(Comparing the fists of two Titans to sandbags is really no exaggeration—if anything, it might even be a slight understatent.)
Just as Blaine was about to grit his teeth and confront them head-on, a bolt of lightning suddenly crashed down from the sky into the arena. The thunderbolt split the air, bathing Blaine in blinding white light. Needless to say, this was Thor's handiwork.
At this mont, Thor's eyes once again turned into two spheres of pure white light. His entire body was wrapped in crackling lightning, arcs of electricity dancing around him with a numbing, tingling aura.
Seeing another attack coming toward him, Blaine was not angry but delighted. He suddenly turned around, deliberately exposing his back to Chika. Did Blaine intend to fight only Hulk head-on?
…
Hulk clearly hadn't expected Blaine to suddenly abandon all other defenses and focus solely on him. Caught off guard, Hulk was driven backward once again by a barrage of ten punches from Blaine.
…
At the sa ti, the lightning crashed down—but to everyone's great disappointnt, it seed to have lost its aim. Not only did it fail to strike Blaine, it exploded behind him instead. The attack, which had clearly been ant for Blaine, instead helped him block Chika's assault.
Thunder and lightning flashed wildly as Thor himself flew in, joining the battlefield.
"Hey, how are you holding up?"
"This move is exciting enough, right?"
"Don't I look handso now?"
Thor stood in front of Blaine, striking a heroic pose, but whispered quietly to him.
"As expected."
Although Blaine's voice remained flat, he couldn't help but want to give Thor a thumbs-up.
"Mr. Hunter, I have an idea."
"Tell ."
Seeing Thor's slightly wretched expression, Blaine found himself unexpectedly looking forward to it.
Likewise, knowing that the Bounty Hunter would cooperate with him, Thor was filled with excitent. On Sakaar, besides his good friend Banner, his brother Loki was also here.
Needless to say, Thor was a devoted older brother. Banner was still Hulk, so there was no need to worry about him for the ti being. But Loki was different—he was in real danger, and sothing could go wrong at any mont.
Yet Thor was currently stuck in the arena, truly caught between a rock and a hard place. In front of him stood the Bounty Hunter, once his comrade-in-arms, while behind him was Loki, threatened by Grandmaster.
Under Grandmaster's control, Thor could only choose to stall for ti, pretending to be locked in combat with the Bounty Hunter. After all, the Bounty Hunter's strength was unfathomable, and Thor wasn't worried about accidentally injuring him. It wasn't until just now that Thor finally ca up with a plan—that was why he had stepped in when Hulk and Chika attacked.
Blaine was troubled as well. If it ca to a real fight, he wasn't afraid in the slightest. But if he didn't fight, Grandmaster was watching closely. The tal key was right there, yet he couldn't take it—irritating beyond words.
What Blaine couldn't ignore was that he was already deeply entangled in this situation. His earlier wager with Grandmaster had been to defeat everyone in the arena in order to win the tal key.
Reality, however, was far more complicated than Blaine had imagined. Setting Hulk and Chika aside, Blaine was confident that he could put either of them down in fewer than a hundred exchanges if he truly went all out. But he couldn't do that. Instead, he had to maintain the appearance of a hard-fought, evenly matched struggle.
Because who knew—if Blaine crushed them too quickly, would Grandmaster release even more terrifying opponents? At that point, not only would the tal key be gone, Blaine feared he might have to explain his life away right here.
If it turned into a never-ending gauntlet orchestrated by Grandmaster, Blaine could be worn down and killed bit by bit. That was why he truly hoped Thor could co up with a solid plan.
After all, Thor was Loki's older brother. And who was Loki? The God of Mischief—trickery itself. Having lived together for hundreds of years, even an honest person like Thor should have picked up a thing or two through sheer exposure.
Next, Thor, Hulk, and Chika continued fighting while carrying out a confusing exchange.
Chika didn't care what Thor and Blaine were talking about. As for Hulk, that went without saying—this big guy only knew how to fight and kill. Nothing else mattered to him.
The reason it was called a confusing exchange was simple: outsiders couldn't see it. Only the four people involved in the battle understood what was really happening.
Thor's silver-white lightning filled the sky. The blinding flashes of light danced chaotically, enveloping all four figures. From the outside, one could only distinguish them by flashes of purple, green, black, and white—by clothing and skin color alone.
On the surface, it looked like a three-on-one. In reality, Blaine was beating down Chika, while Thor temporarily held off Hulk. To outsiders, it appeared extrely dangerous; inside, it was as relaxed as playing mahjong.
Moreover, while exchanging blows with Blaine, Thor quietly explained his plan.
At a certain mont, the audience in the stands and Grandmaster on the viewing platform heard a thunderous boom.
The crackling silver-white lightning flickered violently, snapping and sputtering a few tis before vanishing into the air. Thor's body turned into a brilliant teor, flying straight out of the arena.
The landing spot was almost comically precise—it crashed directly into the remaining cannon fodder of Grandmaster's forces, fewer than a dozen people who were still in the arena.
In an instant, they scread like startled birds and scattered in panic.
Seeing this, the audience let out a collective sigh, believing that such a powerful lightning god had been the first to be eliminated by the Bounty Hunter.
The defeated were rarely rembered. When Thor fell, people quickly shifted their attention back to the Bounty Hunter, Hulk, and Chika.
However, while everyone's focus was fixed on the center of the arena, Thor quietly got back on his feet at the edge and disappeared into the crowd.
Following him were the stone man, the mantis-like creature, and several gladiators who still had so fighting strength left. As for the others, they behaved just as before—
As if they were deliberately covering for them.
Blaine quietly took note of all this, and the movents of his hands quickened considerably. He needed to draw everyone's attention to himself while buying Thor as much ti as possible.
With a single punch, Blaine sent Thor flying. From this point on, it could be said that he was truly fighting one-on-one.
And seeing Thor suddenly knocked out of the fight for unknown reasons, both Chika and Hulk instantly regained their montum. Even their fighting spirit surged once more.
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