"You blue-skinned freak over there... next up, it's your turn."
Peter's voice wasn't loud, yet it echoed with crystal clarity across the entire battlefield.
Upon the deep-blue face of Supergiant—the one explicitly called out—her once relaxed, sadistic expression completely froze. She instinctively took half a step back, her eyes locking onto Peter with sheer terror and utter disbelief.
That was a Chitauri mothership! A war fortress capable of effortlessly glassing an entire civilized planet!
Just like that... gone? And two of them destroyed in a single breath?! What kind of absolute monster was this guy?!
A suffocating terror gripped her heart, but as one of the most capable generals under Thanos, she refused to allow herself to be governed by fear. Forcing down the mounting dread in her chest, she shrieked fiercely at Dwarf, who was still pursuing Felicia in the distance:
"Dwarf! Kill him now!"
"Roar!"
Dwarf clearly didn't possess a mental processor as complex as Supergiant's. Or rather, he held absolute, unwavering confidence in his own physical strength and invulnerability.
Hearing Supergiant's order, a vicious grin split his hideous face as he decisively charged head-on toward the diving Peter.
Wherever he stepped, the concrete beneath his feet cracked and splintered, while the muscles along his arms bulged to monstrous proportions, radiating explosive kinetic power visible to the naked eye.
With this single swing of his battle-axe, he threw his entire strength into the blow! The latent power sealed within it was more than enough to split a small asteroid completely in two!
He was utterly convinced that—aside from the great Lord Thanos himself—no living entity in the cosmos could intercept this strike completely unscathed!
Down in the subterranean safe houses, the citizens who had been cheering hysterically a moment ago had their hearts leap straight back into their throats. Every single person stared intently at the screen, so tense they didn't even dare to draw a breath.
Would Mr. Arbiter... win?
Under the hyper-focused, anxious gaze of everyone watching, Peter—hovering in the sky above—didn't exhibit even the slightest intention of dodging or weaving. He merely lifted a single, relaxed palm toward the sky.
Has he completely lost his mind? Dwarf couldn't help but think to himself.
In the very next instant, a smug, triumphant smile spread across his massive face. He could practically already visualize the bloody scene of his target being cleaved cleanly in two, armor and all.
However...
CLANG—!!!
The anticipated gore failed to materialize.
A deafening, bell-like metallic resonance echoed outward, the sheer acoustic shockwave shattering every window across a hundred-meter radius!
A terrifying kinetic wave swept outward with the two of them at the epicenter, hurling parked vehicles and street debris wildly into the air.
The triumphant smile on Dwarf's face completely froze.
He felt as though his axe hadn't struck a creature of flesh and blood, but had instead slammed into a massive block of thrice-forged Uru metal! His grand battle-axe had actually been stopped dead in its tracks by a palm that looked entirely unextraordinary, save for a subtle, strange metallic sheen!
No... if one looked with extreme care, they would notice that his axe hadn't even made direct physical contact with the palm itself. There seemed to be an invisible, intangible force field interposed between the edge of his blade and Peter's skin.
"That's it?" Peter tilted his head slightly, his tone laced with a faint touch of genuine confusion.
Dwarf's pupils shrank to the size of needle points. He instinctively tried to yank his battle-axe back, only to realize the blade felt as if it had been welded into solid mountain rock—completely immobile within that single hand!
Even more horrifyingly, a strange, sinister destructive force was traveling backward along the shaft of the axe directly from the opponent's palm!
Snap... crackle...
Faint sounds of fracturing metal resonated through the air. Dwarf's eyes widened in sheer, unadulterated shock. He watched as his prized battle-axe—crafted by Thanos's personal blacksmiths and infused with a massive quantity of Uru metal—began to display visible, web-like cracks across its surface!
"No... IMPOSSIBLE!" Dwarf unleashed a beast-like roar, surging his entire physical power into his arms to wrench the weapon free.
Yet everything... was entirely in vain.
Meeting Dwarf's disbelieving gaze, Peter's five fingers abruptly clenched inward.
PING!
Accompanied by a crisp, sharp snap, a massive chunk of that indestructible grand axe was broken cleanly off by his bare hand!
Manually... snapping an Uru-infused battle-axe with his bare fingers?!
This scene didn't just leave Dwarf completely dumbfounded. Far away on Titan, Ebony Maw—who was observing the projection—stumbled backward, nearly collapsing straight onto his face.
Casually tossing aside the shattered fragment of the axe blade, Peter glanced down at his hands, a strange, subtle smile surfacing beneath his mask.
Was it because his women hadn't encountered true danger in far too long? He genuinely hadn't expected that when Daisy and Natasha were harmed, it would actually trigger his "willpower" to achieve a real breakthrough!
That's right—Peter's Armament Haki had officially evolved!
Just a moment ago, he suddenly realized his application of Armament Haki was no longer restricted to basic physical hardening. He discovered the latent Haki within his body could suddenly flow as freely as any other energy form. Following the memory techniques of Armament Haki emission and infusion, everything had occurred as naturally as water flowing downstream!
Advanced Armament Haki—mastered flawlessly without a single day of formal training!
It was precisely through the force of infused Armament Haki that he could effortlessly crush a grand axe forged with heavy Uru alloy.
Regaining his senses, Dwarf attempted one final, desperate struggle, but Peter clearly had zero intention of granting him another opportunity:
"Since you're so eager to be the first in line to die, I'll happily fulfill your wish!"
Lifting a finger, Peter aimed it directly at Dwarf's forehead... and delivered a casual, gentle flick.
Thwack!
Accompanied by a dull, muffled thud, Dwarf's forehead—the exact point of contact—remained completely unmarked.
However, the back of his massive skull exploded instantly like a watermelon struck by a sledgehammer. Dark crimson and white fluid sprayed violently across Supergiant's face.
The headless, colossal frame went rigid in mid-air for a split second before crashing limply onto the asphalt below, carving a massive crater into the street.
Armament Haki: Internal Destruction!
Supergiant stood entirely frozen, staring blankly at Dwarf's lifeless corpse lying on the concrete. She instinctively reached up with a trembling hand to touch the warm, viscous fluid splattered across her face, her mind going completely blank.
Dwarf... was dead?
That towering brute renowned across the cosmos for his unyielding strength and invulnerability—a warrior who ran rampant across star systems and whom only Thanos and Corvus Glaive could reliably overpower—had died just like that, without making a single sound?
A suffocating wave of pure terror submerged her sanity like an icy tide.
Flee! I must flee immediately!
The second the thought surfaced, she abandoned her mental grip on Daisy and Natasha without a moment's hesitation, spinning on her heel to tear open a dimensional rift and escape.
Yet the exact instant she turned, she felt a single, light hand press gently onto her shoulder.
"Don't be in such a rush to leave." Peter's teasing voice echoed right beside her ear.
That light, frivolous tone sent her plunging straight into an icy abyss.
"Weren't you having a great time playing just a moment ago?"
At the absolute brink of life and death, an unprecedented instinct for survival erupted within Supergiant. She spun around violently, her pale eyes bursting with a blinding, incandescent blue light.
Draining every single drop of her telepathic capacity, she poured her full mental output directly into Peter's brain without reservation!
Forced Mind Control!
She refused to believe that any biological entity on this backwater planet could withstand her absolute, maximum-capacity psychic assault!
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