Bang!
Leon was sent flying by a figure.
His landing was so ugly that even the maid beside him could hardly bear to keep watching.
Leon patted the dust off his body, using it to hide his embarrassment.
Then he said to his opponent, “Heimdall, again!” “Your Highness…” Seeing that Leon still refused to give up, Heimdall looked somewhat helpless.
He lowered the weapon in his hand and said to Leon with dissatisfaction, “Your Highness, you have come to spar with me every day for all these years.
I am not your teacher.
My duty is to protect Asgard…” “Hahaha…” Leon laughed loudly, then also lowered the weapon in his hand.
Seeing Leon stop fighting, the maid at the side quickly handed over a silk handkerchief to wipe his sweat.
Leon gladly took it from her.
Looking at the handsome and graceful Leon, the maid’s face turned red, and her heart thumped wildly like a startled deer.
After wiping the sweat from his face, Leon handed the handkerchief back to the maid.
He also noticed something strange about her, but he said nothing.
After all, being handsome was not his fault.
Leon looked at Heimdall again.
“After accompanying me for so many years, what do you think of my strength now?” Ten years had already passed since Leon began paying attention to the situation in Midgard.
For the past ten years, Leon had come to Heimdall every day to spar.
Although it was called sparring in name, in reality, Heimdall had always been teaching Leon martial arts.
Leon had also grown from a child into a handsome young man.
In terms of his own cultivation, Leon had also gone from a beginner who could not even hold a weapon steady to a warrior who could fight fiercely against Heimdall.
Heimdall was not some security guard-like figure.
The Bifrost was Asgard’s sharp weapon for waging war across the Nine Realms.
Through it, Asgard could send its army to any corner of the Nine Realms at will.
This was an extremely tyrannical ability.
As the guardian of the Bifrost, if Heimdall were not powerful, Bor would never have placed him in such an important position.
“Uh…” Heimdall hesitated for a moment.
But when he saw the expectation in Leon’s eyes, the softness deep in Heimdall’s heart was moved by him.
He slowly said, “Your Highness’s strength has already surpassed many generals of Asgard…” Leon continued asking, “Compared to my elder brother?” “Odin…” Heimdall shook his head.
“The Eldest Prince’s current strength may already be above mine!” Heimdall said this very tactfully.
He did not directly state the gap in strength between the two princes.
He only said that Odin’s strength was above his own.
“Hahaha…” Leon laughed aloud.
“I didn’t expect a thick-browed, big-eyed man like you to say something like that.” Leon was not stupid.
He knew that the reason Heimdall said this was actually to spare his feelings.
After all, Leon was no longer the little child from back then who could not even hold a sword steady.
Heimdall said nothing.
He only grinned.
Through ten years of companionship, Heimdall and Leon’s relationship had already reached the point of being both teacher and friend.
Because of that, Heimdall would also tell Leon some secrets of the Nine Realms.
Heimdall lowered his voice and said, “Your Highness, your talent is still quite good.
In the future, perhaps you may even surpass King Bor!” Hearing Heimdall’s words, Leon lowered his head, and an expression outsiders could not see appeared on his face.
“Surpass my father?” Leon snorted in a voice no outsider could hear.
At that moment, Heimdall’s left eye suddenly twitched.
He swiftly turned and looked in one direction.
Heimdall’s expression changed abruptly.
He said in shock, “Svartalfheim… something has happened!” Svartalfheim, one of the Nine Realms, was the place where the Dark Elves lived.
“What happened?” Leon knew Heimdall was an extremely steady person.
He possessed eyes that could survey the Nine Realms.
If his temperament were rash, he would definitely not be suited for this job.
At this moment, Heimdall also noticed his own loss of composure.
He let out a long breath, then said to Leon in a deep voice, “Malekith attacked King Bor’s army in Svartalfheim.
Right now, Asgard’s army has suffered heavy losses there!” “What…” Hearing Heimdall’s words, Leon immediately became nervous.
“Could you have seen it wrong?
My father is the king of Asgard.
With the Dark Elves’ strength, how could they dare attack my father?” The relationship between Svartalfheim and Asgard had not been good for tens of thousands of years.
However, as talented people continued to appear in Asgard over the years and its strength grew stronger day by day, by now, Svartalfheim was no longer Asgard’s opponent.
However, those Dark Elves who prided themselves on being incomparably noble had been secretly causing trouble for Asgard everywhere.
Although the two sides had never fought a full-scale war, small frictions had never stopped.
And Leon knew the current leader of the Dark Elves, Malekith, even better, because he was the main villain of Thor: The Dark World.
At that moment, a deep drumbeat suddenly sounded throughout Asgard.
Immediately after, warriors wearing all kinds of armor quickly gathered in the direction of the Bifrost.
“Those despicable Dark Elves have openly attacked Asgard’s army without regard for the treaty.
They are trying to provoke war.
Warriors, war can no longer be stopped!” Leon’s mother’s voice suddenly came from the sky.
Her emotions were filled with anger.
Clearly, she was extremely furious at the Dark Elves for starting a war without declaring it.
“Ah…” Hearing the Queen’s voice, the maid beside Leon became very frightened.
Seeing her like this, Leon waved his hand and dismissed her.
“Where is my elder brother?” With only Leon and Heimdall left at the Bifrost, Leon struck directly at the key point.
“Quickly have him lead troops to reinforce Father!” Although Leon was already twenty years old now, he still had never met that elder brother born from the same mother even once.
However, over the years, he had truly come to understand how formidable Odin was.
He had heard that his father had already withdrawn to the second line now, and the commander of Asgard’s army was Leon’s elder brother, Odin.
Odin fought campaigns outside and rarely lost.
Despite his young age, he already had the bearing of a king no weaker than Bor.
Heimdall’s eyes lit up.
He quickly looked in a certain direction.
But very soon, a dispirited look appeared on his face.
“Prince Odin is not in Svartalfheim.
He is dealing with those dwarves…” Leon immediately grew anxious.
“Damn it, this is a conspiracy!” Although Malekith and the Dark Elves under his command were also a major power among the Nine Realms, compared to the flourishing Asgard, they were still somewhat inferior.
If Odin joined forces with his father, Malekith would absolutely not dare attack Asgard’s army.
“Quick, quick, quick…” Very soon, Asgard’s soldiers also gathered toward the Bifrost.
Among them, a general dressed in armor gave Leon a military salute, then arrived beside Heimdall.
He said to Heimdall, “Open the Bifrost quickly.
My army needs to head to Svartalfheim…” “All right…” Heimdall nodded, then swiftly drew his weapon.
The longsword was inserted into the ground by Heimdall.
Afterward, dozens of different beams of light gathered into a corridor whose end could not be seen at a glance.
At this point, a Bifrost from Asgard to Svartalfheim officially formed.
Heimdall gripped the longsword with both hands, his face somewhat pale.
He said to the general, “Please pass through quickly!” “Good!” The general looked deeply at Heimdall, then was the first to step into the Bifrost.
Seeing that their leader had already entered the Bifrost, the soldiers also marched onto it in a grand formation.
By the time Heimdall sent this entire army onto the Bifrost, half an hour had already passed.
After sending off the last person, Heimdall pulled out his weapon with thunderous speed.
He wiped the fine sweat from his forehead, turned to Leon, and said, “Your Highness, guarding the Bifrost is not a good job.” “Your Highness…” “Your Highness…” Where was there even half a shadow behind Heimdall?
Only Heimdall remained in the spacious hall.
Heimdall sensed something and quickly looked toward Svartalfheim.
It would have been better if he had not looked, because one glance scared him badly.
At this moment, Leon had actually appeared on the battlefield of Svartalfheim.
“Your Highness…” At this moment, Heimdall was truly panicked.
He knew how much the Queen loved this youngest son.
If Leon was harmed, the Queen would most likely blame him.
Moreover, after ten years of companionship, Heimdall was, in a certain sense, Leon’s teacher.
If Leon truly died in battle in Svartalfheim, even if the Queen did not punish him in the end, Heimdall himself would not feel good about it.
Heimdall quickly looked toward Svartalfheim.
He had to keep track of Leon’s information at all times.
If something unexpected happened, he would personally go to Svartalfheim after the war ended and bring back Leon’s corpse.
A pillar of light descended from the sky.
Asgardian soldiers were like heavenly gods carrying out judgment as they swung their weapons and charged toward the Dark Elves.
Leon stared blankly at Svartalfheim.
The sky here was pitch-black, and the air carried the smell of blood.
But more than that, there were grains of sand visible to the naked eye.
Looking at this scene, only two words appeared in Leon’s eyes: desolate.
Could people really live here?
How did those Dark Elves survive in a place like this?
Just as Leon was sizing up Svartalfheim, a Dark Elf beside him charged toward him.
“Despicable Asgardian, die!” The Dark Elves wore silver-armored battle robes and silver masks that only revealed their eyes.
The skin exposed outside was extremely old and withered.
Leon looked coldly at this Dark Elf.
But just as the Dark Elf was less than one meter away from his body, Leon directly extended his fist and smashed it heavily into the Dark Elf’s abdomen.
The Dark Elf immediately flew backward.
A few seconds later, he crashed heavily onto the ground.
The fall left him dizzy and dazed, his consciousness blurry and his mind a complete mess.
He tried with all his might to stand up, but his body seemed to refuse to obey.
Leon narrowed his eyes slightly, and an evil smile curved at the corner of his mouth.
He slowly stretched out both hands, raised his head, and the curve of his lips kept widening.
“Is that all?” The Dark Elf who had been blown away by Leon’s punch clearly had not expected Leon to be this powerful.
He stood up trembling, and after that punch, his already aged face became even more unsightly.
The Dark Elf looked at Leon uneasily, a rare fear in his eyes.
“How is this possible…” Svartalfheim and Asgard had now become mortal enemies.
This Dark Elf had chosen Leon as his opponent only because he saw that Leon did not seem very old.
But he never imagined that this young man would be such a tough opponent, seriously injuring him with just one punch.
“Mm-hm!” Leon shrugged.
However, seeing that the Dark Elf had stood up again, a look of approval appeared in Leon’s eyes.
“Not bad.
That’s more like it.
If you couldn’t even take one punch from me, what right would the Dark Elves have to challenge Asgard?” “Go die!” At that moment, Leon no longer intended to keep wasting time with this Dark Elf.
This was not a battle between the two of them.
This was a war between two civilizations.
The Dark Elf struggled to stand, but when he looked at Leon again, he discovered that Leon’s figure had already disappeared from in front of him.
At that moment, his entire body went cold, and he shouted, “Not good…” “Too late…” At some unknown point, Leon had already appeared behind the Dark Elf.
A silver longsword sliced through the Dark Elf’s skin, and several drops of green blood shot forward.
Draw the sword.
Sheathe the sword.
Leon’s movements were completed in one breath, smooth and flowing like drifting clouds and running water.
It was as though Leon was not killing someone.
He seemed to be doing something extremely ordinary.
“Ugh—” The Dark Elf clutched his neck with a face full of pain.
Very soon, he collapsed to the ground.
His whole body twitched for a while, then he stopped moving completely.
Leon lowered his head and looked at the corpse on the ground.
He muttered to himself, “Are these Dark Elves really Asgard’s opponents?” The army that had come with Leon was made up of soldiers stationed in Asgard.
Every one of them was a veteran who had survived a hundred battles.
If all Dark Elves were at this level, then these self-proclaimed noble elves would only be slaughtered.
Leon quickly looked toward his father.
He kept feeling that there was something strange about this Dark Elf attack.
The battle between Svartalfheim and Asgard had already entered a white-hot stage.
With the arrival of Leon’s Asgardian reinforcements, the Dark Elves were gradually being surrounded.
From the looks of it, Asgard winning this battle was only a matter of time.
Before long, Leon saw his father, Bor.
Bor was wearing golden armor and holding a long spear, while his opponent was a tall Dark Elf.
“Malekith…” Seeing his father’s opponent, Leon said the name softly.
The Dark Elf fighting Bor was none other than the king of Svartalfheim, Malekith, the main villain of Thor: The Dark World.
“What’s going on?” At that moment, Leon also noticed something wrong.
The Dark Elves were being encircled and wiped out by Asgard’s army, yet Malekith, as their leader, did not look anxious at all.
“There’s a conspiracy.
There’s definitely a conspiracy!” Although Leon did not understand military formations and strategy, Malekith’s composure made Leon feel alarmed.
Even someone with an extremely strong mind could not possibly remain as calm as Malekith while watching his people being slaughtered.
Therefore, after thinking it over, Leon felt that there had to be some conspiracy behind this that he did not know about.
“Die!” Just then, the long spear in Bor’s hand spun once in his grasp, and a bolt of lightning burst from the spearhead.
Malekith narrowed his eyes.
The lightning struck him directly, and several streams of blue smoke immediately rose from his body.
Seeing Bor about to launch another fierce attack with his spear, Malekith’s expression changed, and he rapidly retreated several steps.
Seeing Malekith retreat a few steps, Bor chuckled.
“Malekith, give up.
As long as you surrender, I’ll spare your life!” “Hahaha…” Hearing Bor urge him to surrender, Malekith threw his head back and laughed loudly.
The expression on his face was like that of a heroic villain in high spirits.
He looked at Bor and shouted, “Of course I know what the Bifrost can do.
Ambushing Asgard’s army would not seem like the correct choice to outsiders.
But I did it anyway.
Bor, do you know why?” Bor’s expression changed.
He questioned Malekith, “You did it on purpose.
You deliberately drew Asgard’s army here…” “Yes…” Malekith licked his lips, looking wicked.
“If I kill you, I will only offend Asgard.
But if I annihilate all the troops within Asgard’s borders…” “Hahaha…” Malekith grew even more smug.
He shouted into the air, “My friends, make your move…” Whoosh!
Whoosh!
After Malekith shouted, a rapid, deliberate sound suddenly rang out from the surroundings.
Half a minute later, a giant dozens of zhang tall actually appeared on the distant battlefield.
No… It was not just one.
In the span of a single breath, hundreds of giants had already appeared in everyone’s sight.
Those giants were bare-chested, their lower bodies wrapped in tattered skirts woven from the fur of unknown animals.
They held broken axes in their hands, their faces fierce, and they looked extremely violent.
Seeing these giants, Bor quickly shouted to the army, “Gather!
Gather!
Do not clash head-on with these giants!” But why would those giants listen to Bor?
They swung the axes in their hands and leapt into the battlefield.
Wherever the axes passed, flesh was mangled and blood sprayed.
Even some Dark Elves who had no time to escape became dead souls beneath the giants’ axes.
“Sigh…” Leon sighed repeatedly.
He had not expected that, in the end, he would still have to make a move.