After dropping these words, Wanda turned and walked away.
In that instant before leaving, her gaze met with Gwen's.
The two women's gazes met in midair for less than half a second.
From Wanda's eyes, Gwen saw anger, but besides anger, she also saw something else.
Anxiety.
Wanda was actually afraid too.
But she did not choose to sit and wait for death; instead, she preferred to take a gamble.
"Let's go, Pietro."
Wanda strode away without looking back.
Pietro shrugged, spread his hands toward the people in the conference room, and made an expression that said, "There's nothing I can do about having a sister like this."
Watching the backs of the two as they left.
The conference room fell into silence once again.
But this time, the silence was clearly a little different.
Captain America slowly stood up.
He looked at the door that had been blasted askew and was silent for a long time.
"She is right."
Everyone looked at him.
"An excessive reliance on Peter has indeed made us a bit too sluggish."
"To think we needed an outsider to tell us such a simple truth as 'sitting here won't solve any problems'!"
"Gwen is right. Before Peter returns, we must do something!"
"As Avengers, as humanity's last line of defense, no matter how powerful the opponent is, we must hold on until the very last moment!"
"This is the responsibility we have carried on our shoulders since the first day we became Superheroes!"
Saying this, he raised his head, and in those blue eyes, a faint light finally reignited.
"Avengers... Assemble."
The moment these words fell, the air in the conference room changed.
Everyone felt the fear and negativity in their hearts rapidly receding, replaced by some kind of surging emotion growing wildly in their hearts, beating as hot as flames!
"Captain is right. Even if we are no match for that monster, at least before we die, we should bite a piece of flesh off that bastard!" Harry shouted loudly.
Thus, Captain America picked up the Vibranium shield leaning against the wall.
Tony's fingers tapped on the arc reactor on his chest, and the Mark 50 quickly covered his entire body.
Natasha's figure underwent a drastic change, visibly switching to her hybrid form.
Harry, Gwen, Daisy, Hawkeye, Felicia... one after another.
No one spoke discouraging words anymore, and no one responded to others' mobilization with negative silence.
...
Three hours later.
Argentina, the southern coastline of Buenos Aires.
The Avengers' quinjet landed on a ruin that had already been soaked by seawater.
On the distant coastline, large shadows were moving slowly.
That was Cul's army.
The sea tide legion composed of tens of thousands of Talokan warriors paved the way in front, and in the very center of the legion, five figures emitting different colored lights hovered in midair.
It was the remaining five The Worthy.
Behind The Worthy, a tall man, his body wrapped in dark green runes, sat upright on a throne condensed from seawater.
Cul.
He didn't even stand up.
He just sat there, in an almost lazy posture, looking down at the tiny figures jumping off the fighter jet in front.
"Are you the Avengers?"
Cul's voice was not loud, but it clearly reached everyone's ears.
"I had thought... at least a few more would come."
Captain America gripped the handle of his shield tightly.
He could feel the pressure radiating from Cul—that was not just simple power pressure, but an instinctive urge surging from the depths of the soul that made people want to kneel.
Fear.
Pure, unadorned fear.
"You want a few more? As you wish!"
Tony sneered and snapped his fingers, and immediately after, all kinds of lights lit up in the sky.
Those were various models of Mark Battle Suits, having activated their autonomous attack modes.
The Battle Suits raised their hands, and scorching energy cannons accumulated in their palms.
This formation indeed caused a moment of panic in the Talokan army behind Namor.
But Cul remained in an arrogant, listless manner, just casually lifting a finger.
"Go, my The Worthy."
"Let these ants see... what the gap in strength is!"
The moment his voice fell, the five The Worthy immediately took a step forward!
Noticing their movements, Tony did not hesitate at all and chose to open fire immediately!
Boom, boom, boom!
Energy cannons smashed down towards The Worthy.
Tony thought that this level of thermal weapon bombardment, even if it couldn't instantly kill these monsters, should at least cause them serious injuries.
But facts proved that he was overthinking it.
"Overestimating yourselves!" Sin's eyes flashed with excited light.
She and the controlled Namor looked at each other, then simultaneously held high the hammers in their hands.
The hammer of nerkkod stirred up monstrous waves, covering the sky above Cul's army like a dome.
And the hammer of skadi instantly froze these giant waves, forming a thick protective ice layer.
"Don't even think about it!" Facing the joint effort of Sin and Namor, Daisy and Natasha instinctively looked at each other, then similarly launched a counterattack.
Natasha used the ability of the Okuchi no Makami fruit, condensing hard and thick ice cones, attempting to destroy the integrity of the ice layer.
And Daisy, relying on the force of the counter-shock, instantly rushed onto the ice layer, covered the ice layer with both hands, and accompanied by the full-power output of her Quake ability, instantly shattered the frozen ice layer.
Relying on this coordination between the two, the Mark army's laser cannons were able to land solidly into Cul's camp.
A large number of Talokan soldiers were blasted into crying for their parents, but in stark contrast to them, and what made the Avengers present look grim was—
Those The Worthy, these monsters, relying on the divine armor on their bodies, completely ignored the output of those powerful energy cannons!
Energy cannons sufficient to destroy a building instantly, landing on their bodies, couldn't even leave a shallow white mark!
"How dare you hurt my people!"
Namor, influenced by the "hammer of nerkkod", had blood-red eyes, and he dove into the water with a splash.
Underwater, his speed was simply like teleportation.
In the blink of an eye, he arrived in front of Daisy who was falling from the sky, the hammer of nerkkod raised high in his hand.
Daisy's expression changed slightly, and she instinctively mobilized her not-yet-proficient Three Parts Returning Essence Qi combined with her Quake ability to block.
But she had ultimately overestimated her current ability; the moment the great hammer made contact with her palms, her Quake ability shattered like fragile glass.
Daisy was thus heavily blown to the ground by this hammer, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
"Next, it's your turn!"
At the very same time Daisy was beaten to the point of vomiting blood by Namor, the wolf ears on top of Natasha's head twitched, and without thinking, she swiped a claw behind her, which collided head-on with Sin's hammer of skadi.
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