Homelander made a promise on the spot.
"Starting next month, your salary will go up by thirty percent. And from now on, you can make your own decisions regarding publicity work. You won't need to ask me about every little thing."
Ashley was overwhelmed with surprise and delight.
A thirty percent raise! And independent decision-making authority!
It was simply the highest recognition of her abilities.
Her face flushed with excitement, and even her fingers trembled slightly.
Homelander was absolutely the best boss she had ever met in her life!
Ashley secretly swore to herself that even if she died, she would die at her workstation in Vought!
"Thank you! Thank you, boss! I'll get right on it!" Ashley turned and left, bursting with motivation.
At the edge of the universe, on Sakaar.
Blue light flashed and vanished.
Thor appeared on a ruined stretch of ground.
He curiously surveyed his surroundings.
As far as the eye could see, mountains of garbage stretched endlessly.
Abandoned spaceship hulls, broken mechanical gears, and all kinds of unrecognizable scrap formed one unbroken mountain range across the horizon.
In the sky, an enormous spatial wormhole hung in the center of the heavens like a giant anus, radiating an eerie orange-red glow.
Countless flickering miniature wormholes surrounded it.
From time to time, the wreckage of massive derelict spacecraft fell from those wormholes and crashed into distant mountains of trash.
"Heimdall was right. The name Anus of the Universe really is well deserved."
Thor frowned and dusted off his cape.
Before he could figure out which way to go.
"Rumble, rumble, rumble—"
The roar of engines came from nearby.
Thor turned his head and saw a ramshackle spaceship, its patchwork construction plainly visible, swoop in low and land in an open area not far from him.
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