Thor

Chapter 199: Thor

"We were a step too late…"

Kyle looked at the two alien corpses nearby and shrugged helplessly. Then, as if noticing something, his gaze unexpectedly returned to the corpse of the silver-armored soldier.

With a thought, several Item Cards swiftly appeared, their detailed information displayed before him.

Uru Longsword: A longsword containing a minute amount of Uru Metal. Blue Item Card.

Uru Metal was a metal unique to Asgard. It was hard, malleable, and highly compatible with divine power.

This one-handed longsword was primarily forged from silver mixed with a minute amount of refined Uru Metal. Its blade was incomparably sharp. It could be imbued with divine power, greatly enhancing its lethality.

Current status: Extractable.

Uru Armor: Armor containing a minute amount of Uru Metal. Blue Item Card.

The full suit of armor was primarily forged from silver and a minute amount of refined Uru Metal. It was comfortable yet sturdy. Once activated with divine power, it could gain a certain degree of resistance against physical and elemental attacks.

Current status: Extractable.

"Uru, the metal forged by Asgard." Kyle murmured, extending his left hand. After three seconds of reading time, the silver longsword embedded in the ugly monster’s lower abdomen vanished instantly.

At the same time, an Item Card quietly appeared in his hand, its front printed with an image of the longsword and its information.

Vis was already accustomed to this. Still in the form of sunglasses, it hung from Kyle’s forehead and sent Radio Waves across the surrounding wilderness, searching for anything suspicious.

Kyle did not stop moving. He summoned the card in his hand into a physical object, and the longsword reappeared out of thin air in his left hand.

Throughout the entire process, he had not stepped off the motorcycle once. It looked as though he were performing some kind of telekinetic retrieval spell.

Kyle simply circulated his divine power, and blazing flames immediately spread from his arm to the sword’s hilt and blade.

Yet even while wrapped in Divine Flame approaching a thousand degrees Celsius, the silver longsword showed no sign of melting. Instead, all the grime and blood on it evaporated completely, leaving the blade increasingly bright and silver-white.

The flames formed from divine power naturally clung to the Uru Longsword. The two complemented each other perfectly, as if undergoing some chemical reaction, turning the seemingly ordinary silver sword into an incomparably dazzling flaming lightsaber.

"Master, is this a divine artifact?"

Even Vis could not help being astonished by the miraculous sight. Its system data could not analyze it or produce any scientific basis or conclusion.

"No. This is merely a weapon mixed with a little Uru Metal. It’s still far from a divine artifact." Kyle gently shook his head. His divine power faded as he looked at the longsword in his hand, feeling deeply moved.

Just a little Uru, a metal compatible with divine power, was enough to elevate a silver sword beyond the ordinary and into the ranks of blue-grade items!

Compared with Earth’s vibranium and Sodium-Carbon Steel, this Uru Metal was certainly no less precious, if not more so. However, weapons forged from Uru could only display their effects in the hands of beings who wielded divine power.

Of course, that was not what Kyle cared about most at the moment.

"Vis, expand the search range. We must find living aliens." A glint flashed through Kyle’s eyes as he spoke in a low voice.

Weapons and equipment forged from Uru were naturally standard issue for Asgardian Soldiers. If Asgardian Soldiers had appeared on this Ancient Battlefield, it proved that this planet still had close ties to Asgard!

"Understood! I’ll maintain the transmission of Radio Waves and search for all lifeforms and scientific instruments carrying signals within ten kilometers," Vis replied.

Kyle nodded, started the motorcycle, and continued speeding forward, kicking up rolling clouds of dust.

Though he appeared to be wandering aimlessly through the wilderness, Kyle and Vis were actually working together to investigate and search for every suspicious trace of life.

Half an hour later.

Kyle rode his motorcycle swiftly across another wilderness of white bones. Just as he was feeling frustrated at finding nothing, a green cursor alert suddenly appeared on the inside of the sunglasses.

Vis’s report followed at once. "Master, an anomaly has been detected in one location!"

"What kind of anomaly? It had better be useful intelligence." Kyle quickly asked.

"I’m not entirely sure of the specifics," Vis answered. "When the Radio Waves I transmitted approached that location, they seemed to encounter powerful electromagnetic interference. The power source is close to the ground, and its intensity fluctuates wildly. It should not be lightning formed naturally."

"Navigate me there." Kyle gave the order without hesitation.

After receiving the route displayed by Vis on the lenses, he fiercely stomped his left foot against the ground. The speeding motorcycle reared high into the air, made a beautiful midair drift, quickly adjusted its front wheel, and charged toward the left without losing any speed upon landing.

The bold dared to act because they were skilled. Now that he was at least a godlike being, there was no need for him to be as overly cautious as before when facing anything in outer space.

Not long afterward.

Kyle rode his motorcycle toward the area Vis had guided him to. Before he even reached the very center of the power source, he sharply sensed a fierce, chilling presence in the air!

Rumble!

A small patch of thunderclouds churned darkly in the sky, bolts of lightning striking down with roaring crashes from time to time. Amid the dense thunderclaps, there were faintly mixed in the savage, domineering roars of some wild beast!

Kyle slowed the motorcycle, charged up a small hill, and braked at the summit. He stored the motorcycle in Card Space, then lowered himself and hid.

Peering down, he saw a blond young man and a gigantic creature the size of a small mountain facing each other on the plain fifty meters below. Their sizes were completely disproportionate!

The blond young man had a rugged, heroic face and looked little different from a human. He wore a metal helmet resembling a pair of horns, silver armor over his tall, muscular body, and a red cape that fluttered fiercely behind him.

All the lightning from the sky struck the young man’s body. Brilliant blue arcs of electricity intertwined around his armor, accentuating his imposing figure like an immortal, invincible god of thunder…

It was not merely like one. He was the god of thunder!

Bang!

The blond youth spun a small hammer in his hand at windmill speed. With a forward throw, it actually carried his body off the ground and sent him soaring into the sky!

He rushed before the massive creature and brought down a hammer wrapped in lightning, carrying the force of ten thousand tons, onto its truck-sized head. The huge monster let out a miserable howl and was smashed to the ground!

"Thor?"

Kyle blinked at that familiar figure, genuinely stunned this time.

Were gods everywhere these days? He had just taken down one, and now another had appeared!

And it was Thor, at that. In the future’s final battle against Thanos, the awakened All-Father would be one of the central figures, the only one capable of matching Thanos while he wielded the Infinity Gauntlet. His role was no less significant than that of Kyle’s comrade, Captain America!

"Vis, I think I’ve found a way back to Earth." After pondering for a moment, Kyle suddenly smiled.

How had he left Earth in the first place? Through the Space Primordial Stone’s teleportation ability! In an instant, it had crossed countless planets, taking him from Earth to Sakaar on the other side of the cosmic starfields!

Although the Space Primordial Stone had been lost during the journey through space, spatial teleportation was hardly an ability exclusive to the Space Primordial Stone in the Marvel world.

For example, Asgard’s Bifrost, reserved for use by the Asgardian palace…

How could he borrow Thor’s Bifrost?

Kyle narrowed his eyes. Hidden at the side of the hill, he watched Thor in the distance, hammer in hand and lightning wrapped around him, as he began devising his own calculations and plans.

Within the fierce battle in the wilderness.

Thor hovered in midair with the aid of Mjolnir, looking majestic and overwhelmingly imposing. Just as he was about to attack the alien ancient monster that had climbed back to its feet, a chill suddenly ran through his entire body, and an inexplicable sense of foreboding rose in his heart!

To be continued.

Thor, or Thor Odinson, could be considered the second major movie character to appear in this novel. To write him well, I looked up a great deal of information, so the writing has been slow. Please forgive me.

Two updates will resume tomorrow. If they do not, I’ll lose this month’s full-attendance bonus, haha.