Chapter 90 Too Weak
Meanwhile.
Malibu, seaside Villa.
"Rumble!"
Inside the gym, the custom treadmill roared deafeningly.
Pietro was shirtless, sweat pouring down like a waterfall, drenching his silver hair and plastering it to his forehead.
His legs had already become a blur.
Mach 3.
This was beyond the speed of sound.
For Pietro a few minutes ago, this was an unimaginable speed.
But now, it had become his hell.
"Ha... ha... ha..."
His lungs were like a broken bellows, each breath burning.
His muscles screamed, his bones wailed.
"Damn bastard!!"
Pietro gritted his teeth.
Leon's gentle yet arrogant face kept replaying in his mind.
"Too slow."
"You don't even have the right to make me look at you properly."
"I only train elites, never fools."
Humiliation!
Still humiliation!
Humiliation transformed into the fuel of anger, squeezing out his body's potential.
He hated Leon!
He hated this god who toyed with him at will!
"I must be faster!!"
"I must get rid of him!!"
Just as Pietro's will was about to break.
On the Villa's roof, a Shadow silently solidified.
Makkari.
The Eternal speedster.
She crouched on the edge of the roof, her bronze tight-fitting battle suit outlining her agile physique.
Her short hair swayed slightly in the sea breeze, her face filled with intense curiosity.
Was Ajak crazy?
To actually surrender to an Asgardian?
And gather everyone to meet him?
Makkari had already sensed Ikaris's fate.
She didn't believe Ajak would betray them.
So, she wanted to see for herself.
What abilities did this Leon Odinson truly possess?
Or rather, how powerful was he?
Her gaze pierced through the skylight, landing inside the Villa.
She saw the girl in the greenhouse.
Wanda.
The girl knelt before the flower bed, faint red energy swirling around her fingertips.
A pot of orchids in front of her was disintegrating at a visible speed.
"Oh?"
A hint of surprise flashed in Makkari's eyes.
Chaos Magic?
When did Earth... Her gaze shifted to the gym.
Then, she saw Pietro.
A silver-haired speedster?
Makkari froze.
She tilted her head, her face full of confusion.
This boy... was he running?
Makkari observed carefully.
Pietro's movements were as slow as a snail strolling in her eyes.
No, even slower than that.
The energy fluctuations on him were peculiar, was it divine power?
But his use of speed was simply disastrous.
He was driving his legs with brute force, his body's muscles were screaming, and his coordination was a mess.
"How pathetic."
Makkari silently scoffed.
She found it somewhat amusing.
This was the Asgardian Prince's training method?
Throwing a newly awakened speedster onto a treadmill to torment him?
Too primitive.
Too brutal.
This Leon, he was nothing special after all.
Just as Makkari relaxed her guard and was about to go down to say hello.
"Buzz!"
The space in front of her suddenly tore open with a golden crack!
The dazzling light made her instinctively narrow her eyes!
Leon's figure slowly stepped out from the golden light.
He didn't spare Makkari a glance, facing sideways to her, gazing at the distant sea.
Makkari was instantly shocked!
!!!!!
He was discovered!
How could he... Wasn't he in New York?!
She knew Tony Stark's location!
How did he... She had no time to think! Her body reacted!
Run!
"Boom!!!"
A piercing sonic boom cloud exploded on the roof!
Makkari instantly surpassed dozens of times the speed of sound, transforming into a stream of light, rushing towards the end of the Pacific Ocean!
She ran so fast that the air ignited, leaving a white vapor trail on the sea surface!
Inside the Villa gym.
Pietro heard the terrifying sonic boom!
He turned his head sharply, only to see a blur too fast to catch disappearing into the horizon!
"What was that?!"
Pietro's pupils suddenly constricted!
So fast!
What kind of speed was that?!
That was true speed!
His desperate struggles on this machine were simply a joke!
On the roof.
Leon still hadn't moved.
He watched the direction Makkari had disappeared in, a slight smile playing on his lips.
The Eternal speedster.
A scout for the Celestials.
Moving at high speed by relying on the energy bestowed by the Celestials.
A hint of pity flashed in Leon's eyes.
"What a pathetic creation."
He knew the settings of these characters too well.
Makkari was fast.
But she, after all, ran within the rules.
"And I..."
Leon's gaze became indifferent.
"I am the rule."
He spoke slowly, his voice reaching Makkari, who was already hundreds of kilometers away.
"Can you catch up to light?"
Makkari, who was fleeing over the Pacific Ocean, suddenly stiffened!
That voice!
How could he... She looked back in horror.
Then, she saw it.
The Sun.
No... not the Sun in the sky.
It was him!
Leon Odinson.
He stood on the roof of the Villa, but the light emanating from him overshadowed the Sun in the sky!
Golden divine light instantly enveloped the entire Earth!
For Makkari, the World had changed.
No longer the whistling sea breeze and the azure sky.
The entire World had turned into a golden ocean.
Light.
Ubiquitous light.
Her speed became meaningless at this moment.
She felt like a fly in amber.
She could move.
But every step she took required exhausting all her strength.
The light transformed into substantial shackles, entwining her limbs, her soul.
This was not a physical impediment.
This was the realm of god!
"No... no... this is impossible!!"
Makkari discovered in horror that her body was being forcibly pulled out of its supersonic state by the golden light.
Her speed was being forcibly reset to Zero!
"Thud!"
Makkari fell awkwardly from mid-air, crashing heavily onto the sea surface, splashing up a huge amount of Water.
She tried to struggle.
But her speed at this moment couldn't even allow her to stand on the Water's surface!
She was like a drowning person, sinking in the golden light.
"No... don't..."
She looked up in despair, towards Malibu.
Leon still stood there.
He simply watched her calmly.
As if watching a butterfly caught in a spider's web.
Gentle, yet cruel.
"Too weak."
Leon's evaluation echoed in Makkari's mind... Inside the Villa.
Pietro had just recovered from his shock at the blur.
He was about to continue his hellish training.
"Jarvis."
Leon's voice suddenly rang out in the Villa.
Pietro's body stiffened.
"Yes, sir."
"Treadmill power increased tenfold. Now."
"Understood, sir."
Pietro's eyes suddenly widened!
"No! Wait!!"
He wanted to stop, he wanted to jump off!
But he had no time to react at all!
"Boom! Buzz!!!!"
Ten times the speed of sound!
The treadmill belt instantly turned into a blurry black lightning bolt!
An irresistible immense force came from under Pietro's feet!
"Ah ah ah ah!!!!"
Pietro let out a scream!
His body's balance was destroyed!
He was like a cannonball, fiercely launched by the treadmill!
"Boom!!!"
Pietro crashed into the gym wall, creating a human-shaped dent!
"Puff!"
Pietro was embedded in the wall, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
He felt like all the bones in his body were broken.
"Pietro!!!"
In the greenhouse, Wanda heard the loud noise and screams, she no longer cared about magic, and rushed into the gym.
Then, she saw her brother embedded in the wall.
"No! Brother!"
Wanda's tears instantly burst forth, and red energy began to gather uncontrollably around her.
"Did you see that, Pietro?"
Leon's voice rang out again.
"That is your kind."
"She is at least a hundred times faster than you."
Pietro coughed up blood, struggled to lift his head, and looked towards the roof through the broken French window.
He couldn't clearly see Leon's face.
He could only see a ball of golden light.
"But..."
Leon's voice paused.
He slowly raised his hand and gently clenched it towards the Pacific Ocean where Makkari had fallen.
"In front of me, she doesn't even have the right to take a step."
As his voice fell.
Pietro and Wanda witnessed a scene they would never forget for the rest of their lives.
A golden path of light, like a miracle from the Bible, stretched from the Villa's terrace all the way to the horizon where the sea met the sky!
At the end of the light path.
A figure, head bowed, drenched, walked back step by step.
It was the blur that had disappeared so quickly just now!
It was Makkari!
She didn't run.
She couldn't run either.
She walked upon the miracle Leon had laid out for her, forced to return before her god.
Pietro's pupils lost focus.
"Heh..."
"Heh heh heh..."
Embedded in the wall, he suddenly chuckled softly.
His laughter contained only despair and self-mockery.
His kind?
Right?
Turns out... turns out we really don't have the right.
Pietro's consciousness plunged into darkness.
Wanda stood in the center of the gym, looking at the miracle outside the window and the woman slowly walking back.
The magic in her hands had unknowingly subsided.
Fear and anger had not appeared.
In her heart, there was only awe.
Of course, there was also a sense of security.
He was god.
An omnipotent god... A few minutes later.
On the terrace.
Makkari stood before Leon, her head bowed.
Her entire body was trembling.
Not from cold, but from fear.
The Eternal's energy, in the face of Leon's light, was like a candle in the wind.
She dared not look up at him directly.
"Makkari."
Leon spoke slowly, his tone arrogant.
Makkari was stunned.
He knew her name.
"Ajak is looking for you."
Leon took a sip of wine, as if nothing had happened.
Makkari's body trembled.
She suddenly looked up and gestured rapidly in sign language.
"Who exactly are you?! What did you do to Ajak?!"
Leon smiled slightly.
He put down his wine glass and responded unhurriedly.
"Me? I am Leon Odinson. The Sun god of Asgard."
Makkari's face turned pale.
Asgard, Odinson.
The crazy family that almost shattered the Nine Realms thousands of years ago!
She knew Leon's identity, but that wasn't what she wanted to ask.
"I didn't do anything to Ajak."
Leon's tone was gentle.
"I just gave her a choice."
"She chose to no longer be a tool of the Celestials and instead follow the true future."
Leon's gaze fell on Makkari's legs.
"You run very fast, Makkari."
"But you have no direction."
Leon smiled slightly.
"You've been hiding in the human World."
"You've run all over the globe, collecting those useless toys."
"Do you think you're enjoying freedom?"
Leon chuckled softly.
"No."
"You're just wasting your talent. Wasting the power the Celestials bestowed upon you."
Makkari clenched her fists.
How... how could he know?!
"I, Leon Odinson."
Leon slowly walked in front of her, his golden pupils looking down at her.
The light on him had receded, but the divine pressure emanating from him made Makkari feel like she was suffocating.
"I bestow upon you a new direction."
"A direction where you no longer need to hide."
Makkari slowly looked up, meeting his gaze.
What kind of eyes were those... Gentle, calm, as if containing the starlight of the Universe.
"You..." Makkari gestured with difficulty.
"What do you want me to do?"
She surrendered.
In the face of absolute power, the Eternal's pride was worthless.
"Me?"
Leon laughed.
"What I want is this Universe."
"And you all will be my vanguard to conquer the Star Sea."
"You will run for me, Makkari. But this time, you will run towards the Stars."
Makkari was stunned.
Run towards the Stars?
This madman!
He wants to conquer the Universe?!
"You..."
"You have no right to refuse." Leon seemed to see through her thoughts and interrupted her directly.
"Ajak has already made her choice."
"Now, it's your turn."
"Will you become my vanguard, or..."
Leon's gaze drifted towards the gym.
"Become the new test subject for that treadmill?"
Makkari followed his gaze.
She saw the silver-haired boy embedded in the wall, unconscious.
Makkari shivered.
She had no doubt.
If she dared to say no.
The next second, she would be thrown onto that machine, until Eternity.
So, she slowly lowered her head.
"Very good."
Leon smiled with satisfaction.
Done.
The Eternal speedster acquired.
This was much more efficient than Tony's slow search.
"Jarvis."
"Sir, I'm here. Mr. Pietro's vital signs are very unstable, twelve ribs are broken, his left leg has a comminuted fracture, I suggest..."
"He won't die."
Leon interrupted Jarvis.
"With my previous enhancement, he'll be up and about tomorrow."
He turned and looked at Wanda, who was trying to pry Pietro out of the wall in the gym.
"Wanda."
Wanda was stunned.
"Get Pietro off the wall."
"Then, take him to the medical room. Jarvis will tell you how to use it."
"Yes!" Wanda replied.
Leon no longer paid attention to the problematic siblings.
He looked at Makkari.
Makkari looked at him nervously.
"As for you..." Leon's smile became playful again.
"You have nothing to do until Tony catches Druig and Faustus."
"So, I'm giving you a new task."
Leon pointed at Pietro.
"From today on, you will be responsible for training him."
Makkari was stunned.
She followed Leon's finger.
Training?
This guy was so slow, and he even got slammed into the wall by the treadmill.
She gestured: "Me? Train him?"
"Exactly."
Leon nodded.
"A speedster teaching a baby who just learned to walk."
"Pietro needs a role model."
"And you, Makkari..."
"You need a toy to pass the boring time."
"Go on."
Leon waved his hand.
"Don't let him die. At least, not until Tony's new treadmill arrives."
Makkari:... She looked at Leon's back.
She suddenly felt... this new boss didn't seem so boring after all... Leon walked into the Villa's living room.
Jarvis's holographic projection unfolded before him.
"Sir, Mr. Tony's team has departed. They are expected to arrive in the Amazon jungle in two hours to apprehend Druig."
"Faustus's location has also been locked."
"Very good." Leon nodded.
Everything was under control.
He sat on the sofa and poured himself a glass of wine.
Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Eternal vanguard.
Wanda's Chaos Magic was the key to luring Chthon.
Pietro's anger was the furnace that would temper his speed.
And Makkari... Makkari's addition was a pleasant surprise.
She was not only a vanguard but also a bond for internal Eternal relations.
With her and Ajak, subduing Druig and Faustus would be effortless.
"My Eternal legion..."
Leon murmured softly.
"Soon, it will be complete."
"As for Thanos..."
"I hope your fleet can last a few more seconds under the Sun."
Leon tilted his head, downing the wine in his glass.
He looked out the window.
The sunlight was intense.
"It's getting more and more interesting."
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