Lord of Cinder in American Comics

Malekith's body underwent a process of reconstruction, with the Reality Stone replacing every inch of his tissues and then constructing a new body for Malekith.

Malekith's body perfectly matched his own aesthetic, with a dark torso and a pale face, while tiny particles composed of reality gems floated around him.

Malekith spread his arms wide and shouted at the dark sky, "This is power! The Nine Realms will return to darkness! Next, the first to fall will be those butchers of Asgard!"

"Excuse me for interrupting, but could we please name the first one as Vanaheim? You know, Vanaheim is lit up everywhere, and I think it's your real enemy!"

Loki suddenly appeared from the side, peering out and offering suggestions to Malekith.

With the Reality Stone in hand, Malekith immediately recognized Loki's true form and said, "I didn't know there was a Frost Giant who would plead for Asgard? It seems your frail body has made your heart equally frail, forgetting the sins of Asgard!"

Loki was taken aback at first, then opened his mouth but didn't know what to say. In the end, he just stood there, opening his mouth repeatedly but no sound came out.

Malekith looked at Loki, somewhat puzzled, and asked, "Have you lost your voice? What are you trying to say?"

Loki immediately straightened up, nodded to Malekith to watch his back, and said, "I mean, there's someone behind you!"

The Greedy One appeared behind Malekith without him noticing. Just like Loki before him, he drew his knife and plunged it into Malekith's lower back.

Malekith had lost the gem for thousands of years and had not yet fully mastered it when he was stabbed in the back by greed.

Although the gem quickly erased the damage Malekith had suffered, the greedy man had already gotten what he wanted.

The greedy man looked at Malekith, who had turned around, and said with a smile, "Your kidneys are really firm. Goodbye! By the way, watch out behind you!"

Just as he heard the warning from behind, Malekith was stabbed in the back. He quickly turned around but found nothing there. Loki had also vanished, and in that moment, the Greedy One who had stabbed him had also disappeared.

"Ice Giants! Demons! I will not forgive you!"

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Chapter 444: Loki's Battle

After committing their evil deeds, Loki and the Greedy One fled with lightning speed, fearing that Malekith would find them.

The constantly destructive red energy beams behind him also demonstrated Malekith's anger.

As Loki ran, he complained to the greedy man beside him, "We would have gotten the Reality Stone by now!"

The Greedy One glanced at Loki and said, "So you want to use your own life to power the gems? You'll kick the bucket after a few tries!"

"For her, I'm willing..."

Frigga is probably the only person in Asgard who actually cares about others. The whole of Asgard is a place of constant fighting and feasting, and anyone with a little sensitivity would not enjoy living with those burly guys.

Frigga truly treated Loki as her own child, even more so.

Loki was willing to give his life for Frigga, just as he was willing to do so for a false prophecy.

The greedy man said calmly, "If she knew, she would be very sad..."

"Then tell me your plan, and let's end all this sooner!"

While complaining, Loki conjured other phantoms, leading the Dark Elves' pursuers elsewhere. He and the Greedy One then took a detour and returned to the place where the Reality Stone was sealed.

The Greedy One placed the blood-stained dagger that had just been plunged into Malekith's body back where the Reality Stone had been sealed, and then arranged a ring of vertebrae around it.

[The Shackled Spinal Bone: A special bone discovered by those who have sworn an oath to the "Accumulators" after killing people from other worlds. It is a segment of the spine, which the Accumulators believe to be the shackles of God. These shackles of God are destined to drag Him down from the clouds.]

Loki looked at the resentment stained with his spinal cord and couldn't help but take two steps back.

The greedy one sat down and said, "Now everything depends on you. Hold off all the enemies and prevent the ritual from being disrupted."

Loki said incredulously, "You mean you want me to stop the user of the Reality Stone? And his ruthless henchmen?"

The Greedy One nodded and said, "Remember to be careful of their special forces, the Cursed Warriors. These elite soldiers, generally tall and strong, have traded their lives and bodies for immense power, making them virtually immune to all attacks. Be careful!"

Loki wanted to say a few more words to the Greedy One, but the Greedy One had already begun casting a spell and could no longer respond to him.

Taking out his staff, Loki began casting magical nodes throughout the space. This time, he didn't dodge, but instead stood in the most conspicuous spot, awaiting any potential enemies.

Outside, Malekith obtained the Reality Stone and awaited the impending convergence of celestial bodies.

The Dark Elves' offensive tied down most of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s forces in aerial combat, where the Dark Elves' blade ships held an absolute advantage.

With the skies occupied, S.H.I.E.L.D. had no choice but to look for opportunities to break through on the ground.

The special forces team led by Steve Rogers officially stepped into this battlefield.

At this moment, Steve Rogers, devoid of enthusiasm and passion, asked Crossbones in the calmest of voices, "Have we determined our mission objective?"

The original mission objective was to open up a new battlefield, force the dark elves to engage in ground combat, and then overwhelm the area with firepower.

But for Hydra, mixing their own agendas into their official missions was just a convenient side effect.

"We've been instructed to acquire as much enemy equipment and genetic material as possible, ideally with related technical support, and to cooperate with them if necessary. Dr. Zola can provide technical support for our offensive..."

Crossbones said a lot, but to sum it up: I want it all!

Dr. Zola's voice came through the team's headset: "I've already had the other teams start harassing them. You can hurry up and set off."

After saying that, several Typhoon fighter jets in the sky began to drop bombs one after another, blasting a path in front of Steve.

Steve adjusted the position of his vibranium shield and charged out first.

Malekith had originally planned to wait for the celestial bodies to converge and open the passage to the Nine Realms, then manipulate the Time Stone to turn the Nine Realms into darkness. However, the current stalemate with humanity has made him lose face.

As the enemy lines drew ever closer, Malekith looked at Algolim beside him and said, "Let's finish this quickly!"

Algolim nodded, took out a bottle of potion and swallowed it directly. The super potion, developed by the dark elves, instantly transformed Algolim into a cursed warrior.

He was one and a half times the height of Malekith, with an even more ferocious appearance, but in his place was absolute strength.

The cursed warriors began wreaking havoc on the battlefield, and humans were unable to mount any effective attacks against them.

Whether it's a rifle, a grenade, or even a rocket-propelled grenade or an anti-tank missile, hitting the Cursed Warrior only produces a negligible amount of smoke and dust on his body.

Seeing such an enemy, the Typhoon fighters and F-35s in the sky, after the cursed warriors threw two planes down with stones from the ground, did not dare to join the fray.

Until the cursed warrior, who was running amok on the battlefield, encountered Steve, who had ulterior motives.

Steve was leading his men, preparing to infiltrate the dark elf flagship parked nearby. The cursed warrior appeared before them as soon as he rounded a corner.

Upon seeing the enemy before him, the cursed warrior threw a punch, only to have it blocked by Steve holding up a pot lid.

Looking at his fist in confusion, the cursed warrior punched the soldier next to him, turning him into a bloody mess, before noticing the pot lid that had blocked his attack.

After countless attacks from the cursed warriors, even the enhanced Steve felt exhausted.

Steve, somewhat intimidated, said, "We're not enemies, perhaps we could talk about cooperation?"

The two fell silent. Who would have thought that after transforming, the Cursed Warrior would not speak at all!

Suddenly, as if receiving some information, the Cursed Warrior abandoned Steve and rushed directly towards Malekith's location.

Rewind a little bit, and shortly after the Greedy One began casting the spell, Malekith noticed something different about his body.

At first, I thought that since I hadn't obtained a real gem in thousands of years, I wasn't yet proficient in handling gems.

However, as time went on, Malekith felt increasingly heavy in his body, as if someone had put shackles on him, restricting his strength.

However, for the Reality Stone, all that's needed is to modify the existing reality. Malekith didn't pay much attention to the first couple of modifications to his own body's limitations.

However, with the continued restrictions, Malekith felt panicked.

The Reality Stone requires its own physical body as a medium; in other words, it is driven by one's own life.

If this continues, I'll die here before the celestial bodies converge and I can realize my great ideal.

Malekith immediately called his second-in-command to lead him back to the mothership.

So the cursed warrior, who had left in a hurry, returned in a hurry as well.

Steve felt a little embarrassed, seeing that he and his group had been ignored; he was happy but also a little disappointed.

Malekith was placed in a medical pod, where his body was examined in various ways, and his energy was replenished.

Under the instrument's observation, Malekith used the power of the gem to shatter the shackles on his body once more. As a result, the Greedy One on the other side added another shackle—a vertebral bone—to the ritual, and the curse on Malekith's body reappeared.

Enraged, Malekith realized that someone was definitely targeting him, most likely the two elusive figures from earlier.

The Reality Stone allows its user to disregard scientific laws and make arbitrary arrangements, but such unexplained modifications can only alter the predetermined outcome. Breaking the curse has no effect whatsoever on the greedy individual's ability to do it again.

After his attempts failed, Malekith quickly devised a plan. If the Reality Stone could make ideas come true, then realizing his fantasies would be a piece of cake.

Malekith was recalling the man who had just stabbed him when a phantom figure appeared before him, smiling as it offered him the knife again.

Malekith accurately seized the weapon and then used the Reality Stone to recreate the environment from before, only to find that Greed and Loki had returned to the same spot.

The Reality Stone was used to simulate time; after all, for such an unscientific tool, the established past is also part of reality.

Malekith is now unable to attend to the battle outside; if this problem isn't resolved, he certainly won't live to see the moment the celestial bodies converge.

Enraged, Malekith headed straight for the place where he had just obtained the gem. As he left the mothership, Malekith spotted the Hydra squad causing trouble on his ship.

Although he wouldn't care about these weaklings, there were always bugs buzzing around in front of him, and Malekith wasn't in a good mood right now.

With a wave of his hand, the power of the Reality Stone surged forth, instantly turning all the enemies inside the mothership into dust.

However, Steve was the only one who survived, and the powers of the Reality Stone and the Mind Stone constantly surged within him.

Malekith stopped at the entrance to the sealed gem's lair. The place was no longer the same as before.

The Asgardian army guarded every position, and they were even lined up and waiting, watching the light of the Rainbow Bridge constantly emanating from the air, and more Asgardian troops were heading towards them.

Malekith looked around with some suspicion. How could such a large force be deployed in such a short time?

Unleashing the power of the gem, Malekith wiped out a small patrol of soldiers. Before he could even see the corpses there, the rest of the Asgardian army charged at him.

Loki truly deserves the title of Asgard's First Wizard; his illusions are enough to fool everything.

Malekith was able to see through Loki's true identity at a glance because Loki's transformation ring clashed with the illusion magic he had used to change his appearance.

The terrain of this region, after being modified by Loki, was imbued with various magical blessings, and there were even multiple magical nodes in every place.

In the Type-Moon universe, it would be the magic workshop of the world's top magicians, a super buff zone where anyone who comes would doubt whether they can leave alive.

Those Asgardian soldiers were false entities created by Loki using shapeshifting and illusion magic; they could even deceive a person's sense of touch.

Malekith was deceived by such magic and began to fall into the endless Asgardian army.

Loki even hid among the created armies, occasionally catching Malekith off guard.

Although he was surrounded by cursed warriors, he was also bound hand and foot by so many enemies.

As the Rainbow Bridge teleported him once more, Odin's figure appeared in this place.