American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

“That belongs to me.” Loki stood up. Although he was still a little afraid of this fierce sister, he couldn't help but feel a little resentful that she was blatantly trying to take his position in front of him.

After all, he had only just sat in that position not long ago, and hadn't even warmed his butt yet.

As for revenge? Loki looked at his father Odin in front of him, as well as his brother Thor, who was standing between him and Hela, plus a female version of himself with considerable combat power. His courage instantly surged through his entire body.

Perhaps Sylvie's combat power was a little lower than Hela's, but if he could find Luke or a dwarf craftsman to tailor a weapon for her, her strength could still be expected.

It was just that the use of the Infinity Stones in this universe was mostly in Luke's hands, otherwise, in other universes, with the Time Variance Authority's capabilities and manpower, they might have been able to collect all the Infinity Stones to fight against Hela.

Of course, Loki also knew that his idea was a bit too idealistic. After experiencing the Time Variance Authority, the perception that the Infinity Stones were all-powerful had already been shaken in his mind.

“Oh? Then,” Hela didn't care about Loki's protest. She just looked at him with arrogance and a hint of contempt, and asked in a drawn-out tone, “What can you bring to it?”

“We are familiar with the organization's operations and personnel, and we know how to use it correctly to maintain the order and stability of the multiverse,” Sylvie stood up and spoke for Loki.

“Order and stability? How laughable,” Hela glanced at Sylvie, revealing an undisguised sneer, “That's the least worthy thing to advocate!

You have such a powerful organization, with the most outstanding warriors from all over the universe, carefully selected, and the result is for stability and order?”

“If not for order and stability, then for chaos and slaughter?” Loki glanced at Luke with a hidden gaze and questioned with a smile.

Seeing the smiling expression on Loki's face, Thor, who had grown up with Loki and been teased and deceived by him countless times, and Sylvie, who had established some inexplicable personality connection with Loki, immediately had the thought of “he's up to something.” And the fact was indeed as they thought, Loki was digging a pit for his sister.

Because in any case, for Luke and the many shareholders of the Energy Bank, the more leeks, the better. In this case, they should all be inclined towards stability and order. And Hela didn't seem to realize this.

“Conquest!” Hela gave her answer, dismissing Loki's pit with disdain. She faced Luke, Mephisto, and other shareholders and said, “I have experienced that energy, and I know how to collect it.

The output of stability and order is too slow. We can use victory and death to accelerate the accumulation of this energy to solidify its foundation.

If one universe is destroyed, then find the next one. If all the universes within sight are destroyed, then wait for their restart. We don't need to play those hypocritical games.”

“I like her style.”

Dormammu and Mephisto's eyes lit up. Hela's style of doing things was undoubtedly quite to their liking. They were originally dimensional demons who accumulated and grew by devouring other worlds. In other words, they were hunters, not planters. They preferred to expand themselves by means of plunder.

“This is absurd!” Loki shouted angrily.

“You can only shout here. Perhaps you would like to use the most primitive method to decide the outcome?” Hela proudly raised her head and swept her cold gaze towards Loki. “You can choose the method and venue of the battle. If you win, I will give up this plan and give up attacking Asgard, taking back my lost throne and everything.

If you lose, I will take that position. Of course, if you don't want to leave, I would be happy to give you a position. Sometimes the king needs a few flattering little people by his side, right?”

“You want to have a duel with me?” Loki pointed at himself in surprise.

“Okay, I overestimated you a bit. You can bring that big fool and woman next to you with you,” Hela pointed at Thor and then at Sylvie, her tone unhurried.

“She's insulting me!” Loki slapped his brother's shoulder hard with one hand, and pointed at Hela with the other, his tone and expression full of excitement.

“I heard it, and I saw it too.” Thor's eyes were also full of anger. In any case, his Loki had been very well-behaved recently, at least he had helped him deal with a lot of troublesome matters.

If the hammer was in his hand now, if he could completely master that hammer, then he could let Loki agree to this battle request, but now, he looked at his silent father, feeling a little lost.

Could it be that Loki and I are no longer your favorite children, Father? Say something!

“I can lead an army to conquer universe after universe, harvesting universe after universe, but what about you? You can only be a signing mascot,” Hela looked at the shareholders present. “Between me and this mascot, what is your choice?”

“I vote for Loki,” Doctor Stephen Strange raised his hand and solemnly stated his choice. Without a doubt, for Hela, who was immersed in conquest and slaughter, he would rather choose Loki, who might lead the Time Variance Authority astray. At least the universe could be quieter.

“I also choose Loki.” Nick Fury looked at Luke when voting and, after finding that he had no expression, decisively followed behind the sorcerer Strange. Reason? Of course, he didn't want Hela, a stranger with an extreme personality, to control a violent organization.

Even after seeing the organization that was formerly the [Time Variance Authority], he felt that the most suitable person for this organization was not Hela, nor Loki, but him, Nick Fury!

There were many similarities between this and the SHIELD organization.

“I also vote for Loki.” After seeing Stephen and Nick's actions, Thor seemed to suddenly realize that he also had shareholder status, and immediately cast his vote.

“Hela.”

“Hela.”

Dormammu and Mephisto decisively cast their votes for Hela, who was more to their liking. Even if it didn't work, looking at Odin's dark face was worth being happy about, wasn't it?

“I don't care. But as a balance, I vote for Hela.”

For Nightmare, turning dreams into reality was the ultimate goal. If it couldn't be done for the time being, then eating more Nightmare energy and expanding his Nightmare Dimension was also good.

All eyes fell on Luke for a moment.

“In that case, why don't we do an experiment?” Luke didn't make a choice, but instead proposed a suggestion with some cunning. “You can each choose a universe from the known multiverse. Within the specified time limit, whoever can provide more energy and value to the Energy Bank, that position will be held by that person. And the other one must become the winner's deputy.

Of course, the loser doesn't have to be discouraged. After a period of time, you can compete again to decide who that position belongs to. Next time, you can also let the people from the Multiversal Management Bureau make choices and take sides.

If you don't want to do it yourself, then you can each choose some subordinates from within this organization to train, let them carry out various tasks and battles, to decide who wins and who loses between you.

Survival of the fittest, winner takes all. No one can say anything, how about it?”

“You promised that position to me!” Loki looked at Luke in shock. He didn't expect Luke to be indecisive at this critical moment.

“I didn't say that.” Luke thought for a moment and shook his head with certainty.

“You clearly…” Loki suddenly stalled. He thought about it carefully, and it seemed that Luke had indeed not said such a thing. Everything was his own wishful thinking under many coincidences.

It was Mobius's words and the ubiquitous Loki statues that gave him too much psychological suggestion.

“But you said you hoped my gift would satisfy you,” Loki looked at Luke blankly.

“Didn't you get it in advance?” Luke raised his eyebrows in surprise and asked.

“Where did I get it in advance?” Loki was asked by Luke with a blank look.

“That lighter, buddy,” Luke reminded.

Hearing this, Loki's face turned green and red for a while. “Isn't that mine?”

“That's what you stole, of course, under my permission,” Luke rested his elbow on the long oval stone table, and continued: “You chose it, I didn't pursue it, then it's a gift. I think you should be very satisfied with its effect, right?”

“But…” Loki was a little speechless. He knew that it was harder than ascending to heaven to take advantage of Luke! He couldn't figure out whether Luke had planned to send him on that trip beforehand, or whether Luke had immediately selected him after he got the lighter? He wanted to say something, but looking at his father's face, which was full of majesty with some black air, some anger, and some cannibalistic expression, he obediently remained silent.

“Then it's settled,” Luke saw that no one objected, and the only objector was suppressed by Odin with a look, and immediately confirmed it.

Although Loki had been a little more reliable recently, his unreliable memory was still memorable.

Luke had originally wanted Gu Yi or Odin to sit in that organization for a while, but now it seemed that Hela was also good? Anyway, they were all problem children. If something really happened, Luke could only sacrifice Odin to solve the problems for his children.

There wasn't much to argue about in the following meeting. Mephisto talked about how far the previously planned energy loan and other plans had progressed.

In Mephisto's words, it was roughly: the plan was going very well. Under the behind-the-scenes manipulation of the Energy Bank, some gods who were unwilling to cooperate were successfully killed by their own disappointed believers and fell.

And the believers who were bewitched by the devils and borrowed the power to kill gods, after handing over everything of the fallen gods to the devils according to the contract, also handed over their souls.

Mephisto was simply winning big. Not only did the Energy Bank accumulate a lot of wealth, but his old business didn't fall behind, and he also harvested a lot of high-quality souls, greatly enhancing himself.

This kind of spiritual light, which was transformed from the shattered beliefs of believers and the violent emotional fluctuations caused by resisting the gods, directly formed a hard energy crystal.

This was an energy entity with a higher density than energy liquid.

A mighty movement to destroy gods had been set off in the universe. The fall and rise of old gods and new gods meant that the Energy Bank's earlier plan had entered a stable stage. At least almost all the new gods could be regarded as customers of the Energy Bank.

Or to put it more practically, the Energy Bank was already the creditor of most of the new gods. After all, they were able to pull down the old gods and become new gods because the Energy Bank provided help and expenditure. If they failed, the souls would belong to Mephisto, and Mephisto would make up for the Energy Bank's shortfall. If they succeeded, there was no need to be too happy. In the long future, the new gods would have to be in a state of frugality and working for the Energy Bank.

Mephisto, who was already very skilled in financial means, said that the person who invented this game was a genius who was more devilish than the devil. He liked this way of growing energy while lying down.

……

“You have to help me!”

After the meeting, Loki, who didn't even care about Sylvie for the time being and left her to his mother Frigga, dragged his brother to the door. He looked at Luke very seriously.

“This is a matter between you and your sister Hela.” Luke, who was blocked in the laboratory, spread his hands.

“But the cause of the matter is still related to you. For the sake of fairness, you should at least increase my strength to the point where I can compete with her, right? What if that crazy woman kills me directly?” Loki's tone was full of cowardice. Just thinking about working with his violent and arrogant sister for a long time in the future, he felt very insecure.

“It's impossible to increase your strength,” Luke knocked on the void in the eyes of Loki's expectant eyes, which quickly turned to disappointment. Three giant glass jars suddenly rose from the metal floor under their feet.

Inside the glass jars were three giant dragons of different colors, attributes, and abilities. Although they still looked like juveniles, the gazes that they suddenly opened in the liquid could still bring considerable pressure and fear.

“Choose one, it will be a good helper for you.” Luke gestured to Loki.

“Can I choose them all?” Loki rubbed his hands. He felt that the energy in each one seemed to faintly exceed him. This was still a juvenile state! Sure enough, he could always believe that Luke would have good things hidden in his hands.

“Don't be too greedy. Even if I want to, you can't afford to raise three right now,” Luke said.

“Then some advice? It's always okay to give some correct advice, right?” Loki said.

“Then that one, the one with life attributes, can deal with Hela's death divine power very well,” Luke pointed to a small dragon that was milky white all over.

PS: Thanks to the rewards from the two students, Quiet Peak and 0o Binbin o0.