Hela collapsed weakly to the ground, her breathing faint, blood still pouring from her chest as her consciousness slipped into darkness.
Harry stepped forward and placed his hand on Hela's chest. Golden Runic matrix patterns quickly spread across her entire body, sealing the divine power inside her completely.
After finishing that, Harry glanced at Thor, Loki, and Frigga beside him and asked, "What do you plan to do with Hela? Kill her? Personally, I feel like that would be a waste. After all, Hela is a Skyfather-level powerhouse. There might be a better way to handle her."
Loki said without hesitation, "Hela is too powerful, and she hates the entire universe. If we don't deal with her as soon as possible, the universe will end up with another Thanos. So let's just kill her quickly."
Aside from his own family, Loki had always been indifferent toward almost everything else, so Harry was not surprised that he would say something so ruthless.
But Harry did not agree with Loki. Or rather, among the people present, Loki had the least say.
Harry finally turned his gaze toward Queen Frigga.
After Odin's death, Queen Frigga had become the leader of Asgard, so her opinion mattered most.
Frigga stared at Hela with a complicated expression. Odin had spoken to her about Hela many times in the past, so she knew this adopted daughter of hers rather well.
If it were up to her own feelings, she would absolutely want Hela dead. That way, Asgard would erase a potential great enemy.
But more than her own thoughts, Frigga cared about what her husband, God-King Odin, would have wanted.
She loved her husband too much, so she knew Odin would not want Hela to die like this. She also knew she could never harden her heart enough to order Hela's death.
Besides, from Harry's tone just now, he did not seem to want to kill Hela either. Instead, he wanted Hela to serve some other purpose.
Harry was extremely powerful, a famous figure even across the multiverse. In his hands, Hela would have absolutely no chance of escaping.
Moreover, surviving in Harry's hands could also be considered fulfilling Odin's wish. As for what Harry intended to do with Hela afterward, that had nothing to do with her.
After thinking for a moment, Frigga gave her answer. "Hela was defeated by you, so I will leave her fate in your hands.
"Harry, thank you. Truly. If not for you, Asgard would have faced Ragnarok soon, and most of our people would have died miserable deaths.
"Asgard owes you a great debt. From this day forward, as long as you make a request, Asgard will do everything in its power to help you, no matter the cost.
"Of course, beyond that, we will also establish a Kamar-Taj Sanctum in the very heart of Asgard, and you may manage it however you wish.
"I will also copy Asgard's core technology and give it to you. All I ask is that, in the days to come, you protect Asgard in Odin's place."
Without a doubt, Frigga was a very intelligent woman. She directly offered the greatest bargaining chips she possessed.
For Kamar-Taj, such an offer was also a great gift. Added to Harry's relationship with Thor, he naturally would not stand by and watch Asgard be invaded by other forces in the universe.
Harry smiled and said, "Of course. The friendship between Asgard and Kamar-Taj has lasted for thousands of years. When Asgard is in trouble, I will never sit back and do nothing."
After saying goodbye to Thor and the others, Harry soon returned to his floating island.
Once he arrived in the training room, he carved many complex Runic matrices into Hela's body.
Hela was extremely powerful. She possessed Asgardian divine power, a form of higher-dimensional energy, and her constitution was far stronger than Thor's. If she served as the core of the floating city's power-supply array, the efficiency of the entire array would increase by a full fifty percent.
Harry threw Hela into the core of the power-supply array, and at that moment, Hela woke up.
Under the endless invasion of the Mind Stone's energy, wave after wave of overwhelming sensation surged from every part of her body into her mind, nearly making her lose consciousness completely.
She struggled with all her strength to drag herself back from those violent emotions, then glared at Harry and gritted her teeth. "You... what did you do to me?"
Harry did not hide anything. He told her that he had turned her into the central core of the power-supply array, then promised that as long as she stayed inside the array for a thousand years, he would let her go.
After that, Harry completely ignored Hela's screams, left the floating city's power-supply core, and returned to his villa in New York.
When Harry pushed open the villa door, the wind chime at the entryway only managed half a soft ring before he intercepted it with a Silencing Charm, making sure not to disturb the two people inside.
At that moment, the floor lamp in the living room cast a warm yellow glow, coating the intertwined figures on the sofa with a soft golden edge.
On the sofa lay the two most important people in Harry's life.
Their bodies were tangled together. The ends of Gwen's hair fell across Wanda's shoulder, their breaths mingling in the air between them. Gwen's fingertips were threaded through Wanda's hair, while Wanda's hand rested behind Gwen's waist.
When Harry arrived, the atmosphere between them had already grown deeply intimate, as if they were about to take the next step.
But when the door opened, both of them trembled by instinct and suddenly separated.
Gwen's pale bare foot brushed across the carpet, lifting a few strands of fuzz. The blush on the tips of her ears was hotter than the lamp's glow, and she instinctively pulled her slightly open neckline together.
Wanda's fingertips still held traces of warmth. She raised her hand, dispelling the excess heat gathered in her body. Scarlet magic gathered in her palm, and she was just about to teach a lesson to whoever had barged in without knocking, only for the magic to turn into uncontrollable joy the moment she saw who it was.
"Harry, you're back!"
Wanda forgot to fix her clothes and rushed toward Harry on her long legs, throwing herself at him and hanging from his body as she hugged him tightly.
Gwen, who had just been wrapped up with Wanda a moment ago, immediately felt a flash of irritation in her eyes.
Damn Wanda, stealing Harry from me again.
Gwen hurried forward, hugged Harry's other arm, pressed herself against him, kissed him, and asked with concern, "Sweetheart, are you done with everything?"
Harry had been very busy recently. He had needed to travel to other worlds to handle various problems, and he had also needed to continue improving the floating city, so he had not been home for two weeks.
Now that they were reunited after two weeks apart, both Gwen and Wanda felt as if a fire were burning fiercely inside them.
Their faces flushed. After glancing at the sheen of sweat that had appeared on both of them from their earlier activity, they immediately dragged Harry toward the bathroom.
"Harry, hurry up. We haven't taken a bath together in ages."
"That's right. Look, Gwen is overflowing with love. She's been waiting forever."
"Wanda, you're one to talk. You're not any better!"
Outside the window, the sky had darkened, and night had fully fallen.
The bright moon hanging above was sometimes hidden behind hazy clouds, then sometimes revealed again.
The wind chime hanging on the bathroom door kept ringing softly, again and again.
The next day, Gwen and Wanda were still sleeping soundly. Without any sense of image, they had thrown their long pale legs over Harry's body, forcing Harry to use spatial magic to free himself from their entanglement without waking them.
Because Harry's constitution was becoming stronger and stronger, Wanda and Gwen were increasingly unable to keep up with him.
At first, after not seeing him for two weeks, both women had come at him aggressively. But halfway through, they had both gone limp one after another, leaving Harry feeling somewhat helpless.
After making breakfast with magic, Harry went to Uncle Ben and Aunt May's house. After eating breakfast there, he went to Peter's home.
Because Peter was now together with Mary Jane, he had copied Harry and moved out of Uncle Ben's house into another villa.
Harry chatted with Peter for a while. After learning that Peter's superhero career was thriving, he opened a portal and returned to the floating city.
Recently, Harry had come up with a new idea that could increase his strength at an even faster speed.
As the amount of controllable magic in his body continued to rise, the rate at which it increased became faster and faster. But compared to the enormous magic contained within the source power of chaos, it was still nothing more than a drop in the bucket.
So Harry thought of a method, devouring other worlds, condensing an internal dimension inside his body, and allowing that internal dimension to help him digest the source power of chaos.
If he wanted to devour another world, Harry's main body had to remain inside that world.
However, different worlds possessed their own will. If a world were powerful enough to help Harry digest the source power of chaos, then its energy level would definitely not be low.
The will of such a world would usually be very strong. The moment Harry began devouring the world, he would instantly be expelled by the world itself, causing the entire plan to fail.
Because of this, Harry thought of a clever workaround that would allow him to escape the world's surveillance.
This workaround was based on the method used to create Horcruxes. He could split off a strand of his soul and merge that soul fragment into a certain world.
That soul fragment would reincarnate inside that world and obtain a local identity.
Once that fragment became powerful enough, it could cooperate with the Harry outside the world and devour that world together with him.
It was worth mentioning that, because the consciousness of the Harry outside the world and the soul fragment would remain synchronized, the soul fragment would still be Harry. Harry would simply have one additional body.
For someone at Harry's level, splitting his soul and repairing his soul were both extremely simple matters.
He soon separated a strand of his soul and cultivated it further. He also carved an incredibly complex Runic matrix deep within that soul fragment.
This Runic matrix was a peak creation that consumed a great amount of materials. At Harry's current level, it was impossible for him to create an even stronger array.
This array would serve as the soul fragment's foundation, allowing it to grow at a much faster rate. It was essentially no different from the cheats protagonists received in novels.
Over the next few days, Harry constantly completed and strengthened the soul fragment, making it more whole. At the same time, he researched a new Runic matrix, one that would support the soul fragment's successful reincarnation and deceive the perception of the world's will.
He also used observation runes to constantly observe the countless worlds across the multiverse, trying to find one that would be easy to devour.
Two more weeks passed.
On this day, Harry's eyes suddenly lit up. He had finally found a world that would be easy to devour.
This world was very strong and had a fairly high energy level, but there seemed to be something wrong with its will, leaving it extremely weak.
This is the one.
Harry quickly made his decision.
After informing the other mages in the floating city not to disturb him for the time being, and after spending one last loving night with Gwen and Wanda, Harry entered his training room and prepared to begin the devouring plan.
As the array activated, the soul fragment immediately turned into a stream of light and vanished into a black hole.
It traveled quickly through the gaps between worlds. After an unknown amount of time, it suddenly entered a strange new world.
As the district ranked first, Junrinan, the First District of West Rukongai, was far more prosperous than the lower-ranked districts. It was second only to the Seireitei, which sat at the center of the Soul Society.
The sky above Junrinan always carried a faint misty blue hue, peaceful and calm, unlike the other districts that were often shrouded in all kinds of negative emotions.
Today, the weather was especially clear, as if welcoming the birth of a new little life.
Along with a burst of crying, a cute girl with her hair tied into little buns quickly stepped forward and held the newborn baby in her arms.
She looked at the little life in her arms. It was a boy. Although they were not related by blood, because of her relationship with Kokone, this boy could still be considered her younger brother.
Momo Hinamori stared at the baby in her arms with a face full of affection and said expectantly, "Harry, hurry up and grow up. Once you're older, you can help me teach that jerk Toshiro a lesson.
"He's seriously awful. He keeps threatening me with the fact that I wet the bed when I was little."
Standing beside Momo Hinamori was a white-haired boy who looked even younger than her. Naturally, he was the Hitsugaya she had just mentioned.
Toshiro Hitsugaya stared at Momo Hinamori expressionlessly and said coldly, "Momo, what are you saying to Harry? He was just born. How could he possibly understand you?
"Are you already this eager to teach him to hate me? What if he really grows up hating me?"
Momo Hinamori made a face at Toshiro Hitsugaya and said without a care, "What's the problem, Toshiro? Harry is still so tiny. He definitely can't understand me.
"And even if he does understand, that's fine too. Then he can join me, Momo, in dealing with you."
Toshiro Hitsugaya rolled his eyes and stopped paying attention to his childhood friend.
What neither of them noticed was that the baby in their arms did not have the blank, ignorant gaze of a newborn. Instead, he was thoughtfully observing everything around him, neither crying nor fussing.
After hearing the conversation between the two people beside him, Harry knew that he had successfully crossed over.
At this moment, the version of him located in the multiverse could control this newly born body with almost no delay.
With the strength of his soul, controlling two bodies at the same time was incredibly easy.
However, what felt somewhat awkward to him was that this newborn body was far too weak. It seemed as if it did not possess a physical body at all, but existed in a special form.
Based on the information he had collected earlier, he should currently be in the Soul Society of the Bleach universe.
And his current form of existence should be called a spirit body.
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