American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

"Slaughter, hatred, regret."

Within a peculiar galaxy, feeling the invisible spectral energy drifting through this star system, Thanos, his eyes slightly narrowed, sighed softly. The energies around him were so lively, so welcoming, so eager and fervent in greeting his arrival, guiding him in a certain direction.

A mysterious power was calling to him, with a strongly seductive whisper.

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No one could resist that call from the depths of their heart, but Thanos could. After being modified and sent here by Luke, the priority of emotional energy was naturally set by Luke. He could also synthesize high-purity Tranquility Blue to immunize himself against mental influences of emotions other than those set by Luke. This was equivalent to adding a conceptual entry to Thanos that made him immune to any mental control.

So Thanos could narrow his eyes slightly, watching the surrounding power try its best to present before him faces both familiar and strange, and even scenes hidden deep in his heart.

That was his home and his people.

Many things he had forgotten were now being presented in meticulous detail, as if he hadn't forgotten them at all, but these memories had simply been hidden in the deepest recesses of his heart, never to be recalled.

The mysterious power could not窥测his brain, but it could present all of this, which amazed Thanos. Before him was a familiar star, the former home of the Titans. However, from another perspective, what lay ahead of him was a void filled with high-energy convergence.

Or rather, it shouldn't be called a void, but a magical, peculiar stellar body radiating incredible energy. A black sun!

"An unexpected delight," Thanos said, looking at the living sun with perception and life. From this black sun, he felt an energy no less than, or perhaps similar to, the emotional spectrum.

The gauntlet on his hand produced a strong sense of greed, so intense that it repeatedly washed over Thanos's mental defenses, trying to influence, guide, and control Thanos to devour the black sun and plunder all its energy. This desire was even stronger than seeing a lantern beast.

Yes, this gauntlet was not an inanimate object. As the collective of matter and concepts from several dead star systems, it possessed power far beyond that of Asgardian artifacts! And it had a very high growth ceiling.

In Luke's vision, it was not a perfect body, but a substandard, second-best semi-finished product due to insufficient materials and technology. But this did not affect its power.

The concept of infinity that Luke gave it was greed! Or rather, in the Infinite series set, it was Luke's expression of energy demand and greed. It could devour known and unknown energies and could self-evolve to adjust and accommodate new energies, making them compatible with it.

Of course, its usage requirements were also extremely harsh, so harsh that even Thanos, who had not been modified and strengthened, had a heavy burden wearing it. Moreover, it had a strong sense of self and infectiousness. It was not enough for the wearer to be physically strong; their mental will also needed to be strong, otherwise they would become its slave, losing their self and becoming its agent.

"Odin's Suck."

Thanos had no intention of suppressing its instinct. Instead, he released all boundaries. A happy sucking sound came from the void. Distant planets and nearby asteroid belts disintegrated one by one in this sucking sound, disappearing into the void, as if entering the stomach of some star behemoth.

The distant, huge, invisible star body radiating powerful invisible spectral energy, the immense star body in Thanos's mental perception, swayed under this suction. Solar storms erupted, and a large amount of energy was swallowed. In Thanos's perception, the strange black sun was even sucked from a sphere into a pointed cone.

Angry energy storms raged toward the universe, sweeping Thanos with energy sufficient to destroy several large planetary systems. However, Thanos, strictly speaking, had been forcibly promoted by Luke to a higher-dimensional, corporeal life form. This energy, enough to repeatedly destroy a planetary system dozens of times, felt like a gentle breeze on his face, completely unharmed.

At least half of the energy was also impolitely sucked in by the gauntlet.

The two sides began a tug-of-war.

The gauntlet frantically sucked all the energy from this galaxy, while the other side, the strange black sun, began to move in the universe like a living being.

One side wanted to suck more energy.

The other side wanted to get rid of this devouring monster.

In the middle of them was an energy band extending from the black sun, boundless heat and energy, like a colorful dark ribbon in Thanos's perception, one end connected to the black sun, the other end connected to the void in front of him.

The gauntlet seemed to sense the black sun's intention to leave and immediately increased its output energy, firmly keeping the other party within its gravitational swallowing range.

The energy forcibly sucked and dissipated from the black sun caused it to be sucked and pulled from a pointed cone into a rope-like line. Its diameter was still so large, but the torrent of energy sucked and dissipated from it was equal to its diameter.

After an unknown amount of time, the surrounding hundreds of light-years of matter were plundered and sucked empty. Only after the black sun disappeared did this gluttonous feast come to an end.

There seemed to be a slightly satisfied hiccup in the void, and then everything returned to peace, falling back into true dead silence. A black pattern, like a burning solar star, appeared on the gauntlet that had been rearranged and combined.

"The order is messed up, and the burden is heavier," Thanos murmured, looking at the silent gauntlet on his hand, feeling a slight sense of heaviness in his body.

He could feel that the last black sun had abandoned a large amount of energy and escaped the gauntlet's capture range, but he had no intention of capturing it again. The other party was already badly injured. At least more than half of the energy was captured and devoured by the gauntlet. If the other party wanted to recover, it would take countless time. If it was unlucky, it might turn from a peculiar star-level life form into a [dead] sun with a bit of special energy. Perhaps in the future, after docking into a certain planetary system, it would give birth to some peculiar life and species, and even civilizations, that could utilize and use its energy.

But these had nothing to do with Thanos anymore.

He could feel that there was another terrible energy here, but for the wireless gauntlet, whose concept was to devour, that terrible energy could not affect it for the time being. Moreover, it was in a dissipated state.

"There are two more left."

Looking at the ring formed by the eight embedded positions on the gauntlet, with only two gem positions left, Thanos once again turned his gaze to the depths of the universe.

...

Cave Base.

With the sound of an intrusion alarm, Wayne, fully armed, came out of the laboratory and saw the person who came.

"Who are you?" Wayne frowned slightly as he looked at the man standing in front of him. Although the other party was an intruder, he strangely did not perceive any hostility or malice from him.

"John Jones. A policeman," the man raised his hands, indicating that he had no malice, and answered very honestly. "I'm here to join you and see if I can help you."

"You're well disguised, but I can't trust someone who hides their head and shows their tail," Wayne said, inexplicably thinking of himself, who always wore a bat suit, and for a moment, he and the man opposite him looked at each other in silence.

"Well, trust requires some candor," the man shrugged after a moment of silence, dispelled his disguise, and revealed his true form. It was a strange man with green skin, as green as the Green Lanterns in an energy-covered state, green from top to bottom.

"J'onn J'onzz, that's my alien name. But I prefer you call me the new name I gave myself on this planet, John," John Jones, who had come to his door, said honestly.

"An alien?" Wayne fell into deep doubt. He thought Gotham was crazy enough, but he didn't expect that things outside Gotham were so crazy! One or two aliens and alien equipment emerged one after another, and it was impossible to determine how many aliens, and even gods and demigods like Diana, were hiding in the human world. But thinking about the fact that there were civilizations even in the unfathomable seabed, these seemed not incomprehensible and acceptable.

"I come from your neighboring planet Mars. My race has been wiped out in a disaster. I was summoned here by accident at the time of destruction. A human helped me. He helped me overcome my illness and gave me a new life. Unfortunately, his body was not very good," John calmly introduced his origin and past: "I was once very confused after his death, but later I thought that I should help him make this planet better and protect it as my home."

"So, you're really here to join us?" Wayne naturally wouldn't believe whatever the other party said. He would definitely use his power to collect and confirm the information John said afterward. Even if the information was verified, he needed to deeply understand the other party's psychology, combat power, and weaknesses.

"Of course," John said.

"How did you find us here?" Wayne asked. This question was what he was most concerned about at the moment.

"I have some strange abilities and powers. If I want, I can perceive everything that happens on the entire planet and read the mind of a certain target. Of course, I don't usually use this ability. I'm not someone who likes to窥视other people's privacy," John said: "I have been observing you since the Battle of Gotham. In the past year, I have fully participated in your battles and meetings. I can feel your will. If that Thanos really wants to do something to this planet, or even the universe, I will stand with you."

Wayne was silent for a while. He began to consider in his heart whether the base and his battle suit needed to be updated again and add some new features? For example, guarding against mental abilities?

He didn't want himself and his teammates to be exposed to someone without privacy. And if this weakness could be eliminated before the war began, it would naturally be better to eliminate it.

In the case of the appearance of the Violet Lantern Furnace, if Thanos is determined to collect the Seven Lanterns, then he will inevitably return here again to ask them for the energy of the Violet Lantern. This time may be in the future, or it may be in the near future. It is precisely because of this uncertainty that Wayne and the others have a sense of urgency all the time.

Everyone is trying to find ways to enhance their strength and exercise themselves, so that when facing Thanos, they will not be as vulnerable as the first time, and they will not even have the power to resist.

Without the power to resist, there will naturally be no right to negotiate.

This made Wayne, who always wanted to control all possibilities in his hands, very uncomfortable.

He did not reject John's joining. Of course, he did not immediately give the other party trust, even if he used the perception module in his battle suit to determine that the other party was not lying. He could not determine whether the other party could affect his perception module's judgment. He needed to have a better understanding of the other party's abilities and strength.

...

LexCorp.

Underground Core Laboratory.

Sinestro looked in surprise at the explosive and lethal life form soaking in the nutrient solution.

"You actually did it, incredible!" Sinestro murmured in shock.

"Yes, it's difficult. It took me a lot of time just to digest Krypton's technology," Lex Luthor said softly, looking at his work: "I also have to thank General Zod for sending his body and Krypton technology into my hands. Although I have to share a part with the military, it doesn't matter. Who cares about those things? The Krypton spaceship retained most of Krypton's technology. This is a rare treasure."

"According to the description of the technology, he is the most terrible combat weapon that Krypton can manufacture. They call him Doomsday! Of course, according to the records I have read, this technology is successful. They did create the strongest warrior. But the result is a failure, because they cannot control that strongest warrior. So they can only imprison him.

This should be the second application of this technology, in my hands. This should also be the second Doomsday in this universe! I have made some corrections and improvements to the technology, but I am not sure to what extent these corrections and improvements can achieve. Originally, my best target was Superman. He should be the strongest Kryptonian at present, but unfortunately..."

Luthor sighed, but then looked excitedly at the clone Doomsday he created using General Zod's body, and secretly compared it in his heart. Although Doomsday has not yet fully formed, only the last few processes are left. As long as the process is completed completely, this will be the biggest trump card in his hand. This is enough to show that his wisdom and ability are far superior to Superman and the so-called Thanos.

PS: Thank you to the silent peak student for the reward.