Corin came to stand in front of the Tesseract. Looking at the cube slowly releasing energy, he directly shoved the scepter in his hand against it.
Buzz!
Corin only felt an uncontrollable vibration coming from his hand. Right after that, the scepter was firmly drawn into the energy field.
No matter how much strength he used, he couldn't pull the scepter out. He could feel the two violent energies merging together.
His expression turned uneasy.
"When the hell is this gonna end?"
Corin knew that as an outsider, he didn't have the main character buff that the Avengers members had.
It didn't matter that the scepter was stuck within the Tesseract's energy range. What made him lose his footing inside was that the hand gripping the scepter couldn't let go.
"I don't remember it being this hard?"
What he didn't know was that his awakened demigod body was already taking effect.
When Corin crossed through the spatial portal earlier, the demigod body hadn't been activated for nothing.
The system interface had clearly stated that his demigod body would be more compatible with spatial energy.
What Corin hadn't expected was that when he tried to interrupt the portal's operation, this awkward situation of his body getting stuck would happen.
Although with his steel-like body he wasn't too worried about suffering any fatal damage during the process.
Being stripped of his freedom still tore away a big piece of his sense of security.
"Damn it! If you won't let me go, fine, let's wait and see!"
"Anyway, no one can do a damn thing to me for now!"
"I wanna see what you can actually do!"
At this moment, the stubborn fire in Corin's bones was stirred up.
After roaming around Marvel for months, he had never run into such a passive situation.
For a moment, he really couldn't think of a good way to get out.
At this time, Nick Fury urgently contacted Tony Stark.
"Stark! Do you hear me? A fighter jet carrying a nuclear warhead is heading your way!"
["How many minutes?"]
"Three at most!"
When Tony learned that the jet carrying a nuclear warhead had already taken off, even though he was still trapped in heavy encirclement, his mind started racing for a solution.
J.A.R.V.I.S. analyzed calmly, ["It will destroy the entire area."]
But at this moment, even in his armor, Tony was still being overwhelmed by the Chitauri infantry.
Clang!
Even a guy holding a rifle as a weapon could smash him hard on the head.
There was no helping it. The prolonged fierce battle had drained him. Even with the pure energy produced by the new element reactor, he was starting to run short.
But knowing what mattered most, Tony ignored the enemy infantry's attacks.
It wasn't that he didn't want to fight back. There was something more urgent to deal with right now.
"J.A.R.V.I.S., divert all power to the thrusters!"
["Done!"]
With a burst of high-powered propulsion, Tony finally broke free from the enemy infantry's encirclement.
———
Meanwhile, the fighter jet carrying the nuclear warhead was rushing toward the scene at near supersonic speed.
The pilot's face was full of seriousness.
He knew that as long as he completed this mission smoothly, what awaited him would be a hero's triumphant return and generous benefits.
Not to mention all the promises from those at the peak of power.
Thinking of this, the pilot pressed the missile launch button with a fierce look on his face.
A seemingly ordinary missile popped out from the jet's missile bay.
"Nuclear missile launched. Detonation in 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Over!"
The pilot couldn't wait for the weapon to explode immediately. That way, he would become the hero who saved the whole world.
The missile tore through the sky, dragging a long trail of smoke as it flew toward Manhattan Island.
———
At this moment, Thor and Colonel Steve Rogers had no idea they were about to fall into an apocalyptic disaster.
They were still fighting desperately on the battlefield.
The enemy soldiers kept pouring in endlessly. The two of them wished they had wide-range destructive attacks like Corin.
But a shield and a hammer could only take down one enemy at a time.
As for Thor's powerful chain lightning,
unfortunately, although he was the God of Thunder, his combat habits over the past few hundred years leaned more toward close combat.
That had a lot to do with his personality.
Even though he possessed the ability to summon powerful lightning, he wasn't especially skilled at using it yet.
To unleash large-scale attacks, he still needed time to channel it.
The enemy didn't give him enough time to channel.
Even knocking down one enemy with each hammer strike, Thor was still locked in a bitter fight.
As for Colonel Rogers, it went without saying. When he rescued civilians trapped in the bank earlier, he had already used every ounce of strength he had.
Now he was holding on with nothing but sheer will, and the endless enemies rushing at him made it hard for him to even catch his breath.
If he hadn't been fighting back-to-back with Thor, Colonel Rogers would have collapsed long ago.
Thud!
See? Just an ordinary pulse blast was enough to knock Captain America to the ground, leaving him unable to get up for a long time.
It was clear that this war had exhausted every member of the Avengers.
———
On the rooftop of Stark Towerf—
When Dr. Erik Selvig and Natasha Romanoff saw Corin step in front of the Tesseract, holding the Mind Scepter, their eyes lit up.
Before the two of them could explain how to interfere with the Tesseract's energy release, Corin had already thrust the scepter straight at it.
Buzz!
The energy waves spread outward in rings. Dr. Erik and Natasha were caught off guard and blasted several meters away.
But when she saw that Corin seemed to be in a state like he had been electrocuted and couldn't let go, Natasha rushed forward.
Bang!
Just as Agent Natasha's hand got close to Corin's body, she was sent flying again by an invisible force.
After going through fierce fighting herself, Natasha had completely run out of strength. She couldn't get up anymore and could only look at Corin with worried eyes.
Praying that he would be safe.
Although Dr. Erik was the one who built the device that activated the Tesseract, facing the scene before him, he was helpless.
Watching Agent Natasha get flung far away, he could only do what he was able to and help her up.
"It's all up to fate now."
With Erik supporting her, Natasha barely sat up, her eyes full of hope as she looked at Corin.
Erik had actually seen the person who touched the Tesseract before. He had thought Corin was just an ordinary S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.
But after witnessing this with his own eyes, he could no longer look down on this young man with an Eastern face. Deep worry appeared in his eyes.
At this moment, Corin didn't feel any physical discomfort.
Aside from his hand being stuck to the scepter and unable to pull back, he seemed to have merged with the energy field released by the Tesseract.
When energy becomes dense enough, no one knows what might happen.
Corin didn't know much either.
But what he didn't know was that after activating his demigod body, the energy he was most compatible with happened to be spatial energy.
And the Tesseract was the container of the Space Stone.
So the reason he was being held by the energy right now wasn't like being electrocuted. It was that his body was actively immersing itself in this compatible energy field, unwilling to leave.
Clueless about all this, Corin just wanted the process to hurry up.
"Come on already… I'm freaking hungry…"
The hunger coming from his stomach made his patience run thin.
But the connection between the Mind Scepter and the Tesseract seemed to be nothing more than a connection. There was no further change.
Corin couldn't figure out why his hand still wouldn't come out. But since it wasn't harming him, he let it be.
"Destiny is closing the portal! Can anyone hear me?"
["Then what are you waiting for? Shut it down now!"]
Colonel Rogers replied without hesitation.
["Wait, I've got a nuke here. It'll explode within a minute…"]
Tony answered calmly through the communicator.
At the same time, Iron Man diverted all his remaining energy into the thrusters and flew straight toward the nuclear missile.
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