"What a joke!"
Feeling the pressure emanating from Beckett, Shafrin's expression instantly turned grim beneath his black and white striped mask.
"Sense Deprivation!"
He unleashed his most familiar skill again. As the strange energy was still condensing at his fingertips, Beckett's figure had already appeared beside him in the next second.
"The same move won't work on me again."
The indifferent words echoed in Shafrin's ears. The latter's pupils contracted sharply, his waist was hit with a heavy blow, and he instantly lost his balance, crashing into the ruins!
"Cough, cough…"
Shafrin coughed and stood up, shaking the dust off his body. The golden battle armor, handcrafted by the Skrull Empire's master craftsman and claimed to be able to withstand star-annihilation cannons, had cracked under Beckett's casual whip kick. Golden fragments were being crushed under Beckett's feet.
"This is impossible…"
"How could your strength have increased so much?!"
Shafrin roared in a low voice, his eyes, as deep as the starry sky, filled with rage—rage at Astra.
He could see clearly that all of this was because of his foolish brother.
"Father once said that my evolution speed is faster than light." Beckett held Shafrin's right fist, which was swinging towards his face, with one hand. He lifted his chin high, looking at Shafrin before him, a disdainful arc forming on his lips.
His knee then struck Shafrin's abdomen. The speed was so great that even the mighty Shafrin couldn't react. Intense pain instantly surged through Shafrin's nerves!
"Would Thanos say so much?"
Bang!
The response Shafrin received was a punch from Beckett that landed squarely on his chest.
The golden battle armor shattered into fragments, falling into the mud. Under Beckett's punch, Shafrin's chest even showed a visible indentation!
"You're the one who talks too much."
Beckett slowly strode towards the struggling Shafrin on the ground. His golden hair fluttered as if in a wind, and his bright silver battle boots directly stomped Shafrin's raised head into the ruins, sending dust and smoke flying!
"Your Highness Beckett, be careful!"
The loyal subordinate, The Other,'s voice suddenly sounded in his ear. Beckett didn't even turn his head. He simply extended a finger, and a blinding beam of light pierced through the distant warship port.
The warship, which had just taken off under Shafrin's mental control, instantly sank into the boundless ocean.
"A futile struggle."
Beckett casually kicked away the debris around Shafrin with his toe. He bent down, and with one hand, directly pulled Shafrin out of the ruins. With great interest, he reached out and removed the black and white striped mask from Shafrin's face.
"Tsk, no wonder you wear a mask."
With the black and white striped mask gone, Shafrin's hideous face, the result of gene fusion and mutation from thousands of Skrulls, instantly stunned Astra and The Other on the other side.
In all their years, they had never seen such ugliness that could not be described in words.
His eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, and even his skin, seemed to be taken from countless individuals, a little bit from each, and then randomly pieced together without any consideration for aesthetics.
Astra, whose aesthetics and physique were still those of a normal Kree, even felt a sudden urge to vomit, but couldn't.
"As expected of a Skrull scum, they all have such unique appearances." Astra, having finally recovered, fumbled for a bottle of wine from his waist pouch to calm his nerves. The Other, seeing this, also took a bottle of wine from Astra's pouch amidst Astra's ghost-like stare.
He also needed to calm his nerves.
In all these years, this was the first time he had seen such an ugly face. Glancing at Beckett, who remained unfazed, The Other could only exclaim, "As expected of Your Highness Beckett."
"Heh…"
Shafrin ignored the black and white striped mask that Beckett had tossed aside. He cast a glance at Astra, who was shaking his head and tutting, his eyelids drooping. His gaze then returned to Beckett.
"You're too arrogant, Beckett."
"Perhaps your current strength is truly immense, perhaps your current strength is enough to kill me, but you didn't kill me immediately."
A smile spread across his extremely hideous mouth. Shafrin's hands suddenly met in front of his chest, his fingers interlocking to outline a diamond-shaped space.
A surge of power condensed instantly and shot straight towards the nearby Beckett. The latter raised an eyebrow, released his grip on Shafrin, and with one punch, along with the energy beam, struck Shafrin's already caved-in chest!
"Now, who do you think is arrogant?"
Chuckling, Beckett's silver boots crunching on the dirt sounded particularly jarring in Shafrin's ears.
"Look up and tell me, now."
"Of course, it's you."
Shafrin looked up as if in response, his mouth agape. A blinding white light erupted from beneath his ferocious features!
"A dying struggle."
Beckett reached out, blocking the entire energy beam, his disdain growing stronger.
"I admit, the Mind Stone's amplification of your power is beyond my imagination."
"However, Thanos will be more heartbroken if you die like this after the U40 Planet of the Skrulls."
Facing Beckett's disdain and dominance, the anger in Shafrin's eyes subsided. His hideous, ugly face was filled with a strange calmness.
He did not fear death. The true him had already died a hundred years ago. And the him of a hundred years later had personally orchestrated this situation, allowing Beckett to kill his enemy, and even personally destroying the Skrull Empire's Seventh Army.
He had completed his mission of vengeance.
Although Beckett's strength had grown terrifyingly under his brother Astra's meddling, preventing him from carrying out his framing plan, he still had a backup.
"Son of Thanos, have you ever witnessed the power to shatter stars?" Before he finished speaking, Shafrin's power began to surge rapidly!
"I have, in my homeland."
Stomping into a horse stance, left hand raised high, right fist clenched, an invisible energy gradually boiled on Shafrin's body. Even though it had reached the limit of what his body could bear, it still didn't stop.
Using his life as fuel, he completely detonated all the power of the Mind Stone within him. Shafrin had used this move once before; if not for the Skrull Empire's advanced medical technology back then, he wouldn't be here now.
Invisible shockwaves tore through the dim sky, and silent lightning flickered behind Shafrin.
The sky roared, and the earth growled.
Under the pressure of the power's shockwaves, the entire surface of the U40 Planet showed varying degrees of abnormality.
Astra, who was about to say something in his confusion, suddenly felt an inexplicable force envelop him, and then he was instantly whisked away from the U40 Planet.
"His Highness Beckett!"
In his panic, The Other, who had hastily crouched to steady himself, cast a worried glance at Beckett.
"Interesting."
Beckett ignored The Other's concern. Instead, he watched the man whose power was steadily rising before him with great interest, eager to fight.
"Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!"
A hysterical roar, accompanied by an energy pillar soaring into the sky, swept across the globe. His golden battle armor shattered, Shafrin's skin had turned completely blood-red, and the muscles in his body were taut, veins bulging on his forehead and arms!
"Die with me!"
Stomping his feet on the ground, igniting the fire of life and detonating the gem energy within him, Shafrin roared. His blood-red figure instantly appeared before Beckett!
"Beckett!!!"
Burning his heart's fire, solely to defeat his enemy!
Thanks to [Hateful Cangjing Has Become Empty S] for the reward~
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