"Don't be so overconfident, Lothar."
Kneeling was out of the question; it was never going to happen. In all his long life, Ego had never knelt before anyone. This was a matter of pride. He was a god, a candidate for the highest rank among the universe's divine beings. And Lothar? He was just a monkey. A monkey adopted by a Titan junior.
"Even your father, Thanos, wouldn't dare to speak to me that way." The silver tendrils writhed wildly and spread out like an octopus to both sides.
The unsuspecting Star-Lord nearly died at the hands of his own father. If his body hadn't reacted quickly, before his brain had a chance to process what was happening, he would have had a hole in his chest right now.
"Is that so?"
"Hela said that my father beat you pretty badly back then."
Lothar didn't even bother to transform into the more energy-consuming Super Saiyan 3 form. His golden-haired, green-eyed appearance was arrogant, yet it left Ego speechless, his face instantly turning grim.
Boom!!!
Countless silver tendrils shot up from beneath the plains. The murderous intent bursting from the ground condensed into blades, attempting to slice through Lothar's unguarded body like a hurricane!
"Neither you nor Thanos..."
"...defeated anything more than an avatar of mine."
"I am a god."
"A great god!"
"Since the birth of the universe, anyone who has dared to challenge a god's authority has met a miserable end."
"No one is an exception."
Standing on his core planet, Ego's power was nearly inexhaustible. Lothar, standing with his hands crossed, looked as small as a small boat tossed in a storm before the sudden, catastrophic changes in the landscape.
"Die..."
"Lothar!"
The space was suddenly sealed, and the oxygen was instantly sucked out. A hundred-meter radius with Lothar at the center was transformed into a vacuum by Ego!
"You want to kill me?"
"You can try."
Lothar's lips moved, but his voice could not escape the sealed space. The energy shield on his body allowed him to walk freely in this vacuum "universe," completely unbothered by the endless silver tendrils emerging from the ground beneath him.
His steps were utterly domineering, crushing every tendril that burst from the earth at his feet. In his green eyes, Ego's reflection alone took up two-thirds of the space.
Ignoring the tendril attacks completely, Lothar walked through the "universe" created by Ego himself, stopping only when he was just ten meters away from the so-called god.
"You..." Lothar's expression was full of disdain and contempt. He slowly spread his hands.
"...are still a long way off."
Boom! Boom! Boom!!!!!!
Countless energy blasts appeared behind Lothar, raining down on the planet. The entire world was instantly shaken! The unstable Star-Lord had nowhere to run and was buried in the churning soil!
"What the fuck!"
After chewing on a mouthful of dirt, Star-Lord felt a million swear words galloping through his mind, but they all condensed into a single one that he blurted out. Why was he the one getting hurt when two gods were fighting?
When the dust settled, Star-Lord finally managed to climb out of the pile of dirt and saw that his biological father was now in tatters. White strips of cloth barely covered his private areas, and crimson blood oozed from his bare chest. Ego's eyes were bloodshot. The pupils, which were pale with fury, were veined with red.
"I'll say it one more time."
Lothar stood with his hands behind his back and walked toward Ego. "Kneel. Now."
"Die!" In a fit of rage, Ego pulled out a long spear with both hands. The continuous flow of energy into his body instantly healed the wounds on his skin!
"A powerless refusal."
Lothar dodged the flashing spearhead with a sidestep, then swung his arm and slapped Ego across the face.
Smack!
The sound was sharp and clear. The sudden surge of energy gave Lothar a terrifying boost in strength. Ego's body was thrown into the wasteland of the plains like a broken doll by the force of the slap!
"I will not say the same thing a third time."
"So..."
"Since you're unwilling to kneel, I'll help you."
With a movement that was like teleportation, Lothar grabbed Ego's bruised and swollen head with one hand, and with a powerful whip kick, he shattered the man's knees!
The distinct sound of bones cracking and Ego's pained cries harmonized, creating a beautiful symphony in the middle of the gory plains. With a face contorted by pain, Ego reluctantly "willingly" knelt before Lothar.
"See? Kneeling isn't so hard for you, is it?" Lothar leaned in, grabbed Ego's messy white hair, and whispered into his ear.
The smile on Lothar's face was cruel, making Star-Lord, who was watching from the side, lose all courage to fight. But the old man was his father. He had no choice.
'I am a god, I am a god, I am also a god!'
'Come on, come on, you can do this, you can do this!' Star-Lord patted his cheeks, trying to make himself "sober." He then summoned his own divine power, the power he had only just awakened.
"Hm?" Lothar, who was extremely sensitive to energy, immediately turned his attention to Star-Lord. The energy signature, which was identical to Ego's, puzzled him.
"Father, I—"
Pfft!
The divine energy radiating from Star-Lord suddenly vanished as a silver tendril unexpectedly pierced through his chest! Star-Lord's eyes were filled with the scarlet world of his own splattering blood. He stared wide-eyed at the energy tendril in his chest, which was something that he should have been controlling.
"How... how could this be..."
His awakened divine power was rapidly draining away, and Star-Lord felt his eyelids growing heavier. His pupils gradually turned white, and the crimson world he saw suddenly changed.
"Eternity..."
Star-Lord's unconscious muttering made Lothar frown. Eternity?
"Cough cough..."
"My son will help me take my final step, Lothar."
Ego, who was forced to his knees by Lothar, spat out a mouthful of blood, and his shattered legs began to turn to dust.
"I'm afraid what you're seeing now is also just an avatar of mine."
Ego raised his head, looking at Star-Lord whose body was pierced by several silver tendrils. A kind smile appeared on his blood-stained face. "My dearest son, tell him. Tell Lothar what you see."
"Eternity..."
"I... see... Eternity..."
All of Star-Lord's facial features were consumed by the surging divine power. With no one to stop it, his body withered away until only a white skeleton remained. The stark white bones were an especially painful sight.
"Now, are you ready to face the judgment of Eternity's rules, Lothar?" Ego's avatar crumbled into ash. Injected with the divine life force from Star-Lord, Ego's core brain, hidden deep within the planet's core, suddenly underwent a drastic change!
Rumble!!!!
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