Thor made no announcement; he simply raised the battle axe in his hand.
The newly formed divine armor was woven from black and gold light, with ancient runes flowing across its surface. The battle axe, which combined Mjolnir, the silver skateboard, and Enigma Force, had a blade that was half dazzling golden light of creation and half deep darkness of the end.
There was not a single wasted word.
Thor picked up the enormous battle axe, took a step, and appeared in front of Knull in an instant.
He mobilized the nascent yet boundless energy of light within his body, merging it with the Law of Thunder he had controlled for thousands of years, condensing it onto the axe blade, and fiercely cleaved it down towards the head of the God of Symbiotes!
This axe blow is both a thunderous judgment and a righteous ruling!
"!"
Knull's crimson spiral pupils suddenly contracted; he sensed a terrifying power from this axe strike that threatened the very foundation of his existence.
He dared not be negligent in the slightest. He pushed the power of Void and darkness of the entire universe to its limit on the All-Black the Necrosword, which was formed from his own darkness, and slashed fiercely at the black-gold light that tore everything apart!
The moment the battle axe and the longsword made contact, the entire universe seemed to be muted.
Time, space, sound, light... everything is utterly Oblivion at this point.
The next second, a "crack" that could not be described by any color exploded outwards from the two of them!
Within a radius of hundreds of miles centered on them, all the remaining buildings, twisted streets, and cracked earth were completely and cleanly smoothed out in the instant the crack spread, turning into the most primitive particles and then returning to Void.
A terrifying shockwave swept across the entire Earth, tearing a shockingly large hole in the atmosphere.
Their first encounter ended in a draw.
A glimmer of light and a shadow, a golden figure and a black figure, on this emptied ruin of New York, completely unveiled the prelude to the war of gods!
"Cough... cough cough..."
Far beyond the battle lines, in the ruins, Strange was thrown by the aftershock, crashing through several steel bars before coming to a stop. He looked up at the sky in horror.
"What level of battle is this...?"
Beside him, the Classic Loki, with his limbs severed, could no longer maintain his worldly composure.
He leaned against a boulder, his aged face filled with shock.
As the number one magician in the Nine Realms, he could clearly sense that each collision was not merely a clash of energy, but also a mutual annihilation and coverage at the level of laws.
"As expected of Thor..." Loki muttered to himself, the thermos having rolled to the side without him noticing.
On the other side, Black Swan Yabbat knelt on one knee, clutching her pierced abdomen with one hand and bracing herself against the ground with the other to keep from falling.
Her gaze was fixed on the two figures fighting in the sky at a speed exceeding the speed of light. For the first time, a hint of "wavering" appeared on her eternally indifferent face.
As an observer of the end of the universe, she has witnessed the destruction of countless civilizations and seen all kinds of world-destroying forces.
But what she saw before her was still beyond her comprehension.
That's not just simple strength.
Those are two diametrically opposed cosmic origins, engaging in the most primitive and savage mutual negation.
Looking at Thor, who was engulfed in golden light, the scales of "destiny" in her heart began to tip violently. "Perhaps... I should switch my bet."
In a corner of the battlefield further down, red and blue figures were darting swiftly through the ruins.
Peter Parker didn't look up to watch the epic battle.
His Spider-Sense was screaming wildly, warning him that any ripple in the sky could instantly vaporize him.
He used Silk to tightly bind Black Panther T'Challa's pierced abdomen, and the white spider web was quickly stained red with blood.
"Hold on, Mr. T'Challa!"
He swung to the other side and used Silk to urgently bandage the Magik's deep, bone-revealing wound.
After doing all this, he staggered to the side and looked at the figure lying quietly in the rubble not far away.
That was the Female Iron Fist; there was a huge hole in her chest, and her eyes had long since lost all their light; the breath of life had been completely extinguished.
Peter Parker stood before her, silent for a long time.
He recalled that not long ago, this powerful woman from K'un-Lun had blasted away a group of zombie-like monsters with a single punch, clearing a path for them.
And now...
He slowly knelt down, reached out his hand, and gently closed her still wide-open eyes.
Rest in peace, Iron Fist.
The boy's voice carried an undisguised sadness and weariness.
In this apocalypse, he had witnessed too much death, so much that he was almost numb to it.
But each time a vibrant life is lost before his eyes, the heavy guilt and helplessness still weigh on his heart like a boulder.
High in the sky, the battle had reached its climax.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Thor and Knull's figures flickered constantly in the real and virtual spaces, each appearance accompanied by a violent collision at the level of laws.
At first, the two were able to fight back and forth, but as time went on, the balance of the battle began to tilt toward Thor at a visible speed.
"How could this be...?"
With a single sword strike, Knull cleaved through Thor's lightning imbued with the power of light, his figure retreating ten thousand meters. A hint of surprise and uncertainty finally appeared on his eternally unchanging face.
He discovered a fact that he couldn't understand.
Thor's every attack was stronger than the last!
Furthermore, the opponent's attack methods seem to be becoming increasingly restrained!
It's like... this Asgardians is analyzing the essence of his power in real time during battle!
That's right, the Enigma Force is the manifestation of the light side of the universe, and it is naturally the counter to the darkness.
But this restraint shouldn't be so thorough, so... efficient!
Knull didn't know was that Thor's abnormally Comprehension, amplified a thousandfold under the Enigma Force!
At this moment, in Thor's eyes, Knull was no longer an incomprehensible dark god.
His existence, his laws, and his every move were all analyzed and translated by him, and then presented in Thor's mind in the simplest and most straightforward way.
"I see..."
Thor deflected Knull's sword with a single axe stroke, a flash of realization crossing his eyes.
"Your darkness is not 'existence,' but a 'lack,' the absolute 'nothingness' that existed before the birth of the universe."
"And light... light is information, is order, is 'being'!"
"Using 'having' to fill 'not having'—that's what you fear most!"
Thor laughed, a laugh that carried the exhilaration of a brute finally understanding a profound theory.
He finally understood the correct way to use the Enigma Force!
Knull grew increasingly alarmed as the fight progressed; every word Thor uttered felt like a sharp dagger, precisely piercing the very foundation of his being!
This monster! How could he have grasped the essence of his own power in such a short time?!
Panic, a feeling never before experienced in billions of years, began to spread in Knull's heart.
He can't keep fighting like this!
"Roar--!!!"
Knull let out a roar unlike any living being, and the dark abyss within him surged forth without reservation!
In an instant, thousands upon thousands of Symbiote monsters composed of the purest darkness and despair crawled out of the void behind him, like a black tide that blotted out the sky, and surged madly toward Thor!
He wanted to use an absolute quantity, this endless darkness, to drown out and pollute the light that dazzled him!
However, faced with this monstrous horde that could instantly annihilate any cosmic civilization, Thor merely curled his lip in disdain.
Am I afraid of crowds?
He raised the black and gold battle axe high in his hand.
"Let me show you what... attribute advantage really means!"
The next moment, he swung his battle axe fiercely in front of him!
A bolt of golden lightning burst forth from the axe blade, and then, in mid-air, it exploded into billions of even finer golden arcs of electricity, like a dandelion seed!
These electric arcs did not attack the dark monsters, but instead connected and wove together in an unbelievable way, forming a giant golden lightning net that covered the entire sky in just one second!
Then, Thor snapped his the Snap.
"Purify."
"Buzz--!!!!!"
The entire golden lightning net suddenly lit up with a light a billion times brighter than the Sun!
That was no ordinary light, but the light of creation that contained the laws of "creation," "order," and "life"!
"Zzzzzzzzz--!!!"
The piercing sound of melting echoed throughout the heavens and earth.
The tens of thousands of hideous and terrifying dark monsters, upon contact with this net of light and lightning, were like viruses exposed to antivirus software. They didn't even have time to let out a scream before being instantly decomposed, purified, and completely deleted from the conceptual level!
Just one breath.
The sky cleared up again.
The dark army summoned by Knull was completely annihilated!
"..."
Knull was completely stunned.
He looked at Thor, who held a battle axe and hovered in the air like a king of light, and for the first time, a chill from his very being enveloped his mind.
Thor, however, gave him absolutely no chance to catch his breath.
"My turn!"
He flashed and appeared directly in front of Knull, a cruel smile on his face.
A fist enveloped in light and thunder slammed into Knull's face!
"Bang--!!!"
For the first time, the God of Symbiotes was slammed down from the sky like a punching bag!