Ch: 538-548
Chapter 538: Enslaving Mephisto
But just then, a terrifying mental force, like an boundless World, descended.
That mental force was like the most brutal of bandits.
It kicked open Mephisto's mental gateway, rushed in, and dragged Mephisto, person and door, out.
At this moment, Mephisto seemed to see a giant palm coming towards him, tightly gripping his soul.
He tried to resist by relying on Hell.
But now his control over Hell had decreased too much.
In front of that vast mental force, in just an instant, his escape attempt stopped, and his ferocious expression softened.
Mephisto slowly turned and knelt before Leon, shrilly calling out an incredible title:
"My Master, please allow me to offer everything in Hell to you."
Mephisto no longer had his previous cunning and pretense.
Now, in his eyes, there was only naked loyalty.
That fervent gaze astonished Black Strange and Jarvis, who were standing by.
Just as Leon had once enslaved the Skrull, this time, he used the enslavement secret art from the starry sky to likewise enslave Mephisto.
In the past, this would have been almost impossible for Leon.
Although Dimensional Demon Gods generally have average individual strength, their souls are deeply bound to their respective dimensions.
To break through their minds and enslave them is tantamount to contending with a vast dimension.
But now Leon could directly defeat Mephisto's mental force.
Although Superman's greatest strength is primarily his physique, even Golden Superman is no exception.
However, when bathing in sunlight, Leon's mental force also increased.
Coupled with Mephisto's declining control over Hell, Leon enslaved him without even breaking a sweat.
"I don't need you to offer Hell, Mephisto," Leon said, "What you need to do next is, as you said, unite with other Demon Gods to conquer Satanish's dimension."
"Take Strange with you, and have the Kamar-Taj sorcerers disguise themselves as your subordinates, mixing among the Demon Gods."
"When it's time to plunder the Demon God's dimension, plunder fiercely, but when it's time to backstab, do so decisively."
Leon didn't want to spend too much effort in the Realm of Split.
However, being neighbors with these violent, vicious, and unscrupulous Demon Gods means he must always remain vigilant.
The optimal solution is to drive away all these evil Demon Gods and seize all their dimensions.
Previously, having Black Strange responsible for conquering territories in the Realm of Splitclearly had good results.
Now, with Mephisto added, efficiency can be greatly improved.
After being enslaved, Mephisto had no thought of resisting Leon.
In fact, every decision he made would prioritize whether it was beneficial to Leon.
Leon's refusal to accept Hell, in Mephisto's current view, was an unexpected grace.
His eyes gleamed with gratitude, and he knelt, shrilly saying, "Thank you, my benevolent Master, I will surely seize all the Demon Gods' dimensions for you!"
Leon nodded, "Go, go re-nurture your Hell army, but remember to only choose evil people when acquiring souls from now on."
Mephisto had destroyed countless Earths and killed countless humans.
Leon felt no psychological burden in enslaving this guy.
Mephisto remained prostrate, clearly not intending to rise until Leon left.
Leon ignored him, turning to Black Strange: "We can return to Earth now. Let all the sorcerers go back, Stephen."
Black Strange's gaze was a bit dazed; he had been disoriented by the series of events.
"Hmm… alright, alright, Your Eminence," Black Strange mumbled a few responses, then glanced at Mephisto on the ground a few more times before turning to leave.
Jarvis, however, was not surprised by Leon's enslavement methods.
Years ago, when Leon enslaved the Skrull, he hadn't hidden it from him and Tony.
"Long time no see, Master," Jarvis said with a smile as the Infinity Armor on his body slowly receded, revealing his face.
He was still the electronic butler of the Stark family, gentle and elegant like a White-haired old gentleman.
"It has been a while. It seems you've gotten used to the power of these gems?" Leon flew to Jarvis's side.
"Yes, sometimes the TVA even asks for my help when they encounter trouble, which makes Mr. Stark very unhappy," Jarvis said with a smile.
"Haha, he's jealous, isn't he? Building so many armors still can't compare to mechanical ascension," Leon said.
"Perhaps so, but Mr. Stark was more upset that you didn't return for Miss Morgan's first birthday, Master."
"Is that so…? But when I sought Tony before, he seemed quite happy."
"That's because what truly upset Mr. Stark was that you hadn't returned home, and he didn't know of your safety."
Jarvis said softly, "Now that you're back, Master, he's naturally happy."
He added, "Of course, I'm also very happy. Welcome back, Master Leon."
"Oh, I see…" Leon recalled when he took Tony to the Three-Body World.
Tony excitedly stood up, complaining dismissively about some wandering swordsman suddenly remembering he had a family holding him back, then tightly hugged him.
It seemed that ever since he transmigrated to Marvel, from Tony's perspective, he had never disappeared for such a long time.
On the other hand, Leon himself, due to frequently using time acceleration for cultivation, had become very insensitive to the scale of time.
"I'll spend more time with Tony and Pepper later," Leon murmured.
Upon hearing this, Jarvis couldn't help but remind him, "Master, before you accompany Mr. Stark, you might also need to accompany a few other ladies who have been waiting for you for a long time."
"Ladies?" Leon was momentarily stunned.
"Leon!" Several voices from afar accelerated towards him.
Leon turned around, and the golden-glowing Diana and Kara crashed into his chest.
Leon could guarantee that if these two heads had hit Mount Everest, the World's highest peak would have been cut in half.
"Oh, ouch, my bones are breaking, be gentle!" Leon cried out in pain, but his hands naturally rested on their shoulders, preparing to embrace them.
But then, the Golden Truth Lasso, like a small snake, coiled around his hands.
Leon, following the force, put his hands behind his back, greatly alarmed: "Diana, what are you doing?"
"Heh," Diana's narrow eyes scrutinized Leon, "I thought someone was planning to make me wait another ninety years."
"As for what we're doing…" Leon watched in surprise as Wanda chased after them from behind, opening a Mystic Art of Portals behind him.
Diana and Kara together pushed him towards the portal.
Beyond the door was solid ground, and the crisp, cool sensation clearly indicated the Moon.
Diana and the two others stepped through the portal one after another.
Wanda unleashed Chaos Magic, her scarlet magic covering tens of kilometers, instantly transforming the desolate lunar surface into a pink cherry blossom sea.
At this moment, more scarlet magic coiled around Leon's body.
Kara said coldly, "Rape."
Leon tilted his head back, knowing he would have to use every ounce of his skill to resist the three lawbreakers.
Chapter 539: An Unusual Invitation
The cherry blossom grove on the Moon lasted for three days.
During these three days, countless cherry blossoms fluttered down, as if a pink ocean had appeared on the Moon.
The sea of flowers only disappeared completely after three days.
It was as if it were just a fleeting dream in the cold Universe.
As the U.S. on Earth once again entered night.
On the Moon's surface.
With a thought from Leon, the cherry blossom grove gradually dispersed, vanishing like dust.
The scene around the four instantly changed, returning to their residence in New York.
Leon sent the other three back to their respective rooms, then prepared to head to a parallel World.
Since he couldn't get an answer from Eternity.
He decided to personally investigate the reason for the collision of various Worlds.
With the number of m-bodies Leon currently had spread throughout the Multiverse.
It could be said that he could personally witness several Worlds colliding every day.
However, the power distributed to the m-bodies was always limited.
Perhaps observing in person with his stronger main body might lead to more discoveries.
Leon took a step, merging into space like a fish leaping into the sea.
The next moment, he crossed the endless void and arrived at his destination.
Casually traversing time and space, and being unaffected by various paradoxes, this was merely the most basic ability of Golden Superman.
"This is a World where Doctor Strange caused a collision."
As soon as Leon appeared, he immediately drew a conclusion.
He looked around, and the entire Universe's timeline was revealed to his eyes.
Every person existing in the long river of time held no secrets from him.
This Universe was a normal sacred timeline branch Universe.
The cause of the World collision was also the familiar issue of Doctor Strange interfering with other Universes.
Leon shook his head, and casually pushed away the two Worlds that were about to collide, untangling their entanglement.
Then he took another step, entering the next Universe.
The new World also had an m-body guarding it.
Leon looked around, raising an eyebrow slightly.
"This World is still in the Iron Man 2 era, and the Universe itself is collapsing... the anchor person has died."
Leon looked towards Earth.
He discovered that it was the old Ant-Man of this World who had massacred all the Superheroeswho were supposed to become Avengers.
"Solving this problem is simple."
With a thought from Leon.
An m-body in the Universe emitted a ray of light, which landed in the hands of Peter Parker, who was still an elementary school student on Earth.
Peter, who became the Ultraman host, immediately became the new anchor person, and the collapse of the Universe gradually stopped.
Leon then looked beyond the Universe.
The approaching World was actually the World where Party Thor resided.
And it was very lively.
In that World, a girl named Daisy and Howard the Duck had an egg.
That egg would hatch a baby with extremely high talent.
So, all the major forces in the entire Universe were competing for that egg.
Leon merely watched with interest for a few moments and then paid no more attention.
What he found somewhat strange was how two Universes, without any entanglement issues, could collide?
With this doubt, Leon activated his super vision to observe carefully.
This was the first time he had used this ability since becoming half of Golden Superman.
The super vision that could still be blocked by lead for a normal Superman.
On Leon now, it was like the perspective of God.
After using super vision, the entire World became transparent in his eyes.
Layers of dimensions turned into transparent blocks of air.
The complex multidimensional World seemed to become a flat map, completely visible.
The operation of the rules in the Universe also became countless clear and visible lines.
Leon only needed to move those lines with his mind to freely modify the operation of the entire Universe.
From this perspective.
He still found no connection between the two Universes.
"There's no temporal entanglement, no spatial overlap, and no mutual interference on the reality level..."
Two Universes that seemed to have no intersection whatsoever.
Were now about to collide with each other.
"Could this be a natural law...?"
Leon pondered. "These two Worlds, besides both being extensions of the sacred timeline, indeed have no other connections."
"Is there a problem with the timeline?"
Leon found it difficult to conclude.
He intervened to push the two Universes apart, then continued to the next one.
In one day.
Not only the Universes observed by the m-bodies.
But also those Worlds that Leon randomly found were about to collide.
He traveled through thousands of Universes.
It must be said that Doctor Strange was indeed a tumor.
In this era, where Mister Fantastic Reed had not yet exerted his power, and Tony Stark had not yet delved into the Multiverse.
Doctor Strange was the main culprit causing crises in multiple Universes.
After investigating so many Worlds.
Leon discovered.
Aside from different Doctor Stranges traveling to other Worlds, directly causing entanglement between Universes.
Among other causes leading to World collisions.
The most likely reason was that the Multiverse timeline was interfered with and contracted, causing various Worlds to draw closer to each other.
Leon traced back along the timelines of multiple Worlds.
He found that the source was actually the Obliviate spell cast by Doctor Strange in the Main Universe several years ago, to help Little Spider Peter Parker get into college.
That Obliviate spell, due to a casting error, interfered with a large number of Universes.
It not only broke the barriers between Universes, causing villains from other Spider-Man Worlds to run into the Main Universe.
It also attracted the attention of powerful entities in the Multiverse, interfering with the timelines of multiple Worlds.
Leon initially determined that the main reason for the continuous World collisions was that Obliviate spell by Doctor Strange in the Main Universe.
But he also felt that he was still overlooking something crucial.
"If it's just the Obliviate spell causing timeline instability, it would be easy to solve."
"But I have a bad feeling."
Leon didn't used to believe in intuition.
But at his current level of strength.
Intuition sometimes could better penetrate the truth.
While pondering.
Leon merged into space and returned to his own Universe.
He estimated the time; Diana and the others should be awake.
However, when Leon returned home.
He was surprised to see Diana and the others, dressed in rather formal gowns, smoothing out each other's wrinkles.
"Why are you wearing such formal clothes? Are you planning to challenge me again today?" Leon joked.
Diana shook her head.
She wore a dark blue knitted gown, with a shawl draped to her waist, and the cinched waistline outlining a graceful curve.
"It's an invitation from Asgard, look."
Diana placed a hat with a black lace veil on her head.
At the same time, she handed Leon a gold-edged letter.
Leon opened it and was stunned: "An invitation... Odin is inviting us to his... funeral?"
Chapter 540: Odin's Envy
The coastal port of Asgard was a World of torches tonight.
The stars in the sky were dim and lightless.
Only the end of the ocean under the night still had a thin layer of faint light.
All Asgardians stood silently by the shore, holding burning torches.
The flickering flames illuminated their faces and were reflected in their eyes.
The sorcerers from Kamar-Taj also held torches, looking at Odin together with these Asgardians.
Odin had already boarded the small boat for the sea burial.
It was a small boat, very similar to a Viking longship, with its bow and stern rising high like a sea serpent, just enough for Odin to lie flat.
On the boat were clusters of flowers and various armors and robes.
Most of those were old companions that had accompanied Odin for a long time.
Generally speaking,
Only Asgardians who died in battle
Would be placed on such a small boat, set ablaze, and allowed to drift into the sea.
The moment the body was completely burned,
The soul of the fallen warrior would also ascend to Valhalla, sharing Eternal glory with their ancestors.
Odin, who had not died in battle, or even died yet, but was arranging to lie on the boat himself,
Normally, he would not be able to enter Valhalla.
But Valhalla was his, so he could enter it in any posture he wished.
A wave of sadness permeated among the Asgardians.
No one spoke.
But the unbearable pain and bewilderment were clear in their eyes, illuminated by the torchlight.
Frigga, the Queen, embraced Thor and Loki, one on each side, so deeply moved.
Even Loki showed sadness at this moment.
Although he was a household name on Earth, a big star whose every movie he made slandered Thor and Odin to no end,
His heart was ultimately in Asgard.
He might not realize this,
But it was the truth.
No matter how well Loki did on Earth, no matter how much attention he received, that place did not belong to him.
Everything he had was in Asgard, in those rows of towering, magnificent buildings, with Thor, Odin, and Frigga.
If Loki was sad, there was even less need to mention Thor.
The golden-haired strong man had tears in his eyes, occasionally wiping them with his palm.
Unlike in the original timeline, this Thor was experiencing the loss of a loved one for the first time.
The atmosphere of sorrow was so thick that even the sorcerers from Kamar-Taj were affected.
Even the most boisterous Pietro was quiet at this moment.
Leon was fine, though.
He knew that after Odin's Death, he would be able to "live" more easily in Valhalla.
But he couldn't understand why Odin would die at this time.
And it was a voluntary Death.
In the Sacred Timeline, Odin was supposed to die in Norway, Earth, in 2017.
How was it that when it came to him, Odin, after six years of slumber, was going to die prematurely in 2015?
Leon cast a puzzled look at the old figure sitting on the small boat.
He suddenly had a misconception.
He felt that this God King Odin, at a certain moment, was a bit like that flamboyant Odin from the Dragon Race World.
After all, the deceased personally inviting others to attend his funeral,
Asking everyone to be there, eagerly waiting for him to die, and then saying a word of peace to him,
Such a thing felt too avant-garde and too flamboyant no matter how you thought about it.
When Leon first received the invitation,
There was a second there,
When he thought Odin was reminding him to return the divine artifacts—
If he didn't return them soon, the old man would fight his way to Earth like an old saint wielding an Imperial weapon.
But Odin was clearly truly preparing to pass away.
The old man, dressed in magnificent robes, sat hunched on the boat, gazing at the sea horizon, with a lingering sense of seeing the World for the last time.
The sorrow and reluctance on him surged out like a tide.
Anyone could see that he was ready to kick the bucket and enter the sea at any moment.
Everyone waited silently.
Some were sobbing, and some were mourning in silence.
Odin gazed at the sea for a long time.
Suddenly, he twisted his old waist and looked back.
"Mr. Leon, could you come closer?" Odin's voice was very gentle.
He might not have spoken in such a tone for hundreds of years.
His tone was not like a God King, but rather like the old fisherman in "The Old Man and the Sea" who had just finished fighting a school of sharks and was dragging his heavy body back to shore.
"Of course."
Leon, holding the torch, slowly walked to Odin's side.
Looking at Odin's weathered face,
He thought for a moment.
He didn't say anything provocative like "I'll take care of your wife."
Instead, he said other provocative things: "Old man, if you feel that you can't get the divine artifacts back and are ashamed of the past God Kings, so you plan to die, there's really no need for that."
"I've already used the Eternal Flame and the Casket of Ancient Winters; if you want them, I'll return them to you, but you have to say something. If you don't say anything, how would I know?"
"Although it was agreed to borrow them for five years, I borrowed them for six years and haven't returned them, but I just forgot."
"The matter of two divine artifacts is not something to die for, Odin."
Odin was immersed in the gloom of his impending departure.
After hearing Leon's provocative words, he immediately couldn't maintain his composure.
His cheek twitched, and his weathered eyes looked at Leon, almost complaining along with him.
But he opened and closed his mouth several times, and then still held back.
"The two divine artifacts are irrelevant, Mr. Leon."
Odin turned his head to look at the sea.
"Then why are you preparing to go to Valhalla early?" Leon asked.
Odin sighed slightly.
"During Odin's Slumber, I heard from other dimensions that you recently saved the Multiversefrom a crisis and have reached the height of Vishanti."
"That's right." Leon nodded.
"Then you should know better than I that in the near future, this World may face an unimaginable crisis."
Odin sighed, "I gave Thor tempering, and Loki choices, all for Ragnarok."
"But before a greater crisis, what does Ragnarok count for?"
"Thor needs more growth, needs stronger power."
"Asgard no longer needs me; what it needs is a God King who surpasses me."
Odin's words made Leon realize.
So Odin was preparing to give all his power to Thor.
"I see, a very wise decision." Leon said.
Odin smiled: "Mr. Leon, you don't need to return those two divine artifacts. Please consider them Asgard's most sincere gift."
"Also, our treasury, take whatever you can use from it."
Leon chuckled: "Do you think Asgard is doomed and you're preparing to quickly divide the family property?"
Odin's eyes flickered slightly: "Long years have taught me that sharing the fruits with allies is the most correct choice."
"Is that so? But the sharing is a bit late." Leon shook his head, knowing what Odin wanted to say.
"Yes, it's late. I should have tied everything in Asgard to you when we first met."
Odin no longer concealed it, expressing his envy nakedly.
"Ancient One is a more qualified Guardian than I am; her vision is much better than mine."
"Heh heh, Sorcerer Ancient One might not agree with that."
Leon teased, "She's still hanging in our academy, telling students the new Wi-Fi password every day."
Chapter 541: The Death of Odin
Odin was stunned.
During Odin's Sleep, he had seen everything on Earth and knew what Wi-Fi was.
But he didn't know the Ancient One was in such a miserable state.
"You hung her corpse in the academy and refined it into an undead?"
Odin was very surprised, scrutinizing Lyon as if seeing him for the first time.
Lyon hadn't expected Odin to have such a wild imagination.
He immediately denied, "No, it's her portrait; that's a type of magic."
"A portrait? That really is… quite a good magic." Odin was somewhat speechless.
He didn't dwell on the Ancient One any longer, turning his gaze back to the sea.
In the darkness, waves surged, like an unseen crisis rushing towards them.
After a brief silence, Odin spoke to Lyon again, "Though it's a bit late, Lord Lyon, I would like to ask you… to request you, to give Thor some assistance when Asgard is in peril."
Odin was once the God King who awed the Universe.
His army was as unstoppable as a God descending.
Clad in the Destroyer armor, he was invincible, and wielding gungnir, he could sweep across the Universe.
But before his Death, he, like many old fathers, couldn't let go of his children.
Lyon didn't make a promise, only looking at the torch in his hand and saying, "Odin, I wouldn't attend just anyone's funeral."
Odin froze, then suddenly chuckled, "A funeral is not an end for Asgardians. Valhalla can also be open to Kamar-Taj from now on."
In Valhalla, the souls of warriors could achieve a different kind of Eternity after Death.
This was an unimaginable gift for many.
But Lyon shook his head, refusing, "Such a promise is unnecessary."
"Why?"
"The souls of mages either belong to Vishanti, or to Eternity, or to me; there's nowhere else for them to go."
Lyon patted Odin's shoulder and walked back to the Kamar-Taj mages' group.
Neither of them stated it explicitly.
But Lyon had actually agreed to appropriately look after Asgard.
Odin also offered his last bit of leverage in return.
Unfortunately, the most valuable thing he could offer now was just so-so to Lyon.
So Odin also felt much regret.
When the two first met six or seven years ago, Lyon's overall strength was even inferior to his.
If he had invested his best treasures back then, he wouldn't have to worry about Asgard's future now.
But what was missed was missed after all.
Odin could only leave his regrets in a sigh.
"Come to me."
After Lyon walked away, Odin beckoned to Thor and the other two.
He first bid his final farewell to Frigga.
Then his expression became serious.
"My time is short. There are some things you need to know."
Thor didn't understand, "What… why is time short, Father? You just came out of Odin's Sleep. Why would there be Death?"
Odin looked at the bewildered Thor, feeling both gratification and disappointment.
"Ragnarok is coming. I have held her back for a millennium, but I will not stop her anymore. That is your mission, Thor."
Thor wanted to say something more, but Odin immediately stopped him.
"Kneel, Thor."
Thor opened his mouth, but in the end, he obediently knelt on both knees before Odin's ship.
Odin remained seated, reaching out to gently caress Thor's head.
"I, Odin, Allfather, declare that from today, Thor Odinson, my eldest son, shall be the new King of Asgard."
"You shall inherit my power, surpass my limits, seek peace for Asgard, and all your endeavors shall be solely for Asgard."
Invisible divine power was stripped from one and bestowed upon the other.
Thor's power began to transform from the former Odinforce into his own Thorforce.
Loki watched all this unfold coldly from the side, a complex emotion flashing in his eyes.
The transfer of the divine position was incredibly brief.
Odin held Thor's head, spoke a few words, and then immediately released his hand.
"I have entrusted my power to you, Thor. You must remember, Asgard is not just a place."
He touched Thor's cheek and said, "I am proud of you, Thor. Your potential is far greater than mine. I believe you will do better than me."
After speaking, he looked at Loki.
"And you, my other son."
Loki was startled, not expecting it to involve him.
His lips moved, but he said nothing, only silently stepping forward a few paces.
"Loki, I know I have failed you."
"But your nature, the storm hidden deep within you, all come from me. You are my child, Loki."
Odin held both their arms simultaneously: "You must remember, you are about to face Hela, the God of Death, your sister."
"What?" Both were startled simultaneously.
"She is my first child, but her ambition was too great, beyond my control."
Odin said, "I imprisoned her in the underworld, but after my Death, she will break free."
"Her power comes from Asgard; here, she will become invincible."
"So you must… listen to the Sorcerer Supreme."
After Odin finished speaking, he looked at Lyon from afar and nodded gently.
Having said that, he didn't explain to his two bewildered sons.
Instead, he turned over and slowly lay flat on the ship.
"What a beautiful starry sky."
Odin sighed as he looked at the starry sky, then closed his eyes.
His hands were folded over his chest.
"I love you, my children."
"Now, push me into the sea."
With that, Odin's aura rapidly weakened, his breathing becoming fainter and fainter, and his body quickly grew cold.
Thor tightly pursed his lips, trying hard not to let tears flow.
He roared, veins bulging in his neck, and forcefully pushed the small boat into the sea.
Carried by Thor's strength, the waves quickly pushed the small boat away.
Odin and the small boat gradually became shadows on the torch-lit sea.
Then an Asgardian drew a bow and notched an arrow.
A Rocket shot into the sky and landed on Odin's boat.
The small boat caught fire.
It swayed on the sea, drifting further away.
Finally, at the edge of Asgard, it turned into scattered specks of light.
Odin thus died and entered Valhalla.
On the shore, Thor's tears finally couldn't be held back and slid down his cheeks.
Loki, on the other hand, trembled all over, staring blankly down at his hands.
He didn't know if it was because of Odin's Death, or because he had finally found a bit of his own compassion and sincerity.
His divine power returned at this moment.
But Loki felt no joy at all.
He fell into a deep silence.
All the Asgardians were also silent.
In the silence, the sea wind suddenly began to rage, as if a gloom had moved from their hearts into reality.
Above their heads, in the strong wind, thunder suddenly rumbled.
The faint thunder quickly grew clear, and lightning cut through the night.
Everyone looked at Thor in unison.
His fists were tightly clenched, lightning flashed on his skin, and shimmering electricity pulsed from his hair to the corners of his eyes.
Thor suddenly awakened.
His Mjolnir was still at his feet, but his divine power became wildly active.
Thor awakening to stronger power at this moment undoubtedly injected a powerful boost into the Asgardians.
But then a voice broke the silence.
"Such familiar lightning… So the old man is dead, and you are his successor?"
A dark green spatial portal opened.
A slender woman, exuding a deathly aura, stepped out.
Her long black hair hung down, and her aggressive, domineering eyes surveyed her surroundings.
"It seems everyone is here, seeing him off?"
"Hmph, how lovely and foolish."
"Now, kneel."
The woman stood there like a God seated on a throne, yet she looked down upon all beings.
"Come and welcome your true King."
Chapter 542 Thor is instantly killed
Everyone around could hear Odin's dying instructions to Thor and Loki.
And this mysterious woman, appearing immediately after Odin's Death, was so overbearing that even her disrespectful words could silence everyone.
She was undoubtedly Hela.
She was Odin's eldest daughter, who was overflowing with ambition and destined to bring Ragnarok to the Gods.
Facing this sudden demand for obeisance from the eldest princess,
the Asgardians naturally wouldn't agree.
Even as Hela spread her arms, the aura around her grew stronger and stronger because she was in Asgard.
No one echoed her or knelt before her.
Neither The Warriors Three nor Heimdall.
They only recognized Thor, the true God King, at this moment.
Among the group of sorcerers, Banner glanced around, at a loss.
He leaned his head close to Wong and whispered, "This shouldn't count as a ceremonial request, we don't need to kneel, right?"
Banner respected others too much.
If Asgard really had a rule about kneeling to the eldest princess,
he would genuinely follow local customs at this moment.
Wong hadn't said anything yet.
Mordo, standing nearby, stared at Banner as if he were an idiot: "How can Kamar-Taj kneel to Asgard? We don't even kneel to Odin, we only perform the sorcerer's salute!"
Mordo, who had once sweated profusely in front of Odin,
now had ample confidence and a very straight back.
Banner chuckled and nodded, indicating that he had misunderstood.
At this moment, the lightning flowing around Thor gradually calmed.
He bent down to pick up Mjolnir from the ground, his expression hardening considerably in a daze.
Odin's Death made Thor clearly understand.
He was now Asgard's most important protector.
And the woman in front of him was the uninvited guest Odin spoke of, who would bring Ragnarok, an enemy he must face.
"So, you are Hela."
Thor swung Mjolnir in his hand.
"The sister Father spoke of, the one destined to destroy Asgard for Loki and me."
"He said that about me?"
Hela, who had been closing her eyes to feel the power surging into her body, opened them.
After returning to Asgard, she had regained her rightful power.
In this land, her power would be endless, and her body would never tire.
She looked Thor up and down a few times: "You don't resemble him at all."
"Weak, hesitant, reckless… You are not fit to be the King of Asgard, child."
Hela's gaze swept over the Asgardians around her.
The power from the Divine Realm allowed her to perceive the divinity of every person here.
When she saw Frigga and Loki, she sneered.
"From your eyes, I can see that Odin hid the truth very well; you know nothing about me."
"I, Hela, Death, Odin's eldest daughter, the true heir to the throne of Asgard."
"Your true King will only be me."
"I will lead you out of the Nine Realms, fulfill the most glorious mission, and conquer this Universe."
"Now, kneel before your Queen, including you, lightning boy."
Hela ran her hands over her forehead, lightly smoothing her hair back along her hairline.
Her loose long hair instantly formed into a menacing, pitch-black crown.
Terrifying divine power erupted from her, and the power symbolizing Death permeated the coastline.
The Asgardians were momentarily stunned.
The sorcerers looked at Lyon and, finding the Sorcerer Supreme still calm, remained unmoved and continued to watch the show.
What great storms hadn't they experienced?
Just the day before, they were battling demons in Mephisto's hell.
Today was just like watching a live large-scale divine family drama.
The sorcerers weren't flustered.
But Loki felt a bit pressured.
He immediately pulled Frigga and hid behind Thor.
"Damn it, glorious mission… she's using my line, Thor, go defeat her quickly!"
Loki complained in a low voice from behind Thor.
Thor's expression was cold as he tightened his grip on Mjolnir.
He had unconditional trust in Odin.
Odin said Hela would bring Ragnarok.
Then, no matter how little he cared about the throne, he couldn't just give it away.
A bolt of lightning descended from the sky, enveloping Thor.
His funeral robe transformed back into his somewhat flamboyant red and silver battle armor.
"Oh, are you attempting to rebel against me?"
Hela placed one hand on her hip, and a pitch-black longsword materialized in the palm of her other hand.
Thor walked towards her step by step, swinging the handle of Mjolnir, making it spin rapidly.
"No, I'm sending you back to the underworld."
Thor roared, carrying thunder and lightning, raising Mjolnir to the sky, then descending to smash it towards Hela.
"My dear, didn't Odin tell you who the previous Master of this Mjolnir was?"
Hela sneered.
The moment Thor brought Mjolnir down.
She raised the hand that was on her hip and effortlessly caught the hammerhead.
The powerful strike was like hitting cotton, without the slightest ripple.
Hela maintained her contemptuous smile.
She then used her other hand, holding the sword, to lightly thrust forward.
The blade pierced through Thor's chest as easily as cutting tofu.
The changes, one after another, were too fast and too simple.
So simple that until Thor widened his eyes and coughed up blood, the Asgardians hadn't even reacted.
"Thor!" Queen Frigga exclaimed.
She wanted to rush towards Thor, but Loki desperately held her back.
"This, this is impossible…"
Thor was impaled on the blade, bleeding profusely.
But he stared intently at Mjolnir, not understanding how his Mjolnir could be caught so easily.
Hela snorted coldly: "Mjolnir's previous Master was me, you fool."
She clenched her five fingers, directly snatching Mjolnir, then reversed her grip on the handle and smashed it into Thor's face.
Thor flew backward, falling into the sea amidst gasps of surprise.
Hela looked indifferently at the splash.
Then she turned her head to look at the Asgardians: "You see, from now on, I am the King of this realm."
The scene was silent.
Loki pulled Frigga and quietly hid them among the group of sorcerers.
A green light flashed in his palm, transforming both him and Frigga into sorcerer robes.
After doing all that, he sighed in relief.
Then he noticed Daniel, the sorcerer next to him, looking at him strangely.
"What's wrong?" Loki spread his hands, "I'm also from Kamar-Taj, and this is my family member. I remember we are allowed to bring family members, right?"
Daniel the sorcerer withdrew his gaze speechlessly and shook his head.
Loki chuckled and whispered to Frigga, "This sorcerer has a strange temper, but he's not a bad person."
Frigga didn't speak, she caressed Loki's cheek, then looked worriedly out at the ocean.
She knew Thor wasn't dead yet, but she was very worried about how the situation would unfold next.
"No one is speaking, hmm?"
At this moment, Hela in the center of the crowd grew impatient.
She took one step forward, and the surrounding crowd retreated one step.
Whether warriors or ordinary Gods, they all watched her warily.
Thousands of years had passed, and this place was no longer her Asgard of the past.
She was like an outsider here, even an invader.
Hela's gaze gradually turned cold.
Chapter 543: Diana, Daughter of Zeus
"You now have two choices."
Hela said coldly, "Kneel, or Death."
Hela was already getting annoyed.
But still, no one knelt before her.
Instead, from the crowd,
The Warriors Three and other combatants stepped out one after another.
"We will not kneel to you. Leave here, Hela. This is the command left by the All-Father."
Vandal said loudly, gripping his longsword.
"Leave? Did you not hear what I said before? I am your new King!" Hela's expression grew even colder.
"No matter who you are, leave Asgard, or surrender!" Volstagg also said.
Hundreds of warriors stepped out and lined up before Hela.
They all held torches high, most without even carrying weapons.
And facing them was Hela, who could instantly kill even Thor.
Their presence here was undoubtedly a declaration of their resolve to Hela through their own Deaths.
Hela laughed in exasperation.
"Very well, very well, then come."
Hela flipped her wrist, gripping two longswords.
On the mages' side,
Diana nudged Leon with her shoulder: "Aren't you going to make a move?"
Leon shrugged: "I already have."
"Huh?" Diana was taken aback.
"Do you remember your battle with Ares?" Leon said.
Diana paused, recalling the scene where she watched Ares kill her mother.
"Illusion?"
Diana looked around.
She keenly noticed that among the mages, Loki had become dazed, clearly under an illusion.
Recalling her own past experience,
Diana felt that in a short while, Loki and Thor, these brothers, would experience a surge in power.
"What about Hela?" She turned back.
"Leave her to you."
And so,
As Hela kicked Vandal away and thrust her longsword into Hogun's chest,
And was about to deliver the finishing blow, a sword strike to end Hogun's life,
A brilliant golden bracer blocked her path.
A clang of metal echoed.
Hela's longsword was deflected.
She took a step back, narrowing her eyes, assessing the gleaming Diana before her.
"Who are you? Another new offspring of Odin?"
Diana retracted her arm and stood up, meeting Hela's gaze: "No, I am the daughter of Zeus."
"Zeus?" A debauched figure flashed through Hela's mind.
She hadn't expected that fat old man to have such a valiant daughter.
"Does the All-City also wish to meddle in my Asgard's affairs?"
"Good, I'll kill you first, then go kill Zeus and rule the All-City."
Hela's dominance was palpable.
In her eyes, the entire Universe was fertile ground awaiting her conquest.
She gave Diana no chance to speak again, thrusting her longsword directly, imbued with the power of Death.
Hela's combat was not like Thor's, with lightning accompanying him and special effects maximized.
Every move she made was permeated with the aura of Death.
When her blade slashed, the power of Death would follow, inflicting wounds on her enemies that were difficult to heal.
But unfortunately, this time she met Diana.
Diana's strength had far surpassed what it was when she first became a true god.
Speaking of which, this was all thanks to Leon.
As Leon's body grew stronger and stronger, now even stepping into the threshold of the Multiverse,
It could be said that a single drop of his blood now rivaled a Universe.
A wisp of his aura could be considered a treasure.
And the essence he had shed during his three-day battle with Diana and the other two before.
Had brought varying degrees of transformation to the three of them.
When they woke up today,
Even Wanda, who was originally the weakest,
Found that her bone density was comparable to Vibranium.
Let alone a powerhouse like Diana, who was already comparable to a Skyfather-level being.
Every one of Hela's attacks was easily blocked by Diana and met with a counterattack.
Their battle moved from the shore to the sky.
And from the sky to the clouds.
The dark night was illuminated by golden light.
Those on the shore could only see golden light bursting forth again and again.
The Asgard were dumbfounded.
But on the Kamar-Taj side, many mages were eager to try their hand against Hela.
If Leon hadn't stopped them,
Tony would probably have been the first to put on his newly developed warp-drive armor and charge up.
The Asgard watched the mages, who were eager to fight.
They only felt that this holy land of Midgard mages, which had defeated them a few years ago, was becoming increasingly mysterious.
Everyone looked up at the flickering night sky.
Waiting for the outcome of that battle.
Some individuals on the Kamar-Taj side were praying for Diana's defeat, so they could take her place.
Asgard, however, was praying en masse.
After all, even their strongest God King, Thor, had been defeated.
They naturally could only place their hopes on their allies.
Until a certain moment,
In the surging dark ocean,
Suddenly, snake-like currents of electricity flashed.
Those currents grew denser and moved towards the surface of the sea.
With a thunderous roar,
Giant waves shot into the sky.
Thor, enveloped in lightning, was fully revived.
"Hela!!"
His eyes were bloodshot; he didn't even care about Mjolnir, relying on his lock on Hela's aura, he transformed into a bolt of lightning and shot towards Hela.
No one knew what he had experienced on the seabed.
In fact, even he himself didn't know that he had just been under an illusion.
Thor only remembered witnessing Hela kill his mother, kill The Warriors Three.
And slaughter Asgard until only her undead army remained.
Witnessing all of that, Thor finally fully awakened his own thunderous divine power.
He was now willing to risk his life to stop Hela.
He thought he only had Loki left.
In the illusion, Thor told Loki to take the Eternal Flame.
To Muspelheim to find Surtur.
To have Surtur destroy Asgard.
Because if Asgard was not destroyed, Hela, being there, would never be defeated.
Thor rushed directly towards Hela in the air.
He wanted to buy Loki time.
And in the crowd of mages, Loki also trembled, his eyes quickly turning bloodshot.
He immediately wanted to rush to the Asgard vault.
But before he could run,
Loki met Frigga's worried gaze.
"Mo-Mother?"
On the ground, Loki quickly understood that everything before was an illusion.
He embraced Frigga tightly, weeping profusely.
It was a pity that Loki couldn't have a power burst like Thor.
Even after experiencing the tragedy in the illusion, he only became more mature, not stronger.
And the growth that Thor had gained—
He joined the two's battlefield, unleashing the most terrifying lightning at Hela to date.
But Hela was unharmed...
And Hela, with a returning sword strike, made the power-bursting Thor bleed across the sky, falling to the ground.
Hela was, after all, the eldest daughter.
Even if Thor inherited the throne and gained a status equivalent to Odin's,
She was still much stronger than Thor.
Thor was defeated again.
In the end, it was Diana who subdued Hela.
Although Hela would possess infinite stamina and an immortal life while in Asgard,
Diana's power was far above hers.
When Hela was bound by Diana with the Truth Lasso and held kneeling before Leon,
Even if Hela unleashed her full divine power, it was useless.
"Damn it, Daughter of Zeus, you dare to humiliate me like this! I am the God of Death, I am immortal!"
Hela's gaze swept over her surroundings.
She saw Thor, holding Frigga, with a foolish smile on his face.
She saw Loki, staring at her with hateful eyes...
These weaklings actually dared to stand above her.
Hela cursed without showing any weakness: "You cannot trap me! When I break free, your Deathwill arrive!"
Chapter 544: Thor's Mjolnir, Hela's Crown
The Asgardians, who had been cheering for Hela's defeat, gradually quieted down.
Hela was right.
Aside from the sorcerers from Kamar-Taj,
no one in Asgard could stop her.
The warriors couldn't help but look at Thor, who was holding Frigga and muttering, "It's great that you're not dead."
It was only when his mother reminded him that Thor noticed the current situation.
He released his embrace and awkwardly patted his armor.
"Ahem, um… we can lock her back in that, that…"
"Helheim," Loki reminded from the side.
"Ah, right, we can lock her in Helheim, just like Father used to."
Thor clapped his hands, glared fiercely at Hela, and then smiled at the people around him.
"At least she can't stay in Asgard… What do you all think?"
Before the Asgardian warriors could agree,
Hela immediately sneered mockingly, "How do you plan to lock me in Helheim, little darling? A fool like you, who grew up under Odin's wing, doesn't even know what Helheim is."
Thor was stunned.
He looked at Hela, then at the surrounding warriors.
Well, he really didn't know where Helheim was.
Thor finally looked at Loki and whispered to him, "Loki?"
Loki rolled his eyes, "Give up. You can't even defeat her, so how can you suppress her in Helheim like Father did?"
After Odin's Death, Loki finally referred to him as Father again.
Sometimes, the worst father-son conflicts, like those between Loki and Odin, can only be gradually resolved after one side's Death.
Thor thought about Loki's words for a few seconds and realized it seemed to be true.
He continued to lower his voice and said, "What do you think we should do?"
Loki was expressionless, "I don't know. Whoever is the King of Asgard knows."
Thor was anxious, "Loki!"
Loki let out a long breath through his nose impatiently.
He tilted his head and rolled his eyes towards the Kamar-Taj sorcerers who had been watching the show.
Thor looked over, blinked, and suddenly understood.
"Aha!"
Thor smiled knowingly, pointing a finger at Loki, indicating that Loki was still smarter.
He remembered.
His Father had instructed him before his Death to listen to the Sorcerer Supreme.
Thor had seen Leon in action.
He still remembered how the Frost Giant army from Jotunheim was easily destroyed by Leon that day.
He also remembered Leon's Heat Vision, which could crush the casket of ancient winters.
"Sorcerer Supreme!" Thor shouted loudly, without any of the restraint of a God King.
"Please help, please, lock Hela in Helheim, or… anywhere else, even let her be a miner."
"…" Leon finally understood.
Thor, even if he became stronger, was still a straightforward brute.
He shouldn't have bothered to create illusions for these two brothers just now.
"Alright, that's not difficult," Leon looked at Hela, who was kneeling before him.
It was then that Hela noticed the person in front of her.
She frowned as she scrutinized Leon.
She couldn't see anything special.
But subconsciously, she felt that the situation was very bad.
At this moment, Thor ran behind Leon, glaring at Hela like a dog relying on its master's power, and even summoned Mjolnir to wave it around.
Hela immediately became enraged, "Sorcerer Supreme? Hmph, what an absurd title."
"It's a joke that the God King of Asgard would ask a Midgard barbarian for help."
She turned her head and angrily rebuked the surrounding warriors, "You actually acknowledge such an idiot as the God King? Are all of you idiots too?"
Hela's outburst did not receive any affirmation from anyone.
She looked at the surrounding Asgardian warriors as if they were fools.
But their gazes at her were equally strange.
The Asgardians now.
Perhaps they hadn't seen Odin's heroic demeanor in his prime.
But they had all witnessed Leon's unimaginably terrifying power.
They didn't think there was anything wrong with Thor asking Leon for help.
In fact, they had long wanted to do so.
"Isn't it too wasteful to lock her back in Helheim?" Leon said at this moment.
Thor was stunned, "Then where should she be locked?"
"Odin previously sent Loki to Earth for training, and didn't he gain a lot?"
Leon reached out and actually gently removed the dark crown from Hela's head.
Loki, not far away, seemed to have anticipated something and suddenly became energized, his eyes gleaming.
"How can someone who disregards life and doesn't know how to respect life be qualified to be the God of Death?"
"Even the true Death holds an equal view towards all beings in the Universe."
At this moment, Leon, holding the crown, said softly, "I, in Odin's name, revoke all of Hela's authority."
"From now on, all those with benevolence and who cherish life can wear this crown and possess Hela's power."
"What?" Hela's eyebrow twitched.
She immediately sneered, "What kind of joke are you talking about? You, and in Odin's name?"
"You idiot from Midgard, no matter what you are… Hmm, what's going on?"
Even though Hela was kneeling, her aura remained imposing.
She looked down on Leon, ready to continue mocking, when she suddenly paled in shock.
"My power, my power is disappearing!?"
"This is impossible! I am Hela, the God of Death! In Asgard, I possess endless power!"
"What's going on? Stop, stop it!"
All of Hela's divine power and strength flowed away like a breached dam.
She could feel her body becoming weak, as if she was turning into a mortal.
Her pupils trembled violently as she looked at Leon in disbelief.
This Midgard sorcerer had actually dissolved her power!
"Nothing is impossible. I, in Odin's… Wait, the current God King is Thor."
Leon paused and then continued.
"I, in Thor's name, banish you from Asgard. Go… stay on Earth."
The Bifrost Bridge descended from the sky, enveloped Hela, and then teleported her to the distant Earth.
With a casual toss, Leon threw the crown into the Bifrost Bridge amidst Hela's increasingly distant screams.
Loki, not far away, watched this familiar scene.
He couldn't help but clench his fists, "That's right, that's it! Let that woman experience mortal life on Earth!"
Thor, beside Leon, widened his eyes.
"Wait, wait! Sorcerer Supreme, you can actually strip Hela of her power?"
"How is this possible!?"
Thor noticed that his divine power had been inexplicably mobilized just now.
And he hadn't even reacted yet.
Leon had already used the mobilized divine power to banish Hela.
If Thor were to do this himself, it would be impossible even with all his divine power.
Let alone the small amount that Leon had called upon.
And… why could the Sorcerer Supreme directly use his divine power!?
At this moment, Thor suddenly suspected that Leon in front of him was actually Odin in disguise.
Chapter 545: Another Collision
Actually, it wasn't just Thor.
Even Shen Loki, the Nine Realms' foremost Sorcerer, and everyone else present,
Didn't know how Leon did it.
Only Frigga looked at Leon with shock.
"That was 'words become reality,' wasn't it?"
Queen Frigga pulled Loki towards Leon and slowly said,
"Legend says that the most mysterious Gods in the Universe, due to their immense power and supreme authority,
"Their every action, even a simple word, can change the rules of the World."
"Mr. Leon didn't use magic or any other power just now."
"He simply spoke his decision, and the World changed according to what he said."
Leon smiled and nodded, not refuting her.
During the process of banishing Hela,
He indeed didn't use a single shred of his own power.
He merely opened his mouth and declared his decision to the World.
That truly was 'words become reality.'
Queen Frigga looked at Leon in disbelief.
The others, listening to her explanation, also looked at Leon as if gazing upon a God.
Most of the people present were clearly Gods.
But how much better were they than mortals in front of Leon?
They were merely ants looking up at the sky.
Frigga finally bowed respectfully to Leon: "Thank you for everything you've done for Asgard."
"You're welcome. Consider it the interest for borrowing the artifact beyond the deadline previously."
Leon waved his hand and said,
"Besides, Odin gave me the entire treasury, so I couldn't do nothing."
Upon hearing this, Thor immediately raised Mjolnir and pointed in a certain direction: "Treasury? The treasury is over there, Sorcerer Supreme, I'll go with you! Take whatever you want!"
With such a warm invitation from the rich man's foolish son,
Leon naturally wouldn't refuse.
The group grandly made their way to the treasury.
...
Meanwhile, on Earth.
The Bifrost Bridge separated Hela and her crown, dropping them near a small town in New Mexico, U.S..
The Men in Black, responsible for Earth's external defense, discovered the anomaly immediately and rushed to the scene.
They sealed off the crown, which had created a deep crater, and established a quarantine facility.
Late at night.
Hela broke into the quarantine zone.
After being easily subdued by the Men in Black,
She feigned weakness and made a request, eventually being led by the Men in Black to the crown.
Hela laughed maniacally and grabbed the spikes on the crown.
She planned to immediately subjugate all the ignorant Earthlings around her once she regained her power.
But the crown, usually light, was now as heavy as a thousand pounds.
No matter how Hela tried, how much she exerted herself, she couldn't move the crown an inch.
There was no benevolence deep within her heart, so she naturally couldn't wear her former crown.
In the pouring rain of the night,
Hela knelt on the ground, crying out to the sky: "No!!!"
Then she was taken away by the Men in Black and imprisoned in the detention center for alien illegal immigrants.
A few days later.
The Sorcerers, who had watched the grand drama of the Godly palace intrigue and been entertained by Thor for several days, finally returned to Earth.
Loki also returned with them.
Although Loki had regained his divine power,
He couldn't bear to abandon the foundation he had built on Earth.
According to him,
Earthlings simply couldn't live without him.
His fans loved his long legs, his tall physique, and his magnetic voice.
For these lovely subjects, he had to make two movies a year to maintain his rule.
So, not long after returning to Earth,
Loki began planning his new movie, "Shen Loki: Saving Ragnarok."
He even specifically asked the Men in Black to bail out Hela.
To have Hela personally play the big villain in the movie.
Without divine power, having completely become a mortal, what could Hela do?
Of course, she could only follow Loki, with a defiant look on her face, to make a living.
Ultimately, Hela still failed to bring Ragnarok to Asgard.
Even in the movie—
In the movie, she was defeated by Loki and Superman working together.
Weeks passed.
Leon no longer paid attention to Hela's affairs.
He was currently at the Sorcerer Academy, presenting awards to the students who had received the Headmaster's Scholarship.
This scholarship was supposed to be awarded once a year.
But Leon hadn't shown his face at the academy for three years.
So, there were three accumulated award recipients.
The first year's recipient was Shirley.
The second year was a chubby boy named Ned.
He was supposed to be Little Spider's best friend, but he was recruited into the Sorcerer Academy three years ago.
The third year was a young girl named Shafika.
She came from a family Leon had saved years ago in Afghanistan.
Leon awarded each of the three a million-dollar scholarship.
And according to their respective requests,
He first gave Ned special magic tutoring.
Then he listened as Shafika solemnly expressed her gratitude for his life-saving kindness from many years ago.
Finally, Leon rubbed Shirley's head and prepared to go home with Little Shirley.
Shirley was already 19, a big girl, and she actually dared to secretly make an excessive request while receiving the scholarship.
So Leon decided to take her home and punish her properly.
But as soon as he opened the portal,
Leon's footsteps stopped.
"Why aren't you moving? Hurry up, aren't you going to punish me?" Shirley pulled Leon's arm, her cheeks flushed.
Leon pressed her head down, speechless, and pushed her into the portal.
"You wait at home for now, I still have something to do."
Leon closed the portal, took a step, and walked outside the Universe.
"This is ridiculous, even the Universe I'm in is about to have a World collision."
Behind Leon was his S Universe.
And in front of him,
Was a huge Universe bubble slowly rotating and approaching.
The two Universes were getting closer, and a collision was already foreseeable.
Leon was certain that this collision was definitely not caused by Doctor Strange.
After all, the Strange of his own Earth was still hopelessly addicted to virtual games, how could he have the ability to cause a World collision?
"So, is this another collision caused by a timeline contraction?"
Leon frowned, then quickly relaxed.
"The source of the timeline contraction observed before was the Obliviate spell cast by Main Universe's Doctor Strange."
"But I always felt something wasn't quite right."
"Perhaps this time I can observe it more closely."
Leon didn't immediately push away the colliding Universe.
He decided to let the two Universes continue to approach.
During the process of the collision beginning,
He would be able to trace the main cause more clearly.
Leon hovered outside the Universe, waiting for the collision to occur.
At the same time, he didn't forget to notify the Superheroes inside Earth.
To tell everyone to remain calm and wait for the World collision to end.
Soon, within both Earths, fuzzy shadows of each other could already be seen.
On the Earth of S Universe.
Tony gathered the Avengers at Avengers Tower.
"I didn't expect a collision to happen here too, but we don't have a Doctor Strange here."
Dr. Banner was a bit puzzled.
Now everyone knew Doctor Strange was a troublemaker.
But they all knew their own Doctor Strange.
That guy was still a surgeon, still addicted to online games.
"Perhaps there's another reason, but don't worry, Leon said he'll solve it," Tony said.
Captain America pointed to the sky: "Shouldn't we communicate with the other side and let them know not to worry?"
"Okay, Jarvis, try to contact the Earth on the other side."
"Yes, sir."
Chapter 546: Shen Loki, the God King on Earth
Jarvis's body, wearing the Infinity War Armor, was still in hell.
What was on Earth at this moment was just a sub-body of Jarvis.
His data, aided by the Avengers' satellite, quickly invaded the Earth of the opposite World.
Jarvis locked onto the rulers and Superheroes, informing them of the changes in the two Worlds.
Soon, Jarvis gave Tony a reply.
"The Earth on the opposite side is not an extension of the Sacred Timeline; it is the World where Mutants reside," Jarvis said.
"I've seen their story in the TVA. Professor X is a very good person. He promised he would help appease the people of their World."
Tony nodded, "It's the Mutants' World? Since Professor X is there, we really don't need to intervene."
Tony had learned about Professor X from comics.
That Mutant with telekinetic powers was a member of the Illuminati in the comics.
His strength was enough to calm everyone down when Earthlings were in a state of panic.
"Wait, so this World collision is going to be uneventful, and we just have to wait for it to end?" Pietro sighed with some regret.
"How boring, just like last time we went to the Main World, I didn't even need to make a move."
Dr. Banner patted Pietro's back, "Don't say that. This is the best situation right now, Pietro. Fighting is not the solution to problems."
"Oh really? But isn't that big guy inside you solving problems with brute force?" Pietro curled his lips.
The Avengers silently waited in the building for the World collision to end.
Because of Leon's guarantee, even as the opposite Earth drew closer, they remained as relaxed as if holding a routine meeting.
"Honestly, if Leon hadn't said there would be no problem, I'd be feeling desperate by now," Hawkeye said.
The Earth overhead was already clear enough to see buildings on its surface.
That massive Planet's Shadow could trigger megalophobia in anyone's heart.
Multiple areas on Earth gradually began to experience unrest.
If Leon hadn't given advance notice to the entire globe, Earth would probably have descended into chaos.
"Perhaps we should go out and give everyone some confidence."
Tony's armor attached to him, and he walked towards the window.
"Captain, give a webcast. I'll go around the World. The other guys with not-so-big names, stay put."
After Tony finished speaking, flames jetted from the bottom of his armor's feet, and he flew out.
"Wait, what do you mean, 'the other guys with not-so-big names'?"
Pietro was the first to be dissatisfied. "The street hero Quicksilver has a great reputation, and his merchandise sells really well!"
"Heh, a mortal's reputation."
Loki, who was seated, pushed back his chair and stood up.
"Don't you think that in your Earth hero organization, I am the most prestigious person?"
Loki adjusted the sleeve of his suit and pushed Captain America, who was preparing for a live webcast, aside.
Everyone thought for a moment and realized that what Loki said seemed to be true.
Every movie he starred in was a blockbuster, and his music albums sold extremely well.
Perhaps more people on Earth knew Loki than knew Captain America.
Loki manipulated the central computer in the conference room.
He switched the holographic projection of Earth on the desktop to a live streaming interface.
He skillfully started the live stream, and a large number of netizens immediately flooded into the live room.
"Long time no see, my subjects!"
Loki spread his arms, his eyes and brows radiating the grandeur of a king.
The live stream interface was instantly flooded with a large number of expensive gift donations, obscuring the screen.
The gifts also came with accompanying bullet comments.
They were all neatly arranged "Tributes to the God King."
At this moment, Loki seemed like a changed person.
He was more radiant than at any moment he spent in Asgard.
The Avengers exchanged glances.
This was the first time they had seen this side of Loki.
Only the "mortal" Hela, sitting in the corner, rolled her eyes.
She was already used to it.
The Third Prince, who was like a coward in Asgard, had turned into a revered God King on Earth.
The fanaticism of those fans for Loki seemed to be not much weaker than the attitude of Asgard's subjects towards Odin.
Loki appealed to everyone in the live stream to remain calm, stating that as the God King, he would resolve the crisis together with Superman.
The bullet comments were full of praise.
The effect seemed to be quite good.
So Jarvis helped forward it to the public channels of various countries.
Especially in some cities with large commercial screens, Loki's voice completely covered them.
Tony, who was flying around Earth making appearances, soon discovered that Loki's live stream was being broadcast everywhere.
For this, he even opened his communication and complained to the people in the building.
"You guys actually let an alien Bambi appease the Earthlings? Are you serious?"
At that moment, Loki happened to shout in the live stream, "Bow down to your God King, my subjects!"
Then another wave of gift bullet comments flooded the live room.
The bullet comments were all "Bow down to my King."
The Avengers fell silent.
"I think... maybe Tony, you should come back. It seems you don't need to show your face outside anymore," Banner said tactfully.
But Tony was also very stubborn, "No, compared to Bambi, Earth definitely needs me more."
Tony's armor was very fast.
He swiftly shuttled between cities in various countries, appearing before anxious crowds.
Compared to Loki's global live stream, Tony's act of opening his face mask on the spot seemed to reassure people more.
It wasn't that Tony's prestige was so high.
Rather, the fact that Earth's richest man hadn't fled indicated that the situation wasn't too bad yet.
When Tony returned to the Avengers Tower and his nanotech armor retracted into his chest, he walked into the conference room and asked, very unconvinced, "Jarvis, help me calculate whose appeasement effect is better, Bambi's or mine."
"Glad to be of service, sir... Sir, there seems to be an unexpected situation," Jarvis suddenly said.
"What unexpected situation?"
"In the other Earth, several fighter jets are flying towards us."
Jarvis said unhurriedly, "They have cut off external communication and refused my attempts to communicate."
Captain America frowned, "Flying towards Earth without any communication, what do they want to do?"
"Any special action by an ally without notice can be considered a betrayal in wartime," Cartersaid.
"Are you saying they might attack us? But why would they do that?"
Banner walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, looking up at the increasingly clear other Earthabove them.
He suddenly understood why the other side would act.
With the two Earths so close, if they didn't do something soon, it would be completely too late.
They trusted Leon, so they were willing to wait.
But the Earth on the opposite side knew almost nothing about Leon.
Banner suddenly thought of the Dark Forest theory in the Three-Body Problem.
In an environment where two hunters don't understand each other, only the one who shoots first will survive.
"They, they might be here to blow up our Earth!"
Banner quickly turned around and shouted.
"Everyone, we must stop those fighter jets immediately! They might be here to..."
Buzz!
Banner didn't have time to finish his warning.
Overwhelming psychic power descended from the sky, furiously invading the minds of everyone on Earth.
It was Professor X.
He was on those fighter jets, attacking everyone on Earth!
Chapter 547: Mutants vs. Avengers
"Ah!!"
Banner hunched over, his head throbbing.
His neck was gradually turning green.
Then, Hulk's roar burst from his throat.
After the sudden injury,
the Hulk within Banner prepared to emerge and activate "defensive protocols."
Everyone else also felt their heads grow heavy, and their consciousness gradually blurred.
Professor X's psychic power covered the Earth, but he wasn't aiming to kill; instead, he intended to control everyone.
Before Professor X, who was using the Cerebro device,
normal human-level psychic power had no resistance whatsoever.
But the Avengers, ironically, had the fewest ordinary people.
"Get… get out of here!"
Scarlet magic erupted from the Avengers Tower, spreading across the globe in the form of an energy Impact.
Amidst the dense tide of scarlet energy,
the conference room's floor-to-ceiling windows shattered instantly, then were immediately reformed into countless falling water droplets.
Wanda, enveloped in Chaos Magic, rushed out of the Tower.
"How is this possible… Ah!!"
In a trance, billions of Earthlings heard a scream.
Professor X's psychic power, which had invaded the minds of Earthlings, was all bounced back.
Wanda floated outside the Tower, her eyes dyed scarlet by the magic.
She looked up at the sky, invading Professor X's mental World across a long distance.
It was a pure White World.
But now, it was being fiercely flushed scarlet by red energy.
It was imaginable.
Inside one of the fighter jets that had just flown into the atmosphere,
Professor X was screaming, clutching his head.
And just as Wanda was about to completely occupy Professor X's mental World,
another wave of psychic power suddenly joined in.
That psychic power carried an aura on par with Chaos Magic.
Stacked with Professor X's psychic power,
it temporarily blocked Wanda's Chaos Magic.
At the same time,
a large amount of metal equipment in and around New York City suddenly began to disintegrate.
Broken rebar, large concrete slabs, long bridges held by steel cables, even entire buildings…
Massive amounts of metal elements, mixed with other things, overwhelmingly crashed down on Wanda.
It was as if the entire World had been mobilized, ready to annihilate Wanda there.
Wanda had to temporarily ease her suppression of Professor X.
She looked at the millions of tons of building materials surging towards her, and extended her finger.
As Wanda lightly tapped her fingertip, ripples of Chaos Magic spread out.
The overwhelming Earth, stone, and rebar that had surged in, in the blink of an eye, returned to their original forms.
Those who had been crushed by the torrent of steel also fully recovered.
Wanda's reality-altering ability, which strongly resembled time reversal,
evidently stunned the one controlling metal.
Several seconds later, the opponent controlled metal from a farther area, attacking Wanda again.
Wanda was about to face both opponents simultaneously.
Tony and the others finally rushed out from behind her.
"Leave the one controlling metal to me!"
Tony left a dashing remark and soared into the sky.
Wanda silently glanced at the gold and red back.
For a moment, she couldn't understand the logic of Iron Man actively going to confront an enemy who could control metal.
But fortunately, Diana and Kara also soared into the sky.
So Wanda ignored Tony, who, after flying into the air and firing one shot, was torn to pieces by the enemy's metal-controlling ability.
She refocused her attention on the clash in the mental domain.
The two opponents across from her were far from her match.
But the person who joined later had a power in their psychic energy that could contend with her Chaos Magic.
That power was canceling out her Chaos Magic.
Forcing her to invest more effort into the confrontation.
However, compared to her, the opponents' fundamental strength was far too inferior.
When Wanda truly began to exert her power,
the psychic energy of the two opponents quickly began to collapse.
On the other side.
Tony's first shot had actually been effective.
A dazzling beam of energy sliced through the sky, and also sliced through a fighter jet.
Amidst the fire of the exploding fighter jet, a purple halo flashed.
It was a teleportation portal, sending several people from the fighter jet to the ground.
And Tony, after firing that shot, was taken apart by the Mutant who controlled metal.
Which was actually Magneto.
His entire nanotech suit was torn to pieces.
Tony fell through the air.
And those nano-materials were controlled by Magneto, flying towards himself.
Magneto sneered in the air, thinking these people from parallel Worlds just didn't understand the terror of magnetism.
And Tony, falling, also laughed out loud.
"Jarvis, detonate those nano-metals."
When Magneto had pulled all the nano-materials to his side,
Jarvis detonated the miniature energy sources within them.
Boom!
The fire from the miniature energy explosion reddened the sky.
Magneto's charred body fell in the fire, then was sent to the ground by a purple teleportation portal.
With Magneto's fate unknown, the enemy had undoubtedly lost a major general.
This sudden turn of events seemed to throw the Mutants in the fighter jet into disarray; for a moment, there was no other counterattack.
Just then, two crimson Heat Vision beams pierced through the flames, destroying all remaining fighter jets.
Kara had acted.
Purple halos continuously flickered amidst the explosions.
On the outskirts of New York, dozens of Mutant figures appeared one after another.
"Jarvis, scan those Mutants, match them to the database, and send all their information to everyone else!"
Tony put on a new Ark Reactor and a brand new suit of armor.
"Also, activate the armor Bio-field."
The so-called armor Bio-field.
Was actually something Tony had developed based on Bio-field research, after repeatedly using "Superman series magic."
It was far from as versatile as a Bio-field.
But it could also isolate a large number of unfavorable factors outside the armor.
However, Tony still felt it wasn't safe enough.
He instructed Jarvis again.
"Also, help me create a file."
"When I get back today, it's time to research anti-magnetic armor."
"The first step is to develop nano-carbon tube materials that are unaffected by magnetism."
As Jarvis responded affirmatively,
Tony turned and rushed towards the ground.
Jarvis had already identified all the Mutants on the ground.
Tony's priority was to deal with Kitty Pryde, who could phase through time, and Blink, who could open teleportation portals.
At the same time,
Captain America, Hawkeye, Carter, and others also joined the battlefield.
They rushed towards the Mutants, engaging in battle with Wolverine and others who had landed first.
Cyclops and Hawkeye were fighting.
Captain America and Wolverine were locked in a fierce battle.
Magneto, who was originally critically wounded, surprisingly fully recovered shortly after landing.
He controlled metal and charged towards Tony.
Accompanying him in the attack was Storm, Ororo.
And following behind them,
was actually Apocalypse!
Tony was flying towards Kitty Pryde, saw the data pop up inside his faceplate, and immediately stopped short.
"These Mutants also include Apocalypse?"
Chapter 548: The Mutant Earth's Experience
Apocalypse was a Mutant who had lived since ancient times, mastering a vast array of Mutantabilities.
Any normal Universe's Avengers would face the risk of total annihilation if they encountered him.
But the s Universe's Avengers were clearly not normal.
"Looks like I'll have to get serious."
Tony tapped his chest.
The Armor instantly retracted like liquid.
Then, from Tony's chest, his strongest Nano Anti-Superman Armor re-expanded.
The moment the golden-red Armor covered his entire body along his limbs,
Tony's palms and chest lit up with a Sun-like glow.
He turned in the air, thinking that this time it was finally the Anti-Superman Armor's time to shine.
And then…
He saw Diana descend from the sky.
She bisected Apocalypse with a single strike.
Terrifying divine power burned through Apocalypse's entire body along the wound.
The ancient Mutant's blood splattered like rain.
Diana then withdrew her sword and spun, striking out of thin air with an ungraspable speed, then shot towards Magneto.
The cold gleam of the Godkiller Sword was mesmerizing in the Shadow cast by another Earth.
Another clean horizontal slash.
Magneto and Storm, who was following behind him, were simultaneously cut in half at the waist.
"Sh*t."
Tony said, stunned.
The thrusters of his Armor, which were just about to operate at full power, had to shut down.
Tony then turned his head to look at the ground.
Magneto's Death enraged the Mutants on the ground.
Those guys were furious and ready to counterattack.
Tony once again sought out his initial target.
He charged towards Blink and Shadowcat on the ground.
But this time, someone else was even faster than him.
Kara's Heat Vision surpassed Tony, instantly tearing the ground apart, turning it into scorching molten material, and melting most of the Mutants.
Even if Blink escaped with a few others,
Kara immediately caught up to them with incredible speed and instantly killed them with a punch.
The disparity was simply too great.
Tony realized he had no need or opportunity to make a move.
Diana and Kara, compared to the other Superheroes on Earth, were on an entirely different level of power.
"Were they ever this strong before? Even during the decisive battle with Darkseid, they didn't have this kind of power and speed, did they?"
Tony muttered, questioning himself.
However, Jarvis actually gave him an answer.
"Sir, according to comparative analysis with historical data,"
"Miss Prince's exhibited speed and strength are about thirteen times stronger than before, Miss Kara Zor-El has become twenty-one times stronger, Miss Wanda has no specific performance, but she also has better effects when modifying reality…"
Jarvis provided Tony with a detailed real-time analysis.
Tony's eyes widened in surprise: "How could they have become so much stronger… Wait, could it be that Leon secretly helped them become stronger?"
"Perhaps so, Sir."
Jarvis suggested: "If you also wish to become stronger quickly, perhaps you could inquire with Young Master Leon."
"What? Let me ask Leon? No, that would definitely make that kid proud."
Tony immediately refused, but he was also a little tempted.
"When Leon comes back, Jarvis, you ask him what's going on. You're the butler; it's normal for you to care about him."
"Yes, Sir."
Jarvis never refused Tony's requests.
He would only occasionally deliver unexpected, critical taunts to Tony.
"I will convey to Young Master Leon that you feel wronged because he has neglected you for a long time."
"That's right… Wait, what did you say? Wronged? How could I possibly…"
Tony's eyes and mouth on his face twitched.
But Jarvis interrupted him at just the right moment.
"Sir, the remaining Mutants on the ground have surrendered. You should go and rendezvous with the others."
After Diana and Kara displayed their incredible strength,
The Mutants had already fallen into despair.
And immediately after,
Pietro successfully dealt with the Quicksilver from the Mutant World.
The two ran around New York City at hundreds of Mach.
Ultimately, the s Universe's Pietro was superior.
After all, he had undergone physical enhancements and special training from Leon.
It would be problematic if he still lost to the Mutant Quicksilver.
At the same time, Banner transformed into the Hulk and defeated the Mutant side's Red Tank.
The consecutive defeats left the Mutants with no chance to escape.
When Wanda completely shattered Professor X's mental power,
The remaining Mutants finally gave up resisting.
Within the protective circle of Wolverine and others,
Professor X and Jean Grey both fell into a coma, with blood flowing from the corners of their eyes and nostrils.
This was the last straw that made Wolverine and the others give up resisting.
A few minutes later,
The Avengers gathered on the ground.
The Mutants from another Earth were restrained by Vibranium handcuffs, lying on the ground.
Wolverine was close to Professor X and Jean Grey.
Beside them was a bomb wrapped in high-density metal.
The latter two were still unconscious.
Wolverine, at this moment, looked utterly defeated.
"Don't you have anything to say, huh? Refusing to communicate, directly invading Earth, preparing to blow up the entire Planet, and now you're silent?"
Tony deactivated his Armor and looked down at Wolverine.
Wolverine remained silent, his eyes dull, showing both despair and relief.
His uncooperativeness made the Avengers frown.
Hawkeye suggested: "How about I take him into the woods and interrogate him?"
In terms of interrogation, Hawkeye, as a former senior Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., could be said to be skilled and efficient.
Wanda raised her hand to stop him: "I already know the reason from Professor X's mental World. There's no need for interrogation."
"So what's the deal with these guys?" Everyone looked at Wanda.
Captain America gasped and asked: "They are also Superheroes, so why were they so determined to destroy Earth and kill billions of people?"
"In fact, it's more than billions of people," Wanda said.
"This is not their first collision with other Earths."
"Before encountering us, they had already destroyed four Planets."
Four Earths?
And they were all destroyed!?
Hearing this, everyone looked incredulously at Wolverine, the only conscious Mutant among them.
Wolverine closed his eyes in pain.
If he could, he didn't want to hear Wanda recount their actions at all.
But Wanda continued.
"When the first collision occurred, their Mutants still had irreconcilable conflicts with humans, and their internal forces were also divided into multiple factions."
"It was to cope with the collision that they were forced to unite and try to join forces with another Earth to resolve the crisis."
"But unfortunately, they found no solution until the eve of the collision."
"So someone proposed destroying the other Earth."
"The X-Men strongly objected, but Magneto and others directly took action with various governments."
"Large numbers of Sentinel Robots and compressed bombs were brought by them to the other Earth."
"They massacred the other Earth's Avengers and buried the bombs underground."
"Ultimately, they succeeded, of course."
"The other Earth turned into cosmic dust, and their Earth survived."
"After that, the enraged X-Men even attacked Magneto's forces and questioned him."
"But unfortunately, the first collision crisis ended, and the second one followed closely."