At the bedside, Thor looked at Betsy's flushed cheeks and stroked her hair. "Betsy, you dealt the enemy a thousand points of damage and took eight hundred yourself!"
"Hmph, that's only because you fell for someone else so quickly. I may not be a little girl anymore, but what you did really annoyed me!"
Betsy thumped Thor's chest a few times.
"Are you jealous?"
Thor teased.
"Yes. So have you figured out how you're going to make it up to me?"
Betsy looked straight into Thor's eyes.
"How do you want me to make it up to you?"
Thor tossed the question back to Betsy.
"After you save Groot's teammates, spend some proper time with me, or else..."
Betsy raised her fist, though it didn't look threatening at all.
"All right, whatever you say."
Thor kissed Betsy on the forehead and waved a hand. His armor quickly covered his entire body, and his pitch-black cape billowed without any wind.
Hmm... having the Law of Reality sure is handy. I can have whatever I want. Come to think of it, can I use this to make Stormbreaker?
That thing isn't just powerful!
In the movie, Thor had been able to take on the energy of all six stones head-on as soon as he got it. Now that he had mastered the complete Law of Time and Law of Reality, wouldn't he be even more powerful?
Acting on the thought, Thor began shaping it based on the memories of his past life. In less than a minute, an axe identical to the one he remembered was floating in front of him.
"Hmm... the shape is right, and the metal is Uru. It can even cut through my divine body with ease, but it can't summon the Bifrost. It feels like it's missing a bit of soul."
Thor looked at the cut on his palm, which had healed as soon as it was made, and fell into thought.
What he had made with the Law of Reality only had Stormbreaker's appearance, though it also possessed Stormbreaker's ability to cut through anything. He remembered that Thor's weapons seemed to have a degree of consciousness.
From his experience reading novels in his past life, that was probably the equivalent of having an artifact spirit.
It didn't matter whether he had the Odinforce or not. His power was already enough to rival Odin at his peak anyway, and it should be called the Thor Force now.
Was it because he hadn't yet mastered the complete Law of Space that he couldn't give it the ability to summon the Bifrost?
If that was the case, once he comprehended the laws of all six stones, he could just handcraft divine weapons on the spot!
After saving Rocket, he would come to the Prime Universe and take all the stones here ahead of time.
Thor looked at the Time Stone inside the Eye of Agamotto in his hand. The energy it contained was on a completely different level from the Time Stone he had absorbed in Knowhere.
Since he had already mastered the Law of Time, this was the perfect chance to refine it further.
Hummm-!
A strange humming sound rang out, and an emerald-green energy barrier quickly enveloped Thor.
Betsy got out of bed naked and walked over to Thor. Curious about the energy barrier that had suddenly appeared, she poked it.
"Betsy, why are you standing around here instead of getting dressed?"
Thor had just used time acceleration to speed up the time he spent refining his Law of Time. Looking at the stark-naked Betsy, he couldn't figure out what she wanted.
"Thor, don't you know magic that changes clothes? Make me an outfit."
Betsy blinked her big eyes and looked at Thor eagerly.
Ahem... doesn't this girl know that acting like this could easily set things off again?
Thor forcibly looked away. "What style do you want, Betsy?"
"You decide."
"All right, Betsy, you have no idea how tempting you look right now."
Thor reached out a finger and lightly pointed it at Betsy. Dark purple armor quickly covered her entire body, with two scabbards on her back and a pitch-black short staff tucked around her waist.
"Yeah, if I'm so tempting, I wonder who was thinking about another woman on his very first day with me."
Betsy looked down at the armor, then looked back up at Thor and spoke sarcastically.
"Ahem... take these two blades. They're made of Uru. Ordinary weapons can't hurt Thanos's underlings."
Thor chose to strategically change the subject.
Betsy rolled her eyes at him, took the two long blades and slid them into the scabbards on her back, then casually tied her long purple hair, which hung over her shoulders, into a ponytail.
"Let's go. Baby Groot is probably tired of waiting."
With that, she led the way out of the room.
Thor hefted Stormbreaker in his hand. It would have to do for now.
He then followed Betsy out the door.
"Thor, didn't you say you only loved your Jane? What happened? You fell for someone else so quickly?"
Black Widow, Natasha, had somehow appeared leaning against the wall outside the room. She teased Thor as she watched him come out.
"Natasha, why are you hanging around here instead of gathering intel?"
"Gathering intel?" Natasha laughed when she heard him. "While you and Elizabeth were being all lovey-dovey, we were still trapped in this so-called Mirror Dimension."
"Loki, you didn't take them out?"
Thor asked Classic Loki, who looked more and more like a retired official these days.
"I've never learned Kamar-Taj's magic. How was I supposed to get them out?"
After answering, Classic Loki picked up his trusty thermos, blew on the drink, then brought it to his lips and downed it in one gulp.
"I am Groot!"
"Thor, you bastard, you finally came out!"
Groot flew up to Thor, planted his hands on his hips, and glared at him furiously.
"All right, all right, it was my fault. We'll set off right now!"
Thor soothed the little guy, patting his head. He raised his left hand and gently snapped his fingers.
Crack...
With the sound of shattering glass, the Mirror Dimension vanished in the blink of an eye, leaving the group on the roof of an apartment building in New York.
"Carter, I'll leave the intelligence gathering to you. Oh, right, watch out for Black Nick Fury. That guy's no good."
After giving her a few words of warning, Thor called on his divine power. Once he had sensed Groot's aura, he began drawing circles in the air with his hand.
A glowing golden portal abruptly appeared. Thor stepped through it with Groot, Betsy, and Classic Loki, vanishing from this universe.
"What's a black braised egg? Is it a delicacy from Dragon Country?" Captain Carter frowned, confused. He had only given her a nickname, not a name. How was she supposed to know who the person was?
Let alone watch out for him.
"Carter, I think I know who Thor was talking about."
Natasha seemed to remember something and chuckled.
"It's the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury. Thor's description was pretty accurate."
Iron Fist Danny chimed in. He hadn't expected to find someone familiar in the Prime Universe too. He just didn't know whether White Tiger, Spider-Man, and the others were in this universe.
"Then wouldn't that make Coulson the white braised egg?"
For once, Natasha was in a relaxed mood and had the time to joke about her former colleague. After all, compared to struggling to survive in Knowhere, living and gathering intelligence in modern society was far too easy.
As for identification?
That could be taken care of as long as they had money. And where would the money come from?
Her gaze slowly fell on a place in the distance: Hell's Kitchen.