Hearing Odin’s words, Leon instantly became alert.
Without showing a trace of it on his face, he gripped the Reality Stone in his hand, ready for battle at any moment.
The man Odin had called Gullveig was no ordinary person.
He came from another realm within the Nine Realms: Vanaheim.
He was an extremely powerful existence.
“Hm?” “What’s going on?” Looking at Gullveig, Leon let out a doubtful sound in his heart.
For some reason, he could actually sense a familiar aura from Gullveig’s body.
He had never met Gullveig before.
How could he possibly feel even the slightest familiar aura from him?
At that moment, Leon was especially confused.
“Hmph!” Gullveig snorted coldly.
“Odin, watch your tone.
Even your father, Bor, would never dare speak to me like that!” “You…” Odin suppressed his anger and said, “Back then, if your Vanir clan hadn’t used tricks, you would have already become a soul beneath my father’s sword!” “No, no…” Gullveig smiled and shook his head.
“Your father was nothing but a foolish king.
If he had been willing to abandon your life that time, then he definitely could have defeated me.
But… in the end, he was never a qualified king!” As if recalling a battle against Asgard from many years ago, Gullveig’s face filled with contempt.
He clearly looked down on Odin’s father, Bor.
When Leon heard the conversation between his elder brother and Gullveig, his thoughts spun rapidly, and he could not help remembering a dusty piece of the past.
Vanaheim and Asgard had a blood feud between them.
The inhabitants of Vanaheim were born warriors.
They called themselves the Vanir, and over the past several thousand years, they had fought many wars against Asgard.
During the reign of Leon’s father, Bor, the hatred the Vanir, led by Vanaheim, held toward Asgard reached its peak.
Odin had followed their father since childhood.
In one battle, the Vanir attacked Odin’s forces at all costs.
Originally, Asgard held the advantage in that battle, but when his son came under attack, Bor gave up that advantage.
Ignoring the opposition of his generals, he ordered the army to support Odin.
Although that move broke the encirclement around Odin, Bor nearly died at Gullveig’s hands during the battle.
After that campaign, Asgard and Vanaheim’s hostility only continued to deepen.
To this day, the two sides had already reached the point of no return.
“In my heart…” At that moment, Odin’s voice interrupted Leon’s thoughts.
“My father was an extremely great existence.
What a pity that all his opponents were filthy creatures like you!” “You…” Gullveig was momentarily choked with anger.
“In my eyes, you are nothing more than a junior.
This time, I have no interest in trading words with you.
The dwarf race is under the protection of our divine race.
Withdraw your troops at once!” As an enemy of Asgard, Gullveig did not care about the strategic intentions behind Asgard’s attack on Nidavellir.
However, he only needed to grasp one point: he could not sit by and allow his enemy to grow stronger, nor could he let Odin have his way.
“You’re talking nonsense…” Odin tightened his grip around the Thunder Hammer he had just subdued.
“Gullveig, I advise you not to meddle in other people’s business.
Otherwise…” A fierce light flashed through Odin’s eyes as he stared coldly at Gullveig.
They had been planning the battle against the dwarves for more than ten years.
Now, Asgard had lost so many soldiers, and the fruit of victory was already right before his eyes.
How could he possibly stop now?
Odin thought silently in his heart.
“Oh…” Gullveig spread out his cloak, letting it flap sharply in the air.
Only after a long while did he speak again.
“You want to fight me?” Gullveig thought he had misheard.
He repeated himself.
“You want to attack me?
A mere junior…” Odin raised his hammer and prepared to charge toward Gullveig.
“Enough nonsense…” But at that moment, Leon suddenly stopped his elder brother.
“Royal Brother, you mustn’t!” Leon had finally sensed what was unusual about Gullveig.
No wonder he had felt a trace of a familiar scent from him.
It turned out that this aura did not come from Gullveig himself, but from a kind of treasure.
It was the bug-like existence in the Marvel universe: an Infinity Stone.
This Gullveig had an Infinity Stone on him!
“Wells…” Odin was stunned for a moment, then lowered the weapon in his hand.
“What’s wrong?” Leon shook his head and did not speak.
He looked straight at Gullveig ahead and said softly, “You have an Infinity Stone on you?” That familiar aura came from an Infinity Stone.
Leon was extremely confident about this point.
However, he did not know which stone Gullveig possessed.
The ability of each stone was different.
That was why Leon did not dare let Odin blindly charge forward.
Although Odin’s current strength was already extremely powerful, Leon still felt it was better not to let him take that risk.
“Magic Stone?” Gullveig clearly did not understand Leon’s words.
He stared at him blankly.
“This.” Leon opened his right hand, revealing the Reality Stone in his palm before Gullveig.
When Gullveig saw the blazing red light in Leon’s hand, greed immediately appeared on his face.
Gullveig licked his lips.
“I never expected you people to actually have a stone in your hands.
The heavens are truly helping me!” A single stone had allowed Gullveig to become the strongest among the Vanir.
He truly could not imagine what it would be like if he possessed two stones.
Facing Gullveig’s undisguised greed, Leon remained indifferent.
“Your stone… could it be the Space Stone?” Previously, when he was in the realm of the elves, the Dark Dragon had once said that it had witnessed the power of the Space Stone.
That was the first time Leon had heard news of an Infinity Stone in the Nine Realms.
Aside from the Space Stone, he still had not gained a single clue about the other four stones.
The Space Stone’s function was to tear through space and dimensions.
Thinking back to the way Gullveig had descended upon Nidavellir, Leon could now almost determine that the Infinity Stone in Gullveig’s possession was the Space Stone.
“So it is called the Space Stone!” As he spoke, Gullveig flipped his right hand, and his palm was wrapped in a dazzling ball of yellow light.
“The Space Stone!” Leon’s pupils widened, and his breathing instantly became hurried.
The six Infinity Stones were scattered across every corner of the universe.
To collect all of them was basically impossible.
Yet in the span of a thousand years, Leon felt that being able to encounter two of them was already quite extraordinary.
Leon thought silently, This stone… I have to get my hands on it!
“Royal Brother…” Leon turned to Odin and said, “I will deal with him together with you…” “Wells!” Odin shook his head.
“No need.
Even if he has a Magic Stone… so what?” There was not the slightest trace of fear in Odin.
Instead, an intense surge of… fighting spirit welled up from his body.
Leon froze.
Only now did he remember that back when they fought the Dark Elves, he had disguised himself as a man in a black robe, and Odin had struck at him with a sword.
There had not been even the slightest fear on his face.
Odin was not afraid of an enemy who possessed a Magic Stone!
Leon muttered in his heart, but he still felt it would be better to be cautious.
He continued to persuade him.
“I’m worried…” Gullveig was already a powerful expert to begin with, and now he also carried the extraordinary treasure known as the Space Stone.
His strength was probably rare among the Nine Realms.
Odin, meanwhile, was now Asgard’s commander.
Nothing could be allowed to happen to him.
“No need to worry…” After saying that, Odin gripped the Thunder Hammer and rushed straight toward Gullveig.
Gullveig refused to show weakness.
He extended his palm and murmured, “Imprison.” The air around Odin seemed to be pulled away.
His body immediately froze stiff in midair.
Seeing this, Leon’s expression changed.
“Royal Brother!” The Reality Stone in Leon’s hand also possessed a small amount of imprisoning magic, but the Space Stone was a sharp weapon for cutting through space.
Its spatial “imprisonment” ability was even above that of the Reality Stone.
In just one exchange, Gullveig had caught Odin off guard.
This was something Leon had not expected.
“I’m… fine!” Odin forced out each word.
“He… can’t… hold… me!” After speaking, lightning erupted all over Odin’s body, and electric light filled the sky.
Crack!
A bolt of lightning as thick as a tree trunk struck Odin’s body.
In that instant, Odin broke free from the spatial imprisonment.
His entire body traced a beautiful arc through the air as he swung his hammer toward Gullveig’s head.
“So this is the power of Mjolnir?” Looking at the hammer in Odin’s hand, the Dwarf King felt both pride and pain in his heart.
The weapon he had forged with his own hands could actually oppose a Magic Stone.
This made the Dwarf King’s blood boil.
Yet this divine artifact had reached its peak state in the hands of an outsider, which left him with a very unpleasant feeling.
“How is this possible!” Gullveig was startled.
He had roamed the Nine Realms for thousands of years, yet he had never seen anyone capable of resisting the magic of a stone head-on.
“Go…” Gullveig moved his arm slightly, and space tore open once more.
A black hole appeared behind him, and Gullveig turned to step into it.
“Stop!” Seeing that Gullveig was about to flee, Leon immediately urged the Reality Stone to interfere with the Space Stone in Gullveig’s hand.
There was no hierarchy among the six Infinity Stones.
The Reality Stone was not stronger than the Space Stone, but they could interfere with each other.
The moment Leon activated it, the black hole behind Gullveig disappeared.
Gullveig turned back and glared furiously at Leon.
“You little bastard, you…” Gullveig had only managed to spit out a few words when Odin’s hammer smashed into him.
Bang!
A tremendous boom rang out, and Gullveig was sent flying, his fate unknown.