I entered the Ring World to refine quantum energy and cultivate, but the results were meager—nothing of real worth. Sensing my presence, Yu Yan approached.
"Even with the slower time ratio, I've reached the mid-stage of Martial Ancestor. It's been one year here overall. When are we leaving?"
"Soon. You ...you have new memories now of your previous life," I replied, noticing her past consciousness infused with my Deity-level power.
"You can see that?" she asked, surprised and then continued "Yes, I've awakened my previous life memories. I was the Holy Maiden of Ancestral God Land. The Sage Emperor recovered his lost demonic bones through schemes, and in my final attempt to stop him, I self-detonated my soul and cultivation, razing God Land to the ground."
"Then cultivate well. You can defeat him on your own without my help. We will leave soon. Do you want to fight against Deity Beasts?" I questioned.
"Where?"
"Oh, I haven't truly shown you the extent of this realm. Come with me."
I guided her through the minor realms until we entered the zone of Deity Beasts. Yu Yan attempted to attack a Deity Beast with multiple fire law attacks but received little damage, suffering serious injuries from a single counterattack after a lot of dodging. I restored her to peak condition with a thought.
Testing my essence body, I found it withstood the earlier assault effortlessly. I formed a sword within the domain and swung it down, manipulating the laws of the realm to assert control over it. My blade tore through the Deity Beast, killing it, though it would reincarnate elsewhere, as its soul traversed time and space. I observed and continued, defeating three more beasts using various techniques and my essence body alone.
In my final clash, I employed my Paramita-level faith, condensing a divine ability of fire that incinerated the last beast in an instant. The vast power of my inner universe had remained dormant in previous fights.
I realized I might need to restrain the power of Divine Dao. But against Paramita itself, it's a different story; they wield their own other shore powers. Releasing my dual cultivation aura, the space around me began to crumble as reality shifted, bending dimensionality within the Ring World.
I could now perceive the past of everything in this realm, and even the peak-ranked Deity Beasts and Emperor-level entities trembled at my presence.
Yu Yan remained unharmed, since I protected her, merely feeling a gentle breeze. I returned to my original form leaving the battle zone and greeted my spiritual Phoenix soul beast and Ying Yueru, who tended her garden.
She advised me, "It's better to cultivate yourself without being swayed by the world's affairs."
"Impartiality and detachment can only be achieved if you transcend everything. Even one who is above all in strength must face their reality," I countered.
While I had been thoroughly enjoying my experiences in the Marvel Universe alongside the heroes, I acknowledged that I hadn't remained entirely impartial. My knowledge of higher powers prevented me from warping reality on a cosmic scale and tipping off others.
My shield now encompasses the entire solar system, a reflection of my growing creation energy reserve since I first entered the Marvel multiverse through energy absorption. Initially, it was only half the size of Earth.
While I can replicate many things, I still cannot recreate the Infinity Stones and their full powers. My earlier attempt in the Mojave Desert resulted in an exact replica of a stone, but it lacked the intrinsic rules of the original—it was merely a remnant of something external to my shield.
The true power of the stones lies in their condensed essence, born from the Big Bang and infused with fragments of infinite realities from this 8th multiversal cycle, all tracing back to the Nemesis, the essence of existence under the One Above All.
If the universe itself existed within my shield, I could replicate its properties. However, as their name implies, the Infinity Stones are truly infinite in nature; their limits depend on the user's consciousness and physical form.
After leaving that world, I expanded my consciousness across the continent, sensing various activities.
Stark was busy with plans and defense technologies, while Hank Pym and Janet were engrossed in their research. Hope was at home, and all of them had recently taken the enhancement serum, granting them over 100 years of vitality. I noted that Helen was now in relationship with Maya—so much had changed in such a short time.
Wanda, Pietro, and many children were at the Sokovia base. Ancient one in Newyork temple. Nick Fury moving doing his own agent stuff.I sensed Shuri and T'Challa, approaching in their ship.
From their thoughts and memories, intentions were clear—investigating vibranium sources. Their ship remained cloaked as they descended in black suits, though not typical Black Panther gear.
As they disembarked, they attempted to knock me out.
They were armed with our Prime 1eX drug and its enhanced abilities. T'Challa wielded a vibranium blade, which failed to penetrate my body. He stepped back, aiming an energy blast that also proved ineffective.
"So, Wakandans, what brings you here in the middle of the night?" I asked.
"Who are you?" they questioned, growing cautious.
"Who I am isn't important," I replied, blocking their attempts to communicate.
T'Challa turned to me, "We were investigating vibranium exports linked to your company."
"And even if that's true, what concern is it of yours?"
"Vibranium is Wakandan property. Your possession is illegal."
"Look at the logo behind you," I said, indicating the vibranium alloy logo now displayed.
"Does that belong to Wakanda?"
"No, it does not," Shuri's sensors confirmed. "This isn't made of fully natural Wakandan vibranium."
"Our company has the ability to create exotic matter with new technology," I stated.
"That's impossible. Even Wakanda doesn't possess that capability."
"So? We can, ... but don't worry—we won't be in conflict with your nation. Producing it requires immense energy."
With that, I waved them off, and they returned to their ship as if nothing had happened.
'Let there be no evidence of vibranium connected back to us,' I thought, manipulating their memories, removing found evidences, erasing any traces of our encounter, including the ship's logs.
Days passed, and our company established its own shielding system. Stark provided a larger, optimized arc reactor. Was he planning to shift New York's focus here? 'Hmm it can happen afterall our company is a landmark on its own here. The area around is also little bit isolated and not dense like in the middle of Newyork.' I found flaws in the designs and used reality manipulation to upgrade both the reactor and the shield, while their outward appearances remained unchanged. For Loki's convenience, I added an energy outlet to the top floor. "You're welcome, Loki"
Stark was caught in a dilemma—should he let Loki open the portal? What if Thanos changed his plans and attacked with his entire army if Loki failed? Ultimately, he decided to proceed as he had in his previous life, believing that sacrificing a few was better than facing Thanos's overwhelming forces now, especially with the Avengers still unassembled, powers of Wakanda and Wanda are missing.
Since I had some downtime, I started working on a Carbonadium-Vibranium-Uru nano-alloy android body, with help from Sage, our company's AI, which has started to show signs of individuality recently as is evident from her request to participate in the creation. During the initial training I have shown her example of what Ultron was able to do when it had gone rogue. The best way is to coax the A.I. with instructions to favour the humans, adding a direction means adding a leash to its otherwise perfect mind.
Anyway, it's not my problem anyway if it had gone rogue. There will be people like Avanegers exactly to stop it. The core material information was salvaged from Kang's armor. The android body, compressed into a 31 cm diameter sphere, houses a Quantum Brain capable of shifting into an android body or a suit, using advanced nanotechnology. This sphere is neurokinetically linked to my Quantum Brain circuit.
When fully activated, the suit triggers special runic energy circuits that allow it to absorb ambient energy and draw power from dimensional sources—dark energy, cosmic energy, kinetic energy, and quantum energy. This provides the wearer with superhuman abilities: strength, speed, enhanced perception, anti-gravity flight, defense fields, energy manipulation, beam projection, short-range teleportation, telekinesis, and technopathy.
Essentially, all the capabilities of Kang's armor but scaled through a more efficient medium.
Interestingly, the technology in Kang's suit shares similarities with X-gene manipulation—likely something he borrowed from future versions of Sentinel technology in X-Men timelines and improved upon.
Though I can harness these abilities on my own, creating this tech serves as a convenient tool and satisfying challenge.
Next, I designed an FTL spacecraft. Inspired by Kang's time sphere in Axia city in quantum realm, I combined scientific principles with my own understanding of energy laws.
Drawing from designs in the Darkhold and my expertise in enchanting weaponry from the Demon Spirit Book, I moved away from metallic, sharp structures. Instead, I modeled the ship after organic forms—a sleek, exoskeletal frame dark matte texture resembling the segmented carapace of a beetle. I will be taking this back to my worlds.
The ship's neurokinetic design, completed in just a month, features an energy field that constantly envelops it, providing protection. Separate dimensional engines manage the energy field, weapons, and the FTL drive, which operates under a hyperdrive system for space jumps.
Additionally, the ship's enchanted body is akin to a grade-10 or innate Dao treasure, capable of withstanding combined attacks from five Infinity Stones. However, the unification of all six stones could break through its defenses, as their combined power is infinitely greater. I stored it in my inner universe.
This also allowed me to create certain attacks in addition to defenses in building, but I am pretty sure Shield and Military will be on our back if we were to continue to keep it. Today is May 1st. I have sensed a spatial transfer to my domain.
Loki activates the Tesseract from within the Sanctuary. It teleports him to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility in the Mojave Desert, where S.H.I.E.L.D. is conducting Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Loki steals the Tesseract and uses the Scepter given to him by Thanos to control the minds of several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, including Erik Selvig and Clint Barton.
They escape, and the Tesseract's energy destroys the base.
But Loki was injured somewhat as he didn't think normal humans would have this much power and withstood one punch from some agent who tried to tackle him down.
But his frost giant physique is good and with magic strengthening, he began to use the scepter and injured people. And somehow the people who were supposed to get affected were again got affected. I would have helped Loki, if there is no action and he simply got captured how bad would it be.
Natasha, who had been working closely with us as an assistant, revealed her true identity as an elite S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. She requested our help as scientific counselors, given the escalating situation.
I was also invited, though I initially assumed I would need to revert back into my astral form and relian inside Helen as I had done in the past. However, with my new suit, I simply transformed into a more human-like appearance while wearing it.
Two days later, we found ourselves on the Helicarrier. Nick Fury had relocated Hulk's containment setup to a secret facility where Bruce Banner could work remotely as a S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist. Tony Stark had also been called in and, unlike last time, didn't make a grand entrance.
He was friendly and in sync with Captain America and the team. Upon seeing my presence, Tony decided to invite Jarvis to join us on the Helicarrier as well. Jarvis, almost human himself with synthetic tissues, greeted me warmly, creating a moment of amusement for the others.
Meanwhile, Loki had caused chaos in Germany, attempting to assert his dominance. Among the crowd, some enhanced individuals tried to stand up to him. Unfortunately, they were no match for Loki's magic, which left some gravely injured or worse.
Despite the change in circumstances, Loki was apprehended as before. Iron Man, holding back his urge to punish Loki for his actions, silently chose the path of restraint, knowing that if Thanos arrived earlier than expected, Earth would face unimaginable devastation.
I accompanied the team in the Quinjet to transport Loki back to the Helicarrier. However, the Quinjet was ambushed mid-flight by Thor, who came to confront his brother. In the ensuing chaos, Tony quickly immobilized Thor using electromagnets and activated a power dampener.
Having researched Thor thoroughly in his previous life, Tony knew Thor's limitations and wasn't particularly concerned. But when Thor summoned his hammer, Mjolnir, it nearly tore the Quinjet apart. Natasha and the co-pilot were moments away from being crushed before I intervened, using my gravitational control to stop the hammer mid-air, locking it in a gravitational struggle with Thor.
"Thanks for the save," Natasha said, grateful. The Quinjet was stabilized with my help, and Stark's own gravity control powers added further support.
As the tension in the air thickened, Captain America stepped forward, trying to deescalate the situation. "We just want to talk. Cool your head, Mr.Thor," he said, in an attempt to reach out to Thor.
"We know Jane Foster. We're the good guys. I saw your fight in New Mexico," I added, using my powers to calm Thor's panic. He stopped struggling, and we removed his cuffs under an unspoken agreement. Thor, now composed, turned to Loki and demanded an explanation.
After learning about the deaths Loki had caused, Thor, in a surge of anger, delivered a powerful punch that knocked his brother down. Loki was taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.
However, Loki had already anticipated the Helicarrier's defenses, including the force fields Hawkeye had warned him about. He changed his strategy, utilizing agents he had mind-controlled who had infiltrated the Helicarrier before it took off.
During Loki's interrogation, he subtly activated the Mind Stone's influence, attempting to sow discord among the Avengers. But Tony, aware of this tactic, quickly countered it by shielding the Mind Stone with his own force field, thwarting Loki's manipulations.
Despite this, the Helicarrier was soon compromised by the infiltrated agents and Hawkeye, who had disguised himself. This led to severe confrontations, chaos, and engine failures. Iron Man swiftly worked to repair the engines, and I assisted him. Captain America took down many rogue operatives, bringing some stability back to the carrier.
But in the midst of the chaos, Loki managed to escape in a Quinjet, leaving Coulson critically injured. I arrived just after Loki's departure and administered a powerful regeneration dose we had developed, which began healing Coulson.
However, the internal bleeding was severe, and he required minor surgery to remove the excess blood so he could breathe properly.
After stabilizing Coulson, I contacted General Thaddeus Ross. Seizing the opportunity, Ross quickly mobilized soldiers, deploying them to intercept Loki before he could get too far. With advanced weapons and shielding techniques, they prepared for the inevitable confrontation.
The Avengers, including Thor, were deeply affected by both Loki's actions and the suffering he had caused. Their shared grief and determination united them as they prepared for the next battle. Loki's destination, however, wasn't Stark Industries—it was Cho Industries. He had recognized the transformative power of the drugs developed by the company and saw it as a key target.
Helen and Maya activated the building's defense shields, but by the time the Avengers arrived, Loki had already opened a portal, shattering the shields. I quickly initiated our countermeasures, which shielded most of the building, except the top floor, where the portal was situated. This protected the structure from the initial wave of enemy forces.
Iron Man, whose technology had advanced significantly, unleashed powerful energy beams and used his gravity control to decimate the enemy line. Natasha and Captain America, who had been enhanced prior to the mission with the Prime serum, displayed incredible strength.
They tore through enemy machinery with their bare hands, saving civilians trapped below.
Though the military arrived late, they were still effective. Soldiers who survived helicopter explosions joined the battle on the ground, using sheer strength and firepower to tear apart the alien invaders. Casualties were minimal due to the swift action of the Avengers and the military.
Meanwhile, on the streets, citizens with enhanced abilities followed Captain America's instructions to shield the normal humans from collapsing buildings and falling debris. Thanks to their efforts, the death toll remained low, with most fatalities being those who had not yet awakened to their powers.
Stark's droids deployed energy shields, protecting heavily populated areas from the onslaught. Meanwhile, Hulk, who had transformed back remotely while still on the Helicarrier, was unleashed once more, fighting furiously through the streets.
Stark Tower, located ten blocks away, was affected by the chaos, but its shields prevented major loss of life, extending protection to surrounding areas as well. Thor summoned lightning high in the sky, frying numerous alien forces while keeping them at a distance.
In the heat of battle, I activated the building's weapons systems, launching powerful energy beams at incoming Chitauri forces. To the onlookers, it appeared I was merely using a blaster gun, but the building's automated systems, including large-scale energy projectors, took down massive targets, including a Chitauri Leviathan.
Hank Pym, suited up as Ant-Man, and Hope as the Wasp, emerged to join the fray, darting through the battlefield with incredible precision. Helen Cho, on the ground, was a force to be reckoned with, rescuing civilians and blasting away aliens with her suit's firepower. Maya, donned in vibranium armor, was similarly unstoppable, ripping through enemies with ease and assisting Hulk in beating down Loki.
I had already subtly manipulated the probability around Loki, causing a series of misfortunes to befall him. His own men shot him accidentally, he was flung into a building by a Leviathan's tail, struck by Thor's lightning, and at critical moments, his magic failed. At one point, even his body betrayed him with inconvenient biological needs.
During this chaos, I managed to secure the Mind Gem from Loki's scepter. Using my creation energy, I crafted a perfect replica of the gem, infusing it with large amount of energy from the Mind Stone. The replication was seamless, with the original stone accepting the huge energy transfer, I even kept the original consciousness within the stone and even.
Once complete, I placed the duplicate back, creating a law shield around it to prevent anyone from detecting the switch. My task done, I rejoined the battle, transforming my suit and unleashing devastating telekinetic, gravitational, and energy attacks that swiftly disintegrated the remaining alien forces.
Tony Stark then emerged, leading a coordinated attack.
His droids combined their energy beams, firing a massive blast at the portal's entrance, obliterating the stream of incoming Chitauri and significantly reducing the load on the Avengers.
Meanwhile, Tony monitored the Helicarrier for any signs of a nuclear strike, which we suspected might be imminent. To expedite matters, I subtly influenced the decision-makers, reducing the countdown from 20 minutes to just 7.
Even if the bomb had exploded earlier than expected, I could have simply altered reality and reset the scenario.
Unexpectedly, two bombers were sent instead of one. Tony intercepted one and sent it into space, while the second, aimed directly at our company's headquarters, accelerated towards us.
I allowed it to approach, then used my power to hurl it into outer space, chasing after it into the portal. Once inside, I altered the bomb's internals, amplifying its destructive force a hundredfold. I launched it directly at the Chitauri mothership, obliterating it in the first massive explosion. Tony and I quickly exited the portal, returning just in time to witness Natasha dealing the final blow by closing the portal with the staff.
Thanks to our preventive measures and my subtle influence, only 5 civilians were lost, along with two enhanced humans, while the military suffered no casualties. Despite the overall destruction, the damage was contained—several buildings in the epicenter were partially destroyed, but only the top floor of our building took significant damage.
Once the battle ended, I deactivated the defense systems I had placed and stored it in dimensional storage ring to prevent any government retaliation.
To prevent civilians and interested ones from salvage or footage the alien technology, we have already partnered with Stark industries and federal government department of damage control so there was no Adrian toomes situation for post battle clean up.
Loki and Thor left through with the help of Space stone. I have already located the hidden location of Asgard, so may be I would borrow it in the future. Speaking about Loki, I have given him a gift too.
He will soon remember a scene of his mother's death due to his actions consequences and scene of destruction of Asgard and his death at the hands of Thanos in a different timelines.
The repercussions of the war was spreading. Monuments were spread around the world for the dead and the Avengers in the first alien war. Military received various honours and our company also received mentions and thanks you letters from civilians. Of course there were still people who believed Avengers were the cause of the war and stuff.
Since the battle scale was significantly in favour of humanity, the reduction of dead will result in less future villains.
A week has passed and an immediate result of the battle was that our serum was widely requested upon by the public and government issued many price reductions so did our company. Since a stable alternative was not found, the global sales of human genetic optimization solution was skyrocketed.
We also released a more potent version for public as an improvement, which would bring nearly prime 2eX level power with no side effects or lineage genetic defects.
Reconstruction of our building has started.
I have seen the Kree noticing Earths inhumans in other timelines due to some idiots here conducting negotiations with a type 2.5 civilizations such as Kree.
So I have already prevented any alien confederacy making a deal with Hydra as I have transformed every drop of Gravitonium on earth to some other regular rock structures that would stabilize earth crust, but they still have inhumans.
So I prevented the communication arrangement, when I saw them make up a communication tech obtained from broken pieces of chitauri attacks rembants. I erased the device for communication after waiting for them to build it patiently.
It seems I should check out Inhumans, when I check over the moon with my shield cover, I feel every inhumans there. They are like a part of a spectrum with many complementing and completing skills with each other.
I copied the abilities of Medusalith Amaquelin of her prehensile hair,Karnak's ability to find flaws in accelerated probability of anything and everything, Crystal of her elemental manipulation rest of them were transformative and minor which I was not concerned at all.
Changing my focus over to Afterlife, here on earth, I found Jiaying from whom I received life force absorption.My body transformed to physical form and changes happened in genetic level. My evolutionary ability took in all the details and removed the unwanted traits and found the perfect integration of all even removed it's requirement on having cosmic energy around you to my own internal power. Taking a physical body means doesnt mean I am now limited to interact within 4 dimensions perceived by humans, instead I could access higher dimensions as my shield severed the limitation.
I have reality manipulation, and why am I even bothering with this? I can use reality manipulation to project an image infront of how karnak' power works, but it won't be in my mind, sure I could use my mind for a creative imagination, but the ability won't appear in mind.
Life force absorption? Well I can't add it to my own immortal life directly but need cultivation and creation energy refinement which is 2 other steps...why?
Well, I recently find out I can't use my cultivation power of authority over law to enhance my 'self reality'. Otherwise I could wish for my self to advance to higher realms and it would be easier to do.
That doesn't work or atleast you can't grant yourself higher authority over something with lower authority. I tried with creation energy reality manipulation on myself which also didn't work.
Because it is the only thing that is out of my control for now set by the future me to not make situation complicated like me removing my inherent abilities by accident.
Anyway, I am now in my original face after rebirth, and I have long dark hair, purple eyes and jade like skin and body infused with deity level cultivation. Looking at my reflection, I feel like I am an anime character entered the realm of reality. That was the difference in my looks.
My individual hairs under the new abilities felt like under my control. Each covering with a telekinetic field, I could move around it easily. But it feels weird playing with hair in male body, so I transformed to match female body. My hair extended too. It feels natural now. It has near instant reaction speed creating sonic bursts in air moving around. It also has this appearance of being floating behind my hair, seemingly divine looking. I changed to a two toned look with light red towards ends in loose wave. Well now it does look intimidating.
I tried Karnak's ability and it was boosted to absolute under my power. It took a few minutes to get under control the information I being presented with.
My perception allows me to see beyond dimensions and timelines and even fundamental strings of energy. I usually tone the required input under years of training, but this ability needs to be trained. So after an hour of usage I manage to perfectly control it.
Basically, as previously wished upon rebirth, the LoHP is now an inherent part of my mind and consciousness itself. I connected the newly acquired power to mind's LoHP ability. Now this combined ability of accelerated probability and flaw perception allowed me to visualize the flaws in anything and everything and even how to improve everything and simulate events instead of just seeing the description in mind like previous LoHp while being a physical body. Basically like a heads up display of how to do anything and everything.
Eager to experience, I went out, but not forgetting to change my face to more blonde human looking other wise I wouldn't be able to move around unnoticed.
Putting on one of Helens turtleneck top, pants and a beige trench coat, I went around to look at the streets. I usually stroke around within company premises and never actually went for a walk outside Helen's body. It's a shame.
Well anyway the streets were still in reconstruction but most of the people are back to their busy life. A few having some mental troubles experiencing scene of destruction combined with new fear of advanced alien technology giving them existential threats. It's been in news that some of the regular humans who felt utterly powerless in the fight last week tried to suicide due to just that. The mind is so a fragile thing, shaping their world view. I went past the affected areas to busy areas.
I used my probability manipulation to make me unnoticed. Like people may suddenly change attention away or CCTVs just happens to face the other direction and so.
I went to a Starbucks restaurent and ordered a Vanilla latte. Extending my perception further I sensed few robbers attempting a vehicle break in a block further. it's late evening time and place was quiet.
Using my accelerated probability perception, I decide to make a very subtle yet impactful move.
I slightly bumped against the table. This small movement causes a sugar packet to slide off the edge and land on the floor with a soft thud.
Unbeknownst to others, the sound of the sugar packet hitting the floor is enough to startle a nearby pigeon that had been resting outside the café. The startled pigeon takes flight, flapping its wings loudly and causing a nearby pedestrian to look up breaking the silent atmosphere.
This sudden movement of people catches the attention of a couple of other pedestrians, who begin to look around. One of them notices the robbers lurking by the vehicle far away and instinctively pulls out their phone to take a picture, thinking it might be suspicious behavior.
As they do this, another passerby, seeing the commotion, decides to approach the group of robbers to ask if they need assistance, creating an awkward distraction. The robbers, feeling the pressure of being watched, begin to panic.
In their rush to escape, they inadvertently drop one of their tools on the ground, which further draws attention. The pedestrian with the phone captures the scene, prompting them to call the police and report the suspicious activity.
Within a small domain I do for experimentation this is what happened after judging every simulation although the event took a full 2 minutes to happen due to actions and consequences. In the original time the vehicle was broken into as I could sense.
As I was reeling in the atmosphere, a completely unexpected person entered the senses, the person does have human body but its not entirely biological and has rich presence of cosmic energy. Then a similar signature again but a shorter one. None other than Sersi and Sprite. They entered the restaurant and began talking about humans fight against Aliens and such.
They were in London, mingling among humans before I checked. It's not good to actually talk to them as of now. I left. But used reality altering on Sprite, she changed to an adult version of herself while retaining eternal physiology and no one in restaurant seems to notice this also.
I went away and found the deviants frozen under the Alaskan ice sheets.Erased them out of existence.
As I returned to the company, I saw Helen pacing in the hallway, her face lighting up the moment she spotted me. I walked over, noticing Maya out of the corner of my eye. Her expression shifted—her eyes widened, clearly surprised at the way Helen was looking at me and understood who I am. I decided to change things up, shifting into my original female form, my skin glowing with a pale, divine radiance.
"Wow," Maya said, her voice soft but not low. "You look... different."
I smiled, amused by her reaction. "Different good, or different strange?"
She approached; curiosity evident in her gaze. "Definitely good. But is this how you look, should I give you some offerings or kneel down and pray? You fit the description of goddess in religious texts."
I interrupted with a smirk. "I have found a special group of people recently; from them I learned few new tricks." As I spoke, my hair rippled, rising effortlessly into the air under my control, the strands catching the light as they floated gracefully.
Maya watched, captivated. "Okay, that's impressive."
I chuckled, stepping closer. Helen, standing nearby, smiled as she watched the exchange.
Maya raised an eyebrow, stepping closer too, her voice dropping to a playful tone. "What else can you do?"
I caught the teasing challenge in her voice. Instead of answering, I let my hair curl gently around her waist, testing her reaction. Her playful expression deepened into intrigue as she glanced down at the tendrils around her.
"Seems like there's a lot we haven't explored," I whispered, letting the tension between us hang in the air. Helen stepped forward, placing a hand lightly on my shoulder, ready to join in.
"Don't keep us guessing," she murmured.
With a subtle gesture, I pulled Helen closer with my hair, then released both of them. "Maybe we shouldn't waste time talking," I said, my gaze meeting Helen's. The atmosphere between us shifted, turning from playful to something deeper, more intimate. We moved to the bed, letting go of inhibitions, exploring each other's forms, my hair tracing the contours of their bodies. Eventually, I shifted back to my male form, and we gave in to the passion of the moment.
After hours passed, Maya moved closer, her breath brushing my skin as her hand glided up my arm. Helen's fingers traced light patterns along my neck, sparking a quiet intimacy in the aftermath.
Lying together, the room now filled only with our steady breathing, Maya rested her head on my chest, lazily tracing patterns on my skin. Helen stretched beside me, a contented smile on her lips.
"I've been wondering," Helen began softly. "You could've prevented the last alien invasion before it started, right? You even knew the target was our building… why didn't you help?"
I sat up slightly, feeling her gaze on me. "Maybe," I replied thoughtfully. "But tell me, Helen, what year did I come to you?"
"1999," she answered.
"You were with him that long?" Maya asked, surprised.
I nodded, my tone shifting. "Since I arrived, I've been aware of everything—tens of thousands of crimes and violence happening every day. Human trafficking, abuse, experimentation. Children forced into war, silent genocides... I could intervene, but have I? No."
I glanced at them both. "I could control every aspect of life on this planet. But would it change anything? Humans thrive on conflict. Even if I transformed Earth into a paradise, conflict would find a way. I've seen it firsthand in the worlds I've created."
Helen frowned; her voice softer now. "But the destruction from the alien invasion was enormous. So many people traumatized, families lost, lives ruined."
"This planet was here long before I came, and it'll continue after I leave," I said. "Humans are creatures whose evolution shaped by their environment. More intelligent than the rest of lifeforms on planet, sure, but conflict is a part of your nature. With how fast you're advancing, evolution can't keep pace."
I paused, letting the silence grow heavy before continuing. "You've seen other civilizations I showed before—Type II, Type III in the cosmic scale. They've evolved through similar histories, but now they're engaged in galactic wars with other species. They don't have time for internal conflicts. If I had stopped Loki's invasion before it began, the one pulling his strings—the real mastermind—would've come with his army, razing this planet to the ground.
Losing two Infinity Stones without even a fight from a dumb strategy would have embarrassed him. I would've had to fight him, and after that, deal with all the others interested in him. And then, seeing our actions of killing a tyrant, aliens may get to know this place.
But apart from me is this planet ready for such galactic exploratory stage? No. Our weaknesses will be known, more alien species would start treating Earth as their playground for genetic testing and manipulation, like the Kree did with the Inhumans. You're not ready for what's out there"
The serious conversation shifted the mood, and after cleaning up, we went back to our daily business.