Chapter 43 Call Me Thunder God!
Thor certainly has many flaws, but at least one thing is commendable: he values his family as his life.
His deepest affection is naturally for Loki, who has tricked him countless times since childhood.
Thor lowered his head, watching Duval tightly suppress the enhanced Deviant that had also been parasitized. He clearly wanted to observe this Deviant and deduce the result of him accepting a Facehugger.
The fact that he could make such a move was precisely equivalent to having already made a choice.
If it were in the past, the arrogant and conceited Thor would never have accepted this kind of power. The hot-tempered him would have already grabbed his hammer and fought Duval to the death, because he would have thought Duval was humiliating him!
But now it's different. His terrible personality hasn't improved. Now, as a mere mortal, he is powerless in the face of his brother's fierce battle. The arrogance and conceit in his heart are gnawing at his self-esteem like the Annihilation Swarm.
"Don't hesitate. You are a powerful warrior, and you should be clear that this is a rare opportunity. Your brother is facing so many powerful enemies. Look, the Eternals have a huge hatred for you Asgardians. The Celestial Gods behind them are likely watching here right now. Kaecilius has been trying to kill your brother, and Magneto is even more so," Duval coaxed.
Every word he said was reasonable, but when put together, it became less so.
The Abomination Xenomorph and numerous Deviant Xenomorphs gathered around Duval and Thor, resisting all energy fluctuations that tried to approach.
Success was imminent.
Duval whispered, "I don't understand what you're hesitating about. Without power, you'll have nothing, and you might even lose your dearest brother. With power, you can completely overcome the current crisis and then take back Mjolnir. There will be plenty of time in the future to lift it again. Have you forgotten your honor? Is your dignity only worth this much?"
A checkmate.
For Thor, dignity and honor are more important than life. This is his creed, and it is the creed of every Asgardian.
"Midgardian, if it were any other time, I would have smashed your mouth with Mjolnir!" A trace of extreme shame, rage, and helpless hatred flashed in Thor's eyes. He opened his hand and allowed the Facehugger to crawl onto his palm.
"But right now, I'm the only one willing to help you, aren't I? Don't think you're being coerced by me. In the face of a bright future, in the face of protecting your family, I'm the reliable helper standing on your side," Duval said.
"If I wasn't sure you were a Midgardian, I would have thought you came from Hell and were a Devil who is very good at making deals."
Thor let the Facehugger hug his head.
He was just hot-tempered, not stupid. How could he not know that Duval wanted to get benefits from him?
But Thor couldn't care about that. All he knew was that if he didn't stand next to Loki and do something now, he would be so frustrated that he would want to kill himself!
Of course, as long as this battle ended and Loki's safety was ensured, Thor also resolved to go to his death, either by suicide or by challenging Duval to preserve his remaining honor and dignity.
Duval also roughly knew what Thor was thinking. He watched Thor fall into a coma while struggling.
"What have you done, you damned mortal!"
Loki suddenly glanced over here, his eyes were about to split, and he roared in shock and anger!
"He's not dead, don't be so excited. How could I hurt the Son of Odin?" Duval's expression changed slightly, and he looked down at the enhanced Deviant that had just been parasitized.
Then, Loki saw a terrifying scene: the Deviant on the ground twitched violently, and then, from its chest, a Xenomorph emerged, bathed in blood and flesh.
As for the Deviant that served as the container, in Loki's perception, its vitality quickly annihilated, and it soon died.
For a moment, Loki was dumbfounded. Was he about to see his brother turn into that? Die in convulsions?
Loki's eyes turned red in an instant. He couldn't care about anything else. A surge of Godly Power erupted wildly, and various powerful spells were brewing in his hands.
Rumble! This extreme power collided with the powerful magnetic field, forming countless lightning and thunder storms, rising from the ground straight into the atmosphere, stirring up hundreds of millions of clouds, causing countless natural disasters.
Loki flew high, trying to rush to Duval's side.
"You are more like a god at this moment than ever before, but don't worry, he won't die, and my purpose is not for him."
Duval looked at the furious Loki, then led his Xenomorphs and took action, but the target of the attack was not Loki, but...
Thor!
"The parasitism was successful. In just a moment, a new Xenomorph is being born in Thor's chest. I can feel it clearly. However, controlling Thor was never what I wanted. Odin is probably watching here and won't allow this to happen."
A trace of heat flashed in Duval's eyes.
He was a very calm person, and rarely had obvious emotional fluctuations, but at this moment, he couldn't help himself.
That's right, he came here from New York, and his real purpose was not to control Thor himself, but for Godly Power!
His goal, the Xenomorph Ascension Project, had never changed.
And the simplest and most direct solution was to come into contact with Godly Power, because throughout the universe, all kinds of gods, big and small, were not uncommon at all. Some ancient technological civilizations could even establish their own racial pantheons.
Godly Power, as an energy system, is both precious and cheap.
What could be more cost-effective than exploiting Thor, who has lost his Godly Power but still possesses divine blood? Duval reached out and performed open-chest surgery on the unconscious Thor, who was expected to awaken soon, with his bare hands.
Thwack!
Thor's chest was instantly torn open violently by Duval, splattering blood and flesh.
This insane act made everyone look askance. This was the Son of God-King Odin, and the parasitism had just been completed. Was Duval really going to kill him like this? Ajak's face was livid: "What exactly does he want to do? Parasitize Thor, then kill him? The entire Earth will suffer the consequences from Asgard... Huh?"
At the very moment Loki went completely berserk, before everyone's eyes...
Duval used his other hand to do the same to his own chest, quickly and accurately, digging out an unformed Xenomorph larva, about the size of a palm, from the bloody mess! This extraordinary ruthlessness was shocking to behold.
Even the howling Loki was stunned for a moment.
"Ruthless enough."
Magneto, fighting multiple opponents at once, couldn't help but glance over, a look of admiration on his face.
But they didn't know what Duval wanted to do, or why he was resorting to such a crazy, self-mutilating method.
"Could it be..." Ajak seemed to realize something, a look of horror on her face.
Before banishing Ikaris, she had spoken with him and learned about the Abomination Xenomorph bursting out of the chest and rapidly growing by consuming the Abomination's corpse.
What if the Xenomorph was dug out before it officially burst out? This was something many people outside were secretly deducing, and Ajak could certainly think of it as well.
Now, she was seeing it with her own eyes.
"He actually has a Xenomorph in his own body, and now he's digging out the Xenomorph from Thor's body..." Ajak found it incredible.
At this moment, the few people fighting frantically all turned their attention, watching as Duval stuffed the larva dug out of Thor's body into his own chest.
"???"
What kind of operation is this??
No, it should be said, is there really such an operation in this world??? This is outrageous!
Everyone present was a powerful being who shook a planet, and each of them was intelligent and experienced, but this was the first time they had seen this kind of gameplay, and they felt their understanding was exploding.
On the other hand, Magneto was the first to react. He maintained communication with Raven, so he had the most understanding of Xenomorphs and knew that Xenomorph larvae could be used without bursting out of the chest and enhancing the host's strength, ultimately achieving a strange symbiotic relationship.
"It seems that this is what you wanted. No wonder you didn't hesitate to send me a second invitation in such a terrible way."
Magneto spoke, his voice passing through the endless roaring battlefield, constantly extending under the power of the magnetic field.
He received the message from Raven, who notified him, and he rushed to the battlefield, seized the Thunder God's Hammer, and started a big fight...
"It wouldn't have come to this originally. The appearance of the Deviants is definitely an exception, and I don't understand why they appeared in this area. At most, I only predicted that the Eternals would mobilize for Thor."
Duval's complexion was originally very poor, but as soon as he implanted the larva parasitizing Thor into his own chest, his complexion immediately recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming ruddy again.
At the chest, the huge wound he had torn open with his own hands sizzled, white smoke rising, and quickly healed.
Everyone understood that Duval had traveled thousands of miles to get here, taking such a huge risk to do so much, just to transfer the larva parasitizing the Thunder God into his own body?
But what is the purpose of this approach...? Duval took a deep breath, carefully feeling the new power within his body.
In the past, the Xenomorph larva in his body, although considered excellent, ultimately could not bring Duval a truly meaningful leap in magnitude.
But now, through the Xenomorph larva as a "converter," Duval directly controlled the power brought by Thor's genes.
Parasitism without bursting out of the chest allows the host to use the genetic power of the Xenomorph in the body.
However, in Duval's hands, he upgraded this model, treating the larva that parasitized and obtained powerful power as a replaceable "equipment"! Facts have proved that he was right.
A steady stream of power surged within Duval's body. The Xenomorph larva at his chest was now like an energy reactor, violently transmitting power to Duval every moment with each breath.
This was from the genes of the direct descendants of the Asgardian God-King, the Father of the Gods, even if it was only a part.
"Very strong, but... not enough! Only this level is not worth the risk!" Duval suddenly looked up, meeting the horrified gazes.
Wherever his gaze reached, powerful figures stood, smoothing out everything around them.
In their hands, in just less than ten minutes, they had created results comparable to super natural disasters.
And this was obviously just the beginning. If they really let go and went all out, the entire Earth would suffer heavy damage.
Terrifying energies impacted erratically, enough to easily shatter ordinary people into nothingness.
Kaecilius swore this was the most chaotic battle he had ever participated in; everyone within his sight was an enemy.
But he was still stubbornly staring at the Queen.
"Xenomorph..." Kaecilius looked deeply moved. He finally understood why even Dormammu paid so much attention to this creature.
When did it start? Kaecilius remembered that it seemed to be from the time Duval parasitized a Black Magic User, which drew the attention of Dormammu to the Xenomorphs.
The Xenomorphs were creatures of infinite wonderful uses. Anyway, Kaecilius, who played with all kinds of dark magic, had never imagined that Xenomorphs could be used in this way. It opened his eyes.
Kaecilius immediately opened his hand and aimed at the Queen, trying to activate Mirror Dimension Magic to capture the Queen.
As long as she entered the Mirror Dimension, this Queen would be his for the taking! *BOOM!* But his spell was quickly interrupted, and the prism-shaped spell shattered immediately.
"Damn it, it's too chaotic here, severely interfering with the stability of space." Kaecilius frowned.
The next second, he was struck head-on by the Thunder God's Hammer.
Magneto was using the Thunder God's Hammer more and more smoothly. At this time, his cold gaze swept over. These damned intruders attacked his magnetic field without even saying hello, which was the most serious provocation.
"You think you can do whatever you want on my territory, who do you think you are!" Magneto was truly enraged.
Kaecilius hurriedly dodged the Thunder God's Hammer, with a sneer on his face: "This is our first meeting, but it better be the last. If I didn't have more important things to do, I could solve you right now."
"Very good, that's what I want too, then come!" As Magneto spoke, he was bathed in a violent magnetic field.
At the same time, Loki had manipulated countless magical particles to forcibly distort the magnetic field, arriving at a distance that was extremely dangerous for Duval. At this distance, Loki could use powerful Godly Power and magic to bombard him.
A deep madness appeared on Loki's face. Thor, who was twitching on the ground from time to time, made his eyes completely red.
In his opinion, this mortal who drove strange creatures must die in his hands, just because he turned Thor into this miserable state.
For more than a thousand years, Loki had been with Thor for more than a thousand years. When had he ever seen Thor like this? In order to maintain his brother's image in front of him, in order to join the battlefield and fight side by side with him, he did not hesitate to compromise with a mortal and seek strength.
This was the greatest humiliation to Thor. Loki was originally happy to see it happen, thinking it was so interesting that Thor could suffer this kind of humiliation, but he didn't want to see Thor just die like this! "Mortal, you will pay the price for what you have done! No one dares to humiliate a god like this!!"
"Is that so? I don't think so."
Duval stood in the middle of a group of Xenomorphs, glanced at Thor, who was half-dead on the ground, confirmed that this guy would not die for a while, and a satisfied look appeared on his face. Then he raised his head and stared at Loki, who had forcibly broken through the magnetic field.
By parasitizing Thor, completing the replacement of the Xenomorph larvae, and seizing the bloodline of the God-King, one of the purposes of his trip had been achieved, and the key to the future had been firmly grasped in his hands.
Now that it had reached this point, he might as well do more. It was not impossible for him to fight Loki.
The Thunder God's Hammer, which was dodged by Kaecilius, continued forward. It should have gradually stopped with Magneto's strong control and flew back to smash at Kaecilius again.
At this moment, Duval moved. He aimed at the hammer, hundreds of meters away, and opened his hand from afar.
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