Just like in the original movie plotline, after descending to the lower realm, Loki immediately located the imprisoned Thor. He lied, claiming that Thor had vexed Odin to death, and that he would be exiled for the rest of his life, never to return to Asgard.
After enjoying Thor's agonizing expression, Loki manipulated Phil and headed straight for Peter's temporary office.
Inside the temporary office, Peter was casually chatting with Black Widow. He could sense that Black Widow seemed to have a little bit of interest in him, but to be completely honest, he couldn't quite tell what trick she was playing.
If it was just a casual, friendly fling she wanted, he wouldn't mind accommodating her once. But if she wanted to play for keeps, then forget it.
He was a traditional and hypocritically double-standard guy; he could only allow himself to maintain romantic relationships with multiple girls. But if a female character who might have ambiguous entanglements with multiple men appeared in his inner circle, then she could go cool off somewhere else.
While he and Scarlett—no, Natasha—were engaged in this extreme back-and-forth, the office door was knocked open. "Phil" walked in with a gentle smile:
"Director, that arrogant fool and the girl beside him have both been fully arranged."
Noticing Phil's intrusion, Black Widow subconsciously picked up her coffee cup, her expression looking somewhat unnatural.
Meanwhile, Peter observed this fellow with an incredibly bizarre look—a look that left "Phil" sensing a faint wave of unease deep down.
"Good job, Phil."
Quietly deactivating his Byakugan mode, Peter struck up a casual conversation with Phil while "unconsciously" rotating the small broken watch on his wrist.
[Unknown biological genome detected, commencing collection...]
Hearing the notification ringing in his mind, Peter couldn't help but laugh secretly. As expected, it really is you, the God of Mischief!
It had to be said that Loki's illusion techniques were truly remarkable. Even his Byakugan hadn't detected any anomaly.
If Peter weren't a transmigrator who knew the plot inside out, he might truly have been spun around in circles by his opponent. But now, unfortunately, your genome has exposed your true origin!
Why would he suddenly target him? Could it be... this fellow had already witnessed his "Golden Boy" All-Father mode? Thinking like this, Peter's heart stirred. It looked like matters were about to become very interesting.
On the other side, seeing that Peter had completely ignored her ever since Phil entered, Natasha's heart felt like a mixed bag of emotions.
Again! Is my status in this fellow's heart really this low? He would actually rather engage in awkward small talk with a boring guy like Phil than look at me one more time?
Just as Natasha was wondering if she should sober up and stop fantasizing about unrealistic prospects, Peter's voice suddenly echoed beside her ear:
"Agent Natasha, it looks like you have indeed been slacking on your training recently!"
"To think you haven't even noticed that the enemy has already knocked on our front door!"
Huh? What on earth!
The completely dumbfounded Black Widow looked at Peter, then at Phil, her face still entirely written with bewilderment. Did Peter mean that the Phil before them... was a fake? But how was that possible? From the aura, to the tone, and even the demeanor, it was indubitably Phil!
Just as this thought crossed her mind, the Phil beside her suddenly flashed a bizarre smile. Following that, he leapt behind Black Widow, taking her hostage in his grip, while his face rapidly shifted, revealing his original appearance:
"Should I say you are indeed worthy of being the powerhouse who lifted Mjolnir? To think you could actually see through my illusion."
Damn it, this Phil is actually a fake?!
Black Widow's mind went completely blank. She near-instinctively wanted to activate the Widow's Bite on her wrist, but a dagger had appeared in Loki's hand at some unknown point. Moving with crisp agility, he first severed the wiring of her Widow's Bite before pressing the blade firmly against her neck.
With this setup, even a top-tier ace agent like Black Widow was left entirely helpless!
"I am highly curious, how exactly did you see through my illusion?"
Peter glanced at the 70% collection progress displayed on his wrist, thinking to himself that this fellow was genuinely quite sharp. He had already tried his best to act as though he hadn't noticed anything amiss, yet he had still managed to startle the snake!
And he didn't know what was up with Black Widow either—supposedly an ace agent, yet even with his warning being that glaringly obvious, she still hadn't managed to react in time.
Seeing that Loki had already started his "hissing kitten" routine, Peter didn't bother pretending anymore. He simply activated his dual-god resonance Golden Boy mode, looking toward Loki and asking:
"Did you honestly believe your meager, amateur parlor tricks could hide from this power?"
Observing Peter's aura and golden inscriptions from such a close distance, Loki became increasingly certain of the source of Peter's strength. This was indubitably power belonging to Asgard! The instant he realized this, a look of pure greed subconsciously surfaced within his eyes.
However, he quickly suppressed that wave of greed, instead putting on the majestic front of a king's regent to interrogate him:
"Mortal, speak the truth! How exactly did you steal our Asgardian divine power?!"
"If there is even half a sentence of lies..."
Speaking up to here, he pressed the dagger in his hand down a fraction, leaving a shallow red line on Natasha's neck:
"Not only will this beauty lose her life because of it, but Midgard shall also be trampled into dust under the iron hooves of Asgard!"
Although Natasha was still somewhat in the dark about the whole situation, she could more or less sense the gravity of the problem at this moment. She thus spoke up without a second thought:
"Dire— Peter, ignore me! Kill him directly! Only by keeping him here can Earth be spared from the flames of war!"
Loki: ???
Wait, what? Are you Midgardians always this hardcore? How are you even less afraid of death than our Asgardian warriors?
Peter: ???
I know you possess a massive spirit of self-sacrifice, but aren't you being a bit... too compliant here?
Although he was caught slightly off guard by Natasha's sudden interruption, Peter adjusted his mindset very quickly. He put on a look of sheer disdain, looking toward Loki and saying:
"Has anyone ever told you that the last fool who said he would dispatch armies to trample Earth flat only recently acquired a high-quality, baby-like sleep?"
Thor, that absolute idiot!
Loki frantically criticized Thor in his heart, yet maintained a cold sneer on his face:
"I am entirely different from that waste. That waste has been exiled from Asgard forever, whereas I am the newly appointed God King of Asgard. Right now, the entirety of the Einherjar warriors answer to my command alone!"
"If you truly possessed that kind of capability, would you still need to run down to Earth all by yourself just to threaten me?"
Peter effortlessly pierced straight through Loki's lie:
"Stop making your father laugh. If the Asgard you speak of were truly that powerful and completely subject to your orders, would you still need to stand here firing off empty mouth-cannons?"
Damn it, this Midgardian truly acts significantly more like Odin's child than that fool Thor!
Just as Loki was lamenting Peter's sharpness in his heart, Peter's voice echoed once more:
"Furthermore..."
Dong~
Mjolnir, which had hovered behind Loki's head at some unknown point, smashed heavily into the back of his skull. It slammed him straight to the ground on the spot, causing the dagger in his hand to fly out of his grip.
Meanwhile, Peter decisively flashed to Natasha's side in this split second, pulling her straight into his embrace, subsequently looking down at the floored Loki and mocking:
"You are even weaker than the fool from before. A creature of your caliber actually deems himself fit to be king?"
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