Marvel Cybernetic Girl

A green radiance spread across the entire Dark Dimension.

This otherworldly realm, like an endless abyss, now began to experience the flow of time for the very first time.

Kagura held the Time Stone tightly in her palm, a breathtaking smile appearing on her face.

"Dormammu, are you ready to join us... on a journey to the far-off future—to the very end of the universe?"

"You… what have you done?!" Dormammu roared in fury. "You've polluted my world! You've tainted my universe!"

As he spoke, immense arcane energies gathered before him, coalescing into blazing spears of light that shot straight at Kagura.

These spears were infused with power beyond comprehension, capable of obliterating an entire continent with a single strike—far surpassing even the most powerful nuclear weapons humanity could create.

Against such overwhelming cosmic energy, no defense seemed meaningful.

Even mirror dimension barriers, which could isolate entire realms of space, wouldn't allow a typical dimensional sorcerer to survive a direct hit from one of these spears.

But Kagura didn't flinch.

She simply tightened her grip on the Time Stone, stepped back, and swept her arm in a wide arc.

'BOOM—!'

A surge of green energy burst from her palm, releasing a ripple of spatial distortion that spread outward.

The world froze—like ripples stilled on a quiet lake.

The deadly light spears, which could have instantly vaporized both Kagura and Stephen Strange, halted mid-air.

They hovered motionless, stripped of momentum, unable to move even a fraction further.

"What… is this?!" Dormammu snarled through clenched teeth. "You witch!"

"Witch? That's rude!" Kagura frowned. "This… is called time. It governs all things."

"It's useless! All of it is useless!" Dormammu sneered. "Even if you force time upon my realm, you cannot drag me into its flow. Your resistance is futile!"

As he spoke, the surrounding arcane energy surged.

A tidal wave of raw, searing force—formed entirely from pure energy—rose around Kagura and Stephen Strange, threatening to crash down on them like a tsunami.

"I have transcended all events!" Dormammu declared proudly.

"Your little Infinity Stone is powerless against me! You cannot trap me, and therefore, you cannot defeat me!"

"Accept your fate—be devoured by me and become one with my being!"

"Hmph." Kagura smirked coldly. "No thanks."

'BOOM—!'

Stephen Strange activated his dimensional sorcery, raising a reinforced arcane shield around them.

"Kagura, I think the conversation's over. It's time to end this."

"Mmhmm, you're right." She glanced at the glowing Time Stone in her hand.

"Dormammu, you claim that the Time Stone can't affect you, and that's why we can't defeat you, correct?"

"Exactly!" Dormammu boomed. "I exist beyond time itself! Your attempts to manipulate it are meaningless to me—not even an eternal time loop can hold me!"

"Perfect," Kagura said with a bright smile. "Just what I wanted to hear."

"What…?" Dormammu couldn't understand why she was still smiling.

The Time Stone—her supposed trump card—had no effect on him.

The overwhelming tidal wave of energy would eventually consume them both.

And yet… the silver-haired girl continued to smile with unwavering confidence.

"Dormammu, in a universe where time flows… do you really think you're still our focus?"

The next words Kagura spoke chilled him to the core.

"In fact, having someone like you—untouched by time—standing right in front of us makes my operation even easier."

Dormammu froze, as if a realization struck him.

"Don't tell me…"

"That's right." Kagura lifted the Time Stone high. "My target was never you, Dormammu."

As the Infinity Stone glowed brighter and brighter, she declared:

"I'm here to destroy not you, but the entire Dark Dimension!"

"No! That's impossible!" Dormammu panicked.

"I am eternal! My universe is eternal! You can't destroy me—or my realm! You're supposed to be devoured by me! That is your destiny!"

"Eternal?" Kagura scoffed. "Nothing is truly eternal—not even the gods."

She smiled with scorn. "Come, Dormammu. Let's witness the end of a universe together. It's a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle."

In the very next instant, the power of the Time Stone surged outward, flooding every corner of the Dark Dimension.

This was the power to command time itself—the infinite force capable of reshaping an entire universe.

[Infinity Stone Activated]

[WARNING! THE CURRENT INFINITY STONE HAD LEFT IT'S UNIVERSE!!]

[Preparing an Override….]

[...]

[Override completed]

[New Ability Unlocked: Temporal Dominion]

[Temporal Dominion: Engaged]

[Area of Effect: Maximum]

[Dominion Level: Supreme]

[Warning: Time Stone operating at maximum output…]

[QP drained]

[Core Energy reduced to 1%]

[Emergency Mode Initiated]

[Core energy critically low—System entering protective state]

[…]

[Initiating emergency recharge of White Moon Combat Suit!]

Kagura's use of the Infinity Stones came with strict limitations.

Under normal circumstances, spending 10 QP allowed her to exert their powers in a small, localized area.

The Reality Stone, for example, couldn't reshape entire realities—but could conjure weapons or constructs that had never existed.

She had never truly tested the Mind Stone, but each instance of "mind control" only ever affected a single target.

The same held true for the Time Stone: under ordinary use, it could only manipulate time within a small zone.

Of course, Infinity Stones were forged to control the fabric of the universe they are from.

So, if one wished to manipulate the flow of time across an entire dimension in other universe, the stone's full power could be unleashed—for a price.

And the price, as dictated by the Soul Stone, was this:

All remaining QP would be erased, and her core energy would be drained completely, down to the bare minimum needed to avoid death.

It was a fair trade.

After all—what she was attempting… was the destruction of an entire universe.

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So now… Let's go.

To the very end of time in the Dark Dimension!

In the next instant, the world around them began to spin at an incomprehensible speed.

Time within the Dark Dimension began accelerating without limit.

To protect both himself and the now-immobile Kagura from being swept away by the torrent of time, Stephen Strange quickly erected a mirrored universe around them—a shielded pocket of space.

For if they had been caught in the time flood directly, they would have aged and decayed in an instant, reduced to bones, to dust, to fossils, then nothingness.

And so, through the eyes of Dormammu—who existed beyond time—as well as Kagura and Stephen Strange.

The world around them transformed at a staggering rate, like a film fast-forwarded a billion times, speeding ever faster, never slowing.

This was the true meaning of seeing a thousand years in a single glance.

Time refused to stop.

Its acceleration only increased.

One second became ten years.

A hundred. A thousand. A million. A billion…

Within the infinite darkness, celestial bodies spun violently.

Planets shattered and reformed.

Freed from Dormammu's interference, the Dark Dimension began—at some impossibly distant point in the future—to form brilliant stars.

Civilizations sparked like meteors, rising and falling.

Galaxies bloomed and withered like tides in an endless cosmic ocean.

Even the Dark Dimension… had the potential to give birth to light and life.

Time swept past Kagura's eyes at a scale no mortal could perceive.

She witnessed the ultimate evolution of an entire universe—something no ordinary being could ever hope to see.

And yet, time continued to accelerate.

The Dark Dimension's temporal flow increased exponentially—and would never stop.

This was the true might of the Time Stone.

Every entity within this universe became nothing more than a brief, flickering comet.

Roughly 10¹⁵ years passed.

The stars began to die, and the once-lustrous night sky dimmed.

Eventually, no new stars were born. No new civilizations emerged.

By 10⁵⁰ years, every celestial body had disintegrated.

Only black holes remained, devouring each other in the void, until even dust was swallowed in primordial chaos.

No being could withstand the ravages of time.

The second law of thermodynamics tolled the death knell of the cosmos.

Entropy—the universal drift toward disorder and equilibrium—reigned supreme.

For the universe, that meant one inevitable fate: heat death.

By 10¹⁵⁰ years, the last of the black holes evaporated through Hawking radiation.

By 10¹⁰⁰⁰ years, even the concept of "time" had lost all meaning.

The Dark Dimension had become a dead sea of nothingness—void of matter, void of energy, void of change.

This… was the end of the world.

After an eternity of time, the Dark Dimension—this universe—was no more.

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