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Chapter 267 The Death of the Multi-Horned (Part 2)

The foolish thing about these two is that this Death Artifact was created under the binding of Rune's magic. Without Rune's magic, this thing would simply revert to the concept of death, splitting into two parts and returning to Mephisto and Hela's bodies.

Even if Hela or Mephisto tried to replace Rune's magic with their own or divine power to maintain the existence of this Death Artifact—sorry, those two alone certainly couldn't do it.

This artifact represents pure death, which no one or nothing can avoid. Even the magic that sustains its existence cannot escape death. So, although Rune seems to be handling things with ease now, he is actually only managing to maintain his magic consumption thanks to the blessing of that generous multi-horned one.

After glaring at the two idiots, Rune gripped the scythe. Instantly, he felt something affecting him. Although his body was covered in cracks due to the erosion of magic, these cracks did not affect him. In fact, these minor injuries could not harm him due to Rune's self-healing ability.

However, when Rune grasped the scythe, the cracks began to grow strangely, not only in length but also in width. Moreover, blood was even seeping between Rune's fingers. Clearly, even Rune could not hold this forcibly created artifact for long.

Rune sighed. "I know you're hungry—" He endured a little longer and left the stone giant's body as if climbing stairs, but in those few seconds, the skin on the palm of Rune's hand holding the artifact was completely carbonized.

When Rune stepped out of the stone giant's body, although Rune was pitifully small compared to the two terrifying beings currently facing off, the multi-horned avatar still keenly sensed Rune—or more precisely, the divine weapon in Rune's hand that represented death.

This is his nemesis.

The multi-horned beings then launched their attack. Countless tentacles, covered in cysts, mouthparts, and bone spurs, surged forth instantly. Though their movements appeared slow, they carried terrifying kinetic energy as they struck Rune. Such an attack could even completely destroy the moon, and very few beings in the entire universe could withstand such a blow.

This was the instinctive reaction of the multifaceted individual; he was afraid, but this instinct ultimately harmed him.

Faced with this terrifying attack, Rune merely raised his scythe slightly.

brush!

The entire universe seemed to freeze for a second.

The moment the scythe made contact with these filthy objects, it didn't burst out with pus, blood, or any dazzling light; it simply sent up pure ash. The scythe sensed the other party's blatant disrespect for death, and it was furious. So it instinctively unleashed a full-force attack.

In its rage, the Multihorned One experienced the death scenes of all the deceased life in this dimension: the suffocation of the last dinosaur on Earth, the vacuum freezing of all the crew members on a spaceship, the collective silence of a civilization in heat death—these massive memories of death were thoroughly poured into the body of the Multihorned One's avatar.

In the cracks of a certain multidimensional universe, the true form of the multihorned being cried out in anguish. He severed the connection between himself and his avatar, but a portion of the memories of death still flowed into the multihorned being's body. As a result, a full fifth of the limbs of this terrifying deity's vast and boundless true form turned to ashes and disappeared into the void.

Countless eyes glanced at the intersecting, bubble-like objects not far away. This one of the Great Old Ones had already memorized these two dimensions. This defeat did not annoy him; he had no such emotions.

If the multi-horned being's true form is in such a sorry state, what about his avatars?

The moment the scythe pierced through, the multi-horned being felt stunned and in pain. The memories of countless creatures dying plunged the multi-horned being into the same predicament that Rune had previously experienced—the overwhelming amount of information caused this divine avatar to fall directly into a rock-like state, while his time, space, and concepts themselves were all undergoing a death.

Rune's right arm was already showing bone. The side effects of using this scythe were beyond his imagination. Even with the physical constitution of a Kryptonian and the regenerative abilities of Wolverine, he could not use it easily.

This may be because the artifact of death has not been completely stabilized; it is merely a result of being forcibly restrained by magic.

But Rune did not suffer because the multi-horned avatar was showing an unprecedented reaction. His hideous body began to tremble violently, and his entire body was turning into ash evenly, but even that ash turned into something smaller until it finally disappeared completely.

As the multi-horned beings died, the Earth in the cancerous universe began to tremble violently, and the creatures living on it finally met their long-awaited end.

The attack of this scythe not only killed the avatar of the multi-faceted being, but also re-woven the laws of death into the underlying logic of reality. This was not a funeral, but a cosmic-level correction—the cracks in time and causality were forcibly stitched together, and those abnormal beings who had once escaped death were finally caught up by death itself.

Their deaths were the same as those of the multi-horned beings; their bodies began to disintegrate and turn to ash. This was not the result of decay or burning, but rather a rejection by reality itself. Their cells ceased to divide, their consciousness ceased to continue, and their existence was marked as an error by the underlying laws of the universe, and began to be forcibly corrected.

With the death of the multi-horned one, the heroes who served as batteries in the stone giant finally regained their sanity. Although their current form was quite deformed, they were finally able to close their eyes at this moment.

Thank you. Although they were turned into human Rubik's Cubes, and although they were merged into one, it was thanks to this that, in their final moments, they were finally able to repent, to be happy, and even to embrace each other.

They realized that death is not cruel. It is simply a part of the universe, as natural as birth, growth, and aging.

But not everyone was willing to die. The corrupt original Captain Marvel, the evil being named Mar-Vell, roared incessantly.

He cursed other heroes who calmly, even with a hint of joy, faced death, and he cursed heroes and villains in another universe. All those who stood in his way of immortality were rebuked by him in the dirtiest language. Of course, some also condemned Marvell's depravity.

This should have been a perfect ending, with the cancerous universe returning to normal and the normal universe no longer needing to worry about colliding with another universe. However, unfortunately, with the return of the concept of death, a twisted creature named Owen Rhys in the cancerous universe died in a dream, and the entire cancerous universe began to fall into chaos. His death brought about an unprecedented catastrophe.

Time warps, space begins to collapse, and all the galaxies in the universe begin to shrink toward the center—Earth. This is not ordinary gravitational collapse—it is the collapse of existence itself. Ultimately, reality begins to crumble, the physical laws of the universe continuously fail, and civilization and life are all disappearing.

This terrifying process would continue for several days, but in the eyes of humans in another normal universe, the terrifying Earth with its gaping maw disappeared, and the invaders perished along with it. The entire Earth then descended into a state of jubilation.