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Three minutes later, Queen Frigga's tightly closed eyes suddenly twitched a few times without warning, then she let out a weak cry of surprise.
Queen Frigga, who had just regained some consciousness and was still somewhat confused, looked at Odin, who was holding her, with a sorrowful expression, and said with a choked voice:
"How could this be? Loki promised me he wouldn't lay a hand on you. Why, why…"
Apparently, Queen Frigga, who had just 'revived,' mistakenly thought that Odin had also been killed by Loki, just like her.
Odin was stunned for a moment upon hearing this, then his eyes reddened, and he hugged his beloved wife tightly, his voice trembling as he said:
"Frigga, this is wonderful, you… you actually came back to life? This is truly wonderful!"
"Wait a moment, Odin, you old bastard, my neck is about to be strangled by you."
Queen Frigga looked at Odin in bewilderment, exclaiming in disbelief, "You mean, I… I'm not dead yet?"
"But wasn't I clearly… killed by Loki before?"
"That's right, to be precise, you were dead… but now you've successfully come back to life!"
A complex expression appeared in Odin's eyes, filled with regret, unwillingness, relief, and anger… but in the end, it all turned into a helpless sigh.
"This is a long story. We are currently on Midgard. Thanks to that Dimension Demon… uh, I mean Mr. Karl Merks's help, you were able to return from the dead!"
"See? I told you Mr. Karl Merks wasn't a bad person, didn't I? And you doubted him so much back then… Hmm?"
Although Queen Frigga didn't know what had happened before, she still noticed some abnormality from Odin's micro-expressions.
After looking around and finding no trace of anyone else, she whispered, "Are you hiding something from me?"
"Alas, times have changed!"
Odin looked at the boundless sea before him, letting out another helpless sigh, the desolation in his eyes indescribable.
What more could he say now? Besides meekly accepting reality, he was powerless to change anything.
"It's okay, no matter what happens, I will stay by your side…"
Seeing that Odin didn't want to say more, Queen Frigga stopped asking, but soon she seemed to suddenly remember something and asked Odin anxiously:
"Oh, by the way, where's Thor?"
"We must warn Thor immediately, tell him what just happened in the Heavenly Palace, and the evil deeds Loki committed."
However, when she was about to cast a magic spell to warn her naive eldest son, she suddenly found that she had no magic power left in her body.
"What… what's going on? Why has my magic power disappeared?"
Facing Queen Frigga's astonished gaze, Odin also shook his head blankly, "This is probably what Mr. Karl Merks mentioned earlier, the 'after-effects' of revival, right?"
In fact, what Odin didn't know was that the Quick Revival Potion 2.0 stable version had no such so-called after-effects.
The reason Queen Frigga's magic power disappeared was simply because Karl didn't want her to continue possessing it.
After all, from the moment she was saved, her soul had automatically formed a Contract with Karl, so it was incredibly easy for Karl to 'erase' the magic power from her body.
No, to be precise, her soul already belonged to Karl from the moment Loki killed Frigga using the Blade of Despair.
Karl said: What? You said your souls want to go to Valhalla? Sorry, the gate to Valhalla has been welded shut by me. You'd better report to my Warp obediently!!
"Forget it, Frigga, we are the remnants of the old era. Our era has passed, and there is no stage for us in the new era…"
Odin, with a look of loss, raised his hand to embrace his wife, gazing at the shimmering sea before them. His heavy heart suddenly felt a bit lighter, and he said meaningfully:
"Now, let the two of us enjoy this last period of time here!"
"I believe that one day… Thor will ascend to the throne of Asgard with his own strength!!"
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Vanaheim.
The battle to encircle and annihilate the Raiders was still ongoing.
The Asgardian battle group, led by Sif and The Warriors Three, was launching a fierce assault on a group of pillaging space pirates.
Although they were vastly outnumbered by these space pirates, the latter were clearly a scattered force.
On the battlefield, they were like a pile of loose sand, fighting individually, unable to form an effective battle formation or counterattack.
Therefore, from the beginning of the battle, the Asgardian battle group had been fiercely pressing the space pirates, who outnumbered them several times over.
Puff, puff, puff—
Sif charged at the forefront. With a swing of her sword, the heads of several space pirates flew into the sky, and blood spurted from their severed necks.
But before these heads could fall and bodies collapse… figures suddenly intertwined, and Sif had already used her longsword again to pierce the heart of a non-humanoid minor leader who was hiding behind a group of space pirates, commanding the battle.
Swish—
Sif pulled her longsword from the pirate leader's chest. Thick purple blood dripped from the sharp blade onto the scorched earth below her feet.
Under the sunlight, her exquisitely crafted enchanted silver armor gleamed with a sharp, cold light.
And the longsword in Sif's hand was able to easily cut through the space pirates' weapons and their hard alloy shields used for defense because it had the magic enchantment of Runes personally bestowed by Odin, making it exceptionally sharp!
"Hahahaha, you scoundrels still want to run?"
At this moment, a hearty laugh came from not far away. A burly man with a red beard and a beer belly was swinging a huge enchanted battle-axe in his hand. With a "bang" of his axe, he successfully split open the hatch of an anti-gravity hover troop transport driven by a space pirate, then rushed in with a speed that was extremely disproportionate to his size.
Clang, clang, clang—
After a chaotic fight, more than a dozen bloodied space pirates were thrown out of the cabin by the red-bearded man as if they were chickens.
Then the red-bearded man kicked and blew up the troop transport's cockpit, jumping out before the troop transport crashed into the building opposite.
Boom—
The troop transport exploded into a fireball upon Impact.
The red-bearded man's name was Volstagg, one of The Warriors Three, and Thor's closest friend.
And in his youth, before he gained weight, Volstagg was known by the Asgardian as the 'Lion of Heavenly Palace,' so his strength should not be underestimated.
"These notorious Raiders are like cockroaches, wave after wave, impossible to kill!"
Volstagg swung his axe, cutting down a space pirate, then took a moment to look at the black stone obelisk towering in the distance like a giant black sword piercing the sky. He said to Sif in a muffled voice:
"Do you think this strange thing that those dwarf artisans piled up in less than three days can really resist the invasion of chaotic energy?"
"Don't worry, Thor's judgment will definitely not be wrong!" Sif immediately cast her gaze towards the black stone obelisk in the distance, saying with certainty:
"Also… haven't you noticed? In the towns we've passed through these past few days, the instances of abnormal changes have been decreasing."
Three days ago, Thor arrived in Vanaheim with a large quantity of Black Stone and numerous dwarf artisans.
Then, under the direction of human engineers from the accompanying Hyperspace Group, they began constructing black stone obelisks at more than a dozen selected key nodes.
However, Thor did not stay long in Vanaheim. After leaving enough Black Stone and dwarf artisans, he rushed to the next realm.
But before leaving, Thor had a brief meeting with Sif and the others.
After briefly explaining the function of the black stone obelisk, he solemnly instructed them to pay close attention to the construction of the black stone obelisk while fighting.
Its progress absolutely could not be disturbed by the space pirates… because this would directly concern the safety of the entire Nine Realms.
So after Thor left, even though their forces were already stretched thin, Sif and The Warriors Three, who were leading the team, still resolutely decided to split off two people, along with two elite mobile squads, specifically to protect the dwarf artisans and the construction safety of the black stone obelisk.
Although this approach would greatly slow down the speed of clearing out the space pirates and result in more stragglers, compared to the overall safety of the Nine Realms, such a trade-off was insignificant.
Finally…
More than a dozen black stone obelisks were officially completed in less than three days, thanks to the dwarf artisans working day and night.
And from the moment the first black stone obelisk was built, the meticulous Sif keenly noticed the environmental changes around her while pursuing the space pirates.
The most obvious change was that the vegetation, which had been corrupted by chaotic energy and undergoing strange transformations, began to reveal their original appearance again.
The disgusting and bizarre substance, like flesh and blood tissue, that had previously covered their surfaces, began to recede and dissipate at a visible speed…
While Sif was overjoyed, she also gradually began to feel some curiosity and interest in the Loki whom Thor mentioned, who provided him with the Black Stone and the black stone obelisk blueprints… Uh, his name seemed to be Karl Merks?
In short, she was curious and interested in this mysterious Dimensional God residing on Midgard.
After all, even the 'omnipotent' King Odin, in the eyes of Asgardians, was helpless when faced with the Eye of Fear and the problem of chaotic energy corruption.
Swish, swish, swish—
Just then, in the distance, five shuttle-shaped spacecraft belonging to the space pirates suddenly soared into the sky from the purple thorny forest.
But instead of fleeing immediately, they aimed the ship's cannons at the battlefield below where Sif and the others were located.
Even though there were still many space pirate comrades fighting desperately in that area, under the command of the pirate leader in the rear, the five shuttle-shaped spacecraft still chose to open fire without hesitation.
Da da da—
Boom, boom, boom—
Under the continuous bombardment of the Thermal Melt Impact Cannons, the battlefield where Sif and the others were located instantly turned into a scorching hell.
This high-energy Impact, which is generated and fired by the small nuclear fusion device inside the ship's cannons and can ignite almost any substance, has a more significant attack effect the closer it is to the target.
Therefore, even though the armor of the Asgardian warriors was all specially enchanted and possessed extremely strong defensive capabilities, they were still as fragile as paper lanterns under the muzzles of the Thermal Melt Impact Cannons.
After just one round of bombardment, at least dozens of Asgard's elite warriors were turned into charred corpses, while the casualties of the space pirates were even more severe, numbering at least over a hundred.
"Damn it, those bastards even kill their own comrades?"
Hogun, one of The Warriors Three, who wielded a meteor hammer, looked at the five shuttle-shaped spacecraft in the sky with bloodshot eyes.
But because this was a temporary operation, they did not bring any air-combat capable Sky Ships, so they had no way to deal with targets in the air.
Rumble—
However, just as everyone felt helpless, the originally clear and cloudless sky suddenly became overcast. Immediately after, Thor, wielding mjolnir, descended from the sky amidst mighty thunder.
The raging lightning instantly destroyed the five shuttle-shaped spacecraft, which then turned into five burning fireballs plummeting rapidly from the sky.
"In the name of King Odin…"
Thor landed like a god, his rough voice even overpowering the noisy sounds of battle around him, "I command you to immediately lay down your weapons and surrender, otherwise… kill without mercy!!"
As he spoke, Thor pointed mjolnir towards the sky. A 'rumble' of thunder sounded again from the dark clouds, and thousands of lightning bolts wove a huge electric net in the sky above the battlefield. As long as mjolnir fell, countless bolts of lightning would descend from the sky, striking those space pirates who stubbornly resisted.
After initially awakening the Thunder God Power, the upper limit of power that Thor can now release is increasing almost every day.
Clang, clang, clang—
As the first space pirate dropped their weapon, the others followed suit, and soon the sound of weapons falling to the ground began to echo continuously.
Even the most ferocious Stone Giant warriors knelt on the ground, trembling in such terrifying deterrence!
"Thor, someone escaped over there!!" Volstagg suddenly shouted, pointing to the forest behind the battlefield.
Nearly twenty shuttle-shaped spacecraft, which seemed to have been hidden in the forest, shot straight into the sky, flying towards the outer atmosphere without looking back.
They completely ignored the nearly thousand comrades who had been captured on the ground.
Brothers are like birds in the same forest, but when disaster strikes, they fly their separate ways.
"Hmph… trying to run?!"
Seeing this, Thor threw mjolnir without thinking.