God is my witness!
Hawk had thought Ego would be easy to kill, but he never expected it to be this easy.
But... on second thought, everything seemed to make sense.
After all, life level is life level, and strength is strength.
Just like Mephisto.
He is a dimensional God, true, but if Mephisto were to go all out, ordinary Gods could be torn apart by him.
As for Ego?
Let's put it this way.
This is a God who, in the original plot, could be killed by a bomb.
Yes.
A bomb.
So, for a God who could be killed by a bomb in the original plot, Hawk knew from the start that he would be easy to kill, but only after getting his hands on him did he realize that "easy to kill" was an overestimation of Ego.
In a word.
Once Ego's true form was exposed, he was like a lamb to the slaughter.
Hawk looked at Ego's true form and couldn't help but exclaim.
"That you've survived until now is nothing short of a miracle!"
"And an unbelievable one at that!"
Logically speaking, Ego had lived for many years, yet, besides being encased in a shell that mortals couldn't pry open with their bare hands, his true form had no other protective measures.
Not even three cunning burrows, at least one burrow.
So... to prevent Ego from pulling any tricks, Hawk directly teleported Star-Lord over.
Then!
Using the fact that Star-Lord inherited Ego's life energy, he made a final confirmation.
The Ego's true form before him was Ego's only true form.
One and only, no branches.
Hawk felt a little dazed.
After all—
Fighting a God felt much easier and more effortless than fighting HYDRA.
Ego's main brain tissue, which looked as if it had been thoroughly ravaged, seemed to have been triggered by Hawk's words.
He instinctively turned red-hot.
Glowing red.
Glowing red.
Ego wanted to self-destruct!
Hawk raised an eyebrow, and his fingertip once again touched Ego's true form.
Clang!
Ego, having lost his body, felt as if his head had been struck hard by something, and immediately felt dizzy and saw stars.
"Too late to self-destruct now!"
Hawk chuckled, then looked at Star-Lord, whom he had teleported to his side, a slight smile playing on his lips: "Peter, do you want to become a God?"
Star-Lord came to his senses, first turning his head to glance at the Enterprise, a hundred kilometers away, then looking at the brain tissue before him, and finally looking up at Hawk, his expression utterly bewildered.
"What?"
"Do you want to become a God?"
Hawk repeated, smiling as he looked at Star-Lord: "You possess God bloodline. I can help you become a God. Do you want to?"
He had already made a trip inside Ego's true form and had essentially obtained everything he wanted.
As for Ego himself?
Such a weak God, Hawk certainly didn't care for him.
But what was the meaning of traversing?
Changing the plot.
And!
Since he was already here.
So... as long as Star-Lord made a sound, he wouldn't mind helping Star-Lord become a truly deserving God.
But!
After Star-Lord reacted, he seemed to see Ego lying in the brain tissue before him, barely breathing, and an undisguised look of disgust appeared on his face.
"Become him? I'd rather die."
At first, he was very happy to know that he had demigod bloodline.
But after learning the cause of his mother's death, he had no other feelings for Ego, only profound disgust.
Doesn't want to become a God?
How could that be allowed?
If I hadn't thought of it, it would be fine if you didn't want to become a God, but now that I've thought of it, you say you don't want to?
Hawk's lips curled upwards.
"Gamora is Thanos' adopted daughter."
"Hmm?"
Star-Lord, hearing this, subconsciously looked at Hawk, who had spoken.
Hawk smiled and said, "Mortals may fear Thanos, but Gods do not fear Thanos. So, Peter, are you sure you don't want to become a God?"
Star-Lord looked at Hawk's smiling face, thought of Gamora, and subconsciously swallowed.
"What do I need to do?"
"It's simple."
Hawk's smile broadened upon hearing this, and then he extended his right index finger, directly touching Star-Lord's forehead, his voice echoing in Star-Lord's ear.
"You just need to die."
"Boom!"
Star-Lord's body instantly exploded, followed by a ghostly blue soul instantly leaving his body.
Hawk then directly stuffed Star-Lord's soul into Ego's true form: "Kill him, and you will be the new God."
Yes.
There was only one way for Star-Lord to become a God: kill Ego, and Star-Lord would be the new God.
And was Star-Lord willing to kill Ego?
The answer was definitely yes.
Once again, never challenge the importance a child from a single-parent family places on the mother he relied on.
The moment Ego told Star-Lord that he had put cancer in his mother's brain, it was destined that Thanos was just a name, and Star-Lord was the true 'Thanos'.
Star-Lord didn't hesitate at all. The moment he saw Ego, his eyes turned red, and he pounced.
Hawk felt Ego's death and couldn't help but gasp.
The next second.
Hawk came back to his senses and transmitted a message to Star-Lord in the brain tissue before him.
"Focus your mind!"
"Your life energy inherits Ego's, so it won't reject you. What you need to do is to let your thoughts fill every corner of it, completely replacing Ego."
"Be quick."
"Wait!"
Star-Lord, hearing Hawk's voice, was a little flustered: "I don't know how."
Hawk chuckled upon hearing this.
"If you don't know how, then just wait for it to wither."
"What happens if it withers?"
"You die!"
"Wait, who dies?"
"Nonsense, of course, it's you. Could it possibly be me?"
"Damn it!"
Star-Lord, hearing this, completely broke down. While instinctively cursing Hawk, he spontaneously replaced the rapidly dissipating Ego with his own thoughts.
Hawk, meanwhile, blocked out Star-Lord's barking, and at this moment, he released his Seventh Sense, then slowly closed his eyes.
Even if a God was weak, he was still a God.
So... Hawk did indeed want to help Star-Lord replace Ego and become the new God, but not just because he wanted to change the plot. More importantly, he also wanted to take advantage of Star-Lord's process of replacing Ego and becoming the new God to once again comprehend his own Eighth Sense.
On the Enterprise, a hundred kilometers away.
Gamora frowned, looking at Gwen: "Why are you helping Peter become the new God?"
Gwen, leaning back in the captain's chair, looked at Gamora and said with a smile, "My husband once said this: 'Killing you, what does it have to do with you?' So, if you ask me why he's doing this, I can't answer that question."
Killing you, what does it have to do with you!
Such intense killing intent.
Gamora's heart suddenly jolted upon hearing this. Then, looking at Hawk, who had closed his eyes on the screen, and the brain tissue, she took a deep breath and looked at Gwen: "If anything happens to Peter, I won't let you off."
Gwen made a shushing gesture towards Gamora.
Gamora frowned.
Gwen smiled and said, "Don't say that again. While I don't mind, my husband minds very much when someone threatens me. If he heard that, he would kill you."
As they spoke.
On the large screen, the brain tissue next to Hawk suddenly glowed with a ghostly blue light.
Hawk slowly opened his eyes, transmitting a message to Star-Lord, guiding Peter.
Immediately after, as the ghostly blue light and streams of light erupted from above the brain tissue, a figure completely condensed from ghostly blue energy slowly appeared.
The figure's appearance became clearer and clearer.
It was Star-Lord.
No.
It should be said, it was God Star-Lord.
"Wow!"
God Star-Lord raised his hand, looking at his arm slowly condensing with God energy, then looking at the Universe, which he could see without any protective equipment, he subconsciously took a deep breath: "Wait, is there oxygen in the Universe?"
Hawk was amused.
"You're breathing your own energy. Now, come down. I'm going to help you with one last thing, sending the Buddha to the West."
"What?"
"Are you planning to spend tens of millions of years condensing into a Planet like Ego?"
"..."
God Star-Lord, hearing this, left the brain tissue and, mimicking Hawk, stood in mid-air beside Hawk.
Chirp!
Behind Hawk, the Fire Phoenix spread its wings and appeared, and the scorching Phoenix Fire erupted around the brain tissue with a boom.
As everyone knows.
Phoenix Fire is not only the Fire of Nirvana, but also the Fire of Life.
As the Phoenix Fire continuously roasted it, the large, star-core-like brain tissue before them began to shrink and purify.
Under God Star-Lord's gaze, the large brain tissue gradually disappeared, replaced by a pendant.
A necklace pendant formed in one piece from the brain tissue during the scorching.
Hawk retracted the Phoenix Fire, and after God Star-Lord received the still somewhat large necklace pendant after the scorching, he said, "Alright, protect your true form well. As long as your true form doesn't die, you are a God."
Star-Lord, hearing this, subconsciously looked at Hawk.
"What if it dies?"
"Hehe."
Hawk, hearing this, smiled but said nothing, glanced at Star-Lord, then turned and vanished from the spot with a whoosh.
God Star-Lord, seeing this, shouted "Wait" and then, like a newborn God, swam towards the Enterprise, a hundred kilometers away.
Hawk, who had already returned to the Enterprise, looked at God Star-Lord swimming in the Universe like a big, fat fish, his mouth twitching, and looked at Gwen: "I'm already regretting helping him become a God."
Gwen, meanwhile, was enjoying Star-Lord, who had switched to the dog paddle, and shrugged: "I think it's quite amusing."
Gamora subconsciously covered her face.
Rocket Raccoon also covered his face with his bear paw.
Yondu, nearby, looked at Star-Lord dog-paddling and said, as if reminiscing, "When he was little, no matter how I taught him when I took him swimming, he couldn't get rid of that dog-paddling habit."
Hawk looked at God Star-Lord dog-paddling, felt that the sky would turn dark by the time he paddled over, shook his head, and with a thought, directly teleported Star-Lord to the Enterprise.
Thud!
God Star-Lord, who was just feeling like he was getting good at paddling, landed directly on the floor.
Still in the dog-paddling pose... (End of Chapter)
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