American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

The sky was filled with a rain of light, crisscrossing into a net of slaughter and destruction. Any buildings or lives caught within this net were subjected to endless harm, ruin, and death.

On the balcony of a tall building, Loki, clad in battle armor and clutching his scepter, watched it all with a smile. As the surrounding buildings collapsed and the Chitauri soldiers rampaged, his smile grew even brighter.

The dazzling and magnificent pillar of energy stood behind him. The Tesseract, now activated, had entered a self-sustaining energy mode. The energy output increased with the settings, causing slight ripples in the surrounding space. The energy output resulted in the continuous expansion of the wormhole in the sky.

The materials in that base were clearly quite sufficient, so much so that Dr. Selvig could create this Tesseract activator to the highest standards.

Suddenly, a squadron of fighter jets roared in from the distance. Accompanied by a rain of bullets, they exploded into patches of fire among the invaders emerging from the edge of the wormhole.

The bullets were like a curtain, the beams like a net.

It was a clash of firepower against firepower.

As the firelight dissipated, large numbers of invaders, sparking like splashed water, fell from the sky. The sky was momentarily cleared. But at the same time, even more invading soldiers poured out of the wormhole, refilling the sky and even expanding outwards while maintaining density.

The military's weapons formed lines of death from all directions, weaving a net to try to wipe out the invaders. However, in reality, this was just wishful thinking. The invaders never cared about casualties. Moreover, they were not without countermeasures. They began to descend, weaving through the city's buildings like fish, dodging the firepower while also making their opponents hesitant to attack.

Then came the counterattack. Some of those enormous metal behemoths, like swimming fish, were troop transports, but others were destroyers with built-in weapons! A dazzling beam of light flashed in the gloomy sky, and then, in the distance, fighter jets exploded into fireballs. The jets had no room to dodge under the energy beam's attack.

Similarly, the ground-based military weapons also faced carpet-bombing-like attacks. The battle immediately entered a fever pitch, but against the alien invaders' flexible equipment and sufficiently destructive weapons, the military's weapons did not have the desired effect. They couldn't even break through the invaders' blockade.

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Accompanied by the roar of thunder, three figures descended from the sky. The invaders around the thunder were covered in sparks and fell from the air like dumped metal garbage. In a large pit where a section of the lawn had been smashed, Thor looked up and met Loki's eyes on the high-rise balcony, then rose and roared.

Blinding lightning spread across Thor's body. His knees bent slightly, and he flew up, hammering down.

"Loki!" Thor roared.

"I'm listening, brother," Loki said calmly, looking at Thor's hammer, Mjolnir, flashing with violent electricity, and his brother's angry face, just inches away.

Between the two was an invisible energy barrier. Thor, wielding Mjolnir, which crackled with violent electricity, slammed it into the barrier, only creating a swaying energy ripple at the center.

Boom.

Before Thor could react, a violent energy recoil occurred between the hammer and the energy barrier. Thor flew backward faster than he had come, bouncing twice on the ground like a stone skipping across water, eventually crashing through a wall.

Beams of light rained down, converging madly on Thor's landing point. The concentrated attack instantly completed a high-density carpet bombing.

"Thor!"

Captain threw his shield with force. The shield drew a long, semicircular arc in the air, clearing a wave of invaders hovering in mid-air around him. Finally, he grabbed the rebounding shield and shouted worriedly towards Thor, who was shrouded in smoke and dust.

"I'm fine." Blinding lightning fell from the sky again, winding like a giant lightning tree, its splitting branches piercing all the invaders covered by lightning in the sky, making them look like they were full of fruit.

As the smoke and dust dissipated, Thor, holding up Mjolnir and attracting lightning, caught his breath and responded to Captain, who was not far away.

Two blood-red, ferocious hounds suddenly appeared out of thin air, tearing at the surrounding invaders. Each collision was a terrifying energy explosion. When the two bloodhounds disappeared into the air, the space around Captain and Thor was cleared. Then, a mass of blood-colored energy emerged from the invaders' corpses, gathering like swallows returning to their nests into a suddenly appearing blood-colored figure.

Frank, whose whole body was wrapped in a blood-colored energy cloak, felt that his strength, along with the influx of those blood-colored energy clusters, seemed to have increased even his vitality.

"This has a bit of a vampire vibe," Frank mused, shaking his head. The opponent was half-biological and half-mechanical, so the feedback he received was not much. But this enhancement was only temporary. Moreover, each time this energy was used, the feedback not only brought strength and vitality but also a bit of the opponent's consciousness. Without mastering a filtering method, the more feedback he received, the more chaotic his consciousness would become. So, after experiencing this application technique, Frank decided that, unless necessary, this mode was best not used, or at least used sparingly.

The three who had broken through were like an isolated army surrounded and annihilated, and countless invaders attacked them. The three flashed and moved amidst the rain of light, doing their best to kill any enemies they could see and reach. A large number of invaders were slaughtered by them, but the enemy was clearly not a brainless warrior, and the dense energy attacks also brought them some trouble.

The three did not know how long they had fought. Although they did not feel fatigue under the support of their respective divine powers and energies, the number of invaders around them, no matter how much they cleared, remained dense, and even increased, still making them feel powerless due to their lack of numbers. Even if they could eventually clear all these invaders, what then? The enemy could replenish them at any time, and the damage and casualties had already become a fixed fact. As long as the enemy dragged the three of them here, their role would be weakened indefinitely.

"We have to destroy that device! Otherwise, this battle will continue endlessly," Captain Steve said to Thor and Frank, who were gathered together, taking advantage of the gap where the invaders were replenishing their numbers, looking at the pillar of energy that soared into the sky and now had a diameter of nearly a hundred meters.

"I understand the problem, but how do we get over there? We've already been separated far apart. To get there, we first have to break through a thick wall of people," Frank said, looking at the dense invaders blocking them and the Tesseract, and those mechanical behemoths swimming like fish in mid-air, feeling somewhat helpless. As soon as they charged towards the Tesseract, they would immediately face dense attacks and a wall of people. The invaders were truly using their lives to block their advance.

Suddenly, on the ground below, a spark of golden energy burst out of the air from a height of one meter, then rotated to form a portal more than two meters in diameter.

Tony Stark, in a black and red Mark armor, took the lead, flying out of the portal, followed by a green giant with his head lowered and his back bent, then Natasha, Hawkeye Clint, and others, each leading a team of about twenty elite agents, and finally, a stranger wearing a red cloak, and Luke Field, with two huge metal boxes floating behind him.

"I'm just a doctor," Stephen Strange said somewhat timidly, looking at the invaders who seemed to be blocking out the sky.

"You used to be. Now your main job is a mage, and a doctor is just a side job," Luke patted him on the shoulder. "You have to adapt to this situation, you have to get used to fighting."

"Is this the reason you summoned me from Wong? I don't want to be a superhero at all," Stephen said, looking at the portal behind him that had not yet closed, feeling an urge to step back through it. The scene of the battlefield was too tragic. He suspected that in the next second, he might die from a beam shot from who knows where.

Luke and his group naturally attracted a lot of attention. The invaders immediately diverted a portion of their forces and launched a dense beam of light attacks in their direction.

The energy explosions lifted several layers of the ground. When the rain of light and smoke dissipated, a huge figure blocked Luke and the sorcerer Strange, protecting them like chicks under his wings, using his broad green back to withstand all the attacks.

As for Natasha and the others, a layer of colorless energy barrier appeared on their bodies, helping them to block the wave of attacks.

As for Tony Stark, who took the lead, he was now crossing his hands and suddenly stretching them out to both sides. Two red laser beams extended from his arms. As he spun upwards in mid-air like a top, any Chitauri soldiers within the range of the red laser beams were cut into two or even several pieces. The area within fifty meters above and below him was instantly cleared.

He had just eliminated hundreds of Chitauri soldiers.

"Good job, Stark."

Captain and the other two also rushed over, joining Luke, Natasha, and the others. Steve Rogers was pleasantly surprised by the arrival of reinforcements and by Stark's outburst.

"You don't need to tell me that," Stark replied somewhat arrogantly under his mask, firing several palm energy cannons to finish off any surviving enemies.

"The director is coordinating and gathering manpower," Natasha briefly explained the situation to Captain.

Far away, Loki also saw the newcomers and ordered the Chitauri soldiers around him to increase their attacks and offensives to completely destroy the opponent's resistance.

"How did you make Dr. Banner not go berserk in this state and still maintain his self-awareness?" Captain obviously understood the information about Bruce Banner's Hulk form and was amazed that he did not attack indiscriminately and even helped Luke and the others act as a shield to block all the attacks.

"Let's put aside anything unrelated to the war for now. They don't seem to want to give us time to talk," Frank said from the side. He had already seen that the space cleared by Stark had been filled by more Chitauri soldiers.

Courage.

Trust.

High morale.

The golden ring on Captain's hand, agitated by his emotions, shone even more brightly in front of everyone, like looking directly at the sun. Golden threads transformed into light and shone from the ring, connecting to Natasha and the others.

Under Natasha and the others' astonished gazes, the mass-produced rings in their hands were dyed with a golden luster. At the same time, their own energy cloaks were also dyed from colorless to light yellow. A warmer and more powerful force seamlessly and harmoniously merged with the energy within their rings, transforming its nature. Natasha felt that her own strength had been strengthened by at least more than twice as much in this wave of enhancements.

Crisscrossing beams of light shot down again like rain.

Natasha and the others easily erected golden energy shields, combining them to form a wall of light, blocking the wave of attacks. Captain Steve's ring was still connected to Natasha and the others with golden threads, transmitting energy to them.

"Quickly think of a way! What exactly is hidden in these two metal boxes you insisted on bringing? If it's a trump card, it's time to reveal it and perform," Stephen looked around. Above and below, densely packed, were all approaching enemies. He swiped his hands, and two Raggadorr rings appeared on his hands. He was now backing against Luke, shouting at him.

"Unlock the security protocol," Luke said softly.

As his voice fell, the two metal boxes floating behind him began to vibrate, transforming into tiny, invisible metal fragments in full view. Then, in the next second, these invisible metal fragments automatically formed precise parts in the air. In everyone's gaze, in just two or three seconds, the two metal boxes had changed their form.

Replacing them were two huge cannons emitting a halo, constantly swallowing all the light around them into their barrels, and metal supports that were firmly fixed to the ground.

"Weapon template: Ancient Particle Cannon assembled successfully.

Ancient Particle Cannon charging.

Ancient Particle Cannon charging complete."

"Let's say hello first," Luke said softly, turning the muzzles towards the wormhole in the sky and the location of the Tesseract.

Two violent beams of light, entwined with golden lightning, carrying unparalleled destructive power, swept away all obstacles in their path.

Whether it was the Chitauri soldiers forming a human wall or the huge mechanical behemoths swimming around, they all seemed fragile and powerless in the face of the violent beams of light, unable to withstand a single blow.