In the distance, a tiny black dot appeared.
It was the Gungnir Odin had thrown earlier.
Responding to Odin's summons, it was flying back.
But at this moment, a black shadow was even faster than the Gungnir.
Alex!
He instantly appeared behind Odin.
The Allfather had only just sensed something wrong and started turning his head.
Alex had already swept out a punch, blasting Odin away.
Then the clone flew out from the ice layer and stood beside Alex.
The Gungnir passed by them and chased after Odin.
After smashing through several chunks of ice rock, Odin finally stopped and reached out to grab the golden spear.
He looked toward Alex.
Alex's gaze fell onto Odin's Gungnir.
"Do all you Asgardians like throwing things at people?"
"Or is that actually the proper way to use the Gungnir?"
"So it doesn't just go 'pew pew pew' shooting lasers."
Seeing that Alex was completely unharmed, Odin's expression turned serious, "You don't even have a scratch. Looks like I still underestimated you."
Alex laughed, "No! No! No! If that attack had hit me head-on, I'd probably have bled at least one drop."
"But I've got this."
He showed the Reality Stone embedded in the Hercules Bracer.
But Odin did not understand, "The Aether? You used it to protect yourself? As far as I know, this dark matter doesn't have that function. It only protects itself."
Alex shrugged, "Looks like you still don't know its true origin."
"Forget it."
"So, are you really not considering removing the lock on me?"
Odin answered with actions instead.
Divine light burst from the Allfather's body. The Gungnir pointed forward, and a torrent of energy shot from its tip toward Alex and the clone.
Alex and the clone immediately split apart to the left and right, passing by the energy torrent and arriving before Odin almost at the same time.
Alex threw a punch.
Odin raised an arm to block.
As ripples spread from their collision, the clone drove a knee into the golden spear shaft Odin had pulled over.
BOOM!
With a muffled blast, Odin flew backward and slammed into an iceberg, leaving spiderweb cracks across its surface.
The Allfather grunted. His vision blurred, and a foot stomped down toward him.
Odin quickly twisted his body, causing the clone's foot to sink into the iceberg.
But then golden beams shot toward him.
Alex's Heat Vision had arrived.
The Heat Vision slammed into the shaft of the Gungnir that Odin used to block, and the massive kinetic force pushed Odin deeper into the iceberg.
Odin was forced farther and farther into the mountain by the Heat Vision. Halfway through, the golden beam before him suddenly expanded.
Then it violently exploded.
From Alex's viewpoint, countless golden rays burst through the iceberg that stretched for an unknown number of kilometers. Flames erupted from within, the entire mountain shook violently, and chunks of ice continuously collapsed.
At the same time, a pillar of light rose from the top of the iceberg. It rapidly formed into the shape of a spear of light, and at the spear's tip stood Odin holding the Gungnir.
Using the spear, he escaped and flew high into the sky.
A point of light appeared on his spear. The light rapidly expanded and stopped once it reached the size of a fist.
But within that fist-sized light was a shocking amount of energy.
Odin thrust the spear toward Alex and the clone from midair.
The light at the spear tip instantly exploded outward.
Alex raised his head.
In his field of vision, countless points of light filled the sky.
Like falling stars.
Tens of thousands of flaming lights rained down from above, densely packed. The attack covered such a huge area that not only Alex and the clone were caught inside, but also a massive section of the frozen plains.
Earth-shaking explosions instantly erupted across the ice field.
Fireballs numbering in the tens of thousands exploded one after another. The intense and constant bombardment temporarily suppressed both Alex and the clone.
In midair, the Gungnir in Odin's hand was firing beams from its tip at high speed like a Gatling gun.
Those beams also carried tremendous kinetic force. By continuously blasting the ground below, Odin remained suspended in the air.
On the ground, Alex, who was being suppressed, slightly closed his eyes, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Suddenly, he charged upward through the attacks. The Reality Stone on the Hercules Bracer lit up.
The dense streams of light above Alex's head suddenly turned into bubble after bubble.
This created a vacuum path within Odin's attack.
Although Alex's teleportation abilities had been restricted and he could no longer instantly move with Mind Transfer, once the First Cosmic Velocity was fully activated, this little distance vanished in an instant for Alex, no different from teleportation.
He suddenly appeared before Odin. A sonic boom exploded from his fist as it smashed into the sharply defined face of the Allfather.
Odin's head snapped backward. The area around his nose instantly turned red, and blood poured from his nostrils.
Odin flew upward, uncontrollably flying backward.
Alex chased after him, "Hey, old man."
"Hang in there."
As he spoke, Alex clenched his fist.
At the same time, every pattern on the Hercules Bracer lit up, and faint changes appeared across it.
Tenfold Amplification!
After being amplified by the Hercules Bracer, Alex threw another punch.
At this moment, Odin pulled the Gungnir across his chest and blocked Alex's fist.
The Allfather's figure suddenly blurred.
A dark red ripple carrying a heavy presence suddenly spread outward.
Odin grunted and was blasted backward from the center of the ripple.
Ripples spread from Alex's punch.
When those ripples spread into the sky, they erased the clouds.
When they reached the ground, they carved deep marks across the icebergs and frozen plains.
Odin shot backward at high speed, smashing through one mountain peak after another.
After flying over a hundred kilometers, he finally crashed into another iceberg and stopped.
The Allfather felt burning pain in both palms, while his chest felt heavy and aching.
His ears rang nonstop, and it felt as though his head had been filled with paste, making his thoughts move extremely slowly.
In the distance, Alex and the clone flew toward him at high speed. Under the effect of the First Cosmic Velocity, over a hundred kilometers vanished in moments.
They had already seen Odin embedded in the iceberg.
Alex raised the Hercules Bracer, and the Reality Stone on it suddenly lit up.
On the iceberg, Odin suddenly felt the light before him dim. Then he sensed an extremely powerful force field appearing nearby, causing the scenery around him to distort.
He quickly realized this was not an illusion, but reality.
Matter throughout the entire space was distorting. His body weight was constantly increasing. The gravity in this region had changed, multiplying over and over.
This was a change brought by the Reality Stone.
While using the Reality Stone to affect the environment and suppress Odin, the clone charged into the gravity field. He was exempt from it, and the gravity had no effect on him.
Golden light appeared in his eyes as two blazing beams shot out and struck Odin.
Under the suppression of gravity, Odin was not completely unable to move, but his actions were no longer as fast as before.
First, he raised the Gungnir between himself and the clone's beams. Then he spun the golden spear and actually deflected the clone's beams, sending them back toward the clone.
BOOM!
The beams struck the clone, exploding into a fireball and blasting him backward.
Odin then pulled back the spear. Brilliant light rapidly gathered at the tip, and when he thrust it toward Alex, it turned into a magnificent river of light.
Alex could only stop using the Reality Stone and shoot into the sky.
However, Odin continuously moved the Gungnir, keeping its tip pointed at Alex the entire time.
As a result, the river of light kept shifting through the sky, forcing Alex into all kinds of evasive maneuvers.
At this moment, the clone rushed back. With his right elbow bent, he smashed hard toward Odin's forehead.
Odin could only free one hand and raise an arm to meet the clone head-on.
A heavy sound immediately echoed through heaven and earth.
The iceberg behind Odin exploded apart.
Although the Allfather blocked the clone's punch, the impact prevented him from continuing his attack on Alex.
Alex stopped in midair. Golden light burst from his eyes and counterattacked Odin.
In the sky, streak after streak of golden light crisscrossed back and forth. Everywhere they passed, everything was destroyed, leaving nothing alive.
Odin and the clone moved between those beams, clashing repeatedly.
The Allfather had to avoid Alex's rays while also dealing with the clone's attacks.
For a time, Odin fell into a disadvantage.
After seeing that the beams could not deal with Odin, Alex also joined the close-range fight.
Now Odin had to face the combined assault of Alex and the clone.
Immediately, thunder-like sounds continuously roared through heaven and earth.
Those were the sounds of their fists and kicks colliding nonstop.
Alex and the clone attacked like a violent storm, while Odin was like a leaf floating above a raging sea.
At any moment, he could be dragged beneath the waves.
But Odin's combat experience was extremely rich. No matter how dangerous the situation became, he could always find a slim chance to survive.
So no matter how violent the giant waves became, no matter how fierce the sea churned, Odin remained unharmed.
However, that balance could no longer continue once Alex and the clone started using other abilities.
During another clash, a mass of gray-white light suddenly appeared in the clone's hand. He slammed it directly into Odin's head.
A huge amount of chaotic but useless information instantly flooded Odin's mind.
Things like "People die if they stop breathing."
Things like "This tomato tastes like tomato."
Things like "The last time I was this speechless was last time."
Odin's brain was occupied by all this information, and for a moment, he forgot to react.
Alex seized the chance and raised his Divine Power once again.
Rumble! Rumble!
The air shook.
The mountains trembled.
Cracks burst across the eternal frostlands one after another.
A huge and terrifying aura spread through the sky above the frozen plains.
Alex's body did not grow larger, but the dark red light that had once quietly flowed around him like water now turned into strands of dark red flames rising upward.
These illusory flames outlined his black battle suit with red edges.
Even Alex's golden hair was dyed dark red.
A ripple spread outward.
The surrounding mountain peaks shattered one after another.
The ripple howled across the entire frozen plain.
As a result, every mountain across the frostlands was cut down to the same height.
Divine Power! 100% Output.
Alex opened his mouth and let out a breath.
His figure suddenly blurred.
Then appeared before Odin.
His left hand launched a simple uppercut.
It struck the Allfather's chin.
Dark red ripples instantly spread outward.
Together with the Gungnir, Odin was blasted upward like a rocket by Alex's punch.
Alex chased after him again.
At this moment, he felt as though a sun was burning inside his chest.
Endless power surged from his body, from every single cell.
Alex instantly flew higher than Odin.
Both fists clenched together.
When the Allfather reached him, Alex roared.
The Hercules Bracer flashed brightly.
Alex hammered downward with both fists like beating a drum.
They smashed into Odin's head.
Twisting rainbow-colored bands of light burst out and spread in every direction.
From a distance, it looked as though Alex had cracked space itself.
And that was exactly what had happened.
Divine Power at 100%, combined with the Hercules Bracer's tenfold amplification, Alex directly punched cracks into the void.
Boom!
Odin rapidly fell downward and crashed into the middle of a mountain range.
From high above, the entire mountain range instantly shattered and collapsed. Fragments large and small, numbering in the billions, scattered in every direction.
Odin smashed through the mountains, but he still kept falling.
He had already crashed into the frozen plains.
The eternal frostlands, harder than diamonds, were now pierced by a tunnel continuously extending downward because of Odin's impact.
One thousand meters!
Three thousand meters!
Five thousand meters!
Only after drilling 6,400 meters beneath the frostlands did Odin finally stop.
There was no longer any ice here, only rock layers harder than diamonds.
Odin's eyes were wide open, but his pupils could no longer be seen. Only the whites of his eyes remained.
He had lost consciousness.
Yet at this moment, in the dark underground, a point of light lit up above him.
Then the ice layers above were illuminated one after another. Next came a torrent of ultra-high-temperature light, reaching 500,000 degrees Celsius, pouring downward and continuously filling the tunnel.
The tunnel rapidly melted and widened.
At this moment, Odin's fingers finally moved slightly.
But the next second, that brilliant yet deadly torrent of superheated light swallowed him whole.
Above the frozen plains, the blue sky and white clouds Alex had created with the Reality Stone had already disappeared.
Jotunheim's sky returned to its previous dark and gloomy appearance.
At this moment, however, pillars of golden light burst upward from the ground, from beneath the eternal frostlands, piercing through the frozen surface and shooting into the clouds.
Those pillars gradually illuminated the entire ice field. Once the surface of the frozen plains looked like the cover of a giant floodlight. Black-red flames erupted from beneath the frostlands in the next instant.
The entire frozen plain exploded like a super volcano.
Terrifying flames shot into the sky, instantly igniting Jotunheim's heavens and rapidly forming a sea of fire above.
Alex withdrew the clone and stood above the sea of flames.
A line of information appeared across his retina.
[The lock has been removed.]
[Restrictions on teleportation abilities and items have been lifted.]
Alex silently looked at the sea of flames below and the frostlands still spewing fire for several seconds.
Then black-blue flames appeared around his body and wrapped around him.
In an instant, Alex and the black-blue flames disappeared from the air together.
———
[Frost Giant Palace]
Thor stared into the distance, his expression tense.
Although the eternal frostlands could not be seen from this direction, ever since the Lord of Asgard and the Conqueror left, the direction of the eternal frostlands had continuously shaken, and huge sounds kept coming from there.
Just moments ago, the entire sky had darkened.
Then faint fiery red light appeared on the horizon.
That black-red glow made Thor's heartbeat speed up.
At this moment, he suddenly saw a point of light appear on the horizon.
Thor immediately exchanged a glance with Loki. Then the God of Thunder tightly gripped his hammer, while Loki stepped back several paces and moved behind Thor.
Both of them prepared for battle.
However, after a moment, they realized that point of light was actually a gigantic spear of light.
Seeing the spear, Thor relaxed slightly.
Then he happily turned to Loki behind him, "Father's back."
"Haha! I knew he'd definitely win."
"He's the guardian of the Nine Realms."
Loki smiled along with him, but his eyes were not nearly as relaxed.
The Frost Giants became tense the moment they saw the spear and quickly gathered around Laufey.
Laufey's scarlet eyes stared fixedly at the giant spear of light, while waves of cold air unconsciously spread from him.
Moments later, the spear of light landed on the open ground. Within the roaring streams of light, Odin stepped out, his entire body shining.
At first glance, he looked no different from before he left.
The divine might around him was still overwhelming.
But for some reason, his figure always seemed to lack a bit of substance.
Like a shadow that might disappear at any moment.
Normally, Thor would definitely have noticed the difference.
But now, whether he ignored it or subconsciously did not want to think in that direction, at least on the surface, he seemed not to notice anything.
Thor showed a bright smile and walked forward laughing, "Father, you destroyed the Conqueror already, right?"
The corners of Odin's mouth lifted slightly before he said, "He is very powerful, child."
"Although I wanted to destroy him, unfortunately, he still escaped."
"That powerful enemy may have to be dealt with by you in the future."
"But right now, you have more important things to do."
Thor looked confused, "What is it, Father?"
"Leave this place."
"Return to Asgard."
"And then, you must work together to protect it."
Odin spoke seriously, "Because she is about to arrive."
Thor and Loki exchanged a glance.
"Father, you mean our sister, Hela?"
Thor laughed loudly, "That's impossible, Father."
"Didn't you say you exiled her?"
Odin did not explain.
He held the Gungnir horizontally.
"Take it, Thor."
Thor froze briefly.
Then Loki pushed him lightly from behind.
Only then did Thor step forward and take the golden spear.
A relieved smile appeared on Odin's face.
"You've grown up, child."
"You're no longer a little boy."
"Now, you must shoulder your responsibility."
"From this moment onward, you are the King of Asgard!"
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