"Ornn, have you lost your mind?!"
The two were horrified.
"I've lost my mind? No, I haven't! Loki deceived me for so long. I actually mistook an enemy for my father and nearly harmed my greatest lord. I'm settling this debt with you!"
They were screwed!
Not only had their plan to ambush Thor with Source Project: Ascension failed, but Ornn, whom they had thought had come to save them, had switched sides at the last moment!
"Run!" Hermes immediately decided.
He ran fast enough, but Hephaestus was crippled in one leg. How could he possibly outrun Thor and Ornn?
One life-saving piece of equipment after another, all forged by his own hands in the past, was thrown out. Yet under Mjolnir's bombardment, they had little effect!
Left with no choice, Hephaestus used his final trump card to save his life!
"Mother, save me!"
Hephaestus's natal divine fire ignited, and a figure stepped out from within.
"I crave... a worthy opponent!"
Thor narrowed his eyes. "Another Human Demon Soldier!"
But so what?
With one swing, he split the blazing flames apart!
"Precise, and elegant!"
A slender sword thrust out from the flames, meeting Mjolnir head-on!
Wasn't that like using a mantis's arms to block a chariot?
Yet, unexpectedly, the slender sword withstood the immensely powerful Mjolnir and even reflected the Thunderous Might leaking from it back at Thor!
Thor's arm shook, dispelling the paralysis carried by the lightning!
"Interesting!"
"Hephaestus, leave. I'll handle this!"
"Thank you, Mother!" Hephaestus dragged his crippled leg away at a rapid pace.
Inside, he cursed Hermes, who had long since vanished without a trace, ten thousand times over!
"A mere Source Project thinks it can stop me?"
The mecha wreathed in rose-red flames looked up and spoke in an electronically synthesized voice. "Thor, God of