Rumble!
As the Chitauri's main warship—lifted high by the dazzling golden light radiating from its entire hull—rose up, the ones buried alongside the Heaven Overlord amid the brilliant explosion were more than fifty thousand Chitauri.
At this very moment.
The instant the Chitauri flagship exploded, the Chitauri Demon Dragon fleets rampaging across the African continent on Earth all let out mournful cries.
After all...
That exploding flagship was far more than just a flagship. It was their command center.
"Boom!"
"Bang!"
"Boom!"
"Bang!"
"Boom!"
A huge fireball blasted out of the flagship. Like a brilliant meteor, it bombarded Earth's spatial protective barrier. Then, as though it had struck some sort of elastic net, it changed course with a whoosh and, with a bang, fell directly onto the Moon.
The Moon had once again been smashed into a crater by this foreign object.
Lake blinked as he stood on the Moon.
WTF?
Lake processed the private database transmitted to him at this moment, during the Heaven Overlord's final curtain call. He digested everything the Heaven Overlord had experienced in his life, as well as every dirty job he had done for Odin.
One by one.
Case by case.
The sheer horror was enough to leave anyone stunned. It could even be called breathtaking.
Earlier, when Lake had called Odin a genocidal killer, he had based that judgment on Midgard. But now, after consuming the Heaven Overlord's past, Lake suddenly realized that his assessment of Odin had been far too lenient.
What genocidal killer?
Odin was an outright exterminator of races.
From the information Lake had consumed in that short time alone, under Odin's massive financial offensive, Heaven had helped Odin kill a full twelve races in the World Tree Universe, wiping them out completely so that Odin would not have to