Call Me Thunder God!

Call Me Thunder God!

Thor certainly had many flaws, but at least one thing was commendable: he regarded his family as his life.

Naturally, the one he cared about most was Loki, who had tricked him countless times since childhood.

Thor lowered his head and looked at the enhanced Deviant, also parasitized, whom Duva was firmly restraining. Clearly, he wanted to observe this Deviant and deduce what would happen to him after accepting a Facehugger.

The fact that he could make such a move meant that he had already made his choice.

If this had been the old Thor, arrogant and conceited, how could he possibly have accepted such power? With his temper, he would have grabbed his hammer and fought Duva to the death, believing Duva was humiliating him!

But things were different now. His terrible temperament had not improved, yet as a mere mortal, he could do nothing while his brother fought fiercely. The arrogance and conceit in his heart gnawed at his pride like Annihilus's insect swarm.

"Don't hesitate. You are a powerful warrior, so you should understand better than anyone how rare this opportunity is. Your brother is facing so many powerful enemies. Look, the Eternals bear a deep grudge against your Asgard. The Celestial Gods behind them may very well be watching this place right now. Kaecilius has been trying to kill your brother, and there's no need to even mention Magneto." Duva patiently persuaded him.

Every word he said was reasonable, but put together, they became far less reasonable.

The Abomination Xenomorph and numerous Deviant Xenomorphs gathered around Duva and Thor, blocking every energy fluctuation that tried to approach.

It was about to succeed.

Duva said softly, "I don't understand what you're hesitating over. Without power, you'll have nothing. You might even lose your dearest brother. With power, once you get through this crisis, you can reclaim Mjolnir. You'll have plenty of time in the future to lift it again. Have you forgotten honor? Is your dignity worth only this much?"

A killing blow.

To Thor, dignity and honor were more important than life. That was his creed, and the creed of every Asgardian.

"Midgardian, if this were any other time, I would already be swinging Mjolnir and smashing your mouth to pieces!" A flash of shame-fueled fury and helpless hatred passed through Thor's eyes. He opened his hand and allowed the Facehugger to crawl onto his palm.

"But now, I'm the only one willing to help you, aren't I? Don't think you're being coerced by me. In the face of a bright future and protecting your family, I'm the reliable helper standing on your side." Duva said.

"If I weren't sure you were from Midgard, I would think you came from hell—a devil exceptionally skilled at making deals."

Thor allowed the Facehugger to latch onto his head.

He was merely hot-tempered, not stupid. How could he not know that Duva wanted something from him?

But Thor could no longer care about that. He only knew that if he did not stand beside Loki and do something now, the frustration would make him want to kill himself!

Of course, once this battle ended and Loki's safety was assured, Thor had also resolved to die. Either he would kill himself, or he would challenge Duva and preserve what little honor and dignity he had left.

Duva more or less understood Thor's thoughts. He watched Thor lose consciousness amid his inner struggle.

"What did you do, you damned mortal?!"

Loki suddenly glanced over, his eyes splitting with rage as he shouted in shock and fury!

"He isn't dead. Don't get so worked up. How could I hurt the Son of Odin?" Duva's expression shifted slightly as he lowered his head to look at the enhanced Deviant that had been parasitized earlier.

Then Loki saw a horrifying sight. The Deviant on the ground began convulsing violently, and then a Xenomorph burst from its chest, bathed in blood and flesh.

As for the Deviant serving as the host, Loki could sense its life force rapidly extinguishing. It died very quickly.

For a moment, Loki was dumbfounded. Was he about to watch his brother become like that too? Die while convulsing?

Loki's eyes instantly turned red. He could no longer care about anything else. Surging divine power erupted from his body as all kinds of powerful spells gathered in his hands.

Rumble! This ultimate power collided with the immense magnetic field, forming countless storms of lightning and thunder that shot from underground into the atmosphere, stirring billions of clouds into chaotic transformations and triggering endless natural disasters.

Loki flew high into the air, trying to rush toward Duva.

"At this moment, you look more like a god than ever before. But don't worry, he won't die. My goal was never him."

Duva watched the enraged Loki charge toward him, then led his Xenomorphs into action. However, their target was not Loki, but...

Thor!

"The parasitization succeeded. In this short time, a new Xenomorph is being born inside Thor's chest. I can feel it clearly. But controlling Thor was never what I wanted. Odin is probably watching this place too, and he won't allow such a thing to happen."

A fiery glint flashed in Duva's eyes.

He was an extremely calm person and rarely displayed obvious emotional fluctuations, but at this moment, he could not help himself.

That was right. His true purpose in coming here from New York was not to control Thor himself, but to obtain divine power!

His goal, the Xenomorph Ascension Project, had never changed.

The simplest and most direct method was to make contact with divine power. After all, across the universe, gods of all sizes were far from uncommon. Some ancient technological civilizations could even establish pantheons for their own species.

Divine power, as an energy system, was both precious and cheap.

What could be more cost-effective than making use of Thor, who had lost his divine power but still carried divine blood? Duva reached out and performed open-chest surgery with his bare hands on the unconscious Thor, who was expected to awaken soon.

Rip!

Thor's chest was violently torn open by Duva in an instant, flesh and blood spraying everywhere.

This mad act made everyone look over. This was the son of God-King Odin, and the parasitization had only just been completed. Was Duva going to kill him already? Ajak's face turned livid. "What exactly is he trying to do? He parasitized Thor, and now he's killing Thor? The entire Earth will bear Asgard's... Hm?"

Just as Loki was about to completely lose his mind, under everyone's watchful eyes—

Duva used his other hand to strike his own chest as well. Fast, precise, and ruthless, he dug out an undeveloped Xenomorph Larva about the size of a palm amid a mess of blood and flesh! This extraordinary brutality made everyone's hearts pound.

Even Loki, who had been roaring furiously, froze for a moment.

"Ruthless."

Even while fighting several opponents alone, Magneto could not help glancing over, a look of approval appearing on his face.

But none of them knew what Duva intended to do, or why he was using such a crazed method of self-mutilation.

"Could it be..." Ajak seemed to realize something, her face filled with horror.

Before driving out Ikaris, she had spoken with him and learned that the Abomination Xenomorph had burst from Abomination's chest and rapidly grown by devouring Abomination's corpse.

What if the Xenomorph were dug out before it officially burst from the chest? Many people outside had been quietly speculating about that possibility. Naturally, Ajak had thought of it as well.

Now, she was seeing it with her own eyes.

"There's actually a Xenomorph inside him too, and now he's dug out the Xenomorph inside Thor..." Ajak found it utterly inconceivable.

At that moment, the people engaged in the frenzied battle all turned their attention over. They watched helplessly as Duva stuffed the larva he had dug from Thor's body into his own chest.

"???"

What kind of move was that?

No, how could such a move even exist in this world?! This was completely outrageous!

Every person present was a powerful being capable of intimidating an entire planet. All of them were highly intelligent and experienced, yet this was the first time they had seen such a method. It felt as though their understanding of the world was shattering.

Magneto was the first to react. He had remained in contact with Raven, so he knew the most about Xenomorphs. He also clearly understood that Xenomorph Larvae could be used without bursting from the chest to enhance a host's strength, ultimately creating a bizarre symbiotic relationship.

"So this is what you wanted. No wonder you didn't hesitate to invite me a second time in such a terrible way."

Magneto spoke, his voice passing through the endlessly roaring battlefield and spreading continuously under the power of the magnetic field.

After receiving Raven's message, he had rushed to the battlefield, seized Thunder God's Hammer, and begun fighting...

"It didn't have to come to this. The appearance of the Deviants was absolutely an accident. I still haven't figured out why they appeared in this area. At most, I had only anticipated that the Eternals would move because of Thor."

Duva's complexion had been extremely poor, but the moment he implanted the larva that had parasitized Thor into his own chest, his color visibly recovered and turned rosy again.

The huge wound in his chest, which he had torn open himself, let out a sizzling sound. White smoke rose as it rapidly healed.

Everyone understood now. Duva had traveled all this way and taken enormous risks to do so much, all to transfer the larva that had parasitized the Thunder God into his own body?

But what exactly was the purpose of doing this...? Duva took a deep breath and carefully felt the newfound power within his body.

Previously, although the Xenomorph Larva in his body could be considered excellent, it ultimately could not bring Duva a true leap in power.

But now, through the Xenomorph Larva as a "converter," Duva directly wielded the power brought by Thor's genes.

Parasitizing without bursting from the chest allowed the host to use the genetic power of the Xenomorph within their body.

However, in Duva's hands, he upgraded this method. He treated larvae that had parasitized a host and acquired powerful strength as interchangeable "equipment"! The facts proved that he was right.

An endless stream of power surged through Duva's body. The Xenomorph Larva in his chest was like an energy reactor, violently sending power into Duva with every breath, every moment.

This came from the genes of a direct descendant of Asgard's God-King, the Father of Gods, even if it was only a portion.

"Very strong, but... not enough! At this level alone, it isn't worth me taking such a risk!" Duva suddenly raised his head, facing the shocked gazes around him.

Wherever his eyes fell, powerful figures stood, flattening everything around them.

In less than ten minutes, these people had created devastation comparable to a super-scale natural disaster.

And this was obviously only the beginning. If they truly fought without restraint, the entire Earth would suffer severe damage.

Terrifying energies crashed about without pattern, enough to easily tear ordinary people into nothingness.

Kaecilius swore that this was the most chaotic battle he had ever participated in. Everyone within his sight was an enemy.

Yet he remained fixated on the Queen.

"Xenomorph..." Kaecilius was deeply moved. He finally understood why even Dormammu had paid such close attention to these creatures.

When had it started? Kaecilius remembered. It seemed to have been when Duva parasitized a Black Magic User, drawing Dormammu's attention to the Xenomorphs.

Xenomorphs were creatures of limitless uses. At least, someone like Kaecilius, who played with all kinds of dark magic, had never imagined that Xenomorphs could be used this way. His eyes had truly been opened.

Kaecilius immediately stretched out his hand toward the Queen, attempting to use Mirror Dimension Magic to capture her.

As long as she entered the Mirror Dimension, the Queen would be his for the taking! Boom! But his spell was quickly interrupted, and the prism-like magic shattered at once.

"Damn it, this place is too chaotic. It's seriously disrupting the stability of space." Kaecilius frowned.

The next second, Thunder God's Hammer struck him head-on.

Magneto had become increasingly adept at wielding Thunder God's Hammer. His icy gaze turned toward Kaecilius. These damned intruders had attacked his magnetic field without even a word of warning. That was the gravest provocation.

"Coming into my territory and still thinking you can do whatever you want? Who do you think you are?!" Magneto was truly enraged.

Kaecilius hurriedly twisted aside and dodged Thunder God's Hammer, sneering. "This is our first meeting, but it had better be our last. If I didn't have more important things to do, I could deal with you right now."

"Good. That's exactly what I want too. Then come!" As Magneto spoke, he stood bathed in the violent magnetic field.

At the same time, Loki had already used countless magical particles to forcibly distort the magnetic field, reaching a distance extremely dangerous to Duva. From this range, Loki could bombard him with powerful divine power and magic.

Deep madness appeared on Loki's face. Thor, twitching from time to time on the ground, had completely bloodied his eyes.

In his eyes, this mortal who commanded strange creatures had to die by his hand, simply because he had reduced Thor to such a miserable state.

For over a thousand years, Loki had spent over a thousand years with Thor. When had he ever seen Thor like this? In order to maintain his image as an elder brother before Loki, and to join the battlefield and fight beside him, Thor had actually compromised with a mortal and sought power.

This was the greatest humiliation Thor could suffer. Loki had originally been happy to see it, thinking it was amusing that Thor could endure such humiliation, but he did not want to see Thor die like this! "Mortal, you will pay for what you have done with your life! No one dares humiliate a god like this!!"

"Really? I don't see it that way."

Duva stood amid a group of Xenomorphs and glanced at Thor, who was half-dead on the ground. After confirming that the man would not die anytime soon, a satisfied look appeared on his face. Then he raised his head and stared at Loki, who had forcibly broken through the magnetic field.

He had parasitized Thor, completed the replacement of the Xenomorph Larva, and obtained the God-King's bloodline. One of the purposes of this journey had been achieved, and the key to the future was firmly in his grasp.

Since things had already reached this point, he might as well do more. A battle between him and Loki was not impossible.

Thunder God's Hammer, which Kaecilius had dodged, continued onward. Under Magneto's powerful control, it should have gradually stopped and flown back to strike Kaecilius again.

At that moment, Duva moved. From over a hundred meters away, he stretched out his hand toward the hammer.