Adrian reached into his system storage.
Then he casually tossed something onto the ground.
Thud.
It rolled across the grass before coming to a stop.
It was a human head.
"…Well," Adrian muttered.
"That's a little bloody."
As an intelligence officer, Nick Fury had seen far worse scenes.
He wasn't disturbed.
He was simply curious.
More specifically—
Where exactly had Adrian pulled that thing from?
Carol crouched down to examine it carefully.
"Is this… the head of Helios?"
The face had almost completely decayed.
Without divine energy sustaining it, the head looked nearly identical to an ordinary corpse.
"With the fall of Olympus, its divinity faded long ago," Adrian explained casually.
"At most, there's enough residual power left for one final use."
He lifted the skull slightly.
"Want to test it?"
Nick Fury recalled the memory projection they had just witnessed.
Helios' ability seemed fairly straightforward—
Blinding solar radiance.
Essentially a divine flashbang.
"…Sure."
"Let's see it."
Adrian shrugged.
"Suit yourselves."
He kicked the skull lightly.
The decayed head trembled.
Then—
Light erupted.
A blinding, searing radiance burst from the empty eye sockets.
It was like staring directly into the surface of the sun.
"Damn—that's hot!"
Nick Fury quickly put on his sunglasses and stepped closer.
But the moment he extended his hand—
A burning pain shot up his arm.
His skin had already blistered.
Just then—
"Meow!"
The orange cat in his arms blinked sleepily.
The intense light had apparently disturbed it.
Annoyed, the creature hopped down from Fury's arms.
This "cat" was actually a Flerken.
It padded forward.
Opened its mouth.
And swallowed the glowing skull in a single gulp.
"…Well."
Silence fell over the field.
The situation became extremely awkward.
Nick Fury slowly picked up the cat again.
"Sorry."
"That's my fault."
"It's fine."
Adrian waved his hand.
"I told you already—this thing only works once."
"After that it's basically unrecyclable trash."
Still—
He was genuinely surprised.
Because the moment the Flerken swallowed the skull—
His system mission suddenly completed.
Adrian immediately reopened the mission panel.
[Flerken Questline — Debt Repayment]
Stuff any major part of your body into the Flerken's mouth.
Adrian stared at the description.
Then suddenly realized the trick.
The mission wording didn't say a major body part.
It meant his own body.
"…You've got to be kidding me."
He cursed silently.
The system was playing word games again.
Just like that annoying wish-granting genie Zephrys.
Then he looked at the reward.
Reward: Contract Card — Magical Cat
Yuumi
"…Yeah."
"That makes sense."
Adrian rubbed his chin.
If the reward related to the mission theme—
Then Nick Fury's quest probably followed the same logic.
With that thought, Adrian pulled out the final relic stored in his system space.
A sword appeared in his hand.
Both Nick Fury and Carol froze.
Because they recognized it immediately.
This was the divine blade they had just seen in the memory projection.
The sword that had pierced both Zeus and Gaia.
"The Sword of Olympus," Adrian said calmly.
"Once the greatest weapon of the Olympian gods."
He tossed it onto the ground.
Now it looked dull.
Plain.
Almost like an ordinary piece of iron.
"Now?"
"It's nothing more than a blunt sword."
Watching this scene, Hela fell silent.
If one day Asgard fell…
Would its relics be treated the same way?
As the first heir to the throne of Asgard, her power was tied to the realm itself.
When Odin died—
Her strength would reach its peak.
But what if Asgard were destroyed?
The thought lingered unpleasantly in her mind.
Meanwhile—
Nick Fury's eyes were practically glowing.
Adrian chuckled.
"Help me with something."
"And the sword is yours."
To Adrian, the weapon had lost all real value.
The divine power that once flowed through it had already faded.
Even the miraculous materials used to forge it had degraded.
At best, it was now a historical artifact.
If the scientists of S.H.I.E.L.D. studied it closely—
They might detect faint traces of divine energy.
But that was all.
Just traces.
Still—
Nick Fury didn't know that yet.
Or perhaps he suspected the truth but was willing to gamble anyway.
"…What do you need?"
Fury finally asked.
"Help me find someone."
Fury immediately remembered the memory projection.
"The sorceress?"
"You mean the one who fought beside you?"
He nodded.
"That's doable."
"But where do we start looking?"
"Three places."
Adrian held up three fingers.
"New York."
"London."
"Hong Kong."
Then he added another possibility.
"Or somewhere near the Himalayas."
Nick Fury frowned slightly.
"Why those places?"
"Because they guard Earth."
Adrian replied calmly.
"The sanctums of Kamar-Taj."
"But whether your agents can actually make contact with them…"
"…is another matter."
Unlike the reclusive wizarding school Hogwarts, the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj weren't completely hidden.
But they rarely revealed themselves to ordinary society.
And they certainly didn't go out of their way to meet government agents.
Finding them—
Was one thing.
Getting them to respond—
Was something else entirely.