T'Challa wanted to solve this matter on his own. As an outsider, Li Congxin couldn't forcefully intervene, so he simply put the bottom line on keeping T'Challa alive and let him solve the rest by himself.
There were no surprises in the battle process, basically similar to the situation in the original timeline.
Originally, T'Challa's skill was not inferior to that of his younger brother, and was even slightly better. After all, he is a warrior trained by the Wakanda royal family, and is much more orthodox than Killmonger, who was born in Noluzi.
However, the two people's fighting will is completely opposite to their strength.
T'Challa has a kind heart, and always has a little affection for his unmasked brother, leaving room for every move, but Killmonger is deadly with every move, and while beating him, he keeps talking about T'Chaka's "sins". He blames all his father's death on T'Challa's father.
On the contrary, he did not mention anything about his father's betrayal of Wakanda, which resulted in the death of many people.
T'Challa thought of his family ties and felt even more constrained when he took action. In the end, due to a mistake in his move, Killmonger took the opportunity to severely injure him and threw him off a bottomless cliff.
"Brother!"
As T'Challa's body disappeared from sight, everyone present was shocked, and Shuri even exclaimed.
When Mindy saw this, he immediately turned his questioning eyes to Li Congxin: "Brother Clark, what should I do now? Do you need me to take action?"
Li Congxin shook his head slightly, and at the same time Chuanyin said to the two little girls Mindy and Shuri: "T'Challa is okay, I just used the portal to send him to Avengers Base will recover soon after receiving treatment. The top priority now is not to let that guy take the throne. T'Challa is not dead and has not given up. After he understands, he can still defeat this usurper."
After throwing T'Challa off the cliff, Killmonger turned to face everyone and said proudly, "From today on, I am the king of Wakanda. I..."
"It's a joke!" After receiving Li Congxin's advice, Shuri stood up without hesitation and said, "According to the tradition of Wakanda, all qualified people can challenge the throne of the king and Black Panther in the ritual battle. Since you can challenge my brother, others are also qualified to challenge you. Before defeating all challengers, what qualifications do you have to call yourself the king?"
Killmonger frowned when he heard this, and immediately asked dissatisfiedly, "According to what you mean, then I don't actually have to fight everyone to become the king?"
Shuri nodded. "My brother has done this before. Everyone recognizes that his ability can lead Wakanda to a better future and gives up the challenge. If you want to become a natural, you have to do this, or defeat everyone."
What Shuri said was so reasonable that Killmonger had no way to refute it.
What's more, he himself has no foundation in Wakanda. Before he obtained the power of Black Panther and Black Panther Suit, he had no power to challenge the tradition.
Although he was extremely reluctant, he still turned around and asked everyone loudly, "Who wants to challenge me!?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone who was originally a little eager to give it a try hesitated. Killmonger has no foundation in Wakanda. Naturally, others will not have the same tacit understanding with him as T'Challa. However, he has previously shown that his skills are not weaker than T'Challa and his ruthlessness is not found in T'Challa. No matter who challenges him, he must be prepared to be killed by him.
For a moment, everyone was silent.
There is no shortage of people with status in Wakanda, and there is no shortage of strong people with good strength, but it is really difficult to find someone who possesses both advantages at the same time.
Seeing everyone's silence, Killmonger's originally calm face suddenly burst into a proud smile, and his eyes fell on Shuri again. "Look, it's not that I don't want to accept the challenge, but that no one is willing to challenge me. What, do you want to challenge me?"
"That's right." Upon hearing this, Shuri immediately took a step forward and came directly to Killmonger. She raised her head to look at the man in front of her who was a head taller than her, and said in a neither humble nor arrogant manner, "According to the rules of the ritual battle, can you choose to accept my challenge now, or use a few weeks to recover your strength?"
Killmonger couldn't help but chuckle when he heard this, shrugged and said, "Of course I hope to resolve all the battles today and then directly ascend the throne as king, but..."
While speaking, she turned back to look at Queen Wakanda on the other side. "Aunt, do you really plan to let this little girl challenge me? You should know that I will never be merciful."
The queen turned her questioning eyes to Li Congxin. Shuri had been studying with Li Congxin all these years, but she had no idea about her daughter's strength.
Li Congxin nodded slightly, and at the same time, the voice transmission returned. "Queen, don't worry, Shuri will win."
There was no wave in his tone, which showed that this was not an inspiring declaration, but a calm statement of a simple fact.
The queen immediately felt relieved after hearing this, and turned to Killmonger and said, "I support Shuri's decision."
In fact, after Shuri's challenge, the queen also woke up from her initial shock and anger. As long as the guy in front of you is not allowed to successfully ascend the throne for one day, there will be room for maneuver in everything.
Therefore, even if the answer given by Li Congxin is negative, she will not reject Shuri's challenge. She will only delay the deadline of the challenge to the maximum extent and adopt a certain countermeasure.
But since Li Congxin has so much confidence in Shuri, she is too lazy to think of other methods. Let Shuri defeat this guy openly, which is a good way to solve the problem.
Neither the queen nor Shuri intended to delay the challenge, and the ball was kicked to Killmonger at one point.
But will he choose to postpone the date of the challenge? That is even more impossible. His only challenge to T'Challa was a dangerous move, and he had no other backup plan. Once things are delayed, the situation will only become more and more unfavorable for him.
You know, T'Chaka is not dead yet! Just because of the rules, as the outgoing king, he could not participate in this ritual battle.
Killmonger can defeat T'Challa through means, but it has no advantage at all against T'Chaka. When it comes to conspiracy, let alone him, even his father is his younger brother in front of T'Chaka.
"Since you are eager to die, then I will help you." Made up his mind, Killmonger immediately accepted Shuri's challenge.
Then, the ritual battle started from scratch again according to the rules. Under the auspices of Zuri, Shuri and Killmonger each walked into the puddle of the decisive battle with shields and weapons.
Looking at the short figure of Shuri in front of her, the large rattan shield looked somewhat funny in her hands. In order to influence the opponent's mind, Killmonger immediately turned on the taunting mode. "Little girl, when you hold this shield in your hand, does it feel difficult?"
Faced with Killmonger's ridicule, Shuri nodded uncharacteristically, and then threw the shield and weapon to the ground at the same time. Under everyone's surprised eyes, he turned his hands into claws and assumed a strange posture. "Weapons and protective equipment of this level are really just a burden in the hand. To deal with you, my hands are enough."
"You are looking for death!" Killmonger roared angrily when he saw this, and the short spear in his right hand immediately thrust out towards Shuri.
As a professional killer, he will not give his opponents a chance to correct their mistakes. Using every available opportunity to put his opponents to death is his usual style of doing things!
The unarmed Shuri saw the short spear in Killmonger's hand coming towards him, but there was no fear on his pretty face. He just grabbed it unhurriedly, and with a ghost-like speed, he grabbed it directly three inches behind the tip of the spear. With the power of Killmonger, after the short spear was caught by Shuri, no matter how hard he tried, he could not move it forward even half a minute!
"I told you, this thing is just a burden." As he spoke, Shuri grabbed the short spear with his right hand and exerted force, which actually directly crushed the spear body made of rattan into pieces and broke it on the spot.
For a moment, everyone present looked extremely shocked.
Shuri's strength is so terrifying!
In the horrified gaze of everyone, Shuri grabbed the half of the spearhead that she had twisted and swung it with her backhand. The spearhead immediately turned into a ray of cold light and shot straight towards Killmonger's face.
Fortunately, Killmonger had been in battle for a long time. When he saw the cold light coming towards him, he almost without thinking raised the shield in his left hand. At the critical moment, he blocked Shuri's merciless throw.
"Ding!" With a soft sound, Killmonger was directly shaken by the huge force and took half a step back. However, the specially treated vine shield in her hand was quite powerful. Shuri's full throw only pierced the spearhead deeply into the shield, but failed to penetrate the shield and penetrate the enemy's head as she had thought before!
"Sure enough, it is a burden." He curled his lips in disdain, but Shuri did not give the other party a chance to react. He flashed and directly pulled out a long series of afterimages, teleporting in front of Killmonger.
As if to make her brother angry, she didn't even try to push away the opponent's shield, but directly swung her claws towards the shield in Killmonger's hand.
"Poof!" With just a casual grab, five deep holes were inserted into the shield that even a spear could not penetrate. Shuri's slender fingers even penetrated the shield and appeared in front of Killmonger's eyes!
Seeing this scene, everyone at Wakanda was almost speechless in shock.
In other words, can their previous Black Panther do this without wearing a battle suit?
If Shuri, who already possesses such terrifying strength, gains the power of Heart-shaped herb... does that mean that they will usher in the strongest female Black Panther in history!?
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