Everyone present stared at the object trailing a long tail and constantly producing sonic booms as it landed in a suddenly raised hand.
It was Thor!
The instant the hammer's handle fell into his grasp, every ancient rune on its head lit up. Blue-white light spread from Thor's palm up his arm, crawling over his entire right arm like veins.
Then an extraordinarily thick pillar of blue-white lightning struck down from the sky. It hit Thor with perfect accuracy, and everyone saw a blinding flash that left a lingering afterimage on their retinas.
Unlike ordinary lightning, which appeared and vanished in an instant, this pillar continued to shine down on Thor as if charging him.
The wounds on Thor's body rapidly healed within the pillar of lightning.
At the same time, scale-like armor plates began appearing around the arm holding Mjolnir. The plates materialized from nowhere, attaching themselves one by one to his arm, shoulders, chest, and legs.
In the end, Thor's armor's iconic silver scale mail and red cape automatically equipped themselves onto Thor.
Standing atop the Wood Dragon's head, Lin Hai watched the faint figure within the blue-white pillar of lightning with a gratified expression. Gwen, Peter, and Harry watched the scene with equal curiosity.
The expressions on Sif and the others' faces shifted from nervousness to excitement, then from excitement to wild joy.
Fandral, Volstagg, and Hogun embraced one another, celebrating Thor's return. Sif looked at the man in the lightning, who was becoming Thor once more, her face filled with pride.
Professor Eric had barely managed to accept the fact that Thor was Odin's son and the God of Thunder, but "accepting the fact" and "personally seeing a severely wounded, dying man grow armor inside an enormously thick pillar of lightning" were entirely different things.
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