While Luo Xia was away, the world seemed peaceful and calm. Aside from the Anti-Mutant Act, which had been gaining momentum, showing signs of losing steam, most of the places where people lived seemed to be at peace.
There was a saying: if you couldn't see the darkness in the world, it was because someone was holding it back for you. That seemed hardly an exaggeration when it came to Captain America.
After returning from the AllSpark Company to the space portal, S.H.I.E.L.D. had been stationed there for a full three months, repelling five Frost Giant incursions.
Ward wiped the sweat from his face. Just moments earlier, he and the combat team under Garrett, led by Rogers, had killed a hundred-strong squad of Frost Giants right in front of the space portal.
He had originally planned to find an opportunity to look into the top-secret files on World War II, but the Frost Giant invasion had become S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most important mission. So Ward, an agent highly skilled in all kinds of combat, had been assigned to guard the space portal as soon as he returned to S.H.I.E.L.D.
Facing those enormous blue-skinned monsters, Ward couldn't help feeling his limbs go cold. These weren't enemies ordinary people could fight. Their skin was incredibly tough; machine-gun rounds only caused superficial injuries. Only large quantities of high-temperature incendiary ammunition or flamethrowers could effectively take them down.
And it was precisely because these enemies were so difficult to deal with that Captain America, Steve Rogers, had been all the more awe-inspiring.
Ward had grown up hearing stories about Captain America, but he had always thought they were just stories. That changed when he saw Rogers hurl his shield and smash through an ice wall nearly a meter thick, with the Frost Giant behind it torn