Loki claimed himself as a god, and he was very arrogant. He rarely showed humility to anyone other than Odin, especially looking down on ordinary humans and unwilling to talk to them. He had been taught a lesson by Odin for this.
But now, the situation was that Strange became Loki's client, and Loki had to start explaining his plan to him in detail.
"Asgard rules the nine realms. Any movement here can't escape the eyes of the Allfather. Not long ago, a symbiote carrying the power of Knull's symbiote seed wanted to sneak into the nine realms."
As Loki spoke, he looked at Odin's expression to judge the correctness of his speculation.
"At that time, the Allfather had already discovered him, but in order to figure out Knull's intention, the Allfather planned to wait until the seed of power erupted on its own before dealing with it."
"After that, the Agents of the symbiote organization came to Asgard to visit, claiming that they wanted to capture the traitors of the race. The Allfather kindly agreed to their request and let an Agent symbiote enter Earth in the nine realms."
"During this time, we did some small business with some dimension lords."
Loki turned his head and glanced at Odin's expression, finding that he didn't seem dissatisfied, so he continued, "The dimension lords submitted a deposit to us, and we preliminarily reached an agreement with most of the demons for the return rate."
At this time, Strange said, "I know this part. In fact, only the last few digits are missing, and all contracts have been signed."
"But relying solely on human fraud... I mean wisdom, is not enough to make these cunning dimension lords invest heavily. Most of them are only testing... "Loki slightly raised his tone, "These demons with infinite life spans are actually more cunning and cautious than we imagined. Before seeing the real return, no matter how grandiose the talk is, they will not truly take the bait."
"Therefore, the Allfather and the Supreme Sorcerer believe that we must let them taste a little sweetness first."
"After these demons get tangible returns, they will really participate in this plan, instead of pretending to invest, allowing humans to provide them with uninterrupted advisory services."
"Indeed, I can feel that most of the demons calling the Sanctum only want to have an advisory team. The deposits they pay are nothing to them, but they can have a staff team that can provide advice to them anytime and anywhere..."
Loki nodded, indicating that Strange was right.
"This kind of relationship is not enough to allow humans to benefit from the transaction, nor is it enough for Asgard to obtain sufficient profits from it. If we cannot further deepen the transaction, we will all be in vain."
"So, I followed the orders of the Allfather and have been looking for a power source that can be used as a breakthrough point in the universe."
"But at this moment, the symbiote carrying the power of Knull's symbiote seed has erupted, and the ancient demon Knull, who has been imprisoned on the Klyntar planet for a long time, wants to project his power onto Earth."
"According to the information I just learned in the Nebula of Virgo, Knull seems to be looking for a special symbiote, but in any case, he plans to open a power channel between the Klyntar planet and Earth."
At this point, Strange's slightly anxious expression disappeared, and he raised his eyebrows and said, "It's just what we want, right?"
Loki nodded and said, "Indeed, but the Allfather believes that just projecting power through a narrow power channel cannot meet the needs of the dimension lords, Earth, and Asgard."
"So..."
"So, just now, I followed the orders of the Allfather and went to the Nebula of Virgo to conduct some small survey work."
"A question..." Strange asked with some doubt, "Is that Knull on the Klyntar planet very strong? If he really breaks free and comes to Earth, do we really have the confidence to defeat him?"
"Knull is indeed very strong." At this time, Odin spoke. His voice was low and deep, with an unquestionable majesty: "He may be the oldest creature in this universe, and the power he possesses is the power of chaos from the origin of the universe."
"He was born in the darkness of the universe's beginning. When he was awakened by the sound of the gods creating life, he denied this creation and believed that everything should return to chaos. So he used a black sword drawn from the chaos of the universe to kill a member of the gods who created life."
"Thor's group is an extremely powerful cosmic deity who interferes with the development of various civilizations in the universe and conducts experiments with various civilizations."
"Many years ago, Thor's group visited Earth several times." Odin's voice fell into memory: "All the gods on Earth are not their opponents."
"But even if Thor's group is so powerful, Knull still killed one of them. The Thor's group that went to avenge cannot completely kill Knull. They can only defeat Knull and then throw him back into chaos."
"As long as there is darkness and chaos in this universe, Knull will never die."
Strange was very interested in these cosmic wonders, but he also knew that now was not the time to delve deeper. He asked, "If Knull is so powerful, why do we provoke him?"
At this point, Odin and the Ancient One both showed a strange expression. They looked at each other, and Odin spoke first: "Knull's power is indeed very powerful, and it can even be said to be the most fundamental power in the universe. The power of other gods is inferior to him."
"But the only problem is that ancient creatures born in chaos and darkness are not good at using their brains."
The Ancient One added, "Chaos represents nothingness and madness. Creatures with this attribute, no matter how powerful they are, their actions are crazy and illogical."
"He has no purpose, no logic. The only way for chaotic creatures to exist is to let the universe return to chaos and darkness."
"It is precisely because of their chaos and madness that they do not consider too much when they do many things."
Strange heard the Ancient One's subtle hint, which in simple terms means Knull does not have much of a brain.
But Strange thought it made sense because thinking and wisdom themselves are order. Behind the crazy behavior of any wise creature, there is its own logic. If there really is a creature whose existence and purpose is to resist order, it is destined that it cannot have too high intelligence.
Or, its wisdom is too advanced for the entire universe too soon.
Strange touched his forehead and suddenly realized that if that was the case, Knull was the perfect target.
Ancient, powerful, chaotic, crazy, not very smart, and because he has been locked up for too long, he cannot keep up with the latest trends. Who else can pit him if not Strange?
"Wait, Mordo just told me that Earth's defense system has been breached?" Strange looked at the Ancient One.
"Mordo's words are a bit conservative, but he has always been like this." The Ancient One sat on the seat and said calmly, "Since the explosion of the Power Stone, Earth's magical defense system has not been opened."
"But if Knull really descends, Earth is afraid..."
But Loki shook his head and said to Strange, "You can rest assured of that. I just came back from the Enchanted Tassel, and the cage that imprisons Knull is very strong. His entity is unlikely to escape, only his power can come."
"And the projection of power is like a pipeline." Loki gestured with his hand, "At the end of the planet Klyntar where Knull is located, I just expanded the entrance of the pipeline, so Knull can output his power more quickly and efficiently."
"On the Earth side of the pipeline, the Supreme Sorceress also expanded the entrance, removing Earth's magical defense system, and even actively guided Knull's power to accurately project."
"Born of chaos, after Knull projects his power, he will naturally want to defeat all enemies in front of him, using darkness and chaos to erode this universe, just like he did before."
"And if he can't do it, he will increase the input of power. Born of chaos and darkness, Knull will not understand what tactical maneuver and strategic retreat means. He will only want to use his powerful force to erode the universe."
"So as long as we can hold him back, he will continue to project his power here." Strange continued.
"But isn't it too risky to choose this location on Earth? Earth is full of fragile ordinary people, not to mention Knull's dark power, they have no resistance to magic," Strange asked.
But Loki shook his head and explained to Strange, "Choosing the exit of the pipeline on Earth does not mean that Knull's power will directly descend on Earth."
"It's still the principle of this pipeline. Although the exit of the pipeline is on Earth, the dimension lords participating in this plan will punch holes on the path of this pipeline, and then divide the power that belongs to Knull from the holes they punched."
Strange suddenly realized, and Loki continued, "In this way, almost no power will be able to land on Earth."
"You're being a bit conservative," the Ancient One's voice came, "Based on the appetite of that group of participants, there won't be any power that can be transmitted to Earth."
"But..." Strange wanted to ask what benefits humans could get. The Ancient One seemed to see what he wanted to ask and said directly, "The initiative is now in our hands, so we have a very special right."
"What is it?"
"We can decide where they make the holes in the pipeline."
Strange widened his eyes, he immediately understood what the Ancient One wanted to do.
In simple terms, this pipeline connects Klyntar to Earth, with Knull as the output end and Earth as the receiving end.
Although this process cannot be explained in simple three-dimension space, there is one rule that remains unchanged, and that is that there is a loss of power during the process from the output end to the receiving end.
This means that the closer the interception of power is to the output end, the purer the power that can be intercepted, and the closer it is to Earth, the more you can only drink the remaining soup of others.
Asmodeus and Earth teamed up to create a scheme. Asmodeus sent people to widen the output end, while Earth's Supreme Sorcerer was responsible for opening the receiving end. After the two sides held the exit and entrance respectively, they had the power to decide on the seats.
The closer the seat is to the front, the greater the return. However, if you want a good seat, you must naturally increase your investment.
And the most important thing is that the rules of this investment game have changed from an even distribution to an auction.
You don't have to sit in the front, as long as you are closer than others. You don't have to be ahead of everyone, as long as you are ahead of your opponent.
The Ancient One smiled at Strange and said, "The next thing is to bid, they will be here soon."
Strange shrugged and said, "Well, it looks like the staff of the Sanctum will have to work overtime again."
Then he pulled out his mobile phone and dialed a number.
"It looks like the staff of SHIELD will have to work overtime again." In the SHIELD office, Schiller took the cigarette that Nick offered him and smiled at him.
"Strange's call is timely, but you should have guessed something beforehand, right?" Nick asked him.
"Indeed."
"Are you planning to go with the flow?"
"No, I plan to add an engine to the boat."
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