Become a Homelander and a Marvel superstar

Malekith rose from the ruins, completely healed.

"It hurts...it really hurts..."

Malekith stretched his newly recovered body, his eyes filled with hatred.

"Midgard...you have thoroughly enraged me."

Azu didn't waste any more words with Malekith.

"You look tough, hopefully your health insurance covers 'being beaten up by Superman'."

After saying that, Azu's figure had already disappeared from the spot.

"boom--!!!"

The sonic boom cloud exploded in the center of the Shibuya intersection, and the asphalt on the road surface cracked instantly.

Before Malekith could even blink, a hand carrying destructive power had already gripped his face.

The immense kinetic energy propelled him backward.

Azu pressed Malekith's head down, like a human cannonball, and smashed it through the Shibuya 109 building in front of him.

Reinforced concrete was as fragile as a wafer in front of Azu; the building's glass curtain wall instantly turned into a shower of crystals.

But this is only the beginning.

Without slowing down, Azu pushed Malekith across the street and crashed into the office building opposite. Desks, computers, and documents flew everywhere.

"The third building!!"

"The fourth building!!"

The roaring sounds blended together, like an out-of-control express train crashing through the urban jungle.

A straight line was carved through ten high-rise buildings.

"Enough... mortals!!"

Malekith's furious roar erupted from the ruins.

"Buzz—!!!"

A terrifying energy surge erupted from him.

The body, which was on the verge of collapse, rapidly recovered under the influence of the dark red fluid.

Azu was thrown back by this unreasonable energy, tumbling twice in the air before landing steadily, his feet carving two furrows in the asphalt road.

He patted the dust off his chest and looked at the figure shrouded in red mist in the distance.

"That's interesting."

Malekith floated up from the ruins and looked up at the sky.

He sensed that space was distorting, celestial bodies were converging, and it had reached its highest point.

That was a sign that the nine realms were connected in one line, the moment when the cosmic barrier was at its weakest.

"Time..." Malekith's voice was hoarse and anxious.

He could tell that it had been less than thirty minutes.

If he cannot obtain the complete ether particles and reach the center of the convergence to release them within these thirty minutes, then the door will close.

The next opening will be five thousand years from now.

He can't wait five thousand years.

"Give me back the Ether...!!"

Malekith roared and suddenly spread his arms wide.

This time, he held nothing back.

"Boom!"

The ground began to tremble. Countless dark red tentacles erupted from his body; these were materialized ether particles that danced wildly in the air like a swarm of hungry pythons.

"Tentacle play?"

Azu chuckled, and his figure instantly blurred.

Super speed.

He darted through the gaps in the tentacles, moving so fast that only a red and blue afterimage remained.

The tentacles struck the ground, instantly obliterating the asphalt road and turning it into black ash.

"Too slow!"

Azu made a sudden stop, dodging a sweeping tentacle, then accelerated sharply, delivering a straight punch to Malekith's chest.

Just as his fist was about to touch Malekith.

"Buzz!"

The dark red mist surrounding Malekith seemed to possess its own consciousness, instantly condensing into a shield that blocked the fist's attack.

"when--!!!"

A loud bang.

Azu felt as if his punch had struck an invisible rubber wall, the force of which was instantly dispersed and absorbed.

"It will move on its own?"

Azu frowned and used the momentum to retreat.

"You can't touch the darkness," Malekith said coldly, half of his attention on Jessica Jones not far away.

He could sense that the other half of the ether particles was calling for their return within the woman's body.

"Really? I like challenges that are different."

boom--!

Ah Zu's figure disappeared completely.

The speed at which it is displayed is so fast that it cannot be captured by the human eye.

Countless figures of Azu appeared around Malekith.

That was an afterimage.

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang-!!!"

The sounds of intense impacts were like a torrential downpour.

Azu launched a fierce and relentless attack on Malekith from all directions.

Malekith stood at the center of the storm, surrounded by a surging ether particles, like a living cocoon, automatically defending against attacks from every angle.

The red fluid shifted unpredictably in the air, sometimes transforming into shields, sometimes into spikes, and sometimes into tentacles to retaliate.

"Not fast enough!"

Azu roared as he moved at high speed.

He could sense that with each attack, the reaction speed of the ether particles was increasing.

The red fluid was adapting to his rhythm.

"Then hurry up!!"

Azu's eyes flashed red, and he once again approached his maximum speed.

"boom!!!"

Accelerate once again.

The air in Shibuya seemed to be ignited.

The supersonic shockwave generated by Azu's movement shattered all the glass within a one-kilometer radius, and cars parked on the roadside were blown away like toys.

Malekith's defensive barriers began to tremble.

……

at the same time.

On the other side of the world, in New York.

Ten thousand meters above the ground, the Dark Elf's cross-shaped ship hovered above the clouds.

Inside the bridge, the cursed warrior Algorim was watching a holographic image that was stuck on the moment Malekith was knocked away.

"Malekis! Danger!"

Algorim let out a low growl and turned to head towards the control panel.

"Fly the spaceship over there! I need to support him!!"

"Wait a minute, big guy."

A hand stopped him.

Loki leaned against the control panel, toying with the dagger in his hand, a nonchalant smile on his face.

"What do you want to do?" Algorim glared at the Asgardian.

"I want to save your master, and while I'm at it, I'll also save your poor brain."

Loki pointed to the red and blue figure on the screen.

"Look at that guy. He could take Malekith from one end of the planet to the other. Do you think your clunky ship could even touch his cloak?"

Argorim remained silent.

Although he was reluctant to admit it, the mortal's speed was indeed beyond his comprehension.

"So what brilliant idea do you have, God of Deception?"

"It's very simple."

Loki turned around, waved his hand, and the image on the holographic screen switched to the ground in New York.

Those are the "superheroes" busy working in the ruins.

Iron Man, Captain America, and those students in strange costumes.

"Look at these people," Loki said, pointing at them with a sense of vengeful pleasure.

"They are that person's friends."

Loki walked up to Algorim and lowered his voice.

"If you go to him in your spaceship now, he'll just turn you into scrap metal."

"But if you stay here..."

Loki pointed to Manhattan below.

"...Grab them. Grab those he cares about."

"Grab that tin man by the neck and stomp the old soldier with the shield under your feet."

"Then tell the cloaked man: If you move again, your friend will be turned into mincemeat."

Loki laughed, a laugh like Nick Wilde.

"Believe me, this trick... always works against so-called 'superheroes'."

Algorim stared at the screen, pondering for a moment.

"You are right, Asgardian."

"Despicable, but effective."

Algorim turned and walked toward the hatch.

"That's right." Loki watched the Cursed Warrior's departing figure, his smile widening.