45: Chapter 45 Loki's Despair, The Ownership of the Scepter

The wind howled. A massive cosmic wormhole hung overhead, and the deep blue space energy illuminated the entire night sky as if it were broad daylight.

Loki stood on the edge of the rooftop, his dark green Asgard armor covered in dust.

His collapsed nose bridge and the badly swollen side of his face had not yet fully healed, making him look extremely disheveled.

Yet, his eyes at this moment revealed a sickly fanaticism.

"Earthlings, do you see your god?"

Loki looked down at the smoke-filled New York City below, listening to the screams echoing all around; the humiliation he felt from being brutally beaten by Lynn finally found some release.

He had assumed this would be a one-sided crush with no suspense.

However, when he shifted his gaze toward the direction of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, the fanatical smile on his face instantly froze.

"What is that..."

Loki widened his eyes, his pupils contracting violently.

In his line of sight, the Chitauri army was not advancing as expected. On the contrary, they were being frantically slaughtered!

A ten-meter-tall dark red beast turned into an afterimage, moving wantonly through the streets.

It didn't even need to use weapons; the terrifying sonic boom from its supersonic movement alone ground hundreds of Chitauri soldiers into blood mist.

Immediately after, an even more shocking scene occurred for Loki.

The Chitauri mothership deployed the massive interstellar heavy-duty beast, the "Leviathan."

Yet, that arrogant hundred-meter-tall beast was actually torn in half by the red monster with its bare hands in mid-air!

The blue blood raining down from the sky even splattered several blocks away!

"This is impossible! How could there be such a monster on Earth?!"

Loki clenched his fists, his fingernails digging deep into his flesh.

He recognized that tyrannical, overbearing aura. Although its appearance had changed, this was definitely the devil from the Germany square who had punched him until he vomited blood and forcibly extracted his blood!

"Mothership! Commander!"

Loki hurriedly pressed the communicator at his ear and roared at the Chitauri mothership on the other side of the wormhole, "Activate the main cannon immediately! Level that area for me! Deploy all Leviathans, and kill him at all costs!"

A "buzzing" sound of static came from the communicator.

There was no response.

"Mothership! Did you hear me?! I am the Crown Prince of Asgard, I order you to immediately..." Loki continued to roar impatiently.

"Stop shouting. Your Commander has already been eaten by me."

A voice, extremely cold and hoarse, as if drifting from the depths of hell, sounded behind Loki without warning.

Accompanying this voice, the temperature on the rooftop instantly plummeted to freezing point.

Loki shuddered violently, as if falling into an ice cellar.

He turned around stiffly.

Before he knew it, a strange spirit floating in mid-air, its body shrouded in gray-white wrinkled skin, had appeared less than three meters away from him.

That single eye, flickering with scarlet light, was looking down at him from above.

"You... what exactly are you?!"

Loki completely collapsed. He prided himself on being the God of Mischief, toying with human hearts. But in front of this monster that could change its form at will and used extremely brutal methods, he felt that he was the weak and pathetic bug.

"I am the thing you fear the most."

The gray-white spirit slowly descended.

A red light flashed.

Lynn deactivated the [Ghost Phantom] form and transformed back into his human appearance, wearing a black shirt. He walked toward Loki step by step, his black eyes devoid of any emotion.

"You cannot kill me! I am the son of the King of Gods, Odin!"

Loki retreated in terror, waving his hands violently. With a "swish," seven or eight identical Loki illusions instantly appeared on the rooftop, fleeing in different directions.

"The same trick, playing it twice is no longer interesting."

Lynn didn't even activate [Dynamic Vision]. He had just obtained the highest control authority from the Chitauri mothership and was in a good mood, but he was extremely annoyed by this kind of escape behavior.

Lynn's figure flashed.

"Bang!"

He appeared in front of one of the "Lokis" as if teleporting, ignoring all those illusions. He raised his right foot, clad in a military boot, and kicked hard at Loki's knee!

"Crack!"

Two extremely crisp, scalp-numbing sounds of bone fracturing rang out simultaneously.

Lynn's monstrous strength directly shattered Loki's kneecaps! His lower legs bent backward at an extremely twisted angle.

"Arghhhhhhh!!!"

Loki let out a shrill scream, and all the illusions instantly dissipated. He fell heavily to the ground, clutching his broken legs in pain, rolling violently on the ground.

"You run too much. This will make you quieter."

Lynn indifferently stepped over the wailing Loki and walked straight toward the instrument in the center of the rooftop.

Above the instrument, the Tesseract (Space Stone), emitting a brilliant blue light, was continuously transmitting vast space energy into the sky, maintaining the opening of the wormhole.

The periphery of the Tesseract was shrouded in a visible hemispherical pure energy shield.

That was the absolute defense constructed by Dr. Selvig using the Tesseract's own energy.

Loki, collapsed on the ground, screamed while staring fixedly at Lynn's back, a resentful, miserable smile appearing on the corner of his mouth.

"It's useless... You can't get it! That is a pure space energy shield; anyone who touches it will be instantly disintegrated..."

Loki's words were not yet finished.

Lynn stood in front of the energy shield without even glancing at Loki.

The Bloodtrix on his left wrist flickered with a faint white light, and Lynn's right arm instantly switched into the translucent spirit state of [Ghost Phantom].

Immediately after.

In Loki's gaze of extreme, ghost-seeing horror.

Lynn's gray-white, illusory palm passed directly through that absolute shield, which was claimed to be "impenetrable by physical and energy attacks," as easily as sticking a hand into Water.

Lynn's fingers firmly grasped the Tesseract emitting a deep blue light.

"Hum—!"

The moment the Bloodtrix touched the Tesseract, it erupted with an extremely greedy dark golden light.

[High-purity cosmic artifact energy detected (Space Sequence Singularity).]

[Starting to absorb overflowing energy... System repair progress significantly increased!]

"You... you actually..." Loki's eyes widened, as if his faith had collapsed, and his brain fell into a complete shutdown.

Lynn held the Tesseract and pulled back his spiritual right arm.

As the Tesseract left the instrument, the massive cosmic wormhole in the sky began to flicker violently, showing signs of closing.

But Lynn did not close it.

He channeled part of the Tesseract's energy into the Bloodtrix, forcibly maintaining the open state of the wormhole. After all, he had only eaten half of this "buffet" in the sky.

Lynn turned around, looked at Loki, who was like a dead dog on the ground, and weighed the Tesseract in his hand.

Plus the Mind Stone lying in the office.

Six Infinity Stones, he had already obtained two.

Lynn looked down at Loki, a violent, cold smirk curling at the corner of his mouth.

"Now, lie quietly on the ground. Wait for me to finish eating your army."