With the S.H.I.E.L.D. satellite signal online, both S.H.I.E.L.D. Commander Victoria Hand and Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Maria Hill simultaneously looked over.
In sight!
In the middle of the ocean, a giant pit suddenly appeared. Below the pit was tranquil seawater, while around the pit were towering ocean walls meeting the sky.
Fortunately, the S.H.I.E.L.D. satellite was in the sky, and although the signal experienced a bit of interference, occasionally showing static, two figures continuously clashing together and then separating, only to clash again, remained clearly visible.
The crimson energy, unmistakably, belonged to Hawk.
But this deep blue energy, like the ocean...
"Can you zoom in?"
"No."
A S.H.I.E.L.D. agent hurriedly said, "This is already the limit; the energy overflow is too much."
Hill nodded.
"Capture the images as much as possible, archive them, and conduct identification."
"Understood."
"Boom!"
Hawk's strike was unadorned, once again punching at Namor's Nemo Trident that was thrusting toward him.
The collision between fist and trident resounded once more in this makeshift arena constructed from seawater.
The trident trembled.
Namor, using this force, retreated to the ocean wall, lowered his eyes to glance at his somewhat sore right hand, then looked up at Hawk.
Hawk stood calmly in mid-air.
"I can keep fighting like this all day."
"So can I!"
Namor chuckled, then, with a whoosh, dodged Hawk's fist, and slid rapidly along the ocean wall like gliding to the calm water's surface at the bottom of the pit, then, with a thud, planted the trident in front of him.
The walls of water, formed by endless seawater, seemed to hear a command and instantly collapsed inward toward the pit.
Without hesitation, Hawk flickered his figure at the moment the walls collapsed and appeared above the water's surface.
Whoosh!
The endless seawater instantly filled the entire pit, simultaneously engulfing Namor, who held the trident in both hands at the bottom of the pit.
"Is he dead?"
Observing the battle from afar via the S.H.I.E.L.D. satellite, a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent watched the screen showing Namor swallowed by the seawater and exclaimed excitedly.
As everyone knows.
The Phoenix helped S.H.I.E.L.D. solve the Hydra chaos, so the Phoenix is a friend of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Since Hawk is a friend of S.H.I.E.L.D., then Hawk's enemy is essentially S.H.I.E.L.D.'s enemy.
Therefore...
The S.H.I.E.L.D. agent was on Hawk's side.
Victoria Hand and Maria Hill did not speak.
They watched Hawk standing in the air on the screen.
Hawk looked expressionlessly at the sea surface below.
Dead?
Impossible.
Namor is the King of the Sea.
He could die anywhere, but he would never die in the ocean.
Just like Mephisto, unless you can destroy the Hell Dimension itself, Mephisto within the Hell Dimension is immortal.
The same goes for Namor.
In the ocean, Namor's power is comparable to Thor's.
Just like now.
Hawk's Sixth Sense precisely locked in, capturing the movement of Namor in the sea.
With a whoosh, Namor returned to the ocean and swiftly darted toward the depths with a supersonic posture, seemingly trying to escape.
But in the next second.
Almost in the blink of an eye, Namor returned, and with a bang, raised his trident high toward Hawk above the sea.
Boom!
A huge water column, as robust as the World Tree, instantly formed, sweeping up the surrounding endless seawater, rotated, and then burst forth like a volcanic eruption, soaring towards the airborne Hawk.
Then...
The massive water column struck nothing but air.
Namor, following the water column's reverse flow, firmly stood on it with his trident, watching Hawk appear not far away.
"I thought you wouldn't run away."
"Heh."
Hawk, who avoided the water column attack, chuckled at the words: "Who was the one who fled into the water first?"
Namor stood on the water column, arms spread wide.
"The ocean is my home; you were the one who intruded into my home first."
"No."
Hawk calmly watched Namor, whose skin started to darken after the exertion: "Remember, you provoked me first."
Namor was taken aback at first, then sneered.
"And then?"
"Nothing much, I just want you to remember this, so when your realm and you end up like Wakanda, not knowing why I destroyed you."
"Just like your wife's brother."
"After I destroyed Wakanda, he survived and asked me why I destroyed Wakanda. Do you know what I told him?"
Hawk smiled, looking at Namor, with a tone as calm as if talking about a trivial matter.
Namor frowned tightly.
"What?"
"I said—"
"Destroying you, what's it got to do with you!"
"So, I told you in advance, that way, when I destroy your realm, you won't ask such a stupid question. I gave you a chance."
Hawk's smile blossomed across his face.
The next second.
He vanished from where he stood!
『Sixth Sense—Instant Movement!』
Standing on the water column, Namor sensed a threat coming from behind, instantly swinging his Trident.
But Hawk appeared at his side, with a bang, directly knocking Namor off the water column.
Boom, boom, boom!
Namor, who was instantly knocked onto the sea surface, was not engulfed by the water. Instead, like skimming a stone, he slid on his back across the water, adjusting his posture along the arcing waves, roaring as he flung his Nemo Trident at Hawk.
Bam!
This time, Hawk didn't choose to punch the Nemo Trident but instead sidestepped. The moment it brushed past him, he launched a punch directly at the Trident's long shaft.
The Nemo Trident spun like a meteor, being shot away.
Seeing this, Namor opened his right hand, choosing to recall the Trident.
But the next second.
Hawk appeared behind him once again, with a tearing sound of the air, and with a thud, pounded heavily onto Namor's back.
Namor, like a shooting star, plummeted towards the sea.
Boom!
A thick splash erupted; this time, Namor didn't enter the water gracefully and seamlessly as before but crashed into the sea like a meteorite from the sky, with a loud splash, showering water everywhere.
"Your strength does match Thor's."
"You even resemble Thor a lot."
"One is the Hammer God, the other is the Trident God."
"What now."
"Without the Nemo Trident, can't you control the ocean?"
Hawk looked at Namor, who swiftly adjusted his posture after entering the water and re-emerged, then gazed at the distant Nemo Trident he had knocked away.
The next second.
Boom!
Hawk's figure tore through the sky, swiftly heading in the direction of the Nemo Trident.
Witnessing this, Namor quickly submerged, racing toward his Trident at supersonic speed as well.
Hawk was in the sky.
Namor was in the sea.
The still rapidly spinning Nemo Trident skimming over the water was the finish line of the race.
The difference is…
To Hawk, this prize didn't matter, but to Namor, it mattered greatly.
Hawk looked down, observing Namor in the water below who swam almost in sync with his speed. Sixth Sense captured the sight of some dimness on the scales on Namor's back, near the buttocks.
No surprise, that spot was likely the Achilles heel of Marvel's King Namor.
Achilles, in Western mythology, was an invulnerable and immortal Divine Spirit.
But he had one weakness, his heel; he died when an arrow struck his heel.
Yes.
The Divine Spirit Achilles, said to be invulnerable and immortal, died because his heel was uncovered.
This sounds ridiculous.
But this is a common trait among Western Divine Spirits.
Every Divine Spirit, no matter how mighty, even those omniscient and omnipotent, have a weakness.
And Marvel, being Western, naturally follows this common trait.
So…
Hawk found Namor's Achilles heel.
The next second.
The instant his figure flickered, he plunged into the sea, projecting himself forward, his right hand forming a fist, striking at Namor's weakness near the buttocks on his back.
Namor, swiftly swimming to retrieve his Divine Artifact Trident before Hawk, was just about to grasp the Nemo Trident when suddenly, his heart leapt with dread, feeling an internal alarm. As he grasped the Trident, he shifted to the side.
But—
Hawk's full-force Supersonic Fist, although not entirely, still struck a large part of Namor's fatal weakness.
With a spurt!
Namor's face instantly flushed, spewing a mouthful of blood, and his body, like lightning, rapidly descended into the deep sea.
His speed was so fast, it was nearly approaching light speed.
Hawk, having entered the sea, raised an eyebrow, quickly chasing the descending Namor.
Crash!
Holding the Trident, Namor, after plunging into the depths, collided with the seabed like a cannonball.
The seabed cracked in response, bubbles continuously gushing from the fissures, and the surrounding water visibly grew murky.
Just as Hawk rapidly pursued down, witnessing the now-unconscious Namor about to be swallowed by the fractured seabed, a gargantuan octopus, living in the deep sea for who knows how many years, almost the size of two Titanic ships combined, appeared. It flailed numerous tentacles, sweeping toward Hawk.
With Hawk's entry into the sea, the surface of the North Pacific seemed to return to calm.
But…
Maria Hill and Victoria Hand, watching from afar, stared unblinkingly at the sea surface.
S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents at the combat center also ceased their work, forgetting to breathe, staring intently at the large screen.
Time ticked by tick-tock.
Until—
The sky broke at dawn!
Boom!
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