Hawk spat onto the grass beside him.
He looked at Malekith, who asked if he wanted to continue, and chuckled.
"Just warming up."
"Is that so?"
Malekith smiled slightly: "Are you warmed up now?"
Hawk also smiled: "Yes… I am!"
The moment his words left his mouth, a phantom of Phoenix, bathed in crimson Fire, projected behind him.
The next second.
The Phoenix phantom instantly transformed, turning into piece after piece of components, covering Hawk's body.
Components with intricate feather patterns covering the shoulder armor, appearing even more realistic, crashed onto Hawk's left shoulder like meteors amidst the churning flames, accompanied by a metallic roar like colliding stars, instantly embedding and perfectly merging with the saint cloth components arriving at the same time.
Following closely, arm guards, leg guards, greaves… countless components shimmering with golden light from bathing in Fire, like living beings, shot out from the flames.
They precisely, continuously, embedded and merged with other components, covering every part of Hawk's body.
When the last faceplate, shimmering with Phoenix Fire, clicked perfectly into place, covering Hawk's expressionless, stern face.
Hawk's words also just finished.
"Lightning!"
"Sonic Punch—"
The moment his right fist swung out, accompanied by the cry of the Phoenix, countless fist shadows instantly appeared before Malekith.
With a bang.
Malekith's right cheek took a punch, his head tilted to the left, and a ripple spread across his face at a visible speed.
Immediately after, Malekith also flew backward, crashing with a loud rumble, completely demolishing the wall built by the London government for Stonehenge.
Malekith, landing on the ground, also created a pit in the grass.
Dirt and rocks splattered.
Smoke immediately rose.
Peter, squatting on a megalith at Stonehenge, gaped at Hawk, who was shimmering golden all over, complete with golden wings.
But…
He was even more astonished when he saw Hawk extend his hands, take off the pair of wings behind him, and toss them aside.
After Hawk discarded these wings, which were currently more for show than practical use, he stretched his neck in the sudden downpour.
His Little Universe was burning fiercely at its critical point.
The next second.
Hawk's figure instantly left an afterimage in place, almost appearing above Malekith floating in the air the moment Malekith crashed into a pit, his right fist, wrapped in crimson Fire, once again swung down at Malekith below.
Boom, boom, boom, boom—
The Earth trembled amidst the deafening explosions and rising dust.
The London earthquake monitoring center's system even emitted an abnormal alarm.
Peter's eyes lit up.
"Is that it?"
"Hehehe!"
Just as Peter was thinking this, Malekith's laugh, perfectly befitting a villain, echoed from the dust.
"Little fellow."
"I must admit, I misjudged you."
As a villain from the same era as King Bor, Malekith calling Hawk a 'little fellow' was perfectly acceptable.
The dust quickly dissipated under the sudden downpour.
Malekith's figure reappeared in Hawk's sight.
Upon sight.
His clothes were slightly dirty.
Malekith was surrounded by a transparent barrier formed by the dark red Aether Particle.
His pale pupils gazed at Hawk, who was wearing the saint cloth.
"Your energy is indeed very powerful."
"Unfortunately, it is not from this Universe."
"So you need Aether Particle to maintain the reality of your energy."
"But if you do that, you can't use Aether Particle for other interesting things."
"And I can feel that you don't seem to have 100% control over this reality-materialized energy!"
"This reminds me of another little fellow."
"Thor."
It is well-known.
Thunder God Thor?
No.
Hammer God Thor.
"So…"
"Last chance."
Malekith, sensing the approach of the other little fellow's aura and the arrival of the Nine Realms Convergence critical point, lost his patience and looked at Hawk.
"Hand over the Aether Particle, and I will spare your life."
"I refuse."
Hawk's answer was concise and direct.
Hearing this, Malekith stopped talking, and the moment he reined in his smile, he instantly appeared before Hawk.
Boom!
Accompanied by a punch infused with the dark red energy of the Aether Particle, it struck Hawk's face mask.
The face mask responded with a cracking sound of fissures.
Just one punch.
Hawk's face mask shattered in response.
The next second.
Boom!
Malekith, wrapped in the Aether Particle, swept Hawk away and slammed him into Stonehenge, as the energy of the Nine Realms Convergence suddenly swept through.
Instantly.
Hawk and Malekith immediately disappeared from Stonehenge.
Peter, squatting on a stone pillar at Stonehenge, stared blankly at Hawk, who had disappeared in the blink of an eye.
He instinctively jumped down from the stone pillar and stood at the spot where Hawk had just disappeared.
And then…
There was no then.
The wailing of police sirens sounded from not far away, rapidly approaching, while Hawk and Malekith seemed to have completely vanished.
Peter was bewildered.
Just then.
"Malekith, come out and face your death!"
"Rumble!"
As thunder roared in the downpour, Thor, dressed in his battle attire and wielding Mjolnir, descended from the sky.
Thor, expressionless, looked at Peter and was also slightly startled.
"Malekith?"
"No."
Peter looked at the abruptly appearing Thor, instinctively shook his head, and then pointed to where Hawk and Malekith had just disappeared, saying: "They were just here, but suddenly they and my friend disappeared."
Thor's voice was that deep bass sound envied by a certain demigod-like superhero.
He listened to Peter's words, nodded, and explained: "That is the spatial ripple generated by the Nine Realms Convergence."
Peter frowned.
"Then when will they come back?"
"I don't know."
"What?"
"The Nine Realms Convergence only happens once every few thousand years; I wasn't even born last time."
"…So what do we do now?"
"I don't know."
Thor's answer was straightforward.
He had come here to protect Hawk when his girlfriend Jane told him that Hawk, the Earthling, also had the Aether Particle, to prevent Malekith from taking the Aether Particle from Hawk.
As long as Malekith couldn't get the Aether Particle from Hawk, as long as they held out for the eight minutes of the Nine Realms Convergence spectacle, then even if Malekith got the Reality Stone, he wouldn't be able to threaten the Nine Realms.
Actually, he had originally intended to come to Earth last night.
But last night, his mother, the Queen of Asgard, died, and he had to attend his mother's funeral, so he arrived a little late.
As a result…
He really was late.
Now, the Nine Realms Convergence was about to begin, and during this time, Heimdall's eyes, which could see anywhere in the Nine Realms, had temporarily lost their function.
So, for a moment, after Thor said this, he didn't know what else to say.
Eyes met.
For a moment, the atmosphere was a bit awkward.
Meanwhile, on Jotunheim, one of the Nine Realms, it was a different scene.
This was the realm where the Frost Giant race lived, with a harsh and desolate environment, covered in ice and snow-covered mountains, glaciers, and forests.
Boom!
Hawk and Malekith, brought here by the spatial ripples generated during the Nine Realms Convergence, were fiercely battling.
Icebergs constantly collapsed.
The ice surface also constantly cracked.
The two fought almost from ice mountain to ice surface, and then from ice-sealed mountains to ice-snow forests.
Calling it a fierce battle might not be entirely accurate.
Because.
Hawk was almost entirely suppressed by Malekith throughout, and if not for his constantly burning Little Universe, he would have been defeated by Malekith long ago.
But even though he hadn't been defeated yet, his current state was not good.
The Phoenix Cloth on Hawk's body was already covered in dense cracks.
His face mask had already been shattered by Malekith just now.
Still the same old saying.
Hawk's current saint cloth looked golden, very much like a Gold saint cloth, but in fact, it was just for show.
Moreover…
The Aether Particle he possessed had already been used to materialize his Little Universe.
But Malekith also had the Aether Particle; at first, he could fight Malekith to a draw, relying on the Vibranium saint cloth's advantage of absorbing all kinetic energy.
But after Malekith realized that Hawk's saint cloth was made of Vibranium, the situation changed.
Vibranium might be the most powerful metal on Earth.
But in the Universe, it wasn't number one; Thanos's Uru metal sword, which looked like an airplane propeller, could cut a large gash in Captain America's Vibranium shield in three strikes.
What's more, Malekith had lived for thousands of years and also possessed the Aether Particle.
After Malekith reacted, his offensive changed.
But!
Hawk showed no signs of retreating; even if he was suppressed, he would fight, simply put.
"You dare to kill me, you bastard."
"Alright!"
Malekith was also a ruthless man of few words, and once again, he dragged Hawk, plunging headfirst towards the icy surface below.
But just as the two were about to touch the ice surface.
The spatial ripples of the Nine Realms Convergence were generated again, and with a whoosh, Hawk and Malekith once again disappeared without a trace.
The Frost Giant, standing far away, watching the two who had suddenly appeared, damaged their homeland, and then suddenly disappeared, looked at each other.
The next second.
"Odin!!"
"Asgard!!!"
Don't ask them why they blame Asgard and Odin; the answer is that Odin stole their Frost Giant tribe's ultimate treasure, the Casket of Ancient Winters.
Earth.
Stonehenge.
Peter, who had originally intended to leave, did not leave due to Thor's arrival and remained with Thor, who also hadn't left.
Thor, weighing his hammer, feeling the somewhat awkward atmosphere, turned to look at the London police officers who had just wanted to come in but were scared away by him, coughed, and said to Peter: "Jane told me Hawk saved her, so Hawk is also my friend."
Hearing this, Peter glanced at Thor, hummed in acknowledgment, and then said nothing more.
Spider-Man is a chatterbox.
But Spider-Woman is not!
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