Feeling the axe handle that had already reached his stomach, Ares gagged, his eyes bulging in agony. He reached out, trying to pull the axe out.
But before Ares could act, Ryan, having recovered his vision from Ares's breath attack, wasn't about to let it go. His right-hand Symbiote coalesced into a large silver-gray hammer, which he swung down hard onto the axe embedded in Ares's mouth!
Eighty! Thud———
Eighty! Thud———
Eighty! Thud———
With each strike from Ryan, the axe sank deeper, Ares's eyes bulged further, and the audience in the stands shuddered, leaning back slightly as if sharing Ares's pain!
Amidst the series of Earth-shaking impacts, the entire axe was eventually hammered completely inside Ares by Ryan's brute force!
The double-bladed axe tore through Ares's cheeks, forcing him to cosplay as a split-mouthed woman!!
Finally, Ares knelt on the ground, his body rigidly propped up by the axe handle inside him, his mouth torn open by the axe blade, his bulging eyes streaming two trails of bloody tears—a sight as miserable as could be... Ryan retracted the Symbiote giant hammer from his hand, looking disdainfully at Ares, who was more or less dead, and sneered:
"No wonder a single God Butcher like Gorr could scare the entire Olympian Gods into hiding within the Omnipotent City, refusing to come out. Turns out Zeus's whole family is this useless!"
"God of War? Hah, not even as good as a Battle Wolf run over by a Tank!"
Ares's eyes, nearly popping out of their sockets, were filled with terror. His torn mouth twitched as if trying to say something, but the axe blade only allowed him to emit muffled 'mmph' sounds.
And Ryan had no intention of listening to what Ares wanted to say. He spread his fingers, gripped Ares's bald head, dug his fingers into the skull, and then with a mighty heave, yanked out Ares's head along with his spinal column!
Hssss————————
Instantly, a sound of 3D surround-suction of cold air echoed throughout the arena. Everyone was stunned by this move.
Their Ten-time Champion, the contender with a 90% win-rate bet in this Championship Match, Ares, the God of War, was just... dead like that?
Oh, NO... Most of the audience in the stands looked utterly despairing.
Because after today, 90% of the spectators present were destined to go bankrupt, reduced to being low-tier trade goods and food on Sakaar's execution line!
Therefore... the real free-for-all began!
A spectator who had bet everything stood up, his eyes bloodshot as he glared Spider Monarchously at Ryan in the arena, his voice filled with malice: "This bastard has cost us all everything. Only by killing him can we protect our remaining wealth and status!"
With a leader, the despairing 90% of the audience went mad, rising one after another, drawing their weapons.
As for this, Grandmaster, the event organizer in the stands, also looked extremely grim, but he did not try to stop the impending Riot.
Because, damn it, he had also lost big!
So Grandmaster just coldly watched as spectators leaped from the stands, illegally entering the arena, charging in a dark mass towards the contestant Spider-Man!
Even knowing Spider-Man's strength, even knowing they would likely die, these people charged at Ryan without hesitation, weapons drawn!
Because, on Sakaar, poverty is far more terrifying than death!
To this, Ryan declared, I, Spider Monarch, am going to smash Sakaar today!
Ryan extended both hands. The war axe from Ares's torso and the one embedded in the ground both flew automatically into his grasp.
Having absorbed part of Ares's bloodline power and personally slain Ares, he had now gained the right to wield these two divine war axes!
Unlike Mjolnir, which requires worthiness, Ares's war axes can be used by anyone strong enough!
This fact is also documented in Thor: Love and Thunder, where Thor can use Zeus's divine weapons!
Immediately, Ryan, gripping the twin axes, spread his arms wide!
Purple lightning and icy blue frost emanated from the left and right axes respectively. Ryan swung them in a circle before hurling the two axes of different attributes outward!
The Frost Axe froze a swath of charging spectators into popsicles along its path, then shattered them into crunchy ice chips!
The Lightning Axe was even more brutal, electrocuting another group of charging spectators until they exploded into charred chunks of flesh!
But without weapons, how to deal with the remaining charging spectators?
Ryan declared that he was Spider-Man, not Axe-Man; axes weren't his specialty!
Ryan bent his legs and leaped high into the air!
At that moment, a luxurious gold-and-red starship crashed through the arena's roof, hovering above it, allowing Ryan to land upside-down on the ship's underside.
Ryan aimed his wrists at the dark mass of people below. With two 'thwip' sounds, thousands of strands of Silk shot from his wrists, precisely wrapping around the heads of the spectators looking up below!
Then, Ryan's lips curled into a cruel grin: "Ready for a head start?"
Ryan never waited for an answer. As he spoke, his arms were already straining. Amidst a continuous series of popping sounds like corks being pulled, heads filled the arena's sky.
And on the arena floor, the necks of the thousands of spectators whose heads had been brutally ripped off sprayed blood meters high, dyeing the entire arena crimson!
The scene was beyond shocking!
Even Grandmaster on the high platform was dumbstruck. Watching the 'mind-boggling' spectacle below, he turned to the equally stunned Topaz beside him and asked:
"Are my eyes playing tricks on me? Is that guy standing on my happy ship, ripping the heads off all my spectators?"
Topaz looked carefully and nodded in confirmation: "That's correct..."
Receiving confirmation, Grandmaster's face instantly darkened: "Then what are you waiting for? Get him, and reclaim my happy ship!"
Topaz's face returned to its expressionless state. She nodded and tapped a few times on the controller on her wrist.
The next moment, countless fighter ships, having received the signal, flew towards the arena.
After eliminating ninety percent of the audience, Ryan controlled the twin axes to fly to the arena corner where Horse-Face Man and Valkyrie were, stopping before them.
"Hey, you two. Planning to stay here as monkeys for entertainment, or choose to follow me and escape this Grandmaster's circus?"
Horse-Face Man, who hadn't even moved throughout the whole ordeal, glanced at the corpse-strewn surroundings, his eyes flashing. Without hesitation, he grabbed the axe handle and was carried by the axe flying towards the ship above.
Valkyrie, who had been sent flying earlier by Ares's axe, gritted her teeth. Unwilling to remain a prisoner, she too grabbed an axe handle and was carried towards the ship.
At that moment, the sky filled with Densely packed fighter ships, already surrounding Ryan's ship below.
Pulled into the ship by the axe, Valkyrie saw this and urgently exclaimed to Ryan: "Fuck! You bastard, why did you have to steal the Grandmaster's happy ship? It has no weapon systems!"
Ryan recalled the axes from their hands, grinning: "Because only it can pass through the Demon's Anus in the sky. I'll clear the path now. Valkyrie, steer the ship towards the Demon's Anus!"
With that, Ryan flipped onto the top of the ship and hurled the two axes again, blasting several of the surrounding fighter ships above!
Seeing this, Valkyrie knew survival depended on following his lead. Gritting her teeth, she swiftly slipped into the pilot's seat, maneuvering the ship at full power through the gap Ryan had blasted open, charging towards the largest spatial wormhole in the sky!
Ryan continuously threw and recalled the twin axes with both hands, blasting one pursuing ship after another. Yet his eyes were fixed intently on the enormous red spatial wormhole growing ever closer, filled with excitement: "I've kept you waiting, everyone. Earth, I'm back!!!