As Fenris strode toward Mjolnir, Coulson's hair immediately stood on end the moment he left Fenris's protection.
A powerful magnetic field and electric field filled the surroundings. The feeling of being locked onto by lightning surged into Coulson's heart, and his whole body shuddered. He hurriedly retreated.
"Young lady, you—yes, you!"
"It's dangerous over there. Get out of there!"
Seeing that the pretty young girl who had been following Fenris step for step was still standing blankly in place, and watching the dark clouds overhead press lower and lower, Coulson gritted his teeth. Enduring the tingling numbness all over his body, he stepped forward and tried to pull her to safety.
"Me?"
Only then did Wanda finally shift her gaze away from Fenris.
Looking at Coulson as he charged toward her despite the danger, the corners of her lips curved slightly. Red light lit up in her palm, and a hemispherical shield appeared out of thin air, quickly protecting both Coulson and herself within it.
"Don't be afraid. I'll protect you."
Wanda nodded gently, then turned her gaze away again.
"You…"
Separated by a layer of scarlet shielding, the dangerous feeling of being locked onto by lightning had already vanished completely.
Coulson's throat bobbed. He opened his mouth, wanting to speak, but for a moment, he could not make a sound.
"Is there anything else?" Wanda tilted her head.
"…"
Coulson looked at this seemingly harmless young girl and nodded with difficulty.
He should have realized it long ago. How could someone who followed a monster like Fenris possibly be an ordinary person?
"Boom!"
Another explosion rang out. As Fenris approached Mjolnir step by step, that clap of thunder seemed to flip some kind of switch, and the dark clouds in the sky were suddenly activated.
Dense bolts of lightning shuttled through them. The dim world flickered between light and shadow. When the first thick bolt of lightning struck down, countless bolts followed, dragging bright tails behind them as they plunged straight toward Fenris.
An almost airtight web of electricity descended from the sky, enveloping him completely in an instant.
"Come on!"
Fenris let out a low cry of delight, and a layer of bewitching purple light suddenly surged out from within his body.
The power of the Dark Dimension.
To borrow Thor's words, this was a power of an evil god from another dimension, completely different from the divine power of Asgardian gods.
At this moment, Fenris's originally restrained aura began to erupt without the slightest concealment.
A wild aura brimming with raw strength.
Sacred power that inspired awe.
And a trace of deathly silence and darkness hiding dense vitality within.
Three utterly different powers bloomed at the same time in a contradictory yet harmonious manner. Countless streaks of lightning madly struck down around Fenris, but they were firmly blocked by that faint purple glow, thin as cicada wings, and could not harm him in the slightest.
Fenris's eyes shone as he looked at the faintly trembling Mjolnir not far away. As he slowly approached, increasingly violent and dense lightning poured down from the sky like flowing water. For a time, even Wanda and Coulson, separated from it by an energy shield, were nearly blinded by the dazzling electric light.
"Boom!"
Treading through thick plasma, Fenris took the final step and finally arrived before Mjolnir. "Everyone else can approach, but you're targeting me on purpose, huh?"
Dark divine power swept toward it. Mjolnir gave no answer, merely continuing to release Thor's power.
"Hmph."
Fenris snorted softly and casually swept his hand across the air. A delicate battle-axe quietly appeared in his palm.
Cold light curled around its sharp blade. The battle-axe rapidly grew larger in Fenris's hand, its crimson haft almost reaching two-thirds of his height.
Fenris swung it down as if it weighed nothing. Amid a sharp, tearing whistle, the battle-axe crashed down near Mjolnir.
"Buzz—"
A幽幽 blue light flared across the axehead, gradually eclipsing even the lightning.
Two divine artifacts with completely different natures, yet equally formidable power, abruptly came into contact and sensed each other's existence almost simultaneously.
As the battle-axe fell, the lightning released by Mjolnir suddenly froze for an instant.
Fenris's gaze shifted. He abruptly reached out and gripped Mjolnir's handle.
"Rumble!"
The thunder in the clouds quietly stopped for a split second. In the next moment, as if it had been thoroughly enraged, it suddenly began a violent counterattack.
With Fenris at the center, the world within several kilometers seemed to turn into a sea of lightning. Endless bolts poured down from the sky, making the place look as if it were under divine punishment.
Fortunately, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents had sensed the danger and already retreated far away.
In Puente Antiguo, Jane abruptly raised her head and looked toward the visible anomaly on the distant horizon.
Lightning fell like rain. The apocalyptic scene instantly drew countless eyes.
"So this is the power of Thor…"
Inside the shield, the communicator in Coulson's hand fell to the ground with a pop, but he did not seem to notice.
Dense ripples spread across the scarlet shield under the aftershocks of the lightning. Facing the frenzied bombardment head-on, that overwhelming visual impact was enough to make anyone who claimed to be fearless lose composure on the spot.
Wanda gritted her teeth. The hand supporting the shield trembled slightly, but her worried gaze could not help locking onto the blurry figure ahead, where the lightning was thickest.
The instant he gripped the handle, everything between heaven and earth became exceptionally slow in Fenris's eyes.
The rolling clouds, the slow, winding spread of lightning, and even the runic symbols that suddenly lit up across the hammer, twisting and linking together like spirit snakes—
The source of all magic, the root of all wisdom.
Forged in a star from the powerful magical metal Uru, with a handle made from the wood of the World Tree and Odin's enchantment laid upon it, Mjolnir contained the deepest and still not fully developed divine power of Thor.
"Boom!"
Fenris's palm abruptly tightened, but a force as heavy as a mountain surged up from Mjolnir. The runes upon it flashed rapidly, as if doing everything they could to resist him, this heretical god.
"Hm?"
Fenris gave a soft sound of surprise, as if refusing to accept it. The next moment, the muscles on his right arm suddenly began swelling at high speed. In the blink of an eye, absurdly powerful muscles bulged high.
After calling upon King Kong's berserk brute strength through his human body, Fenris's power surged once again.
Exploding thunder wrapped around surging divine power. At that moment, the world changed color in Fenris's eyes. Within the bright white sea of lightning, a dazzling gold suddenly rose.
With Odin's power as the catalyst, the Asgardian divine power reborn deep within Fenris's body triggered on its own, surging toward his arm of its own accord.
"Buzz—"
The moment the golden divine power lit up, Fenris's hand shook, and Mjolnir, which had originally stood unmoving and majestic, quietly trembled.
At the same time, in the golden splendor of a palace on a floating continent an infinite distance away, a slumbering old man abruptly opened his remaining eye.
"No!"
(End of Chapter)
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