Millennium Dome.
This building, located in Greenwich, was once rated as the ugliest building in the world..
It has a striking white dome, surrounded by steel pillar supports.
Its overall appearance looks like—
Like a few candles awkwardly stuck into a white cake, completely lacking any aesthetic appeal…..
At this moment.
Ye Li was standing on one of these 'candles'.
As a well-known artist, he naturally sneered at the bizarre appearance of this building.
However.
He had no time to focus on the building now; his gaze was fixed on the Thames River.
On the river's surface, a massive rhombus-shaped spaceship, still cloaked, was approaching…..
With Ye Li's heightened senses, he had naturally detected the arrival of this Dark Elf mothership.
Hu...Hu...Hu.....Splash——!
As the mothership got closer to the Millennium Dome's shore, its bottom cut through the water, sending huge waves crashing!
At this point, even Thor, standing on a nearby steel pillar beside Ye Li, sensed something was wrong...
Thor: "There's something there!?"
Boom!!——!!
Just as he finished speaking, the Dark Elf mothership revealed its towering form and crashed onto the shore!
As the surrounding residents and pedestrians scattered in panic.
Thor also got a clear look at the mothership's design.
That black ship, with its giant red eye-like core, unmistakably told him—
——These were indeed the remnants of the Dark Elves!
"I won the bet, Thor."
"Don't forget the wager."
Ye Li moved with a thought.
His figure disappeared in an instant.
When he reappeared, he was already on a rooftop further away.
"The test begins..."
…..
Inside the Dark Elf mothership.
Malekith frowned as he watched the locked-on Aether Particle suddenly shift in space again. He immediately commanded the Dark Elf soldiers—
—— "Catch it!!"
Whoosh—!
Whoosh—!
Whoosh—!
Several smaller ships detached from the mothership.
The small warships, with their sleek and slender design, swiftly glided toward Ye Li's location!
However.
At the same time.
Above the clouds.
More than a dozen combat transport aircraft dived straight down—these were the ones Ye Li had "borrowed" from the S.H.I.E.L.D. mothership.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The dozen or so missiles onboard the fighters were all launched simultaneously, covering the Dark Elf warships—!
Swish—
Swish—
The Dark Elf warships, reactivated after thousands of years, lacked significant long-range weaponry, but they were incredibly agile. With a few quick flips, they dodged the missile barrage and swiftly closed in on the combat aircraft, sweeping through them!
Boom! Boom! Boom!.....
Under the close-range ramming attacks of the Dark Elf warships, the S.H.I.E.L.D. combat transport planes exploded into balls of fire.
At the same time, parachutes bloomed open in the sky like flowers—
These were the [Fearless] clone soldiers ejected in advance.
The Dark Elves, noticing the enemy still had survivors, immediately turned their ships and charged toward these sitting ducks!
Except… this was exactly what they wanted.
The Fearless clones showed no fear of the oncoming ships—instead, they cut their parachutes and charged forward!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Many clone soldiers were shattered upon impact… After all, while they had been enhanced with the same serum as Steve Rogers, their reaction speed was slightly weaker due to the limitations of collective control.
But.
A few clone soldiers managed to climb onto the Dark Elf warships and hurled bombs infused with the energy of the Space Stone toward the ships' engines!
With several explosions, the Fearless soldiers successfully destroyed multiple ships.
Their ruthless, almost suicidal attacks shocked not only the watching civilians and Thor but even Malekith and the other Dark Elves!!
Malekith felt like he had woken up in a world he no longer understood: "Have Midgardians always been this ruthless?!"
The citizens were both shocked and moved: "Who are these people? They… they're risking their lives to protect us!"
"They are truly brave warriors!!"
Thor was also fired up, full of admiration: "It seems we can't just stand by and watch!"
Whoosh—!
He spun his hammer and took off, leading lightning toward a warship that had just separated from the mothership, "Dark Elves! Face your doom!!"
Inside the Dark Elf warship, Malekith nearly pissed himself—who the hell was this reckless brute?!
Pop~~
Just as Thor swung his hammer to smash into the ship, a spatial distortion swallowed him up.
When he regained his senses, he found himself inside a dark cavern.
This was the very place where the Aether Particle had been hidden.
It was one of the Nine Realms—the Dark Elves' homeland, Svartalfheim….
So, this was the reason.
With the Nine Realms aligning, the spatial barriers between them had weakened, causing Thor to fall through.
"Where is this place?"
Thor kicked at the ground, "And why are there so many shoes here?"