Chapter 403: The Missing Soul
"What's going on with Thor right now?"
Somewhere in Heim's underworld, a battle over "king vs. king" has just ended. After hand-wearing the defeated goddess of death www.biquge.info Hela, with a forbidden magic collar designed by Asgard and made by dwarves, and then summoned the gold-armored warrior to escort her down, Loki, disguised as Odin, asked another warrior.
In Norse mythology on Earth, Hela, the goddess of death, is the biological daughter of Loki, the god of fire and mischief, and there is obviously no such relationship here. If Loki and Hela have anything to do with each other, it's that the former and the latter have a grudge against their mother.
Well, it should be the revenge of the attempted humiliation of the mother.
Although Loki was furious that Hela had taken the soul of the god Frigga and tried to insult it in a shady way, he didn't make much effort in this fight. Without it, with the six Destroyers opening the way and thousands of Asgardian warriors plundering the formation, Hela was unable to organize an effective resistance, even with her own death-like abilities that would terrify other people and even other gods. In the beginning, she did resist for a while with her near-pervasive ability to die—something akin to defenseless, probable death-threatening instant magic. However, when Loki directly sent six destroyers who had no life and no matter how dead they were, Hela could only be defeated in the midst of her strength, no matter how terrible she was. And as Hela's men fell to the ground one by one with exhaustion or injuries, Hela stopped struggling and let Loki send someone to tie her up.
Even when Loki put the forbidden collar on her later, she didn't try to hold Loki hostage or anything. In fact, during the entire course of the war with the Asgardian side, even when the army was finally defeated and captured, Hela did not say even a word to the Asgardians, nor did she attempt to justify it, let alone beg for mercy. One can imagine how much she hated Asgard.
Hela's non-resistance and non-cooperation also made Loki very depressed. He had made up his mind to go to the Hem Underworld to avenge the Queen of God, and at the same time, he took the opportunity to vent the pressure from Thanos. Unexpectedly, Hela and her tough-looking men were not able to survive for long under the siege of the Six Destroyers and the Asgardian warriors, so Loki did not take the opportunity to make a move. And at this moment, he is still disguised as Odin, and he can't do anything that violates Odin's image by abusing and killing prisoners. Therefore, he can only swallow the depression in his stomach and find other things to free his attention.
There happened to be one thing that had always been on his mind - the soul of the Queen of God.
If there is any objective benefit to Loki from cooperating with Thanos, it is that he has really gained a lot of insight through Thanos. For example, he regained his knowledge of the Infinity Stones from Thanos. For example, he learns that Heimdall's clairvoyance and downwind ears actually have bigger flaws than anyone in the Nine Realms imagined - they can only see, not "search". And the scope of this "look" is not too big.
To put it simply, even if Heimdall was sure that Queen Friga's soul was in Heim's underworld, he wouldn't be able to find it all at once. It's even possible that if someone had found a way to circumvent Heimdall's clairvoyant observation route, Heimdall would never have found the Queen's soul.
This is what Loki learned from Thanos when he told Thanos that Heimdall couldn't see Zorro's location - although Loki was pretty sure that Zorro wasn't hiding from Heimdall's sight in this way, although he didn't get a possible answer from Thanos in the end. But learning about the limitations of Heimdall's clairvoyance made Loki feel quite rewarding. If nothing else, let's just say that in this operation against Hela, the goddess of death, and Heim's underworld, even before making a plan, Loki was mentally prepared that Heimdall could not find the soul of the god queen. That's why he praised Heimdall's plan to split the army into two ways. There is Loki's side besieging Hela, the goddess of death, and Thor's side leading people to raid Hela's palace Eleudnir, so that no matter whether the soul of the queen of gods is in Hela's hands or stored in the palace, the Asgardians can recover it in the shortest possible time. Therefore, for Heimdall's idea of dividing the army, Loki has to think that it is one of the few times that the other party's IQ overflows.
Unfortunately, Loki is going to be disappointed. After he asked the herald about Thor's side, the herald's reply made him mad.
Thor and his soldiers managed to raid the Goddess of Death's palace and quickly completed the occupation of the entire palace after destroying the altar in the first place. It's just ......," the herald said calmly, "it's just that Thor himself has sent news that what he is looking for is probably no longer in the palace at all." ”
The "thing" he was looking for here was undoubtedly the soul of the Queen of God—something that the herald did not know, or did not know. There is no doubt that Odin, Thor, and the others will tell the warriors the cause of the war when it is over, tell them what the goddess of death is going to do to the soul of their beloved queen, and tell them that it is worth fighting. And once again, there is no doubt that the most powerful father and son in Asgard will also inform the Nine Realms of this matter, so that those people know that Asgard is not starting a war indiscriminately, and it is not because of some kind of selfish desire or something. However, this will have to be done after the war is completely over. And now, the war is not completely over. Especially after the herald told Loki that he couldn't find the spirit of the Queen of God.
"What the hell did Saul say?" Taking a deep breath, Loki asked again in a voice that was indistinguishable from Odin's, and asked with a strong pressure of anxiety and anger.
"Saul says he's searched the palace of Eleudnier, with the help of the Nei Ying who first reported to us and Heimdall, but still hasn't been able to find anything like that. Therefore, Thor proposes that Hela, the goddess of death, be interrogated. ”
I won't talk about the suggestion. After listening to the first half of what the herald said, Loki's "Odin face" was very ugly at this time.
"You tell Thor over there and ask him to search again. I don't mind if he digs three feet into the ground and even tears down that damn palace completely! ”
The herald immediately took the order to leave. It was the first time he had seen a roaring version of Odin, which might have left a shadow on him. And "Odin", after giving the order, did not pay attention to him at all, but called his soldiers to bring back Hela, who had been escorted down before.
At the same time, on the other side of the Heim Festival, Thor, although he didn't really dig three feet into the ground or tear down Eleudnir directly, it was not too far off. He also ordered his men to knock every foot of the palace walls and every inch of the floor, and specially asked Heimdall to send several scholars who studied magic or space technology from Asgard. Unfortunately, even so, he could not find his mother's soul. And he didn't expect that in the process of leading people to search the entire palace, there was an unwitting guy in his team.
(P.S.: Helplessly, there's only one chapter left today...... )