Chapter 210: Aether Particles (3rd Watch)

It's a very old story. γ€Š ζ–°-思-θ·―-δΈ­-ζ–‡-网》

The people of Asgardian believed that the universe was a chaotic darkness in an era that could not even be traced back to history. And this darkness gave birth to its own people, the "dark elves".

The race is so old that today their story has become almost ethereal, recorded only in the books of Asgard that have been passed down for generations. The story of them is too old for the immortal Almighty Father Odin to remember.

At that time, Odin had not yet sat on the throne of Asgard (MCU setting), and at that time it was King Bauer, Odin's father, who was in charge of the Asgardian army. According to the books, the dark elves are an extremely cruel and evil race, and one of the elves named Malekis is particularly prominent in this race. Five thousand years ago, Malekith attempted to infect the Nine Kingdoms with an army of dark elves, engulfing everything into the darkness that gave birth to them. And to do so, they need an unprecedentedly powerful weaponβ€”the Aether Particle.

Perhaps there is only one weapon in the world that can fulfill Malekith's delusions. The aether particle is the carrier of the "reality primordial stone" among the six infinite primordial stones, and it may be related to the powerful ability of that primordial stone to modify reality, so the aether particles have the power to swallow everything into darkness. The Dark Elves have a special way of harnessing the Aether, and only they can control this weapon and unleash its power. Once they succeed, all nine kingdoms will be swallowed up by darkness, as if they had returned to before the birth of all things.

Fortunately, Malekith's plot was thwarted by the Asgardian army at the time. King Bauer personally led his troops to a tragic decisive battle with the Dark Elves, and after both sides paid a huge price, the Asgardian side narrowly won the decisive battle. Most of the Dark Elves were exterminated in that battle, but Malekith himself escaped the battlefield with the remnants of his party in a spaceship, and his whereabouts are unknown.

And the Aether Particle, as much as King Bauer wanted to destroy this dangerous weapon, it was too powerful for them to be destroyed. So King Bauer ordered it to be buried deep to ensure that it would never be discovered by anyone.

Well, perhaps the most interesting thing about this kind of story that ends with something "sealed", "buried", or "sunk into the sea" is that it ...... They will one day be rediscovered.

......

Deep in the universe.

In the quiet darkness hung pitch-black meteorites. Without warning, a dark red light lit up between the stones, like a tired open eye. The light slowly outlined the lines of steel in the darkness, faintly forming a huge cross, which turned out to be a huge ship.

More and more red rays lit up in various parts of the Crusader, and it seemed that all of its areas were slowly awakening. A black metal device in the central area automatically activates as if it was pulled by some invisible force, and the dark red light path crawls along the sides of the device like a bug to the top, and the black mask on the top automatically dissipates. White light from nearby stars shone in from the outside, illuminating a face as pale as paper. The pale eyelids suddenly opened, revealing a pair of eyes as cold blue as cold-blooded animals.

The dark elf Malekith, he has awakened.

It's been 5,000 years, and he's been sleeping for so long that he's almost forgotten how to control his body. He disarmed the device and jumped off, staggering a few steps, reaching for his hand against the wallboard. He stood on a high place and looked down, the white light illuminated the rows of neat dormant pods, and the pods were lifted one after another, and one after another the sleeping dark elves woke up, like countless insect cocoons turning into butterflies.

"The aether particle awakens us." Malekith let go of his heavy and powerful voice and said aloud to all his compatriots, "Five thousand years, the convergence of celestial bodies has begun again. Retrieving the Aether, our time is coming! ”

......

"The phase energy is weakening, and the boundary point is automatically closing." Shirley reminded Michael as he approached the end of the hallway, "The spatial passage is disappearing, and only a small amount of light or wave can penetrate the passage and enter the other side, but the passage is no longer able to support the penetration of matter. ”

"Got it."

Michael said lightly. He raised his hand, and his palm opened a light gold circle. The magic poured into his palm through the gauntlet's transmission system, shooting into the air from the center of the circle. There were violent fluctuations in the space, like the surface of a lake stirred by tree branches. The circular circle expanded around that point, forcibly opening the entrance to the passage that was about to disappear.

"The channel is expected to last three minutes." Shirley said, "If you want to go over, you'd better be back in three minutes, sir." Otherwise, you may have to find another way out. ”

"That's enough." Michael responded and strode into the portal.

Through this door, a dark and cold world came to you. Outside the gate is a deep cliff surrounded by boulders. Michael spotted the female doctor who had fainted at first sight. Jane Foster curled up in a ball, lying on her side on the black rocks, her long hair scattered to the ground.

Behind her stood two large stones stacked on top of each other, the walls carved with blood-like dark red lines.

Michael crouched down beside her and activated the armor's scanner.

"This is Jane Foster, an astrophysicist."

"Her condition?"

"A scan of physiology showed that the female doctor was very healthy, but extremely tired." Shirley projected the results onto Michael's computer interface, "However, the spectral scan seems to indicate that there is some unknown substance in her body, and the energy and characteristics of this substance are extremely unique, and there is no match in the known matter." The armor's built-in instruments are not sufficient to scan it further. ”

Michael didn't speak. He made a simple seal, and released a translucent magic circle in the palm of his right hand, a probing spell. He used the circle to scan slowly from the unconscious female doctor's head to her footsteps like a scanner. A dark red energy gradually emerged beneath her fair, almost transparent skin. It tumbled like a liquid, as if it were flowing blood from her body.

But the thing seemed to be spiritual, and it actually reacted to Michael's detection spell. The dark red fluid suddenly jumped violently from her body, as if countless sharp cones had been formed and shot out of her body. It slammed into Michael's translucent circle, shattering it to pieces.

"It's kind of grumpy." Michael withdrew his palm, unimpressed.

"This thing is protecting its host." "It doesn't look like it's going to be easy to extract it from the host. So now, sir, how do we do it? ”

Michael stood up and glanced down at the unconscious Ms. Foster.

"Let's take her back to Earth first."