Lord of Cinder in American Comics

“When you met that woman, you already told her about the impending disaster. If your plan had gone smoothly, I wouldn’t even have needed to mobilize Asgard’s army. Midgard could have fought off those dark elves on its own. I’ve never seen a demon capable of such a feat…”

The greedy man's fingertips twitched, and hellfire ignited at the flickering fingertips, while a faint smell of sulfur wafted out.

"I am a demon, and I have proof from hell!"

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Chapter 442: Little Thoughts

After receiving information from the Greedy Ones, S.H.I.E.L.D. began preparations, but the Omens' army still failed to enter British territory.

Fortunately, SHIELD's branch in London played its due role, and under SHIELD's command, the SHIELD space carrier still reached its predetermined orbit.

Hill, on the command platform, suddenly asked, "Are those two still within the surveillance range?"

The only ones who could attract such attention from S.H.I.E.L.D. are Greed and Loki.

Sharon Carter replied: "They're in a French restaurant right now. They've been to all the local attractions for the past two weeks, but what's puzzling is that they've been eating English food for every meal for the first two weeks, with only the greedy occasionally going to other restaurants."

Initially, we even sent agents to follow them, but after the agent who was tracking them clung to a lamppost and shouted "I love you" for eight hours straight, we stopped using manual methods.

Hill ignored the agent's follow-up and said, "Don't worry about their specific actions, just keep them within surveillance range. Has the S.H.I.E.L.D. team reached their designated location?"

Sharon Carter said, "The operations team led by Steve Rogers is expected to board the USS Theodore Roosevelt in two hours."

Steve Rogers has recently been getting along very well with the S.H.I.E.L.D. combat team and has gradually built up his own authority and gained a following.

This is a good thing for S.H.I.E.L.D., after all, an old relic they bought with tears in their eyes has to play its role.

But the growing outcry made Hill feel that there must be some underlying problems, but there was no time to deal with them now, as a greater danger was looming ahead.

Hill asked, "How has the recent anomaly in gravity readings around London been handled?"

As the celestial bodies drew closer, gravitational anomalies began to manifest throughout London. S.H.I.E.L.D., already on guard against danger, quickly took notice of this strange situation.

"We have dispatched observation teams, and in the event of any special circumstances, an air strike can arrive within two minutes. Ground troops can complete their fire deployment within fifteen minutes."

After reviewing S.H.I.E.L.D.'s firepower, Hill breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing the ammunition reserves sufficient to destroy the entire city of London.

Devour

After Sharon Carter finished speaking, she hesitated for a moment and asked cautiously, "Chief, are you really not going to go find that person?"

Hill stared coldly at Sharon, her gaze growing increasingly hostile, and said icily, "Who asked you to ask?"

Sharon Carter forced herself to calm down and said, "My aunt is nearing the end, she needs some help..."

Help? Hill wouldn't believe such a thing. Only after she took over as director of S.H.I.E.L.D. did she realize what humanity had gone to such lengths to prolong life.

Whether it's an infinite equation that can prolong life simply by injecting it, converting to a certain religion to elevate the soul, cloning oneself to transfer consciousness, or even joining forces with vampires, all of these can allow life to continue.

Sharon Carter's aunt is the famous Peggy Carter. As the founder of S.H.I.E.L.D., she had easy access to things that could prolong her life.

Now, if Sharon Carter were to inquire about methods of prolonging life, it wouldn't be anything like what Sharon described.

The goal is to acquire power; after witnessing various powers that transcend human capabilities, no one can help but yearn for them.

The arrival of the Inhumans added another weight to the scales of desire.

"Once this matter is over, you can be transferred elsewhere, whether it's a clerical position or staying in London with Shield, it's your choice..."

Instead of giving Sharon an answer, Hill issued a different warning and took a different approach.

Asking this question is a way of finding a way out for the group behind her, a way to acquire their powers. And the missing Geralt has become one of their targets.

Sharon Carter neither refuted nor argued, but took a step back to distance herself from Hill. In any case, her fate was already sealed the moment she asked the question.

Hill didn't care about Sharon, nor did she need Sharon to be close to her.

Born from a cold, snowy night storm, Hill was born with a kind of indifference, which has spread to everything in her life and work since becoming the director of S.H.I.E.L.D.

She only needs to be accountable to the World Security Council; no other person or thing has any effect on her whatsoever.

As the time of celestial conjunction draws closer, the atmosphere and environment around London become increasingly tense.

The cruise ships that used to ply the Thames have been replaced by various patrol boats that appear and disappear unpredictably.

On a patrol boat, a turret operator, looking at the ripples on the water through his observation equipment, said, "These submarines are really bold, daring to operate in the Thames..."

The person next to him casually remarked, "What did you say? No submarines were involved in this operation at all. To counter the European fleet, all the submarines were deployed to the English Channel..."

The two exchanged a glance and suddenly sprang into action. One sounded the alarm, while the other began reporting the enemy's coordinates.

If you could see it more clearly, you would find that the ripples on the water's surface do not originate from objects beneath the water, but rather appear to be ripples created by something flying close to the water's surface.

A T-shaped warship belonging to the Dark Elves brazenly arrived on the Thames River, heading towards the location of the Reality Stone.

The Dark Elves' spaceship possessed an invisibility ability that surpassed all other technologies. Even in Asgard, only Heimdall, with his eyes that could see through the Nine Realms, could spot some of the spaceship's shadow.

Human society's various radars and observation devices only detected the difference in the water when this spacecraft was sailing on the Thames.

Upon receiving the report, the Royal Air Force urgently dispatched three Typhoon fighter jet formations to intercept the unseen enemy.

"The fledglings are calling to the nest, but no enemy has been detected. They can't be detected on radar either..."

Nine planes flew around the Thames River, completely obscuring the invisible spaceship.

"The fledglings are preparing to return home; perhaps they are those..."

The nine aircraft formed three small formations and flew around several times. After failing to find any enemy formations, they prepared to return to base. However, two of them seemed to have crashed into an invisible wall and exploded.

The commander frantically yelled into the channel, "Gain altitude! Gain altitude and fire probing shots toward the blast site!"

The attacks from machine guns and missiles finally revealed the invisible spaceship to the poet.

The massive T-shaped blade-like spaceship made no attempt to conceal its target, flying straight toward Stonehenge.

Its massive hull and low-flying posture allowed it to carve a path of explosions and flames through the city.

Hill directed S.H.I.E.L.D.'s battle against the Dark Elves: "Get ready, launch all the planes on both space carriers! Uninterrupted firepower!"

"Get ready, when they appear and break the seal, we'll rush in and grab it!"

Similarly, near Stonehenge, the Greedy One also orchestrated his and Loki's actions.

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Chapter 443: Watch Your Back

At Stonehenge, Loki, who had been waiting anxiously, finally saw the dark elves he had been longing for.

The Royal Air Force was still unable to stop the Dark Elves' ships, and Typhoon fighters and F-35s became the main combat force of the air force.

However, the Royal Air Force, which had completely veered off course, failed to inflict any damage on the ship even after firing all its missiles. In fact, when the ship came to rest next to Stonehenge, the Dark Elf's ship leisurely adjusted its landing attitude.

Loki stared at the dark elf's airship, his knuckles turning white as he gripped his staff. He silently warned himself that he absolutely could not let any dark elf escape; Frigga's life was in his hands.

The front hatch of the spaceship slowly opened, and a small spaceship carrying Malekith, the current leader of the Dark Elves, and his second-in-command Argolim arrived at Stonehenge.

Looking at the faintly visible runes on Stonehenge, Malekith sneered and waved to the spaceship behind him.

The T-shaped spaceship's engines started up again, ready to break the seal on Stonehenge in the most decisive way possible: crash into it.

The spaceship's blade-like hull began its struggle against the seal.

The entire spaceship pressed directly onto Stonehenge, like a blade trying to pierce through plastic wrap, but the tough seal made it difficult to advance even an inch.

At that moment, a massive formation of aircraft appeared in the sky, and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s space carrier slowly emerged from the clouds.

The firepower from S.H.I.E.L.D. was significantly stronger than the minor skirmishes by the Royal Air Force.

Hill didn't care about these so-called ruins; he immediately unleashed a barrage of fire. All the fighters fired all their ammunition at their designated targets in the shortest possible time.

This put the Dark Elves' ship shields in grave danger. Malekith gestured to Algolim beside him, and immediately countless smaller ships emerged from the main ship to confront S.H.I.E.L.D.

Fortunately, these small spaceships lacked the strong protection of the main ship, and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s air power was barely able to fight them off.

Meanwhile, the S.H.I.E.L.D.'s space carrier had finished its barrage, and Zola's algorithm locked onto all targets in an instant. The dozens of electromagnetic cannons on the space carrier were put to excellent use.

Spacecraft kept crashing, but Malekith didn't care about the losses. His only goal now was the Reality Stone. Once he got the Reality Stone, everything would submit to him!

The Dark Elf's flagship increased its power, its engines constantly spewing flames, while Stonehenge's defenses were like Durex's help, its thin barrier acting as an insurmountable chasm.

"Invincibility Begins with Sacrificing to the Ancestral Master"

The impatient Malekith could wait no longer, and he took out the gravity bomb, the latest weapon developed by the dark elves over the past few millennia.

A gravity bomb can artificially create a brief black hole that can swallow up an area of ​​several square meters around it.

This was destructive to the seal of Stonehenge, like poking a tiny hole in a Durex condom with a needle. No matter how strong the protection was, it would break down because of this oversight, and trouble would follow.

Holes appeared one after another on the rune seal, and with the pressure from the Dark Elf's massive flagship, the Stonehenge seal vanished like a soap bubble in an instant.

Seeing that the defenses had been breached, Malekith did not linger and went directly to the place where Bauer had been sealed.

But what no one saw was that not far behind them, two stealthy, invisible figures were cautiously following them.

Loki was somewhat displeased; the Greedy One hadn't allowed him to enter the sealed land immediately, but instead instructed him to wait patiently.

"I don't know what we're waiting for? Why don't we just grab it before they do?"

The Greedy One said, "The Infinity Stones possess various magical properties, but most importantly, their carriers must be powerful enough, or they must use some kind of medium."

Similarly, the Reality Stone is the only Infinity Stone without a fixed physical form; it typically exists as a fluid, volatile liquid. This makes the only way to control it to be received by the user's physical body.

Do you believe your physical body can withstand the cost of using the Infinity Stones?

Loki's face darkened. He hadn't found this information in the Asgardian books. If what the Greedy One said was true, then it wouldn't be easy to obtain this gem.

Loki asked, "Are we just going to hand the gem over to those dark elves like that? Wouldn't they be unstoppable once they got their hands on it?"

The Greedy One shook his head and said, "That's not true. What's powerful is the Infinity Stone, and the body that holds it isn't invincible. I can put 'shackles' on it."

Loki quietly followed the greedy man. Although his heart was still unsettled, for Frigga's sake, Loki was willing to put aside his past recklessness and impulsiveness and spend this time peacefully.

Malekith and his lieutenant walked through the dark place where the gems were sealed, a darkness that felt as warm as a mother to them.

The faint red flashes in the distance seemed to be calling to them.

Malekith quickened his pace and walked towards the red light.

The Reality Stone, like liquid, was placed between two giant rocks. Malekith looked at the stone before him and stretched out his trembling hand.

The Reality Stone, like a tentacle monster, wrapped itself around Malekith's hand and then poured into his mouth and nose.