Time passed quickly.
With just a little carelessness, S.H.I.E.L.D's time was running out.
The military gave S.H.I.E.L.D three days.
But from the moment the Avengers landed on Easter Island, only twenty-four hours were left.
After factoring in their six-hour communication delay, there were ultimately less than eighteen hours left for S.H.I.E.L.D to make a choice.
Now, only a few final hours remained.
"Still no news?"
Inside the S.H.I.E.L.D director's office, a man in a black trench coat paced anxiously. He was Nick Fury, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
"Director, there's still no news."
"How much time do we have left?"
"There are only three hours left. If we don't receive any news in three hours, the nuclear submarines in the Pacific will immediately press the button!"
Fury's brow was tightly furrowed. A truly massive crisis had appeared before them this time.
"Damn it! These fat pigs! They're going to get us killed!"
Just then, a voice rang out!
"Director! We have news! Agent Natasha Romanoff and the others have arrived in our allied territory! They will return to New York on a military plane at 847!"
"Boom!"
A mug slipped from Fury's hand!
Finally! There was finally news!
Meanwhile, at a classified U.S. military base:
"What? They already got news? Those bastards!"
"This time, that black man's wish has been fulfilled. Unfortunately, we've lost this battle!"
"Have you found the artifact recorded in that book? As long as we find it, we, HYDRA, still have a chance to make a comeback!"
"We're already looking for it! Whether it's Antarctica or South Africa, we have agents tracing those legends, but... it's difficult!"
"Trash! Go find it!"
"This Hades is our greatest enemy. We must not allow him to control the world as he pleases!"
"This world shall belong to our great HYDRA!"
The Avengers were finally back at S.H.I.E.L.D!
This was the first time they had returned from the brink of true death, not just from the line of fire.
This feeling of being lucky to be alive, even Tony, the person in charge of Stark Industries, felt deeply.
It was good to be alive.
"Mr. Fury, I believe that starting today, all S.H.I.E.L.D information regarding the City of Hades should be deleted, including Mr. Aaron's information!"
"What's going on? What kind of trouble did you run into there?"
When Fury asked these questions, everyone fell silent!
Even Captain America, Mr. Steve, remained quiet.
Their brows were tightly locked, and they didn't say a word!
"A god. A true god."
After a long moment, Steve slowly spoke.
They hadn't seen Hades' face with their own eyes, but they knew from every movement within the Underworld that the god truly existed!
The cosmos-shattering fist that pierced the sky, the cosmos-tearing kick that split the earth!
They existed in this Underworld!
The demons that had once destroyed more than half of New York had become a training ground for these Underworld fighters!
In the eyes of everyone's favorite games, Hell was just a "dungeon" of the Underworld.
Each of them was facing a super-powerful demon!
What was a superhero? Just a fighter!
In the eyes of these Underworld fighters, they were nothing!
"A true god?"
Fury was in a trance. He had seen powerful beings before. A true powerhouse.
Someone who, with their strength alone, could destroy an entire interstellar warship!
And behind that warship were aliens from the so-called three great empires of the universe!
That person was Carol.
An existence at that level had surpassed the scope of human comprehension!
To humans, she was a god!
But Fury knew that she wasn't a god; she was a human who had obtained immense power.
In other words, humans could also reach that level!
"The six hours we were gone? We were actually dead!" Tony's next words brought Fury back to his senses!
"For six hours, our souls entered a world of the deceased. In that world, only souls exist. The Underworld fighters are the messengers who govern these souls. After all life on Earth dies, they will fall into that world!"
"They call that world the Underworld!"
"That world is too vast. Even we were shocked by the scene after experiencing it!"
"I didn't expect there to really be a place for the dead in this world!"
"So... a god truly exists?"
Fury staggered and sank into his chair.
"I have seen a force, a single person, that can be enough to destroy a city, or even a fleet..."
"But I never thought that gods would actually appear in this world!"
"Let those stupid fat pigs do whatever they want. If they offend that lord, I'm afraid they are the ones who will be destroyed..."
"That... Lord?"
Who would have thought that a gallery owner in Hell's Kitchen in New York would be a god!
If they had known this earlier, S.H.I.E.L.D should have made a good impression on this lord!
Fortunately, S.H.I.E.L.D has not yet turned against him!
As for what those stupid fat pigs will do, Fury had done his best.
He would tell the military what had happened. Whether they approved or not had nothing to do with S.H.I.E.L.D.
Even if they stripped him of his position now!
He could not use S.H.I.E.L.D to fight against a group of people who stood shoulder to shoulder with gods!
Life and death... it's always better to live for a while!
"The Underworld? A world that people can only enter after death?"
The god who controls the life and death of human beings, Lord Hades!
Such an existence! How could greedy humans not covet it?
"I'm afraid that even if we don't take action, there will be many people who secretly covet this power!"
"After all, the power to tear the sky is in the hands of a group of people without any organization!"
"And human beings are, after all, a collection of greed and various desires."
In a dimensional space not too far away from Earth, holy light had shone for thousands of years!
This was a small world!
In this world, there were the gods that most Westerners believed in.
God, Jehovah.
It's just that, an unknown number of years ago, the trace of God disappeared from heaven.
Gabriel was now the leader of the four angels who controlled all of Heaven!
(End of Chapter)
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