Big Bro, I’m Here to Save You

"What’s going on here?"

Thor was dumbfounded, his eyes wide as a million alpacas stampeded through his mind.

After a fierce, satisfying battle, his strength was nearly exhausted. He had been ready to deliver the final blow and return to Asgard for a bath and rest, but then…

Not only had the ancient creature he was fighting fully recovered, it had also grown stronger? After remaining unchanged for thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of years, had it suddenly undergone some kind of genetic evolutionary explosion?

Was this a joke?

Thor had no time to think. The Black Dragon beat its remaining two pairs of wings and, amid a sandstorm, its massive body surged forward at terrifying speed. Its blood-filled jaws, bristling with fangs, snapped toward him!

"You beast!" Thor’s expression changed drastically as he hurled Mjolnir forward with all his strength. The hammer slammed heavily into the Black Dragon’s lower jaw, forcing its mouth shut, but the Black Dragon still charged straight at him at high speed!

Thor braced both palms against the Black Dragon’s lower jaw. The Black Dragon suddenly dipped down and slid toward the ground, slamming Thor’s back viciously into the earth. He dug his feet into the soil, trying to slow himself down.

Driven by the Black Dragon’s flying charge, Thor’s body plowed a deep trench more than ten meters long through the ground before a lift of the dragon’s head sent him flying.

"Its defense, strength, speed, everything has truly risen by more than a whole level. With my divine power exhausted… I can’t beat it!"

As he tumbled through the air, Thor’s face was filled with uncertainty. He laboriously opened his right hand, and in response to his summons, the thrown Mjolnir shot back along a straight path.

His five fingers closed around Mjolnir’s handle. Thor controlled his flight direction and pulled away, almost fleeing in panic as he tried to escape the Black Dragon.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Yet before he had flown ten meters, several black tendrils shot toward him with the sound of slicing wind behind him. Thor was caught off guard while flying with Mjolnir, and they bound all four of his limbs.

The tendrils tightened and dragged him. Thor’s hand went slack, and Mjolnir dropped straight toward the ground. Before he could summon it again, the black tendrils wrapped around his wrist and hand, securing them tightly.

"I’m done for." Thor gave a bitter smile and looked back to see that the other ends of the tendrils were connected to the Black Dragon’s body.

The Black Dragon violently beat its wings, dragging Thor into the sky before abruptly dropping him, smashing his body into the ground. It flew in circles at low altitude, continuing to drag Thor across the earth.

On a nearby hillside, a black figure quietly emerged.

"It’s about time." Watching the battle reverse itself, Kyle shrugged with a satisfied look, stroking his chin as he muttered to himself.

The logic was simple: if there was no opportunity, then he would create one.

Now, the opportunity had arrived!

"Damn it."

Dragged across the ground by the Black Dragon, Thor was utterly frustrated. He yanked hard on the black tendrils and even used his teeth, trying to free one hand so he could control Mjolnir.

But the tendrils were unexpectedly tough. Coupled with their constant movement, he truly could not break free easily for the moment.

Just as Thor was at his wits’ end, the roar of a mechanical engine suddenly sounded beside his ears! The sound grew louder and louder, clearly racing toward them!

"What is that?" Thor turned his head in confusion and looked up, seeing a two-wheeled motorcycle. Its rider was a silver-haired young man wearing sunglasses, speeding straight into the sandstorm-covered battlefield and approaching him without regard for the Black Dragon’s roar.

"I’m here to save you!" Like a warmhearted good Samaritan, the silver-haired young man did not forget to shout a reminder.

"Don’t come over! You’ll be killed!" Thor’s expression shifted, but his warning came too late.

"Roar!"

The Black Dragon noticed the silver-haired young man. Its massive body lowered, and it swung its tail in a sweeping strike. A howling gale rose, sand and dust billowing as it crashed toward the silver-haired young man on the motorcycle.

"Not a bad performance… cough, cough. I mean, your timing couldn’t be better!" Kyle coughed to cover himself, then accelerated rather than retreating. At top speed, he suddenly lifted the motorcycle’s front wheel!

The motorcycle seemed to sprout wings, leaping high into the air. The Black Dragon’s sweeping tail passed harmlessly beneath its wheels.

The rear wheel touched down first. Kyle rode the motorcycle forward, kicking up countless stones and clouds of dust, then stopped steadily before Thor under his delighted gaze.

Kyle looked down at Thor on the ground with a cold, expressionless face. He pressed a button on the motorcycle, and the mounted weapon at its front spewed a pillar of flame. The Black Dragon’s black tendrils were scorched by the fire and instantly melted away like snow.

"Get on!" Kyle started the motorcycle and twisted the throttle. Thor, who had just broken free from the tendrils, instinctively flipped onto the motorcycle.

The engine roared as the motorcycle immediately shot away. Less than half a second later, the Black Dragon’s foreclaw slammed viciously into the spot they had occupied, collapsing it into a huge crater.

Its crimson beast eyes fixed on the departing motorcycle. The Black Dragon beat its wings and flew low, its gaping jaws exhaling hot breath as it growled and pursued the motorcycle with obsessive determination.

"Thank you. You saved me." Thor panted heavily, still shaken as he clutched the armor over his chest.

"Who are you? You actually dared provoke a monster like that?" Kyle asked, pretending not to know.

"I’m… Watch out!"

Before Thor could finish, Kyle sharply turned the motorcycle. The Black Dragon’s claw strike barely missed them, its fierce wind and flying sand scraping across both their backs.

"It’s too fast! If this keeps up, we’ll both end up as that monster’s meal!" Kyle shouted in apparent panic.

"Leave it to me!" Thor nodded, extending his left hand outward. In less than a second, Mjolnir returned to its master’s hand.

"Kid, come with me."

As Thor spoke, before Kyle could answer, he grabbed the back of Kyle’s collar with his free hand. Propelled by Mjolnir, the two shot into the sky ahead.

Crack!

The claw came down, instantly reducing the motorcycle to a pile of scrap metal. The Black Dragon roared furiously and beat its wings as it launched an aerial pursuit.

"Can’t you go any faster?!"

Dragged through the air at high speed by Thor, Kyle looked terrified. He glanced back at the Black Dragon maintaining a distance of around five meters, its hot breath spraying over him.

"This is already Mjolnir’s limit." Thor gritted his teeth, took a deep breath, and shouted, "Heimdall! Can you see us? Send us back!"

"Heimdall!"

When Thor called out a second time, a rainbow pillar of light suddenly blasted down from the gloomy sky, instantly enveloping him and Kyle in midair.

"It worked!"

Seeing the familiar Bifrost light up, Kyle finally let out a silent breath of relief and hurriedly shifted his thoughts.

Thor did not notice that the Black Dragon pursuing them behind had begun to twitch and convulse. Its massive body transformed into a card unseen by anyone else, becoming a streak of light that entered Kyle’s body.

The next instant, the Bifrost carried the two within it across the vast cosmic river of stars at a speed tens of millions of times faster than light!

And the Bifrost’s destination had long since been decided!