"That's right, it was me!"
Facing Odin's proud gaze, which seemed capable of seeing through everything, Peter answered without the slightest fear or hesitation.
"Sure enough, beat the young one and the old one comes running."
"Unfortunately, this might be a life-or-death trial for protagonists in other novels."
"But for me, at worst, I'll deal with the old one too."
Looking at Odin, whose imposing presence could not conceal the frailty of old age, Peter felt no fear at all. He even wanted to fight Odin.
"Besides, I was helping him, so he wouldn't only remember that he was a god of hammers and forget the true nature of his bloodline."
Peter was not making excuses. Though the battle just now had seemed like a one-sided crushing defeat—
He had also discovered that Thor of this universe seemed to possess greater potential than Thor from the main movie universe.
When enraged and furious, this Thor could already unconsciously use the Thunder God Power within his body.
However, perhaps because Thor relied too heavily on his hammer, he had completely forgotten that he himself was the true God of Thunder, not some god of hammers who depended on Mjolnir.
"God of hammers..."
Hearing Peter's words, Odin looked back at Thor behind him, his eyes grave as though he were contemplating something.
In truth, how could he not know that Thor possessed tremendous potential, perhaps even surpassing his own?
And precisely because of that, he was afraid—afraid that in his declining years, rather than raising a qualified wise ruler, he would instead raise another Hela...
"However, no matter what, Mjolnir belongs to Asgard..."
Temporarily setting aside his other thoughts, Odin turned his gaze back to Peter in the sky. His sharp single eye seemed determined to see through Peter completely.
Others had always looked up at him, yet now he had to look up at someone else. It made Odin feel somewhat uncomfortable.
So, in the next moment, without any visible movement, his body seemed to be supported by an invisible force as it slowly rose into the air, leveling with Peter.
"So what? It's already shattered. Don't tell me you want me to compensate you for it?"
Facing Odin, Lord of the Nine Realms, Peter spoke as casually as if he were dealing with an ordinary old man.
Looking up at the two figures in the sky, Captain America, shield in hand, wore a helpless expression.
Looking at the solemn-faced Nick Fury beside him, he only wanted to say, What use was there in waking me up in a world that had changed so drastically?
"Yes, it's already shattered..."
Looking at the fragments of Mjolnir scattered across the ground, Odin could not help but sink into thought.
As Thor's elder, he could not easily make a move, lest others accuse him of bullying the young.
But as the ruler of Asgard, he needed to restore Asgard's lost dignity.
"Stop hesitating. Why don't we just fight? I happen to want to see whether someone as old as you still deserves to be Lord of the Nine Realms!"
Faced with Odin's hesitation, Peter suddenly spoke and directly challenged him.
"Human... are you provoking me?"
Hearing Peter's provocative words, Odin could finally no longer maintain his lofty calm.
The Gungnir in his hand suddenly trembled through the void, its sharp golden spearhead pointing directly at Peter.
In the next instant, an invisible and terrifying aura swept out in every direction.
The ordinary people on the ground, struck by that overwhelming aura, even felt the urge to immediately kneel in worship.
Peter, standing directly against Odin's aura, likewise felt a powerful presence bristling with sharpness. Though his expression remained unchanged, his gaze slowly grew serious.
"So this is Odin, the All-Father. He's countless times stronger than Thor, but unfortunately, he's a little too old!"
Yet he did not retreat in the slightest. Staring at Odin before him, scarlet light continuously gathered in his eyes.
"Hmph!"
Seeing that Peter had not been crushed by the powerful aura he had released, Odin was surprised—but even angrier.
He snorted coldly. Though the sound was not loud, it spread throughout New York City in an instant, and nearly everyone was momentarily dazed by that snort.
Above the skies, Odin's immense aura stirred the winds and clouds into rapid motion, like a gigantic eye of a storm inverted toward the ground, shrouding all of New York City in an apocalyptic scene.
Yet in the next moment, a golden curtain of light suddenly shot from the ground into the sky, instantly dispersing the apocalyptic scene formed by Odin's overwhelming aura.
"Hm? You intend to interfere..."
Odin's gaze instantly turned in one direction, as though it could pierce through space and see someone there.
"Ah!"
But in the next instant, Odin abruptly turned his gaze back, looking at Peter, whose eyes had gathered enough scarlet energy to make even him feel alarmed.
His expression turned incomparably grave as he hurriedly raised Gungnir, aiming it at Peter. In his haste, he mobilized the vast Odinforce within his body, which surged forth through Gungnir.
Boom!
Two terrifying, immense energies—one red, one gold—instantly collided.
In the next moment, the terrifying energies caused space itself to violently tremble, and a horrifying explosion countless times stronger than Peter's battle with Thor erupted.
It was as though a brilliant star had suddenly exploded above New York, and a terrifying energy storm swept outward at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Everything touched by that immense energy was instantly annihilated. Even the air could not escape.
On the ground, countless people watched the violent energy blooming in the sky. They wanted to flee, but all that remained was endless helplessness.
They could only watch helplessly as the energy, which seemed capable of annihilating everything, swept toward them.
"If possible, I just want to return to the state I was in before I woke up."
Captain America raised his shield, then slowly lowered it...
Crack!
Suddenly, a sound like shattering glass rang out beside everyone's ears.
In the next moment, amid everyone's astonished gazes, the immense energy sweeping outward, enough to nearly flatten all of New York City, along with the two figures fighting in the sky, suddenly vanished.
Crack!
Yet in the blink of an eye, the space before them shattered like a mirror.
A somewhat disheveled figure tumbled out from the broken mirror, instantly rushing toward Thor on the ground, with two scarlet beams following close behind.
"Father, you..."
Seeing Odin fend off the scarlet beams with Gungnir, Thor's face filled with disbelief.
"Heimdall!"
Grabbing Thor with one hand, Odin shouted directly into the void.
In the next moment, the Bifrost descended from the void with a thunderous roar, instantly enveloping Odin and Thor within its light.
As the Bifrost's beam rapidly began to fade—
Peter, who had rushed out from the shattered void, unhesitatingly swung the scarlet beams pouring from his eyes toward the fading Bifrost.
Then, along with the red beams Peter had unleashed, Odin and Thor's figures completely vanished within the Bifrost.
It took several seconds before Peter finally slowly stopped the Heat Vision energy he had released at full power for the first time. His eyes, still giving off an eerie red glow, stared into the void as he spoke slowly.
"Hmph. They ran pretty fast."
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