The green pupils gradually became distracted, Loki was losing vitality. Thor's ferocious divine power completely tore apart his soul, and even the form of his body couldn't be maintained, gradually disappearing, returning to the World Tree.
Loki standing by the door was stunned. He watched Thor kill his brother with his own eyes, a terrifying scene that had never even appeared in his nightmares. Stress response made his strength become furious, even tearing a hole in the spatial barrier controlled by Thor.
"Stop him!!!" Natasha's roar rang in everyone's ears.
But Thor seemed to be stimulated by something, he looked at Loki by the door and said, "Another of your schemes, right? Want to use fake death to provoke me?! Loki, you really are incorrigible!"
The entire Nine Major Kingdoms were pushing against Loki, and the dazed Loki couldn't ascend in time, his face instantly turned pale. Until the lightning suddenly flashed, a long spear enveloped with the ferocious power of thunder, rushed straight towards Thor's face.
In that instant, time seemed to slow down. The lightning-flashing long spear enlarged in Thor's eyes full of fury. Captain America, Spider-Man, Black Widow, Superman, Wonder Woman, and the other superheroes, their expressions gradually turned to horror.
The unstoppable ferocious thunder almost broke through the World Tree's blockade, as if it was about to pierce through the entire cosmos. The barrier of space trembled more fiercely, as if it were about to shatter at any moment.
But just before the tip of the spear touched Thor's forehead, the thunder dissipated, all things ceased. The fierce killing intent and mighty strength snapped Thor awake, he shook his head and looked at Loki lying on the ground.
Another Thor stood in front of Loki, while Sif reached out to support Loki. Loki also shook his head, he grasped Sif's arm tightly, trying to calm himself down.
"This is not your brother." God King Thor said, "You mistook him."
The Thor of this universe was a bit confused. Loki took a deep breath and said, "I am Loki from the Central Universe, I told you, I made a deal with your brother, we swapped identities, why didn't you notice?"
Thor opened his mouth, actually he did notice. He found this Loki to be too gentle, completely unlike his brother, but because the previous Loki had too many bad records, frequently pretending to be gentle to deceive him, he thought it was just another prank.
Or rather, he was careless, because he became the True God of the Nine Major Kingdoms, he felt nothing could be hidden from his eyes, even knowing there were visitors from other universes, he never considered this possibility.
"Alright." He straightened up, "So where is my dear brother then?"
He turned back, looking at the place where Loki died. But the Loki supported by Sif trembled even more severely: "You killed him."
"That's impossible." Thor turned around to look at him and said, "That was probably just his clone, just to provoke me, to make me go mad at the Recovery Alliance Headquarters, or to make me harm you, ruining the reputation of our universe."
Loki opened his mouth, he couldn't deny this possibility either. And God King Thor asked, "You can control the Nine Major Kingdoms, can you not feel where he is?"
"He isn't in the Nine Major Kingdoms, either he left or thought of a way to hide." Thor sighed heavily, "I admit I was a bit impulsive, but he really wouldn't be so easily killed if he were truly Loki."
"You two madmen!" Loki gritted his teeth and cursed, "Do you not take killing each other seriously at all?! Are you really brothers?!"
Loki was somewhat awkward, because obviously, only he was hurt in this matter. These two lunatics were killing each other, not taking it seriously, only he was scared out of his wits.
But clearly, that wasn't the case, because next, Carter ran down from upstairs like a train and knocked everyone over.
"What the hell are you fucking bastards doing?!!" Carter's roar was deafening, "You! I don't care what grudges you have with your brother, don't come here to make trouble! You! Find out clearly which universe you are from, stop stirring trouble here! And you! Put away that broken gun, this isn't the place for your chaos!!!"
"He scared my brother." God King Thor said, "Is this how you treat guests?"
"Then let me ask you, he's looking for his brother, why did your brother run here?" Carter pointed straight to the point, "If it wasn't for him having nothing better to do wanting to swap identities, how could this foolishness happen?!"
"Sarah." Captain America quickly stepped forward, "This is just a misunderstanding and didn't cause any serious consequences, aren't there other guest tours today? You should go deal with that first."
"Steve Rogers!" Carter coldly called Captain America by name, "Because you all always want to keep peace, Richards pulled off that kind of stunt. If you want to be vague again this time, the final result won't be much better than last time!"
Captain America opened his mouth, he didn't know how to refute for a moment, he could only say, "But we can't just expel everyone because of such unexpected incidents. Because of Reed, we expelled the mad scientists from Earth, do we have to drive out all Asgardians and even aliens now? That won't work."
"That's not a reason to let them be." Carter said, "If expulsion doesn't work, then manage, at least let them know they can't act recklessly!"
"I'll have a talk with them." Captain America said, "You should go busy yourself, attending to the guests is still more important."
Carter gave him a deep look and then turned to leave. Captain America watched her back, pondered for a moment, then turned his head to say to these Asgardians, "No matter what the truth is, no one can cause trouble at the Recovery Alliance Headquarters. If it's an internal issue of Asgard, please resolve it yourselves, we won't pursue this time, next time might be different."
"I want to ask you, though." Thor looked at Loki and said, "Why are you running to the Recovery Alliance? If you directly went to find your brother, I would've known you're not my brother then."
"You overestimate your emotional control." Loki said, "Bringing you to my brother will only make the two of you fight and then destroy Forward York City."
Captain America tightened his grip on the shield and immediately said, "You did the right thing. Next time something happens, come to us for mediation first, whatever you do, don't fight."
His words were slightly contradictory, but there was no real problem. Causing trouble indiscriminately is not acceptable; mediation is certainly the best option.
"I understand." Loki said, "This was my problem this time, I didn't realize our two universes were so different. Otherwise, I wouldn't have come up with this impersonation plan."
"You should go back first." God King Thor spoke up, "Sif, take Loki back first. I have something to discuss with my counterpart."
Sif nodded, supporting Loki as they left. Thor widened his eyes again; he had never seen Loki admit a mistake in his life. Loki, with his stubborn mouth, when the Flame Giant burns all of Asgard, the only thing left could be Loki's mouth.
And having Sif send Loki back, are the two of them really not going to start a fight? Thor was genuinely curious how the Thor from the Central Universe managed to handle these two.
"What do you want to talk to me about?" He asked, looking at God King Thor.
"I want to suggest you see a psychiatrist." God King Thor looked at him and said, "Have you noticed your emotions are particularly unstable?"
"Where am I unstable?"
"Why did you attack Loki?"
"I didn't know that was your brother..."
"Even if it were your brother, why would you attack him?"
"He was the one who wanted to attack me first." Thor explained, "I thought he was my brother. He inexplicably ran to the World Tree's root system and tried to touch its roots. I co-exist with the World Tree, and his threat to it was a threat to me. I had to strike first."
"You're too irrational." God King Thor said, "If you observed a little more carefully, you would have noticed Loki's drastic changes. Investigating a bit would reveal the switch. Even if you didn't realize it, as long as you kept him locked up, he wouldn't have the chance to do anything. Even touching the World Tree's roots may not necessarily pose any threat to you. Why were you so quick to kill him?"
"You don't understand him at all." Thor shook off his hand and turned away, saying, "I can't control him at all. Even if I keep him confined, he might escape, find a new power, and completely destroy everything I have now."
"Even though you have become the True God of the Nine Major Kingdoms?"
"True God? If I were truly a god, how would I not know that they switched identities? How did your brother enter Loki's chamber, and how did my brother leave? I can't even control these things..."
God King Thor gazed intently at the face identical to his own, slowly sighed, and said, "Odin never told you, did he, that all divine power of the God Clan requires strong belief as support?"
"He did," Thor replied, also looking at the other version of himself, "But I don't know what belief I have. I've never truly controlled anything. My life, feelings, Asgard, the Nine Major Kingdoms, and even Loki. Everything I've experienced has been beyond my expectations."
"Do you think you can control everything?" Thor retorted, "Why don't you think that the current situation was orchestrated by your brother? If he hadn't made this plan, if he hadn't acted under the World Tree's root system, I wouldn't have gone mad and rushed here. Why don't you see this as his scheme?"
"The only thing I know is that he would never make a plan that involves Thor killing Loki." God King Thor said, "You terrified him."
"What if he's just pretending?" Thor asked, "He's the God of Mischief; he can disguise himself as anything. All of his fear and helplessness are simply to confuse you."
"What for?" God King Thor asked.
"No particular purpose, he just enjoys fooling you." Thor said, "He loves to have everyone in the palm of his hand. No matter how sincere he is to you, it can't hide his inherent flaws."
"Then why do you keep bringing him back?"
"He will always come back." Thor shifted his gaze and looked around, "As long as I'm alive, he'll keep appearing like a curse, bringing lies and disasters. I've killed him several times, but he's never truly dead."
"Sometimes, I wonder if he even truly exists. Perhaps everything is my doing, and he's nothing more than a figment of my imagination, a dark side I'm constantly evading."
God King Thor didn't say much more. He pulled out a card and tucked it into Thor's chest, "Go see a doctor."
After saying this, he left.