Superman from the comics: Starting with the Black Robe

Chapter 190 The Great Hammer Shatters the Chest

Chapter 190 The Great Hammer Shatters the Chest

After a mere few minutes of struggle, they dragged the already frenzied Thor away from the Chitauri homeworld, leaving behind a dense array of Chitauri living warships and airships.

"Take this thunderous blow!"

Thor, who was being dragged backward by his cloak, still had the leisure to occasionally summon a bolt of lightning to wipe out a small portion of the Chitauri pursuers.

But as Thor said, the Chitauri are a highly militarized, gregarious, hive-like population; for every one killed, ten more will take their place.

If this drags on endlessly, the two of them might be able to leisurely fly back after clearing out these Chitauri and prepare for the seventh day after Earth's gruesome death on the other side of the universe.

"Someone has broken into the courtyard? You should have said so earlier!"

Hearing Joey's urgent call to return to Earth to face a powerful enemy, Thor summoned lightning and roared into the void, "Heimdall!"

Heimdall, the gatekeeper of Asgard, guards the Rainbow Bridge, always ready to answer Thor's call.

Then, the seven-colored light swept across, and the two who were fleeing, using the Rainbow Bridge of Asgard as a transit point, appeared directly outside the solar system again. "It's good to see that you are still alive." Silver Slider, who had not glided too far along the direction of the energy ray, noticed the spacetime fluctuations and turned back.

While expressing concern, she didn't forget to scold Joey: "Don't be so reckless next time. All of us on Earth combined can't withstand the power of Galactus."

SilverAsh glanced at Thor, pondered for half a second, and concluded: "Even if you add this Asgardian god, it's the same."

Thor, hammer in hand, belatedly realized: "Galactic Devourer? You mean that Galactic Devourer?"

"Exactly."

SilverAsh gave an affirmative answer, which made even Thor, who always adhered to the principle of "enjoying the battle," feel a chill run down his spine.

He came here only to find his brother Loki, and incidentally to help Superman resolve the crisis in Midgard, but he never expected that the crisis was Galactus himself:

"We're going to fight Galactus? Isn't that a bit too early?"

Thor had heard the story of Galactus from Joey a thousand years ago, but when Joey mentioned that battle, his words were full of ease and comfort.

Unlike now, Thor is just a bit unreliable most of the time. He's not blind or stupid; he can tell that even if the three people present were tied together, they wouldn't be enough to kill Galactus with a single slap.

Although I hate to admit it, there are differences between gods.

Moreover, Galactus is less a god and more a natural phenomenon of the multiverse itself.

He represents both destruction and rebirth, occupying the ecological niche of both the top predator and the bottom decomposer in the universe.

It is his hunger that drives him to constantly devour planets, which ensures that the universe does not collapse prematurely due to an excess of energy and matter.

From the perspective of the entire universe, Galactus's existence is necessary; without it, the structure of the multiverse would likely collapse in a chain reaction.

Joey had no interest in discussing the necessity of Galactus's existence; he only knew that if he didn't take action soon, his third Earth visit would be doomed.

"But from Earth's perspective, this means the end of the world."

Perhaps we should go and talk to him.

After a long silence, the original Ultraman finally began to speak again. Whether it was Joey's imagination or not, he felt that the other man seemed to have become even weaker.

I'm not an ordinary human being, so I don't need Ultraman to share his energy to sustain my life. How can it be that I get weaker the more I rest?

[But before you talk to him, you should look at your chest.]

Joey looked down at his bare chest, realizing that he really did look quite wolfish.

Just now, Galactus's gaze evaporated almost 99% of the metal in his Kryptonian armor. At this moment, he was basically no different from the Hulk after his transformation, except for his underwear which was tied around his waist.

But it's not a big deal.

[Look inside.]

With the original's reminder, Joey realized that he had forgotten something.

Ever since I was still at Vought Corporation, I've had a bad habit of stuffing important things into the back of my uniform, right in front of my chest.

Where did the fragment of the Helm of Destiny and the tarot card that were inserted earlier go?

With his super vision activated, Joey finally discovered the two items inside his chest cavity and outside his atrium.

To be precise, it is an object.

It turns out that putting hard objects on your chest is as suicidal as studding diamonds on a car steering wheel. Next time, Joey will definitely get a custom-made multi-functional belt for his uniform, like Batman's.

The cosmic energy ray that Galactus had just unleashed pierced through his biofield and Kryptonian armor, striking the two magical objects on his chest.

The fragments of the Helm of Destiny, which even Hephaestus's furnace could not forge, were completely melted under such an energy bombardment, and merged with the tarot card left behind by Lady Ushnisha.

The fact that two magical items, for which there was absolutely no idea how to forge or use, showed potential for creation was, in most cases, a blessing in disguise for Joey.

Unless, as it is now, this golden Destiny Tarot card, made of N metal, is stuck between two ribs, inside half a heart.

At this moment, Joey's heart was being torn apart by the sharp card as it pumped blood, and then regenerated under the influence of the bio-field.

Of course, the original may also have contributed to this; otherwise, with this level of depth, Joey would probably be struggling to even breathe by now.

"hiss!"

Seeing this scene inside his chest cavity, Joey belatedly began to writhe in pain in space. The pain came so timely, appearing at the same time he became aware of the wound, that he couldn't tell whether it was physical or psychological.

"This is really bad."

The Silver Glider was the first to notice Joey's unusual condition. The cosmic energy that empowered his senses allowed him to see what was causing Joey's pain as he clutched his chest and was drenched in sweat: "No ordinary person could withstand an injury like yours."

If it were an ordinary person, they would probably have lost consciousness and gone to the realm of death long ago, and wouldn't have to suffer like this. Unfortunately, the Kryptonians' constitution makes them not easy to die.

"Don't move it, I can help you get it out."

After calming Joey down, Silver Slider reached out and, with a flickering motion, slipped his hand into Joey's chest, attempting to pull out the metal card directly.

Just like the Speed ​​Force runner, Silver Slick's body can freely move between various substances, but this time it didn't work:

"?"

There seemed to be a natural repulsive force on the card; his hand could not easily grasp it.

"Maybe it's because that thing is nitrogen metal."

Nitrogen metal naturally interferes with magic and other energies that transcend the material world; the cosmic energy of the Silver Glider, which shares the same origin as Galactus, may also fall into this category.

After solution one failed, Joey came up with solution two: "Your skateboard!"

The silvery cosmic surfboard was a perfect mirror. Joey saw his own chest reflected in the surfboard, shooting out heat rays from his eyes to reflect it back, preparing to use a high-energy laser to perform surgery on himself.

The fully powered heat vision swept across the chest, but could only char the skin; it couldn't cut through the flesh at all.

"middle!"

Having gone through countless battles along the way, Joey discovered that he had encountered far too many Kryptonians, which had made him somewhat immune to the attacks of the Nitrogenians.

"Even among the Vikings I encountered a thousand years ago, there was no doctor as reckless as this."

Thor, who had been watching the two of them bickering, finally understood what had happened. There was something like shrapnel stuck in Joey's chest near his heart, and it urgently needed to be removed.

"It's just surgery, right?" Thor raised Mjolnir in his hand: "Come on, let me try!"

"Get the hell out of here!"

Seeing Thor eagerly grabbing Mjolnir, Joey suddenly felt his breathing ease: "I'm here to perform surgery, not to smash my chest with the hammer!"