"Heh, you big oaf."
Malekith chuckled lightly, black patterns crawling across his face as an external power merged with his own, suddenly unleashing even greater speed.
Bending low, Malekith dodged Hulk's fist and darted under his armpit.
At the same time, he spun around, lightly slashing with his sword, cutting across Hulk's waist and drawing a spray of blood.
As he paused, the tip of his sword pointed down, blood dripping from it.
Hulk roared in pain but did not lose his composure. Seizing the opportunity while Malekith was showing off, he delivered a backward kick without even looking.
Bang!
Malekith was sent flying, only stopping when he crashed into a protruding hill.
"Something's not right, nine out of ten things aren't right."
On a special cloud disguised as a normal one, Lucas watched Malekith being kicked away by Hulk, stating with conviction.
"He has two energies in him. One is his own, and the other is external. That external energy should be from the entity behind him."
After speaking, Lucas looked at the Watcher, signaling him for a comment.
The Watcher merely smiled, taking a sip of his lemonade, remaining silent.
He was a Watcher with principles!
Seeing the Watcher remain silent, Lucas didn't press him, respecting his professional integrity.
With a subtle tap of his finger, he quietly added something to the Watcher's cup.
"Hiss... Lord Lucas, why is this lemonade so sour?"
In response to the Watcher's question, Lucas only smiled without speaking.
A little known fact: sourness is a sensation caused by hydrogen ions stimulating the tongue's mucous membrane.
He had added a large amount of hydrogen ions to Watcher's cup, so of course it tasted sour.
Returning to the battle between Gwen and the others against Malekith.
At this moment, Gwen, Wanda, G'iah, Hulk, and Pietro had all joined the fight.
The thick-skinned Hulk still acted as the tank, absorbing Malekith's damage. His body surface was now covered in blood, looking very disheveled.
But upon closer inspection, one would find they were all superficial wounds, and most of them had already healed. It only looked terrifying because the blood had congealed on his skin.
The other four each sought opportunities to attack Malekith. However, as they fought, Pietro and G'iah realized their attacks were largely ineffective against Malekith. So they simply disengaged from the main battle, focusing instead on intercepting the Dark Elves who were coming to provide support.
"Wanda, is there any way to control him?" Gwen asked, seizing a momentary gap.
Wanda nodded. "Yes."
"Good. Wanda, try to control him. I'm going to hit him with something fierce."
Gwen flipped out of the battle, focusing her attention on her right hand, which wore a gauntlet embedded with the Power Stone, using the gauntlet to unleash the Power Stone's power.
In an instant, endless energy transcended space and time, converging on Gwen's right hand, forming a dazzling, eye-stinging purple orb of light.
Feeling the terrifying power within the purple orb, Gwen raised her right hand and clenched her fist tightly. At this moment, she even had the illusion that she was holding the entire world.
"Take this! My friendly neighborhood Spider-Punch!"
This power continuously condensed until Gwen felt she was about to lose control, then she fiercely punched towards Malekith.
Boom!
As Gwen punched, a purple energy beam erupted in the direction of her fist.
At the same time, Wanda's gauntlet, embedded with the Reality Stone, also glowed intensely red. Several scarlet chains appeared out of thin air, and before Malekith could react, they rapidly contracted, firmly binding him.
Wanda concentrated, preparing to wrestle with Malekith. However, to her surprise, Malekith did not struggle fiercely. Instead, he seemed to be stunned, allowing the scarlet chains to lock him down.
"Truly… I've searched high and low, only to find it effortlessly." Malekith muttered to himself.
On these scarlet chains, he felt a long-lost aura.
The aura of the Aether!
The Aether is on this sorceress!
Although he didn't know why he hadn't been able to sense the Aether's presence even from such close proximity, Malekith still made this judgment.
Snapping back to reality, Malekith looked at Wanda, his eyes growing brighter.
Faintly, a purple light could be seen flickering.
Boom! Boom! Boom...
The purple energy unleashed itself upon the unsuspecting Malekith, and its terrifying destructive and lethal power instantly erupted.
Silently, the parts of Malekith's body that came into contact with the purple energy instantly twisted and collapsed.
"Ahhhhhhh!!!"
The intense pain awakened Malekith, and in his horrified eyes, the purple beam pierced through his chest, then tore through his body.
Not only Malekith's body, but also the scarlet chains binding him were destroyed by the Power Stone's power.
Snap!
The accumulated power was fully discharged, and Gwen's right hand fell limply.
The gauntlet on her right hand was also riddled with cracks, currently undergoing rapid self-repair.
"Phew... it's over. Who was that guy? He felt so strong."
Taking a long breath, Gwen was about to sit down and rest for a while when her Spider-Sense suddenly flared up again.
"No! He might not be dead yet!"
"Not dead yet? What's going on? Didn't he turn into nothing but dust?" Wanda asked.
Malekith and the spot where he had stood had been completely annihilated by the Power Stone's power. It looked like not even a trace of matter was left. In such a situation, how could he still be alive?
Gwen didn't answer, but followed the guidance of her Spider-Sense, carefully searching for the source of the danger.
"There!"
Gwen pointed to a small black spot on the ground, the place where Malekith had once stood.
Looking closely at this small black spot, Wanda also suddenly felt a sense of unease.
Wanda asked, "What is this?"
"A Symbiote?"
Lucas looked at the residual substance after Malekith's death, deep in thought.
"Why would Malekith have a Symbiote? Could the person behind him be Knull?" Lucas speculated.
Although he didn't rule out the possibility of Malekith obtaining it by chance, Lucas was more inclined to believe that this was not accidental.
Better safe than sorry.
Even if he guessed wrong, making extra preparations wouldn't result in any loss.
Knull, also known as the King in Black.
He enjoyed expanding the darkness of the entire Universe by conquering, destroying, and devastating every life form he encountered.
From this perspective, Knull and Malekith truly were birds of a feather, both wanting to plunge the Universe into darkness.
But the former's goal was the Multiverse, while the latter's goal was only the Universe he resided in.
Given this, it was only natural for Knull to invest in Malekith, the leader of the Dark Elves.
With a thought, Lucas reached out, crossing space to retrieve the black substance left behind after Malekith's death.
He wanted to study it more carefully to determine if it was from Knull or if Malekith had obtained it by chance.