Mjolnir plummeted, summoning a tempest of lightning and thunder as a fierce wind whipped through Puente Antiguo. Both Sebastian and Laufey sensed an immense power stirring on the town's far side, brimming with the raw ferocity and grandeur of thunder. It was Thor, Asgard's God of Thunder, reborn!
This must be the power of thunder—no wonder they call him the God of Thunder, Sebastian thought.
First, a formidable human wizard had challenged him, and now Thor, the God of Thunder, had resurfaced, his might seemingly greater than before. A spark of his dormant thunder authority had clearly ignited within him.
Laufey, Odin's ancient adversary and a veteran of the Hela conflict, understood Thor better than Thor knew himself. He recognized that Thor's true authority—the power of thunder—lay dormant within him. Mjolnir, the cosmic hammer, was merely a key to unlock and awaken that latent strength, its own trace of thunder power insignificant by comparison.
If Sebastian and Thor united, Laufey knew he faced certain death. Without hesitation, he abandoned his quest for the Casket of Ancient Winters and turned to flee.
But Sebastian was already one step ahead. The moment Laufey showed intent to escape, Sebastian struck without pause. From the ground, massive arms of earth and stone erupted, seizing Laufey's towering form. These rocky limbs sprouted relentlessly, hindering his every move. Though Laufey swung his conjured ice weapons to shatter the stone arms and used his formidable strength to break free, he was ultimately stalled.
Gripping his wand, Sebastian flicked his wrist with the grace of a conductor. As his wand danced, shards of ice, gravel, and debris from ruined houses lifted into the air. With a swift incantation of Depulso, they rocketed toward Laufey from all angles, propelled by tremendous kinetic energy!
Simultaneously, Sebastian slipped his left hand into his robes, donning the Sling Ring. He conjured a vast portal beneath the surrounding house ruins, causing entire buildings to vanish from the ground and reappear high above Laufey's head. The structures plummeted alongside the barrage of ice and gravel, hammering Laufey with devastating force!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A cascade of house ruins crashed down, accompanied by a storm of shattered ice and stone. Laufey staggered out, battered and scarred, his strength nearly spent.
In his prime, wielding the Casket of Ancient Winters—or even before this grueling battle—Laufey would have shrugged off Sebastian's assault. But reality offered no such reprieves. The clash with Sebastian had pushed him to his breaking point. His already weakened body, ravaged by old wounds, faltered after relentless combat. His injuries flared, sapping his will to fight. He yearned to retreat to Jotunheim and regroup, but it was far too late!
With a silent cast of Sectumsempra, invisible blades sliced through Laufey's legs, then his arms. As Sebastian approached, his expression devoid of sorrow or triumph, he faced the fallen king. With a gentle flick of his wand, Laufey's head rolled silently to the ground. The severed limbs, drained from excessive bleeding, spilled only a brief trickle of blue-purple blood before stilling.
Sebastian raised his left hand, and the Frost Ring gleamed. A chilling wave encased Laufey's body in a massive block of ice, which Sebastian swiftly stored in his enchanted bag.
Exhaling softly, Sebastian glanced at the lightning crackling across the town's horizon and dissolved into a swirl of black smoke, soaring toward Thor and his allies.
Landing amid the chaos, he saw the Destroyer locked in combat with Thor, while Frost Giants overwhelmed the Three Warriors of Asgard and Sif. Without hesitation, Sebastian waved his wand, casting Sectumsempra to behead a Frost Giant from behind, saving Sif from a near-fatal blow. He nodded to her, then turned his wand on the remaining five Frost Giants. Under the astonished gazes of the Three Warriors, Sif, Jane, and the others, Sebastian dispatched the giants with ruthless precision, swiftly collecting their corpses.
"I never knew Midgard harbored a mage as powerful as you!" Volstagg exclaimed.
Sebastian turned to him and said, "Earth is home to many wizards far stronger than me, but you've never truly explored this world."
With that, Sebastian wasted no more words and strode toward Thor and the Destroyer.
Thor, freshly restored as the God of Thunder, grappled with the Destroyer, which proved far more formidable than Sebastian recalled. Spotting Sebastian's approach from the corner of his eye, Thor shouted, "It's dangerous here—stay back!"
"Perhaps I can assist?" Sebastian offered.
"You don't understand. This is the Destroyer, created by my father—"
Before Thor could finish, Sebastian closed in on the Destroyer, watching its facial armor part to gather a fiery energy beam. Raising his left hand, Sebastian unleashed a torrent of white frost and snow from the Frost Ring, enveloping the Destroyer and encasing it in ice.
Yet the Destroyer's power was immense, and the frost alone couldn't fully halt its movements. Sebastian's spell merely slowed it, turning it into a temporary target. Thor, despite his occasional clumsiness, possessed an uncanny combat instinct. Seizing the moment Sebastian restrained the Destroyer, Thor summoned his full might, channeling thunder through Mjolnir. He charged in a blaze of lightning, swung the hammer with ferocious force, and smashed the Destroyer's frozen head, sending it crashing into a dilapidated house behind, which collapsed under the impact!
Landing heavily, Thor grinned, turning to boast about his hammer's precision and power. But before he could speak, a searing, flame-hued beam lanced from the ruins, striking him square in the chest. Thor flew backward, skidding across the ground, carving a shallow trench in the earth.
Swiftly, he conjured two portals with the Sling Ring—one before him, another beside him. As another energy beam shot from the Destroyer, it passed through the first portal and emerged from the second, blasting back into the ruins where the Destroyer lay buried.
The redirected beam struck true, hurling the Destroyer's massive form from the debris to crash onto the ground, motionless at last.