I really didn't want to burn it.

"Who would believe that?"

Kiritsugu chuckled and cursed.

Li Ang waved his hand, took two steps to run up and jumped into the air, chasing after Odin (Spopak) in the direction he had just left at top speed.

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Boom!

Thor (Vabra) once again smashed Loki flat with his hammer.

Bang.

With a flash of white light, Loki, who had been smashed flat by Thor, transformed into a god of the Aesir.

"It's that little trick again."

Thor (Vabula) snorted coldly.

"But didn't you see through it?"

Loki sat on a pebble, giving a sarcastic, forced smile.

“Your little tricks are meaningless,” Thor (Vabra) said dismissively. “We cannot be killed by physical attacks, and even if our heads are cut off, we can be resurrected.”

Loki glanced at the demon pillars that had revealed their true forms in the distance: "Those guys shouldn't be that tough, right? I think some of them have already been destroyed."

“There’s nothing we can do about it,” Thor (Vabula) shrugged. “If our original bodies didn’t have this flaw, we wouldn’t have chosen your gods’ bodies. But don’t worry, those who have died will be resurrected in the Temple of Time.”

"..."

Loki turned his attention back to Thor (Vabra).

"Let me give you some advice."

Thor (Vabra) raised Mjolnir, his smile growing increasingly distorted.

"I'm tired of this. Now, I'm going to use lightning to wipe out everything around us! No matter how well you dodge, you can't survive such a wide-ranging attack! You dare to challenge me? You're courting death!"

Thor (Vabra) summoned lightning, and for a moment the sky of Asgard was shrouded in dark clouds.

Loki sighed helplessly; the guy's nonsense had no effect on him whatsoever.

“Then I’ll give you a piece of advice too,” Loki replied. “Even Thor, that simpleton, wouldn’t dare talk to me like that. But there’s something you do make sense about, something I’m already tired of.”

"So, you're prepared to offer your neck for execution?"

Thor (Vabra) asked with ill intent, his hammer ready to strike at any moment, just waiting for Loki to finish his last words.

"Is that what you think?"

Loki looked amused.

As soon as he finished speaking, bursts of flame erupted from Thor's (Vabra's) body, instantly enveloping his robust frame.

In just a few breaths, Thor was engulfed in flames, turning into a human torch.

Thor (Vabra) did consider rebelling, but neither extinguishing the fire with divine power nor abandoning his own body to revert to his original form as the Demon God Pillar could do so.

Am I going to be burned to death?

Thor (Vabula) was terrified.

Perhaps sensing the gaze directed at him through the flames, Loki spoke up to explain, "Have you forgotten that besides being the God of Mischief, I am also the God of Fire of the Nine Realms? Did you think I used ordinary flames?"

Feeling the intense heat emanating from his body, Thor (Vabra) exclaimed in shock, "This...when did you tamper with this?!"

“Just before that…” Loki explained, resting his hand on his cheek with a hint of impatience, “What do you think I used the Phantom Stand for every time?”

"Ah! Ahhhhhh! Ahhhhhhhh!"

Thor (Vabula) collapsed to the ground in agony, letting out a heart-wrenching scream.

"Idiot Thor. Even if you had a different brain, it wouldn't work very well. Perhaps this is the curse of your body."

Loki looked at Thor (Vabra) kneeling there, burning in the flames, and said without any emotion.

"Your name contains the word 'demon,' yet you don't even know such a simple trick. You're nothing special."

Chapter 276 Rainbow Bridge Temple

Loki slowly walked to Thor's charred body.

He knelt down and gently stroked his nephew's body with his hand, a faint sadness on his face.

"Seriously, you got taken down so easily. You really are a fool..."

Recalling the times the two of them used to fool around in the Nine Realms, Loki sighed deeply.

"If you leave, who will I play pranks on now... you big idiot."

boom! !

A deafening roar came from afar, shaking the entire ground of Asgard.

“That direction…and that magical reaction…”

Loki frowned.

"My dear brother and Li Ang...?"

Loki knew he couldn't intervene in the fight between the two, so he could only pray for Leon.

"Don't lose, Li Ang... Besides you, no one in the Nine Realms can beat that person."

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"Skadi!"

Li Ang howled, carrying his spear on his back and spreading his arms like a bird spreading its wings.

The wind he manipulated with runes grabbed his body, stabilizing Li Ang's posture in the air.

Not far away, Odin (Spock), with Skadi on his back, rode on an eight-legged warhorse, the two of them galloping towards the mountains behind Asgard.

Li Ang leaned to the right, using the direction of the surrounding wind to increase his speed.

Just as he was about to catch up with the warhorse, he swung out a chain and lassoed one of the horse's legs.

Li Ang didn't know whether Odin (Spopak) still possessed divinity, so he didn't choose to bind him directly.

In any case, compared to this Schrödinger's god, the eight-legged horse he rode, Sleipnir, as a descendant of Loki, certainly possessed no less divinity.

"Neigh~"

The warhorse, which was about to gallop away, suddenly felt its legs buckle and stumbled, slowing down.

"Now I know why Gilgamesh uses this thing so often."

Li Ang was very satisfied with the effect of the Chains of Heaven that he had simulated using runes.

Then, he climbed up the chain little by little until he reached the side of the warhorse.

"How dare you lay a hand on my wife! Do you know the consequences of doing this?"

Leon roared as he grabbed Odin (Spock) by the neck, but his tone was surprisingly calm.

"you--"

While the demon pillars that possess other people gain immortality, they also inherit some of the defects of the human body.

The throat, a weak point for most animals, while not fatal, still caused Odin (Spock) considerable discomfort.

To save himself, Odin (Spock) had no choice but to release Skadi, leaving her helplessly falling off her horse.

"Leon!"

Hearing Skadi's shouts, Leon had no choice but to release Odin (Spock), jump to the horse's rump, and reach out to grab his wife's wrist.

"You'd better grab the horse by the right spot!"

Li Ang shouted in the strong wind.

Helpless, Skadi had no choice but to grab the horse's mane.

"Neigh!!"

The horse, in pain, let out a miserable cry and ran even faster.

During the bumpy ride, Skadi's hand slipped from her husband's.

Before Leon could pull his wife back, Skadi had already slipped away.

"No!"

Leon cried out in pain as he watched Skadi helplessly tugging at her ponytail.

"Can you do it?"

“It’s a bit difficult,” Skadi said, half complaining and half grumbling. “I can’t use the runes like this. If I let go, I’ll probably fall. I can’t fly like Freya.”

"Hold on tight, I'll figure out a way to pull you up."

Li Ang said nervously.

At this moment, the warhorse was much faster than he could fly. He wanted to jump off the horse and grab Skadi, but he only had one chance.

"Calm down, Leon. I believe—be careful!!"

Skadi gasped.

Odin (Sprypak) had already turned around, gripping the horse's back with one hand and trying to reach Leon with the other.

"Li Ang, mind your own business first! Go beat him up!"

"no problem!"

Before Odin (Spopak) could get close, Leon drew his Gáe Bolg from behind and swung it violently, trying to restrain his opponent.

Odin (Spock) was equally decisive, raising the eternal spear Gungnir to Leon.

The two men then began to fight on horseback.

During the battle, Li Ang seized the opportunity to stab the warhorse in the neck.

Doing this would be a bit unfair to its "mother" Loki, but Leon couldn't think of any other way at the moment.

Blood flowed from the wound Gáe Bolg had pierced, and the warhorse neighed, its head drooping as it stumbled and thrashed about on the hillside.

Odin (Spopak) showed no pity for his warhorse; instead, he saw it as a good opportunity to get closer to Leon.

He jumped up and grabbed Li Ang's ankle.

"come!"

Odin (Sprypak) pulled hard, trying to throw Leon off his horse.

Li Ang glanced at Skadi by the ponytail, a hint of hesitation appearing on his face.

Just as Li Ang was about to swing his spear again, Odin (Spock) twisted his waist and kicked him in the chest, causing him to fall off the swaying horse.

Odin (Spopak) laughed heartily, mounted his horse again, and steed toward the temple at the mountain peak.

As he fell, the edges of Leon's vision blurred, and he could only see Skadi still clinging tightly to the horse's tail.

Then--

Boom!

Li Ang crashed onto the cliff, the heavy impact sending a boulder crashing down the mountainside.

"What the hell!"

Li Ang didn't care whether the boulder he had dropped hit any flowers or plants. He immediately got up, lifted his leg, and ran towards the temple where the warhorses were charging.

That temple was no ordinary temple; it did not enshrine any gods, but was the central hub of Asgard's most important treasure—the Rainbow Bridge.

"Spopak!"

Li Ang shouted, driven by uncontrollable rage.

Like a bloodthirsty beast, Li Ang charged into Asgard's most magnificent temple.

The gate here should have been guarded by Heimdall, the guardian of the Rainbow Bridge, but that god has been possessed by the Demon Pillar and is fighting in the temple at the foot of the mountain.