"Hmm..." Sif lowered her head, not daring to look directly.
However, the place where she was looking down seemed even more unsuitable. She quickly raised her head again, just in time to see Lock's mischievous smile.
She couldn't help but snap angrily: "Let me go quickly..."
Then she grabbed her clothes in her arms and turned her back.
Lock laughed. The days ahead were long, no need to be anxious for a while.
"King of Gods, I am ready to continue refining my body."
"Prince's potion is indeed magical. However, each time the body training becomes more violent, more and more potions may be needed."
Lock nodded: "I am measured!"
In a small western town, he had stopped the Destroyer and saved most of the people in the town. He earned a lot of recovery potions and accumulated thousands of bottles.
In the first refinement just now, he consumed more than 300 bottles, and there were still many left. But he didn't know if he would need more and more in the future.
The second exercise begins!
This time, the flames were obviously bigger than the first time, otherwise the flesh and blood would not be transformed, and the effect of the recovery potion was also significantly weakened.
Obviously, higher levels of flesh and blood required more recovery potions.
If calculated this way, if one became strong enough, the recovery potion would eventually have no effect.
However, Lock couldn't think about these details now.
After the second refining and the second replenishing were completed, the flesh and blood all over his body showed a faint luster.
Three exercises and three supplements...
Four exercises and four supplements...
Five refinings and five replenishments...
...
God King Odin and Thor were already numb. Every time Lock upgraded, they were shocked, and finally they became numb.
What kind of monster was this? Didn't they say that people of Earth might not even be able to survive one session?
This was already the ninth refinement!
The further back it went, the greater the Eternal Fire required.
The fire of the ninth refining was so powerful that it swept through most of the treasure house, and countless treasures were burned into nothingness.
In the end, it burned through the treasure house, and the flames reached hundreds of meters into the ground.
Fortunately, the fire gradually increased step by step, Sif had already stayed away, and Thor and the God King also took precautions in advance, otherwise countless innocents passing by on the ground would have suffered disaster.
Suddenly, the flames subsided and the ninth refinement was completed!
The Eternal Fire actually shrank in size, visible to the naked eye.
Lock's whole body involuntarily emitted pure white light, as if an angel had descended.
This was the appearance of a body with extremely strong vitality. The skin could no longer contain it, and the life force turned into radiance and escaped.
Lock slowly adjusted his breath and put away the overflowing light. He did not stop until finally, a thin layer of light remained on the surface and could no longer be absorbed.
"Sif..., where are my clothes?" Lock shouted.
Sif walked in response. She was timid at first and didn't dare to look directly, but when she saw the brilliance on Lock, she couldn't move her eyes away anymore.
This kind of brilliance had a natural attraction, and its pure and rich vitality made all living beings yearn for it.
Out of the treasure house.
The moment Lock appeared, the surrounding aura suddenly changed. The center of the world seemed to tilt, and the stars themselves seemed to give way.
Lock casually stopped at the square, as if this was the center of Asgard, the center of the universe.
The slight radiance radiating from his body made people unable to look away.
This was the natural worship of the origin of life by living beings, regardless of race. Looking at this light, it was as if they were seeing the source of their own life.
Lock came slowly, and many people were infected by his brilliance. They all lay on the ground and prostrated in salute.
Walking all the way, leaving a long corridor of people saluting.
Lock asked in a low voice: "Sif, you Asgardians don't have the etiquette of kissing feet, right? I'm not wearing shoes now."
One sentence brought Sif back from her state of admiration, and she snapped angrily: "Bah, who has such disgusting etiquette!"
...
Odin and Frigga looked at half of the treasure house that had been burned down, with conflicting expressions on their faces. They didn't know whether to be sad or happy.
Asgard ruled the Nine Realms, and the collection of treasures in the treasure house was priceless. If any one treasure were placed in another race, it would be considered a heavenly miracle.
Yet so many had been burned to ash by Lock's body-refining fire. It was impossible not to feel distressed.
Even the Infinity Gauntlet in Odin's right hand was burned black. After all, it was a treasure meant to carry the power of the Infinity Stones, and it finally withstood the burning of the Eternal Fire.
But seeing that Prince Lock could achieve such unheard-of achievements — nine refinings and nine repairs — there was no longer a need to worry about the fate of Asgard in the future.
Now they were a little worried instead. The current methods of coaxing him might not be enough.
But for the moment, they couldn't think of any better way.
When they saw Thor and Lock getting along, they felt a little relieved.
Well... it really was a blend.
Lock had just completed his physical training, so naturally he wanted to test the results. Now the only one who could be beaten with confidence, and who was strong enough to withstand it, was the God of Thunder.
The God of Thunder was not afraid and started fighting with his hammer.
The effect of the body refining was quickly apparent. Just fighting with Thor for a short time, Lock had already doubled the Hulk's power, and now he could exert two times that.
Lock himself was looking forward to how far his strength could grow if he practiced hard in the future!
"Stop for a moment, Sif, help me wipe the sweat."
"Yeah!" Sif ran over obediently, not showing the appearance of the former divine warrior at all, trying hard to find drops of sweat and dust on Lock's body.
After wiping, only a few strikes later, Lock called out again: "Sif, come here and help me squeeze my shoulders. It seemed like I pulled something just now."
The God of Thunder became angry as soon as he heard this, and Odin quickly pulled him back. Your current physique is so unbelievable to the heavens, and you're claiming you strained something after just a few moves?
After going back and forth a few times, Thor finally understood that retribution was coming.
A few days ago, he had fought with Lock in a bar. Jane had helped him treat his wounds. He had shown off his affection and laughed at Thor for being single.
Now that Jane was no longer with him, it was Lock's turn to show off.
However, Sif, who was once Thor's loyal companion, now had no dignity as a divine warrior. Asked to wipe sweat — with his physique, where would sweat even come from?
In this way, Lock practiced martial arts, teased Thor, admired mountains and rivers with Sif, and the days passed like this.
Asgard had no time, and no one knew how much time had passed.
One day, Heimdall suddenly came to the God King and reported a very troublesome matter.
Loki appeared on Earth!
The God King was shocked. Although he didn't care about the life and death of humans, his son's girlfriend and Lock's wife were both on Earth.
With Loki's ruthless character, there was a high probability that he would attack these people.
They had already worried their coaxing methods weren't enough, but now they couldn't let Loki cause Lock to turn against them.
Unfortunately, the Rainbow Bridge had not yet been repaired, and it was too far to take a spaceship. By the time they arrived, Earth would already be in chaos.
God King Odin found Thor and Lock and explained the matter in detail.
Thor immediately became anxious and shouted to go to Earth.
Lock knew that Loki had already found Thanos, gained command of an army, and was coming to Earth to cause trouble.
The plot of "Avengers 1" had begun!
The God King sighed and said: "Now that the matter has reached this point, we can only use dark energy to send you to Earth. However, sending two people requires a lot of dark energy. I need to prepare with the Elder Council for a few days."
It was not clear what dark energy was.
In the original plot, Thor had seen Loki coming to Earth and causing trouble, and was teleported there through dark energy in desperation.
Even Loki had said: "Father is really willing to spend a lot to send you here."
It followed that dark energy was either extremely rare or extremely expensive.
...
Earth.
An abandoned factory somewhere.
Black Widow tied several arms dealers to chairs and whipped them hard with a whip. The arms dealers had tape stuck on their mouths and kept moaning "oooooo."
In the original plot, Black Widow had deliberately pretended to be caught and tied to a chair, taking advantage of the woman's weakness and turning the story around.
But the existence of Lock prohibited her from using beauty tricks, so her style of performing tasks in the past two years was uncharacteristically different.
Originally, she pretended to be a little white rabbit. Now she stopped pretending and started fighting and killing directly, with a style that even frightened her colleagues!
In addition, Lock had disappeared for two years, which made her extremely worried.
After all, this time he had gone to Asgard, the legendary country, to fight the legendary gods.
Although Lock was strong, no one dared to say he would win.
At that time, there had been two Destroyers in the town, which everyone had seen. One could equal Lock, and two had almost killed him.
There had been no news for two years now, and no one knew whether he was alive or dead.
Iron Man, Black Widow and the others were both looking forward to hearing from him, but also afraid of what they might hear.
Now, Black Widow was directing her wrath on these hapless arms dealers.
In the arms dealers' hearts, a thousand horses galloped past.
Sister, beauty, please, please just ask for the information you want!
You tied us up, covered our mouths with tape, and whipped us hard. Are you a perverted agent who likes torture?
At this time, a phone call came in.
Black Widow picked it up and asked, "Is Lock back?"
Fury on the other end of the phone was helpless: "Natasha, I told you, if Lock comes back, I will notify you as soon as possible. Besides, you are his wife, he will definitely look for you first when he comes back."
"Well, since it's not his news, don't call me if it's okay."
Fury cursed in his mind. I am your director, why can't I call you?
However, he knew he couldn't push her right now, so he said: "There is a new task for you."
"My current mission is not completed yet."
Several arms dealers nearby were desperate and screamed, "Woooo!" She didn't finish what she said. Had she not fought enough?
Fury sighed and said: "Barton rebelled."
Black Widow suddenly realized the matter was serious!
It was one thing if Hawkeye Barton wanted to die, but if he wanted to rebel, the possibility was infinitely close to zero.
But since Director Fury said this, there must be something shocking.
So she put away her temper and asked, "Do you want me to hunt him down?"
"No! I want you to invite someone."
A photo was sent, and Black Widow opened it and saw a name written on the picture:
Dr. Bruce Banner!
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