Whoosh————————
The sonic wave from Ryan's roar materialized into a tangible shockwave, sweeping up a blizzard of ice and snow as it surged toward Laufey and his army of Frost Giants!
Thud————————
At this moment, Ryan's aura alone overwhelmed the entire dark mass of Frost Giants on the ice plain. Aside from their king, Laufey, the entire Frost Giant army couldn't help but take a collective step back!
This had nothing to do with their own will; it was purely their bodies' instinctive fear and retreat upon encountering an apex predator!
In the eyes of all the Frost Giants, Ryan was no longer just a human, but a terrifying monster!
A terrifying monster with the phantom of a savage giant spider looming behind him!
Even Riot, parasitizing within Ryan's body, felt his heart pounding wildly at this moment, feeling utterly incapable of suppressing Ryan!
Normally, in a fully merged state, a Symbiote's primary consciousness controls the body. But now, Riot couldn't even influence Ryan a little, let alone control him!
Riot even felt his own will teetering on the brink, as if Ryan could tear it to shreds in an instant if he so wished!
Riot couldn't help but feel immense terror, wondering just what kind of monster this guy was!
Fortunately, Ryan had no intention of performing 'deworming' on his own body. Instead, he kept Riot as a biological version of 'Jarvis'.
And now, Ryan just wanted to challenge the Frost Giant King at the peak of his power!
He wanted to see exactly how strong Laufey, who had once been able to fight Odin, truly was!
He wanted even more to see how much of a gap remained between him and a truly top-tier powerhouse!
Even if it was a diminished version of a top-tier powerhouse without the Casket of Ancient Winters, a starved camel is still bigger than a horse, right?
Boom——————
With a thunderous crack, the ice plain beneath Ryan's feet exploded, creating a crater dozens of meters in diameter. His figure transformed into a streak of purple lightning, shooting toward Laufey!
Have you ever been kicked by light?
In that instant, a sentence flashed through Laufey's mind... because... he was literally being kicked by light right now!
Facing Ryan at full speed, Laufey didn't even have time to assume a defensive posture before Ryan's foot, wreathed in purple electricity, slammed heavily into his face!
Whoosh———————— BOOM!!!
The over-ten-meter-tall Laufey was sent flying back like a blue line. After crashing through countless Frost Giants behind him, he slammed into a distant iceberg, causing the entire mountain of ice to collapse thunderously before he finally stopped!
This was enough to show just how heavy Ryan's kick was!
After a few breaths of deathly silence, all the Frost Giants fixed their crimson eyes on Ryan, a mixture of fury and fear in their gazes!
One Frost Giant glanced at the collapsed iceberg where their King Laufey lay, fate unknown, then looked back at Ryan. In an instant, fury overwhelmed fear, and he roared:
"This despicable human has injured our King! Let's kill..."
Swish——————
Before the Frost Giant, who had mustered his courage to roar, could finish his sentence, the top half of his head, along with his open mouth, slid horizontally to the ground!
And it wasn't just this one Frost Giant. As that Frost Giant spoke, Ryan swung the blades on his arms outwards to both sides. The two blades instantly extended for hundreds of meters, decapitating every Frost Giant within a radius of several hundred meters!
Raising his four-hundred-meter-long blades, Ryan revealed a bloodthirsty smile: "This is a duel between kings. Who gave you ants permission to interrupt? I'll give you a chance. I'll count to three. You can run three hundred meters first, then I'll start killing!"
"Three!"
Swish——————
After 'three', Ryan didn't wait any longer. Dragging his four-hundred-meter-long arm blades, he charged into the Frost Giant army, beginning a massive slaughter!
If Loki's Asgard live-streaming drone had followed him to Jotunheim, the audience on Earth would have seen just how 'gentle' Ryan was during the slaughter of the invading Frost Giants at Stark Tower.
Coming to the Frost Giants' home turf, completely free of any restraints and fully unleashed, *this* Ryan was the true, complete form of the Spider Monarch!
Every swing of his 'Spider-Blade' would claim the lives of over a hundred Frost Giants. The scene was even more of a massacre than the most extreme hack-and-slash game!
Moreover, Ryan was 'eating the grass' while mowing it down, replenishing his own energy. This caused Ryan's four-hundred-meter blades to grow longer with each swing, eventually reaching over a kilometer!
Kilometer-long blades?
Who the hell could withstand that? Even the naturally warlike and savage Frost Giants could no longer suppress the fear in their hearts. Some began to retreat and flee.
A rout is like a collapsing mountain!
On the battlefield, often when the first soldier flees, and there's no central pillar of leadership, that's when the entire army collapses.
This principle applied not only to ancient battlefields on Earth but also to the Frost Giant race!
One Frost Giant fleeing instantly triggered a chain reaction of fear. One after another, Frost Giants began to run!
But their fleeing only made Ryan dissatisfied!
After all, if they all charged at him, he could kill hundreds with a single swing. But now, with these Frost Giants scattering and running, he could only kill a dozen or so at a time!
The output remained the same, but the efficiency had dropped dramatically!
Who could stand that?
"Run? Heh, I'll kill whoever runs the fastest first!"
Ryan sneered coldly, purple lightning once again coiling around his legs. This time, he didn't target those closest to him. He specifically chased and killed those who ran the fastest and farthest!
Run. The faster you run, the quicker you die!
This led the fleeing Frost Giant army to a despairing realization: whether they ran or not, they would die. They were already trapped in a hunting circle by Ryan, who kept chasing them as a streak of purple lightning, with no way to escape!
Despair!
The gap in power left the Frost Giant army with nothing but despair in their hearts!
But this despair didn't last long. After Ryan had been slaughtering for several minutes, having killed at least ten thousand Frost Giants, Laufey—who had been kicked away and crashed through an iceberg at the very beginning—finally reappeared!
And this time, Laufey was even bigger!
Before, after returning to Jotunheim, Laufey had grown to over ten meters tall, but he still retained a somewhat humanoid form.
But now, Laufey looked like Ryan transformed into his full Symbiote state—he appeared completely monstrous!
Laufey, who had burst forth from the collapsed iceberg, now had a hundred-meter-tall body of crystalline ice, a ferocious beast-like head, sharp dorsal spines, and an equally hundred-meter-long tail of crystalline ice!
"Holy shit, Frost Godzilla!!!"
Even Ryan was so shocked he exclaimed!
No wonder Laufey hadn't shown up for so long after being kicked away—he was secretly charging up his ultimate move!
And immediately, something even more Godzilla-like occurred. The transformed beast Laufey opened his jaws, icy-blue energy gathering in his mouth, and actually shot a Frost Breath toward Ryan!
This made all the hairs on Ryan's body stand on end. Clearly, his Spider-Sense was warning him that even in his complete form, taking this hit head-on would be dangerous!
Spider-Sense: Stop relying solely on your super strength to tank hits! Time to use your super speed!
Heeding the Spider-Sense's warning, Ryan immediately chose to retract the kilometer-long blades on his arms, transforming back into a streak of purple lightning to dodge!
But Laufey, having absorbed an entire iceberg to become a Frost Beast, clearly had no intention of letting Ryan off so easily. Swiveling his head, he made the Frost Breath chase after Ryan, who had turned into purple lightning!
Along the way, the Frost Breath didn't touch the absurdly fast Ryan at all. Instead, it froze countless Frost Giants fleeing on the ice plain into literal popsicles!