Escape and a New Beginning

"This hammer is so heavy! I can't even budge it with my strength?!" Facing Thor's mockery, Hak foo's eyes flashed with anger. The Dark Power within him surged continuously, but he still couldn't break free from Mjolnir.

"Zzzzz!" At that moment, powerful Thunder God Power surged from Thor's body, gathering a powerful attack to destroy Hak foo in one fell swoop!

Under normal circumstances, Thor would never charge up his power like this, but since Hak foo is currently being suppressed by Mjolnir, what can he do?

In Thor's view, as long as Astolfo is suppressed by Mjolnir, Hak foo will have no chance of breaking free unless Hak foo gains the approval of Mjolnir... No, according to the current Mjolnir setting, even if other people who have gained the approval of Mjolnir fight Thor, they will probably not escape the fate of being suppressed!

"Boom!" Before long, Thor released all his divine power, and the powerful lightning blasted through the ground of the base, with a cloud of dust rising from the center of the thunderous roar.

But at that moment, Thor's expression suddenly changed. He instinctively turned around and punched in the direction behind him. At that moment, a dark figure appeared where Thor had thrown his punch and kicked Thor's fist.

With a loud "bang!", Thor was sent flying again in a sorry state. The person who kicked Thor away was none other than Hak foo. He was not injured by Thor's charged lightning attack, nor was he even hit!

It turned out that at the critical moment when Thor unleashed his thunderous power, Hak foo's body transformed into nothingness and merged into the darkness. While dodging Thor's attack, he also moved to a different position and launched a counterattack.

There's no way around it; the weight of Mjolnir is indeed formidable, but it's not an invincible force. In reality, Mjolnir can only suppress tangible life forms, similar to the intangible dark life form that Hak foo just transformed into. Mjolnir doesn't know how to suppress it...

"How could this be?" Thor didn't quite understand the situation. He looked in Hak foo's direction, somewhat unable to accept it. Mjolnir flew into his hand once again. He didn't believe that Mjolnir would fail in this way, after all, he had succeeded in this move countless times before.

Admittedly, Thor is completely different now than before. He can still unleash the power of Mjolnir Thor, but Mjolnir remains Thor's most important weapon and the way he enhances his combat power.

At this moment, Thor's Mjolnir's special properties were somehow neutralized by Hak foo, which made Thor feel somewhat uneasy...

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

Just as Thor was filled with doubt and uncertainty, one after another Shadow-Devouring Soldiers appeared beside Hak foo. They were incredibly huge, even larger than the Shadow-Devouring Soldiers fighting Sif and the Sif.

When these Shadow-Devouring Soldiers appeared, Thor could vaguely see that all the Hydra Soldiers in the distance had fallen to the ground, whether unconscious or dead, he didn't know.

Yes, at this point in the base, apart from Thor and the Asgardian Four, no one on Thor's side was able to stand up, including the Super Soldier and Animal Warriors.

The Shadow-Devouring Soldiers ' abilities are truly too overpowered. With Hak foo holding back and boosting Shadow-Devouring Soldiers strength first, their Shadow-Devouring Soldiers power is terrifying. Coupled with their ability to absorb shadows to further increase their strength and knock out their opponents, they are like an uninhabited place in the base!

It's important to understand that no matter how powerful the Animal Warriors are, and despite their significant improvement after the advice of the Asgardian Four, they are still just powerful individual beings. Their strength lies only in their physical bodies; they do not possess any extraordinary energy.

Therefore, these Animal Warriors, unlike Thor and the Asgardian Four, could not use special energy to protect their bodies and shadows from being devoured by the Shadow-Devouring Soldiers. Ultimately, no matter how powerful they were, they could not escape the fate of having their shadows devoured...

"Come on, let's have some fun with this guy who calls himself Thor!" Hak foo nodded in satisfaction as he looked at his Shadow-Devouring Soldiers. These subordinates were much more useful than any Super Soldier Animal Warriors.

Hak foo felt that with these Shadow-Devouring Soldiers around, he only needed to recruit some administrative staff and didn't need any combat-side subordinates at all. Therefore, Hak foo didn't bother keeping any of the Hydra members who had betrayed Hak foo!

"Roar!" Upon hearing Hak foo's command, the Shadow-Devouring Soldiers pounced towards Thor's direction, letting out terrifying roars. Hak foo watched all of this calmly, as if he were watching a Beast struggling for its last breath in a cage.

At this point, Hak foo had realized that Thor and the Asgardian Four were unusual. Previously, Hak foo thought that the Asgardian Four and Thor were secret soldiers trained by some force on Earth, possessing a path different from that of Super Soldier, and had been brainwashed into becoming Asgard gods.

However, when Hak foo returned this time, he found that Thor had taken over his base, but the organization he thought was behind it did not appear. Coupled with the strange performance of Mjolnir, Hak foo really began to suspect that Thor was the legendary Thor of Thunder.

However, even knowing that Thor might really be the legendary Thunder, Hak foo showed no fear whatsoever. Instead, he ordered his men to toy with and torture Thor.

After all, if Thor really is the so-called Thor, then the power of such a god is not that great. He wouldn't make Hak foo feel any fear at all, and he wouldn't even put as much pressure on Hak foo as Clark and Robet.

Thor's strength is only this much, so how powerful can Asgard behind him be? With the existence of Shadow-Devouring Soldiers who can continuously devour shadows to increase their strength, Hak foo's heart couldn't help but swell. He even felt that after devouring a certain number of shadows, he might be able to completely eliminate the terror left to him by Clark and Robet!

"Damn it! Get out of my way!" Just as Hak foo was distracted by Thor bleeding profusely under the attack of the Shadow-Devouring Soldiers, Thor roared. At this moment, the Thunder God Power within his body finally recovered, and a powerful burst of Thunder God Power, combined with the power of Mjolnir, instantly erupted, blasting the surrounding Shadow-Devouring Soldiers away.

Just as Hak foo saw this scene and was about to rush up to force Thor back again, he saw Thor charging towards him with unstoppable momentum, as if he wanted to take Thor down with him!

"Hmm? Fighting desperately? Heh, is this what a god is like?" Hak foo scoffed. He thought this was just Thor's last-ditch effort. Faced with such a desperate attack, Hak foo naturally wouldn't confront it head-on. Such a desperate strike would consume a lot of energy and spirit, and if it didn't harm the enemy, it would have a greater impact on himself!

Therefore, Hak foo's body instantly vanished from the spot, disappearing into the darkness. The surrounding Shadow-Devouring Soldiers also merged into the darkness and vanished instantly, leaving only Thor, radiating lightning power, and the disheveled, somewhat bewildered Asgardian Four in the entire base.

However, Hak foo did not expect that Thor was not going to fight him to the death with a final blow. Thor saw that the situation was really dire, and with all of his Hydra men dead, Thor began to consider retreating.

Of course, this intention to retreat was not a retreat back to Asgard, but rather a plan to leave the base first, to avoid the powerful Hak foo, and to deal with Hak foo and the Shadow-Devouring Soldiers before making further plans...

Thor, having decided to leave, naturally couldn't leave alone. Starting over from scratch on Thor own would be a pipe dream. Therefore, Thor decided to unleash his power, first forcing Hak foo back, and then escape with the Asgardian Four...

"Whoosh!"

"Boom!"

Lightning flashed throughout the base. Thor quickly pulled the Asgardian Four into his grasp, and then the lightning transformed into a beam of light that pierced through the upper levels of the base, soaring into the sky and disappearing into the horizon.

"Damn it!" Hak foo's body also appeared outside the base, but unfortunately, Thor and the Asgardian Four had already flown away. Even though Hak foo could fly, the sky was really not Hak foo domain.

After all, no matter how large or powerful the Shadow-Devouring Soldiers are, they are still just ground-based combatants. They can't fly, and due to their unique species, it's impossible for them to leap dozens or hundreds of meters in one bound like the Hulk...

Therefore, Hak foo eventually gave up on continuing the pursuit of Thor's location. Hak foo did not believe that Thor could fly in the sky forever. As long as Hak foo sent out Shadow-Devouring Soldiers to search, Thor and his crew would eventually land and be discovered!

"Aside from those five escaping, I've gotten my revenge. So what should I do next?" As he looked in the direction Thor had left, Hak foo's eyes flickered slightly. Now that he had gained immense power, his ambition had swelled to an unprecedented level.

At first, Hak foo wasn't this kind of person, but unfortunately, the Super Soldier Serum influenced Hak foo's personality once, and the Shadow-Devouring Mask also influenced Hak foo's personality once. Together, they released all of Hak foo's negative personality traits.

The better the good, the worse the bad, and the evil deep within will be completely unleashed. The dual impact of kindness and conscience turning to darkness is not so easy to overcome.

Of course, if the Super Soldier Serum had initially enhanced Hak foo's positive aspects, then even facing the effects of the Shadow-Devouring Mask, Hak foo could still maintain his initial state. However, Hak foo clearly didn't do that in this situation...

"My Hydra Base is destroyed, and my subordinates betrayed me and I killed them all. What about the other Hydra Base? I did devour quite a few shadows before, but the number of Hydra is far more than that. Should I subdue them directly, or continue to let the Shadow-Devouring Soldiers devour them?" A hesitant glint flashed in Hak foo's eyes, then he made a decision: devour some, subdue some, and then let the subdued ones find more targets to devour!

Hak foo wasn't unwilling to achieve great things overnight, but due to his deep fear of Robet and Clark, Hak foo ultimately chose to play it safe and first raise the strength of the Shadow-Devouring Soldiers to a level that he believed was sufficient to defeat Clark and Robet before he would truly reveal his fangs!

With a loud "Bang!", a bolt of lightning flashed across the wilderness on the other side, and Thor and the Asgardian Four landed there somewhat disheveled. After the lightning dissipated, the five of them sat on the ground, panting heavily.

"What do we do now, Thor?" Sif was the first to come to her senses. She looked at the silent Thor and asked, "Everyone in the base must be dead. Only we are left. All our previous efforts have been in vain, whether it was the Super Soldier or the Animal Warriors. If we want to continue to fight and make something of ourselves, we have to start all over again!"

"Then let's start anew!" Thor remained silent for a long time, a glint of light slowly flashing in his eyes, before he laughed. "After all, we didn't really create our own power before; we were merely usurping Hydra's territory. But now, perhaps we can rebuild a power of our own, a place that can be called Asgard!"

"Construct an Asgard? But if it's a real Asgard, we're still far from it. Even if we were to construct a human organization using the name of Asgard, we'd be lacking in many things. First and foremost, there's the funding..." Sif frowned, looking at Thor and reminding him, "We don't have anything of value on us, and we've only been on Earth for a very short time. We don't have any wealth of our own!"

"It's alright! I have it!" Thor smiled and shook his head, saying softly, "All the wealth in the Hydra Base is with me; I've already transferred it all out..."

"When did this happen?" Fandral asked Thor, looking somewhat bewildered.

"After that shadowy life form first appeared!" Thor said, his eyes gleaming. "I felt something was off about that life form, so I kept a backup plan. I just didn't expect it to come in so quickly. Let's go. I've taken care of our public identities. Our covert identities are our individual names. This time, it's a true new beginning, to create an Asgard that is entirely our own!"

"Thor, we naturally support your plan one hundred percent!" Hogun said with a smile, and the other three beside Thor nodded as well. Clearly, after being brainwashed, they unconditionally supported Thor!