“I have already been very satisfied with this life…” In an important place within Asgard, Catherine lay on the bed.
Looking at her husband and her children, she said softly, “I gave birth to two children, accompanied two generations of Asgardian kings, and even personally witnessed Asgard’s rise to power.
So in this life, I have been very happy.” Aside from Catherine, there were only five people in the room.
But those five people were all existences who could decide Asgard’s fate: the former king, Bor; the current king, Odin, and his queen; and Hela, known beyond the Nine Realms as the Goddess of Death.
“Nonsense…” Leon forcefully endured his grief and said to Catherine with dissatisfaction, “How does that count?
You still haven’t seen my elder brother and me unite the Nine Realms!” Only Leon dared to say such words in the room.
After all, he had grown up by Catherine’s side since childhood and was loved by his mother even more than his elder brother, Odin.
Although Catherine’s appearance still remained the same as back then, her lifespan had already reached its limit, and her aura was growing weaker and weaker.
“Hehehe…” Hearing the words of her youngest son, Catherine rarely smiled.
“I won’t be able to wait that long.
I’m old… I’m already tens of thousands of years old…” Ever since Bor abdicated, the former king and queen of Asgard had left Asgard’s political stage and entered retirement ahead of time.
It had already been thirty thousand years since then.
The older the Asgardian royal family grew, the higher their cultivation became.
The higher their cultivation, the longer they lived.
Although Catherine’s background was also very noble, she did not possess the bloodline of Asgard’s royal family.
After thirty thousand years, her lifespan had reached its bottleneck.
“There must be a way…” Odin’s eyes widened as he said, “There must be a way!” After thirty thousand years of war, Odin was now a monarch who possessed three powerful realms.
Under his command were tens of millions of soldiers.
Yet now, as his mother was about to die, he was powerless.
Catherine stared closely at Hela.
“My children defeated the ruler of Helheim, so I do not wish to become an undead who can only hide in the darkness…” Hela’s face turned pale, as if the secret hidden in her heart had been exposed.
“Let her leave in peace!” Looking at the wife who had accompanied him for tens of thousands of years, Bor struggled in his heart for a long time.
In the end, he forced himself to say, “If Asgard’s queen becomes an undead, I’m afraid… it will invite gossip in the future!” “No…” At that moment, Leon suddenly remembered something.
He said loudly, “Mother absolutely will not die.
Royal Brother, no matter what, you must keep Mother alive for another ten years.
I’ve thought of a way!” After saying that, Leon quickly walked outside.
“Wells?” Odin called out anxiously, but Leon did not even turn his head.
He walked straight ahead.
… After Leon walked out of Catherine’s residence, a fierce-looking man outside the palace quickly came before him.
“Your Highness…” Seeing this man, Leon said while walking, “Celt!” The man’s steps never dared pass Leon’s.
He respectfully replied from behind Leon, “Here!” Celt: the commander of the Valkyrie Corps.
He had taken part in countless battles, both large and small.
Back then, it was under his leadership that Asgard shattered Helheim’s attack.
“How many years have you followed me?” “I have followed Your Highness for more than ten thousand years!” Leon’s body abruptly stopped.
He murmured to himself, “Ten thousand years… My father is already very powerful, but he is not an immortal being either.
Sooner or later, one day, he will leave me too…” Celt looked at Leon with confusion.
Back then, he had been fortunate enough to be chosen by His Highness and personally participated in the establishment of the Valkyrie Corps.
Now, he was already the sole commander of the Valkyrie Corps.
In Asgard, he was a figure standing above the clouds.
Yet toward Prince Wells, who had personally promoted him, Celt still maintained the same respect as before.
Leon turned around and said to Celt, “Among the six stones, there is one that can increase lifespan.
Do you know where it is?” Celt was the only survivor of the army that had escorted the “defective” weapons in Nidavellir back then.
Leon felt he was a talent, so he extended a hand and pulled him up, allowing him to help establish the Valkyrie Corps.
At first, when he saw that the Valkyrie Corps was made up entirely of women, this fellow had been somewhat unwilling.
However, when he learned that the founder of this army was His Highness Wells of the royal family, Celt said nothing more.
“Your Highness, you know…” Celt smiled honestly.
“This subordinate is a rough man.
This subordinate only knows how to fight!” If the people of the Nine Realms saw Celt’s current appearance, their jaws would definitely drop.
Celt, the commander of the Valkyries and the man known as the Devil, was actually calling himself a rough man!
“That’s right.” Leon gently nodded.
“You wouldn’t know where the Time Stone is… but I know…” Leon raised his voice.
“Celt!” Celt knelt on one knee and said with extreme seriousness, “I am here!” The coldness on Leon’s face grew denser and denser.
He said in a stern voice, “I am going to enter the Earth Realm.
I order you to strictly monitor the Earth Realm.
Without my command, no one is allowed to enter!” Leon did not know exactly where the Time Stone was right now.
However, the greatest possibility was that it was in the Earth Realm, because according to the development of the Marvel universe’s timeline, it might have already fallen into someone’s hands.
Celt said with incomparable seriousness, “Celt guarantees here that as long as I am still alive, I will absolutely not allow outsiders to enter the Earth Realm!” “Good…” Leon nodded, then turned and walked toward the Rainbow Bridge.
… The Earth Realm was the territory where humans lived.
Among the Nine Realms, humans were a special race.
Only a very small number of them possessed magical talent.
In addition, over the years, the Earth Realm had shown no signs of civilization.
Therefore, the powers of the Nine Realms had always strictly forbidden their clansmen from entering the Earth Realm.
Boom!
The three-colored light of the Rainbow Bridge disappeared.
At that moment, Leon and Groot appeared in the Earth Realm.
For tens of thousands of years, Groot had always followed Leon.
Therefore, for this journey to the Earth Realm, Groot also came with him.
“Why is there a faint pressure here?” At that moment, Leon felt something strange in his heart.
He moved his limbs and stretched his body.
Soon afterward, that strange feeling disappeared in an instant, as if nothing had happened at all.
Leon took a deep breath and felt much more at ease.
“There should still be more than ten thousand years before the main storyline of the Marvel universe begins.
The Earth Realm right now… should belong to the prehistoric era!” The first superhero in Marvel should be Captain America, and Captain America was born in the early twentieth century.
Although Leon did not dare confirm what era it was now, according to his deduction, Captain America should still be around ten thousand to twenty thousand years away from him.
Originally, he had not wanted to enter the Earth Realm ahead of time.
But now that his mother was in imminent danger, he could only bite the bullet and come here.
Groot asked Leon, “Where are we going?” Leon pondered for a while.
“Although civilization has not yet appeared in the Earth Realm, I know one place.
It… may bring me a different kind of surprise.” Groot blinked.
“Where?” Leon said bluntly, “Wakanda!” Wakanda was a small country in northeastern Africa in the Marvel world.
It was also the most technologically advanced nation on Earth in the Marvel universe.
There was once a saying in the Marvel universe: “If Wakanda were not so closed off, then the people of Wakanda would definitely be friends with everyone in the world.” In this prehistoric era, if there was any place that could show signs of civilization, then it had to be Wakanda.
… A short while later, Leon stood in the void, looking at a primitive forest below.
He frowned.
“Space has been isolated?” Leon extended his right hand, and a spell burst out from his fingertips.
With a boom, hundreds of towering trees collapsed against the wind.
Space trembled slightly at that moment.
Seeing this, Leon and Groot quickly followed the spatial crack and slipped inside.
“Someone has forced their way in!” The instant Leon entered Wakanda, inside a residence somewhere in Wakanda, a man dressed in black opened his eyes.
Whoosh!
Only an afterimage flashed through the room.
In an instant, the courtyard was already empty.
Just as Leon’s feet touched the ground, a man wearing a panther-shaped mask appeared before him.
The man was filled with hostility and spoke words Leon could not understand.
“So… la… ka-kang…” Leon and Groot looked at each other.
Neither of them understood what the man was saying.
Seeing that Leon did not speak, the man in the panther mask immediately took two steps back and lowered his body, clearly preparing for battle.
“Hm!” Leon closed his eyes and thought for a moment.
His spiritual power silently slipped into the mind of the man in the panther mask.
At the same time, Leon opened his mouth and said, “I have no hostility.
I only wish to obtain your help!” Leon was no longer the young man he had been back then.
Over the past thirty thousand years, he had fought against various powers throughout the Nine Realms and learned many unknown abilities.
Allowing his consciousness to slip into another person’s mind was a method of the Vanir.
“Help?” Hearing Leon’s voice ring inside his mind, the man was shocked.
“Is this how you ask someone for help?” Swish!
Hard claws instantly extended from the man’s palms.
Without waiting for Leon’s answer, he charged toward Leon.
Seeing the masked man rush toward them, Groot shook both arms.
Immediately, two emerald-green vines grew from the ground.
The vines rolled through the air once, then charged toward the masked man like venomous snakes.
Crack!
A scene Leon had not expected occurred.
In a single exchange, the panther-masked man’s claws sliced the vines into two pieces.
Leon looked at the masked man, and something suddenly came to mind.
“Don’t tell me this guy is the Black Panther… No, you should be the first Black Panther!”