Thunder rolled along the seal through the entire outer corridor.
Loki closed his eyes.
"Wonderful."
The speck of white light in his hand had just been knocked away, and Green Magic still lingered on his fingertips.
"Name, relationship, divine office. He even saved me the trouble of introducing myself."
Chen Mo reached for the speck of white light.
"Has he always been this reckless? I approve of you running away from home... I just saw a very suitable big blade over at Angela's. Want to use that one the next time you stab your brother?"
Just as Chen Mo's fingertips touched it, a third deafening crash slammed in from outside the seal.
Boom!
The golden runes running through the stone pillars lit up at once.
Chen Mo's hand was knocked straight off the seal. A white ripple swept through his manifested consciousness from his fingertips to his shoulder, while his Spider-Sense stabbed down from the back of his head into his spine.
The faint thread he had only just managed to find was completely scattered by that blow.
He had lost Peter's direction.
"That blade's still too small. Give me a minute. I'll find you a bigger one."
Chen Mo steadied himself against the stone pillar again.
"Two more hits from him, and we can skip opening the door and install a permanently open floor-to-ceiling window in the Tenth Realm."
Loki's expression was icy.
"From what we've seen so far, yes. Odin's seal and Thor's power share the same source. He's almost smashed through it... Now I'd rather he hadn't found this place."
Ahead of them, Angela had already turned around.
She had not gone far to begin with. When the thunder sounded, she released Deadpool's collar. The red ribbon snapped taut along the corridor, and its other end, wrapped