American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

A magnificent rainbow of energy connected Odin to the spear he had thrown. Gungnir pierced the giant yellow monster's chest directly, and the monster's heavy and enormous body crashed to the ground, the tremor beneath its feet like a thousand horses trampling the earth.

"Is that all?" Thor, his battle desire exploding, held his beloved hammer and looked at the giant monster that had been hit directly in a vital spot, somewhat stunned. He hadn't expected the enemy, hyped up as incredibly powerful before the battle, to fall so quickly under the initial coordination of his father and the Sorcerer Supreme. It felt like facing a powerful enemy, only for them to collapse before your side even had a chance to truly charge into battle.

"That was just a greeting." The Ancient One controlled the Mirror Dimension around everyone, and after layers of complex transformations, constructed a huge, suspended platform. Around this huge platform were numerous similar suspended platforms for foothold and transfer.

Luke felt for a moment that this was like a raid boss fight in a game, with mages and ranged fighters in the back, and tanks and warriors in the front. But looking at the old figure at the very front, Luke couldn't help but feel like they were abusing the elderly.

Thump!

Thump thump!

The powerful heartbeat sounded again, and the chest shattered by Gungnir healed rapidly. That fanatical emotion, carrying a high concentration of corrosiveness and infectivity, once again filled the entire Mirror Dimension, making everyone feel like they were facing a blade, their hearts sounding alarm bells. And this time, the feeling of crisis it brought was even stronger than before!

Roar!

The giant monster Mangog stood up again, his body inflated by anger and energy, a third larger than before, looking even more oppressive and threatening. The tall Odin standing in front of him looked like a dwarf standing before a giant.

The giant fist slammed heavily into Odin's body, blocked by Odin wielding Gungnir with both hands, but the enormous force still made Odin slide a distance across the ground.

"Father!" Thor, seeing his father being repeatedly struck by the monster, could no longer restrain himself and swung his Mjolnir, carrying a sky full of lightning and thunder, and slammed it heavily into Mangog's hideous giant face.

The power of the thunder god and the impact of Mjolnir caused the muscles on Mangog's face—if they could be called muscles—to cave in heavily, but what followed was a fist so fast that Thor couldn't react. The point of contact between the fist and Thor's body even showed a transparent airburst due to the explosion of power.

Thump!

Thor was as dashing when he struck as he was miserable when he was knocked back. He skipped across the ground like a stone tossed on water three times, and just as he was about to fall off the platform, he grabbed the ground, pulling out deep marks before finally stopping.

Cough!

Thor felt as if the muscles all over his body were about to fall apart, and cracks had burst out of his bones. Although this was healing rapidly under the self-healing of divine power and his powerful body, blood still hung on the corner of his lips.

Luke opened his hands, and tendrils like velvet piled up on his clothes, then rolled out space chips, and a surging cloud of metal mist appeared behind Luke.

Under the control of Luke and his intelligent system, complex parts transformations performed an assembly show in the air for everyone present. Soon, weapons with a strong sense of mechanical beauty appeared around Luke.

With a light snap of Luke's fingers, the brightness in the Mirror Dimension suddenly increased several times, becoming intense and dazzling light pollution. Beams of dazzling and dangerous light spewed out from the ferocious gun barrels behind Luke, continuously bombarding Mangog in front. The waves of surging energy explosions stirred up a strong wind on the platform.

The relentless bombardment lasted for nearly ten minutes before the frequency of the red-hot gun barrels decreased.

The dazzling light faded, and everyone looked at the area that had been heavily bombarded. Mangog's tall figure emerged, and it seemed that the saturated energy bombardment hadn't caused him too much serious damage.

"Put away your little toys, kid. It's already a higher-dimensional being. If you want to hurt it, you have to take out energy of the same quality, or a massive amount of lesser energy. Don't even mention these weapons of yours; even if you threw out all of what you humans call the most lethal weapons, you still wouldn't be able to do anything to it." Odin gripped the spear in his hand and said in a deep voice to Luke behind him.

"Energy of the same quality?" Luke pondered.

"It seems that the Ancient One hasn't told you some deeper things. That new energy you created and condensed is higher-dimensional energy." Odin glanced at the Ancient One, then stared intently at Mangog, whose body had once again swelled and expanded, and hurriedly finished speaking before charging up again to block Mangog as a warrior.

"Those can be discussed later." The Ancient One glanced at Luke, and with a wave of her hands, the Rings of the Living Tribunal appeared in her hands.

"Why do they all like melee combat so much? Is it a matter of energy characteristics?" Luke looked at the two mages, the Ancient One and Karnilla, who rushed up to help Odin bear the pressure, and turned his head to look at Thor, the thunder god, who had stood up again, looking eager to try.

"Fighting, of course, requires melee combat." Thor answered decisively, as if he had never doubted this question in his mind.

"Okay, I understand Asgard's fighting style." Luke shrugged. Maybe it's because the power they use can be better utilized in melee weapons?

The style has dropped a bit.

Luke sighed.

But he had already prepared himself mentally for a major bloodletting when he came.

Luke stretched out his right hand, made a fist, and a plain ring on his right hand shimmered with a lava-like black-gold luster.

All-Father's Ring: Odin of Greed!

The entire Mirror Dimension suddenly felt like a wind was blowing, and then the wind became stronger and stronger, so strong that everyone who was engrossed in the fierce battle and had no time to be distracted noticed the anomaly! Wisps of energy lines converged into a gale, frantically rushing towards a certain area. Even the furious Mangog paused its attack and turned its head to look at the place where the energy was gathering.

"Luke?" Thor looked in astonishment at Luke, who was absorbing all the surrounding energy like the eye of a storm.

"He's absorbing everyone's power." The Ancient One felt the power within her body flowing away madly. Even if she borrowed more power, a large part of it would be absorbed by Luke if she didn't control it. She wasn't surprised by this, but her eyes were particularly bright.

"It's that ring! It's absorbing our power." King of Gods Odin carefully sensed it and found that most of the power in his body was pouring into the black-gold ring on Luke's right hand.

And the one on the field who was more irritable and unable to calm down than everyone else was Mangog, who discovered that a large amount of its power was being lost! Although its power could be described as endless, this endlessness was measured by time. If a large amount of energy was drawn away in a short period of time, it would inevitably suffer a drop in strength. So after feeling the drastic loss of power in its body, its eyes focused on the little bug hiding in the distance and absorbing its power.

"~"

Mangog roared out something that no one could understand, like a meaningless roar. Its thick lower limbs stepped on the ground, and after enduring the attacks of Odin, the Ancient One, and others, it broke through the blockade, and its huge figure pounced towards Luke.

A fist the size of Luke's entire body slammed down on Luke from above, moving extremely fast. Because of the extreme speed, the airflow stirred up by the fist wind wrapped around its thick arm.

"Be careful!" Thor shouted subconsciously, swinging Mjolnir in his hand, and his whole body was carried out, trying to help Luke block the blow or dodge it.

The fist didn't land on Luke.

Or rather, it was only a little short of landing on Luke.

The Ancient One controlled the Mirror Dimension to pull Luke and Mangog apart, but Mangog had obviously suffered from the Mirror Dimension many times before, so in the next moment, it stepped forward again extremely quickly, closing the distance with Luke. At the same time, it punched Thor, who had rushed over, flying away, and grabbed at Luke, who was close at hand, with one hand.

Honeycomb-like light shields appeared in the air, blocking Mangog's grabbing hand. Under the absolute brute force and powerful energy grab, subtle cracks appeared on the light shields. In the next moment, the cracks expanded and shattered into a rain of light. After only blocking for a moment, Mangog's arm moved forward again.

The sure-to-hit grab missed.

It was clear that Luke was within its reach, but its hand always seemed to be only a finger's distance away from the other party. And because of the close range, the power on its body flowed away even more like a flood that had been let loose, and the rate of loss instantly increased many times. Even it, which was like a perpetual motion machine, felt a slight sense of weakness.

Space barrier.

Behind Luke, a hollowed-out lotus-shaped machine was slowly rotating, and it was this instrument that stirred and disrupted the space around Luke.

Layers upon layers of wounds suddenly appeared on Mangog's grabbing arm, the wounds so deep that bone could be seen. When it retracted its arm, three severed fingers fell to the ground.

Mangog retreated, but Luke stepped forward and struck Mangog's calf heavily with his clenched right hand.

The explosive energy directly blasted a deep hole in Mangog's thick calf. Mangog only felt that the power in its body suddenly emptied a large chunk, as if it had been devoured and plundered by some invisible object along the wound. Although this sense of emptiness was quickly restored by the continuous surge of power, the momentary feeling of weakness that almost emptied it still made Mangog furious.

"Insect!"

The surging mental fluctuations raged around, Mangog's anger soared, and its power increased once again. It clasped its hands together and slammed down on Luke's head like a hammer.

Buzz!

The rotating mechanical lotus behind Luke trembled under Mangog's attack. Under Luke's strong and reckless energy input, Mangog's power increased once again, and its fist was finally blocked.

The anger in Mangog's heart rose once again. It still wanted to attack Luke, but at this time, Odin, the Ancient One, and others had already rushed over and blocked it again.

"Can you stop drawing my power?" Karnilla complained to Luke while struggling to use magic to block the raging Mangog. Although her mastery of magical energy in Asgard was second only to Odin, Luke's indiscriminate extraction was too powerful! Her control over energy was not as good as the Ancient One's and Odin's, which greatly affected her performance.

As for Thor? Because the extracted energy was too ruthless, he was punched away by Mangog again and was still groaning on the ground, not fully recovered.

"Phew."

Luke forcibly controlled the All-Father's Ring, cutting off the greedy absorption. Although he had already sensed the strong dissatisfaction of Greed's ignorant consciousness from the ring.

The All-Father's Ring is a ring that can assist Luke in using all the permissions of the Mind Mode. The function is very powerful, but the hidden dangers that need to be borne are equally powerful. The wearer inevitably has to face the emotional contamination corresponding to the ring. If one cannot maintain mental and conscious calmness under the emotional contamination corresponding to the ring, one will fall under the control of the emotions corresponding to the ring.

As the emotional collection devices built by Lyta and the others for Luke increased, various chaotic ignorant consciousnesses within them began to sprout, and even showed a further trend of manifestation.

From a long-term perspective, more energy and greater power are certainly a good thing. But in the present, it still has some impact on Luke. For example, the infectiousness of emotional energy has become stronger! It's even strong enough to corrupt personality.

Although the more 'fallen' one becomes, the more powerful one is, Luke doesn't want any of his creations to be completely out of control.

Golden energy rendered Luke into a golden man, and warm and powerful energy turned into silk threads, connecting Odin, the Ancient One, Karnilla, and Thor, who was still groaning and trying to get up from the ground while clutching his waist.

Powerful energy was transmitted from Luke's ring to everyone, and everyone's spirits became invigorated and high-spirited under the comfort of this energy, and it was as if more energy had emerged in their bodies. Thor, who stood up from the ground again with Mjolnir in hand, felt almost invincible and omnipotent at this moment! He dared to face any powerful enemy!

You've been buffed, go and die!

If Thor knew this sentence, he would deeply empathize with it. However, he didn't know, so he felt that he could do it again. He once again launched a charge towards Mangog, and Mjolnir, which had been dyed with golden energy and enchanted, slammed heavily into Mangog's face. This time, it was finally no longer a painless blow, but caused Mangog's huge body to stagger backwards. The Ancient One, Odin, and others took the opportunity to add more damage.

At the same time, a complex and smooth mechanical assembly began again behind Luke.