Chapter 132: Fierce Battle

Just as the group was on the brink of despair, a blue portal appeared in the sky. Arthur, clad in golden armor and wielding a trident, stepped through the portal and now stood in the void, facing Dormammu.

“It's Arthur! He's okay!” Wanda exclaimed joyfully. The others were equally relieved—despite the cataclysmic explosion moments ago, Arthur had emerged unscathed.

“He must have used the portal to avoid the blast,” Stephen Strange observed, confirming Arthur’s maneuver. Everyone was overjoyed—Arthur was safe!

Arthur stared at Dormammu, unsure how he could possibly defeat such a formidable foe. Steeling himself, he charged directly toward Dormammu.

Dormammu, irritated by this mortal’s tenacity, unleashed a beam of purple energy from his mouth, firing it straight at Arthur.

Arthur dodged nimbly to the side, evading the energy blast, and pressed onward. Dormammu continued to fire wave after wave of energy beams at him.

Arthur weaved and dodged, narrowly escaping Dormammu’s relentless attacks. Reaching Dormammu’s forehead, he did not slow down but plunged into the giant’s head, vanishing from sight.

“He went inside Dormammu’s body?” Mordo said incredulously. The others were stunned, not knowing Arthur’s intentions. Only Wanda clenched her fists tightly, silently praying that Arthur would be unharmed.

Inside Dormammu’s mind, Arthur found himself in a swirling, multicolored world formed by dark energy. His guess was correct: Dormammu’s massive body was composed entirely of dark dimension energy. If Arthur could locate Dormammu’s soul core, he could kill him.

But Arthur had underestimated the challenge. Dormammu’s soul had long since merged with the dark dimension—it would not be so simple to find and destroy it.

Suddenly, Arthur felt his body invaded by a shadowy purple-black energy seeping into his mind. Dormammu was attempting to assimilate him completely, to turn him into part of the dark realm.

Arthur’s right hand glowed with the yellow light of the Mind Stone. The yellow energy enveloped him, resisting the encroaching dark purple energy.

Yet Dormammu’s dark energy was infinite. The dark purple energy formed a cocoon around Arthur, relentlessly eroding his mind.

Arthur slipped into a hazy state, memories flooding back—being hunted by Namor, attacked by the Chitauri, pierced in the chest by General Deathblade...

He opened his eyes. Their color shifted from blue to red, a murderous intent filling him. All the painful memories surged from deep within.

Biting his teeth, Arthur fought to control his thoughts. He knew this was the dark energy corrupting his consciousness. If he yielded, he would become a mindless, chaotic monster.

He removed the Mind Stone from his glove. Magical energy wrapped around it as it flew to his forehead and vanished. Arthur had placed the Mind Stone directly into his consciousness.

At the same time, the red Reality Stone slipped from his glove, becoming liquid and absorbed into his body.

Using the Mind Stone to shield his mind and ether particles to protect his body, Arthur finally resisted Dormammu’s energy invasion.

His gaze cleared. Suddenly, he charged toward the area of strongest energy within Dormammu’s body. Dormammu watched in fury—Arthur was not just surviving the energy but running rampant inside him.

Enraged, Dormammu summoned countless multicolored tendrils formed of dark energy, wrapping around Arthur. The sight sickened Arthur—inside Dormammu’s body was like a living hell.

Tendrils sprouted from nowhere, entangling him. Arthur weaved left and right, his golden trident swinging wildly, severing the tendrils and firing energy beams to destroy them.

But the severed and blasted tendrils simply reverted to dark energy and merged back into others.

The assault seemed endless. No matter how much Arthur cut, if he wasn’t captured by the tendrils, exhaustion would claim him.

Resolute, Arthur charged toward the densest energy. His trident fired orange energy beams, obliterating every tendril in his path.

Inside Dormammu, Arthur was like a blazing red fireball, rapidly advancing toward the core, relentlessly blasting the dark matter blocking his way.

Suddenly, Dormammu’s massive face materialized before him. It opened its mouth, spouting purple energy that fired at Arthur.

“You only know that one trick?” Arthur taunted, darting aside to dodge the beams and continuing forward.

Dormammu’s mouth unleashed another volley of purple energy, all of which Arthur evaded. He was now directly in front of Dormammu’s illusory face.

From Arthur’s trident burst a huge orange energy sphere, smashing into Dormammu’s face. The illusion instantly shattered into pure energy and dissipated into the void.

Arthur pressed on until he saw a dark purple planet—Dormammu’s energy core—radiating ceaseless dark energy.

He had found it! Arthur’s heart leapt. Destroying this core should harm Dormammu.

Gathering all his strength, Arthur formed a massive red energy fireball, nearly the size of the dark purple planet—a finishing blow.

At that moment, countless dark matter particles rained down on Arthur. Suddenly, his body erupted with red energy, enveloping the surrounding space.

The dark matter transformed into multicolored bubbles floating dreamily in the air. Arthur used the Reality Stone to turn all the dark energy in this space into harmless foam.

Pushing the enormous red fireball, Arthur charged at the dark purple planet. The fireball slammed into it and exploded.

Boom!

A dazzling white light illuminated the entire space. Wanda and the others on Earth saw Dormammu’s colossal form crack, brilliant light bursting from the fissures before Dormammu exploded.

The massive blast shattered countless dark red planets. The entire Earth was bathed in the explosion’s glow; even daytime skies over New York shone with radiant white light.

“He did it! Arthur actually killed Dormammu!” Mordo exclaimed in disbelief.

“Incredible!” Wang and Li were stunned, while Wanda anxiously searched for Arthur’s figure.

The purple dark dimension energy over Earth began to shrink, slowly receding. They assumed with Dormammu’s defeat, the dark dimension would disappear naturally.

Arthur appeared at the explosion’s epicenter. Though he had used the Reality Stone immediately to become intangible and avoid the blast, the shockwave still battered him.

His golden armor was cracked in several places, and his chest was streaked with fractures. Arthur himself was gravely injured; the attack had drained all his energy. He was near exhaustion.

As Arthur prepared to return to Earth, he noticed the dark dimension expanding again. A massive black face began to form within it once more.

His heart sank. Dormammu was not so easily vanquished.

Dormammu’s enormous figure re-emerged in the void, opening his eyes to glare at Arthur.

“Excellent! You are the first human in centuries to wound me. Killing you will bring me some joy. Die!” Dormammu’s voice echoed from the void.

Suddenly, dozens of brilliant purple energy spheres appeared around Arthur. Before he could react, they exploded relentlessly.

This explosion made no sound. Instead of light, it created a massive black hole that sucked in everything nearby.

Arthur vanished into the black hole.

“Arthur!!!” Wanda screamed, her voice tearing through the void.

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