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Afterward, Yao took Luke and Hela to an underground space. The area was surrounded by Kamar-Taj's unique sealing magic, ensuring that nothing would leak out.

"Ms. Hela, please take this with you. It will help you avoid unnecessary trouble."

Before opening the seal, Yao handed Hela a black orb resembling an eyeball. Though she felt disdainful, Hela kept her expression neutral because Luke was present and accepted it silently.

As Yao unlocked the magical barrier to the underground space, they entered. All around them were hundreds of small compartments, each sealed with magic, containing a person within.

"Though I've used sealing magic, the pollution is still slowly eroding the seals, and the people are showing signs of contamination." Yao explained, gesturing toward the people in the magic cages, whose bodies had begun to distort.

From the moment Luke stepped into the space, he could hear chaotic and disordered whispers in his ears. To an ordinary person, it might sound like meaningless noise, but Luke could distinguish the voices clearly. Each one tempted him to sacrifice himself and join the polyhedron.

Many mages had entered here before, and after hearing the whispers, they became mentally disturbed. Despite their considerable soul strength, they were still easily affected.

The orb Yao had handed Hela was meant to isolate her soul from similar contamination.

"The pollution of the soul reflects on the body. These beings are truly grotesque." Luke muttered.

The polyhedrons were outer gods, chaotic and immortal beings expelled from the dead material world. Luke, now empowered with the six infinity stones, had agreed to help and was prepared to take things further.

"I've promised to help, so I'll go all the way and sever all the tentacles reaching out from this cancerous universe." Luke said, stepping toward the most contaminated person. He placed his hand on their head.

In an instant, Luke's consciousness passed through an endless void and arrived in a chaotic dimension. More terrifying whispers filled his mind, but they were completely ineffective. Luke, protected by the power of the sheep talisman and the infinity stones, was impervious to their influence.

As shadows moved through the void, giant tentacles with ferocious mouthparts rolled in the chaos. Faint lights blinked in the darkness—pairs of yellow-brown eyes, belonging to grotesque beings covered with pus-filled vesicles and strange limbs.

These were the polyhedral gods, rulers of the cancerous universe.

Using the spiritual link between these gods and the contaminated people, Luke traced the gods' real bodies.

"Submit to the polyhedron, and we will grant you immortality!"

"Merge with us and become an eternal part of the polyhedron!"

The outer gods' chaotic minds had a singular goal: to pollute all life and expand into the material world.

The voices that echoed in Luke's mind were like digital viruses, but they had chosen the wrong target. Luke's soul was protected by countless mental firewalls.

"I'm sorry, but your aesthetic really isn't my type. Just die." Luke said, transforming his consciousness into the form of a black dragon. A breath of destructive power burst from his mouth, detonating the polyhedron's body.

As the flames raged, tentacles covered in gnashing mouths shot out toward Luke.

"You're trying to use tentacles on me? I'm not a damsel in distress." Luke quipped, unleashing two dark red Omega rays from his eyes. The beams twisted around his body before surging toward the tentacles, reducing them to charred remains.

The Omega Effect was a destructive force akin to the power of death. Even the so-called immortality of the polyhedral gods was no match for it. The gods, once expelled from the material world, now faced annihilation.

Through their hatred and fear, the polyhedral gods saw in Luke the embodiment of death, the very entity that had cast them out eons ago.

For billions of years, they had sought to rid the universe of death by killing its incarnations through sacrificial ceremonies, thereby eliminating death itself. The cancerous universe was the first place they had succeeded. Now, they sought to expand, but Luke stood in their way, wielding the same power that could obliterate them.

Feeling the Omega rays were too slow, Luke retracted them, focusing the Omega Effect into his right claw. His consciousness expanded infinitely, and with a sweeping motion, he unleashed a destructive wave that tore through the chaotic space, causing the polyhedral gods' bodies to collapse.

The cacophony of screams, roars, and whispers began to fade.

"I'll find a way to destroy you completely!" Luke vowed, knowing that severing their spiritual connection to the contaminated wasn't enough to eliminate these ancient outer gods. However, he had given them a hard enough blow that they would retreat, at least for now.

[Ding! The major event "Destroy the Polyhedral Evil Gods of the Outer Realm" has been launched. The treasure chest is being charged.]

As if responding to his determination, Luke's system activated a new treasure chest task, just as he'd hoped.

Cutting off the mental link, Luke returned to the underground space of Kamar-Taj. With a snap of his fingers, a deep blue light illuminated the entire area. The light washed over the polluted people, instantly restoring their twisted bodies to their normal state.

The cancerous universe invasion incident could only be said to have come to a temporary end for Earth, but Luke's counter-invasion had just begun. However, before attacking the polyhedral gods, Luke had to first accomplish the major task he had been planning for a long time.

At this time, Luke was preparing to talk to Yao alone about something.

"Yao, I came back this time for something, and I would like to ask for your agreement."

Luke still regarded Yao as a friend, so he felt compelled to inform her about the Time Stone.

"No need to explain. Since the day I gave you the Time Stone, I have never thought of taking it back. It now belongs to you, and it's up to you to decide what to do with it." Yao replied calmly.

"I know you must have your own ideas for collecting these six Infinity Stones."

Although the Eye of Agamotto was an important magical tool to protect Earth, Yao had been defending the planet from other-dimensional invasions for 584 years. She felt it was time to pass this responsibility on to someone more suitable.

"Now the right person has appeared!" Yao smiled softly, leaning back in her chair, radiating the calm of someone ready for retirement.

During the time she spent with Jean, Yao had been astonished by Jean's magical talent, and even more so by the Phoenix Force that was gradually merging with her. More importantly, Jean was a genuine Earthling, making her identity fitting.

"Jean... she's indeed exceptional. With her current strength, she is more than capable of becoming the Supreme Sorcerer. I'll leave her on Earth, and you can give her this dragon scale. She will understand its meaning."

Luke handed Yao a black dragon scale with hints of dark red. Everything he wanted to say to Jean was left within that dragon scale.

Now that Thor had ascended to the status of a true cosmic god, Luke felt he could handle most crises unless there was a threat to the multiverse. But even in such a situation, there were forces in hiding that wouldn't stand by idly.

"I remember you once mentioned bringing Jean to me as a disciple." Yao said with a glint of humor in her eyes.

Luke smiled, "At first, I did think of sending her to you as a disciple, but that was just to satisfy my desire to be a teacher. So, I accepted her as my student instead."

"However, if you're still interested in taking on a disciple, there's a genius surpassing any previous magician who will appear in two years. But the one watching her is a bit tricky. Why don't you try to snatch her from the God of Black Magic?"

Luke knew that in two years, the Scarlet Witch, Wanda, would be born, and the ancient god of black magic, Chthon, would imbue her with chaos magic at birth. But unlike the original timeline, where her powers were stimulated by Hydra's experiments with the Mind Stone, this time, things could be different.

Compared to the Phoenix Force, Wanda's chaos magic was even more alluring to Luke, and she would make an excellent ally.

As for the potential confrontation with Chthon, Luke wasn't worried in the slightest. Once he completed what he was about to do, the multiversal shackles binding him would shatter, and the tables would turn in his favor.

"That's fine." Yao said with a sigh, "Right now, I just want to unload my burdens and finally rest."

"Alright, if there's nothing else, don't linger around here." Yao rolled her eyes, waving her hand dismissively at Luke.

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