I Created a Sanctuary in Marvel

Chapter 204 The Battle Between Loki and Thor

Surprised?

"I said I would give it my all this time."

Loki smiled behind the ice shield, his arms still outstretched.

With a flick of his wrist, the ice shield disintegrated, turning into countless ice crystals.

But instead of falling, these ice crystals, under Loki's control, swept towards Thor like a blizzard!

Each ice crystal was spinning at high speed, its edges as sharp as knives!

Thor retreated rapidly, his hammer sweeping across, lightning colliding with ice crystals in mid-air.

Most of the ice crystals were shattered by the lightning, but the broken ice crystals did not disappear. Instead, they turned into a finer ice mist, enveloping the space around Thor.

These icy mists are everywhere, even seeping through the gaps in the golden armor!

"Ahem!"

Thor inhaled a mouthful of icy mist, and a stinging sensation immediately shot through his lungs.

Loki's freezing aura can even freeze divine power!

He could feel the flow of lightning power within his body becoming sluggish.

"The power of the Frost Giants—"

"You've accepted your identity with equanimity."

Thor gritted his teeth, unleashing a burst of lightning to forcefully dispel the icy mist. "Resigned?"

Loki chuckled, and his figure suddenly vanished from the spot.

The physical enhancement during the mid-stage of the Sixth Sense of the Mind Universe gave him agility far surpassing that of the Asgardian gods!

Before Thor could even turn around, Loki was already behind him, his right hand with its five fingers together in a palm, the edge of which was covered with pale blue ice armor. With a piercing sonic boom, he slashed at the back of Thor's neck!

The trajectory of the palm blade caused subtle ripples in the space, a manifestation of how the extreme cold distorted the density of the air!

"Bang!"

At the critical moment, Thor instinctively swung his hammer behind his head.

The hand covered in ice armor slammed into the hammer handle, the immense force causing him to stagger forward two steps. A faint white mark was even left on the hammer handle, a mark left by the collision of extreme cold and lightning.

But Loki's offensive did not stop.

When his first strike missed, he used the momentum to turn around and lashed out with his left leg like a whip.

This kick was just a simple horizontal sweep, but it was too fast and the power was too concentrated. Wherever the leg passed, the moisture in the air instantly condensed into ice crystals!

Thor can only defend.

He wielded Thor's hammer, creating a barrier of lightning around himself, barely managing to block Loki's storm of kicks.

But with each kick he blocked, his arm went numb a little more; Loki's strength was far greater than he remembered.

Even more terrifying is that the extreme cold power accompanying each strike is constantly eroding the thunder barrier built by his divine power!

"What's wrong, Thor?!"

"That's the limit? Where's your lightning? Where's your power?!"

Loki performed a backflip in mid-air and landed lightly, leaving two icy footprints on the ground.

His voice carried long-suppressed emotions: anger, resentment, and a desire to prove himself.

Thor, panting heavily, looked at his younger brother in front of him.

Loki's face no longer wore that cynical, fake smile, but rather a near-mad fighting spirit.

The burning golden patterns in those eyes, and the faint energy fluctuations emanating from his body—

"You've become stronger, Loki."

"But I'm not standing still!"

Thor slowly straightened up, the lightning on Mjolnir becoming even more dazzling, and the frost on his golden armor vaporized and evaporated in the thunder.

He raised his warhammer high.

The sky answered his call.

Dark clouds rolled and thunder roared as a bolt of lightning, several meters in diameter, struck down from the clouds, hitting Thor's hammer with pinpoint accuracy.

Thor was engulfed in dazzling lightning, and the runes on his golden armor lit up one after another. His aura rose steadily under the infusion of thunder!

This is a secret technique personally taught by Odin, which can boost Thor's power to its limit in a short period of time.

However, the cost is enormous physical exertion, and it can usually only be maintained for three minutes.

Thor intends to end the fight in these three minutes.

"That's more like it."

Loki smiled, and the golden patterns in his eyes shone brightly.

Instead of retreating, he took a step forward.

With both hands raised high above his head, divine power, bloodline, and inner universe resonated to their limit at this moment.

The constellation Aquarius appears behind Loki; this is the greatest mystery of Aquarius!

Although his cosmos had only reached the sixth sense and he couldn't unleash the true power of this move, the power of the Frost Giant's bloodline was still considerable.

The freezing air has already begun to spread!

"The Forgiveness of the Goddess of Dawn!!"

His crossed hands suddenly dropped! An intense chill instantly swept across the entire battlefield.

When the beam of light passed through the air, the molecular motion almost stopped, and the light itself was bent.

At that moment, Thor's Thunderbolt was also fully charged.

Thor slammed Mjolnir into the ground with all his might, channeling all the accumulated thunderous power into the earth, and then—

"BOOM!!!"

The ground within a 50-meter radius of Thor exploded simultaneously.

Countless blue bolts of lightning shot out from the ground like raging dragons, rushing towards Loki from all directions.

The lightning had actually formed a cage, intending to lock Loki up!

The beam of light collided head-on with the Thunder Cage.

Two blue energies began to converge, the fury and heat of thunder colliding with the chilling forgiveness of the Dawn Goddess.

Centered on the point of impact, a translucent energy sphere began to expand.

Inside the sphere, lightning and ice intertwined to form a dazzling yet dangerous pattern, and the space emitted a shattering sound.

In one second, the diameter of the sphere increases by ten meters.

Two seconds, twenty meters.

Three seconds —

"boom!!!!!"

The long-awaited explosion finally rang out.

The space itself was shaking, and those who were close by, whether friend or foe, felt a violent dizziness and nausea.

The energy sphere expanded to a diameter of eighty meters, and then exploded violently!

The Avengers were forced to retreat again and again, and even more than a dozen Chitauri airships in the air were pulled towards the center of the explosion by the suction force, and were destroyed the moment they entered the range of the energy storm.

Tony's suit alarms were blaring, and the energy readings had exceeded all the safety thresholds he had set.

"Those two lunatics—"

"Jarvis, record the energy peak!"

Tony muttered to himself, his suit thrusters fully activated, barely managing to steady himself.

"Recorded, sir. The peak energy is equivalent to five million tons of TNT, concentrated within a diameter of eighty meters. The spatial curvature change value has reached 7.3, which has already caused local spacetime distortion."

The energy storm lasted for a full twelve seconds before slowly dissipating.

As the smoke and energy ripples dissipated, the scene in the center of the square made everyone gasp.

A perfectly hemispherical crater appeared within a radius of seventy meters from where Thor and Loki had originally stood.

The pit walls were as smooth as a mirror, a mark left by the instantaneous vaporization of matter.

The pit was over twenty meters deep, and Thor and Loki stood on opposite sides of it.

Thor knelt on one knee, his hammer Mjolnir supporting his body. His golden armor was covered with fine cracks, some so deep that the flesh could be seen to be torn up, a result of being frostbitten by the extreme cold and then struck by lightning.

He was panting heavily, and golden divine blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, making a slight hissing sound as it dripped onto the ground—that was the thunderous energy contained within the divine blood.

And Loki—

He remained standing.

The dark green robe was mostly torn, revealing a body covered in pale blue ice armor.

His palms were charred black, a backlash injury left by the extreme cold. His face was frighteningly pale, and his breath carried fragments of ice crystals, but he stood there.

Moreover, he was standing ten meters away from the scepter of the mind.

The scepter remained planted in its original position, maintaining the portal's operation. Loki never touched it once throughout the entire process.

"It seems—"

"I won."

Loki coughed, but instead of blood, he coughed up icy blue air.

Thor looked up at Loki.

His eyes held no anger or resentment of a loser, but rather a sense of relief? Or perhaps contentment?

"You have indeed become stronger, Loki."

"So strong—it makes me proud."

Thor's voice was calm, even with a hint of amusement.

Loki was stunned.

He had imagined countless possible reactions from Saul.

Whether it's anger, resentment, disbelief, or even rage and shame.

But he never expected that Thor would say he was proud.

The word, spoken by Saul, was more lethal than any taunt.

"you----"

"But this farce should end."

"You can defeat me, Loki. But have you thought about what will happen afterward? What will you do after defeating me? Continue to cooperate with Thanos? Continue to slaughter the innocent? Is that the throne you want?"

Thor struggled to his feet, and Mjolnir began to glow faintly again, though the light had dimmed considerably.

"You don't need to worry about that, because you're just a temporary goal on my journey."

"Sol! You are no longer my target, and you will not be my opponent in the future."

Loki gave a slight smile and said calmly.

The moment he finished speaking, a giant hand suddenly appeared in the sky.

The enormous portal was grasped in the palm of a hand and began to shrink gradually before being forcibly closed.

The Chitauri troops that had already entered Earth's atmosphere fell from the sky like robots that had lost their signal connection.

The light from the gem at the top of the Mind Scepter, which was stuck in the ground, quickly dimmed and eventually went out completely.

The Cosmic Cube fell from mid-air and was caught by a slender hand.

Ye Feng appeared in the center of the square at some unknown time.

He stood at the edge of the giant pit, holding the Cosmic Cube in his left hand and casually waving his right.

Time and spacetime are frozen.

All the Zeta Swiss soldiers, airships, and Leviathans that were still active were frozen in place, and then vanished like sand in the wind.

The golden light faded from the eyes of the citizens controlled by Loki, and one by one they collapsed to the ground and fell into a deep sleep.

That's all.

Ye Feng's voice was calm as he looked at Loki.

"You've proven yourself, Loki."

Then he looked at Thor: "Take him back to Asgard."

Thor was silent for a few seconds, then slowly nodded.

He dragged his weary body step by step across the giant pit and came to Loki.

The light of the Rainbow Bridge descended once more, enveloping Thor and Loki.

In the light, Loki glanced back at Ye Feng, his lips moved, and he silently said, "Thank you."

It wasn't that he was thanking Ye Feng for cleaning up the mess, but rather that he was thanking Ye Feng for giving him the opportunity to prove himself and for letting him see what he truly wanted.

The light faded, and the two brothers disappeared.

Tony opened his mask, looked at the Tesseract in Ye Feng's hand, then at the Mind Scepter stuck in the ground, and finally just sighed deeply.