At the moment, Skyblade VII did not possess a large reserve of energy.
Fortunately, each of Tony's Iron Man suits contained its own New Element Reactor, allowing them to supply power independently.
Otherwise, Tony would have already started complaining loudly.
Soon afterward, Jarvis took control of thousands of armored suits.
They began transporting the enormous quantities of supplies Tony and his team had purchased.
At the same time:
Tony's sports carsEquipment from the workshopScientific instruments and storage containers
were all moved aboard the warship.
The process continued until evening before everything was finally completed.
At that point:
TonyPepperMorganHoward StarkMaria Stark
all boarded Skyblade VII.
Karl thoughtfully provided Jarvis with the energy equivalent of one stellar unit.
That amount of power was more than enough to support:
The warship's propulsionJarvis's daily operationsTony's technological research
However, Karl was certain of one thing.
Sooner or later, Tony would also experience what cosmic poverty felt like.
Before long, the two warships activated stealth mode and quietly departed Earth.
Meanwhile, Stark Industries on Earth was handed over to a Jarvis sub-system for management.
Because Karl had personally installed three core security laws, there was no danger of rebellion.
In addition, Jarvis could monitor the subsystem in real time, even from space.
On Earth, no one realized that Tony Stark's entire family and Karl's group had already left the planet.
Even after Karl's return to Earth earlier, he had not visited Kamar-Taj.
And Stephen Strange had not come looking for him either.
Most likely, Strange was focused on cultivation and magical training.
Without Dormammu's constant invasions, the defensive magic arrays protecting Earth were finally stable.
Dormammu and Mephisto had both been killed by Karl.
Karl had even destroyed and devoured multiple hostile dimensions.
As a result, many Dimensional Lords now regarded Earth with extreme caution.
None of them dared to plot against the planet anymore.
This allowed Stephen Strange to finally relax and focus on increasing his own strength.
After the warships entered deep space, Karl and Ganata suddenly disappeared from the vessel.
They had entered the dimensional layer between universes.
Karl planned to take Ganata out for a proper feast.
Since Karl had previously memorized the energy signatures of the Dimensional Lords who cooperated with Dormammu, locating their dimensions was extremely easy.
Karl's current strength had already reached Single-Universe level even without external equipment.
With the Golden Cloth embedded with the six Infinity Stones, his combat power was even more terrifying.
Handling a few Celestial-Father-level Dimensional Lords was trivial.
Soon, Karl located one of the hostile dimensions that had previously helped Dormammu invade Earth.
The two of them appeared inside instantly.
BOOM—!
Karl destroyed the Dimensional Lord's physical manifestation in a single strike.
Then he nodded toward Ganata.
Ganata immediately transformed.
Her body expanded into a massive blue-white cosmic vortex, resembling a living black hole.
She began devouring everything within the dimension.
The Dimensional Lord soon resurrected again.
But all he could do was watch helplessly as his entire dimension was swallowed by Ganata's cosmic hunger.
Meanwhile, Karl carefully scanned the entire dimension.
If the Dimensional Lord tried to attack again, Karl would immediately imprison him inside the Mirror Dimension.
BOOM—!
Unexpectedly, the Dimensional Lord did not attack Ganata.
Instead, he launched an attack directly at Karl.
Karl merely glanced at the incoming power.
The attack dissipated instantly.
The next moment, space twisted violently.
Before the Dimensional Lord could react, Karl trapped him inside the Mirror Dimension.
At Karl's current power level, the Mirror Dimension was essentially unbreakable as long as he remained alive.
Meanwhile, Ganata continued devouring the dimension.
Soon:
MatterEnergySpatial structuresEven abstract dimensional energy
were all consumed by her.
Before long, the entire dimension was reduced to nothing.
Ganata returned to her human form and stood beside Karl gracefully.
Karl looked around at the remaining residual energy.
With a wave of his hand, the leftover energy gathered together and was stored inside his dimensional energy storage space.
At the same time, Vast Knowledge Treasury applied the Infinite Concept Energy Formula to the harvested energy.
Karl gained several additional stellar energy units.
Karl then took Ganata's hand.
They disappeared again.
Moments later, they arrived inside another hostile dimension.
This time Karl did not give the Dimensional Lord any opportunity to act.
The Mirror Dimension activated instantly.
The Dimensional Lord was imprisoned before he could react.
Unlike before, the previous Dimensional Lord had completely vanished after losing his connection to his dimension.
His body had simply disintegrated.
Once Karl imprisoned the second Dimensional Lord—
Ganata transformed again.
She devoured everything inside the dimension:
PlanetsStarsDimensional energyStrange unknown cosmic condensations
Soon the dimension was completely consumed.
Ganata returned to Karl's side.
She placed a hand gently over her stomach.
She clearly felt much less hungry now.
Karl then led her to two more dimensions.
After devouring four dimensions in total, Ganata was finally satisfied.
However, these four dimensions were still far weaker than Dormammu's Dark Dimension.
Previously, Ganata had become full after devouring only one dimension.
But that dimension had been far more powerful.
The Dimensional Lords of these four dimensions had only been Celestial-Father level.
Now that Ganata was satisfied, she happily grabbed Karl's hand.
At the same time, because she was no longer hungry, her body returned to a much fuller and healthier state.
As she held Karl's hand, her chest brushed against him repeatedly.
But Karl didn't react much.
Inside the dimensional layer, Karl could manipulate time flow.
Although it seemed like they had spent a long time hunting dimensions—
In reality, only thirty minutes had passed in the normal universe.
Karl could also manipulate time in the real universe if he wished.
But doing so rarely had any real benefit.
After returning to the warship, Karl spoke to the Vast Knowledge Treasury.
"Begin scanning the universe."
"Search for star systems containing large numbers of stars."
He continued calmly:
"Preferably systems without inhabited planets."
"And ideally systems where the stars are clustered together."
Karl needed to capture a large number of stars to keep Vast Knowledge Treasury operating at maximum power for long periods.
After all—
Two members of the Celestial race had already died.
Karl was certain the Celestials would eventually come searching for him.
He needed to grow stronger as quickly as possible.
The AI responded immediately.
[Yes, sir.]
[Beginning exploration of major galactic regions.]
Karl disappeared again.
Moments later, he appeared aboard Tony's warship.
When he entered the cockpit, he saw Tony and Howard busy tinkering with something.
Karl looked closer.
They were experimenting with the data-analysis capabilities of the Celestial computer.
Seeing this—
Karl couldn't help revealing a mischievous smile.
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