"Clang—"
The screech of steel scraping and colliding, mixed with supersonic booms, spread as an unbearably piercing buzz throughout Asgard.
The Asgardians and Dark Elves on the ground clutched their ears in pain, mouths agape and eyes wide with shock as they watched two black streaks constantly intersect and clash in the sky.
"Thor, who is that? Who can fight His Majesty so fiercely?" Volstagg, one of the Warriors Three and a friend of Thor's who had returned from the Dark Elves' battlefield, gripped his axe in his broad hand. His mighty frame and bulging belly tensed as his eyes nearly popped from their sockets, staring in shock at Odin's battle in the skies over Asgard.
Who was it that could battle Odin, the King of the Gods?
Since becoming the King of the Gods, Odin had rarely truly made a move, much less been drawn into such an evenly matched battle.
Even a renowned Asgardian warrior like him could barely catch sight of the person fighting Odin.
The two blurred phantom trails kept colliding and crossing through Asgard's skies before darting apart again. Their actual forms were impossible to see, while sonic rings exploded across the heavens, leaving everyone dazzled and terrified.
"Earth's leader—He-El!" Thor gripped Mjolnir tightly, his pupils rapidly tracking the paths of Odin and He-El's battle. Yet even so, he could not see clearly how they struck during their collisions.
Thor felt a chill in his heart. He had never imagined that He-El would come straight to Asgard, seemingly determined to seize the Reality Stone, and fight his father.
Although Thor had personally witnessed He-El use an energy blade to cleave apart Asgard's divine weapon, the Destroyer, displaying immense power on Earth—
That had only been possible with the aid of various technological instruments and tools,