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While Kevin and Ego were engaged in a Celestial battle, the Guardians of the Galaxy found themselves in a stalemate.
Although Star-Lord Peter had swallowed the part of Ego's tissue Kevin gave him, Star-Lord had only managed to create a throwable ball with his hands so far.
But a ball…
What good is a ball?!
"Quill, you're so stupid! Why can't you use it yet?!"
Rocket shouted at Star-Lord while making a bomb.
To destroy Ego's brain, ordinary weapons would certainly not be enough; a bomb with sufficient yield, preferably one that could completely explode an entire spaceship, was needed.
This extremely important task of making the bomb naturally fell to Rocket, the genius engineer of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
But the problem now was this:
Rocket's 'Rocket-brand bomb' was about to be completed, but Star-Lord couldn't even control the most basic power.
Facing Ego's specially manufactured inner defense, which could be called the 'most solid metal in the entire universe,' no one could break it except for Star-Lord, who could gain Celestial power, and Kevin, who was as powerful as a god.
Kevin was responsible for stalling Ego, so the crucial task of breaking through the final defense could only be handed to Star-Lord.
But clearly, Star-Lord was not up to it right now.
"Hey, kid."
As Star-Lord was at his wit's end, Yondu's voice sounded in his ear.
Yondu, who had returned to the spaceship on the outer layer of the planet with Drax and Mantis from Ego's side, sensed Star-Lord's predicament through the communicator.
He quickly offered advice:
"What do you think I rely on to control my arrow? Is it my head? Or whistling? Neither, it's the heart, you stupid kid."
"Don't give me a lecture at a time like this, alright?!"
The more Star-Lord tried to control it, the more anxious he became, and he couldn't quite listen to Yondu's words.
Rocket slapped him on the head:
"Who cares if it's a big lecture or a small lecture, as long as it's useful, it's a good method! Anyway, you don't know how to control it now, so you might as well listen to him!"
"I am Groot. (Don't rush, power is actually like instinct.)"
Seeing Star-Lord was too anxious, Groot extended a branch in front of Star-Lord, and at the tip of the branch, a flower bloomed before Star-Lord's eyes.
"I am Groot (This is instinct.)"
"Groot said…"
Rocket was about to translate, but Star-Lord rolled his eyes:
"I can roughly understand, no need to translate… But, instinct…"
Groot was right.
The power originating from within oneself is not something that can be controlled only by wanting to control it; rather, it should be controlled naturally, like one's own limbs, with ease.
Sometimes, the more anxious one is, the harder it is to control what one wants to control.
One must treat those powers as a part of oneself, only then can they be easily controlled.
Use your heart… you must use your heart…
Thinking this, Star-Lord closed his eyes and fully immersed his mind in the newly acquired power.
Slowly, his thoughts became calm, and the unstable energy in his hands also stabilized within his consciousness.
A moment later, Star-Lord opened his eyes, half-squatted, and placed his hands on the ground.
The soil parted to both sides, and the layers of onion-like metal shells within were also controlled by Star-Lord to open a gap.
Under the gaze of the Guardians of the Galaxy, a path leading directly to the planet's core appeared before them.
They also saw the planet's core at the very center, resembling a human brain.
Ego's core was thus exposed before them.
… … …
"!!"
With the core exposed, Ego, located in the Mirror Dimension, instantly sensed it.
His expression changed from anger to horror, and without a moment's hesitation, he turned to leave, wanting to stop the Guardians of the Galaxy from destroying his core.
But with Kevin here, Ego could not leave no matter what.
When Kevin sensed Ego's movement, he knew that the Guardians of the Galaxy had completed the task Kevin assigned.
They didn't hold Kevin back, so Kevin naturally couldn't drop the ball at a critical moment.
Therefore, even at the risk of the uru ring shattering and the Reality Stone entering his body, Kevin had to firmly hold Ego here.
Not letting him leave the Mirror Dimension for even a step.
"Where do you think you're going, weak god?"
At this moment, Kevin was like a tank, activating his taunt skill.
And while taunting, he waved his hands, and two crimson magical whips appeared in his hands.
The magical whips, magnified by the Reality Stone, instantly became incredibly huge; they flew over and tightly wrapped around Ego's body, tying him into a large red dumpling.
Crimson Bands of Cyttorak, a magic used to connect with the 'Crimson Dimension,' this is also a spell known by most mages.
To better facilitate his second class transfer later, Kevin tried to use the Reality Stone to assist himself in casting various magical abilities.
The Crimson Bands were also one of them.
This red rope, which originally had good binding power, became as strong as Vibranium rope under the enhancement of the Reality Stone.
Ego simply could not break free.
"Stop!! You don't even know what you're doing!!"
Ego struggled frantically, creating various rock weapons like crazy and attacking Kevin.
But all of them were easily blocked by Kevin.
Kevin could not completely defeat Ego, but if it was to deal with Ego's attacks, Kevin was still more than capable.
Especially when Ego had already lost his mind at this time, Kevin dealt with him even more easily.
Easily dodging Ego's attacks, Kevin continued to entangle with Ego, while perfunctorily chatting with Ego:
"Of course, I know what I'm doing; I've rid the universe of a menace. Oh, I'm such a good person."
"No!! You are killing a god! You are killing someone like yourself!! Do you really think they will be grateful to you if you help them? No, they won't! They will definitely deal with you in the end just like they dealt with me, because they simply cannot accept powerful existences like us!"
"Mm-hmm, you're right."
Kevin completely ignored Ego's words.
Discovering he was doomed and couldn't shake off Kevin, he started playing the emotional card. Kevin had seen this countless times in movies, and he wouldn't feel sympathy for Ego because of these words, then foolishly let him go, only for a second season to defraud the box office.
"Ah ah!!! Damn it!! You could clearly be like me, above the entire universe, why must you help a group of ordinary people without any power?!"
"Because we are friends."
Kevin replied, then paused and continued:
"Moreover, I don't think power is the only measure of life. Your ideas are too extreme, Ego."
Ego, at the beginning of his existence, also wanted to interact with intelligent life.
But when he discovered that those intelligent lives were completely different from him and had no power like his, Ego began to conceive a plan to expand across the entire universe.
Because Ego believed that these powerless lives were not worthy of being called his kind.
Only beings with equally powerful strength, which was himself, could be called his kind.
Before meeting Kevin, all the lives Ego encountered were weak.
He had not met those gods, nor did he know of the existence of the Titans, nor did he know about the Celestial and other powerful beings from various dimensions.
Ego naturally assumed his decision was correct.
He regarded the strength of power as the criterion for measuring life.
This, in Kevin's view, was completely wrong.
Having power does not mean one can despise everything. Since crossing over, Kevin has never truly felt that he was superior, or that those without power deserved to die.
He has always maintained this mindset.
If not for this, given Kevin's inherent desire to just lay flat, he probably would have long ago collaborated with Homelander and A-Train to establish a Supe kingdom in the entire The Boys world.
Anyway, with his power, he could do it.
But Kevin had never thought that way.
Because… no matter what you do, no matter what power you possess, you should at least… still be a person.
Like Ego, who believed he was inherently superior and wanted to create a universe of only Celestials, something would go wrong sooner or later.
Even without Kevin's intervention, someone would surely deal with him in the future.
The Marvel World is never short of heroes.
The The Boys world is actually the same.
Kevin looked at Ego with a pitying expression. Ego couldn't stand such a gaze; he angrily broke free from the Crimson Bands and launched his final frantic attack on Kevin.
While fighting Kevin, he tried to argue with Kevin:
"You're wrong… you're wrong!! We are gods… gods!!!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Kevin heard a violent explosion, and the vibration brought by the explosion could be easily perceived even in the Mirror Dimension.
After the explosion sounded, Ego, who was in front of Kevin, completely lost his vitality.
His body turned to dust, gradually disappearing without a trace before Kevin.
Kevin watched Ego turn to ashes and dissipate into dust in the wind before him, and after a while, as if talking to himself, or as if answering Ego's question, he softly said:
"Those who can die are not gods."
Crack—
As Kevin's words fell, the Mirror Dimension he had created also shattered layer by layer, revealing the original Reality.
And it was at the moment of returning to Reality that Star-Lord's voice came through the communicator:
"Kevin! God, I can finally reach you! We just blew up that core, and on your end… he's dead, right?"
"Yes, Ego is dead, I'm coming back now."
The ground beneath his feet began to collapse; this planet created by Ego, after the death of its creator, Ego, began to turn into its most original dust inch by inch.
Star-Lord and the others had already escaped into space before this.
Without Ego's entanglement, they successfully returned to the ship's cabin located outside the planet.
Aside from Ego, no one died in this incident.
Oh, except for the Ravagers led by Yondu.
The skill points for eliminating Ego and keeping Yondu alive have already been credited.
Although the quantity was not much, only six, even a mosquito's leg is still meat.
And when Kevin realized that the source of skill points came from the power of fate, he also understood why the number of skill points obtained in the Marvel World was not high.
Because this is not the main Marvel Universe.
This is Marvel's 'what if' universe, a 'what if' universe full of possibilities, where unexpected things can happen at any time.
In this universe, anything that happens might have happened originally, and Kevin's participation, changing the plot, was merely transforming one possibility into another.
It still remained within the scope of fate of the 'what if' universe.
The skill points obtained would naturally be much less.
That's why so few skill points were obtained from eliminating Thanos and others; even killing A-Train yielded more skill points than them.
So now, killing Ego and saving Yondu only yielded six skill points.
"Better than nothing, besides… there's more than one 'what if' universe; I'll check out other universes later."
Looking at the skill points, Kevin retracted his gaze and looked again at the collapsing Ego Planet.
"God…"
He stared blankly at Ego Planet.
After a long time, when Star-Lord urged him again, he finally withdrew his gaze and returned to Star-Lord's spaceship.
...
According to the MCU system, 7 is the max level.
Intelligence: 3
Strength: 4 (Land) 5 (Water)
Speed: 3 (Land) 5 (Water)
Durability: 6
Energy Projection: 4 (Other Worlds) 7 (Marvel World)
Fighting Skills: 3
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