The golden lightning that pierced the heavens and earth did not vanish in a flash.
It transformed into a substantial torrent of energy.
A river of molten gold, composed of pure divine power, continuously poured into Thor's body from an unknown realm deep within the clouds.
Electric charges surged in the air.
The hairs on every bystander's body stood on end.
The grotesque wounds on his body sizzled softly under the baptism of the lightning.
Torn muscle fibers rewove and healed at a supernatural speed.
Bloodstains evaporated from the high temperature, and his tattered clothes turned to ash.
In their place, silver armor pieces appeared out of thin air, self-fastening into place.
A red cape erupted from the void, flapping wildly in the violent currents.
That was no longer a mortal body.
It was a divine sanctuary born to bear thunder.
Thor slowly opened his eyes.
In the depths of his cerulean pupils, a storm was gathering, and electric sparks flickered like stardust.
It was the gaze of a god, looking down upon the mortal World, devoid of any human fragility.
He didn't even look at the war hammer that had returned to his hand; the feeling was as natural as breathing, an extension of his body that had been lost for too long.
His gaze went directly to the Destroyer in front of him, which had stalled due to the sudden situation.
"Loki."
His voice was calm, without a roar, yet it carried the might of the heavens, transforming into rolling thunder that boomed deep within everyone's soul.
"The game is over."
Thor flung his hammer.
He transformed into a golden streak of lightning, tearing through space and instantly covering a distance of several tens of meters.
He appeared before the Destroyer without warning.
He raised mjolnir high.
The billions of electric lights wrapped around the hammer's body collapsed inward the moment it was raised, converging into an energy sphere so dazzling it could scorch retinas.
"For Midgard!"
Boom—!!!
The war hammer slammed heavily onto the Destroyer's faceplate.
This time, it was no longer the dull metallic clang of Abomination's previous attack with a steel beam.
Instead, it was a terrifying explosion that obliterated all other sounds in the World!
The Destroyer's Uru metal faceplate, reputed to be indestructible, was as fragile as thin ice in winter before this absolute power.
From the point of Impact, spiderweb-like cracks spread wildly, glowing with an ominous red light!
The violent Impact transformed into a visible circular airwave, stripping a layer of the ground.
The Destroyer's massive body could no longer stand firm.
It was completely pierced by the immense power contained in this single blow.
It successively smashed through two remaining ruins that had survived the previous battle, finally crashing heavily into a messy ornamental grove.
Those baobab trees, which William had spared no expense to air-freight from Madagascar, each worth a considerable sum, were uprooted and pulverized into dust in this Impact.
"..."
William stared blankly at the scene, his mouth half-open.
A few seconds later, he suddenly punched the air, his face a mix of ecstasy and intense pain.
"Good! Hit it hard! One more time! Tear it into pieces for me!"
As he shouted, he felt an invisible hand gripping his heart tightly, and his voice was tinged with a sob.
"My trees... My five-million-U.S.-dollar baobab trees... Thor! I'm fucking putting this on your tab!"
In the center of the battlefield.
Thunder God Thor's assault did not cease.
He shook his arm and flung the war hammer forward with force.
mjolnir flew from his hand.
A gray meteor, trailing a sharp roar that tore through the atmosphere, arrived first, precisely catching up to the Destroyer, which was just struggling to get up, and struck its chest again.
Bang!
The Destroyer's chest plate caved in, forming a huge, shocking crater.
It seemed to be completely enraged by these successive heavy blows.
Through the cracks in its faceplate, scorching energy gathered again at an unprecedented speed.
A destructive beam, condensed to its utmost, shot towards Thor!
Thor simply extended his hand.
The war hammer, which had hit its target, traced an arc in the air incomprehensible to mortal wisdom, disregarding inertia and aerodynamics, instantly returning to his hand and precisely blocking the beam.
Boom!
The destructive beam collided head-on with mjolnir.
The energy, capable of vaporizing everything, was completely absorbed by the runic symbols on the hammer's surface, without a single trace of leakage.
Thor twisted his wrist, aiming mjolnir, whose hammerhead had turned crimson from absorbing the massive energy, towards the sky.
"Taste your own power!"
He roared, his arm muscles bulging, and swung it down violently!
A thicker, more violent golden energy pillar, amplified by divine power and lightning, erupted from the hammerhead.
At a speed exceeding the beam itself, it fiercely struck the Destroyer!
This was a duel between gods.
This was the ultimate clash between Asgard's strongest spear and strongest shield.
"Jarvis, record it, record everything!"
Tony Stark struggled out of his severely deformed armor, one arm hanging limply, but his eyes beneath the faceplate burned with a scientist's fervor.
"Energy output patterns, material composition analysis, spatial fluctuation readings... All data! Not a single one can be missed! This is simply... God's code!"
"That million-dollar arm..."
Jessica Jones murmured.
She looked at the iron giant being hammered into the ground by Thor, feeling her millionaire dream drift further away with each earth-shattering Impact.
Abomination had already stood up again; he didn't charge forward anymore.
This silent Beast merely watched from a distance.
In his eyes, which were always filled with violence and madness, there was now a raw awe of absolute power.
The Destroyer was clearly unwilling to be defeated so easily.
Its internal energy core began to become extremely unstable, and destructive red light emanated from all the armor seams.
It abandoned its single-target attack on Thor, its entire armor suddenly opening like a metal lotus of death, preparing to unleash an indiscriminate, island-wide, omnidirectional energy Impact.
"Dream on!"
Thor saw through its intention.
He violently threw mjolnir high into the sky.
Then he pushed off with his legs, the ground exploded, and he leaped high into the air, gripping the hammer handle again tens of meters above the ground.
He and Mjolnir became one, transforming into a true thunderous meteor, descending from the sky!
"In the name of my father!"
The sky roared in response.
Ominous dark clouds gathered above his head, forming a massive, bottomless vortex, and countless thunders from the Nine Realms converged upon the hammer's body.
"In the name of Asgard!"
Rumble—!!!!
The golden lightning completely engulfed the Destroyer, and everything else.
The terrifying Impact hurled everything on the ground away—dirt, turf, gravel, architectural debris... forming a three-meter-high tsunami that spread wildly in all directions across the island.
William was violently knocked to the ground by this irresistible airwave, tumbling several times like a broken sack before stopping.
But he still protected himself with his body, clutching his phone tightly, the camera stubbornly aimed at the white core of the explosion.
When the light faded.
When the thunder subsided.
When everything returned to silence.
A giant crater, over forty meters in diameter, appeared in the center of the island.
At the bottom of the pit.
The once invincible Destroyer was now in pieces, a pile of smoking, twisted, charred metal parts.
Thor, war hammer in hand, emerged from the pit.
Like a War God from ancient myths, having just finished a conquest.
The battle was over.
The entire North Brother Island fell into a deathly silence.
Tandy and Tyrone were dumbfounded, almost forgetting to breathe.
Maurice poked his head out of the cold Water, his face full of the relief and bewilderment of having survived a disaster.
William slowly, laboriously got up from the ground, patting his custom suit, which was now unrecognizable in its original color.
He looked down at his phone, pressed the save button with satisfaction, and securely stored the priceless video he had just recorded.
Then, he looked up, surveying his surroundings.
His private island, once picturesque and the culmination of his countless efforts and U.S. dollars, now looked as if Godzilla and King Kong had jointly ploughed it over.
The office building had a huge hole punched through it.
The warehouse collapsed.
The communications tower broke.
The pool shattered.
The top-tier lawn was gone.
The rare forest had also become a historical term.
A sad, burning tear finally couldn't help but slide from William's eye.
He walked with heavy, limping steps to Tony, who was equally disheveled, and asked hoarsely in a World-weary, tearful voice, as if he had gone bankrupt overnight:
"Tony... Tell me, does S.H.I.E.L.D.'s procurement budget have a limit?"
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