chapter 312 part 2
"I don't care who they are, they won't stop me from finding Loki! I saw Loki enter this place with that blue-headed guy." Thor brandished his axe, looking left and right, but found nothing.
"Stop looking. Loki isn't here. There is only a New World that is currently in contact and fusing," Wanda said, closing her eyes to feel it out before opening them helplessly. "Even Chaos Magic has become a bit more obscure. It seems this place is distinctly different from the Multiverse we're familiar with. It's the product of a fusion with an unknown world."
Only Quicksilver looked up, an excited expression on his face. "I feel a strange energy. It can make me run even faster!"
Arcs of blue lightning began to surge around Quicksilver's body, a sign that the Speed Force was gradually merging with him.
Just like that, the two teams met. Filled with wariness and anger, both sides were destined not to coexist peacefully, always scrutinizing each other with a critical gaze that suspected everything.
"Who are you people? I've never heard of you in the Multiverse. A hero team from another multiverse?"
"Hmph, as expected, people from the world outside the wall!"
"I don't care who you are, get out of my way! Don't interfere with me!"
"Shut up! I have every reason to suspect you're the ones Du Wa let in here to harm us!"
"On the contrary, we were also captured by Du Wa. Although we're reluctant, it seems we have to defeat you."
The first to make a move was unexpectedly Thor from the Alien Universe. This version had replaced the Main Universe Thor to enter this place, his mind completely consumed with finding Loki, God of Stories, and trying to separate the Loki he knew from the one from the Alien Universe.
*Swish!*
With one swing of the axe, sparks flew with crackling electricity.
Superman raised his arm, blocking Stormbreaker with his forearm and producing a deafening bang.
"Calm down! We're not necessarily enemies. We can definitely team up—"
"Shut up! You want to team up against Du Wa, but I don't need to! I have no grudge against Du Wa; I'm even grateful to him!" Thor roared, kicking Superman away.
Superman, separated from his multiverse, experienced a sharp decline in his absolute strength and couldn't unleash his usual multiverse-level power. However, he was still not someone that Thor, the Shadow God, could easily handle.
"That's it! Something's not right with this guy! Thor, kill him quickly!"
"I feel the fluctuations of another world on him. Maybe he's a Child of the World?"
The Shadow Gods, acting as Thor's shadows, chattered endlessly at him.
Both teams began to fight at the same time, attacking the other side without restraint.
"Hey, I've seen a guy who looks a lot like you, called Steel Lantern! You both wear similar armor; the only difference is Steel Lantern wears a Green Lantern ring."
Hal stepped in front of Batman, intercepting Iron Man.
"You mean Hal Stark? I don't know him well, but I know what your Green Lantern ring is." Piloting the Anti-Phoenix Armor, Iron Man shattered the green shield Hal had created with a single punch.
At the same time, Quicksilver and the Flash both started running, immediately turning it into a race.
More heroes joined the fray. Despite their deep misgivings, the conflict initiated by Thor, the Shadow God, caused the tense nerves on both sides to snap. They decided to eliminate their opponents first and talk later.
All of this was witnessed by Loki and Krona, who had also entered the Intersection Zone.
Krona said, "Now I understand why Du Wa chose this Thor instead of the Main Universe Thor to enter this place. This god of thunder is truly obsessed with you. As far as I know, the Thor from the Sphere of Gods doesn't have such strong feelings for the you from the Sphere of Gods."
"Don't bring the guy from your world into this! Also, I'm sick of this oaf. I have no strong feelings for him whatsoever." Loki, God of Stories, felt incredibly irritated. Every time he saw the persistent Thor, it was a constant reminder that he was an incomplete being.
It was almost becoming a thought imprint.
But he would soon be through the worst of it. He was about to find an opportunity to perfect himself. At the very least, watching the battle between these two hero teams was helping to complete his story.
"The Justice League's overall strength isn't weak." Loki focused his observation on Superman. The others were nothing but duds in his eyes. Only Superman could attract his attention with any random attack, which meant he possessed a vast wellspring of stories.
"And that's his weakened state. As the core of the Multiverse, this Superman can't exert his true strength," Krona said.
Loki glanced at him. "If you're going to count it that way, then the Scarlet Witch in The Avengers is also pitifully weak right now. Theoretically, she can exert the strength to shake the Multiverse."
"Hey, I guess it doesn't matter to you which side wins... When are we leaving this place? If we don't act soon, these heroes will discover us, and that would be bad."
"Do whatever you want. I, for one, am going to your multiverse first. It's all the same to you where you go. Du Wa will be watching anyway. Perhaps the World Within the Wall you speak of is a bit better than the Seventh Multiverse. The worst-case scenario is just having a bunch of old geezers like the Creator Gods staring at you."
Loki's brow furrowed tightly just thinking about the process of entering the Intersection Zone from the Seventh Multiverse. The feeling of being stared at directly by those few Creator Gods was nothing short of a nightmare. The sheer volume of information constantly flooding his mind had nearly overwhelmed him.
If Du Wa hadn't intervened, those Creator Gods would probably never have allowed The Avengers and the two of them to enter the Intersection Zone.
However, he just had to endure it a little longer. With a bit more patience, he would become a truly complete God of Stories, possessing the ability to rewrite the process and ending of any story at will. Then he would no longer need to fear the Creator Gods, or Du Wa.
And...
"In the World Within the Wall, there might also be a 'Reality'. I wonder what the 'Reality' over here is like. As long as it's not like the one in the Seventh Multiverse..."
Loki, God of Stories, was of course aware of the Marvel Editorial Department's existence. He also knew there was a group of people who wrote the stories—it wouldn't be wrong to call them a special type of "Deity."
But for some unknown reason, whenever Loki wanted to probe the Marvel Editorial Department, or even search for its coordinates, he would always get a feeling that made his blood run cold. Just having such a thought felt like instinctively facing an endless, immense disaster, preventing him from acting rashly.
(end of chapter)