With its ice armor gone the giant's body, forged from extreme frost, could no longer maintain its structure. The huge figure stiffened for a moment… then collapsed with a thunderous crash onto the glacier, shattering into countless massive chunks of ice. In the end, it became nothing more than an enormous lifeless ice statue, blending into the surrounding glacier as if it had always been part of it.
Only then did Thor swing his hammer and fly over. He stared at the giant ice sculpture, then looked at Saitama standing beside it, patting the surface like he was testing its hardness. Thor's face was full of disbelief.
"This… this is over already?"
Saitama turned his head and pointed at the ice statue. "Yeah, it's dealt with. Look—this ice is pretty solid." As he spoke, he casually scooped up a pile of snow nearby and started building a tiny snowman next to the statue, humming an off-key tune.
Thor watched Saitama's relaxed attitude, then looked again at the enemy he'd struggled against for so long—now turned into a piece of art. He rubbed his beard, his expression complicated. In the end, he could only land and say,
"…Yeah. Pretty solid. Need help building it?"
Deep within the Amazon rainforest, a green paradise of life had become a death trap.
A thousand-year-old vine that had absorbed an excessive amount of radioactive waste mutated and evolved a terrifying self-awareness—becoming the Vine Queen. Its root system could extend for kilometers. Its vines, unbelievably tough, moved like living giant pythons, easily wrapping up and crushing tanks. They could even reflect or absorb energy-weapon attacks. A military unit that accidentally wandered into its territory was almost completely wiped out.
Saitama had come to investigate with a Wakandan scout team led by Black Panther, T'Challa.
Inside the rainforest, the light was dim, and the air was filled with the heavy stench of rotting vegetation mixed with an eerie, strange sense of radiation. On the ground, bones of animals and humans lay everywhere—dried out, drained of nutrients.
Suddenly, the trees all around seemed to come alive.
Countless thick vines shot toward them like lightning! They came not only from the ground, but also from the canopy overhead, dropping down in an instant to form a perfect net—a prison with no gaps.
Wakandan energy weapons fired into the vines, but only caused ripples. The energy was easily deflected or absorbed. Black Panther relied on the sharp vibranium claws of his suit and his agility to sever a few vines, yet more and more kept pouring in, trying to coil around him.
Saitama stood there, as if he hadn't reacted yet.
In the next instant, seven or eight of the thickest vines wrapped around him layer by layer bundling him into a green rice dumpling. Then an enormous force dragged him rapidly toward the deeper jungle… toward the direction of the Vine Queen's core.
Black Panther shouted in alarm, "Sir!" He tried to break through and rescue him, but even more vines blocked his path.
Saitama was dragged along, feeling the vines tighten harder and harder as they tried to crush him. He frowned slightly.
"Kinda itchy."
Then he casually stretched his body.
Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap!
The vines wrapped around him seemed to be hit by a terrifying force from the inside, breaking instantly. Each one burst apart, sap spraying everywhere. Saitama easily freed himself and landed on the ground.
He looked at the sticky plant fluid splattered on his suit, visibly disgusted.
Ignoring the vines still trying to attack from all directions, he simply started walking in the direction they'd dragged him from. Along the way, any vine that tried to block him got torn apart with a casual pull—like ripping through rotten rope.
(End of Chapter)
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