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Malekith's forward momentum abruptly halted, as if he had crashed into an invisible wall. The space around him instantly became more solid than a neutron star, locking him firmly in place.
The madness in his eyes turned into horror. He found that he couldn't even move a single finger.
"Let me teach you what a law is."
Chu Hang walked towards him step by step, his leather boots making a crisp sound on the frozen ground. Each step was like a heavy hammer blow to Malekith's heart.
Chu Hang raised his right hand.
"The Law of Force: Gravity Crushing".
The ground beneath Malekith's feet suddenly sank. An invisible, immense force pressed in from all directions.
His ancient armor groaned as it shattered into dust.
His bones were cracking, making a "crackling" sound. He wanted to scream, but because the space was confined, he couldn't make a sound.
Chu Hang walked up to him, looking down at his pained and contorted face, and at the black blood seeping from his seven orifices.
"That's the gap."
Chu Hang raised his left hand and slowly clenched his fist. There was no light or electricity on his fist; it was just an ordinary fist.
But this punch incorporated the "Law of Body" that he had forged himself.
He slowly threw a punch at Malekith's chest.
All the dark energy within Malekith, along with his pride as the Dark Elf King and the hatred that had burned for millennia, was utterly shattered by this single punch.
He slid out of the confined space and collapsed to the ground, barely breathing.
"Kill...kill me..." Malekith managed to squeeze out a few words with his last bit of strength.
“Kill you? That’s too easy on you.” Chu Hang shook his head. “Don’t you like darkness? I’ll send you to a place where it’s always dark.”
He stretched out his hand, and a miniature black vortex appeared in his palm once more. This time, the vortex connected to an absolutely void dimension.
A pulling force drew Malekith, who was lying paralyzed on the ground, towards it.
"Enjoy your eternal imprisonment. There is no light, no sound, no time, only yourself."
Malekith's figure was swallowed by the vortex, leaving behind only a gaze filled with endless fear and despair.
The world fell completely silent.
Thor struggled to his feet and walked to Chu Hang's side. He looked at the spot where Malekith had disappeared, his Adam's apple bobbing, but he couldn't utter a word.
The impact he is experiencing today is greater than that of the past thousand years combined.
In the distance, Loki peeked out from behind a rock. The fake smile on his face was long gone, replaced by a deep-seated fear.
For the first time, he realized how laughable his prized tricks and magic were in the face of absolute power.
“She’s alright.” Chu Hang’s voice broke the silence. “Take her back to Asgard and have your mother use her divine power to help her recover. She’ll be fine soon.”
Thor snapped out of his daze, quickly ran to Jane's side, and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that her breathing was steady.
He carefully picked up Jian and walked to Chu Hang, his expression incredibly complicated.
"Thank you," he said sincerely.
"No need to thank me, it's a deal." Chu Hang didn't accept the thanks. He patted his pocket and said, "I've already received my payment. We're even."
He glanced at Jane in Thor's arms, then at Loki cowering in the distance.
"I have to go now."
"Where are you going?" Thor asked instinctively.
"Let's find a quiet place to examine my new toy." Chu Hang smiled, then casually tore open a black spatial rift in front of him. On the other side of the rift was the living room of his villa on Malibu Beach on Earth.
He turned back and took one last look at Thor.
"Prince of Asgard, the Nine Realms need your protection. Don't always expect others to clean up your messes."
Chapter 129 New Skill: Reality Distortion
The spatial rift closed.
The darkness and bloodshed of Watt Alheim were kept on the other side.
The sea breeze blew into the living room, carrying a salty scent. This is Malibu, California.
Chu Hang didn't linger in the living room, heading straight to the study. He pressed down on a copy of "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics," and the heavy bookshelf slid open silently, revealing a cold metal door.
After successful verification using fingerprint, iris, and voiceprint, the elevator doors closed behind him and descended smoothly.
This is his secret base, located nearly 100 meters below sea level.
The elevator doors opened again, revealing a space the size of a football field.
In the center of the space was a pure black circular platform with a diameter of ten meters, surrounded by Asgardian runes that Chu Hang couldn't understand but felt were very powerful. These were included in the knowledge given by Odin.
Chu Hang walked to the platform and took a deep breath.
He opened the pocket dimension, and a ball of dark red, liquid metal-like energy was carefully released.
It floats above the platform, without a fixed shape, slowly wriggling like a living thing.
Aether, the Reality Gem.
As soon as it appeared, the physical rules of the entire laboratory began to go awry.
The overhead lights were no longer stable, swaying violently like ripples on water, flickering on and off. The electronic thermometer on the wall was oscillating wildly between minus fifty degrees Celsius and plus one hundred degrees Celsius.
The instruments on the control panel emitted a piercing alarm, and the data stream on the screen turned into meaningless gibberish. Several high-precision sensors emitted blue smoke, and their internal components were completely burned out due to the contradictory laws of physics.
The very existence of this thing is a pollution of reality.
Chu Hang's face darkened. He knew this thing was difficult to deal with, but he hadn't expected it to cause such a reaction just from being released.
He tried to activate the material composition scanner in the distance.
Three seconds later, the scanner's core crystal flickered between existence and non-existence several times, and finally, with a "bang," it melted into a pool of silver liquid.
Physical analysis failed.
He raised his hand again, mobilizing the laws of space, attempting to imprison it in a spatial cage.
A transparent cube instantly took shape, enveloping the ether particles within it.
But the next second, something strange happened. The ether particles ignored the concept of walls; some remained inside the cube, while others flowed out, as if the cube never existed.
It doesn't break down space, but rather directly distorts the definition of inside and outside.
The laws of space are also ineffective.
Chu Hang waved his hand to shut down all the instruments that were still groaning, and the laboratory fell completely silent.
He sat cross-legged in front of the platform and closed his eyes.
Since we can't break it from the outside, let's try to understand it from the inside.
He calmed himself down and activated the talent he had copied from Loki—[Number One Mage of the Nine Realms].
In an instant, the world in his eyes changed.
Once the outer shell of matter and energy is stripped away, what remains is a vast, intricate web of laws that govern the workings of the world.
That clump of ether particles is a huge, chaotic, and violent ball of yarn within the web of laws. It has no fixed structure, constantly reorganizing itself and radiating countless erroneous codes outward, interfering with the normal laws around it.
Chu Hang condensed his mental energy into an invisible probe and carefully extended it.
Without analysis, without control.
Just listen and feel.
The moment his mental energy came into contact with the ether, it was as if the noise of the entire universe was poured into Chu Hang's brain.
Countless contradictory, frantic, and chaotic images and information flooded in like a burst dam.
He saw himself as the king of Asgard, wearing a crown and receiving the worship of all people; the next second, he turned back into an unknown soldier on the battlefield of World War II, blown to pieces by a shell.
He saw that the earth was flat, the moon was green, and the sun rose from the west.
He experienced countless historical events that had never happened before, and heard countless illogical statements. He even felt his own life as a stone, a tree, and a drop of water.
This is spiritual pollution at the conceptual level, enough to drive a Godfather-level powerhouse completely insane.
"Barrier of Will!"
Chu Hang immediately activated the mental defense ability he had copied from Yong Rogge. An invisible barrier rose deep within his consciousness, like a sturdy firewall, blocking out the violent and chaotic false information and allowing only the purest essence of the laws to penetrate.
Like a diver navigating a cosmic storm, he endured immense pressure capable of tearing his soul apart, inching deeper and deeper into the chaotic core of the laws.
Time has lost its meaning.
It could be a second, or it could be a century.
Finally, amidst that endless chaos, he grasped a constant pulse.
That was neither creation nor destruction.
The essence of this thing is like the highest level of privilege in the hands of a programmer, which allows them to directly modify the underlying code of the vast program that is the universe.
It can turn 1 into 0, truth into falsehood, and existence into nothingness.
The prerequisite is that the user must have an absolutely clear and unwavering conclusion in mind, and have enough energy to pay for the costs of altering reality.
"I see... The driving force is willpower, and the fuel is energy."
Chu Hang understood.
He abruptly withdrew his mental energy, and the senses of the real world returned.
"System, analyze the target and confirm whether it can be replicated."
[Ding. Conceptual target detected: Law of Reality (incomplete).]
Based on the host's current understanding and mental strength, the following abilities can be copied:
[S-Rank Ability: Reality Distortion (Beginner)]
[Description: At the cost of immense willpower and energy, it distorts reality on a small scale and for a short period, altering the properties of matter and the laws of physics.]
[WARNING: Extremely energy-intensive and highly unstable. Overuse may cause permanent disruption to the real-world structure, resulting in irreversible consequences.]