Chapter 40
Loki: You call this a mortal?!
sizzle...
The sound of electric current repairing flesh is sickening.
The hole in Thor's chest was filled with lightning plasma in a few breaths, which then solidified into new skin.
He twisted his neck, his bones cracking like popping beans, and the white light in his eyes not only did not fade, but became even more dazzling.
"Is this what they call Asgard's ultimate weapon?"
Thor grinned, revealing a set of white teeth, his tone extremely arrogant, "If it's for giving me a massage, this pressure is just right."
"Pikachu!"
Pikachu perched on Thor's head, mimicking its master by putting its hands on its hips and sticking its tongue out at the Destroyer in the distance.
"act recklessly!"
Loki's mocking voice echoed from within the Destroyer's cold visor.
Although surprised that Thor was still alive, Loki did not believe that Thor could turn the tide.
He gripped the Eternal Spear tightly, took out the Box of Ice, and the divine power from the Golden Palace, through the scepter, crossed the dimensional barrier and continuously poured into the silver armor.
hum-
The Destroyer's armor plates opened with each breath, and its originally orange-red energy core suddenly changed color, transforming into a deep, dark blue light.
The surrounding temperature dropped to freezing point.
Thick white frost formed on the asphalt road, and water molecules in the air were frozen into tiny ice crystals that fell down in a soft rustling sound.
"The power of the Ice Box?"
Sif's face turned from red to white as she exclaimed, "Loki! You actually used that cursed item on the Destroyer! Have you gone mad?!"
The Destroyer did not answer.
It simply crouched down slightly and then disappeared from the spot.
So fast!
Thor's pupils contracted, and he instinctively tried to disperse into his elemental form.
Bang! ! !
A heavy metal fist, wreathed in freezing cold, slammed into Thor's left shoulder, which had just been transformed into its elemental form.
The body, which should have been immune to physical lightning strikes, was now struck as if it were a physical entity.
"puff!"
Thor was blasted away like a cannonball, crashing through three abandoned buildings before finally embedding himself hard in the thick steel plate of an armored truck.
Fresh blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.
"How is that possible..."
Thor struggled to pull himself out of the carriage, staring at his charred and icy left shoulder in disbelief. "I'm lightning... why was I hit?"
"Foolish brother."
The Destroyer approached step by step, each step leaving a frost lotus flower in the ground. "You think you can become a god from a mortal just by stealing a little strange power?"
"Divine power is above the rules."
"Compared to the depths of Asgard, your tricks are as laughable as fireworks in a child's hand."
Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
Three figures rushed out from the flank.
Fandral's rapier pierced the Destroyer's joints, Hogan's chain mace smashed into his head, and Volstagg swung his giant axe at his lower back.
The Warriors Three of Asgard worked together seamlessly, trying to buy Thor some breathing room.
"Get out of here."
The Destroyer didn't even turn his head; he simply waved his hand casually.
boom!
A terrifying shockwave of ice erupted, and before the three even touched the armor, they were blasted away by the irresistible force, falling to the ground, their fate unknown.
"Vulnerable."
The Destroyer raised its palm, and a dark blue beam of destruction gathered in its hand, aiming at Thor, who had just regained his footing.
"It's over, Thor."
"For the future of Asgard, please die."
The shadow of death loomed.
Thor wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, but there was no fear in his eyes, only a palpable rage.
"You want to kill me?"
Thor unleashed the full power of his Rumble-Rumble Fruit, declaring, "Let's see if your ice is harder, or my lightning is stronger!"
It's sizzling!
Blue electricity surged around him, yet it always appeared somewhat scattered.
At this critical moment.
I said…
A lazy voice abruptly broke into this confrontation between life and death.
Leon stood at the edge of the battlefield, holding an empty Coke can in his hand, looking at Thor with a look of utter disappointment.
Are you stupid?
The entire room was completely silent.
Even the Destroyer paused for a moment as it charged up.
"Manager?" Thor was stunned.
"Giving you the Rumble-Rumble Fruit is such a waste."
Leon pointed at Thor, his tone full of disdain: "Who told you that elementalization is just for taking a beating without fighting back?"
"Trying to fight head-on with lightning? Is your brain just made of muscles?"
"Then... what should I do?" Thor asked instinctively, like a student eagerly seeking knowledge.
What is the true nature of lightning?
Li Ang, hands in his pockets, his dark eyes seemingly seeing through to the essence of things, said, "It's rage, it's destruction, it's the ultimate compression of energy!"
"Don't spread that little bit of electricity all over the place, like a leaky transformer."
"Recover all the electrical charge."
Li Ang stretched out his hand, making a grasping motion with his palm loosely clenched, "to compress into every cell of your body, every inch of your bone."
"Imagine yourself as a container, a nuclear reactor about to explode."
"Then unleash all your energy into their body!"
Li Ang's lips curled slightly upward, uttering the name that was enough to ignite the passion of all One Piece fans:
Boom!
It was as if a bolt of lightning had pierced through the fog.
Thor stood there, stunned, his brain, usually crammed with muscle, suddenly finding inspiration.
compression?
container?
Yes, since I am Thor, then I am the embodiment of thunder!
"Pikachu! Pikachu, Pikachu!"
Pikachu, which was perched on Thor's head, seemed to understand. It suddenly jumped off Thor's head and landed on Thor's broad shoulder.
The little guy's red spots on his cheeks lit up with dazzling electric light. Instead of releasing electricity, it was injecting all its electrical energy back into Thor's body!
It is a fuse.
It was the last spark that ignited this volcano.
"Aaaaaah!!!"
Thor looked up to the sky and roared.
The violent lightning that had originally scattered in all directions actually surged back into his body like rivers flowing into the sea.
The free charges in the air were forcibly stripped away, and arcs of electricity shot out from the broken power line in the distance and flew into his body.
The streetlights within a radius of several kilometers suddenly went out, and with Thor as the center, the lights in shops suddenly went out one by one.
Even the energy that had not yet been released from the Destroyer's palm was drawn in and became extremely unstable.
"Jarvis! This reading... is the meter broken?"
Tony stared wide-eyed at the rapidly rising energy readings on the screen.
"Sir, your appearance is not damaged."
Jarvis's voice trembled, a rare occurrence for him. "The energy density within Thor is increasing exponentially, exceeding that of any known living being..."
"If left unchecked, he will become a human nuclear bomb."
The center of the battlefield.
Thor has disappeared.
Instead, there was a blindingly bright blue-white cocoon of light.
The high temperature instantly vaporized the asphalt road underfoot, leaving not even a trace.
"bluff!"
Loki's unease reached its peak. He manipulated the Destroyer without hesitation, and the dark blue beam, imbued with extreme cold divine power, shot towards the cocoon of light.
Nourishes—
The beam of light struck the cocoon.
But there was no explosion, no freezing.
The icy divine power, powerful enough to freeze the soul, was instantly vaporized by the indescribable high temperature the moment it touched the surface of the cocoon of light!
"What?!"
Loki gasped in shock.
next second.
A large hand emerged from the cocoon of light.
That is not a body of flesh and blood.
It was a hand made of pure blue-white lightning plasma!
This hand was enormous; with just a few fingers, it grasped the Destroyer's head.
Click!
The seemingly indestructible Uru metal shell, under the grip of this lightning-powered hand, groaned under the strain, its surface beginning to melt and dripping molten silver.
"What...what kind of monster is this?!"
Sif and the three warriors collapsed to the ground, looking up at the scene before them in a daze.
The light cocoon shattered completely.
A blue and white lightning giant, ten meters tall, stands prominently on the ruins of Harlem!
It has Thor's facial features, but is even more majestic and sacred.
Its body is entirely composed of lightning, and it is surrounded by a halo of thunder drums shaped like magatama. With each breath, it spews out visible electric snakes.
Those enormous eyes had no pupils, only two burning white lightning bolts, coldly staring at the Destroyer in their hands, which resembled a doll.
Two Hundred Million Volts - Thor Form!
Loki.
The Thunder Giant spoke.
The sound was no longer just human voices, but rather like hundreds of thunderclaps booming simultaneously, shaking the entire city of New York.
"Now……"
"Who, after all, is a mortal?"
boom!
The Thunder Giant clenched his other fist, without any fancy techniques or reservations.
A simple straight punch.
But this fist contains two hundred million volts of voltage, thousands of degrees of temperature, and an extreme double blow of physics and energy!
Boom! ! ! !
The fist slammed into the Destroyer's chest.
Immediately following was a shockwave that pierced through the heavens and the earth.
The Destroyer armor that had once filled everyone with despair was like a baseball hit with a home run, transformed into a shooting star and sent flying thousands of meters into the sky!
The clouds were breached.
The atmosphere was torn apart.
Even Loki, who was remotely controlling the armor, felt as if his mind had been struck by a heavy hammer, and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood on his throne.
"This is impossible!!!"
Loki clutched his chest, his eyes bloodshot. "He's just a worthless exiled soldier! How could he possibly possess such power?!"
The New York battlefield.
The Thunder Giant slowly retracted its fist; despite its massive size, its movements were not slow.
Tuo looked down at Li Ang, who was still on the ground looking up at him.
A silly smile appeared on that huge lightning face.
"Manager! This trick works really well!"
The sound was like rolling thunder.
Li Ang covered his ears and rolled his eyes helplessly. "Keep it down, I don't want to be deafened."
Tony, clad in his symbiote armor, hovered in mid-air, gazing at the towering lightning giant. His expression beneath the visor was incredibly complex.
Since meeting Li Ang, Tony has felt his worldview fluctuating between collapse and reconstruction, from various miracles to the arrival of this true god race, it's simply indescribable.
"Jarvis, remove the word 'science' from my dictionary, for now."
"Sir, perhaps we should consider adding some lightning rods to the studio," Jarvis calmly suggested.
Dr. Banner had also deactivated his Fahai form and stood by the pit, wearing a cassock, looking at the image of the Thunder God with awe in his eyes.
however.
Just when everyone thought the battle was over.
The Destroyer, which was blasted into the clouds, did not fall.
High in the sky, although the Destroyer's body was twisted and deformed, and a large part of its chest had collapsed, the eerie blue light grew stronger and stronger.
Loki has gone mad.
He was unwilling to accept defeat, especially defeat to his older brother who only had muscles in his head.
"Destroyer! Self-destruct mode!"
Loki roared the command hoarsely, "Raze that place to the ground! Blow Thor to ashes!!"
high in the air.
The Destroyer shone like a small sun, and its terrifying energy fluctuations even caused weather anomalies.
A fierce wind howled, and dark clouds loomed over the city.
With a sense of annihilation, it transformed into a meteorite and crashed towards the ground!
"Damn it! That metal lump is going to explode!"
Tony's expression changed drastically. "That kind of energy... it would wipe out half of New York!"
Before he finished speaking, he had already moved, seemingly intending to charge towards the Destroyer.
"Henshin!"
A purple light flashed across Tony's body, and the silver-white symbiote armor turned into liquid and flowed, merging into the bio-armor of the Kuuga Titan form.
Thor was clearly aware of this as well.
He maintained his Thor form. Although his power was invincible, this form was extremely energy-consuming. That punch just now was his full-force attack.
He is now like a balloon filled with air; though enormous, it lacks the strength to continue.
"Pikachu..."
The Pikachu on my shoulder was exhausted, its little tongue dangling out, unable to squeeze out a single bit of electricity.
"What should we do...?"
Thor watched the destructive fireball getting closer and closer in the sky, his heart filled with anxiety.
Although he could withstand it, his friends and the city's civilians would definitely not be able to withstand an explosion of this magnitude.
If it were before, with Mjolnir at his disposal, he could have easily created a storm to sweep it away.
But now, he has nothing.
"Thor without his hammer is still like a toothless tiger."
Li Ang stood amidst the ruins, watching this scene, and gently shook his head.
However, when he looked at Tony, his eyes gleamed with admiration. "No wonder he's the hero who withstood a nuclear bomb. But this Destroyer is ultimately Thor's match."
Li Ang showed no intention of making a move.
Because he heard it.
That voice.
That voice transcended space, broke the sound barrier, and carried an unwavering loyalty and sense of mission.
call out! ! !
That was the sound of something cutting through the air.
But it was sharper and more urgent than the sound of any fighter jet.
In New Mexico, hundreds of kilometers away.
The bottom of that meteorite crater, which is under close surveillance by S.H.I.E.L.D.
The "hammer in the stone," which no person or machine could budge even an inch, suddenly began to tremble violently.
The soil on top was shaken off, revealing ancient and mysterious runes.
Bang!
A loud bang.
Mjolnir soared into the sky, its speed so great that it left a long trail of fire in the atmosphere.
It crosses mountains and rivers.
It came in response to the king's call.
On the battlefield in New York.
Thor raised his head, and his eyes, formed of lightning, suddenly shone with an unprecedented brilliance.
He sensed it.
That old buddy.
That old friend who always waited for him, no matter how down on his luck or how foolish he was.
Thor raised his right hand, which was wielding lightning, high towards the sky.
Spread your five fingers.
"bring it on!!!"
A roar.
A streak of light tore through the dark clouds and struck the giant lightning hand with perfect accuracy.
"On your left."
Immediately afterwards, a lightning bolt flashed past Tony, and a smile formed of lightning flashed in Tony's eyes.
"This is my opponent!"