Captain Universe Spider-Man detected deep confusion from Eternity's tone. He suddenly remembered Eternity's earlier warning—if he was to apprehend Shiller across the cosmos, it would be best not to show his face, to avoid any conversation with him, and to prevent him from uttering a single word. This was the best way to minimize his damage to the cosmos.
Previously, when they faced Solus, all of Spidermen were incredibly tense. They hadn't really had time to concern themselves with where Shiller was, what he was saying, or what he was up to — even Captain Universe Spider-Man was included in this, as Solus almost drained his soul. Why would he have a moment to spare worrying about Shiller's state?
However, on second thought, the massive brawl that had occurred in the Chapter Parker Universe went entirely against Eternity's intentions.
Each appearance of a Shiller was accompanied by a signature line, resounding throughout the cosmos. Once the fight broke out, they continually spouted bizarre dialogues, showing off the characteristics of their roles to the fullest.
Especially those few who spoke in Japanese, they didn't have many moves, but they did loudly call out the names of their moves. They completed only a few rounds of combat but spent tons of hours in recollection.
It became worse when accompanied by strange animals. Once they spoke, they would never refer to themselves as "I"; always followed by their character's name. To such extent, they probably wanted to keep themselves hidden, but it was no longer possible.
And the reality was indeed the case; when Eternity followed the clue of the rapidly decreasing stability value and investigated in Chapter Parker Universe, he was only left with catchphrases each Shiller used upon exiting the stage.
Facing the timeline ahead, Eternity was dismayed. The nominations had been nominated, and the lines had been recited entirely. Was there really any possibility of reversing this?
But then again, Eternity was but a wage laborer. Jobs handed down from the boss must be done, even if he were on his last breath, he would still try his best to salvage the situation.
What made Eternity more puzzled was what happened to the Shillers after the big fight — they were all in their homes, but the homes weren't their dream homes, but rather the various universes they previously resided in.
Many of the Shillers actually posed no threat at all. When they returned to their respective universes, they mostly accomplished missions in line with members from The Avengers.
For instance, the Shiller Popeye was hired by S.H.I.E.L.D. and became a honorable member of the Avengers. Shiller from Paw Patrol went to the Animal Universe and became the local Superhero. Garfield Shiller landed himself someone named Jon, exploiting his resources. Spongebob Shiller joined Atlantis in some universe and found himself a starfish friend. Multiple other Shillers also found respective roles in various universes...
And these cartoon character Shillers mostly maintained a human form when they lived within human societies, making them difficult to find and capture. Even with Eternity himself making the move, certain feline Shillers could just "whoosh" away. With Eternity's vision, he could barely make out their motions.
Ultimately, these comedic and cartoon characters didn't obey logic—if they didn't want to be found, all they needed to do was pop a leaf over their head, and they would totally disappear from Eternity's sight. It was their special skills, even the cosmic rules couldn't hold them back.
What's even more important was that Eternity could not resort to overly bloody methods against them, like launching an energy attack or casually leveling a city, because the cartoon characters only appeared in family-friendly works, which were invariably rated 10+ or 12+.
Undeniably bloody scenes couldn't occur in these crossover spin-offs, it was not a big deal even if their heads or limbs were knocked off, they could simply reattach them effortlessly, and humans dying was absolutely unspeakable. Once breaking the rating code, Eternity would face serious consequences.
Thus, if Eternity were to catch them, he'd have to follow comedic animations' methods. But the Shillers were too numerous and being continuously reproduced, where ship after ship of Shillers from the Dreamworld contaminated every Individual Universe within the Multiverse.
What would be the firmest backup for a transmigrator in the Marvel Universe? It wasn't the system nor plug-ins, but their memories.
The underlying premise of the Marvel Universe was the Infinite Universe, which served as Marvel's framework and was certain not to be abandoned randomly.
If dreams and memories could form a universe, then just releasing those troublesome characters from your memory would naturally become your trump card.
Of course, an average transmigrator might view them as a cheat code for acquiring resources, but Shiller just wanted to watch the world burn.
When Eternity was almost on the brink of despair, however, Captain Universe Spider-Man provided him with a good approach.
"Since they came from the Dream Universe, there must be someone dreaming, right? So we just need to wake that person up," Captain Universe Spider-Man suggested, looking at Eternity.
Eternity thought it over. Though he wasn't sure which of the numerous Shillers was the root cause, more likely, none of them was. They were just characters manifested in the Dream Universe.
The appearance of these characters wasn't accidental. There must be a Shiller behind the scenes constantly drilling holes into the Dreamworld. Thus, by reining in this Shiller, even if they couldn't catch all other characters, they could at least prevent him from conjuring new characters.