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Chapter 632 632: Stairway of Light and Dark

Drip.

Drip.

Foul-smelling, viscous black liquid dripped from the sky. The holy radiance from moments ago rapidly began to turn corrupted.

Solomon also found it difficult to resist the dark power of the Darkhold. His entire physical and mental state became extremely unstable.

Of course, he wanted to step onto the [Stairway of the Magic God], but something of that level was incredibly difficult to come by!

His [Stairway of the Magic God] was incomplete; only the first four levels existed.

But he had obtained another power.

The [Stairway of Light and Dark], or rather, what had now become the [Stairway of the Holy and the Demonic].

[Stairway of Light and Dark (10 Tiers) — The stairway of light and dark, holy and demonic, yin and yang; the essence of binary opposition.]

A ten-tier stairway was enough for Solomon to step into a realm surpassing current Supreme Beings. He would use this to establish a firm foothold in the Origin World, and then scheme for the power of the Throne.

Solomon held the feather of the Angel Gabriel in one hand, and the fragment of the Darkhold in the other. Not only did this item possess powerful effects, making it a key to unlocking a new stairway, but it was also one of the very few potent dark powers he could obtain in this world that could stand on par with Gabriel's power.

In an instant, the power of light and dark, holy and demonic, continuously rose from Solomon's two arms.

Meanwhile, a massive amount of military weaponry had gathered nearby. Fighter jets approached at high speeds in the sky. Although some were still attempting to contact the Avengers to confirm the situation...

Many high-ranking military officials and officers could no longer bear the pressure and ordered to open fire.

Boom!

Missiles tore through the air. Solomon didn't even look at them. Countless fine shards of radiance lit up, and those missiles detonated in mid-air.

The resulting shockwaves seemed to exist in a different dimension from him, completely unable to affect him in the slightest.

The crowd on the ground had completely lost control. A colossal entity enveloping all of New York continuously reacting to ordinary people was enough to shatter the sanity of the vast majority.

Parker's mother and brother were the same. Following the crowd, they screamed and fled.

Until a massive silver lance lit up once again.

Splat!

An unimaginable volume of blood violently sprayed outward.

Due to the evacuation, the crowd was incredibly concentrated. That attack, capable of instantly obliterating more than half a city block, landed squarely amidst the densely packed people.

However, unlike the last time, nothing was vaporized.

Instead, a terrifying concussive force crashed down, and gore sprayed outward like ocean waves, splattering onto buildings hundreds of meters high.

Subsequently, blood flowed down the glass-covered walls of those buildings, resembling some kind of macabre, eerie ritual.

The scent of blood rushed over. In the next moment, another giant lance landed far away. Accompanying the fear-filled, throat-tearing screams of an unknown number of people, blood and water skyrocketed.

That fallen angel residing high in the sky had finally begun his slaughter.

The intense stench of blood was nauseating. The entire city seemed to have faint mists of blood rising from it.

The whole city was coated in a layer of bloody red.

Hiding inside a building, Ebony Maw looked at the apocalyptic scene outside, feeling somewhat shaken. What on earth is that guy in the sky trying to do?!

He smelled the scent of some kind of evil ritual.

Behind him, Proxima Midnight, having lost an arm, was supported by Corvus Glaive. Their spaceship had been destroyed, and now they could only wait for Thanos's reinforcement.

"Tsk, what a bunch of trash. When power isn't in your favor, you just sit there and do nothing?!"

Contempt, mockery, ridicule, arrogance.

It was unimaginable that someone could express so many emotions merely through the tone of their voice.

But Ebony Maw clearly perceived the other party's intent. He turned his head, his gloomy eyes flickering.

"Is this... a wraith?"

A human girl, her body emitting a faint white luster, leaned casually against the wall opposite the building.

Her mid-length black bangs covered her face, preventing anyone from seeing it clearly, but the corners of her mouth curled up, revealing a highly mocking smile.

Ebony Maw raised his hand, intending to grab her. However, another figure pulsed from within the girl, slowly surfacing like a bubble.

"Mongrel! Who gave you permission to raise your hand against this King?!"

The inexplicably majestic voice was highly incongruous with the unstable, bubble-like spirit body. Yet, when Ebony Maw made a grabbing motion, he indeed only caught this strange, white substance.

The entity seemed to be an amorphous spirit body, constantly flowing.

Hakumen was extremely dissatisfied with being manipulated by Mercenary Tao, but she had no choice. Mercenary Tao seemed to have encountered some special scenario, releasing all the spirit bodies from within him.

Furthermore, he had offered a new "resurrection quota." With the precedent of Artoria being resurrected, none of them were willing to give up.

She retreated while continuing to speak.

"Fool. What use is there in attacking me at a time like this?"

"Instead of that, why not figure out how to make up for the sin of losing the Mind Stone before Lord Thanos arrives!"

Hakumen calling Thanos "Lord Thanos" didn't sound the least bit out of place. She was originally the type highly adept at utilizing plot characters, and integrating into various factions brought her no discomfort whatsoever.

Ebony Maw was indeed distracted by the spirit body of Gilgamesh, which had lost its AT Field, leading him to incorrectly estimate Hakumen's current strength. He reached out to stop Corvus Glaive from attacking.

"What is your goal?"

Ebony Maw heard the intent to cooperate in her words. Facing the bizarre entity outside, he had to cede a certain degree of control and actively seek variables.

The smile on Hakumen's face deepened. Blue foxfire ignited behind her, and shamanic power began to flow within her once more.

"Mercenary Tao, you'll regret letting me out..."

Kaito Shirogane blinked, only to find that he was reduced to just a head, cradled in Wanda's hands.

And everything he had just seen, the arrangements he had made by intentionally releasing those souls from his body, had already been read by the witch before him—who, having merely witnessed the death of her lover, was spiraling toward despair and terrifying power.

Kaito Shirogane blinked a few more times before he recalled that he had merely sat down, and in the next moment, Wanda had ripped his head right off.

He couldn't even distinguish whether this was an alteration of reality, or simply an illusion.

But he was still smiling.

Kaito Shirogane actually wanted to die very much. His body contained an ultimate power that would only be triggered if he truly died.

But precisely because Kaito Shirogane had already gone too far in the domain of vitality—whether it was high-tier immortality, instantaneous regeneration, or the even more troublesome permanent effect of the [Twelve Labors]—it was very difficult for him to actually die.

This was the core reason why his actions in this world had become increasingly reckless and terrifying.

He wanted to die.

The crimson Chaos Magic behind Wanda had almost draped her in a veil. Kaito Shirogane took in all these changes, and Wanda's expression grew increasingly cold.

"Even though you're both artificial creations, he wanted so desperately to embrace life, yet you only think of death..."

"Whether bringing it to others, or to yourself."

Wanda had originally harbored a sliver of sympathy for Kaito Shirogane due to his nature being similar to Vision's. She didn't expect the other party to be a complete monster.

A wild beast seemingly born only knowing how to grow stronger and slaughter.

Wanda disliked this kind of thing. A malice directed at Kaito Shirogane's existence began to radiate, and Chaos Magic wrapped around his head.

Kaito Shirogane felt a familiar pain. It was the existential damage he had felt after forcefully activating those unknown Mystic Eyes.

For him now, only damage of this level could be considered instantaneous.

He couldn't hide the smile on his face, yet he continued to speak.

"Wanda, don't you find it strange?"

"Many things in this world are very bizarre. For example... there are clearly parallel universes, and there isn't just one Mind Stone, but why is it that everyone who comes searching always targets your world, and always targets the stone in his forehead..."

"For example, your brother, Pietro Maximoff. Possessing that level of speed, why was he killed so easily by a mere barrage of machine gun fire..."

Almost the instant Kaito Shirogane mentioned Quicksilver's name, Wanda's expression twisted even more violently.

Too many things had been taken from her, but Quicksilver and Vision were absolutely the most unacceptable losses to her prior to the existence of her children.

Splat!

Kaito Shirogane's head directly exploded like a watermelon. Subsequently, the blood and skull fragments aggregated out of thin air again, as if a new physical body was about to appear.

But Wanda merely stared at the flesh and blood. The churning flesh continuously began to shatter, ultimately vanishing completely.

With a casual wave of her hand, the illusion violently shattered. Captain America, Black Widow, and the others were all sent flying by an intense concussive force.

Boom!

The crimson mist expanded, sweeping the surroundings directly like a shockwave.

Wanda, whose expression was completely different now, walked out of her illusion. Her gaze immediately locked onto the massive angel, now half-black and half-white, suspended upside down in the sky.

Wanda had already decided to slaughter every single one of these interlopers who had suddenly barged into this world!

Solomon bombarded the city while allowing the artillery fire to hit him. He was continuously climbing the stairway, utilizing the power of two mighty sacred relics to rapidly ascend to a peak he had never reached before.

But Wanda's presence was far too intense. After that illusion shattered, he had already sensed it.

The pupil of Solomon's left eye expanded like a spiral. That was the effect of actively opening his Mystic Eye.

In an instant, the various events within the illusion replayed before his eyes.

Seeing the final scene where Mercenary Tao was obliterated by Wanda, Solomon was also slightly dazed.

That unimaginably arrogant Mercenary Tao was killed by Wanda just like that?!

Did he play himself?

Yes, Solomon noticed that Mercenary Tao had practically handed Vision's corpse to Wanda on a silver platter, as if intentionally provoking her into embracing the path of darkness.

But what was the goal?

Just to make things difficult for him?

Solomon could not understand Mercenary Tao.

With a thought, a massive, pitch-black holy lance thrust out of nowhere toward the top of Wanda's head.

But Wanda lowered her stance and raised her hands. Chaos Magic directly blocked the holy lance. Then, with a roar, she tore it apart with both hands.

The pitch-black holy lance snapped in the middle, crashing violently into the buildings on both sides.

Rumble!

The buildings began to collapse, sending countless pieces of debris falling. The crowd below grew even more terrified, but Wanda no longer cared about any of that.

With a clap of her hands, she flew directly toward Solomon in the sky.

After Wanda left, on the ground, a single golden feather lay quietly amidst a pool of fresh blood.

An intense vitality began to burst forth from it.

Specks of radiant light began to sprinkle outward continuously.

The faint, pervasive blood mist hovering over New York began to roll backward, flying toward this feather.

[Ten Phoenix Nirvana Art]—a special... precious art that could only be activated upon completing Nirvana!

(End of Chapter)

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