"Drink up—!"
Fury threw back his head and let out a low growl from Hell.
He needed souls.
He needed souls steeped in sin to replenish the Flame of Vengeance, which was about to run dry.
Countless utterly evil souls had accumulated around him.
In life, these souls had belonged to war criminals whose hands were stained with innocent blood, vile demons who regarded invasion and slaughter as glory.
"Judgment..."
The skin on Fury's body burned away in an instant, and Ghost Rider returned.
Those sinful souls seemed drawn by some invisible magnetic field. Screaming and struggling, they were swept into Fury's gaping skeletal maw.
"Aaaahhh—!"
The miserable cries of their souls being scorched by Hellfire echoed endlessly through the ruins.
As immense power flooded into him,
Fury's nearly exhausted Flame of Vengeance came alive once more.
His consciousness immediately cleared.
He clenched his burning fist and felt the fullness of the Flame of Vengeance within him, his confidence soaring.
"Gravik... your end has come."
He felt that he now possessed the power to defeat Gravik and save the world.
Fury looked around. The nuclear blast had long since erased all traces of the area's original buildings.
But then he lowered his head, his gaze falling at his feet.
There lay a broken stone monument, half-charred black by the extreme heat.
A faded ancient Eastern character was carved into it—"Jing."
"Looks like... not even a nuclear bomb can wash away this place's sins."
Fury gave a disdainful snort, turned, and strode out of the ruins.
New York, Vought Global Defense Bureau (V.G.D.).
Jessica Jones wore a specially made radiation-proof combat suit as she tightened the Vibranium bracers around her arms.
Not only her—aside from Banner, Nebula, and the male and female Thors, Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, Quicksilver,