Burning Heartfire, Crushing the Enemy

"Are you kidding me!"

Feeling the pressure emanating from Beckett, Shafrin's expression instantly darkened beneath his black and white striped mask.

"The five senses—deprived!"

He used the same trick again, unleashing his most familiar skill once more. The strange energy was still gathering at Shafrin's fingertips when Beckett's figure appeared beside him in the next second.

"The same tricks will no longer work on me."

The indifferent words rang in Shafrin's ears, and his pupils shrank sharply. He felt as if he had been struck in the waist, and he lost his balance and crashed into the ruins!

"Cough cough..."

Shafrin coughed as he stood up, shaking off the dust. The golden armor, handcrafted by the Skrull Empire master craftsmen and touted as being able to withstand Star Destroyer Cannon, had cracked under Beckett 'Beckett casual whip kick, golden fragments stomped under his feet.

"This is impossible..."

"How could your strength have increased so much?!"

Shafrin hissed in a low voice, his deep, star-like eyes filled with rage—rage against Astra.

He saw it clearly: it was all because of his foolish younger brother.

"My father once said that I evolve faster than light." Beckett held Shafrin's right fist, which was swinging towards his face, with his chin held high as he stared at Shafrin, a disdainful smile playing on his lips.

The knee then slammed into Shafrin's abdomen with such speed that even someone as strong as Shafrin couldn't react at all, and intense pain instantly swept through Shafrin's nerves!

"Would Thanos really talk this much?"

Bang!

Shafrin was met with a punch from Beckett that landed squarely on his chest.

The golden armor crumbled into pieces and withered in the yellow mud, Shafrin's chest even visibly collapsed under Beckett's punch!

"You talk too much."

Beckett slowly walked to the struggling Shafrin on the ground. His golden hair moved without wind, and his bright silver boots crushed Shafrin's raised head into the ruins, sending dust flying everywhere!

"Your His Highness Beckett, watch out!"

The words of his loyal subordinate, The Other, suddenly rang in his ears. Beckett didn't even turn his head; he simply pointed, and a blinding beam of light pierced directly through the distant naval port.

Under Shafrin's mental control, the warship that had just taken off sank instantly into the boundless ocean.

"A futile struggle."

With a casual kick of his toe aside the obstacles around Shafrin, Beckett bent down and lifted Shafrin out of the rubble with one hand, then reached out and removed the black and white striped mask from his face with great interest.

"Tsk, no wonder you wear a mask."

Without the cover of the black and white striped mask, Shafrin's ugly face, a result of the genetic fusion and mutation of thousands of Skrulls, immediately stunned Astra and The Other on the other side.

In all their years, they had never seen such ugliness that was utterly indescribable.

The eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, and even the skin look like they were taken from countless people and randomly assembled, without any regard for aesthetics.

Astra aesthetic sense and physique were still those of Kree, even felt a sudden wave of nausea, wanting to vomit but unable to.

"No wonder they're Skrull bastards, they all have such unique looks." After a while, Astra took a bottle of liquor from his waist pouch to calm himself down. The Other, seeing this, also took a bottle of liquor from Astra's waist pouch, much to Astra's astonishment.

He also needs to calm his nerves.

In all these years, this was the first time he had ever seen such an ugly face. Glancing at Beckett, who remained unfazed, The Other could only sigh, "Truly worthy of His Highness Beckett."

"Oh..."

Shafrin ignored the black and white striped mask that Beckett had thrown at his feet, glanced at Astra was shaking his head with droopy eyelids, and then his gaze returned to Beckett.

"You're too arrogant, Beckett."

"Perhaps you are very powerful now, perhaps you are powerful enough to kill me, but you did not kill me immediately."

A smile spread across his extremely ugly lips, and Shafrin's hands suddenly met in front of his chest, his ten fingers outlining a space shape that was close to a rhombus.

The surging energy instantly coalesced and shot straight towards Beckett, who was standing inches away. Beckett raised an eyebrow, released his grip on Shafrin, and punched him, sending the energy beam crashing into Shafrin's already caved-in chest!

"Now, who do you think is being arrogant?"

With a sneer, the sound of Beckett's silver boots stomping on the dirt was particularly grating to Shafrin's ears.

"Lift your head and tell me now."

"Of course it is you."

Shaflin looked up in response and opened his mouth. A dazzling white light appeared under the ferocious facial features!

"Sucker Punch."

Beckett reached out and blocked all the energy beams, his disdain growing even stronger.

"I admit, the Mind Stone's amplification of your power has indeed exceeded my expectations."

"But Thanos will be even more heartbroken if you die on the Skrulls U40 Planet like this."

Faced with Beckett's disdain and domineering attitude, the anger in Shafrin's eyes disappeared, and his hideous face was filled with calm.

He was not afraid of death; the real him had died a hundred years ago. And a hundred years later, he orchestrated Beckett's murder of his enemy and even destroyed the Skrull Empire's Seventh Army Group.

He has completed his mission of revenge.

Although Beckett's power had grown too terrifyingly due to his brother Astra's meddling, making it impossible for him to continue his framing plan, he still had a Plan B.

"Son of Thanos, have you ever witnessed the power to shatter stars?" Before the words were even finished, Shafrin's power began to surge rapidly!

"I've seen it before, it's my hometown."

He assumed a horse stance, raised his left hand high, and clenched his right fist. An invisible energy gradually boiled over Shafrin's body, and even though it had reached the limit that his body could withstand, it still did not stop.

Using life as fuel, he completely unleashed the power of all the Mind Stone within his body. Shafrin had used this move once before, and if it weren't for the advanced medical technology of the Skrull Empire, he wouldn't be here today.

An invisible shockwave tore through the dark sky, and silent Flash flashed behind Shafrin.

The sky roared, and the earth howled.

Under the pressure of the powerful air currents, the surface of the entire U40 Planet showed varying degrees of anomalies.

Just as Astra was about to say something, feeling bewildered, he suddenly felt a strange force envelop him and then instantly take him away from U40 Planet.

"Your His Highness Beckett!"

In his panic, The Other hurriedly crouched down to steady himself and couldn't help but cast a worried glance at Beckett.

"Interesting."

Beckett ignored The Other's concerns and instead watched the man's power gradually increase with interest, eager to try his luck.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!"

A hysterical roar accompanied by a towering pillar of energy swept across the globe. Shafrin's golden armor shattered, his skin now completely blood-red; his muscles were taut, veins bulging on his forehead and arms!

"Come die with me!"

Shafrin roared as he stomped his feet on the ground, igniting the flames of life and detonating the gem energy within his body. His blood-red figure appeared before Beckett in an instant!

"Beckett!!!"

Ignite the fire in my heart, solely to crush the enemy!

Thanks to [Hateful Aoi has become empty s] for the reward~