X-Force: Beyond Omega

Ch: 135 [A deal with Hela]

[Hela's mind]

Hela folded her arms, fingers tapping against her armored forearm as she raised an eyebrow at Aron and gave him a look of pure amusement.

"Oh, this is rich," she said, tilting her head with a smirk. "You, some arrogant immortal or maybe a half-immortal with unknown power, think you can fix what Odin himself failed to? The same Odin who wielded the Odinforce, who shaped the realms, who conquered countless worlds and fought Gods?"

She took a slow step forward. The cracked, decayed half of her body pulsed with dark energy, the deathly rot creeping up her arm as her black cloak writhed unnaturally.

"Odin gave me this cloak," she continued, gripping its edge between her fingers, "not as a gift, but as a cage. A lie. A means to hide my true form because even he couldn't stop what was happening to me. And believe me, I have

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