The Real Battle Had Only Just Begun

The atmosphere grew tense for a moment.

Growing up, Beckett had encountered counterfeit goods before, but this was the first time he had seen two The Others so convincing that even Woz could not tell them apart.

As half-biological, half-mechanical lifeforms, the Chitauri's physical traits were generally difficult to imitate. However, that rule clearly did not apply to Skrulls.

But—

"Bring Astra down."

Beckett swept his gaze over the two men still arguing before him and gave the order to the The Other beside him.

He did not care which of the two was real and which was fake, but Astra was different.

He was someone his adoptive father Thanos had specifically named, and he had to be taken alive.

"His Highness Beckett, believe me, they really are Skrulls! If we let him come down now—"

"I said, bring Astra down." Beckett directly cut off the The Other beside him, his icy gaze making the latter freeze.

"...Fine. In fact, I thought your subordinate should have been killed by me already." The Other standing beside Beckett spun the Azure Scepter in his hand and sighed regretfully as his body began to change.

Green skin, a ferocious face—the standard appearance of every Skrull warrior.

"Your name is Beckett, right? My name is Magma, from the Skrull Empire's Third Army Group. Please send my regards to your father, Thanos."

Having returned to his original appearance, Magma watched Beckett with great interest, seemingly hoping to find anger, disappointment, or shock on his face. But Beckett clearly disappointed him.

His icy expression did not waver in the slightest. His indifferent gaze rested on Magma as though he were looking at a corpse, and that made Magma very uncomfortable.

No one wanted to be stared at with such a chilling gaze.

"First, thank you for delivering Astra to me."

Because Thanos stood behind Beckett as an immense source of backing, Magma's attitude remained relatively restrained. At the very least, he was no longer talking about killing people at every turn.

"Then, goodbye."

Holding the Casket of Ancient Winters in one hand and the Azure Scepter in the other, Magma slowly walked toward the battleship entrance under the guard of Skrull soldiers who had likewise revealed their true forms.

This trip had not only successfully captured Astra, but had also gained two additional treasures. Magma was very satisfied.

Just as the triumphant Magma stepped onto the battleship hatch with his right foot, a sudden stabbing pain surged through his mind, making him howl in agony before he could react!

"What is this?!"

"Who is it?!!"

It felt as though ten thousand people were simultaneously driving needles into his forehead. Under the sudden agony, even Magma's breathing came to an abrupt halt.

If Magma, their commander, was suffering like this, the other Skrull soldiers fared even worse.

One after another, they clutched their heads and doubled over in unbearable pain. Veins bulged across their foreheads and the backs of their hands, while cries of agony rose and fell without end!

"Did I say you could leave?"

The icy, murderous voice made Magma, who had collapsed weakly to his knees, involuntarily raise his head. Beckett was looking down at him with cold eyes.

"Impossible! How did you do this?!"

The Azure Scepter and the Casket of Ancient Winters fell to the ground. Still clutching his head and unable to ease the pain, Magma snarled and roared in a low voice, his eyes filled with disbelief.

"Unbelievable. How did you do it? How did these Skrull soldiers suddenly lose their ability to move?"

Astra, who had charged out of the battleship with a firearm in hand, looked at Magma roaring unwillingly on his knees before the hatch, then turned his gaze toward Beckett.

Between falling into Beckett's hands and falling into the hands of the Skrulls, he would rather choose the former.

"To me, nothing is impossible." Beckett pressed his right index finger against Magma's forehead. Surging energy gathered at his fingertip into a silver-white beam that pierced straight through Magma's skull!

The remaining dozen or so Skrull soldiers were all gunned down by Astra alone.

Green blood pooled into streams and flowed across the magnificent ice crystals.

"Rejoice! Great His Highness Beckett, Son of Titan! At this very moment, with his keenly perceptive eyes, he has purged the scheming Skrulls!"

The sudden hymn ringing by his ear startled Astra so badly that his body jerked. Following the sound, he saw The Other, his armor tattered and one eyeball missing, utterly ignoring his own injuries as he dragged his broken body along and sang Beckett a hymn of honor.

"Are all your subordinates like this?"

Casually tossing the toy in his hand to the ground, the tactful Astra looked at The Other with interest.

"Woz, deactivate the magnetic field."

"Yes, His Highness Beckett."

Beckett had no intention of responding to Astra at all.

Woz's voice came from inside the small battleship. Astra only felt a faint click from the helmet atop his head, and then nothing else happened.

Beckett glanced at him and casually dragged him through the hatch.

The group then returned to the small battleship.

This helmet was the contingency Beckett had previously instructed Woz to leave behind.

What Astra had said about the Skrulls had reminded him. To guard against all kinds of unknown possibilities, Beckett had Woz add something extra when replicating the special magnetic field as a contingency measure.

"His Highness Beckett, Woz has detected thirty interstellar missiles heading toward us."

Before he could even sit down, Woz's warning rang beside Beckett's ear. On the light screen before him, the Kree Empire's interstellar fleet was rapidly advancing toward Tofa Star.

The signal Woz had blocked had naturally been restored. Having located Beckett's position, the Kree fleet launched its warning first.

These thirty interstellar missiles were their greeting gift.

"Your companions do not seem particularly concerned about whether you live or die." Having taken everything in, Beckett turned to look at Astra, who had been tightly bound by The Other. The latter shrugged, his fierce face covered in unruly stubble utterly unconcerned.

"My relationship with the Accuser Corps is not very good. I am not surprised they would do something like this." In Astra's eyes, those people in the Accuser Corps were a bunch of war maniacs—war maniacs even crazier than him.

He researched weapons only so he could defeat the Skrull Empire as soon as possible and avenge his parents and older brother. The people in the Accuser Corps spent every day thinking about how to lead the Kree army in invading other planets.

There was nothing in their heads except invasion.

Rather than let Astra, who possessed the energy conversion formula, fall into enemy hands, it would be better to simply blow him up and get it over with.

When it came to decisiveness, he never doubted the Kree Empire's Accuser Corps.

"His Highness Beckett, Woz is unable to alter Tofa Star's planetary defense system. The Kree have changed the internal access keys."

"Woz is decoding them..."

The massive fleet gradually drew closer, while the interstellar missiles serving as appetizers had already appeared above the small battleship.

"Notify our fleet. Drop stealth and prepare to receive us."

Beckett calmly issued the order, then immediately rushed out through the hatch.

Under the sunlight, the silver armor on Beckett's body shone with a blinding radiance. Vast energy surged, and invisible shockwaves roared and raged, tearing apart the clouds filling the sky with clawing fury!

The figure standing upon the earth swayed the tail behind him and raised his right hand toward the sky. Then, a pillar of energy condensed in Beckett's palm and pierced the heavens in an instant!

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!!!!!!!

Thunderous explosions echoed endlessly through the skies!

The real battle had only just begun.

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