Thor slowly straightened, his chest heaving violently as fierce lightning flickered in his eyes.
Just as he was about to charge at Bragi, a cloud of blood suddenly burst from his knee. The terrifying power brought by the source directly crushed his lower leg. Having lost his balance, he swiftly rose into the air, barely stabilizing himself.
His face twisted savagely.
Under the forced fusion with Asgard's source, Thor's body had already reached its limit. Blood mist burst from him again and again. Like a deflating ball, countless streams of phantom light poured from the wounds in his flesh, and his strength rapidly declined.
"No, no!"
Thor felt his physical body collapsing, terror surfacing in his eyes. "I can't die... I can't... Otherwise, Asgard is finished!"
"Damn it! Why can't this source be weaker?!"
"Shut up! All of you, shut up!"
"I'll think of another way. There has to be another way!"
"You're right. I can't die like this... I'm Asgard's last hope!"
"Odin is still alive. I can't die like this..."
Thor floated amid the lightning filling the sky, muttering madly to himself. Bragi's brow furrowed ever tighter as he watched.
He had seen a scene like this not long ago.
After Vali had muttered to himself like a madman, he had completely lost consciousness and become a monster... Was Thor now undergoing the same process?
As if confirming his suspicions, densely packed flesh tumors began growing from Thor's collapsing body. Countless scarlet worms wriggled about, transforming into new tissue that replaced his original organs—his back, shoulders, arms, lower legs...
If Thor had previously merely been a man covered in flesh tumors, then now he was practically a monster with a head growing atop a mass of writhing tumors!
After the worms filled Thor's body, his realm, which had