"What is this?" Loki watched Luke pull the milky white dragon, only half the size of a puppy, out of the jar, holding it by its little wings like a chicken and holding it in front of him.
"The dragon of life has powerful vitality and can share its life with its master." Luke stuffed the little dragon into Loki's arms.
"Wait, wait, don't move! Damn it, can't it understand me?" Loki was tightly grasped by the little dragon's limbs. Even though he was wearing clothes, he could feel the slight pain of the delicate but sharp claws scratching his skin.
The little dragon was not as obedient as it was in Luke's hands. Instead, it was like a person with ADHD, constantly climbing on his body and adjusting its position, as if trying to find a position that made it feel comfortable.
Finally, Loki felt his head sink and his eyes glanced upwards. The little dragon treated Loki's head as its own nest, lying on his lush, neatly combed hair, with its limbs and claws curled up like a cat's paws, and its slender tail turned into a rope, which was wrapped around Loki's neck to fix it.
Loki tugged uncomfortably at the smooth, cool dragon tail around his neck, but it didn't budge. The little creature was surprisingly strong. Of course, Loki would never admit that he was too weak.
"You have to teach it. It's still a blank slate and is curious about everything." Luke said to Loki.
"With it, can I defeat Hela?" Loki was eager to try. He looked at Luke expectantly, eager to get a positive answer from him.
"You're dreaming!" Luke rudely dashed Loki's expectations. "It's just a newly born baby dragon. Do you expect it to help you defeat Hela?"
Loki was stunned for a moment. His eyes met the dragon's head, a look of bewilderment on his face. "Then how can it help me? Do I still need to raise it?"
"It can make you immortal." Luke said, "So you don't have to worry about being killed by Hela."
"Can't there be someone stronger?" Loki said to Luke, feeling tempted, but still a little unsatisfied. Clearly, guaranteeing his immortality meant he could only be a fleshy punching bag? So, he couldn't escape his status as a weakling, only able to take beatings, right?
"In that case, this dragon isn't bad either." Luke pointed to another small ice dragon in the jar, which was breathing cold air and freezing the liquid inside. "It's a dragon created with the biological version of the Ice Box as its heart. Its bloodline is very similar to yours. When it grows up, it will have considerable combat power and can provide you with excellent cooperation.
If you were a warrior, I would be happy to introduce you to such a fighting partner. But I think with your personality, you might waste its talent."
"What about this one?" Loki looked at the last jar again without giving up. The little dragon inside had prominent horns, and its aura and eyes revealed a kind of brutality and defiance.
"Don't even think about it. Your brother might love it, but as for you, I'm afraid the aftermath of its battle could take you away. You can't tame it." Luke bluntly extinguished Loki's thoughts.
"Okay, okay, then this one? How am I supposed to take care of it?" Loki looked helpless, but after thinking for a moment, he reluctantly said, "Does that mean I can only choose one? You can name a price! I think these three cuties are all pretty good. I want to give one to my brother and put it on his account."
"What do you think this is? Wholesale cabbages? They're not that cheap." Luke mocked Loki's lion's large appetite. "Besides, one is already the limit for your breeding."
Seeing Loki's face full of disbelief, Luke said, "They are still young and still in the stage of absorbing nutrients. The richer the nutrition at this stage, the faster they will grow and the greater their potential will be. My suggestion is that it is best to let them swallow highly concentrated life fluid from a young age. This new energy can be synthesized according to the energy ratio of various mental and emotional factors."
I'll give you a discount. A standard-sized can, roughly a day's supply, will only cost you 1,999 in New Zealand currency. My advice is don't skimp. Buy more at once. If you buy enough for a few years, I can even offer a discount.
"Its maturity is measured in millennia. Of course, your method of cultivation will shorten its maturity and allow it to develop earlier, but each stage is still measured in units of at least five hundred years. You don't have to worry about it dying before you. After sending you away, it may also send your son and grandson away. Of course, if you have a good relationship with it, you may be able to live as long as it does."
"This is just the larval stage. When it reaches adulthood, it will need more nutrition and training, which will also cost you money. For the best training, my advice is not to save this money.
I have written down all the details in this breeding manual, you can take a look at it."
As Luke casually outlined the costs of each phase, Loki's face gradually paled from his initial confidence, and finally gave way to despair. He looked at Luke like a drowning man struggling to survive. "Can I return it? I don't think it's a bad idea to be ripped off by Hela."
The little dragon suddenly increased the strength of its claws that were holding Loki, and its slender and powerful tail tightly wrapped around Loki's neck twice, making it difficult for Loki to breathe and speak.
"It likes you very much. Come, sign this contract. The purchase price is already included, and one month's rations will be given for free. You'll make a profit if you buy it! Of course, if you want a second one, that's no problem either." Luke pulled out an Abyss Contract from the void, wrote a price on it, and then handed it to Loki, motioning him to sign.
"One is enough." Looking at the price on the contract that made him darken, Loki, who had always thought he was quite wealthy, suddenly realized his poverty. Only then did he deeply understand what Nick and the others had said.
No matter how rich you are, with Luke you will always recognize your poverty.
Too much good stuff, too little money.
"I want a loan!" Loki said desperately after signing with his eyes closed.
"No problem." Luke nodded readily.
"Remember to send the bill to Thor Odinson!" Loki teased his brother without any remorse. "Consider it my reward for helping him with his affairs over the years. He bought a hammer, and I bought a dragon. Isn't that too much?"
In the Silent City Square.
The light from the outer teleportation point dissipated, revealing the figures of two people.
"Is this the place? Such a rich and powerful energy!" One of the women in brown robes closed her eyes, greedily sensing the energy floating around her, which made her feel extremely rich!
This is the magical power she has always dreamed of! If she can obtain this energy, her stagnant strength will have a great growth.
"I have brought you to the Silent City." Wanda Maximoff looked at the woman in front of her and whispered.
"Don't worry, I will do what I promised you. All my magical knowledge includes your brother's safety. You know Wanda, I don't care about anything else except magic." The woman opened her eyes with a smile in her eyes.
"Come on, take me to visit the owner of this place. I can't wait to meet him." The woman stroked a little black cat that came out of her wide robe and asked Wanda.
Wanda bit her lip and pointed to a tower that stood like a giant pillar. "He's in that building. We can't use magic here. We have to walk there."
"Then let's walk." The woman said immediately, "I also want to experience more and see more of this place."
The two of them shuttled through the crowd. The woman was very interested in the various lives gathered here, including angels, demons, dwarves, Asgardians, humans, elves, people from the Nine Realms, and some other cosmic races with strange energy flowing in their bodies.
They conduct various transactions in this square, selling technological products from various civilizations, some strange and precious materials, exquisitely crafted dwarf equipment, as well as various dimensional materials and corpses of dimensional life forms from other dimensions that are rarely seen in the main universe.
These were all excellent spellcasting materials. Even as one of the most powerful witches in the Midgard, the woman was very tempted by these materials. Of course, the money she had on her was definitely not enough to cover the value of these materials. Although the channels for obtaining the new currency had opened up somewhat, not everyone could obtain it and accumulate enough.
The witch didn't have much communication with Luke or the various organizations under Luke, so her currency accumulation was even more scarce.
However, she was very interested in this place. She observed the surroundings along the way, until they came to the tall tower that connected the sky and the earth, and the top disappeared in the sky.
"Isn't he really a powerful wizard?" Standing at the bottom of the round tower, feeling the surging and majestic energy surrounding the tower, the witch with an unpredictable expression asked Wanda again for confirmation.
"Of course. In his own words, he's just a researcher." Wanda understood the witch's surprise. She had been even more shocked the first time she came here, beneath this tower. She explained her own speculation: "It is said that this Silent City was built for him by the mages of Kamar-Taj. Kamar-Taj also provided most of the materials. These barriers and shields might have been created by the Ancient One?"
"Ancient One? Humph."
Hearing Ancient One's name, the witch snorted coldly, but said nothing more. Although she believed that her strength was not inferior to Ancient One, it was also true that the other party's reputation and achievements were greater and more dazzling than hers.
Sadly, the last we heard from her was that she had passed away.
"Please tell us your name and your purpose." A mechanical voice sounded in the ears of Wanda and the other person standing at the tower gate.
"Wanda, Wanda Maximoff. Here to visit Luke Field." Wanda first announced her name, then looked at the witch.
The witch observed the runes and structure on the tower with great interest. After Wanda, she also gave her name without doing anything.
"Agatha Harkness."
"Application submitted." The mechanical voice sounded again. "Please wait."
A door appeared on the smooth tower. After the two entered, the light door closed again.
Inside the light gate, a hazy light curtain quietly opened in front of the two of them in the empty space. Wanda exhaled: "Let's go, Teacher Agatha, he agreed to see us."
With that, Wanda took the lead, striding forward with her long legs into the light curtain. Agatha's eyes flickered, and she summoned her strength to protect herself before following suit.
"It's not the regular inspection time we agreed on yet, Wanda. What's the purpose of your visit?" In a collection room filled with various items and equipment, at the end of a wide corridor, Capital Luke put down the items in his hands and looked at Wanda and the others.
"Are you Luke?" Agatha walked closer and looked at Luke.
"I know you, Witch Agatha." Luke said softly as he looked at Agatha who walked in front of him.
"I want a new source of energy." Agatha smiled.
"So what?" Luke and Wanda both had a premonition of something, but compared to Wanda's panic, Luke was quite calm.
"So, can you hand it over?" Agatha mobilized the magic power surging in her body, wanting to release her best mind-control spell, but the tremendous energy in her body had just been raised when it became silent under the suppression of some more powerful and higher-level magic.
The smile on Agatha's face froze. She tried to mobilize the magic power in her body again without giving up. Soon, the flowing power flashed a little in her palm and then returned to silence.
"Has the magic failed? I'm sorry, but you can see that this is a treasure room. As someone endowed with a greedy personality, I always want to count my treasures, fearing that someone will steal my collection.
"So these kinds of protective measures might be a bit more numerous and more stringent. You can certainly understand that, right?" Luke said with a smile. However, his smile was somewhat repulsive in Agatha's eyes.
"Wanda?" Agatha looked at Wanda beside her.
"Don't look at me. I can't use magic here either." Wanda shook her head quickly and took a step back. Luke had studied her abilities more than once.
"I know what you want from me: more powerful energy and deeper magical knowledge." Luke grinned. "I really like people like you who are ambitious and greedy. We are on the same path."
"I don't think we are the same kind of people." Although Agatha lost her magical power, she did not panic, but replied calmly.
"Is that so? Then maybe you'd like to talk to the other one?" Luke said, looking behind the two of them.
Noticing Luke's gaze, Agatha and Wanda turned around at the same time, only to see a mysterious figure wearing a dark robe and cloak, with only half of his face exposed, standing quietly behind them. At the same time, Capital Luke's voice introduced them from behind:
"Don't panic. She is the being who masters all magic—Held. I think you will get along well with her."