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  Asgard[August 2015]

  –Jack Sullivan–

  He was ba Asgard. It had not taken more than a day from his arrival oh for He and Thor to decre themselves ready to take part in the duel, ritualised to bee a way fard itself ts ruler, a trial by bat sort of thing.

  Looking at the giant space cleared out for the duel, one would think that it was overkill but it was anything but. On one hand, they had the Goddess of Death, someone who had sughtered an unimaginable number of people and oher hand, they had Thor. Both capable e wholescale destru and they couldn’t do the whole duel ba the Royal City so now they were in a mountainion cleared out for this specific duel.

  Evehere was not a rge audience for this, even though the ey khat a duel was happening right now, for some reason. Thor had chosen not to inform the civilian popution of Asgard that a fight for the throne was happening right now, probably because he was sure of his victory.

  Thor ah stood on two different ends of the forest, both probably a dot to each other, if they didn't have the Asgardian standard Enhanced vision. THey were both visible to him but even then barely. The area of the stage was huge and he rimarily here because he was hastily called back by Thor himself.

  Yeah, now Thor could do the whole Astral proje himself now. Thor was really showing up to be the best bet in this whole duel, not that they bet anything except the fate of the Nine Realms as well as Asgard as a civilization.

  He was called back because Thor needed someoo tain the fighting in a single zone so that Asgard as a whole does not suffer from their fights. He agreed, mainly because he was fident in his barriers taining at least the aftermath of their attacks but also because he had the Power Stone, which he could use to break up the fight or atleast kill He with ease.

  He didn’t know if she would just resurrect herself, given her e to Asgard but even then, ing back from having been atomised by the Power Stone should take a long time, hopefully long enough for them to evacuate the entire Asgardian popution and theroy the damned p, after pilfering everything of value, of course.

  In the audiehere was Loki, Eir, a still rec Heimdall, and yours truly. That’s it. Loki had somehow been fiven by Thor or maybe Thor had just let everything go and didn’t truly trust Loki anymore.

  Eir was here because she was the senior most member in the Asgardian Royal Pace, after Odin and Friga both died. Heimdall because he insisted(and begged Eir to allow him).

  “Alright, they are about to begin,” he warned everyone who shuffled closer to him as a giant green s maed in front of him. There was a magical fire that was floating in the ter, slowly floating down to the ground. The sed it touched the ground, the fire would shoot up in the air, signalling the start of the duel.

  He didn’t know how the duel was going to go but he was ready to just torch everything in front of him, knowing that Thor could teleport, and He could not, if things looked like Thor was going to lose, which was unlikely but he couldn’t take any ces.

  He tensed as the fire shot up in the air, making both of them create sonis as they shot toward each other. The weather had taken a turn for the worse, as was the case when Thor let his powers loose. He expahe s to cover all of them from the rain. The rain reduced visibility but it would be very hard to miss the giant green spike that grew from the ground and the bright white light that seemed to be whizzing around the spears that were now tinuously ing out of the ground.

  He squinted his eyes, to get a better look but his eyes were failing him, f him to rely on his magical senses but even they were failing. His senses, honed by the Masters of the Mystic Arts in KamarTaj, were top notch but there was a teique to the process.

  He couldn’t just turn his sensitivity all the , that would be a surefire way of getting a terrible migraine. So, he adjusted them accly, with the sensitivity being highest when it was near his body.

  Right now, as he tried to expand his sehey just returned a giant wall of magi front of him, filled with death, decay and lightning as well, things that he already knew.

  He could feel the impa the barrier as the shockwaves from their cshes devastated the areas but as long as he could feel the shockwaves not reag the poputiores, he was free to keep the barriers limited only to himself.

  “Impressive,” Eir ented casually, though he could detect the faint sense of awe in her voice. She probably hadn’t expected anyone, now that Odin was dead, from matg He and eveing her in bat.

  “He’s winning, by Odin’s beard!” Heimdall excimed as he stepped forward, almost stepping up from his wheelchair but a sharp sideways gnce from Eir had him ba the wheelchair, with his back upright. His eyes were glowing yellow, as they did whenever he used the sight.

  Oh yeah, he still had the sight si was a gift that could only be taken away by Odin or the Skyfather of the Pantheon, which was not yet decided by the collective sciousness of the Pantheo.

  By strength, Thor was already the Skyfather, probably even above Zeus and the ods but the reition from the Pantheon was necessary and Thor will have it after this duel, ohe only other didate for that position was ralised.

  His eyes widened as a light bulb went over his head. Maybe that is why Thor insisted on this duel happening on Asgard. IN this way, Thor will be the King of Asgard, and the Skyfather as well, f Zeus tnise a fellow peer ahem, if not out of fear then at least obligation.

  Damn. Thor really thought ahead, didn’t he?

  “So, how are their injuries?” Eir’s hands twitched as she asked Heimdall who answered immediately.

  “Negligible. Prihor has sustained only minor cuts which healed immediately while He has suffered from…everything really but her healing factor and e to Asgard, plus her domain, means that she recovers from everything incredibly quickly.” Heimdall answered as his gaze tio be locked on the duel in front of them.

  When the fight began, the area in front of him, to his senses, was filled with magical energy that was half filled with He’s energy and the rest of it filled with the much more potent energy of Thor. Now it was mostly Thor while He tried to exert more and more of her energy, to no avail.

  It was clear to all that could see that Thor was winning and He was loosing. But, despite Thor hammerih very powerful attacks, her magical energy dwindling more and more, He still seemed to fight back, with what little she had left.

  Well, she was not called the Goddess of Death for nothing then.

  Even so, even if He could not die while she was on Asgard or whether Thor had gone easy on her earlier, the duel ended when Thor, with a particurly potent power brewing in his hands, shot it at He.

  He was ready when he felt the gregation of energy and had to throw barriers on top of barriers all around Thor and He, feeling the barriers breaking one by oil all that remained were the st 71 yers, from the inal 100 around the entire dueling zone.

  “By the Gods, otent barriers!” Loki, was actually the one who excimed, seeing the aftermath of the attack that dwarfed all of He’s energy and probably finally killed or incapacitated her. He smirked in reply. He khat his powers were awesome like that.

  He dispelled the barriers ohe shockwaves cleared out but even then, ohe barriers were lifted, he jerked back as he felt the sheer amount of magic that suffused the area in front of him.

  Good Lord was that a lot of magid divine magic at that, which articurly heavier than dimensional energy which was much easier to mold for a mortal soul while also being more versatile, but was very much weaker in terms of the ceiling of power when pared to divine magic.

  Probably the reason why any half det mage in Kamar Taj had either pacts with Elder Gods or eled their powers using a relic that had echoes of Elder Gods, Demons’ powers.

  He saw Thor arriving in front of them, holding onto the battered body of He, and then carefully depositing it in a Soul Fe that he informed Eir t with him. He winced upon seeing her arms and legs gone, with most of her face having been burned away.

  “Is she dead?” “Will she survive?” He and Loki asked at the same time, curious about her future, now that she formally gave up her right to Asgard’s throne.

  “She is alive and she will fully recover. Her e to Asgard will make sure that she does not stay down for long, that is why I had to use a Ruaporarily sever her e and then bombard her with my lightning until she gave out,”

  “So, what are you going to do with her, now that she is obligated to listen to you? Essentially, she has to listen to you or die,” Eir asked Thor and it was clear with what iion she was asking Thor because Eir robably looking for revenge on He for reasons too numerous to t.

  But Thor shook his head and then outstretched both his hands in opposing dires. He heard the slight whine and stepped bad watched as Mjolnir and Gungnir both smmed themselves right into Thor’s waiting palms, lighting up the se in front of them.

  Thor then pointed Mjolnir at the magical wastend behind them, while maintaining eye tact with all of them, and theched, mouth agape as Mjolnir, for a ck of better term, “ate” up the magic irradiated into the nds as well. He could feel it as well, the sudden ck of weight on his magical senses as Mjan abs the magical aftermath of the attack.

  With his other hand, Thor smmed Gungnir on the ground, creating a rge gong as he then began speaking in his royal tone.

  “I, Thor Odinson, accept the position of King. With Asgard as my witness, I hereby absolve He of all her previous crimes,” Eir sowards Thor, her gre promising violence, “provided she serves Asgard faithfully for the rest of her life. So mote it be!”

  With that single decration, Thor was ed King of Asgard, which robably felt across the universe, even to the Gods in the Omnipotey.

  Also, it was an iing take, letting He live but he khat the ritual that He had participated in, was very powerful because even the echoes of the ritual had blinded his senses and he had read in the Kamar Taj’s forbiddeion of the library that Asgard as a whole had a collective sciousness which expended everytime an Asgardian died, a part of their soul adding to the already massive store of power that was their p.

  A ritualized duel, with Asgard itself being the witness meant that He robably a non issue at the moment and even if she did bee a problem, Thor was more than capable of smag her around, as was evident from the fight in front of him.

  All that was left was, “So, when are we leaving? To Firi?”

  He asked Thor who dismissed Eir, Loki, and Heimdall, not befiving strict orders to all of them to make sure that He was fully healed and not harmed in any way. He was now an Asgardian asset, strohan almost anyone in the Nine Realms.

  Thained a thoughtful look at that, “Now that we have He who guard Asgard and the Nine Realms in my absence, we head to Omnipotey anytime we want but before that, I o make sure that our allies in the Nine Realms know that a new King has been chosen and that He has returned, but she is bound to proteg Asgard and its is by me. It will take time but I will inform you about that. In the meantime, why don’t you plete your mortal affairs?” Thor informed him and before he could really question the newly ed absurdly powerful King about his as, Thor disappeared in a burst of lightning.

  And he was left there, standing alone, in front of a giant crater that was once a magically irradiated wastend but now held none of that magibsp;

  Just a giant hole.

  He sighed and turned around, flying back to the city.

  Damn, he really didn't like the dey they were fag going to Omnipotey. He would have gone by himself but the thing was, he didn’t know the path, her did the A One and acc to her, he would face great peril and would find no help if he went there all by himself, as a “mere” mortal.

  The Gods would take offeo a mortal daring to y gaze oy of the Gods. Eitri was fine because he was an immortal himself and the rest of the Dwarves would be sidered as his ente.

  Him going there would help no one. He really hor to be with him but Thor couldn’t really leave Asgard in its current state, without any prote, so that was taking time as well.

  “Well, no one said it would be easy. At Least we are only gathering more and more allies leading up to the fight, instead of losing more and more powerful people,” He muttered to himself as he entered his guest quarters, and resigned himself to anht of partying with the warriors and then some light sparring before he went back to Earth.

  He really o get out there and make a differe for now, all the difference he had made in the fight was that he held the Power Stone, had almost mastered using it without burning his stamina and now had secured He’s help in the uping fight sihanos was going tet ead every p in the universe.

  “Ah, that’s the good stuff,” The Vikings sure knew how to make the best wihough.

  Thanks for the Alcohol, Big G.

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