After Asgard's protective shield hub was destroyed, the instant the golden shield vanished, the Dark Elves' vast fleet of attack ships, already prepared, formed into the tip of a charging arrow and flew straight toward the palace protected by Asgardian structures.
"Thor, they want to force their way into the palace." Beside Thor, several of his childhood friends, companions, and comrades stood armed with all manner of weapons, raising their heads to watch the Dark Elf warships charge toward them.
"Deploy our air forces. Shoot them down. Don't let them get near the palace," Thor ordered, gripping Mjolnir.
Although Asgard as a whole seemed filled with brutes like Thor, who displayed their honor through close combat and valor, Asgard's technology was not backward either, possessing its own unique magic.
After Stephen Strange informed them that the Dark Elves would invade, they had long since made preparations.
They had not expected the Dark Elves to directly destroy Himinbjorg, the Rainbow Bridge's control point. Heimdall's fate was also unknown, and he had been unable to activate Asgard's protective shield in time. Once they realized what was happening, even after activating it, the Dark Elves incited a riot among those they had planted in The Jail, attacking the shield system's energy supply from within and breaking the defenses, allowing the Dark Elves to fly vast numbers of ships into Asgard's skies.
But even so, Asgard, having prepared in advance, still possessed abundant military strength and sufficient means to respond.
At Thor's command, concealed in another corner of Asgard, dark openings spread across the ground. Asgard's hidden defensive forces emerged—countless single-pilot craft, ships, and warships blasting out of the black apertures with fierce exhaust flames. Coordinating with the ground batteries' ceaseless energy blasts, they sliced diagonally into the Dark Elf ships' charging formation, launching