Assaulting Hala (Revised)

Buzz!

"Alert! Alert!"

"Your Highness Beckett, the Infinity Stone isotopes flowing into your body have seriously exceeded safe levels!"

"Your Highness Beckett, the Infinity Stone isotopes flowing into your body have seriously exceeded safe levels!"

"Your Highness Beckett…"

Red warning beams continuously scanned Beckett’s body under Woz’s control, while the data displayed on the main console skyrocketed geometrically!

"Please release Lady Hela’s hand as soon as possible. The energy within the Mind Stone is going berserk!"

As an Artificial Intelligence lifeform belonging exclusively to Beckett, everything Woz considered was based on Beckett’s safety.

Abandoning Hela was the best solution Woz had arrived at after running simulations.

After all, Hela was the one directly facing the Mind Stone, not Beckett.

"Woz, I believe I already shut down your alarm system."

Gritting his teeth beneath the surging energy assault, Beckett directly entered his Super Saiyan form. The once overbearing golden aura had lost all its former might beneath the Mind Stone’s pressure.

"Your Highness Beckett, your safety takes priority over everything else."

"Woz should have already proven that to you in Svartalfheim."

The cat-like expression on the blue panel turned solemn. Eight Mechanical Arms extending from the spacecraft’s main console stirred restlessly.

So long as Beckett continued to refuse, it dared to forcibly separate him from Hela.

"Stop, Woz."

"This is my command!"

Veins bulged across Beckett’s forehead beneath the energy assault as he growled in a low voice.

"I believe I told you as well: I will not say the same thing a third time."

His automatically emerald-green pupils were filled with menace. Once Beckett made a decision, with plans already in mind, he would never allow anyone to disrupt it.

An interesting and thrilling plan.

"But—"

"This is an order, Woz." Beckett bared his teeth, the pain transmitted from nerves throughout his body making him instinctively squeeze one eye shut.

Roar!!!

Hela’s low growl beside him interrupted the exchange between master and servant.

Her eyes glowed red. Her body, once straight as a pine, gradually bent beneath the pressure of the Mind Stone embedded in her brow, while her ink-black hair flew wildly around her!

"Beckett!!!"

A shrill roar burst from Hela’s mouth. Bent at the waist and red-eyed, she swung both arms and slashed a fierce hand strike at Beckett beside her!

Smack!

Beckett panted heavily as he firmly caught Hela’s wrist, the upward curve of his lips further agitating her frayed nerves!

"Use your brain and think carefully."

"Without using the Mind Stone, how could you grow stronger in such a short time?"

"Didn’t you ask me what method I would use to fight my way to Planet Hala?"

"This is the method."

The smile on Beckett’s face grew even brighter. "Woz, open the hatch."

"Yes, Your Highness Beckett. Hatch Number Two has been opened."

"Remember to keep up. Otherwise, the spacecraft will be destroyed by the Kree."

Before leaving, Beckett’s sidelong glance made The Other shudder. "Yes! Your Highness Beckett!"

Whoosh!

Under The Other’s gaze, Beckett, now in a spacesuit, grabbed Hela, who was still adapting to her berserk power, and leaped out. The blast wave from the final sonic boom blurred The Other’s face in an instant!

"Alert! Alert!"

"An intruder of unknown origin has been detected!"

"Unable to establish communication with the intruder!"

"Everyone, prepa—"

Boom!!!

Before the Kree Empire border guards’ alarms could fade, the dense energy shockwave had already reduced the entire border defense force to cosmic dust!

"Enemy invasion detected! Enemy invasion detected!"

"All personnel of the Kree Empire Border Satellite Third Squadron, attention! All personnel of the Kree Empire Border Satellite Third Squadron, attention!"

Boom!!!

A man and a woman appeared before every Kree in an incomparably arrogant manner!

"Ready?"

Beckett, wrapped from head to toe in a golden aura, pointed toward the Kree homeworld, Hala. Energy gathered in his hand as he blasted apart the satellite’s energy shield blocking his path!

Who said sneaking in could not be done openly?

"You madman!"

Hela could not suppress the brutality flowing through her blood. Bent at the waist and red-eyed, she spread her hands and tore apart every obstacle that tried to stop her advance!

Though she continued to berate Beckett, her body thoroughly enjoyed the reckless thrill of tearing everything apart!

"Keep up. Head west all the way—move out!"

Bloodthirsty light flickered in Beckett’s hand. The energy shield gathered around his body allowed him to protect his valuable spacesuit quite effectively.

A blinding pillar of energy shot into the sky. Without the slightest intention of lingering in battle, the man and woman joined forces to tear through every obstacle before them and charged straight toward the Kree homeworld!

Warships fell, and city walls were obliterated!

Beckett, transformed into a Super Saiyan, and Hela, who had voluntarily embedded the Mind Stone in her brow, dominated the Kree frontier with extreme brutality!

Shoulder to shoulder, they charged ahead like galloping steeds!

"Stop them!"

"Stop them!"

"At any cost!"

"Notify the Supreme Intelligence!"

"Quick! Now!"

"No, Commander! We simply can’t do it!"

"We can’t do it at all!"

"Our weapons simply—"

The command center’s voices abruptly ceased. Accompanied by Hela’s howl, a dense mass of weapons pierced the Kree’s most prized defenses. In a single instant, countless lives perished…

The Other sat aboard the spacecraft controlled by Woz, trembling with fear.

Though he was incomparably loyal to Beckett, what he saw at this moment still made him harbor a sliver of doubt about Beckett’s actions.

The ones they had provoked…

Were the greatest empire in the universe today…

Kree homeworld, Hala.

The notice from the AI God, the Supreme Intelligence, filled every Kree officer on Planet Hala with righteous indignation. They swore to lead their armies and tear those two invaders to pieces.

Since the founding of the Kree Empire, no one had ever dared to challenge the Empire’s majesty like this.

If they really let themselves be punched through, how would they continue throwing their weight around the universe in the future?

"Supreme Intelligence, I do not think this matter is so simple."

"Based on the existing visual and written records, I believe the Son of Thanos is more likely trying to lure our Kree elite away from Hala."

Rocco’s close friend, the godfather of the infant Ronan, Accuser Cross, looked solemnly at Gina before him.

This was the appearance Cross cared about most, as perceived by the Supreme Intelligence.

"So what if that is the case?"

"Cross, don’t forget, we are—"

"Stupid and ignorant Kree!"

The Other’s deeply mocking words rang across the entirety of Planet Hala through the sound equipment Woz had cobbled together!

"Open your hands, bow in salute, and welcome the new king who will conquer you!"

I drove all night and started a road trip. When I got to the campsite at noon, I realized I had only posted one chapter last night…

I’ll revise a chapter and post it for now… So sleepy…

I’m going to sleep first…