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Chapter 249

"Thor!"

A somewhat surprised voice broke the silence. Thor turned around and saw Wanda. He couldn't help but wonder, "It's so late. Why aren't you asleep?"

Wanda blushed slightly. "When you weren't around, I... wasn't used to it..."

In the recent illusion, they had shared sleeping quarters every day...

Thor nodded. "Well, in that case... would you like to accompany me?"

"Um!"

Thor was pleased. He had originally planned to bring only Skye, who was a professional ally, but since he had unexpectedly run into Wanda, he decided to bring her along as well.

With a powerful mage on their side, they had the confidence to face the challenge ahead!

...

In Ego's palace, Star-Lord and the others were visibly frustrated.

"Groot, can you use your vines to untangle these damn tentacles?" Star-Lord asked, holding out a glimmer of hope.

"I am Groot..."

Groot shook his head.

He couldn't use his vines to open a lock, and besides, he was a tree!

"Boom..."

A fighter jet descended from the sky and crashed onto the grass outside the outer gate. Then, a metal whistle arrow flew through the hall with a red arc, slicing through all the tentacles. Star-Lord fell to the ground with a thud.

"Shhh..."

A familiar whistle sounded as the arrow flew back out the door.

"Hey! Kid, I've got you. Don't think you can run away this time!" A familiar voice echoed through the hall. The leader of the Ravagers, Yondu, walked in with a smile.

"Give it up, Quill!"

Seeing Yondu, who he hadn't seen in a while, Star-Lord was momentarily stunned, then cursed, "Damn it! You really are haunting me!"

Though the tone was unfriendly, Gamora, Rocket, and the others felt that the two were like a real father and son.

Yondu was momentarily taken aback, then sighed. "We? No, there is no 'we.' I was betrayed by my subordinates. Except for my most loyal assistant, Kraglin, everyone else is dead!"

"Betrayed? Dead?!"

Star-Lord's eyes widened.

Though he sometimes acted foolishly, he was quick to piece together the situation. Yondu must have learned about his captivity and insisted on rescuing him, which led to his subordinates' rebellion!

"Let's go, kid. While the fight is still going on over there and they can't pay attention to us!"

Yondu patted Star-Lord on the shoulder and helped him onto the spaceship.

"No!"

Star-Lord shook his head. "He won't let us go. No matter where we run, we must stop him!"

"Boom..."

A massive figure burst through the wall and landed next to Star-Lord. The skeleton of an unknown creature with a tiger head slowly crawled up, glanced at Star-Lord and the others, muttered something, and then charged out again.

Rocket looked on in confusion. "Who is this guy? Why does it seem like he's particularly interested in Quill?"

Star-Lord: "..."

Yondu muttered to himself, "This... should be one of Quill's siblings..."

The others stared in shock: "!!!"

Gamora changed the topic. "Now the question is, how do we defeat a god?"

Star-Lord raised his hand. "He has a brain hidden deep within the planet, encased in a hard shell. Destroying the brain will make him vanish completely!"

"Well, then we can save the world again!"

Rocket piloted the spacecraft upwards and fired intensely at the ground.

"It's no use; he reinforced the ground and blocked all the gaps!" Mantis felt Ego's emotions and said helplessly.

"What should we do then?" Drax looked at Star-Lord.

He had never been good at strategizing, only at charging into battle as directed by others.

Gamora took a deep breath and pointed into the distance. "We'll join the fight and draw Ego's attention! If anyone can break through to the core, it has to be Thor!"

In Gamora's view, a man capable of defeating Thanos was at the pinnacle of combat power.

...

"Oh my god, this is... the Dad-Killing Army!"

Thor stepped through the portal and saw the army of skeletons everywhere. He immediately understood their origins.

This old guy, Ego, has some truly twisted tastes. The thing scurrying on the ground and digging with its nose—was he sure it wasn't a wild boar in its past life?

A figure radiating death appeared beside him. Hela looked at the chaos and asked, "What is going on? What's wrong with these skeletons?"

This was her first encounter with undead that could attack so aggressively without any external control!

"Oh, they were all his sons and daughters, slaughtered and consumed. That's why they harbors such resentment."

Hela, Wanda, and Skye: "!!!"

Oh no, is this really their biological father?

Compared to him, Odin seemed like a model parent!

Thor interrupted their thoughts. "We'll discuss the details later. For now, we need to handle this situation."

"Help me open the ground. This guy's real body is hidden deep within the earth!"

Skye was shocked. "Me? Is that really okay?"

Although she had awakened her shockwave power, she had never used it to destroy a planet...

Thor ignored her concerns, jumped into the air, and hurled his battle axe in a spinning motion, diving down like a meteorite.

"Boom…"

The unyielding Axe tore through the ground, quickly causing deep cracks to expand.

The powerful shockwave blasted towards the underground. Under this dual force, the planet's structure became increasingly unstable and precarious.

"No! You can't..."

Ego roared furiously. He felt the deep crack on the planet's surface. The battle axe had lodged into the outer core, and the internal structure of the planet was becoming increasingly unstable due to the shockwave.

He shouted, and countless energy tentacles abandoned other enemies to rush towards this side.

At the same time, huge mountains collapsed, and hundreds of meters of boulders fell towards Skye. He saw that her body was certainly not strong enough to withstand the onslaught...

His intuition told him that if he killed this girl, all crises would be averted!