Loki, aware of the secrets Elrios might be hiding, tried to persuade the other Lokis to join him in killing the monster, but his proposal was met with merciless ridicule.
"No one can kill Elios." Old Loki patted Loki's shoulder and reminded him.
"That may not be the case." Loki shook his head.
However, no matter what he said, he failed to persuade the helpers, which made him angry and walked out of his hiding place alone.
Standing high on the hillside where he was hiding, Loki looked towards the direction of the raging Elios, but suddenly he spotted two people who were familiar to him and made his heart beat fast.
Sylvie, Loki.
Mobius, [Old Boss].
Loki immediately used his magic power to attract the attention of the two.
"Is that Loki?" Mobius looked at the familiar figure waving at them on the distant hillside, rubbed his eyes, and turned to look at Loki Sylvie with some uncertainty.
"It's him." Loki's face also showed some relief and joy.
The three of them quickly gathered together and exchanged the information they had.
"It seems that we are the most similar. Even our goals are the same." Loki said in surprise after listening to Loki's plan.
"I think it's still a bit chaotic, but if you need anything, just tell me what I can do." Mobius shrugged.
"No, you still have your own things to do." Loki refused Mobius's help. She looked at him, waved, and opened a light gate with the teleporter she brought with her. She smiled and said, "Leave everything here to us two. You should return to the Time Administration and do what you want to do."
"She's right." Seeing Mobius's eyes sweeping towards him, Loki raised his lips slightly, grinned a standard smile, and spread his hands.
"Okay, I'll wait for you at the Time Administration. You must come back alive!" Mobius stepped forward and hugged the two Lokis respectively, then looked at them deeply and stepped into the light gate that Loki opened for him.
"What should we do next?" Seeing Mobius' figure disappear on the spot, Loki looked at Sylvie and asked.
"Find a way to attract his attention and buy me some time. Once I control it, we might be able to find the person behind the scenes." Loki looked at Elios, who was like a black cloud connecting the sky and the earth, and said.
"I can try this." Loki took out a lighter from his pocket and waved it in front of Loki's eyes: "Remember it? Maybe it can help us."
"Then let's give it a try." When Loki saw the lighter Loki took out, her eyes lit up. She had personally experienced the function of this thing.
After the two of them agreed, they drove towards Elrios.
Elios saw the car, and the black cloud turned around and rushed towards Loki and the other two.
As the distance between the two vehicles rapidly closed, on the verge of a collision, the vehicle swerved, halting its forward momentum and coming to rest on the ground. A hand holding a lighter reached out from the wide-open window, raised high, and with a crisp metallic thud, a strange force field spread outward, enveloping the charging Elrios.
It was as if an invisible wall suddenly appeared between the two sides, and the speed brought by Elrios's huge body quickly slowed down and even stagnated.
In just a moment, Elrios's dark cloud-like body was frozen in place, as if a movie had been paused.
Loki kicked open the car door and jumped out. A surge of emerald mana instantly flooded into the frozen body of Elrios. Under Loki's control, her abilities weren't significantly affected.
Time ticked by, Loki's magic power draining away. He withstood the consuming of the lighter with sheer willpower. Just as he felt a wave of dizziness, Loki finally gained control of Elrios, causing him to reveal the abandoned castle hidden within his body.
"Let's go in." Loki pulled Loki into Elios' body and into the ancient castle.
They were startled in the lobby of the castle by the sudden appearance of Miss Time, the intelligent system of the Time Administration.
"Do you really want to explore this place? How about we negotiate terms? I can send each of you back to your original universe and fulfill your wishes and needs.
Do you want power? You will become the king of Asgard in your own universe. Everyone will praise you and you can do whatever you want.
Do you want power? I can give you the Infinity Gauntlet with Infinity Stones embedded in it. You can use it for whatever you want.
Or would you like the Time Administration? Well, how about the new Chancellor?"
Miss Time tried her best to seduce Loki.
"Get out of the way." Loki pointed the blade weapon in his hand at Miss Time.
"You really won't consider it?" Miss Time asked expectantly.
"Your actions only make me more certain that he's here!" Luo Ji smiled and walked forward, ignoring Miss Time's attempts to stop her. Without any help, Miss Time could do nothing but use words to deceive them.
The two wandered around the castle, carefully searching every room, until a strange man appeared before them.
"Are you looking for me?" The man waved to Loki and the other two with a simple smile on his face.
Loki and Sylvie were startled by the sudden appearance of the person and immediately pointed their weapons at the person.
"Don't be so nervous. I don't mean any harm to you. Do you want to go to my office to talk?" The man waved to the two of them, motioning them to come over.
Loki and Loki exchanged a glance, ignoring the man's good intentions and launching their attack. From their gazes, both instantly understood each other's meaning. That is, take this man down first before anything else.
However, the seemingly ordinary man could always dodge their attacks easily and strangely, and the other party's time picture seemed to be strongly separated from their time picture.
In other words, their time flow rate is normal, while the opponent's time flow rate is abnormal. The opponent can use this time difference to easily dodge their attacks.
"Aren't you going to fight anymore? Then it seems we can have a conversation." The man smiled, led the way, and motioned Loki and the others to follow.
…
"Target person found: Kang.
Coordinates being determined.
The coordinates have been determined!
Do you want to activate the dimensional rainbow bridge for transmission?"
In the laboratory of Silent City, the voice of the intelligent system sounded.
A brilliant beam of light descended from the dark sky and slammed heavily onto the ground.
Breaking free from the enchantment, the frantic Elrios immediately noticed the pillar of light. His body, like a black mist, rolled on the ground and quickly rushed towards the pillar of light.
After the brilliant beam of light disappeared, a young figure emerged. He was wearing a white, somewhat messy lab coat, his hair was a bit disheveled, and in his right hand he was holding a cat with its limbs hanging down, licking its lips.
A silent roar accompanied Elrios' advance, swallowing everything in its path within its mist-shrouded form. Now, its massive, dog-like head revealed itself, and it attacked the young man with its teeth.
"Wow, look what I found! A rare life form! And it belongs to the time system! It matches your spatial attribute very well. Why not let it be your little friend?" Luke smiled and lifted the cat in his hand, then threw it towards the open, bottomless mouth of Elios with the cat's meowing.
Meow!
The thrown cat rolled in the air and was bitten by Elios. Just when it was about to swallow Luke, it seemed like something was stuck in its throat. It coughed and shook its head, as if it wanted to spit out what it had just swallowed.
The black mist-like body seethed violently, like a roiling cloud. Under Luke's watchful gaze, the miraculous storm creature, Elrios, steadily shrank in size, eventually forming a funnel-shaped black hurricane. At its very bottom lay the maw of the abyss.
The cat, which had swallowed Elios like a dragon sucking water, burped, and its fluffy hair finally limp down. It meowed and jumped onto Luke's shoulder, slapping Luke's head with its claws, making his messy hair even more messy.
"Don't be angry. I'll feed you another space gem when we get back." Luke patted the cat's head, and the force made the cat's head keep lowering, almost knocking it off his shoulder.
"Meow meow meow meow!" The cat was furious and stood up. Its two front legs were like fists, and it retaliated like raindrops, making Luke's hair like a chicken coop.
"Okay, let's try a new flavor. I've used my newfound energy to create a delicious catnip. Want to try it? When you get home, go find your old breeder, Nick. He just bought some from me." Luke, quite sinisterly, threw Nick a difficult situation. He yanked the cat off his shoulder and crammed it into his arms, petting it vigorously from head to toe. The cat's eyes widened as his scalp was rubbed.
However, the cat was in no mood to pay attention to Luke who was stroking it. Its pink tongue licked its mouth quickly, and there was a faint "River of Appetite" overflowing in its mouth.
…
Inside the castle, Kang explained the past and present of the Time Administration to Loki and Sylvie.
"So what you mean is that you built the Time Administration to protect the stability and peace of this universe?" Loki Sylvie looked at Kang opposite her strangely.
"Of course, if I hadn't accidentally discovered that strange life outside, I would have no way to deal with those derived branching timelines. It can devour them." Kang nodded seriously.
"Excuse me, but are you overestimating your expectations of yourself? Do you really think that you, or you in other universes, can conquer the multiverse?" Loki just thought it was a bit ridiculous.
Multiverse?
Of course he knew the concept.
I even know that the Energy Bank is making some long-term plans for this.
That's a leeks field targeted by the Energy Bank shareholders. And you tell me, your clones want to conquer the multiverse? Have you asked the Energy Bank? Have you asked the dimensional demons who have devoured so many dimensional worlds and universes? Have you asked that dark and greedy guy?
Loki admitted that Kang on the opposite side was indeed very good at playing with time. He might have used this ability to research or collect a lot of powerful technologies. If nothing unexpected happened, he might indeed be able to conquer some universes.
But the prerequisite is that you don't get targeted by some sinister guy.
And now it was obvious that the other party had been targeted by that sinister guy! Loki now understood what the memory he had lost was.
That sinister guy named Luke almost treats the Time Management Bureau you founded as his own home. Do you, the one whose home was robbed, know this?
"Your look is a little offensive." Kang looked at Loki's eyes, which were filled with pity, and was a little confused. Shouldn't it be shock and fear?
"Since you know our next moves and have written them down on paper like a script, do you know everything that happened when I first arrived at the Time Management Bureau?" Loki suppressed Sylvie's desire to attack again and asked Kang opposite him.
"Of course, your every move is under my eyes, and even arranged by me. It was me who guided and controlled you to come here." Kang frowned.
"Then you must also know Luke from the Time Management Bureau." Loki said.
"Luke? Who is Luke? Is there such a person in the Time Management Bureau?" Kang looked at Loki in astonishment. This time, his time prediction seemed to have failed. He could no longer predict the future. And this was a little earlier than he had originally planned!
Everything Loki and the others said and did should have been within his observation and control, but just now, the other party said something he had never predicted.
"So that's all you're made of." Loki breathed a sigh of relief, a smile returning to his face. "I thought you truly knew everything and could do everything. Turns out you're just playing tricks on me, just like those wizards."
Of course, Loki didn't think Kang was really playing tricks. According to what he said, at least their R&D and technical capabilities were at a very high level. This could be seen from the equipment of the Time Administration.
And with the support of technology, the opponent's strength must be strong.
But since they couldn't learn of Luke's existence, it naturally meant that there was still some gap between Kang and the treacherous Luke. Loki didn't know how big the gap was, but from the perspective of information, Kang's confrontation with Luke was clearly a complete failure.
Logically, this shouldn't be the case! After all, just like his multiverse, within similar universes based on his own, those who excel will still excel. Luke's lack of knowledge from Kang is either due to his universe being unique and unobservable, or because Luke himself is unique. There's also the possibility that the mages are helping Luke, or perhaps Luke himself is concealing his time.
"Wait, you brought other people with you?" Kang suddenly seemed to realize something, and began to look around with a look of surprise and doubt.