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"Odin, are you truly going to keep that child locked in the dungeon indefinitely? Isn't such a punishment a bit too cruel?"
Once Loki was led away from the great hall, Queen Frigga looked at Odin with worry and said, "I know Loki has disappointed your expectations, but his nature isn't bad. He was just temporarily blinded by jealousy towards his brother. As long as we can rescue him from the Loki's bewitchment, I believe he will…"
"Enough, Frigga, you don't need to defend that unfilial son anymore."
Odin sighed deeply, his previous majestic demeanor completely gone. He seemed to have aged thousands of years in an instant. "Heimdall was right earlier. This time, I'm afraid Ragnarok is truly coming…"
"But what I didn't expect was that the one who ultimately triggered this disaster… wasn't Surtur or Hela, but Loki!!"
"Wait, Father, who is Hela?" Thor, noticing the crucial point, raised his hand and asked curiously, but Odin directly ignored him.
Heimdall glanced at Odin's increasingly decaying body and carefully said, "My Lord, are you really going to use the power of the Tesseract to seal that energy vortex… which Loki called the Eye of Fear?"
"That's right, isn't doing so a bit too risky?" No one understood Odin's current physical condition better than Queen Frigga. She warned with a worried expression:
"You haven't undergone Odin's Sleep for a long time. If you rashly use the power of the Tesseract now, your body won't be able to handle it!"
"How about giving me some time? I'll go and persuade Loki again. Maybe I can get more information about the Chaos Gods from that child's mouth, as well as a method to safely banish the Eye of Fear…"
"There's no time."
Odin shook his head wearily and stubbornly, then stood up and said, "I can feel that the chaotic energy released by the Eye of Fear is eroding the foundation of the Tree of Life, and my power is weakening with it… I no longer have time to wait for that unfilial son to repent!!"
"Although I don't know what those so-called Chaos Gods are, at most they are just four Dimensional Gods residing within a dimension. I don't believe their power can be stronger than the infinity stones?!"
With that, Odin left the worried Frigga and others and hurried towards Odin's Vault without looking back.
However, what they absolutely couldn't have imagined was that the appearance of the Eye of Fear was not triggered by Loki through a ritual sacrificing the Tree of Life and the Elves, but was directly placed there by Karl.
The reason Karl went to such great lengths to disguise the Eye of Fear as something Loki caused was, on the one hand, to cover his tracks and avoid attracting the attention of the Ancient One and other Dimensional Gods too early;
On the other hand, it was a deliberate setup to seize the Space Stone from Odin's hands… No, to be precise, it should be all the treasures in Odin's Vault, and even Odin's soul was within Karl and Tzeentch's calculations.
It must be known that Odin's strength is absolutely incomparable to those miscellaneous "gods" in the Egyptian Pantheon.
At his peak, Odin, who could maximize the use of the World Tree's energy (which is Odin Force), had strength almost at the level of a Single Universe… Looking across all the great pantheons and various Dimensional Gods, he was almost invincible!!
Even though the current Odin is already on his last legs, he is still a Skyfather-level powerhouse who can compete with Mephisto, Dormammu, and other Dimensional Gods of medium-to-low strength.
As a qualified merchant, Karl naturally couldn't miss the soul of this dying Skyfather-level powerhouse for nothing.
If he could successfully plunder Odin's soul into the Warp, it would undoubtedly be a huge boost to the overall strength of the Warp.
However, forcibly plundering Odin's soul from the hands of Valhalla and Valhalla is clearly not that simple.
So, after numerous discussions and deliberations between Karl and Tzeentch, these two cunning old… ahem, wise men, finally settled on this seemingly perfect plan!
However, what made Karl find it amusing was that Loki, who had been regarded as a tool and a pawn by him and Tzeentch from the very beginning, still wanted to freeload the power of the Four Chaos Gods without becoming their follower (slave), and then let Odin and the Four Chaos Gods fight to the death, so he could reap the benefits?!
No, Loki, are you taking yourself for Horus? Or Abaddon?
No matter how well Loki had concealed it before, such petty thoughts still couldn't escape Tzeentch's observation.
However, such minor changes could not shake Karl's plan in the slightest, so he naturally bothered no more with Loki.
Karl expressed: Go, Loki, do your best (seek death), there will definitely be a place for you in the Warp in the future!!
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Buzz—
On a Planet near the edge of the Eye of Fear's stellar region, space suddenly twisted, and then Odin, holding the Tesseract and the Eternal Spear, emerged from a deep blue, swirling portal.
However, the bizarre sight that unfolded before Odin's eyes made even the well-traveled King of the Gods frown.
Everything on the surface of this Planet seemed to have been transformed into a Demon World under the erosion of Warp energy.
The air was filled with an indescribable, nauseating stench of decay.
The mountains that once soared into the clouds in the distance had now been transformed into gigantic fleshy demons, waving spiky tentacles and searching for food everywhere.
The once clear lakes had also turned into murky, foul-smelling swamps.
Even in the area where Odin stood, strange creations covered with a layer of terrifying flesh were visible everywhere on the ground. The trees were covered with unsettling eyeballs of various sizes, as well as intertwined, interconnected, and constantly writhing gigantic blood vessel-like anomalies.
Within those 'blood vessels,' it seemed as if some terrifying new species was undergoing an evil transformation, about to descend upon the World.
It was as if this area had been reshaped by Warp energy into an incredibly vast living demon…
But what startled Odin even more was that, upon releasing his divine sense, he discovered that in most areas of this Planet, the laws of physics were rapidly dissipating with the passage of time, replaced by chaotic and disordered Warp energy.
"This… How could the corruption here be so fast?!"
Seeing that Warp energy had transformed a once vibrant Planet into this ghostly appearance in just a few hours, Odin was both shocked and enraged.
His angry single eye looked towards the end of the sky, where a gigantic vortex, shimmering with colorful light, like a demon's eye and a sea of souls, stood in the deep Universe.
"Is that the Eye of Fear?!"
"Hmph, it's just a mere Hyperspace Dimension. I don't believe your energy can be stronger than the infinity stones, which are Cosmic Singularities. Watch how I seal you today!!"
With that, Odin immediately raised the Tesseract. Under the activation of Odin Force, the Tesseract instantly erupted with an incredibly brilliant azure light.
Vast and unparalleled spatial energy, like an invisible giant palm, swept towards the location of the Eye of Fear.
It is well known that the Tesseract… which is the Space Stone, in addition to being used for Space Teleportation, can also manipulate space at the will of the user, such as: separation, cutting, twisting, and sealing!
However, apart from the "zero-threshold" Space Teleportation function, to activate other functions of the Space Stone, the user's own strength must first be sufficiently powerful.
Otherwise, there is a high risk of energy backlash from the Space Stone, leading to complete annihilation.
And a Skyfather-level powerhouse like Odin naturally doesn't need to consider such problems.
It was just that as Odin eagerly anticipated seeing the dimensional barrier, torn by the Eye of Fear, being re-stitched by the power of the Space Stone, and then throwing the Eye of Fear back into that unknown Hyperspace Dimension, an unexpected event occurred…
Inside the Eye of Fear, which was originally completely enveloped by the azure spatial energy, two dazzling lights, one red and one yellow, suddenly bloomed, instantly dispelling the spatial energy released by the Space Stone.
At the same time, an incredibly powerful backlash force was transmitted from the Tesseract into Odin's body, nearly tearing his seemingly decaying but incredibly strong divine body apart.
Pfft—
A trickle of blood escaped from the corner of Odin's mouth, but he had no mind to wipe it away. Instead, he looked at the Eye of Fear with a stunned expression and exclaimed in a lost voice:
"This… How is this possible? The power of the Space Stone actually… failed?!!"
"Impossible, even a Dimensional God as powerful as Dormammu cannot be immune to the Space Stone's attacks… Wait a minute, could it be that those four so-called Chaos Gods are Dimensional Gods on the level of Cyttorak?"
"No, if that were the case, the Hyperspace Dimension wouldn't be as obscure as it is now, would it?"
"Could it be… because my time is running out, and the remaining Odin Force in me is insufficient to fully activate the Space Stone's sealing power?"
Odin pondered for a moment, then felt that the last conjecture was the most likely. He wanted to try again, but he was afraid that if he failed again, the backlash force of the Space Stone would directly tear his body apart on the spot.
So, he could only activate the Space Stone's teleportation ability with a face full of unwillingness, instantly returning to the Heavenly Palace in Asgard.
"How was it? Did you succeed?"
Queen Frigga and the others were still waiting for the result in the great hall. Seeing Odin return, they gathered around him with concerned expressions to inquire.
"That can wait… Heimdall, come with me!"
Odin ignored the people who surrounded him and once again activated the power of the Space Stone, taking Heimdall with him to the teleportation hall (also called the Observatory) at the end of the Bifrost Bridge a few kilometers away.
"You must have seen what just happened on that Planet…" Odin asked with an extremely solemn expression.
Heimdall didn't speak, but simply nodded heavily in tacit understanding.
He also hadn't expected that even his boss personally intervening couldn't handle the Eye of Fear.
And this was with the Tesseract's enhancement. It seemed that the difficulty of this matter was far more dangerous than previously anticipated!
"Either my body is unable to fully activate all the power of the Space Stone within the Tesseract, or for some other reason, in any case, the method of directly sealing the Eye of Fear using the Tesseract has failed."
Odin looked at the Bifrost Bridge and continued, "So, next, I want to try using the power of the Bifrost Bridge and the Space Stone to see if I can directly destroy the Eye of Fear…"
It is well known that the Bifrost Bridge, in addition to being a divine artifact capable of teleporting freely between the Nine Realms, is also a powerful energy weapon capable of destroying any Planet!
After all, the Bifrost Bridge was originally created jointly by Dark Energy and the spatial power of the Space Stone, so it contains unparalleled powerful energy.
Previously, Loki almost used the Bifrost Bridge to destroy Jotunheim, the realm of the Frost Giants, which shows its power!
And now, Odin was preparing to use the Bifrost Bridge as an energy amplifier for the Space Stone.
This way, he could unleash the maximum power of the Space Stone without having to endure the backlash.
This was the most stable method he could think of at the moment.
If even this method couldn't destroy the Eye of Fear… No, it must succeed!
Odin firmly believed that in this Universe, no dimension could withstand a full-power strike from the Space Stone, not even Asgard!!
Crack—
Heimdall inserted the sword into the mechanism that activated the Bifrost Bridge, then gradually twisted it with both hands, adjusting the angle of the Bifrost Bridge to point towards the location of the Eye of Fear, and then nodded slightly to Odin:
"My Lord, you may begin!!"
"Good…"
Odin stopped wasting words and immediately activated the Odin Force within him, beginning to draw vast cosmic energy from the World Tree.
Then, along with the spatial energy released from the Tesseract, he continuously poured it into the Bifrost Bridge before him!!