"I saved Mother? When?" Loki was stunned, completely failing to understand.
"A long time ago..." Frigga's gentle eyes held a trace of indelible sadness.
"Alright, save the sentimental talk for later. Let's handle business first!" At that moment, Odin suddenly spoke up, interrupting the conversation between Mother and son.
Thor also patted Loki's shoulder and grinned confidently. "Don't worry, Loki. With me here this time, I will protect you and Mother. As long as that Dark Elf Malekith dares to show his face, I'll use stormbreaker to chop off his head!"
"Ma La Ge Bi? What kind of ghost name is that..." Loki felt a warmth in his heart, but his face was somewhat speechless.
Thor scratched his head, also feeling a bit uncertain. "Uh, it should be that name, right? It's been too long, I've kind of forgotten the Dark Elf King's name..."
"It's Malekith, silly child..."
Frigga stroked Thor's hair, smiling helplessly.
Ryan and Odin ignored Thor and Loki, who were still debating whether it was 'Ma La Ge Bi' or 'Ma La Ji Si,' and arrived before the seal.
Ryan stood on the altar, looking at the red light leaking from the tiny crack between the sky-reaching stone pillars, sensing a very familiar power within.
There was no mistake; that was definitely the power of the Reality Stone!
Odin stood beside Ryan and suddenly said seriously, "Before I open the seal and give the Aether Particle to you, I must warn you of one thing."
"Go ahead," Ryan looked at Odin.
Odin continued, "My father, Bor, sealed the Aether Particle in this Isolated Place back then to shield it from the Dark Elves' perception. But as long as you take it out, they will inevitably sense it and hunt you down endlessly to reclaim the Aether Particle..."
"Oh, that's a good thing!" Hearing this, Ryan nodded indifferently.
"Where is the good in that?" Odin was somewhat puzzled.
Ryan said leisurely, "You know, my business is growing larger and larger, and I naturally need more and more 'workers.' These black slaves—ah no, I mean the Dark Elves—are coming at just the right time. They aren't human, so I don't need to care about their human rights. I don't have to pay wages; I just need to use a whip to make them work for me for free!"
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Hearing this, Odin's single eye almost popped out in shock.
He really hadn't expected the Dark Elves could be used like that!
Using them as free labor actually works?
Odin rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Forget it. Anyway, the Dark Elves aren't anything good. They want to plunge the entire Universe into darkness all day long. Deal with them however you like. I believe that for you, a mere Dark Elf tribe poses no threat..."
"Mhm, then I'll take the Aether Particle."
Ryan nodded, not continuing to chat about those weakling Dark Elves, and placed his hand on the stone pillar.
Then, without waiting for Odin's reply, his hands gripped the imperceptible crack and he began to exert force!
Rumble—
In the next moment, the pillar that looked like the Pillar that Calms the Sea was forcibly lifted by Ryan. The entire space began to vibrate, as if the space was about to collapse because of Ryan's act of forcibly breaking the seal!
"This is simply too reckless..." Odin couldn't help but facepalm, waving a hand to cast a golden light onto the pillar.
Countless runes on it instantly lit up with golden light, and then it automatically began to rise.
"Oh? It's fully automatic; you should have said so earlier." Ryan felt the weight in his hands lighten as he saw the stone pillar slowly rise on its own.
Even if the pillar didn't rise automatically, it wouldn't have been difficult for him to lift it by force, even with the divine power seal left by the previous King Bor inside.
Once the pillar rose to a certain height, a mass of dark red particulate matter in the center of the stone platform began to flow like body fluids, finally standing up like a cobra.
Even though it had no eyes, Ryan could clearly feel it staring at him, staring with an extremely yearning emotion!
Immediately, like a predator locking onto its prey, it swam rapidly through the air toward Ryan.
But just as it darted to within half a meter of Ryan, it stopped involuntarily!
One could see that the Aether Particle was currently entangled by several dark red chains, which even the Aether Particle could not break free from.
"Heh, the power to change reality—did you think you were the only one who had it?"
Ryan sneered, raising his right hand which radiated the red light of reality power, and slowly began to close his fist.
Simultaneously, the chains on the Aether Particle began to shrink in sync, constantly compressing the volume of the originally vast Aether Particle!
"Also, one liquid parasite on my body is enough; I don't need another one. So, you'd better return to your original form for me!"
As the words fell, Ryan's five fingers clenched completely.
Crack crack crack crack—
At the same time, the Aether Particle was compressed to the extreme. Countless particles were forcibly pieced together, reforming into the dark red gemstone state!
Ryan could feel that although the Aether Particle had returned to its Infinity Stone form, there was still a strange soul imprint inside.
Clearly, that was the soul imprint of Malekith, the King of the Dark Elves.
But Ryan did not directly erase Malekith's soul imprint, instead allowing it to remain in the Reality Stone.
After all, if he erased the soul imprint now, who would provide the free labor he was missing?
Your Uncle Giao?
Ryan's right hand held the Reality Stone in its gem form, and with a somewhat fervent gaze, he pressed it into the sixth ring on his left hand!
Clang—
As the Reality Stone was embedded into the iron ring, the other five rings involuntarily began to light up with various colors one after another!
Red, orange, purple, yellow, blue, green!
The six infinity stones were gathered together for the first time in this Universe. Six-colored energy radiated from the six rings like an electric current, quickly spreading from Ryan's left arm to his entire body!
Ryan could feel an energy countless times stronger than the Infinite Power he had absorbed from the Infinite Hulk inside him, constantly trying to erode his body!
But fortunately, his body had already absorbed the Infinite Power of another Universe before, so he had already adapted to it. Additionally, he followed the path of proving one's way through strength, making his physical body incredibly powerful.
Therefore, even with the energy of the six infinity stones converging in his body, it didn't cause him as much pain as the Hulk in Avengers 4, nor did it even make him show a pained expression.
Actually, with the energy of the six infinity stones coursing through him, it felt rather comfortable—tingly and numb!
Beyond the physical sensations, the changes the six infinity stones brought to Ryan mentally were actually even greater.
Ryan could feel that now, with just a single thought, he could use the six infinity stones to accomplish most things!
From something as small as resurrecting a dead living being...
To something as large as erasing half, or even all, life in the Universe.
Even reshaping the Universe, returning it to the state before the Big Bang when the Infinity Stones first appeared, was not impossible!
But Ryan could feel that doing so would require him to pay a certain price. Especially for the latter; when that thought arose, his Spider-Sense warned him frantically!
That was a spider-warning more urgent than anything he had ever experienced before!
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