Lin Ye did not hesitate in the slightest. Beneath countless stunned gazes, that dazzling bolt of lightning charged without fear into the spinning spatial passage radiating an aura of destruction!
Buzz—!
The instant he passed through, a strange sensation of weightlessness and spatial distortion washed over him, as if he had crossed a curtain of cold, viscous water. The ordinary laws of physics seemed to blur here.
The next moment, his view suddenly opened up!
He was already outside Earth, in the cold vacuum of space! Behind him was that beautiful blue planet, while ahead... lay the savage and terrifying headquarters of the Chitauri army!
An incomparably massive living mothership, like a starry beast lying in wait, floated at the center of his vision. Its scale far exceeded the troop carriers that had entered New York before. Its surface was covered in thick biological armor and gun emplacements that glimmered with an eerie light. Surrounding it were countless Chitauri aircraft, numbering in the tens of thousands, like worker bees guarding their queen!
Farther away, he could make out the silhouettes of several smaller yet still enormous motherships. This was the true main force of the Chitauri invasion!
"Warning! Extreme vacuum, low-temperature, and radiation environments detected!" Remy's voice rang directly in Lin Ye's mind. "Life-support system activated. Oxygen circulation simulation normal."
A shield formed of lightning energy automatically covered Lin Ye's body, shielding him from the harsh environment of space. To a certain extent, the power of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit had already surpassed the limits of pure physical laws.
His appearance immediately provoked a frenzied reaction from the Chitauri legion!
Countless aircraft swarmed toward him like disturbed hornets, their engines spewing dark-blue flames! The gun emplacements on the mothership's surface lit up in unison, thick energy beams covering every inch of space around him like a rain of death!
"Heh. Trash is still trash, no matter how much of it there is!"
Lin Ye sneered. Faced with firepower terrifying enough to wipe out an interstellar fleet, he not only refused to retreat but charged forward instead!
"Divine Punishment: Ten Thousand Thunders!"
Floating in the vacuum of space, he raised both arms and pushed the power of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit to its limit! An unprecedented amount of lightning energy gathered around him in a frenzy!
Rumble—!!!
Though sound could not travel through the vacuum, the violent energy fluctuations seemed capable of shaking one's soul! A colossal lightning pillar, as wide as a small meteorite, erupted from his palms and detonated fiercely amid the aircraft swarm!
It was not a single explosion. Instead, it split into countless branching bolts of lightning, each one precisely locking onto a Chitauri aircraft! Lightning leaped and flashed, weaving a deadly net across the battlefield!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Silent explosions erupted one after another in space, turning into brilliant yet fleeting fireballs. With just one strike, tens of thousands of Chitauri aircraft were cleared away like firecrackers set alight! The explosions even briefly illuminated the mothership's savage hull!
Earth, New York battlefield.
Everyone saw the shocking sight—the densely packed enemy fleet beyond the spatial gate suddenly erupted in an incomparably dazzling sphere of lightning, bright enough to temporarily outshine the stars. Then countless smaller explosions spread like a plague!
"Good God... what did he do over there?!" Tony hovered in the air. The data on his faceplate showed the energy readings on the other side instantly soaring to a horrifying level before plummeting again, indicating that a massive number of targets had vanished.
"It looks like... he cleared out more than half of their escort fleet by himself?" Natasha piloted the fighter jet, her voice filled with disbelief.
Captain America raised his shield to deflect a stray blast. Looking at the scene beyond the spatial gate, he muttered, "This is... unbelievable."
Even Loki, who had just crawled out of the rubble, filthy and gritting his teeth, froze at the sight. The dagger in his hand nearly fell to the ground.
In space, after clearing out the fodder with one strike, Lin Ye fixed his gaze directly on the largest mothership.
"Catch the king to capture the bandits!"
He transformed into a bolt of lightning, ignored the sporadic incoming fire—none of it could penetrate his lightning shield—and shot straight toward the mothership!
The mothership seemed to sense the fatal threat. Its enormous body began to turn, and its main cannon lit up with a heart-pounding glow, clearly charging a terrifying attack capable of destroying an asteroid!
"I won't give you the chance!"
Lin Ye's speed surged to the limit, and he instantly closed in on the mothership's incomparably thick biological armor!
"Armament Haki: Internal Destruction—Thunder Tremor!"
He combined Armament Haki's penetrating properties with the Rumble-Rumble Fruit's vibration and explosive power. His fist, coated in black Armament Haki and billions of volts of lightning, smashed viciously into the mothership's hull!
Boom!!!
A dull, thunderous impact, transmitted through his energy shield and bones, echoed within Lin Ye's body! At the point of impact, the thick armor capable of withstanding battleship main-cannon fire instantly dented and shattered as if struck by a superalloy drill!
But that was only the beginning!
Terrifying vibrations and high-voltage currents surged through the breach like countless tiny serpents of destruction, spreading wildly through the mothership's interior along its energy conduits, biological nerves, and structural framework, destroying everything in their path!
From the outside, the mothership's massive body suddenly shuddered violently. Countless abnormal bolts of lightning flickered chaotically across its surface, as if innumerable suns were exploding inside it at once!
The main cannon's glow instantly died out. In the blink of an eye, the entire mothership's propulsion, control, and weapons systems were completely paralyzed and destroyed!
"Now... explode!"
Lin Ye let out a low shout within his energy shield and poured in the last surge of destructive energy!
BOOM!!!!!!
The enormous Chitauri mothership exploded from within in a heaven-shaking blast! Huge fireballs and fragments expanded at astonishing speed, instantly swallowing the few remaining aircraft around it!
The explosion was so intense that its light passed through the spatial gate, bathing the entire New York battlefield in daylight!
[ Ding! Detected that the host has independently destroyed the Chitauri main-force mothership, completely turning the tide of battle and dealing a devastating blow to the invading army! ] [ Major Achievement Rewards: ] [ 1. Rumble-Rumble Fruit development greatly increased! ] [ 2. New ability unlocked: [Thor Form] (Temporarily greatly increases lightning power, range, and control, transforming the user into a god of lightning elements) ] [ 3. Space Stone affinity significantly increased! ]
The rewards flooded into him instantly. Lin Ye felt his control over lightning reach an entirely new level. He could even vaguely sense the Tesseract Loki had placed atop Stark Tower in the distance, forming a faint resonance with it!
Earth fell silent.
Everyone was stunned by the scene beyond the spatial gate, which rivaled a supernova explosion.
"He... he blew up the biggest mothership?!" Even Tony's voice had changed pitch.
Captain America unconsciously swallowed.
Natasha even forgot to operate the controls, and her fighter jet made a dangerous tilt in midair.
On the Helicarrier, Fury's one eye widened round. After a long pause, he finally forced out a sentence. "...Analyze the explosive yield immediately! Assess the impact on Earth's orbit!"
Loki's face had already gone deathly pale, and his body trembled slightly. He knew it was over. His army, his foundation, had been as flimsy as paper before one man!
In space, Lin Ye floated amid the debris field formed by the mothership's explosion. The lightning around him shone even more brilliantly, as if he were the ruler of this starry expanse.
He looked toward the other Chitauri motherships, which had been pushed away by the shockwave and seemed to have fallen dormant, as well as the remaining aircraft that had lost command and descended into chaos.
"Who else?"
His voice traveled clearly through energy vibrations across the silent battlefield. Though the vacuum could not transmit sound, the Chitauri seemed to have some special means of receiving it.
The remaining Chitauri forces seemed to receive some sort of order—or perhaps they were simply engulfed by boundless terror. They actually turned around in panic and scattered in all directions, fleeing away from the spatial gate!
The defeat collapsed like a mountain slide!
Lin Ye did not pursue them. His objective had already been achieved. He turned and looked toward the spatial gate leading back to Earth.
It was time to return and put an end to this farce.
He transformed into a bolt of lightning even brighter than before and charged toward the spatial gate.
Behind him lay the burning wreckage of the mothership and the defeated army fleeing in panic.
Where thunder went, the sea of stars trembled!
(End of Chapter Eleven)
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