Chaos, darkness, and coldness, this was all Thor felt. After a pain that tore his body apart, he woke up. When he found himself regaining consciousness, horrific despair and pain overwhelmed him.
Thor was lying on a wasteland. He tried his best to open his eyes. There was a hazy white mist in front of him, and then an undetectable halo. He felt that his lips were dry and cracked, his whole body was in severe pain, and he was breathing heavily. The smell of blood.
Loki is dead?
Loki...is dead.
He saw with his own eyes that Loki was hit by the light of the Bifrost and then returned to the World Tree.
He also saw with his own eyes that his priesthood was taken away, which meant that Loki's body was indeed destroyed, and the last action he made before his death was to instill the priesthood and divine power into himself.
Thor lay there, feeling a blazing fire beating in his chest. He didn't know whether it was Loki's priesthood or coming from his anger.
What killed Loki was the Bifrost, Asgard's most powerful weapon.
The person who manipulated him was Heimdall.
Thinking of this fact, Thor felt that his soul was hurting as if it was about to burst.
He knew very well that Heimdall's most important job was to guard the Rainbow Bridge, and it was absolutely impossible for anyone to cross him and activate the Rainbow Bridge to attack Loki.
Heimdall killed Loki, Thor didn't want to admit it, but he knew it was the truth.
Thor didn't want to think about what caused all this, but he also knew that he understood it.
Thor has always known that the Asgardians do not like Loki, and may even be very contemptuous and disgusted with him. They are even dissatisfied that they must abide by the rules of the Father of the Gods and salute Loki, because they feel that Loki is nothing. People with a sense of honor are not worthy of being a member of Asgard.
Thor knew that his brother was sensitive and suspicious, and had resented the Asgardians' disregard on several occasions.
Thor thought that he had allowed all this, and allowed the rest of Asgard to view Loki with endless suspicion and contempt.
He thought of what Loki had said to him. Did this group of people really not have any consideration for power and gain in their actions? Just because they are the future heirs of Asgard, they can treat another prince who has no inheritance rights like this? Imagine him as an enemy, be on guard against him all the time, and speculate on him with the greatest malice?
Then do their admiration for themselves also have a utilitarian intention to strive for their own interests?
Thor was lying on the ground, and his thinking began to become a little blurry, but at the same time he also began to constantly think about it. If he grabbed Loki's neck today, would Heimdall dare to activate the Rainbow Bridge to attack him?
He didn't dare, Thor told himself in his heart, and Heimdall certainly didn't dare to do this, because he was the future heir of Asgard, and Loki was just an unappreciated prince.
This is the most important reason that led to all this tragedy. Thor closed his eyes and his breathing became heavier and heavier. He thought that the Asgardians were dissatisfied with Loki and therefore ignored him. Loki resented the father of the gods. It was unfair to others in Asgard, and what had he done?
Didn't do anything myself.
When the seeds of contradiction were planted, he was complacent about his honor and military exploits. When the contradictions accumulated deeper and deeper, he was complacent about other people's praise of his bravery.
Many people and many things were played in front of Thor's eyes. He and all his peers in Asgard were brothers. They always smiled and praised him, went hunting for him, brought fresh fruits, and served fine wine.
Thor's eyes flashed again with the face of Odin, the father of the gods. In his impression, Odin had never expressed satisfaction with this, and Odin had never praised Thor's reputation among the people of Asgard.
Perhaps Odin has long known that there are too many compliments in this world that are not sincere, and once you indulge in them, you will become arrogant and arrogant.
When did he start to become like this?
Thor began to recall that he followed Odin on an expedition. He was surrounded by the praises of his subordinates and the praises of his seniors. The voices became louder and louder, lifting his soul higher and higher, making him feel that he was omnipotent. And rightfully so.
Are there any genuine compliments among these people? Maybe there is, there must be someone who is proud of his bravery and skill in fighting.
But whether they really surrendered to his force and leadership, or whether they believed that being good at fighting would bring more honor to themselves and their family, no one knew.
Thor suddenly felt a little ridiculous. He had been so addicted to this kind of praise, like a dog chasing a bone. As long as they moved their mouths effortlessly, they could manipulate his emotions at will, making him complacent and ignoring many things. Something that shouldn't be ignored.
Praise from his subjects and subordinates can make a king smile, but Thor found that he actually regarded this smile as his ultimate goal.
Along with endless regret and sorrow, Thor's consciousness was shrouded in a layer of black mist, and then slowly sank into deeper darkness. After an unknown period of time, a drop of cold rain fell on his face, and feathers brushed his cheek. The slight itching made Thor open his eyes from the haze.
His breathing was very weak, and he heard a high-pitched voice: "He's awake, he's awake!"
Thor breathed hard, opened his eyes and looked over. The sun shone on his face, making him feel waves of heat hitting his face. At this time, a huge wing stretched out in front of his face, covering him from the sun. , a bird face came to his face and asked: "Are you awake? Who are you? Why are you here?"
What Thor heard seemed to be the lingua franca of some edge galaxy, but Thor could understand some of it. He said: "Where is this...?"
"This is the edge of the Red Ring of Woka. How did you fall here?"
"What is the red ring of Woka...?"
"Oh, I understand! You are also an exiled criminal, right? This is the Sakaar planet, the main planet in the Tayo galaxy of the Fornax system. Of course, people in the universe prefer to call this place the Sakaar garbage dump.
Sakaar?
Thor's mind was in chaos. It took a long time before he recalled that he had followed the Father of the Gods through here before, so he could understand some of the common language here.
He opened his cracked lips and looked at the sky. The sky here was completely different from the earth. It was covered with a layer of dull green. There was a huge planet with star rings hanging in the sky. The sun also seemed bigger and the sunlight was more vicious.
The sun grew bigger and bigger in front of his eyes, and the white light became more and more dazzling, gradually occupying the entire field of vision, and his eyes became pale.
With a click, the white light disappeared, the lamp switch was turned off, and Schiller sat beside the hospital bed: "So why did you throw him to Sakaar?"
"Of course because it was a really good place for him."
A voice came from the hospital bed, but no body was seen. What was a bit scary was that Loki's head was on the pillow, but his body was covered in starlight.
It's not accurate to say it's starlight, because all the stars in it are glued together by black mucus. His body is like a large net composed of symbionts. The black mucus is trying hard to climb and move, pulling those stars away. The little bits of strength are collected and rewoven into the body.
Schiller was holding a cup of coffee: "Originally, I wanted to pour you a cup, but now you don't have digestive organs, so forget it."
Schiller and Loki looked at Loki's body together. Loki laughed. Schiller said, "Are you still in the mood to laugh?"
"Of course I'm in the mood to laugh. I can guess what that idiot is thinking right now."
"He must feel that he is so stupid. How could he believe those people who praised him in the past? He must feel that he is a clown for taking the least important things so seriously."
"Honor, honor..." Loki sighed a little: "Who gives honor to whom?"
The door hinge clicked, and Strange walked in. He glanced at Loki: "If I knew your plan was so risky, I wouldn't have brought Thor there at all."
"Are you taking risks? It's okay. I admit that I'm a bit of a gambler, but obviously, I made the right bet."
"Let's start with your plan. I think you need an audience now."
Loki smiled again, looking relaxed, and began his story.
"Thor's biggest problem is that he is too addicted to those fictitious senses of honor and mission. He has never figured out one thing, and that is who gives honor to whom?"
"The Father of the Gods stands on the highest throne, and whoever he bestows honor on is the brave warrior of Asgard. But Thor is just the opposite. Everyone praised him as the most brave warrior of Asgard, so he I feel like that’s really the case.”
"The Aesir are really a very strange race." Loki's tone was both mocking and emotional: "They are naturally warlike, but they are unwilling to admit that it is the violent genes in their bones that make them want to start wars all the time."
"So, they want to put a hypocritical cloak on the war, saying it is honor and mission, but in fact they are just addicted to the pleasure of victory and conquest."
"A king who cannot understand this will never be able to rule the Asa clan, but obviously, the father of the gods has done a good enough job."
"He regards war as a bone thrown to a dog, and uses honor and mission as chains and collars, driving the warriors of Asgard to fight for him. At the same time, he regards him as the wisest king, willingly being ruled by him and serving for him. Seize the fruits of victory.”
"But Thor didn't understand that. He chased bones with the dogs instead of being a man with a chain throwing bones."
"If this continues, he will be coaxed by honor into leading Asgard to the abyss of destruction."
"His trust in the Asgardians is based on their praise of him, but the Father of the Gods never needs the Asgardians' praise. He only needs them to fight bravely for him."
"What is the ultimate purpose of the Father of the Gods in throwing Thor to the earth? To make him humble?, to make him kind?"
"No, no king needs these things. Besides, although I often laugh at Thor, I have to admit that he is actually a good person, kind enough, and even a little too kind, which makes him look stupid."
"The father of the gods wants him to understand that any praise given to him by anyone in Asgard, those so-called honors and missions, have no meaning."
"Without enough strength and weapons, he can only live a hard and poor life like an ordinary earthling."
"Only when he wakes up from that false sense of honor can he embark on the path to a true king."
"Why did he go to Jotunheim to make a fuss? It's because he was worried. He was worried that the turmoil at the ceremony might plummet his image in the hearts of the Asgardians. He was worried that the Asgardians would not If he revered him like that, he feared that such an accident might make him unconvinced.”
"But the father of the gods has never used any image, face, or ceremony to convince the public. No one has ever dared to question his majesty."
"We all know this. In fact, except for Thor himself, many onlookers can see that he has put the cart before the horse, but this may also have something to do with his father's education. Odin made up a set of words of honor. And then he deceived his son as well.”
"You planned to make him realize this and wake up from these false sense of honor, so you played a cruel trick?"
"But I don't understand something." Strange looked at Loki: "How did you achieve all this?"
"This is the simplest. Sif and those three idiots don't have any deep trust in me. You can only be very annoying. Heimdall seems to be neutral, but in fact I know that he is very suspicious of me."
"I deliberately ran back and forth among several warehouses under their noses, knocking and acting suspiciously."
"Sif and I also grew up together. To be fair, I know that they are relatively simple-minded and rarely think about twists and turns. What's surprising is that they don't think I'm a threat. Maybe they don't think I'm a threat. You just think I’m trying to play some prank or something.”
"But their family members are different. Sif's two brothers are both deputy captains of the fleet. Among the other three, two elders in the family are close ministers in front of Odin's throne, and one is the deputy commander of the palace guard. …”
"They have always watched me very closely, because the most unacceptable thing they can't accept is that I have any possibility of taking over, because everyone knows that once I take over, they will have absolutely no battles to fight, and Asgard will go on to A completely different path.”
"This group of Asa protoss has violence and war engraved in their bones. They will never accept such a result, so they will definitely instill this concept in their children. They must keep an eye on me and don't let me pose any threat. Possibility to Thor.”
"Thor is the king they want, and I am not."
"Originally, this was an established fact, but recently, the attitude of the father of the gods has been a bit subtle..."
"Indeed, he knocked Thor down to the mortal world, and then gave you the priesthood of a true god, and he was the first among your generation."
"I can even imagine how they tossed and turned to try to figure out the psychology of the Father of the Gods, and just when they wanted to test it, the Father of the Gods fell asleep."
"At this point, I sneak in and out of various warehouses, pretending to be plotting against Thor, and they will join together like headless flies to discuss what I want to do. , will it really threaten Thor?"
"In this way, I attracted most of the attention of this group of people, including Heimdall who was guarding the Bifrost."
"Heimdall is the only person in Asgard, besides the Father of the Gods, who has the right to activate the Rainbow Bridge. Even God Queen Frigga and the Commander-in-Chief of the Palace Guard do not have this right.
"So you brought the Destroyer to Earth, and then pretended to kill Thor and his friends, attracting the Bifrost to attack you, but aren't you afraid that the Bifrost will actually kill you?"
"So I, I have gambling elements." Loki's eyes flashed with a hint of madness, but his tone was calm. At this time, he looked more like the god of fraud who is famous throughout the universe.
"I know something about Heimdall. He is a relatively conservative Asgardian. That is to say, although he supports Thor, he only has doubts about me, not strong opposition."
"To put it simply, he doesn't hate me, he just thinks that I am not suitable to be the heir of Asgard. When I was running business in the universe some time ago, I frequently used the Rainbow Bridge, and he was fine with it."
"So I'm sure that even if he remotely controls the Rainbow Bridge to attack me, he will definitely control the force and won't really kill me. He will just stop me from harming Thor,"
"But you staged a 'Death of Loki' in front of Thor."
"Yes, I have to thank him for this." Loki lowered his head and looked at Venom in his body. Venom was busy at the moment and had no time to answer their words. Loki said to himself: "Before, this symbiote found When he fucks me, he wants to devour his own kind, and his kind's body contains the most essence of Nar's power."
""After adapting to my body, he started his plan, but he found that this matter was not that simple. The power of the symbiote called Riot, Etonar, had been resisting, and there was nothing good about the venom. method to eliminate him. "
"If there is a head-to-head confrontation, the final outcome may be that both sides will suffer losses. The riots will consume all the power that Gnar left for him, and Venom will gain nothing."
"I understand." Strange sighed: "So you two are working together?"
"This is mutual benefit. The venom put the riot into my body, and then used it to withstand most of the damage when the Rainbow Bridge attacked me. This can not only weaken the power of the riot, but also block the damage for me. "
"Then how did you end up like this?"
"The Rainbow Bridge is the most powerful weapon in Asgard. Even the lowest output is enough to seriously injure me. However, the effect is not explosive enough and may not be able to stimulate Thor. I must perform a real death for him." on site."
"So, when the Rainbow Bridge attacked me, I asked Venom to attack the rioters at the same time, and the two symbiotes fought inside my body. I don't know if you understand the process of their fight..."
"I understand that in just one second, they can launch an army battle in every cell of yours. The effect is almost the same as igniting a huge nuclear bomb in every cell of yours..."
"Yes, the battle between Venom and Riot destroyed almost all of my body, and also allowed Thor to see a real death scene."
"You should have other purposes, such as your divine power and priesthood?"
"Yes, after my previous investigation..." Loki sighed: "I found that I may not be suitable for the priesthood of Vulcan."
"But Asgard's priesthood system is a very magical thing. Once chosen, it can never be changed. An Asgardian with the priesthood of a true god can hardly change his priesthood. There is only one possibility, and that is death or infinite life. Close to death."
"At that moment, the venom sealed my consciousness and then melted my body. This deceived the World Tree into thinking I was dead, so my divine power and priesthood were taken out of my body."
"When my consciousness returned, I took the initiative to pour power and priesthood into Thor's body, and I could rebuild it and change it to a more suitable priesthood."
"So, you two can get three divine powers and priesthoods. How did World Tree give birth to such a genius like you?" Schiller also smiled.
Strange sighed somewhat: "Everyone in Asgard used praise and boast to weave a web of lies for Thor, but as the God of Lies, you died trying to expose this lie..."
"Then..." The three of them looked at each other and smiled.
"...Please ask for the area of Thor's psychological shadow at this time."
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
Yesterday, I saw that the reward for the monthly ticket activity was additional updates. In order to avoid additional updates, I very decisively entered an impossible figure (I thought), 10,000 monthly tickets.
As a result, I woke up today and saw that it was more than 4,000.
His eyes went dark.
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