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He first performed a massive leap into the air, raising stormbreaker high above his head. A cluster of crimson dark clouds instantly gathered above him, and streaks of blood-red lightning began to descend from the clouds, striking stormbreaker and making the electric glow on the axe increasingly crimson and dazzling!
Finally, after stormbreaker had charged to its limit, Zombie Thor violently hurled the energized stormbreaker at Infinite Hulk, who was still firing air cannons at the Asgardian fleet in the sky!
With the augmentation of Chaos Magic, this axe throw from Zombie Thor could be said to be even stronger than the one Thor hurled at Thanos at the end of Avengers 3!
If Thanos had faced such an axe strike back then, there probably wouldn't have been any need for the events of Avengers 4; even if Thor hadn't aimed for Thanos's head, it would have been enough to split Thanos entirely in half!
But unfortunately... Infinite Hulk, whose body was filled with infinite energy itself, possessed a physical form far beyond what Thanos—who merely used the Infinity Stones as tools—could compare to!
So, even though Zombie Thor's blood-axe was stronger than the one in Avengers 3, when the spinning blood-axe struck Infinite Hulk's chest, it only managed to embed the blade into his chest, failing to split Infinite Hulk in half with a single blow!
Furthermore, Infinite Hulk reached out and yanked the blood-axe from his chest. His strength surged due to the rage of the pain, and he actually gripped the stormbreaker—formed from Chaos Magic—with both hands, forcibly snapping it into a floor full of red crystal shards!
This caused Zombie Thor to lose his weapon once again!
This scene was also recorded at the beginning of Thor: Ragnarok~
But the current Zombie Thor was clearly no longer the same as he was during Thor: Ragnarok.
Coupled with the enlightenment from Chaos Magic, even without stormbreaker, Zombie Thor was still the true God of Thunder!
Mid-air, the divine power within Zombie Thor's body erupted, and endless blood-colored lightning instantly burst forth from him. Finally, like a blood-colored lightning cyclone, he dove headfirst toward Infinite Hulk!
This move, just from its momentum alone, already made people feel its extraordinary power!
And then...
Pa——————
With absolutely no maneuvering, Zombie Thor, who had dived straight in, had his head caught by Infinite Hulk's massive hand. The lightning cyclone on Zombie Thor's body vanished without a trace in an instant...
Finally, Infinite Hulk held Zombie Thor's head and grinned at him, revealing his ferocious, large white teeth!
Next up was Loki's favorite program!
Eighty! Eighty! Eighty!
Bang!! Bang!! Bang!!
Infinite Hulk grabbed Zombie Thor's head and slammed him back and forth violently, performing a genuine Hulk Smash!
And Infinite Hulk's smash was far more brutal than a normal Hulk's smash!
The commotion was so great that even Ryan in the 'spectator seats' and Wanda's zombie army were shaken, their feet constantly leaving the ground!
Everyone felt as if the entire Earth was raging along with Infinite Hulk. The ground seemed to have activated a 'King Engine', thumping incessantly, venting its dissatisfaction with this zombie apocalypse!
This made Ryan's heart race, his blood boiling with excitement, and he couldn't help but shout: "YES! Just like that! I love this program so much!!!"
This caused Wanda, who was floating in mid-air and thus unaffected by the Earth's tremors, still keeping the cold blood of a zombie in the high ground of her brain, to be stunned. She couldn't help but look at Ryan beside her:
"Whose side are you on exactly?"
Hearing this, the excited smile on Ryan's face slowly faded.
Oh right, he seemed to be in the villain camp. What exactly was he getting so fired up about...
On the other side, after slamming him several times in succession, Infinite Hulk's anger was mostly vented.
With one final blow that slammed Zombie Thor deep into the ground, he performed a Hulk leap into the sky, then crashed down like a six-colored meteor with a 'Boom' right onto the spot where Zombie Thor was embedded!
Swoosh————————
The next second, an Impact carrying the scent of Infinite Hulk's feet instantly swept across the field!
Ryan couldn't help but fan the air in front of his nose.
This smell is a bit too much!
And when the thick smoke—whether it was foot odor or dust—cleared, Infinite Hulk moved his massive foot away...
Only then did everyone see that Zombie Thor, who had just shown his highlight moment a minute ago, now had his head crushed to a pulp by Infinite Hulk's foot!
This Chaos Magic-boosted version of Zombie Thor, who was stronger than the Thor in Avengers 3, could indeed trade a few blows with Infinite Hulk and cause a certain degree of damage, but...
That was all...
After trading a few blows, he was brutally beaten by Infinite Hulk and then finished off with a massive flying kick!
Zombie Thor's only remaining eyeball was squeezed out by Infinite Hulk's stomp, landing right in front of Ryan and Wanda, staring at them.
It was as if it were accusing the two: 'Is this a match in the same weight class?'
'You two bastards actually arranged for me to go up!'
Pa————
Ryan crushed Thor's only remaining intact eye with one foot and ground it under his sole, saying with a look of disdain:
"What a complete waste. Even a Saint Seiya wouldn't fall for the same move twice, yet you managed to be finished off by Hulk with the same move twice!"
That's right, this wasn't the first time Thor had been finished off by Hulk in such a manner.
In Thor: Ragnarok, Thor, who had just awakened his thunder power, had also been finished off by Hulk in a similar way once!
Although both of their current strengths far exceeded what they were back then, clearly the result remained the same without any change!
Even more so, this time Thor was even more miserable...
Wanda didn't care about Ryan's disrespectful behavior toward her subordinate's corpse, she just said leisurely:
"According to what you said, my turn has injured it and caused it no small amount of exhaustion. This time, you can't just do something half-hearted like last time~"
Hearing this, Ryan glanced at Infinite Hulk, who was kneeling on one knee and panting heavily after stomping Zombie Thor to death. He didn't speak, only nodded slightly.
Indeed, Zombie Thor and Asgard's zombie fleet seemed to have suffered a crushing defeat by Infinite Hulk.
But in terms of the damage and exhaustion caused to Infinite Hulk, Zombie Thor and the Asgardian zombie fleet were much more effective than Namo and his undersea minions.
Not only did they exhaust Infinite Hulk, but they also dealt him real damage!
This made Infinite Hulk's already heavily burdened body even more strained!
Although Infinite Hulk possessed the power of the six infinity stones within him, theoretically he should have almost infinite energy...
But... that was not the case.
Infinite Hulk's situation was actually somewhat similar to the elderly Odin.
The energy within him was indeed infinite, but Hulk's body was not infinitely strong.
Hulk was currently like a wooden bucket filled with water. Originally, this bucket could barely withstand the water that was so full it was about to overflow.
But as the bucket was hit by external forces, more and more cracks appeared on the bucket's body, and his body would increasingly be unable to withstand the water pressure inside!
And when these cracks expanded to a certain extent, that would be when the bucket completely shattered!
In plain terms, Hulk was too weak to perfectly withstand the energy of the six stones!
After all, if Hulk really could become a perfect jinchuriki for the Infinity Stones' energy, then in Avengers 4, he wouldn't have been nearly killed by the backlash of the six stones just from snapping his fingers!
Therefore, seeing Infinite Hulk panting, Ryan narrowed his eyes slightly; he was already certain of taking him down!
If this Infinite Hulk could truly use the Infinity Stones' energy without limit, then it might be a bit difficult for him...
But if it was just a 'glass cannon' restricted version, then it would be much easier!
He wouldn't even need to use complex methods; he would just do as he had thought, using overwhelming force to constantly expand the cracks on Hulk's body!
As such, Ryan did not use external forces to test Infinite Hulk this time.
Instead, seven-colored flowing light began to rise from his body, as he, the 'head coach', prepared to personally enter the fray and end this match!
Ryan crossed his arms, flying in a standing posture to the front of the kneeling Infinite Hulk, looking down at him with a condescending and indifferent gaze.
After all, only pets fly horizontally; a real man should fly vertically!
"Big guy, do you plan to keep kneeling like this, accepting your fate like a coward until I drain the Infinite Power from your body..."
"Or do you plan to stand up now and die in battle during your glorious mission?"
Toward the Hulk who had once chosen to use his own body to bear the Infinite Power to prevent Earth from being destroyed, Ryan still held a trace of respect.
Therefore, he didn't directly attack Infinite Hulk while he was weak.
Instead, he waited quietly for Hulk's body to slowly repair itself under its own regenerative power before speaking to give him a choice.
Wait for death or die in battle?
Although Infinite Hulk had lost his memories as Dr. Banner and Hulk under the Impact of the Infinite Power, his name still carried the word 'Hulk' after all!
And there was no such word as 'waiting for death' in Hulk's dictionary!
Even though Hulk had never been to school~
In short, Infinite Hulk, who had almost finished recovering from his surface injuries, slowly stood up from the ground and looked up at Ryan, who carried a god-like pressure in mid-air, letting out a final, stubborn roar:
"I am... Hulk!!!"