In the realm of the gods, the Valkyries served as soul bearers, summoning the strongest human souls they encountered to the heavens and storing them as Einherjar to face celestial crises.
But now, the Valkyries were secretly bestowing divine weapons to fight gods in the arena! Wasn't that rebellion?
Throughout Zeus's long life, there had been far too few things this interesting!
Other gods might not have known Thor's true strength, but Zeus did... Thor was not so easily killed. Even Odin, the chief god of the Norse pantheon, had not shown the slightest change in expression, had he?
Only those other gods thought Thor was about to die!
Back in the arena, Himeko used the greatsword Randgrith had become to effortlessly pierce Thor's chest, her face utterly expressionless.
With a sword through his body, Thor could not even hold Mjolnir steady. It slipped from his hand and fell to the ground.
Himeko calmly pulled out the greatsword, blood pouring continuously from Thor's chest. Then... she kicked him. The sheer force sent Thor flying like a cannonball into the arena wall, smashing a huge crater into it.
Thor slid down to the ground like a powerless puppet.
No matter how one looked at it... he should have been dead. Even Himeko believed so. Just as she looked toward Heimdall and waited for him to announce her victory, a strange heartbeat suddenly echoed through the arena.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
A massive heartbeat rang through the arena! Listening closely, they realized the sound was coming from Mjolnir.
Himeko looked toward the Thunder Hammer. Lying on the ground, it radiated an extreme heat, its scorching vapor melting the ground around it.
At the same time, the hammer trembled like a heart. The sudden change silenced the cheering humans, who stared at it in