A World-Ending Pillar of Light Descended, Leaving New Mexico on the Brink

Outside the eyelids was a blinding, deathly white.

Even with his eyes tightly closed, Lynn could still feel his retinas being burned by the intense light. The oxygen in the air was instantly sucked away, replaced by a suffocating smell of Ozone and burning.

Gravity went completely mad at that moment.

Lying on the frozen ground, Lynn felt as if an entire Rocky Mountains had crashed into his chest. His ribs groaned under the immense pressure, and the blood that had been forced from his tongue, which he had bitten to feign death, was now being forced back down his throat by the terrifying weight, unable to even flow down his chin.

Bifrost.

Asgard's world-destroying weapon.

Lynn sneered inwardly. Loki, that coward hiding in the Golden Palace, had quite the scheme. Seeing that the fighting power of these women on Earth was beyond his control, he simply wiped out the entire New Mexico, along with Thor.

This energy was extremely violent. It was not a simple physical Impact, but Destruction Particle Flow mixed with spatial tearing.

The Dark Phoenix Mark within Lynn's body began to stir, and Chaos Magic and death Death Energy surged wildly through his meridians. If he wanted, he could instantly erupt and punch the seven-colored pillar of light back into space, smashing Loki's Throne to pieces in the process.

But he didn't move.

He remained limp and lifeless on the ground, like a lifeless corpse.

Because he knew very well that once he made his move, his perfect "blood-spitting self-inflicted injury" ruse would be completely exposed. He had finally managed to pull Hela and Wanda, these two powder kegs, from "tearing each other apart" to "protecting their husbands and providing emergency care," and to come back to life at this moment would be tantamount to courting death.

He's gambling.

I bet those two Yandere women would never want him to die.

Boom--!

The deafening sonic boom finally tore through the clouds and crashed to the ground.

Before the seven-colored beam of light even touched the ground, the surrounding energy storm had already completely flattened the desert within a ten-mile radius.

The previously frozen sand particles, upon contact with the edge of the beam of light, skipped the vaporization process and instantly transformed into churning, dark red magma. A gale whipped up a rain of scalding magma, pelting down on all sides.

"Loki--!"

In the distance, Thor, pinned to the wreckage of an armored vehicle by Lynn with metal spikes, let out Beast- like roar.

The former Thor was now in a terrible state. The violent energy storm tore the armored vehicle away like a toy, and Thor's body was violently thrown through the air. His only remaining eye was bloodshot as he stared intently at the familiar rainbow beam in the sky.

He knew all too well the power of the Bifrost at its maximum capacity.

That's the ultimate destruction, enough to penetrate a planet's crust and detonate its core!

"Stop! You madman!" Thor struggled desperately, trying to pull the metal spikes from his shoulder blade, but the weight of the Bifrost made even lifting a finger impossible. He could only watch helplessly as the beam of destruction hurtled straight toward the very center of the Meteorite Crater.

There lay the man who had just crushed the Destroyer.

On the periphery.

Susan was slammed to the ground by the massive blast wave. Her face was covered in blood, and her fingers dug so hard into the scorching sand that her nails broke off at the root.

"Lynn..."

Susan's voice was completely hoarse. She desperately mobilized the last of her energy to try to maintain the Molecular Force Field once again.

The blue light had just begun to shimmer in her palm when it was instantly crushed by the energy particles emanating from the Bifrost. Pfft! Susan coughed up a mouthful of blood, her body pressed to the ground like a rag doll, unable even to lift her head.

She could only watch in despair as the beam of light drew ever closer to Lynn.

On the other hand, Gwen Stacy's situation was even worse.

She already had a deformed cervical spine, and now, under the weight of the Bifrost, every bone in her body was cracking and splintering. Like a spider being stepped on, she lay sprawled on the ground, her limbs twisted, her bloodshot eyes fixed on Lynn's direction.

"Owner..."

Gwen Stacy managed to squeeze out broken syllables. She wanted to crawl over, even if it meant using her body to shield Lynn from another attack. But she couldn't; the surrounding space had been completely solidified by high-density energy, and she was being deprived of even her breath.

Despair spread across the desert like a plague.

The beam of light was less than a kilometer from the ground.

500 meters.

300 meters.

The air had been heated to an extremely terrifying temperature. The edges of Lynn's white shirt had even begun to curl and turn black.

In this Extremis, where everyone could close their eyes and await death.

The two extremely faint breaths in front of Lynn suddenly changed.

Hela's pale fingers, which had been hovering above Lynn's cheek and trembling violently with panic, suddenly clenched into a fist.

Wanda's hands, which had been pressed against Lynn's chest and carefully maintaining the Chaos Magic, slowly withdrew.

They stood up.

Lynn slightly opened one eye.

In his line of sight, two tall figures, one in black and one in red, stood like two insurmountable mountains, blocking his view from directly above.

The gale whipped Hela's tattered black cloak, making it flutter loudly. The Black Thorn Crown that had been somewhat scattered on her head reformed at this moment, even more ferocious and sharper than before.

Wanda's brown curly hair danced wildly in the wind. She didn't look up at the sky, but kept her head down, her gaze fixed on the bloodstains at the corner of Lynn's mouth.

That was the blood Lynn coughed up while enduring the aftershocks of the energy to "save" her.

He's bleeding...

Wanda's voice was very soft, almost completely drowned out by the roar of the Bifrost. But there was an eerie stillness in her tone.

Hela stared coldly at Lynn on the ground, her pale lips curving into an extremely cruel smile.

"Yes." Hela's voice had lost its earlier panic, leaving only pure, suffocating arrogance. "Someone... wants to blast my King Consort to smithereens right in front of me."

The two women tacitly agreed not to argue further.

In that instant, all notions of power struggles and territorial disputes were cast to the winds.

Only one thought remained in their minds.

Someone has harmed their very being.

The beam of light was only one hundred meters away from the ground!

The terrifying, multicolored energy had completely ignited the air above their heads, creating an inverted sea of fire.

Hela slowly raised her head.

Those savage eyes pierced through the blinding stream of multicolored light, seemingly locking onto the coward in the Golden Palace of Asgard.

"Asgard scum..."

Hela clenched her right hand into the void, and Night Sky Sword, ten times larger than before and brimming with extreme Death Energy, was instantly formed!

At the same second.

Wanda also raised her head.

Her once clear eyes were now completely replaced by a thick, blood- Scarlet. From the tips of her ten fingers erupted Chaos Particles a hundred times brighter than the sun.

"Dare to touch him..."

From Wanda's throat, a piercing scream escaped, as if it were a curse from the deepest depths of Hell.

"You... all of you must die!!!"

Boom--!

Two pairs of eyes, gleaming with extreme savagery, were fixed on the world-destroying pillar of light.