Just as Bai Sui's divine clone arrived, he saw Banner jumping off the Quinjet.
Contrary to Bai Sui's expectations of the Hulk's appearance, Banner broke his neck after falling from a great height and was in a near-death state. This unexpected turn of events even startled Fenris, the giant wolf who was heading straight for the civilians of Asar.
Of course, this doesn't mean Banner killed himself directly. From Bai Sui's perspective, it's clear that although his life was rapidly fading, it wasn't completely wiped out. And just as it was about to be wiped out, the Hulk resided in Banner's body and mind, finally appeared.
At this moment, Bai Sui couldn't help but recall his past memories and realized that when Banner had actively summoned the Hulk in the past, he had indeed done so by killing himself, which made Bai Sui admire his courage.
Startled, Fenris the wolf was immediately drawn to the green monster that had risen from the ground, and opened its gaping maw to bite it.
At that moment, Thor was also dragged out of the palace by Hela, who grabbed his head and forced him to open his one remaining good eye to watch his people being slaughtered.
It has to be said that Thor's loss of this eye was a huge waste. His father traded one of his eyes for wisdom, and Saul was blinded by his own sister.
Just as Hela was humiliating Thor, the God of Thunder seemed to suddenly have an epiphany, finally shedding his identity as the hammer god and being able to use the power of lightning without relying on his hammer.
Caught off guard by the lightning strike, Hela gave Thor a good opportunity to escape. He rode the lightning towards his people, intending to help them break free from Hela's soldiers' encirclement and leave the area as soon as possible.
At that moment, Loki was also piloting the transport ship he had stolen from the Grandmaster, allowing the people of Asgard to board and escape.
It has to be said that Thor's lightning power is quite effective at clearing out mobs. Although he can't defeat his sister Hela, none of those mobs can withstand a single bolt of Thor's lightning.
After all, this is Asgard, the source of the Aesir power. On this continent, they can unleash the full power of their divine authority.
Hela, who had been ambushed earlier, once again stood before Thor. Although her steps were slow, her presence was overwhelming. Just one glance from her made Thor feel uneasy, for he was no longer a warrior, but the King of Asgard.
He could no longer disregard his own life and death and act solely on his whims. Although he was not afraid to fight Hela to the death, and even if he died in battle, it would simply be the fate of a warrior, he now had to be responsible for his people. He feared that he would fail to fulfill the responsibilities of a king, and he was not afraid that his people would die because of his recklessness.
At this moment, Thor thought of his father, who was no longer as brave as he used to be. He used to think that his father was no longer as heroic as he was in his youth, and that his actions had become hesitant and indecisive. But now he began to understand, to truly understand the burden on his father's shoulders. This pressure forced him to put aside his own dignity as Champion and become restrained.
Having come to his senses, Thor confronted his sister Hela head-on, but no longer with the intention of killing Hela. Instead, his goal became to buy time for his people to board the ship and to delay the release of the fire Giant Surtur by his brother Loki.
This was the kind of scheme he hated most. In his mind, battles should be a clash of Champion, and the involvement of conspiracies would only tarnish the identity of Champion. Now, he took the initiative to ask Loki to release the full power of the fire Giant Surtur, so that he could restrain Hela's actions by destroying the entire continent of Asgard.
Thor knew that from now on he could no longer bear the title of Champion. Although he felt a little lost, he was not discouraged, because he now bore another identity: the king of Asgard, a king of a god who was about to be exiled.
Having awakened to his true potential, Thor unleashed the aura of a king, and at that moment, Thor truly received the blessing of the entire continent upon him.
In the past, neither the people of Asgard nor Thor himself considered Thor a qualified king. Therefore, he was not recognized as a king by the continent and was only regarded as the God of Thunder. Even the title of God of Thunder was incomplete because Thor's understanding of himself was insufficient.
After taking some measures, the people of Asgard accepted Thor's identity and fully embraced this new king. However, Thor always worried that he could not be a good king and could not accept his father's death. In his heart, he still believed that his father Odin was the true king of Asgard.
This is because of its own resistance, so the land did not recognize Thor's kingly status, and therefore he did not receive this blessing.
In contrast, his rival, his sister Hela, the Goddess of Death, not only recognized herself as the Goddess of Death, but the people of Asgard also recognized her identity. In fact, this recognition predates Thor's birth.
Hela was protected by the continent, which made her invincible as long as she set foot on it. After all, she was the Death God, and the Death God is not bound by death.
It was this very power that fueled her ambition to usurp the throne, which led Odin to decide to seal her away. The reason for choosing Earth as the location for the seal was that the blessings Hela would receive would be significantly reduced there.
However, even if this blessing diminishes, it will still not die. If it dies elsewhere, it will be resurrected on Asgard and become an unkillable monster once again. In other words, as long as the continent of Asgard is not destroyed, it is an existence that cannot be killed.
In terms of sheer power of blessing, the blessing a king can receive is far greater than that of the Death God. Otherwise, Hela wouldn't have coveted that position so much, as she hoped to further strengthen herself by obtaining the blessing of a king.
Unfortunately, Thor cannot fully control this power now. Even with the blessing of a king, let alone the blessing of the original Thor, he could not fully control it.
However, this sudden surge of power also helped Thor withstand Hela's attack, successfully drawing her attention to himself.
At this moment, Loki, unusually, did not contradict his brother and obediently went to the treasure room in Asgard, found Surtur's helmet, and threw it into the Eternal Flame. Loki did not do anything fancy throughout the process, but simply took some cosmic True Magic as he passed by.
Hela seemed to be handling the combined attack from Thor and Valkyrie with ease. After all, Thor would take most of Hela's attacks to protect Valkyrie, and at this moment, Hela sent him flying with a single sword strike.
Seeing that the transport ship had already picked up all the Asgard and was taking off, Hela changed her attack strategy. She abandoned the idea of trying to eliminate Thor now and instead chose to distract Thor by attacking these people, thus paving the way for her later victory.
Under Hela's control, a weapon even larger than the transport ship appeared out of thin air and pierced it, delaying its takeoff.
Moreover, a large number of Hela's command, were also climbing up the transport ship along this weapon, attempting to enter the ship and carry out their killings.
This move indeed distracted Thor and his companion, causing them to suffer repeated defeats in their subsequent battles, and they were on the verge of being killed by Hela's sword.
Although Bai Sui's goal was simply to wait for Surtur to destroy Asgard so he could reap some benefits and he had no intention of intervening in the coup, Bai Sui ultimately had to intervene after witnessing the massacre of civilians.
However, the help he provided was very limited. He merely used the magic of scattering beans to summon some Yellow Turban Strongman to protect the civilians, and did not even attack the dead soldiers.
Even so, it attracted a lot of attention. After all, those Gilgamesh Yellow Turban Strongman were too conspicuous. To be honest, this was something Bai Sui hadn't expected. After all, it was the first time Bai Sui had used divine power instead of qi to activate this spell. He really didn't know that under the blessing of divine power, these Yellow Turban Strongman would even have a golden flashing effect.
Although the Yellow Turban Strongman looked very handsome and fit Bai Sui's image of immortal magic, it wasn't appropriate for the current occasion, as he didn't want to attract attention.
Thor and Hela discovered the lights almost simultaneously and quickly located the Bai Sui floating far in the sky.
Although both were looking at Bai Sui, their gazes were completely different. Thor's gaze was filled with doubt mixed with gratitude, while Hela's was pure malice, because right now she only wanted to kill this outsider who dared to disrupt her plans.
However, before Hela could do anything, a sudden explosion drew everyone's attention. It was Surtur, whose figure grew ever larger and burst through the palace.
Unlike her reaction to Bai Sui, Hela also knew about the Prophecy of the fire Giant destroying Asgard, so she was immediately drawn to the scene and didn't even notice her brother's actions beside her.
While Hela was still in shock at the Prophecy, Thor unleashed his full power of lightning, destroying the bridge where they were and sending Hela into the water.
At that moment, Thor, along with the Hulk and Valkyrie, immediately headed towards the transport ship. Although he was reluctant to leave his homeland, he had already made preparations the moment he had Loki release Surtur. Now, the most important thing was to lead his people away from here.
Seeing that the situation had stabilized, Bai Sui immediately dispelled the spell of "Scattering Beans to Create Soldiers" and used the "Transparent Release " technique to conceal himself in the void.
When Thor and his companions tried to find Bai Sui, who had helped them in Asgard, they discovered that Bai Sui had disappeared. Thor could only keep his gratitude to himself and decided to express it another time. Right now, the most important thing was to leave this place and avoid being caught in the crossfire.
Hela, who had fallen into the water, was now standing on a giant weapon, confronting Surtur. If her previous battle with Thor was merely a warm-up, now, facing Surtur, Hela was unleashing her full power.
Enormous weapons, appearing one by one under Hela's control, surged towards Surtur, clearly intending to draw the fire Giant's attention and prevent him from directly plunging the Twilight Sword into the ground beneath his feet.
Unfortunately, Surtur, whose power was fully unleashed by the Eternal Flame, disregarded the weapons that might attack him and suddenly plunged his greatsword into the earth.
With this thrust of the sword, the core of the Asgard continent was directly destroyed, and after a flash of bright light, the continent was blasted into dust.
A once-thriving continent was reduced to a cloud of cosmic dust. Although the various energies that erupted within it continued to explode and fly away, and this process might even continue for countless years, it could not change the fact that it had become a ruin where no one wanted to live. The Asgard lost their homeland.
Watching the transport plane flying towards the wormhole, preparing to use it to travel through dimensions to Earth, Bai Sui ultimately did not intervene. After all, the reason they would be forced to accept the population reduction plan after encountering Thanos was entirely because they had taken the Tesseract.
If you don't even understand the principle that "a common man is innocent, but possessing a treasure is a crime," then there's nothing Bai Sui can do. After all, this kind of thing is not something outsiders can interfere with.
On the one hand, only when the other side has truly experienced that kind of humiliation will they realize that they are no longer the Aesir once dominated the universe, and that Odin is no longer protecting them.
On the other hand, it's also because Bai Sui isn't a member of the Aesir, and since what happened afterward didn't directly occur in front of Bai Sui, he didn't want to get involved.
Ignoring the transport ship sailing into the distance, Bai Sui stared intently at the dust cloud before him, searching for the figures still engaged in battle within it.
Hela truly lived up to her reputation as Asgard's most powerful warrior. Even without the continent's support and after facing the previous impact, her armor was only shattered; at least she didn't appear to have any serious injuries.
In contrast, Surtur, who was standing in the void, had not only shrunk considerably, but even the Twilight Sword in his hand had shattered.