"Please Father, lead us to avenge Corvus Glaive!"
Thanos stared at Homelander from a distance, and after listening to Proxima Midnight's request, no expression appeared on his face.
"The time has not come." Thanos rejected her proposal.
"Father..." Proxima Midnight wanted to argue.
"Hatred will make you lose your reason, Proxima Midnight." Thanos interrupted her, "The current battle has no meaning."
"Our primary goal is the Space Stone."
"Now, since we already know the Tesseract is in the Grandmaster's hands. Go find him and get the stone."
Seeing Thanos's firm attitude, Proxima Midnight had to force down her anger, not daring to disobey his order.
"Your will, Father."
She stood up unwillingly and led Thanos toward the Grandmaster's palace.
...
At the execution grounds.
After everyone exchanged pleasantries, Star-Lord's expression became uncharacteristically serious.
"Homelander, Thanos kidnapped Gamora." Star-Lord said earnestly, "I know you are very strong, we need your power, help us."
Homelander listened and nodded silently. He didn't speak, but his attitude was clear.
At this moment, Thor, who was on the side, seemed to suddenly remember something and said angrily:
"That bastard Loki! I haven't seen him since the spaceship crashed, he must have hidden somewhere again!"
"This guy disappears whenever something happens, I don't want to deal with him anymore, let him be."
"I just want to find that old madman, the Grandmaster, and get the Tesseract back."
Hearing that they were going to do serious business, Brunnhilde feigned nonchalance and said:
"Since you all have your own big plans, then my mission is complete." She said with an indifferent look, "I'm going to the harbor now to find a ship and leave this damn place..."
She paused mid-sentence, glancing secretly at Homelander.
"Of course... if you... if you need my help, it's not like I can't stay..."
Homelander turned his head and responded with a faint smile.
"It's okay, you can go. We can handle it."
Brunnhilde's face stiffened, which was beyond her expectations.
The tsundere expression on her face instantly turned into embarrassment.
She thought that in this situation, men would usually be very happy to have a powerful Valkyrie help out.
"Okay..."
She forced a smile.
"Then... good luck!"
After speaking, she turned around reluctantly, took steps, and walked toward the outside of the square.
Homelander didn't care about her departure and turned to Star-Lord and Thor and said:
"Rescuing Gamora and finding the Space Stone do not conflict." Homelander analyzed rationally, "Thanos kidnapped Loki, the purpose is the Space Stone. He has likely already gone to find the Grandmaster."
"As long as we find the Grandmaster, we can solve both problems at the same time."
Homelander asked Thor: "Do you know where the Grandmaster is?"
"Of course! I know this place too well!" Thor patted his chest confidently. "He must be hiding in his palace. Follow me, I'll lead the way."
With that, Thor took the lead, and the group followed closely, heading towards the Grandmaster's palace.
On the other side.
Brunnhilde, who hadn't walked far, suddenly stopped.
She looked back at the group of Homelander, who were already walking away, clenched her fist tightly, and gritted her teeth.
"Damn it!" she cursed in a low voice.
Then, she turned around resolutely and ran after Homelander and the others.
"Hey! Wait!"
The Valkyrie ran in front of Homelander, puffed out her chest, avoided Homelander's ambiguous gaze, and declared loudly:
"That deadbeat Grandmaster still owes me a final payment! I must go get this debt back!"
"So, I'm going too."
...
At this moment, in the center of Sakaar's main city, the Grandmaster's golden palace was enduring the attacks of the Black Order.
The guards inside the palace had no power to resist against the cruel army of cosmic butchers.
Against this backdrop of slaughter and destruction, Thanos slowly walked into the main hall.
He looked calmly at the empty throne.
"Grandmaster," Thanos said loudly, "Hand over the Tesseract. This is your only chance to keep this Planet."
But after waiting for a long time, there was no response.
"Search." Thanos surveyed this massive and luxurious palace hall, which was twenty or thirty meters high, "Tear it apart room by room until you find him."
"As you command, Father."
The Black Order members immediately scattered and began a destructive search of the palace.
Just as they were wantonly smashing things, a roar came from outside the hall.
"Thanos—!"
Thor rushed to the front of the team.
Seeing an enemy, their eyes turned red with rage.
The swelling on his cheek was still aching faintly; it was the humiliating mark left by being pinned to the ground and beaten by Thanos with his bare hands not long ago.
The dignified Thor of Asgard was actually beaten like a punching bag,
This shame gnawed at his self-esteem like a poisonous snake.
At this moment, he only had one thought in his mind: Kill him! Wash away the shame!
"Die!"
Thor let out a roar and leaped high into the air.
Violent lightning power surged from his body and wrapped around stormbreaker.
With full fury, he threw the axe in his hand with all his might!
The axe, wrapped in a lightning storm, tore through the air and headed straight for Thanos's chest and abdomen.
Watching the flying axe whistling towards him, Thanos was unhurried.
He gently clenched his left hand wearing the Infinity Gauntlet, and the purple Power Stone suddenly lit up.
Immediately after, he threw a punch!
"Boom!"
A massive purple energy wave erupted from the gauntlet and collided with stormbreaker.
The purple energy wave and the lightning axe collided fiercely.
However, the crushing victory Thanos expected did not happen.
He was surprised to find that the powerful energy wave emitted by the Power Stone could not stop the axe's advance at all!
The axe moved upstream in the purple light, its speed undiminished, and it slashed towards Thanos with great momentum.
"This is impossible..." Ebony Maw exclaimed.
Seeing that the axe was about to strike Thanos.
"Don't even think about it!"
A roar sounded.
Black Dwarf, who was guarding beside Thanos, lunged over and used his massive body to block in front of Thanos.
"Pfft!"
The sharp blade embedded into Black Dwarf's chest without any resistance.
A few muffled gurgling sounds came from Black Dwarf's throat, and large amounts of blood poured from his mouth.
He tried to reach out to grab Thanos's arm, but his arm dropped weakly halfway up.
Just like that, he died in front of Thanos.
Thor landed steadily, reached out and summoned, and stormbreaker drew an arc in the air, returning to his hand.
Lightning flickered on the axe blade, as if cheering for taking First Blood.
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