66. The promised future

"You're in trouble for me."

In the mysterious house, in front of the Raven Maharaja's eyes, a slightly ridiculous sentence appeared on the parchment.

Above the large, nasty, angry stick figure pattern, Oneiroiroi's graceful handwriting kept appearing, as if an invisible typewriter was spitting out words.

He said to Merlin:

"In your world, Loki's fate has changed course, and it can be said that this change came from you, but now, you want me to lead him back to my own destiny... It's hard, Merlin, it's pretty hard. ”

The Raven Lord searched and searched, but could not find his beloved quill.

He suddenly remembered that his pen had been destroyed by the rune painting just now, which made Merlin a little regretful, and he snapped his fingers lightly, and Xuanlan, who had a heart with him, appeared like a ghost.

The housekeeper handed a quaint fountain pen to the Maharaja, kissed him on the cheek, and then quietly disappeared as she came.

Merlin shrugged his shoulders and waved his hand on the parchment and wrote:

"If it's simple, then I'll do it myself, where do I need to trouble you."

"So why did you promise him?"

Ignoring Merlin's playful reply, Oneiroi asked:

"You can prevaricate, Loki is not like you, he hasn't read the comics, he doesn't know how hard the road is, you can save him... But you didn't. ”

"If I said I was on a whim, would you rush over from outside the stars and beat me up?"

Merlin wrote a question on parchment.

A moment later, a large stick figure scribble representing anger appeared on the parchment, but Oneiroi's answer was also quite interesting.

He said:

"Guess?"

"Okay, okay, no kidding."

Merlin was in a pretty good mood today, and he wrote on parchment:

"First of all, because Loki has finally found a way of his own, and an unexpected factor that will interfere with Asgard's recovery has been eliminated, I owe Odin a favor, because of the Great Snake, and I don't want to see Loki continue to be active as an unstable factor."

"It's in line with my position to find something for him to do, so that he doesn't have the energy to plan more conspiracies for the time being."

Merlin narrowed his eyes, and he continued:

"I've read that comic, and I know that if Orochi really has a fateful fight with Thor, then Loki's involvement is absolutely indispensable."

"Although that prophecy will probably no longer follow the direction of the comic, with the help of one more story god, Thor obviously has a better chance of surviving."

In the face of Merlin's answer, Oneiroi did not say anything.

After a few minutes, he asked suspiciously:

"That's it?"

"That's it!"

Merlin leaned back on the sofa, he recalled the wonderful dance of the dancer Loki just now, a smile appeared on the corner of the Raven Maharaja's mouth, he raised his hand and commanded twice, and the pen that no one held continued to write on the parchment:

"If I had to add another reason, Loki danced well just now, and it was pleasing to the eye... So, it's a reward for your hard work, don't you say? ”

"I think you're dizzy."

Oneiroi replied unceremoniously:

"It's been a while since we last talked, and you seem to be a lot more relaxed now than you were in a state full of intrigue before?"

"Everything is going well and you feel good, right?"

"Yes."

Merlin rubbed his chin and replied calmly:

"I've been busy with the preparation of conspiracies for a long time, and I've been in the shadows for a long time, and although I don't hate the warm darkness, it's not bad to bask in the sun once in a while."

"Elsa came back to me, and it made me feel like I had lost it back, and I suddenly realized that I had neglected my family and friends a little lately, and it was so undeserved."

"Maybe I should be more comfortable with what comes next."

The Raven Maharaja breathed a sigh of relief, and with his eyes closed, he whispered:

"For a long time, the shadow of failure weighed on me like a boulder, and occasionally even took my breath away."

"I've made a lot of plans and made a lot of preparations, but out of all the assumptions, there is no such imagination as a victory, in fact, after scaring off Gao Tianzun and the collector last time, I should have realized this."

Accompanied by the sound of the raven, the pen moved constantly, translating the sound into words and transmitting them to Oneiroi beyond the stars.

He said to his friends:

"I don't need to be afraid of them... They just look scary. But I also have my own strengths. ”

"Good, keep that mindset."

Oneiroi's handwriting appeared on the parchment, as if as an encouragement, and he said to Merlin:

"I've never told you stories about Overlords and Death, and I don't want to stress you too much, but now, you're a little bit similar to them."

"Can I take this as a compliment?"

Merlin frowned and asked:

"Why do I feel that your words don't seem like a compliment?"

"It's a compliment, trust me, but if you want to beat them, you'll have to keep trying."

Oneiroi wrote the last words, ending this brief exchange.

At the same moment, behind Merlin, the door to his storage room was pushed open.

Lady Loki, wearing a green trench coat and a golden horned helmet, walked out of the Raven Maharaja's storeroom, holding a rolled-up piece of parchment.

There was a subtle resemblance to the parchment in Merlin's hand.

"You've talked to him, haven't you?"

Merlin, who was sitting on the couch, whispered:

"He's always secretive, isn't he?"

Faced with the Raven Lord's inquiry, Loki, whose face was a little complicated, nodded, and she said:

"The man who calls himself Oneiroi... Can it really help me? ”

"Of course."

The Raven Lord chuckled, and he replied:

"There's no one in the world who is better at storytelling than him."

"If you want to be the god of stories, you have to learn from him, and of course, he's not very easy to get along with, so you guess it will take some time."

"I suggest you don't do this right away, the battle for the Supreme Mage is about to begin, Loki, if you can become the Supreme Mage, then you don't need to search for this special power."

Loki nodded.

She looked at the parchment in her hand with complicated eyes, the pages she had torn from the Dark Divine Book with her own hands, as Merlin had instructed.

She finally put it away carefully.

As she left the Mystery House, Loki suddenly remembered something, she looked back at the Raven Lord who was hiding on the sofa, her eyes closed, and she said:

"Another thing, when I went to look for Thanos among the stars, I heard a message about Peter. Quill. ”

Loki pursed his lips and said:

"It is said that a mysterious figure has come to the galaxy and is looking for Quill all over the world, and that guy has been getting closer to your subordinate recently."

"Really?"

The Raven Lord frowned.

He knew Peter. The story of Quill's encounter with Rocket Raccoon and Angela, but he didn't pay much attention to Quill, a pirate of Earth with a complicated background.

However, judging from the news that Loki brought back, it seems that there are still some secrets in this young man.

And in the bunch of comics that Deadpool brought back, it seems that there is indeed a story about Peter. Quill's information, but Merlin didn't pay too much attention to him.

"I'll take notice."

Merlin stood up, put his hands behind his back, looked at Loki, and said:

"Thanks for the reminder, Miss Loki. In return, I'll give you a message about the power of the 'God of Stories' you're seeking. ”

There was a glint in the Raven Lord's blue eyes, and he said to Loki:

"Everyone in Asgard says young Loki is a god of mischief, but your actions can be predicted, and although you are deviant, you can always guess a little bit of your future based on your past."

"A mischievous god who can guess the decision is not qualified, and likewise, a story that can be guessed is not attractive, you know, readers are very picky."

"A good story has to have an unexpected twist."

Merlin said pointedly:

"If you want to be a storyteller, if you want to have the ability to influence fate, you have to become incomprehensible, you have to free yourself from the influence of predetermined fate."

"What do you mean?"

Loki frowned, her pretty face full of doubt.

She looked at Merlin, and she said:

"Can you be clearer? Don't make this as foggy as an oracle. ”

"Okay, okay."

The Raven Lord floated to Loki's side, and he looked at the beautiful girl in front of him, and he whispered:

"I mean... Find a chance and die once. ”

"Completely strip your existence from the long river of fate, become a spectator, a recorder, an observer, first get out of the story, let yourself see the overall situation, and then, find a way to intervene in the story, to influence the story."

Merlin reached out and patted the sluggish Loki on the shoulder, and he chuckled and said:

"Legend has it that Asgard has three goddesses of fate who are in charge of the fate of all things in the world, but in fact there is not, Asgard does not have a god of fate in the true sense, but you may be the first."

"Maybe you can become greater than Thor and Odin because of this, and maybe you can change the fate of Odin and Thor, and all of Asgard... I'm optimistic about you. ”

"Alright, that's all I can do for you."

Raven made a "please" gesture and said:

"My wife is waiting for me, so I won't send you."

"Good way, Miss Loki. Oh, by the way, next time I have a chance, I'll ask you to dance again, your dancing style is really good. ”

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Merlin's side completely solved the "family matter", and the Raven Maharaja was in a pretty good mood.

His good comrade-in-arms Nick. Fury was also in a great mood, and the former director of S.H.I.E.L.D., who was always gloomy, also had a rare smile on his face. In the warehouse of spaceship B, I counted the piles of things piled up in front of me.

A bunch of heads.

The head of the Skrulls.

The scene was a bit eerie, with a black man wearing an eyepatch standing in front of a pile of scalp-tingling heads, with a strange smile flashing across his face from time to time.

To be honest, there is no need to make too many modifications, this picture can already be directly used to make horror movies.

"I finally got rid of all these bastards, and I've been busy for almost 2 years."

Fury crossed his waist and looked at the hundreds of heads in special metal jars in front of him, and his one-eyed eyes were full of light.

The feud between him and the Skrulls is hard to articulate.

In the Battle of New York, S.H.I.E.L.D. collapsed, Merlin was killed, and the order of the whole world was almost destroyed. Fury.

In the catastrophe that destroyed all of Fury's efforts in the first half of his life, the Skurulls played a very sad, but also gnashing of teeth.

Ever since being rescued from the Skrrull's stronghold by Superman and the Carol Mistress, Fury has been busy clearing the Skurull, not only to protect the world, but also to a personal conflict that cannot be put aside.

In this operation to destroy the Skrulls, Fury played the role of an avenger, and now, with the revenge avenged, he naturally has an open heart and a happy mood.

However, for someone like Fury, it's not enough to kill the chaotic thugs, he also has to maximize the benefits of all the Skrulls who have died.

Squeeze the last use of these bastards.

And the best part is that he already has a plan.

Ten minutes later, the spaceship carrying hundreds of heads docked in the starport of the inhuman city of Attilan in the blue zone of the moon.

Fury walked out of the spaceship with a few friends, and saw a group of strangers repairing some of the ruins in Starport, and the air here was filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke that Fury was very familiar with.

There must have been a war just now, and it's not small.

Fury looked left and right, and soon, he saw the people who had come to greet him, the Inhuman princess Crystal, and the royal family member Daisy. Johnson.

"What's going on here?"

Fury asked in a low voice:

"Is there a war in Attilan too?"

"It's Maximus."

The little crystal princess pursed her lips, and she said in a cold tone:

"The Skuru hazard who pretended to be Maximus took advantage of the departure of the royal family and launched a rebellion, but we were prepared, so we didn't make a mess."

"But the problem is that less than six hours after the real Maximus was sent back, a second rebellion was planned."

Daisy beside Crystal shrugged helplessly, she looked at the still burning ruins in the starport, and she explained:

"The mentally unsane, and ambitious guy took advantage of the emptiness of Attillan's defenses, grabbed a spaceship and escaped, and set fire to the starport before leaving, Tritan led people to chase after him, but Maximus seemed to have escaped towards Earth."

"Really?"

Fury was stunned for a moment, and he said:

"You're really unlucky, then, but I think it's time for us to talk about something more important than this."

Fury pointed to a couple in long hoods next to him, and he said to Crystal and Daisy:

"The Skrrull's head is in the ship, and that's what Black Bolt needs next."

"Moreover, I also brought him an assistant, who will help the Black Bolt King and you Inhumans to gain a foothold in the Kree Empire as quickly as possible."

"And the most important job, to assassinate the Supreme Intelligence and free the Kree people's war empire completely."

Fury touched his smooth head, and he said:

"In the matter of collapse, how can a knife from the outside be better than a dagger stabbed by one's own people?"