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After two months, I had finally done it.
I had unlocked the next step on my crafting agenda, the rock golem factory.
Needless to say, I created a few of these buildings in a lot I had bought and started the mass production.
Now, it was simply time to sit back and watch how things played out, I was after all already leveling without doing much leveling myself as of lately.
All thanks to my golems, heck, I already had over 100 clay golems leveling for me, most of them were already above level 140.
A day, I would get around 25% to 30% of my EXP bar, getting on an average of a level a week or so, which was by idle standards quite good.
I reckoned that If I continued the path I was walking, soon I would start getting at least a level a day, maybe even more.
Also, on another note, I had also discovered that the creation of automatons required space for them, meaning, that I could not create more golems that my area could hold, so far, I calculated my limit was around 1000 golems before I needed to buy some more lands to host my army.
Something I was already actively doing, buying lands in texas, and using magic to hide what was happening inside said lands.
Anywho.
With how things were going, it was time for a break.
I had invested over six months in my crafting, and now it was time for a well-earned rest.
Mayhaps time for a side project that didn't involve crafting.
"Dad!" I heard Emily call, as she entered my office.
"Princess, whatcha doing here?" I smiled at her, ruffling her hair.
"I wanted to show this!" Emily smiled, and doing a circle with her hands, opened the mirror dimension.
I wonder why I never learned this spell, it's so useful.
"Amazing," It truly was, this technique ensured she would be safe on most occasions.
"I know I am," Emily winked at me with a proud smile.
As I was about to hug her, I felt something, something I hadn't felt in a long while, my [danger sense] going off.
"Emily, bring us back to the real world," I told her with a tone that left no room for argument.
"On it," Emily nodded, without asking why.
Back in the real world, I gave Emily quick orders to fetch Bucky and then go with Nat to one of our safe houses.
With Emily out of the room, I opened my map, and checked, I needed to know what had set off my [Danger sense].
It didn't take me long to find a single red dot approaching my location.
Immediately, I used [Sight] to check who it was, and what I saw, surprised me.
On the back of a truck, there was a man sitting with his arms crossed and a bloodthirsty smile, the man was big, very big, and sported a rather unique helmet that looked like the head of a bullet.
That man was Juggernaut.
[Juggernaut LV 280]
Just his level alone was a fucking ominous thing to look at.
"You called?" Bucky asked, and I nodded.
"There is someone coming here, someone quite dangerous," I replied, a grave look on my face, "And I have no idea why…"
[A new quest has been created]
[Defeat the Juggernaut!
Description: The Juggernaut is a force of nature that can't be stopped, but you have to stop it.
Rewards: ????????
Failure = Death]
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[Alexander Pierce POV]
It had taken us a while to find the perfect candidate to kill Alex, a man of his power made our entire life-long goal, quite difficult, and he needed to be eliminated, but that was easier said than done, that man was beyond human reach.
So, I searched.
Day and night, I looked for the hunter that would turn our predator into prey.
Cain Marko was that man, or rather that monster.
A man blessed with unimaginable strength and a thirst for battle that could never be satiated. Just what we needed.
All it took to get him on our side was offering him a challenge.
The man took Hydra, the ever-evolving Mutant, Alex Walker.
Of course, needless to say, Cain Marko was a wild card, one that we knew the moment Alex died, would betray us, but we would deal with that later, unstoppable or not, in space he would be nothing but dead weight.
"Sir, are you sure this man can kill that monster?" One of my agents asked, and I chuckled.
"We ran some simulations, and the Juggernaut is above Alex in each category," I replied, with full confidence.
"But what if we lose?"
I hummed at that, there was always the chance of that happening, "Not to worry, if that came to happen, we will do what we have always done, survive."
Not that I worried about the Juggernaut's performance, I knew that monster was more than enough to kill Alex.
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[Odin Borson POV]
Alex was in trouble.
I could feel it.
That bastard was making a move, like always, I fucking hated Cyttorak.
"Thor!" I called, my voice booming through the halls of my castle.
"Father!" Thor shouted from far away, flying towards the throne room.
Too slow, I needed him now, so snapping my fingers I summoned my child in front of me.
"Well, that… you haven't done since I was but a child," Thor chuckled.
"No time to waste, you need to get to Earth now!" I ordered.
"What is happening? Is Alex okay? Did they hurt my mighty nieces?! Was it LOKI?!" Thor asked one question after the other.
"No," I shook my head, taking a deep breath, "If it was Loki, I would be sending you to protect your brother from his own stupidity, no… what Alex is about to face is something far worse, and it's known the Apostle of Cyttorak."
"The apostle of what?" Thor asked.
"A monster blessed with powers and bloodlust like no other, in my years I have seen many apostles, and they all share something in common, the madness that overtakes them… to make matters worse, their power is as big as that bastard of a God that blessed them decides it is…" Meaning I could not interfere, if I went, Cyttorak could take it as a challenge, and could very well decide to give his apostle all his power, and that would be a battle earth would not live to tell the tale.
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Knowing very well how strong the beast known as the Juggernaut was, I moved the battle out of the city, allowing whoever was driving the truck with him inside to follow me to a farm I had bought outside the city of New York, where I would teleport all of us, to a very secluded location.
"I have never seen you so… distressed," Bucky commented.
"Well, to put it in terms we can all comprehend, we are fucked," I chuckled.
"That bad?" Bucky asked.
"Yes, it is," I nodded, "This man is like a million super soldiers in one, and is quite literally unkillable… my only options are teleporting his ass to a faraway location, which would only buy me a few days at most, or…. No, that's it,"
"So I take it bullets won't work…" Bucky sighed, "Will a rocket launcher do any good?"
"I suppose it would piss him off, I guess," I shrugged.
"I'll take that," Bucky nodded.
With a sigh, I stopped my car as I reached the farm, and before the truck following us could stop, opened a portal sending the entire truck to the desert.
"Well, time to see how much damage we can deal to this guy," I commented, opening a portal for me and Bucky to step through.
On the other side, Juggernaut was already out, killing the man that had driven the truck, "Where is my challenge, you moron!"
"That would be us," Bucky said, aiming his gun at him.
"Cute," Juggernaut smiled, cracking his neck.
How the fuck did he crack his neck with that armor, you know what, questions for later.
"Is there any way to avoid confrontation good sir?" I asked, to which he laughed.
So, with a sigh, I equipped my armor.
Soon after this, the behemoth began to march aggressively toward me, so I did what anyone in my position would've done, and blasted the beast with my most powerful spell, however, this did nothing, not even a single scratch was on him.
A spell that would hurt Thor, did nothing to him, just great.
"For Asgard!" I heard someone shout, followed by a hammer blasting Juggernaut out of track.
"Thor?" I chuckled, as he descended to the ground.
"Aye," Thor nodded.
"Can goldilocks here beat him?" Bucky asked, ignoring Thor for a moment.
"Not sure, but with him, on our side, our chances are significantly better," I replied.
"Not sure?!" Thor gasped, "You good sir, hurt my feelings,"
"I'll take you to Disneyland later, now help me kick his ass," I snorted.
"You better buy a hat for my hammer," Thor smiled, calling his hammer back to him.
"More toys to break?" Juggernaut laughed, walking towards us, again showing no injury.
"You shall be the one to be defeated!" Thor declared, with a confident smile.
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The battle erupted, with Thor taking the main offensive being the only one truly able to push the beast back a bit.
Meanwhile, I was thinking of a strategy.
If the battle continued like it was going, we would lose.
Juggernaut never tired, it was a part of his stupidly broken power, meaning he would outlast all of us if things continued the way they were.
"Don't think I forgot about you!" Juggernaut roared in delight, punching Thor a few miles away, as he ran towards me.
"Move!" Bucky shouted, shooting a few grenades at the behemoth trying to slow him down.
[LEVEL UP!]
Ignoring the notification, I jumped above the beast avoiding his charge, as I opened a portal to an active volcano behind bathing him in lava.
"This tickles!" Juggernaut cackled, charging at me once again, this time, twice as fast.
[Juggernaut LV 318]
Did he level up? No… his power increased all of the sudden.
Was he perhaps the version of Juggernaut whose power is regulated by a God?
Clearing my head, I made an attempt to dodge his attack, however this time, I had no time to react as I found myself violently attacked by a mountain of muscle, that knocked the wind out of me, sending my body flying like a ragdoll.
"Eat this!" Thor roared, blasting Juggernaut with the clap of thunder, as I fell into the ground with a loud thud.
"Alex!" Bucky called, running towards me.
Struggling to move, I stood up, before my body gave in, and vomited some blood, the damage would take a few seconds to heal with my insane regeneration, but still, the fact that monster had punched me so hard my armor even after mitigating 80% of the damage had left me in this situation was enough to show how much of a threat he was.
"I'm fine," I reassured Bucky, who gave me a look that said, yeah, don't think so pal.
"Nothing we do hurts him," Bucky hissed, "I have shot at the bastard with every weapon I have, and nothing happens, even goldilocks there is losing more and more ground, a few seconds ago, he was matching the bastard, now? He is being overwhelmed."
"STAY DOWN!" Thor roared, blood running down his mouth as he slammed Juggernaut with his hammer with all his strength.
"The one getting trained here is you! Now sit boy!" Juggernaut cackled, punching Thor to his knees, then out of the way, sending Thor flying with a trail of blood behind him.
Five minutes in, and we were losing badly, fuck this, it was time to regroup.
Before the Juggernaut could react, I encased him in a bubble before he started his famously stoppable charge, and threw said bubble into the sky, a few miles away from us, with that done, I gave three potions to Bucky, "Give those to Thor and tell him to wait for me, we need a new strategy."
"On it," Bucky nodded.
With Bucky out of sight, I focused my attention back on Juggernaut, the problem we had at hand.
If we continued to face him like this, or death was a matter of time.
No, we needed time to plan a better approach.
And my golems would buy that time.
I wasn't particularly happy sacrificing them, but what other choice did I have?
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