"What is this being we are speaking about? I mean is it a human being, an alien. What is it?" Tony asked.
"It's just an entity that devours universes. It doesn't have any shape or form and very little is known of it. When it comes, black snow falls and everything the black snow touches, gets obliterated to nothingness." John replied.
"You said, I will kill the Black Winter. Can we get to know how?" Thor asked as this was the main question for all. They wanted to know the process of defeating it. John hesitated for a bit before uttering a spell.
This spell would stop anyone from hearing their conversation. Not even the Watchers would be able to hear the next words of John.
"What did you do?" Arthur asked.
"I just used magic as a protection to stop anyone from listening to our conversation. There can be many people listening to us right now. That war against the multiversal beings is sure to wake up many other entities in all of the multiverse." Everybody nodded as they understood.
"Before explaining the defeat of Black Winter let me tell your story."
"In the last universe there was a planet called Taa. There lived a remarkable scientist and an explorer named Galan. Their planet was the epitome of civilization of their universe. But sadly their universe was about to end due to Black Winter and the contraction of their universe as it was already billions of years old. Everything should have ended with that but that explorer Galan made a pact with Black Winter. The Black Winter would leave Galan but he would have to be the herald of the Black Winter. In all future universes Galan would have to guide Black Winter so that it can feed upon them."
"And later due to various reasons, Galan became very powerful. Powerful enough to destroy Gods. And in our multiverse we have a different name for him.
Galactus."
The Ancient One and Odin shuddered on their seats when they heard that name. They both knew of the existence of Galactus and the power he possessed. John saw their shuddering and knew that both of them knew of him.
"Galactus, like his master, is also a devourer of worlds. He can eat planets and galaxies and that is his food. Thor was able to defeat Black Winter because Thor became the Herald of Galactus. Galactus didn't want to be under the control of Black Winter so he chose Thor as his herald. Thor later came to know that Galactus had been the herald of Black Winter all along and Galactus was using him."
"Thor became angry and he stripped Galactus off the power that fuels Galactus and detonated his body. This killed Black Winter. Well that was what the story is supposed to be. Now we will have to find other ways to defeat him."
Everybody's views changed for the first time. They had never expected that such beings even existed in their multiverse. All the powers that they possessed now looked very weak in front of such mighty beings. In simple terms, they were just ants trying to move the elephants. Everybody's face looked grave.
"What are the powers of Black Winter? I mean does he have any other power apart from devouring universes?" Wayne asked.
"Anybody who gazes on Black Winter, sees their death. Most of them see Black Void as that is the actual form of Black Winter but those who escape Black Winter see their future deaths. So no matter what, never look into Black Winter. Never. When we fight against it we can never use our eyes." John said.
"The hell. We can't even fight with our eyes open. Is that even fair?" Flash said.
"Nothing is fair Barry. It is what it is." John said.
"How do you wish to defeat Black Winter? Stripping the power away from Galactus like Thor did?" Wayne asked.
"That is my plan. But we will have to see how it turns out and how far is Black Winter. Sorcerer Supreme, I hope you can come back with news. I have checked this universe and there is no sign of Black Winter as of yet but we don't know how much time we have." John said.
"I will make my preparations." the Ancient One said.
"Yes. Strange you can ask your questions. I am sure you have some." John said.
"Did you and the Ancient One know of my evil versions in other universes? Is that why you brought me here to properly guide me so that I don't go to the dark side?"
"Dark side? No Strange. Even the previous Strange isn't actually bad. You can't blame him for trying to save his home and the multiverse. You on all other versions isn't actually bad. It's just that the moral lines of yours get blurred over time. When you fight for such a long time and still see no end of enemies it gets difficult to maintain that sanity." John answered.
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