In just the blink of an eye—nothing more.
The God Butcher Gorr had completely recovered.
Wounds that would have been instantly fatal to anyone else hadn't caused him even the slightest lasting damage.
It could only be said that the Necrosword was truly extraordinary.
"Who… exactly are you?!"
A voice filled with shock rang out from Gorr's mouth.
He stared wide-eyed at Alex, utterly stunned, murmuring in disbelief.
This mortal… was actually this terrifying?
He had nearly been killed in a single blow!
By the heavens—
Ever since becoming the God Butcher, Gorr had slaughtered countless gods.
Yet not a single one of them had ever injured him so badly!
Not one of them had ever been as powerful as the man before him!
That's right.
This flesh-and-blood mortal was actually stronger than every god Gorr had ever encountered.
If he hadn't experienced it himself, Gorr would never have believed it.
But at this moment, he finally understood—
Why Thor and Loki, those two gods, treated this mortal the way they did.
So it was because this mortal was simply too outrageous.
"Homelander."
Facing Gorr's shocked and razor-sharp gaze, Alex remained calm and spoke his name.
Homelander?
Gorr tilted his bald head slightly. He'd never heard of that name.
After all, Gorr paid attention only to gods—not mortals.
"Truly astonishing."
"I've never seen anyone like you. I never imagined that a human could be stronger than the gods!"
"But I won't let you block my path!"
Gorr's voice rang out once more, now filled with boundless darkness and killing intent.
Crack! Crack!
As those words fell, countless black "vines" suddenly burst out from beneath Alex's feet.
They instantly bound his arms and legs tightly.
At the same time, Gorr clenched the Necrosword and leapt toward Alex.
In a single bound, he crossed hundreds of meters, appearing in front of Alex in an instant, swinging his sword down in a vicious overhead slash.
Alex didn't dodge or evade.
His expression was calm, as if everything were firmly under his control.
And in truth—
It was.
Being restrained like this was nothing to Alex.
He simply raised his head calmly and glanced at Gorr.
Hiss!
Two blazing-hot beams of heat vision shot out instantly.
"What?!"
Gorr was shocked.
Even while completely restrained, he could still attack using his eyes?!
That was absurd!
In the next moment—
Caught completely off guard, Gorr was struck by Alex's heat vision.
Two scorched craters instantly appeared in his body.
Not only that—
The overwhelming force sent Gorr flying, smashing him into the ground like a dead dog.
Crack! Crack!
But when Gorr climbed back to his feet, the horrifying wounds burned into his chest by the heat vision healed once again.
Even so, Gorr's expression grew increasingly grave.
This Homelander—
Was far too terrifying.
All this time, Gorr had always been brimming with confidence when facing powerful gods, convinced of inevitable victory.
Yet for the first time—
When facing a being who wasn't even a god, Gorr found that confidence slipping away.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Violent tremors shook the ground.
As Gorr had been blasted away by Alex, he had also issued commands to the monsters he created.
At once, massive creatures surged toward Alex from all directions.
In the blink of an eye, they completely surrounded him.
Some extended razor-sharp claws, others opened gaping maws, while still others thrust out jagged bone spikes—
All lunging at Alex at once.
It looked as though he would be torn to pieces the very next second.
Boom!
But at that exact moment—
An incomparably vast power suddenly erupted from Alex's body, exploding outward.
Like a surging flood, it instantly shattered all the black vines binding him.
And it didn't stop there.
That power continued to spread outward like crashing waves.
Every massive monster that had rushed toward Alex was utterly unable to withstand it.
Like leaves caught in a hurricane, they were all blown away.
Gorr's pupils shrank violently, his heart lurching.
This was just too damn outrageous!
What kind of joke was this?!
Boom!
But at that very moment, Gorr once again heard that all-too-familiar sonic boom.
His vision blurred.
Before he could even react, Alex had already appeared right beside him.
Whoosh!
Acting on instinct, Gorr swung the Necrosword viciously at Alex.
Clang!
A crisp, metallic sound rang out.
Alex had reached out and caught the Necrosword with one hand.
"What?!"
Gorr was stunned yet again.
Yes—
Once again, Gorr was shocked.
In this brief exchange with Alex, the number of times Gorr had been astonished already surpassed his entire career as the God Butcher.
There was no helping it.
Alex's performance shattered his understanding again and again.
[Special energy source detected!]
[Analyzing energy source…]
[Energy value: 300,000 Origin Points. Status: Extractable.]
At that very moment, such a system prompt echoed in Alex's mind.
A flash of excitement immediately appeared on Alex's face.
Extractable!
And a full three hundred thousand Origin Points!
A full hundred thousand more than Zeus's divine thunderbolt.
A massive harvest!
An absolutely massive harvest!
This trip to deal with the God Butcher Gorr had truly been worth it.
"Hah!"
A furious shout erupted from Gorr's mouth.
He poured all his strength into the Necrosword, trying to cleave Alex in two.
However—
"Extract!"
As Alex issued the command to the system in his mind, Gorr suddenly realized—
All his power was gone.
He couldn't even hold onto the Necrosword anymore.
His hand loosened.
Clang!
The Necrosword fell straight to the ground.
That's right.
Even though the Necrosword had become an "ordinary sword," its sheer weight was still far beyond what Gorr could wield.
Not only that—
All the dark monsters Gorr had created began to melt away like ice under a blazing sun.
Whoosh!
In a single instant—
The black-and-white world regained its vivid colors.
This bizarre realm finally returned to normal.
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