"Your Highness Hela, I've heard of your name for a long time, I really didn't expect to meet you here, I wonder if I have the honor to talk to you?"

Stark, who was dressed in a tuxedo, raised his glass to Hela and asked with a smile.

Hela looked Stark from head to tail with her unscrupulous gaze, which could be quite offensive for a male pick-upper.

This is also telling the pick-up person not to think of me as the kind of courtesan who is easy to hook up with, because only if you have been in the position of a scrutinist for a long time, will you be accustomed to looking at everyone with such a gaze.

As Hela's eyes fell on those brown eyes, she paused slightly and said his name in a hoarse voice: "...... Stark. ”

It's not a very loud name, it's only circulated in a very small circle, which of course also includes Asgard, and when Hela called out his name, Stark knew that Hela's appearance here must be Loki's plan, and the two of them may have been in contact all along.

If it is inferred from this, it is normal, Hela and Odin have a very bad relationship, and it can even be said that they regard each other as enemies, and Hela and Thor can be regarded as having a conflict of interest, because they were both once Odin's preferred princes.

But Hela and Loki have almost no conflict, or rather they are on the same page.

Hela was even more unlucky, with an inexperienced and bad-tempered father, who didn't know how to teach, didn't know how to learn, and two inexperienced novices met and lost both, but the final consequences were borne by Hela herself.

In this case, Hela and Loki have the possibility of cooperating, maybe now, Hela and Thor can reconcile, the strong characteristics of the Asgardian Protoss are engraved in the bones, but Thor is strong enough to have room for other royal family members to survive.

This information quickly flowed through Stark's mind, so he was more confident in the next conversation, he nodded, and said calmly: "That's right, it's me, I didn't expect Your Highness to hear my name." ”

"Iron Demon God...... Hela raised her eyelids slightly, and said, "When you first ascended, I felt that unusual aura, what do you want to talk to me about?" ”

Stark was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Hela to be so straightforward, but soon, he reacted, everyone said that Hela and Odin are the most similar, and as a representative of the Asgardian people's impatient personality, Odin never liked to talk nonsense with people, and went straight to the point from the beginning.

"I do have some questions to ask Your Highness Hela, but ......" Stark paused and said, "I don't want anyone else to know what we're talking about today, including your blood brothers and sisters, or the rulers of Asgard. ”

Hela's eyebrows furrowed slightly, but then she looked into Stark's eyes and said, "Before you ask me a question, I want to ask you a question, have you ever fought with Thor?" ”

Stark's eyes widened, he didn't expect Hela to ask him this question, so he said, "We're friends, so of course we don't." ”

"Who is stronger between you and him?"

Stark opened his mouth and closed it again, he sighed through his nose, thinking to himself, fortunately, Loki was not born to Odin, and the father of the gods is really in the same vein, and his mind is full of fights.

"We haven't compared, and we don't need to."

"Then I can't promise you not to reveal our conversation to Thor, because I may not be able to beat him, and if you can't prove that you beat him, then I can't hide it for you."

Stark paused in his drinking movements and sighed inwardly, Hela and Odin are really similar, rough and informal on the surface, but they are straightforward and not offensive.

"Okay, then I'll take a step back, you can't tell Loki what we talked about today."

"Are you saying Thor is stupid?"

Stark was helpless.

"But that's okay, I think so too." Hela shook her head and said, "He's not very good at understanding these complex hints, and Loki is the opposite of him, maybe two people are in charge of two things, which is the real way out for Asgard, and Odin hasn't figured this out for thousands of years." ”

Stark didn't know whether to echo Hela and complain about the Father of the Gods' education methods.

Odin's educational failure is bizarre, and the three children represent three different routes of failure, perfectly eliminating the bells and whistles of the failure of the correct answer.

"It can be said that without external interference, the tragedy of Asgard is doomed." Hela's tone was very calm, as if to say a fact that had already been determined, she lowered her eyes and whispered: "And his biggest mistake is to underestimate Loki, thinking that this little prince who is not the Aesir Protoss and has been weak and sick since he was a child can't make any big noise." ”

"Although I don't know who turned the tide of Asgard, it can be said that without this mastermind, Odin would have been unlucky because of Loki sooner or later."

Stark couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and glanced at Hela even higher, he didn't expect that this eldest princess imprisoned in the realm of death would have such a strategic vision.

However, it is normal to think of her as a female version of Odin, and Hela is not stupid, in the final analysis, Odin was too strong at that time.

Odin says that Hela was blinded by the desire to destroy and lost her mind, but history is also written by the victors, and no one knows what happened between father and daughter.

Stark was a little more sure, so he said directly: "That's right, I'm trying to hide from Loki, because he's too smart, and I don't want people to know the intention of my current move, because it might surprise the snake." ”

"What the hell do you want to do?" Hela frowned and looked at Stark, from beginning to end, for this eldest princess, there were very few people she couldn't see through, but this Stark in front of her was one.

"Whatever you want to do, I don't want to be involved." Hela pursed her lips and tilted her head to the side, showing a look of resistance, and said, "If it weren't for Loki's insistence that I come, I wouldn't be here, I'm not interested in the future of Asgard anymore." ”

"Isn't there a Ragnarok either?"

Hela's fingers stiffened, Stark took a step forward to close the distance between the two, and looked into Hela's eyes and said, "Now your only knot is Ragnarok, in the prophecy, you are the one who brought destruction to Asgard, but judging from the current situation, you can't beat Thor, so you feel lost." ”

"Is Ragnarok really necessary? Does your existence really still make sense? Should you follow the prophecy or rebel against it? ”

"Don't talk about it." There was a hint of annoyance in Hela's tone, and she tilted her head a little more and said, "Tell me straight, what do you want to do?" ”

"I just wanted to ask about the origin of the Aesir Protoss, I know that Loki is not the Aesir Protoss, and Thor is not clear about that, more specifically...... I want to know about the World Tree. ”

Hela narrowed her eyes, turned her head back to look at Stark and said, "Human, do you really know what you're talking about?" ”

"Even if Ragnarok is destined to come, the Aesir Protoss will die, and it is impossible for humans to profit from the World Tree, don't be too greedy."

"You misunderstood that I didn't mean that." Stark shook his head and said, "I don't want to wait for the gods to die and then rob you of your resources, humanity has not yet developed to that point, if we have to say, we hope that Ragnarok does not come more than you." ”

"But I've heard that humanity has developed very rapidly in recent years...... "Hela said with some hesitation, she had heard Loki say these things, but she hadn't seen them with her own eyes, and she thought Stark had the idea of using the energy of the World Tree.

In the process of civilization development, there are periods of urgent shortage of energy resources, and Hela thinks that humanity has reached this period, and wants to wait for Ragnarok to plunder the energy of the World Tree.

"So what the hell do you want to know?" Hela asked again.

"I wonder if the World Tree is a tree, then who planted it? What did it grow up on? And how did it hold up the Nine Kingdoms? When does it grow, when does it wither, and what are its special properties? ”

Stark's series of questions stunned Hela, and the eldest princess was rarely silent for a long time before she spoke:

"I seem to know what you're asking, but I'm afraid I can't answer you, all the Asgardians' knowledge of the World Tree is more like a legend than a real truth."

"Even if your power comes from the World Tree?"

Hela nodded and said: "Divine power is our talent, the gods are intuitive animals, we master this power, but we don't get to the bottom of its source, we want the power to be stronger, the efficiency of use is higher, all our technology is also developed around this." ”

"As for tracing back to the roots and studying history...... Do you think the warriors in Asgard look like historians? We don't care about the past, we just want a stronger future. ”

Listening to Hela's words, Stark frowned, he really couldn't imagine, how could there be a people with such a huge secret on their doorstep and not study it?

"But......" Hela said as she thought about it, "I have thought about this during my years in the Realm of the Dead, and I was mainly thinking about the prophecy of Ragnarok, and no one knows where Odin got it, and no one knows why he believes in it. ”

"But I know him very well, and I think it's very likely that this is a signal from the World Tree to him, but the World Tree has no wisdom, so how did Odin understand this prophecy through the World Tree?"

"I think maybe he discovered something by looking at the World Tree, or feeling the connection between them, and this prophecy may not have a specific inscription, but Odin himself discovered."

Stark's face became serious, but Hela showed a smile that was close to a sneer, she looked at Stark and said, "You want to study the truth about the World Tree?" Why? ”

Stark covered his mouth with a wine glass, then raised his eyelids, looked at Hela from above his eyes, and said, "I want to do more than that, and obviously, Your Highness, you have some interest in it." ”

Hela's face remained unchanged, but she lifted her long hair from her ears with her hands to reveal her ears, looked at Stark and said, "So, do you want to invite me to a dance?" ”

"Can I have such an honor, Your Highness?"

"Of course, under the Iron Demon God's crown."

(End of chapter)