When several symbiotes crawled out of the spaceship, they had become a pile of slop.
It's not because they got motion sickness and changed their form, but because, just before they flew here, Polaris took away their hosts, who were those few little mutants, and gave them a ride along the way.
The only human left was Helen. She hid in the spaceship and wasn't discovered by Polaris. And when she set foot on the Klinter Star surface, all she could see around her, other than the desolate Ring Mountain, was a bunch of colorful slime that had just fallen from the sky.
"Eww... alright... no matter what, welcome to my home." Thunder's voice was trembling. The golden slime had lost all its strength to move. The green slop behind it was slightly better, it slowly moved its body and said to Helen, "Little girl, I must say, your driving... Do all you earthlings drive like that?"
Helen thought for a while and then said, "My dad told me that speed is passion... of course, remember to close the sunroof."
After speaking, she walked forward on her own, leaving the other piles of sludge behind her. While continuing forward, Blue Spirit muttered, "Honestly, living on Earth for long makes it really hard to adjust back home, not having legs feels really strange..."
"Stop complaining." Thunder followed her, muttering, "There's no place like home, it's a universal truth."
When Helen reached the top of the highest nearby Ring Mountain, she looked as far as she could and saw that this did not look like a normal planet. This so-called Ring Mountain was not a landscape created by a meteorite strike.
Currently, every protrusion under her feet was made up of symbiote bodies.
The ground of the planet she was walking on was a circular celestial body composed of countless symbiotes intertwined. Every piece of ground here is a symbiote.
"It's an impressive sight, right?" Blue Spirit stood beside Helen, saying, "Countless symbiotes have sacrificed their freedom to weave together a cage to imprison Nal, using their bodies."
"...Is it worth it?" Helen asked.
This is not a small planet, and to make up such a massive celestial body, it would need billions of symbiotes. Now, the vibrant symbiotes on the surface of the planet are living off their predecessors.
"Perhaps in your eyes, this not worth it. We have sacrificed the majority of our kind just to seal our creator. Sounds foolish, right?"
"No civilization would be willing to do that. Losing two-thirds of the population basically means the collapse of the civilization." Blue Spirit's tone was very relaxed, as if he didn't take the topic seriously.
"After Nal was defeated in the Nine Major Kingdoms, countless symbiote connections were severed. Among them, a small symbiote fell on a remote planet where its inhabitants were still in their Primitive Tribal Era."
"At this time, the symbiote parasitized one of them, and then, it learned from him a kind of ability that had never been experienced by symbiotes before."
Helen looked at the desolate surface and asked, "What was it?"
"Emotion." Blue Spirit replied.
"Yes, we see this as a kind of ability. As we were created by Nal, he did not give us this ability when creating us." Blue Spirit's voice got gentler. He said, "Back then, we didn't have feelings for anything in the world, so we didn't change our minds because of that."
"But when we acquired emotions, we became sad for the people who were slaughtered, felt guilty for the survivors, and angry about the behavior. Although we are different in race and language, we could feel distinct emotions from those people."
"So, we made a shocking decision to all civilizations. Two-thirds of our kind sacrificed themselves, coalescing into the prison cage of Klinter Star, imprisoning Nal."
"Was it worth it?" Blue Spirit started answering his own question, "I'm not comforting myself, nor am I trying to deceive you, but we all think that it is worth it."
"Because, emotion, brings infinite possibilities."
Helen silently looked at the desolate land. Two-thirds of a race's population, exchanging for a possibility, was it really worth it?
"Okay, you can enjoy the view here. Although there's not much to see, we have work to do. We need to check to make sure there's no risk of Nal escaping." Thunder walked over and said.
A few symbiotes all walked in the opposite direction of Helen. Green Sting asked while walking, "We're just leaving her there, is that okay?"
"I can't believe that after what we've been through, you're still stuck on this." After a sarcastic comment, Thunder hastened his pace without any hesitation.
"I don't know why, but Phantom always finds hosts like these. I guess she's destined to be a power type symbiote," Green Sting said with some emotion, then he too quickened his pace.
Helen, standing on the hill and enjoying the view, did not stay quiet for long. Suddenly, she captured an unusual ripple of power in the winds of Klinter Star.
Raising her head to the starry sky, Klinter Star barely had an atmosphere, making it only suitable for godly creations to survive, but one of its benefits was the exceptionally bright starry sky, where every star could be seen clearly and twinkling.
When the wind lifted Helen's hair, she squinted her eyes. In the depths of the endless starry sky, she saw a gargantuan figure.
That was Solus, Morlun's father and other Successor's father, and the head of the Successor Family.
At the same time, he was also a lonely old man who had lost his home in his twilight years.
After Solus discovered that the entire Successor Family's base had disappeared into thin air, he embarked on a journey to look for his house.
Within the vast multiverse, the base of the Successor Family is like a grain of sand on the shore. Once swept away by the waves, it can never be found again.
Solus knew this must be a conspiracy, but he now had to find a way to curb losses. He could not afford to lose any more.
Although he is the most powerful among the Successor Family, if he lost the rest of his family members, his power in the multiverse would only be enough for a bare survival, and it would be fraught with danger. Once a group creature lost its group environment, its competitiveness would drastically decline.
However, Solus knew that he still had a chance to turn things around, and the most pressing matter now was to minimize the losses.
The original base was irretrievable; as such, he had to struggle for more elsewhere. In this way, part of the loss of their family base and family members could be compensated for, and he could also replenish some of his vitality.
What Solus intended to do was to take full control of the Bat Totem.
A major factor contributing to their current plight was the Bat Totem. They had invested too much sunk cost here. Therefore, Solus couldn't accept the loss of both his investments and his troops.
At this point, the only plan was to seize the Bat Totem, only then can they seek their future.
As the patriarch of the Successor Family, Solus had a better understanding of totems. He could easily communicate with totems through meditation, and he could also transform the power in his body into Faith Power, thereby controlling the newly born Peak Totem.
As he found a relatively safe place and began to execute his totem acquisition plan, he suddenly discovered that there was another force attempting to control the totem.
A similar scenario had already happened once before. Previously, Venom tried to seize the totem with the power inside him, in order to make the members of the Successor Family invest more power. This time, Solus discovered that the power the other side used was exactly the same as the power used to seize the totem last time.
It's hard not to ponder the possible conspiracy; repeatedly plundered Faith Power, uncontrollable totem, killed family members, seized family base, another appearance of a mysterious power, this seems to tell Solus that the owner of this power is behind all the scene.
Thinking about the continuously plundered Faith Power, Solus felt bleeding in his heart. The fleeting mysterious power ignited his anger to the extreme; he wanted to take back what this thief had stolen.
Following this power, he once again came to this individual universe and then found Nal on the Klinter Star.
The power inside Venom came from the dividends that Shiller gave him during the last meal event. The one who competed with Solus for the control of the totem for the second time was Shiller. The power he used also came from the diverted power from Nal during the last meal event.
Shiller wanted to divert the attention towards others. He knew that Solus would not give up the Bat Totem, so he deliberately used Nal's power to wrestle for the Bat Totem. Solus, guided by this power, would definitely reach Nal.
Without any surprises, Solus indeed found Nal. Unlike Xeseon who messed with Nal previously, Solus, from his point of view, held a grudge against Nal.
He had to avenge the stolen power and the murder of family and home. If Solus did not avenge this, he wouldn't need to stay in the multiverse anymore.
In the beginning, Xeseon only came to investigate due to the loss of the Chaotic Original Power and envelopped the whole Klinter Star with his power. This time, Solus harbored a greater grudge and invested more power.
As the huge shadow approached this desolate planet, Helen felt the surge of power. When the tangible wind of power blew on her, she felt a hunger carved into her life's instinct.
In the meditation room of Kamar-Taj, Shiller put down his tea cup. Strange poured him another cup of tea and said: "So, the enemy you are making for Spider-Men is not Solus, but Nal?"
"Nal is trapped on the Klinter Star, but it doesn't mean he's weak, on the contrary, in terms of power, he is much stronger than Soros."
"It is the same old saying, the Chaotic Creatures can grow anywhere but do not grow brains. There can't be a more qualified punching bag than him."
The two bumped their tea cups together, revealing unspoken smiles.
However, in the sky above the Klinter Star, the first opponent Solus encountered was not Nal, but a little girl radiating a soft glow.
Helen still stood on the surface of the Klinter Star, looking up at the phantom of Demon God, Solus.
Doomsday was very sensitive to power and breath. Through the fluctuations of power in the air, she felt that the Faith Power she had absorbed before came from the creature in front of her.
The Faith Power she gained from the Successor Family led to her first evolution, but ever since Doomsday was created, she only had one ability, and that was infinite evolution.
The hunger ingrained in her genes encouraged her to seek more power. Devour, evolve, devour again, this was her greatest confidence to face the Superman of Krypton.
The small figure slowly floated into the air, appearing so minute under the immense phantom of the Demon God.
The fragments of rock began to tremble irregularly. Instantly, the components assembled from rock fragments were shattered, and magnetism once again held them together, but not long after, they were scattered again.
The Magneto, holding the blueprints in his hand, turned to look at the direction of the tremble, and slowly narrowed his eyes.
In Asgard, Frigga, who found out Helen had disappeared, followed the trajectory of the disappeared spacecraft. The queen of gods, filled with worry and anxiety, clenched her magic wand, ready to give a final blow to the enemy who had taken Helen away.
Meanwhile, within the dark prison of the Klinter Star, a pair of bloody eyes lit up in the darkness that was deep to the extreme.