Watching the figure vanish into the void, Peter waited where he stood for a while.
"Hm? Why wasn't she showing herself?"
After waiting for some time and seeing that no one had appeared before him, Peter could not help finding it strange.
"Why did the protagonists in novels get noticed by her almost the instant they crossed into the Marvel world, while she seemed to be avoiding me?"
Peter found it rather strange, but he did not continue waiting.
Instead, he gathered up the scattered fragments of Mjolnir from the ground. Amid the reverent gazes of everyone present, he shot into the sky and departed in style.
After Peter left, golden sparks like those from welding slowly appeared before a figure in yellow monk's robes on the rooftop of a nearby building.
The sparks grew with the wind, rapidly expanding into a yellow ring of light roughly two meters in diameter.
The Yellow-robed Monk slowly stepped into the ring of light. The strange black rune flickering faintly between his brows vanished along with him...
"Was it finally over?"
Peter's departure signaled the temporary end of everything that had happened today.
Yet the people present could not calm their hearts for a long time.
First, Superman had appeared, a being comparable to a God Among Men.
Then, two more beings claiming to be gods had emerged today.
The God of Thunder was not too bad; he did not seem particularly powerful. At the very least, humanity's most advanced weapons could threaten him.
But the old man who arrived afterward was frighteningly powerful. The aura he radiated seemed capable of instantly crushing the will of ordinary people like them.
The drastically changing world gave even Nick Fury a terrible headache.
"Director, what should we do now?"
Coulson likewise felt that his worldview had completely collapsed. He could only place his hopes on his director.
"Send people to clean up the battlefield and notify the Disaster Control Bureau to begin post-disaster reconstruction."
Nick Fury issued his orders slowly, then stared at the sky in contemplation for a long while.
"Also, gather every energy expert in the agency and around the world. Begin the second phase of the Tesseract research project as soon as possible."
"The cosmic war has already begun. We do not have much time left..."
Staring into the void, Nick Fury's eyes gleamed like stars.
"As for him..."
Nick Fury then turned his gaze toward Captain America.
"Let me find somewhere to get some proper rest. I may not be able to accept a world that has changed so drastically in such a short time."
Having only just awakened and not yet having had the chance to properly experience this new world, he had already suffered such an enormous shock. Even Captain America, with his iron will, found it somewhat difficult to accept.
Meanwhile, Asgard.
A beam of light traveled from distant Earth, and the Bifrost slowly stopped rotating.
Two figures suddenly appeared within the Bifrost's mechanism.
Boom!
However, two red energy beams came with them.
They instantly pierced through the Bifrost's spherical mechanism.
"Prince Thor..."
Seeing Thor casually thrown onto the ground by Odin, Heimdall had no time to worry about the damaged Bifrost. He hurriedly rushed to Thor's side and helped him up.
"Hmph. Who allowed you to travel to Midgard without permission? Have you forgotten the ban I issued?"
Looking at Thor, Odin's expression instantly darkened. He suppressed the fury in his heart as he berated Thor.
Everything that had happened today had been caused by Thor's unauthorized journey to Midgard.
"Father, my Mjolnir... was shattered..."
Facing the furious Odin, Thor seemed as though he had lost his soul, muttering to himself.
"Hmph. That human was right. You have long forgotten your noble bloodline and the blood of gods flowing through your veins!"
Seeing Thor's despondent state as he remained immersed in the grief of losing Mjolnir, Odin's eyes revealed even stronger disappointment.
"Mjolnir merely makes it easier for you to control your own power. It was not meant to turn you into some... God of Hammers!"
Remembering that title, God of Hammers, Odin could not help feeling incomparably furious, even though his own indulgence had played a part in it.
"Father, I... Was what he said true?"
Hearing his father's rebuke, light finally returned to Thor's unfocused eyes. Remembering what that human had said—that he himself was the true God of Thunder—a flicker of hope suddenly ignited in Thor's heart.
"Hmph. As a prince of Asgard, you must bravely face your failures and personally wash away your shame in the future!"
"Rather than looking as lost as you do now!"
Seeing that the beaten-down Thor had finally regained a little confidence, Odin's tone softened slightly, though his teaching remained stern.
"But what happened today has made me realize that you are not yet ready to rule all of Asgard..."
"Allfather..."
Seeing that Odin seemed to have made a decision, Heimdall, who was supporting Thor, wanted to plead for him.
"There is no need to plead for him. This is the punishment he deserves."
Odin directly cut off what Heimdall was about to say. He aimed Gungnir at Thor, and golden divine power surged forth.
The next moment, Thor was sent flying by the divine power, his figure vanishing in an instant.
"For now, let him properly reflect on his mistakes beneath the World Tree."
After temporarily banishing Thor from Asgard, Odin seemed to have aged even further in that moment.
Watching Odin walk slowly toward his palace, Heimdall felt that his aged back no longer seemed as straight as before.
"Oh, right. Once he can skillfully control his own divine power, take him to Nidavellir and have the Dwarf King forge another weapon for him."
Without looking back, the departing Odin gave Heimdall this instruction.
Earth. After leaving the battlefield, Peter first went to the place that had previously drawn him in.
"So it really was because of the Artificial Sun!"
Looking at the laboratory, which had been completely destroyed by the explosion from the failed Artificial Sun experiment and reduced to ruins, Peter finally confirmed his guess.
"Artificial Sun..."
Although it bore the word "artificial," the energy radiation it emitted seemed capable of strengthening Peter's power just like the real sun.
Naturally, its efficiency could not compare to that of the real sun.
"But if I could keep an Artificial Sun like this on me at all times, wouldn't I be able to continuously increase my strength every moment?"
A wildly insane idea suddenly surfaced in Peter's mind.
He could not carry the real sun around with him at all times, but an Artificial Sun seemed possible.
"A new combination of an Artificial Sun and a Nano-Suit..."
"It seems I'll need to make some special preparations..."
As he thought, Peter's figure instantly vanished into the air and sped toward the Antarctic laboratory.
He opened the door above the fortress.
"Great! The time it takes for the Nano-Suit to fully cover the body has already been reduced to five seconds."
"We finally succeeded!"
As Peter slowly walked toward the laboratory, he heard an incomparably excited voice coming from inside.
"Mr. Superman, the Nano-Suit you needed is already..."
Seeing Peter enter the laboratory at just that moment, Reed spoke to him excitedly.
"Sorry, but you may need to work overtime and revise the Nano-Suit design..."
At that moment, Peter instantly turned into a heartless capitalist.
"However, you should have two more colleagues by then..."
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