Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be a superhero

Besides, Saul is the kind of guy who can be easily fooled with just one drink. Unless his brother is just as stubborn, it would be incredibly easy to trick such a big, dumb guy.

Natasha was about to chime in with a comment when her jacket pocket suddenly vibrated. She quickly pulled out a small walkie-talkie: "Coulson? What's up?"

“Natasha, we were investigating the location where those four people suddenly appeared in the plains when we were attacked by a moving suit of armor. It appeared out of nowhere with a beam of light, and its destructive power was astonishing,” Coulson’s voice came through. “Is Lu Mingfei nearby?”

Upon hearing "moving armor," Thor's friends' expressions changed drastically. Thor, who was a beat slower to react, also realized something and his expression changed accordingly.

“Good morning, Agent Coulson,” Lu Mingfei said from the side. “I’m here. What’s up?”

Coulson said, "That armor caused us serious losses, but it wasn't targeting us. After defeating us, it headed towards your town! We can't stop it! Natasha, Mr. Lu Mingfei, you need to be careful!"

"What?" Lu Mingfei looked completely bewildered.

"A moving suit of armor... is it the Destroyer?" Thor ran towards the hotel entrance, with Lu Mingfei and the others following behind him.

Thor pushed open the door and looked out at the distant horizon—where a funnel-shaped cloud stretched down to almost the ground.

“Those are traces of the Rainbow Bridge! It’s the Destroyer!” Thor exclaimed.

"Excuse me, is the Destroyer you mentioned a suit of armor that's about two meters tall, iron-silver in color, with a flat helmet and a row of spikes on each side of its body, and flames visible through the gaps?" Lu Mingfei asked from the side.

"It's already here!?" Thor exclaimed in surprise.

"No, someone sent me a video." Lu Mingfei held up his phone, which showed a metal suit of armor that emitted rays from its helmet, instantly destroying a S.H.I.E.L.D. vehicle.

“Phew…” Thor breathed a sigh of relief. “It hasn’t arrived yet. It’s probably coming for me. I need to lure it away to prevent it from killing the innocent mortals here.”

"Uh...maybe it won't work," Lu Mingfei said.

“Friend, I know you’re worried about my safety, but…” Thor’s face was full of determination.

“No,” Lu Mingfei said, “I mean it’s here now, and you shouldn’t be able to outrun it.”

Following the direction Lu Mingfei pointed, Thor could vaguely see a blurry metallic shadow.

"Your Destroyer runs pretty fast," Lu Mingfei remarked, gazing at the metallic shadow approaching at an astonishing speed.

"The Destroyer is Father's armor, but even when Father isn't wearing it, it is Asgard's strongest security measure and fighting force," Thor said.

“Natasha, go and evacuate the crowd, and also notify Dr. Banner—he should be practicing yoga in his room. I’ll go check on the situation,” Lu Mingfei said, turning to Natasha.

“Okay,” Natasha nodded, then stared at Lu Mingfei and said seriously, “Be careful.”

"Don't worry, if you can't beat me, just run away," Lu Mingfei said seriously.

Natasha: ...

What I said is correct, but shouldn't that be my line?

The Warriors Three and Sylvanas stepped forward: "This is an internal feud within Asgard, and it should not affect mortals. We will also go and stop the Destroyer."

With a wave of his hand, Lu Mingfei forcibly pulled down several metal billboards around them, which then floated in front of them.

Lu Mingfei jumped onto a billboard and looked at Sif, one of the Warriors Three of Asgard: "It happened so suddenly, just make do with this."

Sif jumped onto a billboard first, looking at Lu Mingfei with a surprised expression: "You're a mage from Midgard?"

The three warriors of Asgard jumped onto the billboards, and with a wave of Lu Mingfei's hand, the billboards carried them toward the Destroyer, along with all the surrounding metal objects.

"Wow! What kind of magic is this?" Thor exclaimed in surprise. "I only know that dwarves have magic to control metal, but there are people in Midgard who do it? Wait... they forgot to bring me with them!"

Natasha glanced at Thor—Lu Mingfei had said that his ability to control metal was essentially the control of electromagnetic fields, but this Thor seemed completely unaware of this.

However, she didn't intend to spread the secret of Lu Mingfei's abilities everywhere, so she didn't mention it, and she had more important things to do now.

“Mr. Saul, could you please help me evacuate the people?” Natasha asked.

“No,” Thor shook his head, clenching his fists. “It all started because of me. Although I have lost my fighting power, only I can quell the disaster Loki caused.”

After saying this, he ran headlong toward the Destroyer.

"Why are all these recent mission objectives getting worse and worse?" Natasha thought, looking at Thor's retreating figure with a stomachache.

While pulling out her walkie-talkie to summon nearby agents from S.H.I.E.L.D. to help evacuate the crowd, Natasha secretly prayed that future missions would never involve these oddballs again.

……

On the edge of the town where the Destroyer was located, Lu Mingfei and the three warriors of the Celestial Palace arrived, stepping on billboards, with countless metal objects falling towards the Destroyer like an avalanche.

Standing in the metal storm, the Destroyer remained motionless. Metal objects struck it, producing only a series of crisp, resounding collisions, without causing any damage or even scratching its surface.

Lu Mingfei stood in mid-air, trying to control the Destroyer, but as he expected, it was completely ineffective.

After all, in their own world, Susie and Chu Zihang had said that Jian Yu could only control ordinary metals, not alchemical metals.

Although I don't know if the concept of alchemical metals exists in this world, that armor certainly doesn't look like "ordinary metal."

“Ordinary weapons can’t harm the Destroyer,” Sif shouted to Lu Mingfei. “Mages of Midgard, stop attacking! Only the Asgardian weapons in our hands can hurt the Destroyer.”

Lu Mingfei nodded to himself, thinking to himself that he was indeed Thor's friend. Although Thor seemed to be a bit slow-witted, his friends were still reliable.

He stopped the metal storm to avoid injuring his own people, and then Sif and the other three jumped off the billboard.

Then Lu Mingfei saw the four people below scraping the Destroyer.

Sif was right; their weapons were indeed much more powerful than ordinary metal and could damage the Destroyer—but only leave scratches on the metal surface.

Compared to ordinary metal, the only difference is between "failing to scratch the enemy's armor" and "barely managing to scratch the enemy's armor".

While the four of them were barely holding off the Destroyer, Lu Mingfei loudly chanted the Dragon Rune.

A moment later, he shouted down, "Scatter!"

Sif and the other three were experienced warriors after all, and almost as soon as they heard Lu Mingfei's voice, they instinctively scattered and hid.

The next second, an explosion suddenly erupted around the Destroyer, which was then enveloped in a ball of dark red flames.

Because his teammates were present, Lu Mingfei couldn't easily trigger an explosion, so this time he focused on increasing the temperature of the Junyan Flame, making the explosive power almost negligible.

Although the power of this dark red flame was not as great as the Black Flame Prison he used to kill the Abomination, its temperature was still extremely terrifying. The surrounding ground melted into magma almost instantly, and the Destroyer, which was enveloped in it, gradually sank down.

Thor, who had run there on two legs, witnessed this scene.

"The mages of Midgard... can they be this powerful?!" Thor exclaimed in surprise. In his understanding, Midgard should be full of mortals with limited combat power.

The next second, the Destroyer, shrouded in dark flames and whose outline could only be vaguely seen, suddenly lit up on its head.

"Watch out!" Thor shouted to Lu Mingfei in mid-air.

Almost simultaneously, a fiery torrent of energy erupted from the Destroyer's head, engulfing Lu Mingfei.

In the last second before being engulfed by the energy torrent, Lu Mingfei actually had a feeling that he had expected this—

I was wondering why I hadn't encountered any near-death situations this time I traveled through time. So that's why!

"Do not--"

Thor roared, looking at the Destroyer emerging from the lava pool, and said, word by word, "Loki, my brother, you will pay for your crimes!"

Lightning struck from the sky, enveloping Thor, and magnificent armor instantly covered his body, with a red velvet cloak draped over it.

In the distance, at the S.H.I.E.L.D. temporary base, Thor's hammer, which had remained motionless, flew towards Thor like lightning slicing through the sky.

Under the watchful eyes of the Warriors Three and Sif, Thor raised one hand to catch the incoming hammer... that's how it was supposed to be, but the hammer now had no handle.

The hammer grazed Thor's hand, slowing down in time, but still slammed heavily into Thor's head. The lightning crackling on the hammer also surged into Thor's body, causing him to tremble and fall to the ground.

Destroyer: ...

The Warriors Three & Sif: ...

"Honestly, for a moment, I really thought you were going to be reliable." A tall, slender figure suddenly appeared beside Thor, who had fallen to the ground.

At this moment, Lu Mingfei's pupils seemed to be even hotter than the magma pool on the ground, and his majesty was so great that people dared not look directly at him, but his face twitched slightly.

Of course, while criticizing Thor, he also made sure to hide the handle of Mjolnir, which was still tucked into his waistband, even more tightly—after all, he was the real culprit.

“Mages of Midgard, beware, the Destroyer!” Sif warned.

The Destroyer's visor opened, revealing the dark interior of its helmet, whereupon the Destroyer's energy gathered and blasted towards Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei raised his hand, and scales surged out of his body almost instantly, snapping shut and producing a loud, clattering sound as the scales rubbed together.

Then, an invisible domain enveloped him and Thor, transforming into a transparent hemispherical protective barrier.

The energy torrent separates and flows along the spherical interface, yet cannot penetrate even a fraction of it.

Words of Power: A Dustless Land.

P.S.: I'm posting one chapter now. I'm still writing the second chapter, so you can read it in the morning. *sobs*

I'll post one chapter now. I'm still writing the second chapter, so you can read it in the morning. *sobs*

Chapter 70: Hulk, Loki, and "Such a Weak God"

New Mexico, on the outskirts of town.

The torrent of energy parted before Lu Mingfei, like a stream blocked by rocks.

A moment later, the Destroyer ceased its futile attack.

Fiery red light spilled out from every gap in the armor, solidifying into radiant runes on its surface.

“Runic runes!” Sif exclaimed. “Be careful! The Destroyer has used all its energy to enhance its melee form. It’s made of Uru metal from Asgard, indestructible and can be imbued with magic and divine power!”

The Destroyer vanished almost instantly from Lu Mingfei's sight. When it reappeared, a sharp light condensed on the fingertips of its gauntlets as it probed into the domain of the Dustless Land.

Like a sword piercing through some kind of tough gel, with each step the Destroyer's gauntlet advanced, it left a slowly spreading ripple in the air within its domain.

Lu Mingfei withdrew, avoiding the Destroyer's gauntlets—although they could break through the Dustless Land's domain, the Destroyer's advance within the domain was also very difficult, and Lu Mingfei could easily avoid them.

But this can't go on forever; we can't keep dragging this out.

As he experienced near-death experiences more frequently, Lu Mingfei gradually became more conscious in these states.

When he first awakened his powers in the terrorist base, he was in a semi-conscious state for the first half of the process, and only regained his clear consciousness after his powers greatly declined in the second half.

But now, he can regain some of his senses almost immediately after unleashing his power.

In this state, however, he had a strange feeling, a sense of emptiness and loss that lingered deep within him—whether it was physical or spiritual.

This sense of emptiness and loss was extremely unpleasant, even more so than the moment he was on the verge of death.

So the more sober he became, the more he wanted to finish the fight quickly, calm his body down as soon as possible, and get rid of that strange and uncomfortable feeling.