Everyone in the audience only heard a dull thud, and Thor was sent flying backward like a broom.
Before Thor could get up from the ground, Hulk leaped forward and mounted him directly.
Then Hulk went berserk, pounding Thor's head—left uppercut, right uppercut, alternating left and right. Even Thor's helmet was blasted off.
"Hiss…"
Up in the stands, Loki covered his eyes again. Forget Thor—Loki himself couldn't bear to look at that face. Valkyrie also turned her head to the side, took a sip of her drink, and couldn't bring herself to watch directly. At this moment, the only ones who wanted to see such a scene were the Grandmaster and the audience present.
Thor was completely stunned now, unable to move his body, and could only endure the beating. Each of Hulk's punches landed on Thor's head, but it felt as if they were striking his heart.
Suddenly, as another punch fell, Thor saw his father before his eyes. They stood on a vast prairie, knee-deep in grass.
With every blow from Hulk, Thor was pulled back to that place. With each strike, his father drew a little closer to him.
To outside observers, Thor looked completely dazed, his eyes frozen. He didn't resist at all, letting Hulk land punch after punch without fighting back.
"Come on, come on."
"It's really happening."
Others didn't know what was going on, but Blaine was delighted. The five-pointed star in his eyes began to rotate slowly as he stared at Thor without blinking.
Finally, at a certain moment, Blaine noticed that a silver arc occasionally flickered across Thor's body.
Crackle, crackle, crackle…
Just as Blaine was trying to analyze it, a terrifying aura suddenly erupted from Thor. When Thor opened his eyes, they turned completely silvery white, and his entire body was wrapped in surging lightning, as if he were the living incarnation of thunder.
The instant Thor's eyes opened, an arm-thick pillar of lightning shot straight into the sky. Hulk, who had been riding on him, was blasted away before he could react.
Thor controlled the lightning and soared upward. With a thunderous leap, he closed the distance to Hulk and smashed him into the ground with a single punch. In an instant, the entire arena was filled with flashing silver arcs.
When Thor awakened his power, the audience erupted once more. Everyone shouted at the top of their lungs.
"Thor, Electric Man!"
"Thor, Electric Man!"
"Thor, Electric Man!"
"Thor, Electric Man!"
Not only the audience, but even the other gladiators locked in the passage cages began shouting along.
At this moment, everyone's attention was focused entirely on Thor, as if he were the true protagonist now and Hulk was already finished.
Indeed, it had to be said that Thor's move was astonishing. Not only did the thunder he released look overwhelmingly powerful, but his fighting style also seemed to have advanced to an entirely new level.
The Grandmaster, who had been smiling happily just moments before, was stunned. At some point, something resembling a remote control appeared in his hand.
While everyone was still absorbed in the intense and thrilling battle between Hulk and Thor, Blaine's copy eyes activated at extremely high speed.
However, for some reason, even when Blaine pushed them with all his strength, he could only analyze the superficial manifestation of Thor's awakened power, not its essence at all.
It wasn't that the copy eyes had failed—rather, Thor's power was simply… complete.
It was as if, in the past, Blaine could eat ten slices of jam bread at full effort, but now, even using all his strength, he could only manage two or three. That was all there was.
"Why is it so damn weird?"
"Thor's power shouldn't be limited to this."
"Which link went wrong?"
Blaine thought it over again and again, but couldn't figure it out. He could only continue using his compound eyes to analyze it slowly.
Suddenly, Thor's power vanished from Blaine's sight. His eyes returned to their normal clarity.
Staring in disbelief, Blaine realized that at some point Thor was already lying motionless on the ground. He looked up, and sure enough, it was that old fox, the Grandmaster, who had made a move.
Perhaps afraid that Thor would win the match and cost him money, the Grandmaster had secretly installed an electric shock nerve-paralysis device on Thor. When Thor gained the upper hand, he simply pressed the switch and brought Thor down.
"Damn it, that's truly despicable."
Interrupted at the critical moment of his analysis by the Grandmaster's dirty trick, Blaine cursed aloud in anger.
In any case, the outcome was already decided. Thor's power hadn't been fully copied, and Blaine simply gave up. What wasn't his, he couldn't obtain after all.
Just as Blaine was about to stop and teleport away to search for the whereabouts of the tenth-level star core, two fragrant breezes suddenly swept past him, rushing into his nostrils.
"Huh? Are they aiming at me?"
"Who's being so sneaky? Come out."
Blaine didn't turn around. His hawk-like eye in the sky had already clearly seen the newcomers. Before they even arrived, their fragrance reached him first. To his surprise, they turned out to be two tall beauties.
Big eyes, high nose bridges, cherry lips, and white porcelain-like skin that looked as if it could shatter at a touch. Combined with their long, beautiful hair, gauze veils over their faces, and translucent, silk-like one-piece dresses, they were stunning.
Blaine hadn't expected Sakaar to have such exotic beauties. That old man, the Grandmaster, really had it good. He didn't even know if someone that old could still manage…
"Hello, sir. Our master invites you to come up and have a seat."
The two beauties stood before Blaine and spoke in perfect unison.
In an instant, Blaine felt as if a hundred kittens were scratching at his heart. Their sweet voices and gentle appearances nearly melted the heart of someone who had been single for thousands of years.
After hearing this, Blaine looked up at the viewing platform. At that moment, the Grandmaster was also looking at him, waving his hand as if in greeting.
"All right, I'll go with you."
Maintaining a cold expression on the surface, Blaine slowly followed the two beauties away.
In fact, this wasn't the first time the Grandmaster had sent people to invite Blaine.
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