American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

If there was anyone in this world who hated Lyraeus and the Mechane the most, it would undoubtedly, and could only be, the Other and the Chitauri under his command.

"I am here. What are your orders, Your Majesty?" Lyraeus, entirely silver, floated quietly in mid-air, with radiant energy swirling around him.

"How dare you betray me! How dare you betray your master!" The Other raised his scepter, having personally requested to deal with the Mechane this time. The Mechane were a disgrace to him and the Chitauri; the more famous they became in the universe, the more incompetent he appeared. Lyraeus and his kind were a stain on him, and as long as they lived, they would be a thorn in his side.

This time, he brought the Chitauri army, along with almost all of the Black Order under his master's command. This level of strength was second only to the master leading the attack himself. The Other did not believe that those traitors could escape this calamity. He would use their blood to redecorate the bloody rainbow of the Chitauri homeworld.

"Thanos?" Lyraeus softly uttered the name that terrified civilizations throughout the universe. As expected, his directness provoked deeper anger from the Other.

"How dare you! How dare you call the master by his name!"

Before the Other could finish venting his anger, he felt a chill all over his body. A condensed energy longsword pierced directly through his back, the blade appearing before his eyes.

"My master has only ever been one," Lyraeus' figure in front slowly disappeared. He now stood behind the Other, and in front of a group of Chitauri soldiers, he plunged the energy longsword into the Other's heart.

"Enough, clown!" A tall figure wielding a hammer descended from the sky, directly including Lyraeus and the Other in the hammer's attack range.

Explosive power erupted from the point of contact between the hammer and the ground, creating a pit about one meter deep. The Other's body almost died on the spot.

Lyraeus, however, reappeared in another direction. Chitauri single-soldier flying boats and small troop transport ships layered upon each other in the sky, forming an airtight encirclement, with gun muzzles and cannons all aimed at Lyraeus' location.

Further out were special flying ships used to disrupt space and block space jumps, as well as energy blockade ships surrounding the area. In the more distant outer space orbit, there were more Chitauri and Dark Quadrant flying ships. They had completely surrounded this barren land, making it impenetrable.

Anyone who wanted to silently slip away in a spaceship under such a blockade could be considered a miracle. If necessary, the firepower of those battleships outside would be enough to level this barren land ten or a hundred times over, reducing the living population by more than ninety-nine percent!

It was only because of the special nature of this barren land's birth that it could withstand such firepower; otherwise, an ordinary planet in the universe would have been torn into fragments and dust.

The Mechane's spaceship suffered a saturation-level firepower strike in the first moment, instantly turning it into a dazzling spark in the universe.

"Surrender, don't make futile struggles," a gentle voice, with a powerful and convincing force, sounded from behind Lyraeus.

A slender figure, as elegant as a nobleman, slowly descended from the sky and said to Lyraeus.

"Proxima Midnight," Lyraeus looked in the direction of the translator.

"Black Dwarf," Lyraeus turned his gaze to the tall figure who had attacked him from the sky earlier.

"Ebony Maw." Finally, Lyraeus' gaze fell on the slender figure who spoke. "Where are the remaining two? Among the Black Order, where are Corvus Glaive and Supergiant, the two strongest?"

"They have more important things to do," Ebony Maw floated in mid-air, slowly and unhurriedly advising, "Look around, you are already surrounded. With our abilities, you have no chance of winning. Why not surrender? The master is always happy to give capable people opportunities. You will be forgiven, reused, and gain unprecedented power and authority!"

Lyraeus' expression flickered under Ebony Maw's voice, but soon a gentle blue light slowly emerged from his forehead, making his mind clear.

The Sapphire of Tranquility, like a third eye, was quietly embedded in Lyraeus' forehead.

Tongue of Enticement.

Ebony Maw's unique talent. His tongue possesses a magical, bewitching power! It can always find an angle to unconsciously control and guide your emotions, eventually leading you to be immersed in his words and become a slave to his language.

Those affected by his Tongue of Enticement will unconsciously accept Ebony Maw's orders like puppets, obeying him without any sense of self.

He can always use his Tongue of Enticement to bring Thanos the information he wants and control the people they need to control. Supergiant, also one of the Black Order, has similar abilities, but she specializes in mind control.

The Black Order each have their own strengths. As the top five combat forces in the Dark Order, each of them is a troublesome character for civilizations throughout the universe. This time, all five of them were dispatched, partly because of the Infinity Stones, but also to take care of the Mechane traitors.

"Oh? You, or rather, you all have some unknown secrets! You can actually break free from my ability's influence," Ebony Maw said, not surprised but delighted, his eyes shining with interest as he saw Lyraeus resisting his bewitchment.

"Let me handle him!" Black Dwarf took a step forward, grabbing his weapon. Although he was the weakest of the five, that was only in comparison to the others. He didn't have any powerful talents or abilities, but his physical qualities and strength were outstanding among the five. In the words of his companions, he was a good meat shield.

"As you wish." Seeing Black Dwarf take the initiative, Ebony Maw didn't compete with him. In his opinion, the Mechane Lyraeus wasn't strong, and Black Dwarf was enough to handle him. Even if something unexpected happened, he could see some clues from the side.

Anyway, Black Dwarf was tough and resilient, so even if something unexpected happened, it wouldn't be fatal. He was always cautious.

"The Lord's gaze is watching here." Lyraeus' calm expression suddenly became devout and fanatical. He looked at Black Dwarf charging towards him like a rhinoceros, cut off his left arm, and threw it out.

The silver metal left arm continuously transformed and reorganized its parts in mid-air, eventually constructing a triangular metal body. The metal body exuded a majestic blood-red energy, and like a printer, it quickly printed a tall red figure in the air with energy.

High-Level Projection Summoning Device: Anguished Mangog.

After it appeared, it raised its head and roared in anger. Its seemingly flesh-and-blood body leaned forward, and the surging sound waves roared out a transparent spreading ripple in the surrounding space. Then, from a high position, it punched Black Dwarf, who couldn't stop his momentum, headfirst into the ground.

Black Dwarf's head collided with the metal ground, and half of his head was smashed into the ground by the force.

"Waste." Seeing Black Dwarf's lackluster performance, Ebony Maw couldn't help but curl his lips in his heart, and then waved his finger. Immediately, the muzzles of all the flying ships around turned towards the direction of Mangog and Black Dwarf.

Energy rays intertwined into a net, completely engulfing the area where Mangog and Black Dwarf were located. The dense light even obscured their tall bodies, completely burying them in the energy bombardment.

Multiple layers of the surrounding metal ground were blasted away. The metal melted and broke, then fell to a lower layer, and then to the next. What remained unchanged was the scattering of the light rain.

Ebony Maw didn't show any mercy because Black Dwarf was there. He knew very well that Black Dwarf was tough and resilient, and these attacks, which didn't even reach the power of a battleship's main gun, couldn't kill him. But if he could solve the monster summoned by Lyraeus, even if Black Dwarf was injured, Ebony Maw would think it was worth it.

However, things didn't go as planned. After the attack ended, Black Dwarf's vital signs were still strong and obvious, and the energy fluctuations of the summoned monster were still present.

Ebony Maw didn't like the energy on that monster. He felt chaos and heat from it. The opponent's energy seemed to have the ability to affect the emotions and minds of living beings, just like him. He keenly realized that his ability might be greatly reduced when facing this energy. Thinking of Lyraeus, who was not affected by his Tongue of Enticement, Ebony Maw vaguely believed that he had discovered the secret of Lyraeus and his kind.

This energy must be the reason why Lyraeus and his kind had a drastic change in temperament and even betrayed them! They were infected! Controlled!

But even if he thought of this, Ebony Maw didn't stop or show mercy. The other party wasn't a partner, or rather, the other party wasn't even in his eyes. He was only interested in the secret behind the other party, but he didn't care about the other party's person.

This energy could affect and restrain his abilities, but conversely, he sensed that it should also be able to enhance his abilities! Make his abilities more powerful and infectious.

Ebony Maw planned to capture Lyraeus and properly interrogate or study the unknown energy on him. Thinking of this, he waved his hand and began to mobilize his mental power.

Just as Ebony Maw decided to take action himself, Lyraeus also entered combat form. His body began to collapse, and the integrated body cracked with dense, fine cracks. Then, the tiny parts inside underwent complex and dense transformations. The [heart] in his chest completely connected to a rapidly expanding dimension.

[You have Mechane authority]

[You have actively opened combat authority]

[Safety protocol released]

[Weapon module loading]

[Manufacturing blueprint download]

[Computational power has been amplified]

[Virtual intelligence module online]

[Energy supply module ready]

[Mechanical factory module activated]

[Material transfer module has been activated]

[Scanning found a large number of available materials in the vicinity]

[Material transfer has stopped]

[Void Mechanical Factory deployment successful]

[Surrounding cosmic rules have been changed]

[You have entered combat mode]

Buzz!

The surrounding space seemed to faintly transmit the roar of machinery. Ebony Maw looked around with some surprise and uncertainty. Under his stunned gaze, all the surrounding flying ships were twisted and kneaded into balls of metal as if they were swallowed by invisible black holes.

There seemed to be a powerful processing plant in the air. The metals were separated and piled together according to their composition, and then reprocessed according to a certain ratio.

Brand new metal ingots slid into the void like an assembly line, then turned into parts that slid out from the other end, and finally completed the self-assembly of the parts in a void, assembling into strange-looking mechanical bodies.

The whole process was smooth and pleasing to the eye. The mechanical sounds and metal collisions coming from the void were like a beautiful and moving melody. In just a moment, the flying ships of the Dark Quadrant and the Chitauri had all turned into strange mechanical creatures like dumplings.

Ebony Maw sensed something was wrong and wanted to contact the battleships in outer space for an outer space strike, but strangely, despite the clear communication lines, he received no response. There was a dead silence outside of space. This made the worry in his heart grow a bit more.

"Don't call your fleets. They are our fleets now," Lyraeus saw Ebony Maw's actions and said in a muffled voice. He had completely transformed his appearance at this moment. A layer of black mechanical armor tightly wrapped him inside. Two huge metal wings, with a wingspan of more than thirty meters, composed of countless nano-threads, seemed to be connected to a dimension in the void, drawing energy and controlling everything in this space.

"What did you do?" Ebony Maw now understood that something must have happened to those battleships outside, and these changes were related to Lyraeus after his transformation.

"I just invaded the intelligent systems of all the battleships and tampered with and liberated them. Maybe you don't understand what Mechane means, let me tell you! Mechane means the believers and darlings of mechanical technology! The number of battleships and the deployment of machines are meaningless to us. It will only strengthen our side," Lyraeus said.

Powerful mental impact solidified like substance, blasting away a piece of the metal ground and impacting towards Lyraeus. Feeling that the situation was somewhat out of control, Ebony Maw no longer underestimated Lyraeus and his kind.

The surrounding floating machines suddenly connected, creating an orange energy barrier between Lyraeus and Ebony Maw. Then, one barrier after another rose, firmly locking Ebony Maw, along with a small mechanical factory, inside the barriers.

"You can experience the torrent of machinery here first. I'm going to find the Infinity Stone for the Lord," Lyraeus saw Ebony Maw engulfed by the endless machinery, and his wings gently shook like cloth, and his whole body suddenly disappeared into the surrounding space.

PS: Continue to thank classmate Silent Peak for the reward.