diskusbooks Chapter 207 Prelude to Ragnarok
Chapter 207 Prelude to Ragnarok
Chapter 207 Prelude to Ragnarok
From the opposite direction from where Thor's hammer struck, the Silver Surfer arrived on his skateboard. Compared to Thor, he relaxed his tense expression for the first time.
Superman's survival from the aftermath of the Ultimate Eraser is good news for both sides, who have already fought a devastating battle.
At least this baseless battle can finally be put to an end.
The battle between Thor and SilverAsh spans three or four star systems surrounding the Chitauri homeworld.
Thor only wanted to hold off SilverSword so that Galactus could devour planets and gain enough power to bring Joey back, while SilverSword was unable to deal a serious blow to Thor, who had just been on the same side.
So even though Loki used tricks to give the two a reason to fight, the intensity of their battle wasn't as fierce as one might expect.
It only shattered three planets and broke up one ring of stars.
Now that this farce is over, it's time to stop Galactus from swallowing the Chitauri homeworld for dinner.
Upon hearing Silver Slip's words, Joey, who was revisiting familiar territory, looked around and spotted the familiar dark planet in the neighboring Heng system. He immediately noticed something was amiss:
"So you guys weren't paying any attention to the Chitauri homeworld while you were fighting?"
By this time, the Chitauri homeworld had already exploded from its core, splitting into dozens of fragments of varying sizes along the weakest points of the continental plates, barely held together by the remaining gravity.
With his exceptional eyesight, Joey even spotted Loki laughing heartily on a piece of planetary debris.
"impossible!"
SilverSword's first reaction upon hearing this news was disbelief. As Galactus's most loyal messenger, SilverSword had his own precise algorithm for calculating the efficiency of the mass-energy converter:
"I've calculated the time. Judging from the state of the mass-energy converter just now, the Chitauri planet won't wither away so quickly!"
Seeing the horrified Silver Slicker, Joey simply whistled indifferently: "Maybe Galactus learned from his experience and switched to a better set of cooking utensils, who knows?"
"No, the efficiency of a mass-energy converter is always fixed—Amin!"
Ganata, who was already starving, finally seized the opportunity while the two sides were talking and pounced on Joey's shoulder.
"Ouch!" Even the Kryptonian's steel body was breached by Galactus's iron teeth and copper fangs.
Even with a chunk bitten off his Kryptonian armor, Joey immediately retaliated, and the two quickly engaged in a fierce battle.
"Looking for trouble?!"
"This is it again?" Looking at the girl version of Galactus in front of him, the Silver Glider, who knew Galactus better than anyone else, hesitated to speak.
He only learned today that beings like the Star Devourer can also reproduce.
Aside from hoping that this girl could walk a path more benevolent than her father's, there was nothing more Silver Slip could do at this moment.
Thor, who had been sent flying by the hammer blow, finally recovered and obtained the true information from Heimdall:
"It was Loki; he deceived us all."
When Thor and SilverAsh arrived at the Chitauri homeworld, it was already a wasteland.
Loki, true to his title as the god of lies and deception, played a wicked joke on everyone.
Galactus, who made the promise, is a fake; the Chitauri who are still alive and their homeworld are also fake; only Loki is real.
Thor, enraged that he had once again been outmaneuvered by Loki, immediately turned and hurled Mjolnir.
It charged toward Loki with the force of a thunderbolt.
Boom!
Thor's furious strike flattened the mountain range where Loki stood, and the planetary fragments beneath it exploded, further diluting the already shattered planet.
"That damned Loki!"
Less than a minute later, Thor, his neck red and covered in dust, returned carrying his hammer, still cursing his brother:
"Don't let me catch you again, or I'll break your legs!"
Anyone could see that Thor was truly angry this time.
Because the "Loki" he hit with that hammer blow was also an illusion.
It's not surprising, really. After playing such a trick on his brother, if Loki didn't run away, wouldn't he be incredibly stupid?
"I, Thor, was filled with rage and had nowhere to vent it. After thinking it over and over, I finally didn't utter the curses that were sworn in my mouth."
He wasn't skilled in the art of language, and he didn't know how to effectively insult his younger brother without dragging his family into it and causing them to have their brains overloaded.
With veins bulging on his forehead, Thor was so angry that his face turned red.
His battle with Silver Slide and his interaction with Joey had cleared most of the celestial bodies around him, leaving him with no one to rage against in his impotence.
"F**k!"
However, there was always an enraged Thor who would throw his hammer at the nearest star to vent his anger.
hum!
The rapidly moving Mjolnir was firmly grasped by Joey, who had shaken off the ravenous hounds: "Calm down, it's not like this is the first time Loki has tricked you."
"If you don't know how to comfort someone, you don't have to."
Thor, who was almost exposed again, couldn't understand how someone with Joey's emotional intelligence could survive until they met again without being torn apart by Joey's many lovers.
Thor, who had been looking resentful, suddenly changed his expression after receiving the hammer from Joey:
"You lifted Mjolnir?!"
"So what?" Thor's shock made Joey somewhat smug: "Maybe it's because I deserve it too."
He didn't just use brute force to lift the hammer; Thor's hammer felt as light as a feather in his hands, which was undoubtedly a sign of his approval of Joey.
"No, no, no, of course I know you deserve it."
Thor had been through countless battles alongside Joey and knew from the beginning that Joey could lift Mjolnir. What he cared about was another important matter he had heard about back then.
If I had known it would turn out this way, I shouldn't have drunk so much with Joey and listened to so many stories about the future.
With these thoughts in mind, Thor raised his hammer, summoned the Rainbow Bridge, and projected the four people present back into Midgard. Then, he resolutely bid farewell:
"Take care, you two. A mission is calling—I must leave now."
"They've broken up already?"
The two people outside Earth's atmosphere watched Thor leave without looking back on the Rainbow Bridge, and they looked at each other blankly.
What about Galactus?
Having lost the two great helpers, Ultraman and Thor, can they stop Galactus on their own?
"My master will not send messengers to find food anytime soon after he has temporarily satisfied his hunger."
Silverscan could no longer sense Galactus's movements in the material world, presumably because the Chitauri homeworld had already given Galactus a good meal, enough to keep him quiet for a while.
"Farewell then, my friend who survived such a close call."
He handed Joey a piece of silvery-white metal, which he had split off from his space skateboard and could be used as a communicator.
The Silver Slide is heading into the depths of the universe to curb the threat of star-devouring while witnessing the beauty of the multiverse.
Superman, SilverAsh knew that the other clearly also had his own mission:
"Your world needs you too."
Joey, who had just put the communicator into his chest pocket, was still a little unaccustomed to it. This encounter with Galactus was truly an undeserved disaster. Apart from getting another beating, it seemed like he hadn't gained anything.
"Ah-ming!"
"Get out of here!"
Okay, so I got a hungry dog that's always thinking about eating me.
Asgard.
Exhausted from several battles, Thor walked heavily out of the rainbow bridge's colorful light curtain.
Before leaving the temple of the World Tree, he didn't forget to say goodbye to the diligent guardians:
"Heimdall".
The gatekeeper of the Nine Realms looked at Thor carrying Gungnir and drew his sword in salute.
Heimdall noticed the worry in Thor's eyes, a look that seemed unusual for the usually optimistic Thor.
But Heimdall himself felt it was somewhat understandable.
In a very short period of time, Thor experienced a series of events, including his father's serious illness, his brother's betrayal of the wall, and the battle against Galactus. In Heimdall's view, the future God-King of Asgard was simply tired.
Thor was indeed exhausted. All he wanted to do was drink with his warriors all night long, and then lie in his bed and sleep for three days and three nights.
He knew he couldn't rest yet.
"Hi, Heimdall."
Thor abruptly stopped in his tracks as he headed towards the banquet hall, and once again beckoned the gatekeeper to open the Rainbow Bridge for teleportation:
"Open the Rainbow Bridge, I'm going to Muspelheim."
Muspelheim is the land of fire in the Nine Realms, and the fire giant Surtur guards the borders of this land.
"My king, why are you going there?"
"For the time has come, Heimdall."
This wasn't the first time, and Saul felt these prophecies were harmful.
The sudden disappearance of Joey's story from his mind made Thor realize that the future and the past might not be an unchangeable, perfect closed loop.
He wanted to try to stop Ragnarok in his own way.
According to the prophecy observed by Odin's one eye, the gods of Asgard would eventually be destroyed in a cataclysmic event known as Ragnarok.
In the "prophecy" he heard at the dinner table, after Superman first lifted Mjolnir, what followed was the prelude to Ragnarok—the fire giant Surtur, riding on the flames of Muspelheim, came from the south!