Marvel: I Awake the Little Cosmos-Chapter 554 - 522: Farewell, Icarus

He has arrived!

Hawk spoke calmly, his gaze shifting upwards to look at the sky above Wall Street.

Wanda, hearing this, also instinctively looked up.

Into sight.

The sky was azure blue.

Clear and cloudless.

Wanda frowned slightly.

"Where?"

"There!"

Hawk stared unblinkingly at a corner of the sky above: "You can’t sense him because he has grown stronger."

Hearing this, Wanda glanced sideways at Hawk.

"That Celestial God Team member?"

"No."

Hawk shook his head and stated a name.

"Icarus!"

"Icarus... who is he?"

"Eternal Race."

Hawk said this, then glanced at Wanda: "Do you remember the time Peter went missing?"

"I remember, I remember you found them on what’s called Skull Island." Wanda nodded, speaking instinctively, then recalled: "That was the one who fought you on the island and then disappeared, said to be created by the Celestial God Team to guard the species until the new Celestial God could be born smoothly?"

Hawk smiled and nodded, once again looking skyward above Wall Street, focusing on the presence that was drawing closer, and more familiar: "Yes, that’s him, Icarus, he’s here."

As soon as the words fell!

Boom!

The Earth’s atmosphere was instantly breached, accompanied by a shocking sonic boom cloud covering half of New York City’s sky, a familiar figure appeared in Hawk’s sight.

It was him.

It was him.

The Eternal Race member created by the Celestial God Team, Icarus!

Dressed just as he was when Hawk first met him.

Still in that sky-blue and gold battle armor.

His face stern and unsmiling.

At this moment, having broken through the atmosphere to hover silently high above the Earth, Icarus looked down, meeting Hawk’s gaze, who was standing on a relatively intact yet smoke-billowing skyscraper.

Their eyes locked.

From Icarus’s eyes, Hawk saw an undeniable battle intent.

What a coincidence.

He felt it too.

Hawk withdrew his gaze, glanced sideways at Wanda, and said calmly: "I’m leaving now."

Wanda’s voice was equally calm, gently nodding: "I’ll wait for you."

Hawk smiled slightly.

"Alright!"

"Bang!"

With Hawk’s response, in an instant, he transformed into a red light, directly crossing into the high sky to face Icarus a hundred meters away.

"Long time no see, I thought they had destroyed you as a defective product."

"The Celestial God Team only eliminates heretics, and I never was one."

"I’ll give you that."

Hawk smiled slightly: "You just never had a heart, choosing duty over camaraderie."

It was widely known.

Members of the Eternal Race, upon coming to Earth, gradually embraced Earth rather than seek to destroy it due to their interactions with Earthlings.

This was quite normal.

After all, the Celestial God born within Earth did not wish to be destroyed upon its emergence, so it never resisted Hawk’s demands back then.

But...

Icarus was an exception.

A single word.

He was the most loyal hound of the Celestial God Team!

"There is no camaraderie between us, we were created to serve the Celestial God Team, past, present, and future."

"So, you’ve come with orders to kill me?"

"Yes."

"Just you?"

Hawk teased Icarus: "If I remember correctly, if you hadn’t retreated back then, you might have already died on Skull Island."

Icarus, hearing Hawk mention their first battle, had a trace of gloom flash across his stern face.

"Then was then, now is now."

"Now that you’ve been modified by the Celestial God Team again, you think you can beat me?"

"It’s not about beating you."

Icarus displayed a cruel smile, staring at Hawk: "It’s about killing you. You, Hawk Phoenix, the heretic separated from the Eternal, Celestial God, and time controllers, must die."

Upon hearing this, Hawk’s smile was radiant.

"Alright then, come on, but this time, don’t think about running away."

"Die!"

Icarus wasted no words, directly initiated the attack.

Hawk also moved instantly.

Boom!

The thin air was violently torn apart as the high-speed flight of Icarus formed a blue-golden meteor that collided with the crimson comet created by Hawk in the sky.

Accompanied by a thunderous roar, the explosive shockwave instantly compressed the cloud sea below into a massive vacuum pit several kilometers in diameter.

Icarus’s eyes erupted with blazing light, continuously blasting Hawk who was charging towards him.

With an expressionless face, Hawk did not dodge or evade, directly rushing through Icarus’s heat vision and throwing a punch.

No sonic boom!

Because at this moment, sound couldn’t keep up with their battle rhythm.

With a boom!

Hawk’s fist heavily struck Icarus’s chest. The blue-golden battle armor on Icarus cracked like glass, and he was sent flying like a cannonball, piercing through three floating cumulus cloud mountains in succession.

The cumulus clouds, originally poised for a torrential rain once the time was right, were scattered before they could even let out a voice.

But Icarus was not scattered by this punch.

Quickly stabilizing himself in the air, Icarus came to a sudden stop, with golden light bursting from his eyes.

He also chose not to retreat, rushing back at Hawk with even more ferocity, fists leaving a long trail as they swung towards Hawk.

Hawk’s pupils rapidly contracted at this moment.

"The same move is ineffective against a Saint Warrior."

"Icarus!"

"Didn’t I already tell you?"

Hawk said as he captured Icarus’s attack trajectory, sidestepping to dodge the punch powerful enough to shatter a mountain while simultaneously bringing his elbow down like a collapsing galaxy onto Icarus’s back.

Bam!

A visible shockwave expanded in a spherical shape.

Icarus’s spine bent slightly, and with a muffled sound, he used the momentum to spin, his fist turning into a blade hand, directly targeting Hawk’s neck.

Hawk raised his arm to block.

Crack!

The sound of bones shattering echoed, but Hawk’s other hand also turned into a blade and struck Icarus’s jaw.

Golden blood sprayed out instantly.

But that wasn’t all.

As Hawk struck Icarus’s jaw, causing it to tilt back, he swiftly positioned himself on Icarus’s back, using a relay in the air, and with a powerful twist, his devastating elbow sent Icarus flying once more towards the ground, like a blazing meteor.

At this moment, the Sentinel Robot clashing with the mutants on the ground seemed to sense something and instinctively looked up.

Wanda reacted just then, her heart stirred as she extended her right hand, summoning a portal of scarlet magic beside Jean, pulling her to safety.

The next second.

With a bang!

Transformed into a fire meteor, Icarus was like a cannonball, piercing through the chest of the Sentinel Robot that was previously pressing Jean and others, and crashed into the ground of Wall Street without reduction in force.

The first impact wasn’t a loud noise, but a visible shockwave instantly forming, spreading in a ring in all directions.

The next moment, the deafening blast followed.

The entire Manhattan Island trembled continuously under this explosive sound.

"Wha..."

"Thank goodness!"

"Boom!"

"Watch out!"

Thanks to Wanda’s timely intervention, Jean was spared the brunt of the shockwave, but the other mutants weren’t so lucky.

Just as Wanda whisked Jean away, they were caught in the shockwave, sent flying instantly.

Jean, standing next to Wanda, stared wide-eyed in disbelief at the shockwave unfolding before her.

Wanda’s gaze, however, was fixed on a bottomless pit at the center of the shockwave.

At this moment, the pit was continuously seeping water outwards.

Yes.

Hawk’s attack had turned Icarus into a drilling robot, punching right through Manhattan Island.

In the next moment.

Boom!

Hawk descended from the sky, hovering over the pit.

He first glanced at the Sentinel Robot, stumbling in place, trying to mend its pierced chest, then at his own left arm, crippled by Icarus’s punch, before setting his sights on the water-seeping pit.

Bam!

Blue-golden light suddenly burst forth, piercing through the gushing fountain. Icarus reappeared before Hawk’s eyes.

But compared to Hawk, who only had a ruined left arm, Icarus looked notably worse.

A third of his jaw had been sheared off, continuously leaking golden blood, and his blue-golden battle armor was tattered, its light significantly dimmed.

Yet under Hawk’s gaze, Icarus’s jaw was visibly recovering at rapid speed; within a few breaths, Icarus seemed almost back to normal.

Similarly, the golden light on his blue-golden battle armor grew scarcer.

Hawk watched this scene with a smile, then glanced at his own crippled left arm as well. Under Icarus’s expressionless gaze, he flexed his left arm.

Accompanied by cracking sounds, within a few breaths, Hawk’s left arm also recovered as new.

Their eyes met.

Hawk smiled slightly.

"First round is over."

"Second round begins?"

"I agree!"

Icarus said expressionlessly, then charged at Hawk once more.

Hawk did the same!

Boom!

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