"Your Highness Hela, I have heard of you for a long time, but I really didn't expect to see you here. I wonder if I can have the honor to chat with you?"
Stark, who was wearing a formal dress, raised his glass to Hela and asked with a smile.
Hela looked at Stark from beginning to end with her eyes without scruples. For a male chatter, such behavior can be said to be quite offensive.
This also tells the person who is striking up a conversation, don’t treat me as a social butterfly who is easy to flirt with, because only if you have been in the position of being a judge for a long time, you will be used to looking at everyone with such eyes.
When Hela's eyes fell on those brown eyes, she paused slightly and said his name in a hoarse voice: "...Stark."
This is not a very loud name, and is only circulated in a very small circle. This circle of course also includes Asgard. When Hela called his name, Stark knew that Hela would appear here, and he would definitely appear here. It's Loki's plan, and the two of them may have always been in contact.
If we infer from this, it is normal. The relationship between Hela and Odin is very bad. It can even be said that they regard each other as enemies. Hela and Thor have a conflict of interest, because they were both Odin's preferred princes. .
But Hela and Loki have almost no conflict, or rather, they share the same problem.
Hela was even more unlucky. She had an inexperienced father with a bad temper. He didn't know how to teach, and he didn't know how to learn. When two inexperienced novices met, both sides would suffer, but in the end, they both lost. The consequences were borne by Hela herself.
In this case, it is possible for Hela and Loki to cooperate. Maybe now, Hela and Thor can also reconcile. The strong character of the Asgardian protoss is engraved in their bones. On the contrary, Thor is strong enough. There is room for other members of the royal family to survive.
This information quickly flowed through Stark's mind, so he became more confident about the following conversation. He nodded and said calmly: "Yes, it's me. I didn't expect His Highness to have heard of my name." .”
"Steel Demon God..." Hela raised her eyelids slightly and said, "When you were promoted for the first time, I felt that unusual aura. What do you want to talk to me about?"
Stark was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Hela to be so straightforward, but soon he realized it. Everyone said that Hela and Odin were the most similar, and as an Asgardian, Hela had an impatient personality. Representative, Odin never likes to talk nonsense with others and goes straight to the point from the beginning.
"I do have something to ask His Highness Hela, but..." Stark paused and said, "I don't want the content of our conversation today to be known to others, including your brothers and sisters who are related by blood. , or the ruler of Asgard."
Hela's eyebrows frowned slightly, but then she looked into Stark's eyes and said: "Before you ask me a question, I want to ask you a question, have you ever fought with Thor?"
Stark's eyes widened. He didn't expect Hela to ask him this question, so he said: "We are friends, so of course we don't."
"Who is stronger, you or him?"
Stark opened his mouth and closed it again. He sighed through his nose and thought to himself, luckily Loki is not Odin's biological child. The father of the gods really has a family that is all about fighting.
"We haven't competed, and actually we don't need to."
"Then I can't promise you not to reveal our conversation to Thor, because I may not be able to beat him, and if you can't prove that you can beat him, then I can't hide it for you."
Stark paused while drinking, and sighed in his heart. Hela and Odin were really similar. They were rough and informal on the surface, but they were straightforward and not offensive.
"Okay, then I'll take a step back. You can't tell Loki what we talked about today."
"Are you saying Thor is stupid?"
Stark was helpless.
"But it doesn't matter, I think so too." Hela shook her head and said: "He is not good at understanding these complex hints, and Loki is just the opposite of him. Maybe two people are responsible for two aspects, and Asgard
The real way out, and it took Odin thousands of years to figure it out."
Stark didn't know whether to agree with Hela and complain about the father of the gods' education methods.
The strange thing about Odin's educational failure is that the three children represent three different routes of failure, which perfectly eliminates the correct answer and makes failure so colorful.
"It can be said that without external interference, Asgard's tragedy is doomed." Hela's tone was very calm, as if she was telling a confirmed fact. She lowered her eyes and whispered: "And his biggest
The mistake was to underestimate Loki, thinking that this little prince was not an Æsir and that he had been frail and sick since he was a child and could not make any big noise."
"Although I don't know who turned the situation around in Asgard, I can say that without this mastermind, Odin would have been in bad luck sooner or later because of Loki."
Stark couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and took a higher look at Hela. He didn't expect that the eldest princess imprisoned in the Kingdom of Death actually had such a strategic vision.
However, it is normal to think of her as a female version of Odin. Hela is not stupid. In the final analysis, Odin was too powerful at the time.
Odin said that Hela was blinded by the desire for destruction and lost her mind, but history is also written by the victors. No one knows what happened between the father and daughter back then.
Stark felt more confident, so he said directly: "Yes, I want to hide it from Loki because he is too smart. I don't want people to know the intention of my current actions, because it may alert the snake.
"
"What exactly do you want to do?" Hela frowned and looked at Stark. For this eldest princess, there were very few people she couldn't see through, but this Stark in front of her was even one.
"No matter what you want to do, I don't want to get involved." Hela pursed her lips and turned her head to the side, showing an expression of resistance. She said, "If Loki hadn't insisted on me coming, I wouldn't have done it.
Will appear here, I have no interest in the future of Asgard."
"Not even for Ragnarok?"
Hela's fingers stiffened for a moment, and Stark took a step forward to close the distance between the two. He looked into Hela's eyes and said: "The only knot in your heart now is Ragnarok. In the prophecy, you
He is the one who brought destruction to Asgard, but judging from the current situation, it is impossible for you to defeat Thor, so you feel confused."
"Is it really necessary for Ragnarok to come? Is your existence really meaningful? Should you follow the prophecy or resist it?"
"Stop talking." There was a trace of boredom in Hela's tone. She tilted her head further and said, "Just tell me what you want to do. What do you want to do?"
"I just want to ask about the origin of the Aesir. I know that Loki is not an Aesir, and Thor doesn't know about this issue. To be more specific... I want to know about the World Tree."
Hela narrowed her eyes, turned her head back to look at Stark and said, "Human, do you really know what you are talking about?"
"Even if Ragnarok is destined to come and the Asa clan will die, humans will not be able to profit from the World Tree. Don't be too greedy."
"You misunderstood, that's not what I meant." Stark shook his head and said, "I don't want to wait for the gods to die and then take away your resources. Humanity has not developed to that point yet. If I have to say it, we
I hope Ragnarok doesn’t come even more than you do.”
"But I heard that humans have developed very rapidly in recent years..." Hela said hesitantly. She heard these things from Loki, but she had not seen them with her own eyes. She thought Stark was
It was based on the energy of the World Tree.
During the development of civilization, there are periods when energy resources are urgently needed. Hela thought that humans had reached this stage and wanted to wait for Ragnarok to plunder the energy of the World Tree.
"Then what do you want to know?" Hela asked again.
"I want to know, if the World Tree is a tree, then who planted this tree? What does it grow on? How does it support the nine kingdoms? When does it grow and when does it wither?
What special properties does it have?"
Stark's series of questions stunned Hela. The eldest princess was silent for a long time, and then she spoke:
"I seem to know what you are going to ask, but I'm afraid I can't answer you. All Asgardians' knowledge about the World Tree is more like a legend than really knowing the truth."
"Even if your power comes from the World Tree?"
Hela nodded and said: "Divine power is our talent. The gods are all intuitive animals. We master this power, but we do not investigate its source. We hope that the power will be stronger and the use will be more efficient. Our
All technologies are developed around this point."
"As for tracing back to the roots and studying history... do you think those warriors in Asgard look like historians? We don't care about the past, we just want a stronger future."
Listening to Hela's words, Stark frowned. He really couldn't imagine how a nation could have such a huge secret at its door but not study it?
"But..." Hela suddenly changed the topic and said while thinking: "In these years in the Kingdom of Death, I have also thought about this issue. I was mainly thinking about the prophecy of Ragnarok. No one knows where Odin came from.
Where he got this prophecy, and no one knows why he believed it so firmly."
"But I know him very well, and I think this is probably a signal sent by the World Tree to him. But the World Tree has no wisdom, so how did Odin understand this prophecy through the World Tree?"
"I think maybe he discovered some clues by observing the World Tree or feeling the connection between them. This prophecy may not have a specific inscription, but is Odin's own discovery."
Stark's face became serious, but Hela showed a smile that was almost a sneer. She looked at Stark and said, "You want to study the truth about World Tree? Why?"
But Stark covered his mouth with a wine glass, then raised his eyelids, looked at Hela from above his eyes and said: "I want to do more than this, and obviously, Your Highness, you are also interested in this."
Hela's expression remained unchanged, but she lifted up her long hair by her ears to expose her ears. She looked at Stark and said, "So, do you want to invite me to dance?"