Not just this blue-gray little black girl in front of him.
The other three blue-gray little black girls, held in attack posture by Hawk's telekinesis and bound around the speedboat, also spoke with difficulty and pain after their mouths were freed, saying bullshit like they couldn't breathe.
Hawk turned a deaf ear, watching with interest as the face of the blue-gray little black girl in front of him gradually turned flushed but extremely ugly due to the inability to breathe.
The voice of the blue-gray little black girl became increasingly hoarse, as if someone was pressing a knee against her neck, making her voice weak and faint.
Her life was already at the tipping point.
At that moment.
"Boom!"
"Bang, bang, bang, bang!"
The sea beneath the speedboat seemed to come alive, suddenly erupting and tearing the speedboat apart in an instant. Hawk's eyes turned crimson, and in less than 0.1 seconds, he used a Phoenix Beam to instantly incinerate the four blue-gray little black girls, then disappeared from the spot.
The next second.
Boom!
The speedboat was abruptly torn into pieces like jerky that could be chewed in the mouth by the suddenly raging seawater.
Hawk stood suspended in mid-air, expressionless, looking down at the sea surface.
A silver object suddenly emerged from the raging seawater, shimmering with a silver light, darting towards Hawk like a flash.
Hawk raised an eyebrow and instantly punched out with his right fist!
With the sound of metal clashing, Hawk saw the full view of the silver object that collided with his fist.
A fork.
Scientific name—
Trident!
Kuang!
When fist met trident, a shock wave instantly erupted, the trident flew backward, spinning in the air, then breaking through the air, skimming along the sea surface, roaring towards a certain place.
Hawk sneered, stepping his right foot forward, targeting the trident ripping through the air and the sea surface below it, and once again swung his fist.
A wave likewise rose skyward from the sea at this moment.
Boom!
When Hawk's whistling fist collided with the giant wave that rose skyward, it instantly erupted with an earsplitting roar. Although the giant wave descending from the sky blocked the progress of Hawk's fist, it shattered upon contact, turning into countless splashing water droplets, falling back into the sea with a splash.
The next second!
A man clad in jade battle armor, with a pair of wings at his ankles, same black-gray skin, sturdy build, and bare-chested, grabbed the trident, appearing in Hawk's view as the giant wave receded.
Hawk watched the man, who emerged after the wave, wielded the trident to summon the shattered wave back to the sea, standing mid-air like himself, narrowing his eyes.
Unlike Hawk's natural ability to stand mid-air.
This newcomer, who approached rapidly from underwater at supersonic speed during Hawk's observation of the four blue-gray little black girls' slow suffocation, also stood mid-air, but the small wings at his ankles beat frantically.
Hmm.
The scene was quite abstract.
The newcomer, after summoning the wave back to the water, flapped the double wings at his ankles, standing mid-air, holding the trident and making eye contact with Hawk.
"Hawk Phoenix."
"Who are you?"
"Mackenzie, Namor McKenzie."
Namor McKenzie, King of Talokan, an undersea kingdom similar to Wakanda's Hidden Country, holding a trident, his voice as cold as the sea.
But black seawater.
Hawk listened as the newcomer introduced himself, thoughts quickly racing, flipping through memories in his memory palace about all known Marvel characters at the speed of light.
The next second.
He found the origin of the name.
Namor McKenzie.
King of the Sea!
But not from the DC Cosmos, rather from the Marvel Cosmos.
The DC King of the Sea is the king of underwater Atlantis.
The Marvel King of the Sea is also the king of underwater Atlantis, but here it's called Talokan.
DC King of the Sea is a hybrid of an undersea person and a land person.
The Marvel King of the Sea is also a mix.
As for why the DC King of the Sea is a hybrid while the Marvel King of the Sea is a mix, Hawk didn't intend to explain.
The DC King of the Sea has the Nemo Trident.
The Marvel King of the Sea also has the Nemo Trident!
King Namor can breathe freely underwater and even at high altitudes, not only soar supersonically underwater but also run swiftly on land, with strength comparable to Thor's. And when he's in water, even Thor is not his equal (as stated in an interview with the editor, although his portrayal in the films was quite poor).
Hawk's thoughts raced, then he remembered the blue bead containing much seawater that he found after destroying Wakanda.
He then looked at Namor holding the Nemo Trident.
"Wakanda!"
"Yes."
The blue-gray Namor holding the Nemo Trident met Hawk's gaze: "You're exactly as my wife described, you have a cold heart."
Hawk raised a sword-like eyebrow.
"Your wife?"
"Shuri."
"The Princess of Wakanda?"
Hawk's expression initially frowned upon hearing this, then, looking at Namor, he chuckled softly: "I thought she had perished in Wakanda like her brother T'Challa."
Namor smiled slightly: "If I hadn't married her."
His kingdom, in fact, had no substantial connection with Wakanda.
At least not until Hawk exposed Wakanda; his kingdom and Wakanda were merely protecting the secret of the Vibranium.
After all, Wakanda had Vibranium, and they also had Vibranium.
But before the late King of Wakanda, T'Chaka was about to die and go to the land of the ancestors, he found him and betrothed Shuri to him.
Then, just as he brought Shuri back to his undersea kingdom, Hawk destroyed Wakanda.
Hmm.
Events happening in quick succession.
"You're very cruel, Mr. Phoenix."
"Thank you."
Hawk accepted Namor's compliment expressionlessly, then looked at Namor: "So, are you here for revenge?"
Namor shrugged.
"You killed my wife's entire family."
"Here's a piece of advice for you."
"Go ahead!"
"Hand over your wife, then get lost and never show up in front of me again, or else I guarantee your undersea kingdom will disappear from this world just like Wakanda."
Hawk's tone was calm.
He thought Wakanda was already wiped out.
Unexpectedly...
There was a fish that slipped through the net.
And that fish delivered itself to his door.
Namor listened to Hawk's suggestion and laughed.
Hawk, seeing Namor's smile, also laughed.
Soon.
Namor's smile faded.
"You're not just cruel, but also arrogant."
"So what?"
"Here's a piece of advice for you."
"Go ahead."
"Kneel down and kowtow to the place where Wakanda was, and I'll let you leave."
Namor also calmly offered Hawk a suggestion.
The smile on Hawk's face did not fade; instead, it gradually bloomed, his gaze fixed intently on Namor.
"Just you?"
"A fish with wings on its feet?"
"Ha!"
Hawk snorted coldly, then burst into laughter.
Fish?
Namor heard Hawk's adjective, his expression froze for a moment as he watched Hawk laughing loudly without restraint. Without saying a word, he swung his Trident, the small wings on his ankles flapping, and charged towards Hawk.
"Die!"
"You think you can?"
Hawk, seeing Namor charging at him, instantly lost his smile, his right fist launching out once again.
"Boom——!!"
A louder explosion sounded, and a sonic boom cloud appeared the moment the fist and Trident collided.
Both Hawk and Namor flew backwards simultaneously.
But!
While being knocked back, Hawk's figure suddenly disappeared, leaving only a burst of residual shadow in place. By the time he reappeared, he was already behind Namor, who was also flying backward. His fist, the size of a sandbag, shot towards Namor, who seemed to be heading straight for him.
At this moment.
Namor seemed to react as well. Abruptly, his figure twisted, and the Nemo Trident in his hand glowed with a strange blue light, like a returning spear, once again clashing with Hawk's fist.
Boom!
A deafening explosion erupted.
Not just the air but also the seawater.
The energy from Hawk and Namor's clash created a shockwave that pressed downwards, instantly compressing the sea beneath them into a massive pit dozens of meters wide.
All around the pit, the surging seawater seemed to connect with the sky, forming an impenetrable wall of water.
"Beep!"
"Beep!"
"Beep!"
"S.H.I.E.L.D. Satellite detected a strong energy wave in the North Pacific."
"Analyzing energy data."
"Beep beep beep!"
"Phoenix and... unknown energy, being logged for database comparison."
"Comparison results are in."
"Thor..."
"Commander, strong energy waves in the North Pacific, Phoenix and an unknown energy that's nearly as powerful as Thor."
"Activate the S.H.I.E.L.D. Energy Satellite."
"Understood, activating satellite signal, online in five minutes."
"... Online successfully."
"Bring it up."
Commander Victoria Hand immediately ordered, then looked up at the large screen in front of her.
At this moment.
The doors to the command center opened, and Maria Hill, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., who had just received the news and rushed over, walked up to Victoria Hand, looking at the large screen connecting to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Satellite signal.
"What's going on, weren't we pursuing Merrick? Where did this energy comparable to Thor's come from?"
"I don't know, but... the satellite is online."
Commander Hand shrugged, luckily the large screen had already connected to the satellite signal by this time, putting an end to the topic.
The next second.
The previously dim large screen, indicating it was connecting, suddenly brightened.
Following this, under the advanced S.H.I.E.L.D. Satellite technology, the dark North Pacific appeared like daytime on the large screen.
...