# 1346
Chapter 1347: The Musician
Thor slowly stood upright, his chest heaving violently, fierce lightning flickering in his eyes.
Just as he was about to charge at Bragi, a burst of blood mist exploded from his knee—the terrifying power of the Source crushed his lower leg. Losing his center of gravity, he soared into the air before stabilizing his form.
His face was contorted beyond recognition.
Under the forced fusion with Asgard's Source, Thor's body had reached its limit. Blood mist kept erupting from him like a punctured balloon. Innumerable phantom lights poured from the gaps in his flesh and blood, and his power plummeted rapidly.
"No, no!"
Thor felt his physical body collapsing. Panic surfaced in his eyes. "I can't die... I can't... otherwise Asgard is finished!"
"Damn it! Why won't this Source weaken even a little!"
"Shut up! Shut up all of you!"
"Let me think of another way, there must be another way!"
"You're right, I can't just die like this... I'm Asgard's last hope!"
"Odin is still alive, I can't just die like this..."
Thor hovered in the sky full of lightning, rambling crazily. Bragi's brow furrowed tighter and tighter.
This scene, he had seen it not long ago.
Wali had also spoken such frenzied words to himself before losing consciousness entirely and becoming a monster... Was Thor going through the same process now?
As if to confirm his fears,密密麻麻的肉瘤从Thor崩溃的血肉中生长出，无数猩红的小虫蠕动，化作全新的组织替代原本的器官，后背，肩膀，手臂，小腿……
If the previous Thor was still a person covered in tumors, then the current him was essentially a monster with a head growing atop a mass of writhing tumors!
After these tiny worms filled Thor's body, his rapidly declining realm began to stabilize and rise again.
These disgusting things bore the power of the Source, repairing his body, pushing Thor's strength toward true "Supreme" status!
"Bragi..." Above the fleshy, indistinct torso, Thor's blood-red eyes locked onto Bragi. "You... cannot kill me..."
SIZZLE—!!
A blood-colored bolt of lightning tore down from the sky with terrifying force. Bragi felt every hair on his body stand on end as he instantly turned into a shadow and fled!
The next moment, the blood-colored lightning tore through his afterimage. Thundering light surged forth, grinding the surrounding wreckage into fragments.
Bragi's body moved across the debris at astonishing speed. Blood-red lightning wove into a forest, desperately hunting for his form. When he finally escaped the lightning, a massive silhouette appeared directly above him.
Countless worms formed Thor's palm, crackling with lightning, and slammed him into the mountain peak!
Bragi stumbled out from the billowing dust. Before he could react, several thick blood-colored lightning bolts descended from the heavens, piercing through his arms and shoulder blades, binding him in place like an execution frame.
Thor twisted form emerged from the interwoven lightning. A blood-colored lightning bolt transformed into a holy spear, whistling through the air as it pierced toward Bragi's restrained chest!
BOOM—!!!
The divine mountain's summit was engulfed in lightning. With a deafening roar, a blood-soaked figure was sent flying backward.
A terrifying charred hole had been pierced through Bragi's chest. His body crashed heavily into the rubble. His pale face twisted with agonized pain.
Even with such a fatal wound, Bragi still didn't die. A verdant green light sprouted from the edges of the charred flesh, rapidly reorganizing his body.
Through the streaming blood, one could see two hearts pulsing powerfully in his chest, each containing different divine light!
"Law of Life?" On Thor's writhing body, the eyes of the head widened progressively. "Idun's heart and Law... are actually inside your body?! No wonder your strength suddenly became so formidable..."
Bragi slowly rose from the deep crater. The hole in his chest was nearly restored. He wiped the blood from his lips, and his murderous gaze fixed on Thor.
"Bragi... give me her heart!" Thor's voice rose sharply. "Give me her heart! Then I won't be corroded by these disgusting things! I can save all of Asgard!"
"Get lost!!"
Bragi roared, and mighty divine power erupted from within him!
Seeing this, the heated desire in Thor's eyes turned to killing intent once more. His writhing body swept up the blood-colored lightning, like a heaven-devouring beast, and lunged to bite Bragi on the ground!
At that moment, a golden cudgel shadow stretching several kilometers shattered the heavy clouds and struck his spine like lightning!
BANG—!
This strike shattered the surging lightning, crushing Thor along with the broken mountain beneath him directly into the earth!
Rolling dust billowed upward!
From the dust, a golden figure holding a gilded red staff slowly emerged. His eyes blazed golden like fire.
He glanced at Bragi nearby and calmly spoke:
"Musician, step back. This fight... I'll take over for you."
Bragi saw this familiar silhouette, and in that instant, he seemed transported back to that carefree hospital... Chatting with Merlin, accompanying the two with music, exchanging letters with his beloved, lying in a rocking chair in the courtyard basking in the sun. Everything was peaceful and beautiful.
In the swirling dust, his trembling lips parted, and he softly called out that figure's name:
"Sun Wukong...?"
"I'll admit, you're a bit stronger than I expected." The heavy Ruyi Jingu Bang dragged across the scarred earth, leaving a deep furrow. Those golden eyes narrowed slightly.
"But... that's not how a fight works."
"Why are you here?" Bragi asked, confused.
"When a fellow Musician is being bullied, how could I just sit by and do nothing?" Sun Wukong turned his head, glancing back at Lin Qiye behind him. "Right... Gilgamesh?"
Sun Wukong's voice seemed to pierce through Lin Qiye's mind, echoing directly within the Asylum of the Gods!
In the verdant courtyard, Gilgamesh, who had been resting with closed eyes, suddenly opened his eyes and gazed into the empty void above him.
"Hmm?"
Gilgamesh slowly rose. A hint of violet bloomed in the depths of his eyes. His knuckles curled into a fist as he spoke indifferently,
"That is indeed the way of things...
Lin Qiye,
This King... is going out for a while!"