After waiting for about two minutes, the Asgard fleet truly arrived, and it wasn’t a small ship that ca, but a main battleship, led by Heimdall.
The captains of the Three Great Empires fleets cursed inwardly: Are you inviting soone here? Is it that if we don’t go to the Rainbow Bridge you’ll strike it down? And then imdiately leap, charge, Tornado Slash, and shout ’Long live the Father of Gods’?
But despite their curses, there was nothing they could do. Though not yet within the Nine Major Kingdoms, this was still the doorstep of Asgard, their territory. Heimdall was right in their faces, and it was too late for them to activate the Teleportation Engine to escape.
The embassy delegations from the Three Great Empires had no choice but to brace themselves, fly out, and board the Asgard bridge ship, and then enter their spacecraft. Though the mbers of the Three Great Empires delegation were nurous and held high ranks, Heimdall’s face seed to show displeasure, as if he could write "can’t even handle flying a spaceship" on his face.
The mbers of the delegation found it hard to gauge his pulse. Previously, the Three Great Empires sent people, but not an embassy delegation; it wasn’t even a complete fleet, rely a small plane with a few people whose mission was to imply to Asgard that they needed support, in essence to apply pressure.
According to those who returned, Asgard had a good attitude. Otherwise, under the reign of Odin, they might have been thrown into the Netherworld already. Being able to return alive was evidence of a good attitude, no?
First, there was a good attitude toward the previous envoys, and soon after, widespread invitations were sent out, gathering everyone together. It clearly revealed their intent to see who proposed the best terms to assist them.
From the perspective of the Three Great Empires, it seed normal enough. After all, Asgard indeed possessed the capability to sway the battle outco. Hence, proposing terms and causing a bidding war to maximize the benefits was expected; they would do the sa without suspecting any trickery and ca straightforwardly.
But upon arriving, it seed not to be the case. Although they hadn’t expected the Asgardians to be overly cordial, to start with such intimidation — is this the way to negotiate?
Initially, the leap was a hard hit; surely the team that ca to receive them would show goodwill as a sweet offering? But Asgardians’ approach was rather one heavy hit after another, as if making rice cake.
The captain of Shi’ar Empire deliberately slowed a bit, signaling the noble dignitaries in the delegation, hinting them to keep their minds flexible, to improvise, and to hold off on the pressure tactics or offering gestures they devised earlier until the situation beca clear, so they wouldn’t reveal their cards prematurely.
Observing his actions, Mystique subtly shook her head. The diplomats from Shi’ar Empire were mostly noble descendants, bearing an arrogance, treating the cosmos as their living room. They seed bound for a severe whipping this ti — fortunately, she was from the opposition.
Unsuspectingly, the delegation mbers, while not directly articulating complaints, directed a slightly resentful gaze at the captain, akin to asking "What kind of driving was that?"
Seeing this, the captain sighed and remained silent. He was rely a driver. Even if Asgard aligned things for a beheading spree, he would not have had his head severed for a while. He gestured to Mystique, transford into a first mate, prompting her to quickly report to the Queen.
Asgardian ships soon reached their destination. Once again arriving at Fairy Palace Square, figures from the Three Great Empires couldn’t help but look up at the blue planet overhead. Their eyesight wasn’t as sharp as the God Clan, but even humans could distinguish it as exceptionally picturesque; no satellite from any ho appeared so vividly scenic.
The Shi’ar Empire’s delegation initially wanted to inquire, but the Skrulls side was faster to voice it. Hearing the commotion, Mystique glanced over, finding that the Skrulls’ leader was a well-versed adversary — General Kart.
He seed to be inquiring Heimdall about the Earth’s situation. Heimdall impatiently waved them off, saying: "That’s how things are, you need to ask His Royal Highness the Prince about the details, I can’t clarify. I’d advise you not to look around, those guys aren’t easy to deal with..."
Just as he finished speaking, a group erged from the Gateway of Asgard, each fellow from head to toe in black, their expressions solemn and their pace brisk. The leader, wearing a distinct helt, was none other than Magneto, wasn’t it?
Everyone tightened up, especially the Skrulls, since their new Skrull Empire capital resided in the Androda Galaxy, a place where they truly witnessed Magneto’s and the Mutant Brotherhood’s fury, akin to cosmic bandits, stripping dinosaurs to toads right before their eyes. Kart had faced them multiple tis but had never seized any advantage.
Then ca the unexpected, stronger foes appearing. The mont Magneto led the Mutant Brotherhood out, a thunderous shout rang from within the Fairy Palace: "Magneto!! Stop right now!!!!"
Instantly, everyone in the square was blown away.
This was no exaggeration; they were physically blown away, not rely a couple of ters to the ground, but directly propelled into space, even blasting through their protective shield fields.
A muscular man wearing black tights with white patterns rushed out, yelling at Magneto once more: "You damn madman!! Bandit!!!"
When the people in the sky snapped back to reality, they imdiately wanted to say he roasted well, but on second thought, it’s better not to roast.
The key is that when others roast, no matter how cutting the language is, it at most causes ntal harm, but when he roasts, why does it co with physical harm too??
That’s right, this man who rushed out can simply open his mouth and let out a sound, and tangible sound waves will emit from his mouth, and those sound waves are particularly powerful, didn’t you see Magneto’s cloak get blown up?
"Black Bolt, what’s your rush?" Magneto said leisurely, "You accuse of being a robber, then tell what have I robbed?"
"You directly stole the whole Moon, isn’t that robbery?!"
"Please get it straight, the Moon is Earth’s satellite, so naturally wherever Earth goes, the Moon follows. Now that Earth has co to Asgard, the Moon should naturally co as well."
"Then why the hell did Earth co to Asgard?!!!"
Magneto waved his hand rather impatiently, dispersing Black Bolt’s sound waves, then said, "It’s a decision made by the ordinary human governnt, I can’t control it, I’m just a worker. If you really want to know why they took Earth away, you can ask Captain Arica."
Black Bolt was infuriated by his shaless attitude, but he couldn’t do anything about it. First, he couldn’t beat Magneto; second, he couldn’t destroy the buildings in Asgard; lastly, he couldn’t even leave right now, because his country and people all live on the Moon, and they don’t have a superluminal engine, they can’t even get back to the Solar System.
"Black Card!" A voice called from inside the Gateway of Asgard. Professor X hurried out, opened the door, and said, "You two stop fighting, this is soone else’s turf, it’s impolite. If there’s an issue, let’s discuss it behind closed doors, no need to make a spectacle."
Black Bolt didn’t originally intend to fight Magneto to the death, so with Professor X giving him a way out, he took it, and complained to Professor X, "Is it my fault?! He rushed to my doorstep without saying a word and took away my house! You don’t know how terrified my people were! If your Earth wanted to move, then move, why bring the Moon along?!"
"Calm down," Professor X said soothingly, "After all, the Moon is Earth’s satellite, the two planets thrive in tandem and suffer loss together. Earth cannot do without the Moon, then how can the Moon exist without Earth? The Moon is so small, with just a little gravitational disturbance, who knows where it will be flung to, how will you live without following Earth?"
"I know what’s annoying you is Erik’s attitude," Professor X continued to persuade, "But you also have to understand, it’s not just up to us. Weren’t there a lot of Chinese people with Erik at the ti? Now the mutant nation neighbors them, and they’ve looked after us plenty, so we have to do our part, right?"
At the ntion of China, Black Bolt was sowhat at a loss. Not that he had any particularly good relationship with China, but more because these people kept sending probes to the Moon, and the probes often ended up getting lost in the Inhumans’ territory. They tried attacking them, initially they could destroy them, but later these things beca indestructible, stuck in the ground and wouldn’t budge. Now the area surrounding the Inhumans is filled with their stakes, and Black Bolt fears they might one day build a do over them and trap them.
With Professor X persuading a bit more, and Magneto not stirring things further, Black Bolt grumbled a bit more and had nothing left to say, only stating that they’d like to be notified when Earth is leaving, so as not to scare them with a sudden move.
At this ti, Wolverine Logan and Jean Grey also exited from the Fairy Palace. Upon seeing the woman with fiery red hair, it was the Shi’ar Empire’s turn to be stunned. When the Phoenix went berserk, it destroyed one of their star systems directly, and that was a very prosperous central system, ranking as the second most dangerous explosion incident in cosmic history, the first being the one the New Skrull Empire blew up.
"Professor, is everything okay?" Jean asked with concern, "That Black Bolt looks hard to deal with."
Logan shouted angrily, "The Moon is clearly Earth’s satellite, why can’t it run with Earth? They aren’t even native to the Moon, and yet they act as if they are sothing special!"
Professor X quickly cald Wolverine, then it was the younger mutants’ turn, like Polaris, Iceman, Rakshasa Woman, and so on. Legion was also there, standing behind Professor X all along. After gathering at the Fairy Palace’s entrance and talking for a while, they headed towards the backyard.
During the ten-odd minutes they were talking, the diplomat group that had been blown away didn’t dare to step down even a single step; they didn’t even dare to turn off their shields. Gosh, is this Asgard’s Fairy Palace or an exhibition of cosmos-destroying weapons!
For a while, they didn’t know whether they should resent Asgard or admire Asgard, for bringing so many bombs to their capital and letting them run loose, this new Divine King’s ruling style is wilder than Odin’s!
But at the sa ti, they also felt a bit guilty, could it be that the pressure they gave before was too much, and Thor went completely mad?
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