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The first to arrive was a zombie wielding a spear-like weapon.
This was Corvus Glaive, one of Thanos's top lieutenants, known as the Black Order. He had somehow avoided Roger's heat vision, used earlier to clear out the lesser enemies, and dodged Thor's lightning strikes.
Now, seeing both Roger and Thor incapacitated, he charged at them in a frenzy.
Corvus Glaive was incredibly fast. As one of Thanos's most formidable warriors, he possessed physical abilities and a healing factor far beyond those of ordinary beings.
Now, driven by hunger, his speed exceeded even his usual limits, nearly breaking the boundaries of what was biologically possible!
In mere seconds, he had broken free from the horde, leaping through the air with his mouth wide open, aiming for Roger's back.
But Corvus Glaive's attempt was thwarted.
Thor had been keeping an eye on him, and although Roger was focused on maintaining his heat vision, his super hearing was still active, alert to the slightest sound around him.
Just as Corvus Glaive was about to bite down on Roger, the two of them, Roger and Thor, twisted their bodies and threw Thanos to the ground.
Roger's heat vision then swept over, cutting Corvus Glaive's chest in two, slicing him from the middle of his torso.
Even with just his head and shoulders left, Corvus Glaive still refused to give up, trying desperately to reach the 'food' in front of him. But in the next moment, Thor's foot crushed his skull.
"We can't let Thanos clench his fist!!"
Roger shouted to Thor as he saw Thanos attempting to close his hand, seemingly trying to activate the Infinity Stones.
Roger clung tightly to Thanos's left hand, trying to remove the gauntlet while also preventing Thanos from clenching his fist.
But as Roger struggled to control Thanos, Thanos was also trying to turn his head to bite Roger. Thor quickly moved in, locking Thanos's head from behind and using his legs to immobilize Thanos's other arm.
After doing this, Thor shouted to Roger:
"This isn't going to work!!"
"I know! So how much longer until your axe gets here?!"
Roger shouted back at Thor.
At this point, the only thing capable of severing Thanos's arm was Thor's axe. But unfortunately, Thor had thrown it earlier as a projectile, and now it was nowhere to be found.
Thinking about it made Roger want to curse Thor. Even back when Thor used a hammer, he had a habit of throwing it around, and in the end, it got destroyed by his sister Hela.
Now, Thor hadn't learned his lesson, instinctively throwing his weapon at enemies. And now, the axe had been teleported who-knows-where, and it hadn't returned yet.
Though cursing Thor in his mind, Roger had conveniently forgotten that he himself had been hoping Thor's flying axe would decapitate Thanos earlier.
"It's close! It's on its way!"
Thor responded to Roger's question.
Perhaps due to Thanos's diminished consciousness, the portal opened by the Space Stone hadn't sent the axe far from Earth. It was flying back at high speed, but it was still in space, and reaching Earth would take some time.
While Roger and Thor struggled against Thanos, the rest of the Avengers were not faring well either.
The Wasp, Hope, had been shrinking down to penetrate zombie skulls, but she was beginning to tire.
The Winter Soldier and Rocket Raccoon fought side by side, but their guns were running out of ammo, and the Winter Soldier's left arm had been bitten multiple times by zombies. If not for the fact that his arm was made of vibranium, he might have already turned into a zombie himself.
Groot, on the other hand, was performing admirably. With his ability to shed branches without fear of being bitten, he was charging through the horde, using captured zombies as makeshift weapons to smash others.
At that moment, the little tree seemed to be the fiercest fighter among them!
But no matter how fierce, it was impossible to withstand the overwhelming tide of zombies. Countless zombies swarmed in, and the Avengers began to show signs of defeat. The first to fall was Okoye, who had been fighting with a spear.
Caught off guard, she was bitten on the arm by a zombie. Though she managed to slice the zombie in half, the infection was irreversible.
"Okoye!"
Noticing this, Hope immediately called out Okoye's name, but Okoye, without even turning her head, shouted back:
"Don't worry about me! You need to find a way to escape!!"
Before Okoye's words had even faded, more zombies overwhelmed her, consuming her entirely.
In this battle in Wakanda, Okoye became the first Avenger to fall to the zombies.
As the horde devoured Okoye, the remaining Avengers were slowly overwhelmed by the unrelenting wave of zombies. Seeing this, Rocket Raccoon made one last quip before what seemed like their inevitable doom:
"I knew it… We're all gonna turn into one of these things…"
"Damn it!"
The Winter Soldier pulled the trigger, only to find his gun empty. He cursed, then used the useless rifle as a club, smashing it into a zombie's skull.
Everyone on the battlefield had sunk into the deepest despair. The only one still trying to save everyone was the sentient red cloak, but it was clearly outmatched.
Hearing the desperate sounds from the other Avengers, Roger closed his eyes.
He wanted to save his comrades, who were being swallowed by the zombie tide, but he couldn't.
He couldn't save anyone, not even himself and Thor.
As the zombies closed in again, Roger tried to drag Thanos into the sky, but Thanos's strength was astonishing. Roger couldn't lift him off the ground!
Seeing more and more zombies gather, Roger looked up at the sun setting over Wakanda, gritted his teeth, and said to Thor:
"Buy me some time!"
"What?!"
Thor looked at Roger in surprise, not understanding what he was planning. Roger didn't explain. He just said:
"Three minutes. Hold him for three minutes, that's all I need. I'll be right back!"
With that, Roger let go of the zombie Thanos, breaking the sound barrier as he flew toward the sun.
Due to Wakanda's location, the sun, which had already set in the United States, was still hanging on the edge of the sky in Wakanda.
As he approached the sunlight over Wakanda, Roger felt that special sensation again.
This time, the feeling was stronger. He could clearly sense the sunlight contacting his skin, gradually enhancing his eyes.
But perhaps because the sun was also setting in Wakanda, the enhancement was slow. Coupled with the fact that Roger had been continuously using his heat vision, his temporary energy reserves were nearly depleted, so the enhancement wasn't very significant.
Roger had planned to study the effects of sunlight on him later, but with the Avengers about to be wiped out by zombies, he couldn't afford to wait.
He flew rapidly toward the sun, positioning himself in the sky where he was closest to it, spreading his arms wide to absorb as much energy as possible.
His black suit accelerated the absorption process, and Roger could feel the energy flowing through the suit into his body.
The surging energy spread throughout his body, gradually concentrating in his eyes. His eyes, swollen and sore from prolonged use of heat vision, felt as if they had been soothed with eye drops.
Something had changed in Roger's eyes. When his heat vision was activated, the usual red glow in his eyes was now tinged with a brilliant, sun-like gold!
Minutes passed in a flash. When he felt his eyes were sufficiently charged, Roger turned and flew back to Wakanda. Hovering above Wakanda, he aimed at Thanos and unleashed his enhanced heat vision!
The golden-red rays shot down like a divine spear hurled from the heavens, precisely striking Thanos in the chest.
This time… Roger's heat vision pierced through Thanos's body!!
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