Under a sky where aurora seemed to flow.
After an argument with Star-Lord, Gamora ran out of the room and came here. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw two dandelion-like plants nestled together, seemingly exuding the sour smell of love. She finally couldn't resist and swung her blade.
Snap!
The two lovey-dovey, dandelion-like plants were instantly cut in half.
If they could speak, they would surely furiously accuse Gamora.
You argued with your man, why kill us?
Unfortunately... they couldn't speak.
But the sky could speak.
Feeling a buzzing sound seemingly coming from the sky, Gamora quickly got up from the ground and looked towards the horizon from where the sound originated.
In her sight.
A combat spaceship was rapidly approaching like a streaking light.
Inside, Nebula, piloting the ship, looked at Gamora on the ground, roaring while pulling the ship's trigger.
In an instant.
Dense bullets, like a barrage, rapidly covered Gamora.
Gamora's expression changed drastically, and she quickly turned and ran into the distance.
She ran.
Nebula chased.
Hawke, hidden to the side, watched the show.
He watched, curious as to why the plot, despite being changed by him, still unfolded as per the original, with Nebula driving her spaceship to Ego's Planet, determined to kill Gamora.
As is well known.
In the original plot, Star-Lord and the others, after passing through the Quantum Asteroid Field and jumping out, crashed due to a spaceship accident and unfortunately fell on an alien Planet. Later, after Star-Lord and the others left with Ego, they were found by Yondu.
But here.
Though Star-Lord's Milano had lost power, it had already been repaired by the Enterprise.
Logically speaking, even if Rocket Raccoon and the others left the Enterprise last night, there was no reason for them to return to the original plot.
Unless... Yondu and his crew were also looking for Star-Lord all along?
Hawke's sword-like brows raised at this thought, and then, listening to the playful bickering of the sisters in the distance, who were chasing Gamora and had practically turned their spaceship into a drilling machine, he regained his composure and shrugged.
Who cares.
Business first.
Hawke shook his head, giving up on investigating why the altered plot had returned to its origin. He stepped forward with his right foot and, following the playful sisters, also appeared in a cave, one after the other.
The next second.
When he reappeared, he was already standing before a hill entirely composed of skeletons.
In his sight.
Skeletons were densely packed.
Countless.
But the number of skulls was at least several million.
And all the owners of these skulls were Ego's children, killed by Ego and then discarded here because they did not inherit Ego's energy.
As is well known.
Yondu accepted Ego's commission to go throughout the Universe and help Ego retrieve his scattered offspring.
But it was not stated that Ego only asked Yondu for help.
In the Universe, there is nothing in abundance except for desperadoes who do things for money.
And God, the one thing he doesn't lack is money.
In the Xandar interstellar black market, a tube of God's blood is worth a spaceship.
If Hawke didn't have the Reality Stone, and could have as much currency as he wanted.
Let's put it this way.
He was even a little tempted.
In short —
Ego was very cruel.
The scene before him, even Hawke, felt a strong visual impact.
After all, Hawke liked to turn things to ash, leaving only white ground, so in terms of visual impact, it was far inferior to what was before him.
Hawke glanced at it for a few moments, then withdrew his gaze.
The next moment.
He vanished from the spot again.
When Hawke reappeared, he was already inside Ego's Planet, that is, before Ego's本体.
This was a Planet that, from the outside, looked very much like a rusted iron ball that had been bound and restrained.
But from a medical perspective, Ego's本体 was very much like a cancer cell.
At this moment, Ego, because he was with Star-Lord, envisioning a father-son collaboration to transform the entire Universe into their own Universe blueprint, did not notice his本体.
Or rather, Ego had been a God for too long, so long that he felt invincible, so long that he had lost the vigilance a warrior should have.
No.
Ego wasn't a warrior, never was.
Forget it, these things no longer mattered.
Hawke, suspended before Ego's本体, looked at Ego's本体 before him, released his Seventh Sense, and slowly closed his eyes, attempting to comprehend his own Eighth Sense by observing Ego's本体!
The essence of the Eighth Sense is the sense of life.
Saint Seiya who have comprehended the Eighth Sense and gained control over their own lives, their lives no longer belong to anyone else, but only to themselves.
Transcending the Three Realms, not bound by the Five Elements.
Although Hawke's current life, even if he dies, belongs to his own Underworld.
But he cheated.
After all, other Gold Saint, even if they awaken the Seventh Sense, do not have their own Underworld; after they die, their souls still belong to others.
So... the life essence of the Eighth Sense is an ultimate life form that, with the self-soul as its master, transcends and governs its existence, rising above the rules of life and death set by the divine.
And how to transcend the rules set by the Gods?
Very simple.
You just need to become a God yourself.
The Seventh Sense only allowed Hawke to take one step towards becoming a God; only by awakening the Eighth Sense could Hawke truly become a God.
So —
The stones of other hills may be used to polish the jade of this one!
Hawke's Seventh Sense completely covered Ego's本体. With his eyes closed, he sat cross-legged in the air, using an ineffable feeling to comprehend his own Eighth Sense through Ego's本体.
Time ticked by.
Just as Hawke closed his eyes and sat cross-legged before Ego's本体, beginning to comprehend the Eighth Sense, the sisters Gamora and Nebula, who had finished their fight and reconciled, had now also arrived before the hill of skeletons.
Looking at the hill of skeletons before her, Gamora's expression froze in disbelief.
Nebula, whose body was mostly replaced by cold blue mechanical parts, with only a few patches of skin remaining, also looked at the hill of skeletons with a numb expression, seemingly conversing with Gamora, yet also talking to herself.
"We need to get off this cursed Planet quickly."
"Peter!"
Gamora reacted, quickly turned around, and ran out of the cave.
Soon.
After an angry Gamora returned and confronted Mantis, she finally learned the truth about the hill of skeletons.
Those bones were none other than Ego's offspring.
It's just... those offspring were unable to inherit Ego's power, so they were decisively killed by Ego and then discarded there to form the hill.
Gamora had only one thought after hearing this.
"We must find Peter and leave this cursed Planet as soon as possible!"
"Ego has probably already convinced Peter to listen to him."
"We should just leave directly."
Nebula stood beside her, expressionless.
Gamora decisively refused: "Peter is our friend."
Nebula's expression was pained.
"You only argue all day, you are not friends."
"You are right."
Drax the Destroyer interjected: "We are not friends, we are family, and no one gets left behind."
Nebula's mechanical eyeballs almost rolled to the heavens.
But her words didn't count.
So... Gamora and the others quickly reached a consensus: first, they would go find Peter, and if Peter didn't want to go back with them, then Peter wouldn't have a choice.
However!
Just as they had left the room and were about to go find Peter, Gamora seemed to remember something. She told the others to go find Peter first, while she herself quickly ran to the leftmost room and knocked on the door of Hawke and Gwen's room.
"Knock, knock, knock!"
"...Gamora?"
Gwen opened the door and looked at Gamora standing there.
Gamora's expression was anxious: "Mrs. Phoenix, this Planet is dangerous, we must leave here as soon as possible."
Gwen was startled at first, then smiled and said: "You already know?"
This time, it was Gamora's turn to be stunned.
Gwen smiled and said: "I was wondering when you would find out the truth."
Gamora reacted to Gwen's words.
"Wait, you already knew?"
"Mm."
Gwen nodded: "Ego's purpose in bringing Star-Lord here is simply to turn Star-Lord into his battery. Ego has more children than just Star-Lord, but only Star-Lord is the sole descendant who inherited his Light of Life."
Gamora opened her mouth.
"You knew it was dangerous, and you still came?"
"My husband said that Ego's本体 has some effect on him, so we came. Besides, who said I'm still here?"
Gwen said with a smile.
Then... under Gamora's gaze, Gwen, who had opened the door, began to appear ethereal. Immediately after, a projection of Gwen, sitting in the captain's chair on the Enterprise bridge, appeared in Gamora's line of sight.
But Gamora saw more than just Gwen.
She also saw... "Rocket?"
"Hey, I told you that Ego didn't look like a good guy."
"I am Groot!"
Also appearing in the projection were Rocket Raccoon and Baby Groot, as well as Yondu and his only surviving subordinate.
Gwen had been teleported back to the Enterprise by Hawke when he went to find Ego's本体.
Once again... Ego might be a God, but he was a God who worked in isolation.
Just now, Gwen saw Yondu's spaceship jumping out of the Universe. Worried that they might disrupt Hawke's plans, she had the Enterprise intercept Yondu's spaceship.
Rocket Raccoon and Groot had also learned the truth about Ego from Yondu.
"Where's Peter?"
"We don't know, we're about to go look for him."
"No need, I've already located you all."
Gwen interrupted, then summoned the enterprise.
"enterprise."
"Madam."
"Have you located everyone?"
"Ready to transport."
"Transport them back."
"Understood!"
"..." (End of chapter)
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