When Cul left Earth for Asgard, Lucas and the Watcher, who had been watching from the moon, discovered it immediately.
However, neither of them made a sound. They just quietly followed to continue watching the show.
"Watcher, do you know what's going on? Why would Cul from another Universe come to Earth-404?"
In a void, Lucas sat on a silver-white throne, asking the Watcher, who stood beside him, slightly lower.
This was a position Lucas had deliberately adjusted. From a distance, the Watcher looked like his subordinate.
"I don't know."
The Watcher's tone was flat, and he unconsciously reverted to his aloof, indifferent posture, looking down on everything.
Lucas shook his head with a helpless smile.
The Watcher was his biggest client now, so he forgave him.
However, his plan to get information from the Watcher had fallen through, so he would have to ask Cul himself later.
Still, when it was time to be playful, he had to be playful.
"Do you really not know, or are you pretending not to know?"
The Watcher was speechless and silent, ignoring Lucas's humor.
"Boring."
Seeing that the Watcher didn't respond, Lucas pouted and refocused his attention on the battlefield in Asgard.
Because the plan to flood Asgard failed, the water monsters gathered by Cul could not breach the Asgardian army's defenses, but Cul was not discouraged.
If the first wave of giant waves didn't achieve anything, then another wave would come.
Soon, a white line appeared on the horizon, growing larger as it approached.
By the time the white line reached the shores of Asgard, it had transformed into a hundred-meter-tall giant wave.
This time, Cul attacked with the giant wave, intending to prevent Loki, Tony, Wanda, Gwen, and others from calming the wave.
Thor, naturally, would not stand by idly and intercepted Cul head-on.
The instant they clashed, the enormous aftershocks generated by the collision of divine power interfered with Loki, Tony, and the others.
The giant wave, as Cul wished, crashed down. The giant wave could not shake Asgard's defenses, but the water monsters in the ocean took the opportunity to surge onto the land with the giant wave, engaging in battle with the Asgardian soldiers.
Seeing this, Loki, Tony, and the others stopped trying to stop the giant wave and joined the fray.
Loki, Tony, and Wanda prioritized supporting Thor, attacking Cul together.
The other few, meanwhile, first cooperated with the Asgardian warriors to clear out the water monsters.
Facing the encirclement of the four, Cul was unfazed. Or rather, after a period of observation, he discovered that apart from Thor's Mjolnir and Loki's Gungnir, the other attacks did not cause much damage to his divine body.
And for minor wounds, being in Asgard, Cul could recover quickly.
At this point, the disadvantage of Tony and Wanda lacking highly destructive means was once again evident.
Cul discovered this drawback, and Tony and Wanda did as well.
"Wanda, let's switch to support, focusing on restricting Cul's movements."
Tony instructed Wanda, no longer using energy cannons or miniature missiles to attack. Instead, he changed his form, creating clones through Images of Ikonn, with each clone holding a whip.
The next moment, dozens of whips lashed out from all directions, trying to bind Cul.
Wanda's Chaos magic also shifted from offense to restraint, cooperating with Tony to limit Cul's movements.
Facing Tony and Wanda, who suddenly changed their fighting style, Cul was caught off guard for a moment and was firmly bound.
Seizing this opportunity, Thor threw Mjolnir, aiming at Cul's immobile face.
Loki quietly circled to Cul's side and behind, thrusting Gungnir at his kidney area.
Left with no choice, Cul erupted with full power. A terrifying wave of energy swept out, spreading outwards from him as its center.
The first to bear the brunt was Loki, who had rushed to Cul's side and rear. He was hit by Cul's sudden energy burst and flew backward.
Next was Tony. The clones he had created using Images of Ikonn all dissipated under Cul's energy impact, and his main body also flew backward. However, protected by his armor, he was not injured.
Wanda and Thor, who were further away, each used their methods to easily block it.
"Wanda, be careful!"
Tony exclaimed a warning to Wanda.
His suit scanned a figure using the cover of the wave to ambush Wanda.
However, Cul was even faster than the speed of sound. Getting close, he raised his hammer and smashed it down on Wanda's head. He believed in picking the softest target, and in his eyes, Wanda was the softest target among the four.
Her physical strength was not as good as Thor's or Loki's, and she had no armor protection. Her defense was undoubtedly the weakest of the four.
Shield of the Seraphim!
This time, the prepared Wanda reacted in time, using a more advanced shield.
Cul's hammer struck the Shield of the Seraphim, sending Wanda flying backward. The energy shield also became incredibly illusory. But in the end, it was not broken.
Cul, whose ambush had failed, stopped in place, looking at the hammer in his hand with some confusion.
In his estimation, he should have shattered the energy shield with one hammer blow and killed the person in front of him. It shouldn't have been blocked, only knocking her back.
"His power is weakening!"
Loki, who had returned to the battlefield, discovered the problem.
Cul's power, while standing on Asgard, would be continuously replenished. But this required a process, it required time.
And just now, his full power burst had almost depleted his energy, and it hadn't recovered in a short time. This was the reason for his weakening power.
The more fundamental reason was his lack of fear energy, preventing him from recovering to his peak.
In high-intensity combat, even when in Asgard, there would be issues with energy supply not being timely enough.
After discovering Cul's weakness, Thor and Loki didn't hesitate and immediately launched a fierce offensive.
Tony and Wanda also joined in, adding insult to injury.
Cul, already low on energy, found it even harder to parry and suffered frequent injuries. And recovering from injuries required energy.
Insufficient energy, getting injured, recovering from injuries, even more insufficient energy.
Trapped in a vicious cycle, Cul's situation became increasingly unfavorable.
It seemed defeat was inevitable.
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Hell.
Mephisto was watching this battle through Cul's perspective.
He was very frustrated. He had gone to great lengths to bring Cul to Earth-404, hoping Cul and the Ancient One and Lucas would fight to a mutual destruction. Then he would reap the benefits.
But he didn't expect that before the Ancient One and Lucas even showed up, Cul was about to be beaten to death by the combined assault of Thor, Loki, Tony, and Wanda.
He knew this wasn't Cul's true strength. The reason Cul had fallen to such a state was that he hadn't absorbed fear energy.
If Cul absorbed enough fear energy and recovered to his peak state, defeating the four in front of him would be easy.
However, where did the fear energy on Earth go?
Mephisto had a guess in his mind.
But that wasn't important now, what was important was...