The Crimson Bands of Cyttorak wrapped around Thor.
Even Thanos had been unable to break free from this magic in the movie.
Not to mention Thor, who had not yet truly awakened his power as the God of Thunder.
Several red-glowing magical bands instantly wrapped around his arms. Even with Mjolnir pulling him along, he could not move.
At the same time, dark red light rose from Alex's body.
The light looked thick and heavy, radiating heat while carrying a sense of pressure and killing intent.
It flowed around Alex's body, making his aura heavier and more violent.
A faint vibration came from inside Alex's body.
His chest, his arms, every muscle on his body swelled and expanded.
In an instant, Alex's body grew slightly larger, giving off a shocking sense of power.
As if affected by Alex's aura, the previously clear sky above Asgard gradually turned dark and gloomy.
Heavy clouds rolled in from nowhere, covering the heavens. Lightning flashed within the clouds.
Rumble! Rumble!
Amid the roaring thunder, bolts of lightning kept striking down around Alex, making his figure alternately shine brightly and sink into darkness.
But whether bright or dark, the dark red glow around Alex never faded beneath the lightning. It continued to shine in the darkness.
Divine Power! 50% Output!
Then Alex pulled on the magical bands, dragging Thor toward him.
He raised his other hand.
His five fingers closed tightly into a fist.
The Gauntlets of Hercules on that hand lit up along every magnificent pattern, releasing silver light.
Immediately, the power contained in Alex's fist surged explosively.
Gauntlets of Hercules! Tenfold Strength Boost!
Feeling the terrifying power in that fist, power that seemed capable of destroying planets and Asgard itself, Thor's pupils shrank.
Then that fist rapidly enlarged in his vision.
Finally, Alex's fist slammed into Thor's face.
The Crimson Bands of Cyttorak withdrew.
A huge dark red ripple exploded from Alex's fist.
Thor's figure instantly blurred, shooting out from the center of the dark red ripple like lightning.
As he flew farther away, rings of dark red ripples continuously exploded in the air.
At this moment, the first ripple touched the ground below.
The surface of Asgard silently sank inward.
The collapsed section skipped the process of breaking apart and directly turned into powder.
"Move!"
Seeing this scene, one of the Warriors Three, the swordmaster Fandal, shouted loudly.
However, at this moment, the dark red ripple had already swept past several Asgardian warships.
The moment the warships touched the ripples, their hulls instantly twisted. The warriors inside looked as though they had been crushed by something.
Their bodies were compressed flat in an instant.
Then the ships fell to the ground.
Only after the flattened warships crashed onto the ground did blood begin flowing out.
Seeing this, the nearby Asgardian warships quickly moved away.
Those that were slower were brushed by the dark red ripples.
The ships were either crushed or twisted out of shape.
Then they all fell to the ground.
On one of the warships, Lady Sif's face turned pale.
Just the aftershock of the Conqueror's punch was already this terrifying.
Then what about Thor, who took that punch directly?
At this moment, she could no longer see Thor.
She could only see distant Asgardian buildings, palaces, statues, pillars, exploding and collapsing one after another.
After taking Alex's punch, Thor nearly flew to the edge of Asgard.
In the end, he crashed into a massive mountain.
The mountain caved inward, forming a shallow crater.
Thor was embedded inside it. His head dropped, and he lost consciousness.
"My son!"
On the ground, the aged Odin looked toward the direction Thor had flown.
Looking at the still-collapsing Asgardian buildings, his expression turned grave.
His gaze swept through the air before landing on Alex.
He summoned his pegasus.
Preparing to fight Alex again, only to see a black book suddenly appear in front of Alex.
The cover of the book was pitch black, releasing an oppressive dark aura.
Within the black aura, which constantly shifted into ferocious faces, tiny red sparks flickered.
Odin's scalp tingled.
From this book, the Allfather sensed an indescribable darkness and evil.
It was as though all the darkness and malice in the universe had gathered together.
As if all the evil of hell itself had been condensed into one place.
A thought flashed through Odin's mind, and he blurted out, "Could that be... the Darkhold?"
At this moment, patches of black aura rose from the ground around Odin.
The aura instantly rose higher, vaguely forming giant humanoid figures.
Odin looked up and felt those black figures resembled ancient yet evil gods.
Unease immediately rose within him.
At this moment, the black aura and the godlike shadows merged together.
Immediately, the light in Odin's eyes rapidly faded.
He had just raised Gungnir and had not even had time to attack, when his vision had already turned completely black.
Not a trace of light remained.
Even his senses became blurry.
Odin could not even hear his own breathing or heartbeat.
In that instant, it felt as though he had arrived in the lightless world ruled by the Dark Elves from ancient legends.
The Allfather could no longer sense the outside world.
He had been completely isolated.
Darkhold!
Dark Magic, Dark Prison!
Using this spell, Alex trapped Odin.
Thor had also fallen unconscious.
Alex closed the Darkhold and temporarily stored it back in his inventory.
Then he rose into the air and looked toward Asgard's army.
"People of Asgard."
"Your king is already under my control."
"Your prince has already fallen unconscious."
"There is no one left to protect you."
"Now I'll give you a choice."
"Lay down your weapons, surrender to me, and praise my mercy."
"If you do that, you'll still be able to breathe fresh air and see tomorrow's sun."
An uproar spread through the Asgardian warships.
The warriors of Asgard changed expression, their resolve wavering.
In their hearts, Odin and Thor had been nearly invincible.
Now one was controlled, and the other unconscious.
It was a massive blow to them.
On one Asgardian warship, Volstagg stepped forward holding his battle axe and roared loudly, "Don't listen to his nonsense!"
"Asgard will never surrender!"
"NEVER!"
His barrel-like figure gave the Asgardian warriors a bit of confidence again.
The swordmaster Fandal also drew his sword and shouted loudly, "Warriors of Asgard, throughout countless years, we have faced countless enemies."
"Tell me, what happened to those enemies in the end?"
"That's right, they were all defeated."
"So today will be no exception!"
These two warriors of Asgard had earned great achievements in battle.
Encouraged by them, the warriors of Asgard regained their confidence.
Raising their weapons high, they shouted loudly, "Asgard will win!"
"Asgard will triumph!"
Alex sat down on the dark throne and smiled, "Very well then."
He made a gesture.
Inside a Dark Elf battleship, the caped female general Claire saw the signal.
She immediately shouted, "All forces! Attack!"
Buzz!
The Dark Elf motherships and fighters all gave off the roar of energy.
Then a fighter shot past beneath Alex with a whoosh, charging toward the Asgardian army.
Just like that, the war between the Dark Elves and the Asgardian army began.
Fighters crossed through the sky.
Heavy cannons roared.
The sky above Asgard filled with countless fireballs.
Alex, seated on the dark throne, smiled slightly and used Self-Replication, creating a clone with 80% of his combat power.
He used the clone to remain on the battlefield in his place.
Meanwhile, Alex himself used Teleportation and disappeared from the battlefield.
———
When he appeared again, he had arrived inside Asgard's prison.
Back when he was fighting Odin and Thor, Alex had already spread out his psychic field and marked one mental coordinate after another.
During that process, he discovered an interesting mental coordinate.
Loki sat in a chair inside the prison.
Compared to the other prisoners, his treatment was practically VIP level.
Not only did he have an entire cell to himself, but it even contained tables, chairs, and tea sets.
The Dark Elf invasion and Alex's battle with Odin and Thor, he knew nothing about any of it.
But he knew something had happened outside.
Still, when he saw Alex appear in the prison, he froze for a moment.
Back in New York, Loki had personally witnessed how Alex had taken the Tesseract from his brother and the group of legendary heroes.
Naturally, he recognized Alex.
"It's you?"
Honestly, seeing Alex inside Asgard shocked Loki.
This was not a place Earthlings could normally reach.
Alex smiled slightly as he looked at Loki's black hair and sinister yet handsome face.
Looking at this "God of Lies" who preferred being an assassin instead of a mage.
"Yes, it's me."
"Well now, whose little girl is this?"
"What did you do wrong?"
"To get locked up in a place like this."
Loki was deeply calculating by nature. He naturally would not get angry over a few words like that.
He laughed once and said, "So the huge commotion outside is because you came?"
"How strange."
"My brother and the great Allfather actually failed to stop you?"
"They even let you invade this place."
Alex shrugged, "They did try."
"They just failed."
Alex did not brag about his achievements.
Instead, he said, "How about we make a deal?"
Loki raised his brows, "What deal?"
Then he looked behind Alex, his lips moving slightly.
At that moment, a golden spear stabbed toward Alex's back.
But it failed to even pierce his cloak before being blocked by the bio-force field.
Alex turned around with a smile and reached out, grabbing the Asgardian soldier who had attacked from behind.
His five fingers tightened.
The soldier's helmet, along with the head inside it, instantly shrank into a crushed lump.
Then golden flames burst from Alex's eyes, killing the several guards rushing into the prison afterward.
Only then did he clap his hands and look at Loki.
Only now did Loki finish the words he had not finished earlier.
"Watch out behind you."
"Well, forget I said anything."
Of course Alex knew the guy had intentionally spoken half a beat too slowly.
He did not care.
He said, "I can let you out."
"But you have to tell me how to reach Asgard's treasury."
Loki laughed, "You want to loot Odin's treasury?"
Alex spread his hands, "What else do you think I came to Asgard for?"
His first and main goal in coming to Asgard was naturally the Aether particles inside Jane Foster.
In other words, the Reality Stone.
His second goal was Asgard's treasury.
There were many treasures inside.
Although most of those things would probably become useless scrap after being brought into his universe, as long as he came into contact with them, the shop would generate derived items, or even divine artifacts purchasable with Multiverse Crystals.
Alex had already marked Jane Foster's mental coordinate.
He could teleport over and take the woman away at any moment.
So before that, he planned to loot Odin's treasury first.
Loki smiled brightly, "No problem. I can tell you how to get there."
"So now, can you let me out?"
"Deal," Alex made a gesture, "Step back a little."
Loki stepped backward.
Alex's eyes lit up as his heat vision blasted against the prison barrier.
The golden barrier resisted for two seconds before shattering loudly.
The heat vision swept around once.
Alex also released the other prisoners along the way. They could create chaos.
Loki walked out and smiled slightly, pointing toward the door.
"If you want to reach Asgard's treasury, first you need to go—"
Before he could finish, several red magical light bands wrapped around his hands.
The Crimson Bands of Cyttorak.
Loki raised his hands and looked at Alex, "What's the meaning of this?"
Alex slapped his forehead.
"Here's the thing. I just remembered you're very good at lying."
"And I don't have time to judge whether your words are true or false."
"So I changed my mind."
"Could I trouble you to take me there personally?"
Loki smiled and shook his bound arms, "I suppose I'm not really qualified to refuse right now?"
———
[Asgard's Treasury]
One golden beam after another tore through the air, killing the Asgardian warriors guarding the treasury.
Alex kicked the treasury doors wide open, then walked inside.
One treasure after another appeared before his eyes.
After arriving here, Loki seemed to forget about leaving.
He followed Alex inside as well.
His gaze landed on a spherical artifact.
"That's the Orb of Agamotto."
"You should know about the Sorcerer Supreme."
"This treasure has been passed down through generations of Sorcerer Supremes."
"It can detect the source of magic, and also detect danger. Basically a detection device."
Alex asked curiously, "If it's a treasure passed down among Earth's Sorcerer Supremes, how did it end up in Asgard?"
Loki shrugged, "That's a question you should ask Odin."
"Though he probably wouldn't tell you."
His gaze then landed on an ancient stone tablet.
"The Tablet of Life and Time."
Loki gestured toward it with his chin.
"This tablet came from Atlantis, a lost civilization from Earth."
"The writing carved on it is extraordinary. It contains a miraculous biological evolution equation."
"No one knows who carved the tablet."
"But according to the method written on it, any lifeform could evolve to its ultimate form."
"Of course, deciphering the writing is the problem."
"After all these years, the people of Asgard only managed to figure out that it records a way for all life to evolve."
Alex could not help reaching out to touch the stone tablet.
He felt nothing unusual.
It seemed like an ordinary stone tablet.
Further ahead, Loki pointed at an eyeball.
"The Warlock's Eye."
"After using it, a golden eye appears on the forehead."
"That eye can release strange light capable of dispersing all illusions and darkness."
"It can be used against the evil forces of the Dark Dimension and dark creatures from other dimensions, like Nightmare."
Alex gave an "oh."
Thinking about it, that eyeball really did seem quite effective against the Darkhold.
Though it probably could not counter it completely.
Next was a brazier.
The brazier itself was not the treasure.
The real treasure was the fire inside it.
This was no ordinary flame.
It was the Eternal Flame, the key to triggering Ragnarok.
Aside from that purpose, it seemed to have no other use.
The reason Odin stored it here was probably to prevent Ragnarok from happening.
Finally, Loki's gaze landed on a blue box.
He spoke in a dreamy tone, "The Casket of Ancient Winters."
"A Frost Giant divine artifact."
"It contains endless frost energy and can instantly turn an entire region into frozen land."
"It can even create an ice age."
After a pause, Loki finally remembered he was still tied up.
He raised his hands and smiled.
"My friend, can you release me now?"
Alex did not hesitate.
He withdrew the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak.
As the glowing crimson magical bands disappeared, Loki stepped backward while smiling, then left the treasury.
Once the treasury became empty, Alex's eyes suddenly lit up.
Then he said, "If you dare touch it, you're dead."
At that moment, green light flashed beside the Casket of Ancient Winters.
Loki appeared there awkwardly and laughed, "Just joking."
He clapped his hands.
Only then did he truly leave.
That kind of trick might fool Thor.
But it was useless against Alex.
Alex had marked Loki's mental coordinate.
Whether Loki was nearby or not, Alex knew clearly.
Only after Loki's mental coordinate moved farther away did Alex walk over to the Casket of Ancient Winters.
The moment his hand touched the artifact, a metal barrier ahead suddenly unlocked by itself.
Then the guardian of the treasury, the Destroyer, walked out from the strong light.
This was a steel giant forged from Asgardian uru metal.
Its body was nearly indestructible.
Its face could also fire extremely high-temperature beams.
Loki had once controlled it and sent it to Earth to deal with Thor.
It seemed that in this universe, the Destroyer had not been destroyed by Thor like in the movie.
Watching the steel giant walk out from the strong light, Alex's lips curved into a smile.
"I wonder if the shop can generate this thing."
Compared to the other treasures, to Alex, this Destroyer was the most valuable treasure in Asgard.
The moment it stepped out from the light, the armor plates on the Destroyer's face opened.
Fire surged inside its head, then an extremely high-temperature beam blasted toward Alex, trying to completely erase this "thief" who had invaded the treasury and dared touch its treasures.
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