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The strike was heavy as a mountain and swift as the wind.
Thor's attack, in Anthony's eyes right now… was slow.
Far too slow.
With Hyper-Mode active, his dynamic vision had entered "bullet time".
Thor's furious charge looked like a slow-motion replay.
He could see every detail—the twitch of muscle along Thor's arm.
"Hmph, no wonder speedsters think they're gods."
Anthony chuckled softly.
When the hammer was still one centimeter from his scalp—
Whoosh!
He vanished; not teleportation, but a sidestep so fast it seemed instantaneous.
Thor's hammer slammed empty air, the massive momentum sending him stumbling forward.
"What?!"
Before Thor could react, an icy voice whispered beside his ear.
"Over here, blondie."
Boom—!!!
Anthony appeared at Thor's right, a plain right hook that solidly smashed into Thor's left cheek.
In that instant Thor didn't even have time to scream; the muscles of his face rippled like a wave, and he shot sideways like a cannonball.
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
He punched through the warehouse's support pillars, burst through thick brick walls, and finally skipped like a stone across the muddy ground, carving a trench into the cement.
"Thor!!" Jane Foster shrieked in horror.
"Cough cough…"
Thor crawled from the rubble, spitting bloody saliva. He shook his dizzy head, fury blazing in his eyes.
"That's some strength…"
Anthony hovered in mid-air, casually blowing imaginary dust from his fist as he smirked at the distant Thor.
"A god's skin is pretty thick—nice hand-feel."
"Mortal! You'll pay for your arrogance!!"
Thor roared, mjolnir whirling until the air became a small tornado around him.
"For Asgard!!"
He sprang skyward, the spinning hammer adding centrifugal force, turning him into a thunderbolt three times faster than before—straight at Anthony!
"For your uncle!"
Anthony watched Thor's charge with disdain.
He didn't dodge; the instant Thor reached him—
Anthony moved.
A crisp uppercut! Precisely under Thor's jaw!
"Hao-you-gen—!"
Thor's momentum died; he shot vertically skyward, straight toward the clouds!
"Not done yet." Anthony bent his knees and rocketed up!
In the next second he was above the still-rising Thor.
Thor forced open his star-spangled eyes to see Anthony's upside-down, devilish grin.
"Drop-tower!"
Anthony interlaced his fingers, raised his arms like a sledgehammer, and smashed Thor's chest.
"Dong—!!!!"
Thor fell at twice the speed he'd risen!
At the same time—
"Zzz—!!!!"
Anthony's eyes blazed crimson; two ultra-high-energy Heat Vision beams lanced out, catching the plummeting Thor.
Kinetic strike plus energy infusion!
"Aaaargh—!"
Thor howled in pain, the terrifying thrust turning him into a human meteor.
"Rumble—!!!!"
The whole abandoned factory district quaked like a magnitude-5 tremor.
Dust blotted out the sky; a meteoric crater yawned open, surrounding concrete rippling like waves.
Jessica Jones had to throw up a shield to keep Jane Foster behind her from being blasted away.
"My God…" Jane Foster stared at the crater, face pale.
"Did he… kill Thor?"
Jessica swallowed hard, eyes fixed on the figure descending from the sky.
Anthony landed gracefully at the crater's rim, glanced at the battered form in the pit, and sneered.
"Get up. Quit playing dead."
"I know Asgardian bones are tough."
The seemingly unconscious man in the crater snapped his eyes open.
Those eyes held no pupils—only twin blazing white bolts of lightning!
"I am… the God of Thunder!!"
Thor thundered.
He slammed mjolnir against the ground!
"Boom-ka—!!!"
A blinding blue ring of lightning exploded outward from him in an instant!
This wasn't mere electricity—it was mystic thunder infused with Odin's power!
Too close!
Even Anthony's super-speed couldn't dodge the AoE of the lightning halo.
"Sh—!"
Anthony managed one curse before the savage ring of lightning swallowed him.
"Zzzzzzz—!!!"
Pain.
An agony he hadn't felt in ages.
This was nothing like the million-volt tests he'd shrugged off before.
That current had merely tickled; this magic-charged thunder felt like countless tiny knives boring straight through his invulnerable skin and into his marrow.
"Ugh…"
Anthony was flung dozens of meters, smoke curling from his body, his sleek suit still crackling with stray arcs.
"magic…"
He gritted his teeth, eyes glowing redder with fury. "…I hate magic."
The uncontrollable paralysis felt like a deep insult to him.
"You've really angered me, mortal."
In the distance, Thor hovered mid-air.
He raised Mjolnir, storm clouds swirling overhead as tens of thousands of lightning bolts converged on the hammer.
"Feel the thunder's wrath!!"
"Boom—!!!"
A lightning column several meters across speared straight at Anthony.
Lightning speed far outpaced Anthony's movement, and Thor's divine thunder carried a lock-on spell besides.
Unavoidable!
"Aaaargh—!!!"
The blast struck him square in the chest!
Every nerve screamed; the marrow-deep burning drove his fury to the breaking point.
"You… damned… power bank!!"
Anthony was enraged.
He forced his eyes open amid the lightning, pupils blazing with savage crimson.
Thor's face paled in shock.
He hadn't imagined any mortal counter-attacking under such a barrage!
The searing Heat Vision burned through the lightning web and streaked straight for Thor's face!
Instinctively Thor raised Mjolnir to block.
The terrifying thunder surrounding Anthony vanished in an instant.
"Now—it's my turn."