"Stop teasing me," Hela said, wrinkling her high nose. The three of them entered and closed the door. The aloof goddess, unconcerned with her image, sat in a chair and grabbed a fruit from the table, munching on it as she said, "Are you two settling in well here? Let me know if you need anything. You're both great benefactors of Asgard now."
Han Yu rolled his eyes. "What do you mean 'we two'? That's a bit ambiguous."
Hela also rolled her eyes at him and said, "I can't be bothered with your banter. I'm here to ask when you plan to leave."
"Today," Han Yu replied.
"So soon?"
"Of course, I have to leave once things are settled. By the way, I haven't seen Odin. Where did he go?" Han Yu asked.
He'd wanted to ask earlier during the battle, but the timing wasn't right, so he hadn't.
Thor said, "My father left Asgard with my mother before all this happened. They're now living in a country on Earth called Norway. He said he wanted to experience the life of an ordinary person. Life in Asgard isn't for him anymore."
Han Yu was enlightened. In his memory, after the destruction of Asgard, the remaining Asgardians did indeed immigrate to Earth and settled somewhere by the sea in Norway.
Odin should be living there now as well. Since he was fine, Han Yu didn't care too much, he was just mentioning it casually.
"What are your plans after this, Thor? You said you were going out to train, where do you plan to go?" Han Yu asked.
Thor and Loki exchanged glances. The former said, "Loki and I plan to manage the Realm of Fire and the Realm of Frost respectively. We intend to govern those places. We don't expect to make them perfect, but at least not as dark and gloomy as before."
Loki also nodded and smiled, "This can be considered as fulfilling one of my wishes. I always wanted to be a king before, and now I've finally gotten my wish. Besides, I'm from there anyway, it's good to manage it."
His words made Hela and Thor raise their eyebrows. They knew Loki's Frost Giant bloodline, but they thought Han Yu didn't know. Also, they previously thought Loki wouldn't be so forthcoming about such things. They were surprised to hear him say he was from the Realm of Frost.
Han Yu wasn't too surprised by their decision, he just smiled and nodded, expressing his approval. His reaction made Thor and the others feel both surprised and normal.
The surprise was that he knew Loki was from the Realm of Frost without being surprised. The normalcy was that, given Han Yu's status, it didn't seem impossible for him to know these things in advance.
"What about the Vanir? What about the God of the Sea?" Han Yu asked.
Hela's expression turned strange when the topic came up. "We sent people to investigate. Vanaheim has been...blood-eaten. Yes, you heard that right, blood-eaten."
"When our people reached Vanaheim, the entire city was covered in a mist of blood. Corpses lay scattered everywhere, and they all shared a common point of death."
Han Yu stared at Hela, nodding for her to continue.
Hela said, "Their souls are gone. Every body has become extremely withered. Their eyes are wide open, but sunken in. Everyone has become a skeleton covered in skin, it's terrifying."
"We interrogated the captured Vanir. They were all confused, and reacted strongly to the empty city. It doesn't seem like a trap; it seems they don't know what happened either. And, there's a particularly strange thing."
With that, Hela waved her hand, opening a floating screen. It played a video of Asgardian warriors in Vanaheim, and the scene was indeed hair-raising.
Some people were spattered with blood, their heads separated from their bodies, as if they had been through a fierce battle.
And the way the vast majority of the others died was the most hair-raising. They were all kneeling on the ground, facing a certain direction, with shriveled faces showing a look of prayer, hands clasped together in front of them, just like... praying to the heavens.
It was precisely this state of death that Hela had described as a loss of soul. If they had just fallen to the ground and died in a haphazard manner, perhaps it wouldn't have been so bad, but dying in this way was truly bizarre and terrifying.
Han Yu rubbed his chin, frowning as he pondered.
Even if the God of the Sea had personally led a team out, taking away most of Vanaheim's elite, it was impossible for another race to invade so quickly.
Vanaheim's technological level wouldn't be much worse than Asgard's. It was basically impossible for other world races to take advantage of this to invade.
"Could it be that someone else intervened?" Han Yu murmured.
"Someone else? Do you have any idea who it might be?" Hela asked.
A figure surfaced in Han Yu's mind, the "family planning administrator" from the Marvel world in his memory, Thanos, who could snap his fingers and make half the universe's life disappear.
The only war maniac who hadn't reached godhood but was above most people was Thanos.
Han Yu was also surprised. In his memory, the Vanir were a race that had never appeared, a reclusive existence. Why would they suddenly launch a large-scale attack on Asgard?
There must be someone behind this pushing things along, otherwise the God of the Sea wouldn't be attacking Asgard.
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