Look no further than Hela, Goddess of Death, and Thor, God of Thunder. Though Hela hasn't quite reached Father-God tier, she is absolutely top-tier beneath that level.
Even Thor after his awakening was crushed beneath her.
Thor, in his later days, did step into the Father-God tier — though he still had a considerable distance to go before reaching his peak.
After all, Asgardian warriors had a very particular天赋: the older they grew, the stronger they became.
Surpassing Odin himself was not outside the realm of possibility.
Those who had inherited Odin's bloodline possessed even greater potential than Odin himself.
Though their mother's contribution was not without significance, there was no question — Odin's bloodline was the single most critical factor in their potential!
And Loki — if he fused with Odin's bloodline, added to the Frost Giant King Laufey's blood already coursing through his veins, his potential would even surpass Hela and Thor's!
More critically: with this pure Odin's bloodline, no one in existence could dispute his identity as King of Asgard!
Though the points required were staggering.
That was fine, however. Loki, who now controlled the entire Odin's — no, Loki's Vault, could obtain the fifty million points with ease.
Wasn't the Eternal Flame just one more item alongside the Coffin of Infinite Winter? Barely a rounding error.
If it came to it, Loki glanced at Gungnir in his hand. Eh… that one he'd hold onto for now. He'd need it when the time came to deal with Laufey.
Besides, it symbolized his authority as King of Asgard.
If it really came down to it, he'd just let Odin sit in the pawn shop for a few more years.
"Ding — Group member [Loki] has initiated a one-year temporary pawn. 500,000 points obtained."
"Ding — Marvel universe item [Odin·Bolsen] has entered temporary pawn storage. Should group member [Loki] fail to redeem [Odin·Bolsen] within the specified period, [Odin·Bolsen] will enter the prize draw pool."
Loki: "A temporary pawn only nets 500,000?"
Loki: "Fine."
"Ding — Group member [Loki] has回收 item: Eternal Flame."
"Ding — Group member [Loki] has回收 item: Coffin of Infinite Winter."
"Ding — Group member [Loki] has回收 item: Yggdrasil Branch."
"Ding — Group member [Loki] has回收 item: Life Spring Water, 50 liters."
"Ding — …"
A string of回收 notifications rang in every group member's ears. Under normal circumstances, due to member privacy protections,回收 item notifications would not appear like this — so there was only one explanation.
Loki had done it on purpose!
Ordinary Group Leader: "Hey, we get that you're rich, but do you have to flaunt it like this?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "And if you're going to show off, at least be thorough — why not publish the points you got from each回收 too? That's just setting us up for disappointment!"
Su Yunqing was at a loss for words against Loki's move.
The guy was so thoroughly *scheming*.
Out of all the chat group members, Loki was the first one to deliberately enable group notifications when pawning items.
As if they might somehow miss how disgustingly wealthy he was.
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "People really aren't the same."
Cook Daigu Into Soup: "Honestly? I'm jealous."
Richest Man: "Who wouldn't be!"
Richest Man: "Look at the stuff he's pawning — not a single cheap item among them. The cheapest is probably Odin himself."
Richest Man: "Since it's only a temporary pawn, the price is pathetically low."
Richest Man: "But even so — that's still half a million points!"
Half a million points. That could exchange for a lot.
Loki: "Er… would any of you believe me if I said I didn't know this would happen?"
Loki felt equally wronged. This genuinely wasn't intentional — he had no idea why the chat group triggered these notifications when he pawned items.
Fifth Division Captain: "The chat group's pawn function has a passive condition."
Fifth Division Captain: "When the value of pawned items exceeds 10,000,000 points, the chat group automatically triggers a notification."
Fifth Division Captain: "It's noted in the pawn function rules."
Ordinary Group Leader: "There's a rule like that?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "Hold on — *there actually is one!*"
Ordinary Group Leader: "I can't believe I never noticed that. Surprised.jpg"
Su Yunqing glanced at the rules with a healthy dose of skepticism — then her eyes went wide. It actually existed!
She had never once looked into it before.
Then again, she'd never had much worth pawning. When she did have something to回收, she'd just shout "Chat group,回收 them," and rarely even checked the回收 price, let alone deliberately opened the pawn function rules to read through them.
Richest Man: "Knowing about it doesn't help much. For a single回收 item to exceed 10,000,000 points? That's no easy feat."
Richest Man: "Which is precisely why nobody here had paid it any attention until Loki's little spectacle today."
For a回收 price to exceed 10,000,000 points, the item's actual value had to be at least 20,000,000 points.
Items that precious existed in only a handful of group members' worlds.
Richest Man: "Certain special authorities from the Campione! world, top-tier abilities from Bai Xuan's world, the Infinity Stones from my world."
Richest Man: "Items with回收 values above 10,000,000 aren't exactly rare in theory — but getting your hands on them isn't easy. And once you have them, unless they're completely useless to you, you're not going to sell them."
Richest Man: "And let's be honest — the vast majority of worlds don't have a single item whose回收 value exceeds 10,000,000 points."
Take everyday worlds, or the One Piece world, or wuxia worlds….
Ordinary Group Leader: "@Loki, what are you planning to buy with all those points?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "From your own world, or somewhere else?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "The Infinity Stones… actually, you know what, maybe skip the Infinity Stones. You'd probably just get them stolen."
Su Yunqing had been about to guess Loki might buy the Infinity Stones to amplify his own power.
But then she remembered how Loki had performed in the original story.
On second thought, best not.
Loki: "…"
Could you *not* say that if you're going to say it!
What did she mean, *stolen*!
Though he supposed he couldn't deny that his memory-copy self had been rather unlucky. But that was a parallel-timeline matter — did she really think that kind of thing would happen to *him*?
Nature's Chosen: "You're planning to buy Odin's bloodline, aren't you?"
Nature's Chosen: "Your exchange with Kasumigaoka Utaha would inevitably lead you to that thought."
Nature's Chosen: "Since Frost Giant blood earns no recognition from Asgard, and none from Odin, the logical solution is to replace your blood with Asgardian blood — Odin's blood."
Nature's Chosen: "That way, even Odin would have no grounds to favor Thor over you."
Given Loki's personality, setting aside the bloodline difference, he would never have conceded that he was inferior to Thor in any other respect.
Loki: "That's right."
Loki wasn't surprised Bai Xuan had seen through his plans.
After he'd joined the chat group, they'd all watched the Marvel memory copies. While Loki didn't have a dedicated story of his own, his appearance frequency was not low — it was only natural they'd come to understand him.
*(End of chapter)*
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