"John, strength and physical attacks have no effect. We need to use magic to restrain her." Strange said.
"You are right." John said as he changed back to normal form. Even though he could use magic in normal form, he still found it comfortable to use magic in human form.
John then used bio fission and made multiple copies of himself. What really surprised John was that even Strange made multiple copies of himself by using the magic spell of images of Ikkon.
"This guy is a genius." John mumbled. John then used magical chains to tie up Hela while Strange used the crimson bands of Cyttorak, like he did against Thanos, to tie up Hela. Hela looked like she was drowned in chains.
"We can't kill her. She will only die when Asgard is destroyed." John said.
"Then what do you propose we should do? Bring Ragnarok on Asgard?" Loki said. As he said that a clone of him went with two long knives so that he could stab her with it.
What they all didn't expect was a bunch of swords emerging from the ground killing the clone of Loki. The swords emerged so fast that nobody could even react. The swords emerging looked exactly like it did to stop Surtur during his final attack.
Only this time it was smaller in magnitude. And as the swords bloomed out it killed all the clones of both John and Strange. Few swords even flew out. And one such sword directly went straight to the abdomen of John impaling him.
"John...." Thor shouted and ran to him.
"Nooooo..." Kratos who looked at it screamed. He went instantly into rage mode and started using Blades of Chaos on Hela who just got freed. Even Atreus went into rage mode and started shooting arrows on her.
John, who was impaled, couldn't even scream out when the sword stabbed him deeply. He was stuck to the ground with a huge black sword that went from one side to the other side of the body.
"Thor.." John mumbled.
"I am here, my friend. Tell me what should I do?"
"Separate my body from the sword." John said as he knew he would die if his body wasn't separated. He needed to heal from the resurrection fire.
"Are you serious? You will die. This sword is stopping the bleeding." Thor asked with concern.
"Just do it Thor, I don't have much time." John said in a more grave tone.
Thor hesitatingly separated the body of John from the sword. It was a slow burn. With blood gushing out from the stomach. Thor literally had to tear away one side of the abdomen to separate the sword which was stuck to the ground.
Thor felt angry. His only power came from Mjolnir and that too had been decommissioned by John on the fear that it will break. He couldn't even help his friend who had helped him so much in his journey.
He felt ashamed. He felt proud before thinking that in future he would face against Black Winter alone and defeat it. But now reality has slapped him hard. He couldn't even save his friend, let alone the universe.
"You moron. What are you doing? You will kill him." Loki said as he saw Thor doing such a horrible thing.
"It was John who asked me to do so." Thor said with low tone. his voice didn't have the conviction as he felt whatever John asked him to do might kill him.
"Are you nuts? He would die by bleedin.... What is this?" Loki shouted in amazement. He saw that on the abdomen of John which had a huge hole suddenly lit in blue fire. The fire mended the hole fast and created new skin, tissue, organs and everything.
After a few seconds the whole wound disappeared. Both Thor and Loki were amazed by what just happened. Even though Thor had seen John in Phoenix form, he never really cared. This new thing of John surprised him.
Loki, who had never seen the form of Phoenix, was already surprised and now his healing ability gave him a scare. He was literally on death's door a few minutes ago and now he was back as he was before.
John moved his body a bit as his clothes got mended again by magic.
"Sheesh.. That was close. Never been so close to seeing Death." John said in a low tone. "I need to bring people to stop this madness of hers. Never expected her to be able to go through my skin which is powered by Gods. No wonder she is called Goddess of death, even though it's a fake one." John mumbled.
He saw Kratos and Atreus was still confronting Hela, who was now defending herself. The blades of Chaos were still very sharp and a strong weapon.
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