The rainbow bridge, which used to flow with the brilliant colors of the universe, has become dim. Huge wounds and terrible war ruins have scarred the bridge deck, and the aftermath of the broken time and space has almost completely destroyed this miracle of the Asgardians.
Not far away, Heimdall, blinded, stood silently in the ruins facing the Nine Kingdoms, still loyally guarding Asgard.
On the golden throne, the lone crow whirled and screamed, and finally landed on Odin's shoulder, patted Odin's shoulder with its broken wings. Odin's body was no longer as tall and firm as before, and his face was tired and old. Apparently, the chief god of Asgard looked like a silent old man.
His eyes are tied with silk ribbons, and the blood of the gods seeps from under the ribbons, adding a bit of sadness to the scene.
"Father!" A dark shadow stood beside the stone pillar, looking directly at Odin on the throne, his eyes stayed on Odin's blind eyes for a moment, revealing a trace of complicated emotions.
Odin on the throne let out a long sigh: "Loki, are you here to look directly at your father's weakness and spy on his throne?"
There was a tinge of pain and resentment in Loki's eyes, but he still replied calmly: "No, my king, I'm here to thank you for your forgiveness..."
"I don't want to forgive you... I believe that jealousy still burns in your heart. Loki, your nature is very dangerous, but Thor convinced me. He tried to prove that you can be trusted. Your love is true... ”
Odin seemed to be exhausted, he sank his head and sadly said: "Asgard has reached the most dangerous moment, and I also hope that you can tide over the difficulties with us... Loki, don't disappoint Thor's trust."
There was a sudden silence between the two, and the atmosphere became a little low and quiet.
After a long time, Odin said: "You always wanted to know why I adopted you, right? Adopt you, the son of Laufey!" Loki under the throne raised his head in surprise and looked at his adoptive father with a confused expression.
"The war with the frost giants has become a memory. Most Asgardians have long forgotten this history, but in my memory, the war between us and the frost giants whose civilization has not been destroyed was once very tragic... They used to Has a very powerful war civilization."
"That's completely different from the frost giants you remember as barbarians..."
"Our enemies are very powerful. The dark elves are constantly sneaking into Asgard to destroy them. The dark stars are just around the corner. The elves and dwarves also have other ideas... and the frost giants entangled our army on the battlefield, and the situation was once in jeopardy."
"At that time, our old enemy had a civilization that was not inferior to ours. Except for the disaster of the apocalypse, they had no fear of anyone."
Odin's voice gradually lowered, and his eyes gradually moved away, as if looking at the distant history through time, and Loki also had some inexplicable emotions following Odin's narration.
"It's strange, isn't it? But my child, you have to know that no civilization is born strong. They all have to go through painful tempering and desperate transformation, until they pay a terrible price and drink the blood of heroes... Only then can they be forged into brilliance. The splendor of civilization. This process needs to break its backbone and torture the soul of this civilization until it has been burned several times before it can achieve a great civilization.”
"On this road, there are dark elves and frost giants who lost in the war and were almost reduced to blood-drinking beasts. There are also dwarves and elves who lost their autonomy and chose to succumb to other great civilizations. There are even more like humans. ...still staggering forward, there are few civilizations as brilliant as Asgard."
Odin stroked the blindfold of his left eye, his hands trembled slightly, he could hardly hold the scepter, he kicked heavily, and said excitedly to Loki: "You may be wondering why I insist on participating in the stupid and complicated human beings. I don't hesitate to pay such a terrible price in my entanglement with you. You think this is why I dote on Thor, but I want to tell you... "
Odin looked at Loki with empty eyes, took two steps back in horror, and said word by word: "In my heart, there is nothing more important than Asgard!"
After saying this, Odin seemed to have lost all his strength. He leaned on the throne and stretched out a finger to stroke the head of the crow on his shoulder. The crow croaked twice and rubbed against Odin intimately: "Haji (thinking) is dead, how can Mulin (memory) live alone..."
Before he finished speaking, the crow standing on Odin's shoulder was afraid to return to the sky with its wings flapping, leaving feathers scattered all over the sky, and disappeared before Loki's eyes. Loki watched the crow's soul turn into two, flying Arriving at the atrium, hovering over the Washington battlefield, in the tragic battlefield surrounded by lava, returning to the bodies of the two dead crows beside the old snake Chen Ang.
"They returned to the embrace of death..." Odin said with a trace of sadness: "A long time ago, when Asgard and the frost giants were in a stalemate, they guided me to the world tree, the miracle that gathers the nine realms." Land of Wisdom—Fountain of Wisdom, I paid for one eye, and prayed to the World Tree for wisdom to defeat the Frost Giant, and then I successfully defeated Laufey...he also took one of my eyes."
"So when I saw you, I felt a voice say to me, it was your sin and love to keep him, so I adopted you as my son. At first I just believed in the guidance of wisdom, but then I Slowly discovering, Loki—my son, you are so outstanding, and I see my own shadow in you... You have the blood of Laufey, but you also have the love of Asgard and my soul."
"I thought I would always be proud of you..."
"The prophecy tells me that you will bring the twilight to the gods of Asgard, and you will make your father and brother perish forever... But this is only one side of the prophecy, many people will never know, the prophecy is always a mixture of good and evil Yes, you can bury the gods for the Son of Twilight. But you can also be my pride, protect Asgard, protect Thor, because of love."
"My dear child, I have to admit that for a while you made me confused, I didn't know how to face you, your kindness and malice, your inner jealousy and love? I tried to test you, but it made us The distance between them is getting farther and farther. I am very happy that Thor has firmly guarded his relatives, but for you, I am at a loss."
Loki turned his face slightly, preventing Odin from looking at his face.
"I felt that fate was coming to me. One evening, I came to the fountain of wisdom. This time I didn't pray for strength and wisdom. I even threw Kungunir on the ground, and only prayed to the world tree for an answer—love and redemption!"
Loki suddenly saw the souls of two crows hovering between him and Odin. Even though he was the god who manipulated illusions, he fell into the darkness uncontrollably. In the deep abyss, he saw the huge world tree—connect The tree-like cosmic structure of the Nine Kingdoms uttered a huge wail in the fire and war, and collapsed.
From the collapsed roots of the world tree, a ferocious black dragon flew out. He gnawed at the foundation of the universe. On his wings hung the corpses of the gods of Asgard. From the sky in the raging fire, it was covered with a huge iron armor. The body is burning with lava and flames, death hovers around its wings, and countless poisonous snakes crawl out from behind him, turning Asgard into hell.
He saw Odin being thrown down by a huge demon wolf, which was biting his flesh, and Kungunir fell beside him. He saw Thor rush forward in grief and anger, picked up Kungunir and pierced through it. The wolf's heart was broken, but there was nothing he could do, Odin collapsed in a pool of blood, ushered in the dusk - for some reason, Loki burst into tears.
He saw the big snake wrapped around Thor, making him unable to lift his hammer. Thor broke free from the big snake, and threw Thor's hammer towards the head of the big snake, but he was also bitten by the fangs, and finally fell into the abyss with the big snake .
In the end, the black dragon flew to the top of the world tree. Facing the collapsed universe of the world tree, it roared up to the sky and tore apart the land of the nine kingdoms. As darkness enveloped the land, the black dragon twisted into a man's appearance, and the gods Laughing out loud in the dusk—that's when Loki could see his face clearly...
That was the ancient snake Chen Ang, who was different from Tian Qi's unique temperament, and people could tell them apart at a glance.
"I gave up my other eye, just to end that desperate twilight..." Odin sighed, "Unfortunately, I was still wrong!"
"Why? Didn't you kill him already?" Loki looked up suddenly.
The souls of the two crows once again brought Loki to a void, turning them into crows after they died and repeating everything they saw. Loki finally saw this time. In the depths of the universe, four terrifying beings with the most A deep shadow has finally descended...
"War, famine, plague, death..."
"These four kinds of disasters descended on the Nine Kingdoms one after the other in a long cycle. They are called the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and this disaster is also called the Disaster of the Apocalypse."
"Now they have come again!" Odin sighed deeply.
The body of the ancient snake Chen Ang, controlled by Tianqi, faced these four terrible disasters outside the solar system. Famine merged with him and flew towards Asgard with a huge comet. War fell to the earth, plague with it, only clinging to it as it grazed the moon, and only death, entwined in outer space with some gigantic planet.
Loki saw the huge black dragon opened its eyes in Asgard; on the top floor of the Stark building, a dark soul was suddenly hit by a silver streamer; a group of races with powerful spiritual power, their crystal-cast kingdom The shadow of death is lingering; another group of human beings, the ancient and angry Atlantean civilization, suddenly found that they were infected with a strange virus.
The huge darkness came like a tide, making Loki almost out of breath in fear, he could only watch helplessly, as the thick shadows pervaded the entire universe.
"Is this world going to perish?" Loki never imagined that one day he would despair because of the destruction.
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