"Is he still alive?"
Steve looked up at the sky and asked in a low voice.
"It's hard to say," Sif shook her head. "The Bifrost is powerful enough to destroy planets. Perhaps Loki, wearing the Destroyer, won't die, but it's hard to say about him."
Volstagg let out a heavy sigh. His brown beard fluttered as he said with full vigor, "Regardless, we Asgardians will forever remember this brave warrior. Diamondhead, true to his name!"
Clearly, the four visitors from Asgard had subconsciously deemed Ben as dead.
Not only them, but even Heimdall, who could see into the Nine Realms, believed Ben was dead.
In his eyes, there was no trace of Diamondhead.
But in reality, was that truly the case?
In the infinite darkness of the cosmos.
A dazzling ray of light pierced through.
The Bifrost, carrying Loki, traversed the entire universe.
"Aaaah—"
Inside the Bifrost, the scorching energy made Loki suffer immensely.
The fearsome power of the Bifrost had caused cracks in the Destroyer armor. Loki, unable to fully unleash the Destroyer's power, found it difficult to withstand the Bifrost's might.
And beside him, there was no longer any sign of Diamondhead.
The Bifrost's immense power was enough to shatter Diamondhead, causing him to perish completely.
But if one observed closely, they would notice that Loki's current state was actually a bit off.
Black cracks appeared all over his body, and within those cracks, a ghostly eye was constantly moving.
That's right, it was Ghostfreak!
From the very beginning, Ben had no intention of directly enduring the Bifrost's bombardment.
Although the Little Broken Watch's protection mechanism might have prevented his life from being threatened, Ben saw no need to take risks like before.
Even though Diamondhead didn't actually feel pain, he had no interest in taking a blast from someone else.
Therefore, before the Bifrost could shatter the crystal, Ben used Diamondhead's power to shove the Casket of Ancient Winters several hundred meters underground, preserving it with special crystals, and then he immediately switched heroes, transforming into Ghostfreak.
At first, he found it difficult to possess Loki.
The Destroyer's powerful magical defenses kept him out, and Loki's divine power was also protecting him.
Ben could only phase through his body, but this also caused him some damage.
After all, the Bifrost was a product of technology and magic combined, and it wasn't strange for it to harm the soul.
But soon, as the Destroyer developed cracks under the Bifrost's bombardment, and Loki fell unconscious from the powerful energy impact, he found an opportunity.
Thus, Loki became Ben's shield. As long as Loki didn't die, Ben wouldn't be harmed.
Even if Loki died, he could immediately detach from the Bifrost and escape into the dark cosmos. Darkness would grant Ghostfreak immense power, enough for him to repair any injuries.
However, Ben wasn't entirely unscathed. At the very least, he felt a pang of heartache when he saw the Destroyer shatter.
"That's my Destroyer!"
Ben's heart was bleeding!
"Never mind, it's just a few cracks, they can still be repaired."
In fact, he wouldn't encounter enemies that required the Destroyer to defeat in a short period.
Ben sighed and turned his gaze towards the cosmos.
The Bifrost instantly crossed an unknown distance. Countless stars flashed before his eyes, and galaxies like wisps of mist receded like celestial clouds.
After passing through an immeasurable expanse of dark space, Ben finally reached his destination.
Sakaar.
It was a planet very similar to Earth, possessing both oceans and continents.
It was located in the Fornax Galaxy, the fourth planet in the Taiyou Star System, and the only habitable planet in this system.
Originally, Sakaar, when viewed from space, clearly showed a landscape of oceans interwoven with crimson soil. But at some point, the space wormholes surrounding Sakaar began to continuously dump space debris onto the planet, gradually obscuring its original appearance.
Now, looking down from the sky, Sakaar resembled a steel planet, full of people's cyberpunk fantasies.
At the same moment Ben and Loki passed through the cosmic passage and were about to crash, he noticed dozens of other meteorites traveling towards Sakaar with him.
"Boom!"
Flames trailed long tails across the gray sky.
Some of this space debris consisted of physically powerful aliens, while others were alien technology.
Of course, what was mechanical garbage to certain races was undoubtedly a gift to another, less advanced civilization.
The discarded technological artifacts from higher civilizations contained extremely advanced technology.
Thus, Sakaar's technology slowly developed amidst the jumbled technology, evolving into its current state.
Because they traveled via the Bifrost, the commotion caused by Ben and Loki's fall was greater than that of other high-altitude debris.
The Sakaar Scavengers, who spent their days watching for "space junk," immediately noticed the brilliant glow of the Bifrost.
Many scavengers guessed this must be an extraordinary treasure. Confident in their numbers, their teams all converged on the spot where the glow fell, while those scavengers with less strength naturally set their sights on other falling objects.
In an instant, the entire planet Sakaar became lively.
Among them, the one most concerned with the light emitted by the Bifrost was Valkyrie.
Valkyrie was actually a collective term, referring to the warrior women from the Celestial Palace.
They rode winged Pegasus, or transformed into swans to fly, selecting souls of the dead, weaving the fate of war, searching for valiant heroes, and bringing victory to Asgard.
They were once Asgard's most renowned army, and the idols Thor most admired in his youth.
Yes, Thor's childhood dream was to become a Valkyrie. Later he discovered that to become a Valkyrie, one first had to be a woman...
From this perspective, Asgardian civilization was not as advanced as America's.
If it were in America, who would dare assume Thor's gender?
Valkyrie no longer wished to mention her former name. Since the war between Odin and Hela, almost all the Valkyries had been annihilated. The remaining ones had long since lost heart and left Asgard.
War?
Death?
The fate of Asgard that had driven them forward, all of it, was something Valkyrie now desperately avoided.
But now, the light of the Bifrost flashed before her eyes once more.
It was so fast, in just an instant, it brought back the painful memories Valkyrie had buried in alcohol.
The dead memories attacked her.
Valkyrie crushed the wine bottle, exhaled a heavy breath of alcohol, and pursued the glow.
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