Days as a Spiritual Mentor in American Comics

Loki's plan proceeded fairly smoothly. Storm, the mutant guarding the area, purposefully exposed a flaw, allowing a small team of Dark Elves to pass through. Among the Dark Elves, the strongest Cursed Warrior was particularly effective against magic, and Loki pretended to be defeated, successfully getting captured by him.

What didn't go well was that as soon as Loki was captured, Thor unexpectedly burst out from nowhere, slicing through almost all of the Dark Elves within sight and declared them traitors of the Nine Major Kingdoms.

Thor's appearance finally reassured the commanders of the Three Great Empires. After all, they had heard of this warrior before, and his continuous absence was a constant hidden danger. Now that he had finally appeared, regardless of his strength, they could at least find ways to confront him.

After being captured, Loki naturally underwent interrogation. However, since the Skrull Empire is not composed of carbon-based life forms, they are not skilled in physical torture, at most utilizing a brain wave tester to read superficial thoughts. Loki cooperatively provided them with the whereabouts of the World-destroying Giant Wolf, Mundane Python, and Dark Demon Dragon.

The World-destroying Giant Wolf is located underground in the palace of Hela in the Netherworld, bound by a special chain that can only be unlocked using a magic known solely by Queen Frigga. To release Fenrir, one must first visit the queen's chamber in Vanaheim and then sneak into the Netherworld while Hela is unaware.

The Mundane Python is on Earth, but not within the Magical Defense Network, rather outside it. Legends say the serpent encircles the Earth and requires special magic to awaken and reveal itself. Such magic exists in the realm of the Flame Giant.

The Dark Demon Dragon has always been at the center of the World Tree, descending from the World Tree Spring, needing to avoid Odin's ravens as eyes, penetrating deep into the World Tree to inject energy, allowing it to bite through the roots of the World Tree.

To put it simply, this is like a three-fold adventure task, which must nearly be completed simultaneously to achieve the best effect.

Precisely three lines, exactly three empires, each empire responsible for one line. The Shi'ar Empire releases Fenrir, the Kree Empire awakens Jörmungandr, and the Skrull Empire assists the Dark Demon Dragon.

Led by local Dark Elves, they quickly found their targets. At the moment Fenrir's chains were broken, the crowing of a rooster echoed throughout Asgard. Clouds dispersed, light dimmed, revealing the true face of the dusky sky. An endless sorrow suddenly surged in every heart of the God Clan—that was the lament of the World Tree.

"Oooo——"

A giant wolf leapt from the clouds, its golden beast eyes emitting boundless coldness and cruelty. But, unexpectedly, it ignored Odin standing in the battlefield's center and lunged at Thor.

"Wait." Lilandra suddenly said, "Fenrir is to defeat the Divine King. The current Divine King is Thor, not Odin!"

"Then who does Jörmungandr fight?" Just as the Skrull Emperor spoke, a figure appeared in the battlefield's center.

"I'm here!" Helen's figure appeared, but she did not reveal Doomsday's form, instead using divine power like a regular Aesir.

The Mundane Python also emerged from near Earth, biting at Helen the moment it saw her.

"Is that Thor's daughter?" The Skrull Emperor squinted his eyes, evidently puzzled. But he could hardly question it since Helen indeed bore divine power, likely making her a descendant of the Aesir.

Subsequently, they felt an enormous force gradually spreading within the dimension. The structure of dimensions began dismantling, and its existence was gradually fading away. Amidst this fluctuation of power, they vaguely saw a pillar resembling a great tree slowly toppling down.

It once flourished with branches and leaves, beautiful and full of vitality. The life it nurtured joyfully lived across various kingdoms, sacred, beautiful, and powerful.

Yet, it consumed too many resources from the cosmos, bringing chaos and destruction, pushing this magnificent World Tree to the brink of annihilation. It needed to reclaim the power it bestowed on these beings to gain rebirth itself.

Branch after branch withered, leaf after leaf fluttered down, until that dark being gnawed through the final solid root. The great tree collapsed with a boom, bringing the Nine Major Kingdoms into a countdown to their demise.

"What an opportunity!" The Skrull Emperor slapped the armrest and said, "The moment the Nine Major Kingdoms are destroyed, rules should be in chaos. We can use that time to teleport away—prepare all units!"

The Three Great Empires immediately began retracting defense lines, preparing for teleportation retreat. Supreme Wisdom set down some monitors and said, "How can we not witness the famed Ragnarök?"

"The dimensions are about to collapse, and you still have the heart to watch?!"

"If we don't capture the moment the gods are destroyed, how can we say we won?" Supreme Wisdom's tone revealed cheerfulness, "From now on, these annoying God Clan members will be no more."

The dimensional structure continued collapsing, the Asgard skyline began flickering alternately with red and blue lights. The light gradually faded, as if transitioning from dusk to night.

"Now's the time!" Lilandra shouted, "Everyone prepare for teleportation!"

Just as the teleportation engine was charging, an unexpected incident occurred.

Helen, who had been fighting the Mundane Python previously, suddenly revealed her true form—not a smaller version but the actual Doomsday that could swallow the Sun whole.

After countless evolutions, Doomsday had long shed its ferocious monster image, turning into an indescribable entity. Her body was like crystal, her eyes brighter than the stars, and the spikes on her body seemed to contain endless cosmic galaxies. Even the Demon God, formed by cosmic rules, would bow down before her enormity and mystery. No living individual in the universe could glimpse her entirety.

They heard her speak, "The universe births and dies with life; all things must end. I emerge from destruction and inevitably bring rebirth to all destined for ruin. I destroy all doomed things, and ultimately—destroy destiny itself!"

The infinitely vast Doomsday opened her mouth, and in a fleeting moment, all the beings of Asgard and the Nine Major Kingdoms turned into tiny specks of dust, swallowed by her. Her stomach seemed to contain boundless cosmos.

Then, her figure slowly vanished into the end of the cosmos.

The World Tree collapsed, and the Nine Major Kingdoms were destroyed.

The World Tree represents the cosmic rules. It lacks intelligence and cannot think, functioning as a rigid program running according to those rules. The running order of this program is: The great monsters kill the gods, the World Tree collapses and destroys; the World Tree absorbs the leftover powers of the dead gods and undergoes rebirth; the World Tree rebuilds the Nine Major Kingdoms.

Since Doomsday took the gods away beforehand, the rules detected that the gods were gone and began the destruction and recovery process for rebirth. In other words, Doomsday's actions of taking the gods away caused the premature destruction of the Nine Major Kingdoms.

The Teleportation Engines of the Three Great Empires were still warming up when the Nine Major Kingdoms went "kraaack" and collapsed. Dimensional structures were thoroughly destroyed, and the rules of space and time became completely chaotic. Under such circumstances, no one could escape.

Even worse now, the Nine Major Kingdoms are destroyed. The gods? They fled. The power? Not recovered.

The World Tree needs the gods' power for rebirth, but after destruction, it couldn't recover the divine powers, leaving it unable to rebirth. So what can be done?

The recovery of the gods' power by the World Tree isn't a locked target. To be precise, it recovers all power within the Nine Major Kingdoms. Due to the premature destruction of the Nine Major Kingdoms, the Three Great Empires left stranded here were unlucky. They became energy sources for the World Tree.

The gods fled; they did not. The World Tree doesn't analyze who's who. As long as you're here when the Nine Major Kingdoms die, and you happen to have power, it can just consume anyone's power.

Thus, the Three Great Empires, still hard resisting the dimensional disassembly, suddenly found all their energy drained.

Initially, it was the energy from millions of battleships. Although the number might not seem huge, the technological level of the Three Great Empires was advanced, with all having infinite energy sources, meaning their battleship energy levels were incredibly high. Most main ships equipped with Planet-destroying Weapons, which required substantial energy output; naturally, the energy level provided would be higher. The energy from millions of battleships was considerable altogether.

Next were various large energy hubs and devices. The Three Great Empires prepared thoroughly this time, bringing backups for all types of devices to prevent any energy issues or insufficient equipment. Technologies like thermonuclear fusion, seen as advanced by humans, were foundational for them. They brought tens of thousands of large thermonuclear Reactors just for supplying energy to individual soldier equipment, countless other facilities accompanying them.

Once all device energies were drained, they started drawing energy from individual soldiers. First from personal equipment, then from individuals' energy. Soldiers from the Skrull Empire and Kree Empire were highly mechanized, unable to operate without mechanical energy.

For the Shi'ar Empire, started with extracting Divine Power of the twin gods, then extracting the inherent energy of carbon-based lifeforms, equivalent to siphoning all heat from a human body.

After all siphonable energy was drained, matter was decomposed, because matter can be converted to energy. Large devices were decomposed first, followed by ships, and finally individual soldiers.

Understand, this offensive involved not just millions of fleets but brought tens of billions of soldiers. Though mass-produced, creating such a number of soldiers required nearly emptying tens of thousands of star systems. Their equivalent nutrients were all consumed by the World Tree.

At last, the World Tree was fully fed.

Helen hurried back before the World Tree could recreate the God Clan and other creatures of the Nine Major Kingdoms, spewing out the gods, other nations' residents, and Earth.

The World Tree sensed that life already existed, assuming restart completed. But the issue was it consumed a lot of energy this time, creating less. So what about the remaining energy?

The World Tree has always been in a deficit state and doesn't store energy. Once all creation is done, any leftover energy is dispersed at once. To be precise, it used this energy to elevate the cosmic energy level.

What is meant by cosmic energy level? Simply put, the higher the cosmic energy level, the higher the probability of strong races like the God Clan emerging; the lower the energy level, the higher the probability of weaker races like the Human race emerging.

Currently, the energy level of the Nine Major Kingdoms surged to its peak state. This signifies a greater chance of energy beings or robust divine power creatures akin to the God Clan emerging in the future.

The most notable benefit is it raises the average energy level of all creatures in the cosmos. For example, the Human race, with energy level far below average, would find their energy level remarkably elevated. Specifically, this manifestation is: greatly enhanced physical fitness, significantly extended lifespan, doubled energy circulation speed, and notably increased numbers of individuals undergoing energy-type mutations.

That is to say, the era of universal superhumans has arrived.