, the violent energy within the planet was completely subdued.

Even Ego, with his billions of years of life, couldn't achieve that.

Sensing an overwhelming sense of danger, Ego suddenly focused his gaze on Zane's eyes.

Two glaring red rings circled Zane's pupils, reflecting an eerie red glow under the light of the stars, exuding a relentless aura of doom.

For a brief moment, Ego even felt that his supposedly indestructible body seemed like a mere rag doll in front of those eyes, easily torn apart.

Without realizing it, a flicker of fear appeared deep in Ego's eyes.

This was only the second time in his billions of years that Ego had tasted fear.

The first time was when he had just learned to control the molecules around him and created the planet Ego around his brain.

He had ventured into the universe in search of life and encountered the "Judge," who threatened him to join the Celestials.

At that time, he was young, brash, and arrogant, refusing to listen to a stranger's demands to join the Celestials.

As a result, the Judge had beaten him as if he were a child, leaving him bruised and battered, almost destroying his core, nearly erasing him from the universe.

Although billions of years had passed and Ego had grown exponentially stronger since then, the power and terror of the Judge, deeply ingrained in his mind, still kept Ego from daring to defy him.

Fortunately, the Celestial group was a relatively loose organization.

Aside from the strict prohibition on causing large-scale destruction in the universe, there were no other rules.

In fact, ever since Ego had joined the Celestials, he had only met a handful of members, and that was only because the Judge had summoned them to fight a few heretics who were collecting Infinity Stones.

As for how many members the Celestials had or how strong they were, Ego only had a vague understanding.

Perhaps only the Judge himself knew.

Ego had never expected that the source of his second experience with fear would be a young upstart who had just ascended to the sixth dimension.

This instantly ignited Ego's fury, as he had previously looked down on Zane.

Against the Judge, Ego would never dare to act, but when it came to Zane, this brat, he had no such reservations.

Even though the Celestials forbade large-scale cosmic destruction, Ego could easily pin all the blame on Zane.

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