Thor gave Hermione a grateful look and stepped into the portal. Jane wanted to say something, but Coulson patted her shoulder and shook his head.
"Let him have some time alone."
With a flash of golden light, the portal vanished, taking Thor with it.
After a while, the strange phenomena of the Celestial Convergence finally began to fade.
The sky returned to normal, as though everything that had just happened had been an illusion.
But the traces of magic and destruction on the ground, along with the wrecked ships and bodies strewn everywhere, proved that it had all been real.
Hermione stretched and loosened up her limbs.
"Whew, finally done."
The beautiful, powerful witch had once again saved Earth from disaster.
As for where that disaster had come from, don't ask.
Hidden in the shadows, Tom had witnessed the whole thing and couldn't help cursing under his breath.
Hermione had it easy. All she had to do was talk and act; everything else fell to him.
After leaving Svartalfheim, Hermione had tossed him the pendant bearing the Reality Stone and put him in charge of "building" Hogwarts.
First, he had used the Space Stone and the Undetectable Extension Charm to forcibly carve out a pocket dimension.
Then, with the Reality Stone and Transfiguration, he had "sculpted" Hogwarts Castle out of thin air.
Finally, he had to settle in every one of the magical creatures Hermione had raised.
The real problem was how little time he had. Even he had found it taxing. Fortunately, he had finished in the end, and the whole production had turned out rather well.
Thankfully, he hadn't needed to personally play the fake Professor McGonagall, Snape, Flitwick, or that unlucky bastard Malekith.
The Horcrux resurrection experiment performed on Coulson, along with the stability of Coulson's