Chapter 240: The Ghost Lingers
The Father of the Gods raised a hand, his palm blue flashing slightly, and Loki suddenly seemed to be pulled up by an invisible string, and the whole person rose vertically uncontrollably and hung in front of Odin. Odin opened his palm, and the golden spear Gungnilton flew out of Loki's hand and fell back into Odin's hand.
Loki tilted his head unwillingly and glared at the old man, but he didn't seem to have the slightest thought of resisting. At this point, even Loki had to recognize the situation. Odin's awakening meant that any resistance or small action was meaningless, and the divine power that Loki had stolen poured back into the Father of the Gods like a flood from the moment Odin woke up. Now Loki has been beaten back to his original form, and no matter which of the three people in front of him is he can defeat.
"Is there anything you want to say, Loki," Odin asked coldly.
Odin's voice was as heavy as a loud ancient bell, and it shook Loki's eardrums slightly. The overwhelming pressure was like a hand pinching his lungs, threatening to squeeze the last trace of air out of his lungs.
Even Loki couldn't help but feel timid at this moment. It was the wrath of the Father of the Gods, and at the thought of him, Loki's existence could be shattered at any moment.
"I've ignored your pranks for too long, Loki, and I've given you too much tolerance." Odin said in a majestic voice, his voice echoing over the entire Asgard, "But this is no longer a prank, Loki, you have become a part of the evil through and through. I gave you everything to be my son, and that's how you repay me"
Odin's voice sounded furious. Loki looked directly into the old man's gray eyes, but suddenly seemed to feel less afraid. "My whole life has been built on liesβyour lies," he said in a chilled voice. You think that's going to be revenge, no, you deserve a much worse reward. Come, take me, take me to my cell. But I'm not going to give up. One day I will find an opportunity, and I will make a comeback! β
Odin looked at him coldly for a while, until Loki vaguely felt something wrong.
"If you think that the prison of Asgard is torture," he said, raising his palm slightly, "then you don't understand the meaning of the word at all." β
The blue light shines brightly, and in an instant, it is like a sun rising. A second later, the evil god Loki vanished into thin air, leaving no trace behind.
"Thank you, kid."
In the palace of Asgard, Odin stood in front of his throne and said to Thor under the steps. All the warriors and inhabitants of Asgard were gathered in this great hall to hear the words of the Father of the Gods.
"You rushed back here when you needed you most in Asgard." Odin said, "If it weren't for you, the entire Nine Realms would be threatened by Loki's ambitions, and the consequences would be unimaginable. β
Thor bowed down and said, "Thank you, father." But this time it wasn't my credit. The credit for this time should belong to a mortal, a mortal from the atrium. When Loki gained divine power and no one could resist him, it was he who stood up for Asgard to fend off Loki. β
"Oh a mortal"
Odin remembered the mortal who stood beside Thor when he captured Loki. He noticed that the man was wearing a Urujin armor, but he didn't pay much attention to it at the time. He had known that his son liked to hang out with some mortals with abilities in the Atrium, and he had only thought that he was one of them.
But mortals are mortals after all, and the Father of the Gods glanced at him and didn't pay any more attention.
Odin knew the arrogant nature of his son, and since even Thor was sure that the credit did not belong to him, there must indeed be no falsehood.
But how could a mortal be able to match Loki, who stole the Father's divine power
"Absolutely." Sif also stepped forward and said with confidence, "I saw it with my own eyes, and I saw it with the four warriors Van Dal, Hogan, and Wostagg. We met him in Jotunheim, and Imir, the Giant Ancestor, was easily slain by him. β
Odin seemed to be intrigued: "If there is such an extraordinary mortal, then maybe he really deserves to be rewarded." The Atrium Warrior who saved Asgard, where is he now"
Thor and the four warriors looked back at the front of the array behind them, only to find ...... The Black Knight is gone.
There was an awkward silence for a few seconds.
"Uh......" Wostagg scratched his head, "I'm pretty sure he's standing here before." β
While Thor was busy with meetings in the palace, Tony Stark stayed alone on the balcony outside the palace, waiting for Thor to come out and adjust the suit system.
The wormhole machine they used to come was a one-way ticket, so he had to wait for Thor to come out after the meeting and take him on the Rainbow Bridge to get back to Earth. After the previous battle, his suit ran out of battery for a while, but soon Thor recharged it for him (physical charging method). At this time, he was adjusting the suit system, restoring the battle log, and browsing the collected data, especially about the Black Knight's new set of God's Domain alloy armor.
Joke! That's a set of armor made from Thor's hammer all over the body! It's a fantastic piece of equipment for tech nerds!
In the process of recovering the log data, Tony accidentally makes some unexpected discoveries.
Around the same time as they came out of the wormhole and fought Loki for the first time in the palace hall, the suit's log records showed that there was some anomalous data in the system built into the computer at that time, and some data streams that were definitely not from the suit itself.
It's pretty weird. You know, they're in Asgard's Domain, not any remote country on Earth. According to his previous research data on Asgard, this place and the earth can be said to be not the same world at all, and it is impossible for any radio waves and any data to trace this place from the earth, which is why he has not been able to maintain contact with Jarvis after coming here.
Moreover, Asgard itself obviously does not look like it has any electronic devices, let alone any internet. So not to mention the possibility that the system of the Iron Man suit can be invaded by any form of external data, even if any hacker really breaks into the Iron Man suit silently, he (or she) will definitely not be able to start in such a place where there is no network and no signal.
So there's only one possibility β the anomalous data is coming from within. An alien program has been lurking inside Iron Man's suit, and has followed him to Asgard.
Tony immediately conducted a comprehensive self-inspection of the system, thoroughly cleaning every subsystem and all modules. But nothing came of it, and records indicate that the anomalous program left his armor and moved somewhere else from the moment it appeared, and its whereabouts are unknown.
But this scan gave him an even more chilling result.
Traces left by that anomalous data...... He recognized the code snippets.
He recognized who the owner of the data was.
Ultron.