Free Web NovelChapter 293: Chapter 293: The Vanished Earth
Levi stood amidst the ruins of Andromeda Nine and slowly closed his eyes.
Thor supported Jean while Clark stood nearby. The three waited silently for him to speak.
His consciousness sank into his Inner Universe. Fourteen Laws transformed into threads that stretched toward every corner of the Multiverse.
Wanda and Strange’s life signals were extremely faint, like flames struggling beneath water.
Tony and Starlight’s signals were even more chaotic, trapped inside spacetime turbulence, their coordinates changing every second.
But what truly unsettled him was another signal—
Nathaniel Richards.
The boy was supposed to be guarding Avengers Base as the timeline anchor for the entire plan.
Levi had stripped away the dimensional beacon on Nathaniel’s wrist, but he had left behind an alchemical law imprint that allowed him to track the boy at any time.
Now, the imprint was gone.
Not destroyed.
Not blocked.
Nathaniel himself had been erased from the detectable range of the Multiverse.
Levi opened his eyes, his expression darkening.
"What’s wrong?" Thor asked.
"Nathaniel is gone."
Clark frowned. "Wasn’t he at the base? Tony’s defense systems and the Ultron Legion were there."
"That’s exactly why something’s wrong."
Levi looked up into the depths of the void, where a faint distortion pulsed in the darkness.
"The Anti-Monitor said he would start with the people I treasure most."
"I thought he would continue targeting you all."
He paused.
"Instead, he went for my home base."
Jean’s face paled. "Earth?" ƒreewebηoveℓ.com
Levi didn’t answer. He raised his right hand and traced a dark-gold trajectory through the void.
[Space Law]
[Time Law]
[Inner Universe Detection]
The three powers activated simultaneously, attempting to lock onto the coordinates of Earth in the primary universe.
Very quickly, he found the problem.
The coordinates existed—but the signal returning from them was empty.
Like standing before a mirror and finding nothing reflected inside it.
Earth had been stripped away from the dimension of reality.
"What does that mean?" Thor tightened his grip on Stormbreaker.
"The Anti-Monitor dragged the entire planet into a phased displacement state."
"It’s still in the same location, but it no longer belongs to this dimension."
Levi’s voice grew heavy.
"It’s like drawing a circle on a sheet of paper, and then someone tears the circle off the page."
"The circle still exists—but it’s no longer on the paper."
Clark instantly understood the severity of the situation.
"There are billions of people on that planet!"
"More than that."
Killing intent flashed through Levi’s eyes.
"Nathaniel is a variant of Kang. The essence of a timeline anchor still remains inside him."
"The Anti-Monitor dragged Earth into phase displacement in order to use him as a sacrifice and completely sever the planet’s connection to reality."
"If he succeeds, Earth will become a ghost node within the Multiverse—existing, but impossible to observe, impossible to touch, drifting forever through the void between dimensions."
Jean inhaled sharply.
Thor’s hand trembled around Stormbreaker—not from fear, but rage.
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Levi took a deep breath and clenched his fist.
A spatial rift tore open before the four of them.
On the other side was not the familiar blue planet, but a gray-white void.
Earth’s outline flickered faintly within it, like an old faded photograph stripped of all color, leaving behind only blurry contours.
Levi stepped through first.
Clark followed immediately.
Thor entered last while supporting Jean.
The instant they landed, everyone sensed something wrong.
Gravity existed—but only faintly, like walking on cotton.
There was air too, but breathing it felt meaningless, as though they were merely mimicking the act of breathing.
Clark activated his super vision and scanned the surroundings. His pupils contracted.
"Levi... you need to see this."
He pointed into the distance.
What should have been Manhattan was now nothing but a distorted gray-white shadow.
The outlines of skyscrapers remained, but all detail had vanished, like pencil sketches erased by rubber.
Figures moved through the streets, but they had no faces, no clothing—only vague humanoid silhouettes endlessly repeating mechanical motions.
One shadow mimed driving, despite having no steering wheel or car.
Another mimed speaking on a phone, though nothing existed in its hand.
They were trapped inside the phased displacement, reduced to hollow remnants wandering like living corpses.
Jean covered her mouth, eyes reddening.
Thor gritted his teeth as lightning crackled in his eyes.
Levi’s face darkened.
He raised a hand.
All fourteen Laws erupted simultaneously, attempting to forcibly tear apart the phase barrier.
The moment his power touched the gray-white void, a violent rebound blasted him backward several steps.
"As expected... not that simple."
Levi shook his hand. Tiny cracks spread across his palm as golden blood seeped out.
Clark stepped forward and pressed his hand against the barrier.
The power of Silver Superman surged forth, attempting to purify the void on a conceptual level.
The barrier did not budge.
Instead, it began spreading up his arm, trying to drag him into phase displacement as well.
Levi immediately yanked him back.
"Don’t touch it!"
"This isn’t a normal spatial barrier. It’s the boundary between existence and nonexistence."
"Your purification powers are useless because this thing itself is the manifestation of a concept."
Clark stared at the gray-white patterns spreading across his arm. Taking a deep breath, he unleashed the full force of Silver Superman’s power and barely managed to disperse them.
A thunderous boom echoed in the distance.
All four turned simultaneously.
In the direction of Avengers Base, a black pillar of light shot skyward, piercing through the gray-white heavens.
Around it, dozens of distorted figures slowly emerged.
They wore familiar uniforms—
Iron Man armor.
Captain America’s suit.
Black Widow’s bodysuit.
Hawkeye’s bow.
But everything had been twisted. Their colors were gray-black, and their faces were empty voids without features.
Levi’s voice sank low.
"The Void Avengers."
"Puppets created by the Anti-Monitor using the lingering souls of heroes erased from abandoned timelines."
Thor raised Stormbreaker.
"Then we smash them."
"Wait."
Levi stopped him, eyes fixed on the Void Avengers.
"They aren’t the target."
"They’re bait."
The moment he finished speaking, the black pillar collapsed inward, forming a pitch-black vortex ten meters wide.
At its center hung the figure of a teenage boy.
Black chains pierced all four of his limbs, blood dripping from the links before dissolving into gray-white smoke prior to touching the ground.
Nathaniel Richards.
His face was pale, eyes shut, chest barely rising.
Embedded in the center of his forehead was a golden coin radiating an eerie glow.
"That’s..." Jean inhaled sharply.
"The Coin of Causality."
"The contingency White Kang left behind."
Levi’s voice carried icy killing intent.
He still remembered the ruins of Chronopolis, where White Kang had simulated 137,420 possible timelines before finally surrendering.
But that Kang had never been the type to truly submit.
Now it was obvious—
That coin had been the hidden trap White Kang planted long ago.
Clark activated his super vision, trying to analyze the coin’s essence.
The moment he focused on it, pain exploded through his eyes. Golden blood seeped from the corners.
He immediately looked away.
"That thing... doesn’t belong to this dimension."
"It’s a causality weapon," Levi said heavily.
"White Kang left it inside Nathaniel, waiting for the right moment."
"The Anti-Monitor discovered it and activated it as the core maintaining Earth’s phase displacement."
"As long as that coin exists, Earth will remain trapped in the void forever."
"Then rip it out!" Thor growled.
"It’s not that simple."
Levi raised his right hand as the Rune of Destruction rotated within his palm.
"The coin is already bound to Nathaniel’s existence itself. Forcefully removing it would erase his history."
"Not just his future—even traces of his past existence would disappear."
Jean’s face turned deathly pale.
"Then what do we do?"
Levi didn’t answer.
He stepped forward.
The Void Avengers moved instantly.
The twisted Iron Man raised its arm, firing a gray-black repulsor beam directly at Levi’s face.
Levi didn’t even blink.
He casually waved a hand.
[Destruction Law]
The beam vanished three meters before reaching him.
Not merely destroyed.
Even the traces of its existence were erased.
A shield-bearing figure rushed him from the side at terrifying speed.
Clark was faster.
Silver Superman transformed into a silver streak and appeared before the Void Captain America, throwing a devastating punch.
The impact against the shield exploded like thunder.
Void Captain America was blasted hundreds of meters away, carving a massive trench into the ground.
Yet moments later, the cracks across its body healed visibly.
Thor roared and swung Stormbreaker.
All six Infinity Stones erupted simultaneously.
A pillar of lightning descended from the heavens, engulfing three Void Avengers.
The violent storm shredded their twisted bodies into pieces.
But the fragments quickly reassembled into even more Void Avengers.
"They can’t be killed!" Thor snarled.
Levi inhaled deeply and raised both hands.
The powers of the Laws circulated through him—
Space.
Time.
Life.
Death.
Alchemy.
Mind.
Reality.
Power.
Devouring.
Soul.
Darkness.
Light.
Physique.
Destruction.
Each resonated together, merging into a torrent of dark-gold energy.
The entrance to his Inner Universe opened across his chest.
The Phoenix Force surged forth from within, golden-red flames coiling around his body.
Levi spoke softly, his voice echoing throughout the phased world.
"Greed defines."
"This space... does not belong to the void."
Dark-gold Law power flooded outward like a tidal wave, covering hundreds of miles.
The gray-white emptiness began trembling violently, like water forcibly injected with paint.
Color returned.
The sky shifted from gray-white to blue.
The earth sharpened from blurry outlines into reality.
Those mechanical human silhouettes regained faces, clothing, expressions.
The entire planet was being dragged back into reality by force.
The Anti-Monitor sensed it.
A furious roar erupted from the black vortex.
Hundreds of black tendrils burst from its depths, each carrying enough power to tear apart universes as they swarmed toward Levi.
Clark stepped in front of him.
Silver Superman’s bio-force field expanded fully, forming a radiant silver barrier.
The tendrils slammed into it in endless explosions.
Clark gritted his teeth as his feet carved deep trenches into the ground—but the barrier held.
Thor roared.
Stormbreaker flew from his hand, transforming into a dragon of lightning that severed every tendril breaking through the defense.
Jean forced herself upright.
The Phoenix Force ignited once more, golden-red flames becoming blades that fought alongside Thor to clear away the tendrils.
Levi did not spare them a glance.
His consciousness was entirely immersed in Greed Definition.
This was no mere spatial manipulation.
He was redefining reality itself on a conceptual level—telling the Multiverse that from this moment onward, this space no longer belonged to the void.
It belonged to his Inner Universe.
The gray-white emptiness rapidly receded.
Earth’s outline grew clearer and clearer.
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