PFC Chapter 4075 MU Superbody Major Event (155)
Chapter 4075 MU Superbody Major Event (155)
Chapter 4075 MU: The Superbody Incident (155)
The dimensional barriers of the Nine Realms are extremely robust because the Nine Realms themselves rely on the World Tree, a rare and precious treasure from the very beginning of the universe, and part of the universe's origin. It is incredibly difficult to shake it.
Even for the three great empires, breaking through is not easy. They mostly choose to tamper with the dimensional entrance, either by blasting a crack in the entrance or by deceiving the entrance's identification system. In any case, it's all done secretly. No one would be foolish enough to blow up the wall. On the one hand, it's impossible to blow it open, and on the other hand, even if it were, it would close up almost instantly, making continuous passage impossible and a pure waste of resources.
This time, however, the dimensional barriers of the nine kingdoms were blasted open. Because the burst of power was too brief, Odin couldn't even see what it was. He could only wave his hand, and two ravens appeared before him.
He waved his hand forward again, and the raven flew off, clearly heading to the accident site to check on the situation.
Within the Nine Realms, the raven is Odin's eye, an extension of his will. There is nothing the raven cannot help Odin understand—but this time is different.
Loki waited anxiously for news. If the situation outside hadn't been so dangerous, his father and brother would never have allowed him to go out; he would have gone to check it out himself. Fortunately, he didn't go this time, otherwise, things would have been much more complicated.
Odin suddenly groaned. Loki saw blood trickling from his eyes. Odin took a few steps back and said in a hoarse voice, "The spring... the World Tree..."
Loki flew swiftly to the back hall and retrieved the spring water from the World Tree. Odin drank deeply from it, then removed his blindfold and poured the water onto his eye.
Loki stared at Odin in disbelief. Odin's blind eye had been sacrificed to the World Tree, so there shouldn't be anything there. He remembered that when they were very young, Odin didn't wear an eyepatch, because in Asgard, scars weren't shameful and there was no need to hide them.
However, when he was a child, he was frightened by Odin's eye sockets once, so Odin found an eye patch to wear.
This time, however, Loki wasn't frightened by Odin's eye sockets, but rather by the countless tentacles that sprouted from them.
Loki instinctively wanted to use magic, but didn't dare to move. After all, he wasn't skilled in healing magic, and he didn't know exactly what was going on, so he really didn't dare to act rashly.
After drinking the water from the World Tree's spring, the tentacles stopped wriggling. Odin drew a dagger from his waist and plunged it directly into his eye socket, forcefully gouging the tentacle out.
Don't let its small size fool you; this tentacle has a long, thorny root system attached to it, and even after being pried out, it continues to wriggle and grow. It's safe to say that if Odin had been even a fraction slower, this thing would likely have pierced his brain.
Loki gasped, staring in shock at the tentacle Odin was holding in his hand, speechless.
Odin looked up and saw Loki's horrified expression. He grabbed the tentacle and threw it into the fire, then put his own blindfold on.
"Are you alright, Allfather?" Loki rushed forward to check on Odin.
Odin shook his head, indicating he was alright. Loki turned to look at the brazier again. To his even greater astonishment, the tentacle that had been pried out—first attacked by Odin's divine power, then baptized by the World Tree's spring water, then pried out by Odin with a dagger forged by dwarves, and finally thrown into the flames fueled by divine power—was still wriggling and struggling. Good heavens, this tentacle was probably even more resilient than Loki himself.
Loki knew very well that the Aesir possessed immense physical strength and divine power. Divine power could be used not only for external attacks but also for internal ones. Most parasitic organisms could not inhabit the bodies of gods, and even if they were allowed to, they could not remain parasitized for too long, as being immersed in divine power was itself harmful to them.
The reason Venom could parasitize itself back then was because its divine power wasn't strong enough, and it hadn't used its divine power to attack its opponent. If it were Thor or Odin, Venom would be lucky to be spat out like phlegm; it would more likely be torn to shreds by the raging divine power within them.
Therefore, almost no race would be foolish enough to attempt to attack the Protoss by poisoning or parasitizing them; it's simply impossible to succeed. That's why the Protoss are considered the most superior species.
But this time, a tentacle managed to emerge from Odin's brain. It didn't seem to cause any damage, but it did draw some blood. Odin has conquered the universe for thousands of years and has only been injured a few times?
"What is that?" Loki couldn't help but ask.
He tried to get a closer look, but Odin slapped him away. "Get away!"
Odin raised his spear, and a bolt of lightning struck the brazier. The tentacles were instantly reduced to ashes, and then the lightning subsided.
Just as Loki was about to go forward to check on the ashes, two figures suddenly flew in from outside the hall. Odin threw another spear, piercing one of them through the heart, and then a bolt of lightning struck down, turning the other to ashes as well.
Loki took two steps forward and saw that the creature impaled by Gungnir was none other than Odin's raven, but it was no longer recognizable as a bird. Its entire beak was gone, and countless tentacles, each with sharp teeth, extended from the severed end. Even though it was pinned down by Gungnir, the tentacles continued to thrash wildly, as if desperately trying to devour something.
Loki felt a chill run down his spine and took a few steps back. Odin summoned lightning, which struck and killed the other one as well. Looking at the ashes scattered on the ground, Loki pursed his lips.
"What the hell is this thing?!"
“The Eye Demon,” Odin said suddenly, seemingly lost in thought. “About 700 years ago, before you existed, I was leading my army through Libra when I saw a planet invaded by the Eye Demon. All the creatures on it went mad, their spirits destroyed and their bodies mutated, turning into monsters with tentacles and enormous eyeballs.”
"The only prophet among them who persisted asked me to destroy their planet so that this madness would not spread any further. From him I learned that the Eye Demons are different from other demons; they have an entire race, usually referred to as 'Outer Gods'."
Some races call them the 'Will of the Stars,' while others believe they are demons from the depths of space. Many planets have mysterious connections to this race. Every epoch, Outer Gods descend, appearing and disappearing suddenly. No one knows what is going on.
Loki almost immediately thought of the legends on Earth, and then he said, "Is Earth one of them?"
"The Earth has a particularly deep connection with them. Legend has it that the Ancient One, the Sorcerer Supreme, will die at the hands of the Beholder, who will be defeated by his student Stephen Strange."
"I heard that the Eye Demon is dead, not long ago, and he was killed by Strange. Could this one be one of his kind?"
Odin shook his head slightly and said, "The beholders in each individual universe are merely projections of the original, and they are not the strongest. This one will probably be even more difficult to deal with."
Loki frowned deeply and said, "Why would they come looking for trouble at this time? Could it be those two great empires... Aren't they afraid of shooting themselves in the foot?"
But he quickly realized what was happening and said, "They are indeed not afraid, because most of them are robots, especially the Kree Empire, a robot race completely controlled by electronic life. They are not afraid of this kind of mental attack at all."
“But they wouldn’t resort to such methods,” Odin said. “If I’m not mistaken, it was done by those superheroes from other worlds.”
“Batman?” Loki’s brows furrowed even more. “Why is he bothering us instead of focusing all his efforts on dealing with humans? Oh, wait, he wants us to ask humans for help.”
Loki understood the whole situation almost immediately. Asgard and Earth were deeply intertwined, and would remain so in the future; there was no way they could be separated by a war. Therefore, they would inevitably support each other, just like in the early stages of the war, when Asgard helped humanity establish a base, and Thor and the others helped them win the battle at the outpost.
So when Asgard is in trouble, humanity must help, and must do everything in its power to assist. But this would greatly weaken humanity's fighting strength, giving Batman and his crew an opportunity to take advantage.
Loki clenched his fist. Batman was truly brilliant; his tactic of attacking Wei to rescue Zhao was masterful.
Now he's brought in a monster capable of mental pollution, affecting only the Aesir, the intelligent beings. The other two great empires rely on mechanical technology, so the impact is minimal. Even if the enemy attacks indiscriminately, the gods will still suffer the most, and the battlefield situation will likely become increasingly unfavorable.
“Contact Earth,” Odin finally said. “Explain the attack we suffered in detail. They should be able to help.”
Loki nodded, knowing that this was a specialized field. The Outer Gods had a deep connection with Earth, so humanity must know something about them and probably had ways to deal with them. The Asgardians had never encountered this thing before, and if they tried to solve it on their own, they might suffer a great loss; there was no need to take such a risk.
Besides, dealing with the Outer Gods wouldn't require much of his strength. Thinking this, Loki prepared to contact Earth's command center. But at that moment, Odin's expression changed again.
“This thing is continuously destroying the dimensional barrier.” His voice had dropped to the lowest point. “It has punched a huge hole in the dimensional barrier, and the main force of the Kree Empire has entered!”
Odin, disregarding everything else, grabbed his spear and strode out, bumping into Thor as he entered. Thor, equally serious, exclaimed, "What the hell? Where did those two empires get their dimensional breakthrough devices? Aren't those things supposed to be unable to break through the dimensional barriers of the Nine Realms?"
“Not two great empires,” Odin said, “but the Outer Gods.”
"Outer God? Eye Demon? But isn't that guy dead? Besides, although they also corrupted the gods, their physical power wasn't strong. I've never heard of them being able to destroy a dimensional barrier in one blow."
Just then, more battle reports arrived, including information about the force continuously destroying the dimensional barrier, as well as more detailed information. Loki took a look and exclaimed in surprise.
"Crimson Power?! How is this possible?!"
Thor also took a look. He was somewhat familiar with the power data on it. It looked similar to the chaotic power of the origin of the universe, but some data was different. This was obviously the Scarlet Witch's Scarlet Power.
“I understand,” Loki said, having grasped the situation. “Their minds were corrupted, they went out of control, and then they were lured here to destroy the dimensional barriers of the Nine Realms…”
Loki had realized that the problem wasn't about the Outer Gods anymore, because the Outer God who had corrupted them might be gone, but the corruption hadn't been removed. And given their immense power, no one could get close to them, so the corruption would likely be very difficult to eradicate.
This is much more troublesome than a direct invasion by Outer Gods. After all, if Outer Gods came directly, there would definitely be ways to drive them away, but this time it's humans corrupted by Outer Gods. Although their mental destructive power is not as great as that of the Outer Gods themselves, their physical destructive power is much stronger.
If the barrier between the nine kingdoms is breached, the two great empires will be overjoyed and will undoubtedly send their armies to fight their way in. Asgard's population is simply no match for the massive armies of the two great empires.
Therefore, in order to fight on the main battlefield, we can't just send a few people to deal with the alien gods; we must get the main human force to come and support us. This is a classic case of "besieging Wei to rescue Zhao"—you have no choice but to help.