The wind blew and stirred up the ashes on the ground. There was a smell of burnt metal and dust.
Thor stood in the dead silence holding a hammer. He looked at Chu Hang, his mind a little confused.
Not long ago, on Earth, this man needed to learn some of the fighting skills of the gods. Now, in a way that he could not understand at all, he ended a war that he could not win despite his best efforts.
It's not a fight, it's a cleanup. A calm, efficient, emotionless erasure.
"You... have become stronger again." Thor's voice was dry. He thought for a long time and could only say this. He felt that his pride, along with Asgard's thousands of years of glory, had been crushed in those few minutes.
"It's not bad. I'm doing some exercise." Chu Hang clapped his hands with nothing in his hands. He walked forward and his eyes fell on Thor's left shoulder.
The armor and flesh there melted together, forming a scorched black hole, and tiny sparks of electricity were still sizzling. The self-healing ability of the Gods was fighting against the dark energy remaining in the wound, causing all his divine power to function poorly.
"Don't move."
Chu Hang stretched out his finger and touched the wound.
A green light emerged, and time seemed to be flowing backwards.
Thor felt that the turbulent divine power within his body calmed down instantly. The flesh and blood on his shoulders regenerated rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the charred skin fell off like dead skin. The molten metal armor pieces also seemed to have been reshaped by invisible hands and returned to their original appearance, with not even a scratch visible.
This is him
It only lasts three seconds.
Thor moved his shoulder, the pain was gone, and his strength returned. It was as if the fierce battle just now was just a dream.
"What is this?" He couldn't help but ask, his tone full of confusion. This kind of recovery ability is faster and more thorough than Asgard's Soul Forge.
"Little trick." Chu Hang took back his hand, not wanting to explain more, "Tell me about that Aether. Is it still in Jane's body?"
When Jane was mentioned, Thor's face sank again.
"Yes." He clenched the handle of the hammer, his voice full of remorse and weakness, "It's like a toxin, eroding her Life Law. I took her back to Asgard, but the best doctors couldn't do anything. They said that Aether was transforming her, trying to turn her into... a new container."
"Self-aware Reality Stone." Chu Hang thought in his mind. This thing is difficult to handle.
It is not a simple energy, it is a concept and a rule. It can knead reality itself like plasticine.
"Take me to see her." Chu Hang said, his tone unquestionable.
"This is the country of Svartalfheim and Dark Elves, which is far away from Asgard." Thor explained, "Bifrost was destroyed. We have to find a usable spaceship first, and then..."
Before he finished speaking, Chu Hang's hand was already on his shoulder.
"No need to bother."
Thor felt his eyes blurred as the whole world was forcibly torn apart by an irresistible force and twisted into countless chaotic lights.
He felt that his body had been dismantled into the most basic particles and then roughly reassembled. This feeling was ten thousand times more uncomfortable than sitting on a Bifrost.
When he came back to his senses, the dazzling golden light made him squint his eyes. He was already standing in the palace hall of Asgard.
The atmosphere in the hall was very heavy, and there was a sense of depression in the air.
Odin is sitting on the throne, with unconcealed fatigue on his face. Queen Frigga is lying on the light bed next to her, her face is pale and her breathing is weak. Several female attendants are taking care of her carefully.
When the surrounding guards saw them appearing out of thin air, they immediately raised their spears, and golden energy gathered at the tip of the spear.
"Stand back." Odin's voice was tired, but its majesty was not diminished.
The guards hesitantly retreated to both sides, but their eyes were still fixed on Chu Hang, the uninvited guest.
Odin's one eye was also staring at Chu Hang. Just now, he felt an arrogant and primitive space force tearing apart Asgard's space barrier. He thought it was Malekith who had used some trump card, but he didn't expect it to be this earthling.
"Last time I saw you, the power in your body was still very restrained." Odin's voice was very low, as if he was talking to himself or questioning, "Now, it is about to overflow. What on earth did you do?"
"Good luck, I learned something again." Chu Hang glanced at Frigga, then looked at the remaining traces of battle on the wall of the hall, "It seems you are in quite a lot of trouble."
"Father!" Thor walked quickly to the throne, knelt down on one knee, "Mother, she..."
"She is fine. She has exhausted her divine power and needs to recuperate." Odin finally moved his eyes away from Chu Hang and returned to his son, "Where is Malekith?"
"He ran away." Thor gritted his teeth, "But his army..." He looked back at Chu Hang with a complicated expression, "They were dealt with."
Odin instantly understood that with Chu Hang's multi-law strength, which was close to that of Skyfather-level, it was certainly no problem to defeat the Dark Army.
"I want to meet Jane Foster." Chu Hang didn't want to waste time and said directly, "I'm very interested in that thing called Aether."
Odin was silent for more than ten seconds, and the hall was so quiet that one could hear breathing. He finally waved to Thor.
"Take him there."
In the medical room, a chaotic and violent wave of energy rushed towards us.
Jane Foster was lying on a special energy bed, her brows furrowed, and her body twitching slightly from time to time. A dark red liquid that seemed to contain Life Law slowly flowed under her skin, like tiny snakes.
This energy is extremely unstable. From time to time, a trace will leak out of the body, instantly forming various strange-shaped red crystals in the air, and then disappear silently in the next second.
Reality was changing in subtle, random ways around her.
Chu Hang stepped forward, stretched out his hand, and hung it above Jane's forehead without making contact.
He closed his eyes, his consciousness sank into his body, mobilized all his analytical abilities, and began to analyze.
He can clearly perceive the magic rules contained in Aether.
[Law of Space] and [Law of Force] allowed him to understand how this force distorts physical constants from a more basic level.
Soon, he came to a conclusion.
Jane's body structure is being fundamentally changed. A high-dimensional energy, the embodiment of Reality Stone, is being irreversibly assimilated with her.
It is rewriting her genes, reshaping her cells, transforming her from a carbon-based organism into a container more suitable for carrying the concept of reality.
He could feel that Jane's Life Law and Aether were deeply intertwined. If they were forcibly copied now, his [Superpower Copier] would directly come into contact with the bottom layer of "reality", Law of the Universe. This contact would instantly trigger Jane's "conceptual collapse".
This person will completely disappear from all timelines in the past, present, and future.
It's like it never existed.
Chu Hang opened his eyes and frowned. This was more troublesome than he thought.
"How is it?" Thor looked at his expression, and his heart sank a little bit.
"It's very difficult." Chu Hang said honestly, "This thing has regarded her as its new body. Trying to get it out is equivalent to tearing her apart from the atomic level and praying that she can be put back together correctly."
"Then... there is no other way?" Thor's voice was shaking.
"There is a way." Chu Hang looked through the window and looked at the magnificent hall in the distance, "But it will take time and your father's cooperation."
He turned around and strode back to the main hall.
Odin is still waiting for him on the throne, as if he has never moved.
"You have seen it." Odin said, this is a declarative sentence.
"I've seen it." Chu Hang nodded, "It's a hot potato. It's too risky to safely get it out of that woman's body, and you can't do it."
"But you want it." Odin hit the nail on the head.
"That's right." Chu Hang didn't hide his purpose, "I like collecting stones."
"Asgard cannot keep two Infinity Stones at the same time." Odin immediately refused. Cosmic Cube (Space Stone) is already here, and adding another Reality Stone is equivalent to putting two nuclear bombs in the same powder keg.
"I didn't say I wanted you to keep it." Chu Hang smiled, showing his white teeth, "Let's make a deal. I'll help you deal with Malekith and his gang of Dark Elves, once and for all. In return, after we safely get Aether out of Jane Foster's body, let me study it for a month."
He held out a finger.
"Just one month. After that, I will return it to you personally. You can hide it in any corner of Nine Realms, or give it to any the Collector with a big head. It's up to you."
Odin's one eye stared at Chu Hang, as if he wanted to see through his Soul Law.
Let a strong man with unknown strength and unknown origin study one of the most dangerous weapons in the universe. This is a huge gamble. This person's growth rate is terrible. No one knows what he will become after getting Reality Stone.
But right now, Asgard is really in a bad situation. Bifrost is gone, Frigga is seriously injured, he is old, and his powers are not as good as before. Facing Malekith who is bent on revenge and has Aether in his hand, they are not absolutely sure.
The power Chu Hang just showed is the weapon Asgard needs most now.
"Why do you guarantee that you can solve Malekith?" Odin finally asked, with a hint of temptation in his voice that was not easy to detect.
"Just because I defeated Dimensional Clone of Dormammu." Chu Hang's tone was very calm, as if he was talking about a trivial matter.
Odin's one eye suddenly shrank, "It seems that he already has the strength of Skyfather-level." Dormammu naturally knows that his Dimensional Clone is at least the same as Skyfather-level. Chu Hang can defeat him, which already shows his strength.
Thor stood aside, confused.
"Who is Dormammu? A close relative of Slime?"