Chapter 1069: Ordinary Daily Life Before Christmas (Part 1)

The garden of the Fairy Palace is always full of special vitality no matter what season it is. After this beautiful land entered winter, evergreen trees replaced the original lush broad-leaved forest, adding a touch of primitive and wild atmosphere to this place.

Push aside the branches of the shrubs with bright red fruits, cross the stone road, and in front of you is a bright square and a fountain that has been frozen into an ice sculpture.

The thick snow surface covering the edge of the fountain suddenly moved, and soon there was a small pit there. A butterfly folded with yellowed letter paper flapped its wings twice, shook off the snow covering its body, and flew up flexibly.

The water column flew over the fountain, swept over the wet soil, and gently touched the water above the gurgling stream formed by the melting snow, and then brought this wet coldness to a white and slender hand.

The fingers with distinct joints gently closed the heavy book, stroked the black hair on the head, and turned to look at the blond man walking towards him.

"Frigga knows you are studying here, so she asked me to bring you the cloak to prevent you from getting cold." Thor handed the cloak in his hand to Loki.

Loki took the cloak, but did not put it on. Instead, she held the cloak and looked at Thor, tore off a page from the notebook under the book, handed it to him, and said: "This is Kamar-Taj's Christmas gift to Asgard. If there is no problem, notify Sif and let her prepare to lead the team to welcome it."

Thor frowned, took the paper, and looked at the many terms unique to the human magic world written on it. He put the paper down, looked at Loki and said: "Christmas gift? For so many years, I have never heard that Asgard has received a Christmas gift from Kamar-Taj. The father of the gods should not have kept it from me..."

"They gave it for the first time this year. "Loki tilted her head and said, "But you should also know why. Didn't you compensate the Sanctuary for the loss of the Time Stone some time ago? This is my share."

Thor was stunned and didn't understand the logic in Loki's words at all. So he walked to the other side of the table in the flower pavilion and sat down. While fiddling with the paper butterfly on the table, he asked, "What does this have to do with my compensation to the Sanctuary? Didn't you steal the Time Stone and cause them to suffer losses, so we have to compensate?"

Loki pursed his lips helplessly and looked at Thor with an expression of "Why don't you ever understand?"

Then, she slammed the notebook on the table angrily and said, "I swear, this is the last time I will explain similar principles to you. In the future, don't even think about hearing any similar topics from me, Thor Odinson! You idiot!"

Thor was not angry either, he just smiled and looked at Loki and said, "Isn't this great? You are good at things I don't understand, and our abilities complement each other. We are a golden pair..."

Hearing Thor's last words, Loki's eyes dimmed for a moment, but then she cleared her throat and asked Thor:

"Let me ask you, the Supreme Sorcerer lost the Eye of Agamotto, does he need to find it back?"

Thor nodded and said, "Of course ! ...Wait, you stole the Eye of Agamotto, he knows this, won't he come to you for it? "

"What if I don't return it to him?"

"Can you beat him?"

Loki rolled his eyes and said, "If I can't beat Ancient One, can I beat Stephen? You underestimate my status as the number one wizard in the Nine Realms."

"Don't keep me in suspense." Thor shook his head and said, "Just tell me what you want to say, don't ask me anymore, I can't guess anything."

Loki sighed, as if helpless, and said, "The Sorcerer Supreme belongs to the Sanctum Sanctorum, and now the Sanctum Sanctorum needs to be active in the human world, so most of the field departments are under the management of S.H.I.E.L.D."

"When the Sorcerer Supreme If the gem is lost, the Sanctum Sanctorum will naturally be asked to find it, but the mages of the Sanctum Sanctorum need to get the consent of SHIELD to enter the human world to search for it. "

"So, in order to prevent these mages from disrupting the order of the human world, shouldn't the conscientious SHIELD conduct a series of training in advance to educate them about the rules of the human world?"

"Wait!" Thor interrupted Loki and said, "Aren't those operators in the Sanctum Sanctorum all Nick from prison..."

"Don't talk nonsense!" Loki raised his voice again and interrupted him, saying, "What do you mean from prison? That is the Human Special Talent Reserve Management Center, and that group of people are diplomats specially transferred to the Sanctum Sanctorum to promote exchanges between SHIELD and Kamar-Taj..."

Thor He spread his hands and said, "Okay, whatever you say is what it is."

"If you want to train the mages, you naturally need a training base and manpower. Of course, this is nothing, but when they come to the human world to search, they naturally need some assistants and security personnel. A 30-person mage team with 30,000 security personnel should not be too much, right?"

Thor looked at Loki blankly, and Loki began to count on her fingers again: "The Eye of Agamotto, as a long-standing artifact passed down by the Supreme Mage, was accidentally lost due to force majeure, so naturally it should be reported as a major loss of goods..."

"Stop!" Thor stretched out another hand and said, "Isn't it lost? At that time, didn't Stephen find out that the Time Stone was with you?"

"But I won't give it back to him!" Loki said confidently.

"Won't he ask you for it?"

"But he can't beat me!"

Thor slapped him on the forehead, and Loki continued: "The Eye of Agamotto was taken away by the first wizard of the Nine Realms. Neither the Sanctum Sanctorum nor S.H.I.E.L.D. has the ability to take it back. Isn't it a loss?"

"In addition, in order to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future, the Sanctum Sanctorum should naturally strengthen security management. In addition to adding a security team of 100,000 people, it must also train the current security personnel..."

"What's the point of this?" Thor said puzzledly: "Even if... even if Nick Asking Strange for money, but what does this have to do with you? You don't need human currency! "

Loki sighed and said, "But I helped them get the funds they wanted, and even helped them get compensation from you. So, when they distribute dividends, shouldn't they also help me send magic items and energy equivalent to the earth's assets to Asgard?"

Thor widened his eyes and looked at the list in his hand. After a careful look, he slowly said, "You know what, there are some good things in it, Star Spirit Fragments, Magic Molten Gold, these should all be ancient You got it back from the Ancient One, right? You can let the stingy humans give these things away? "

Loki rolled his eyes again and said, "Because, they are of little use to them. The main function of the Protoss fragments is to build teleporters between starships, but humans have neither starships nor teleporters. They have hanging rings."

"The magic molten gold is used to cast the magic lines of the staff, but the mages of Kamar-Taj don't need a staff, and the Ancient One doesn't need it either. Only we, the Protoss who have too much power and nowhere to use it, need a staff to control the power and accuracy of magic..."

Loki sighed Qi said: "These are all the rags that Ancient One picked up from all over the universe. When they can't be loaded, they return to Kamar-Taj to unload. Until recently, Kamar-Taj's warehouse can't hold them anymore..."

"They want to take these things away, but they can't give them to us for free. You said that those humans are stingy."

"That's why I stole the Time Stone and asked you to compensate them with the technology of the spaceship bridge and monitoring equipment they need, and then they will give us these materials in the name of Christmas gifts..."

"Then why can't we exchange them directly?" Thor asked again.

"If we exchange directly, it will become a deal." Loki spread her hands on the table and said, "Do you think the Asgardians can accept that the great Asgard will trade with the weak humans? They only want to accept tribute from humans."

"Moreover, these weak humans are not willing to trade with Asgard. Not to mention that these things are really useful to us, even if they are just a pile of real rubbish, they will keep them in the warehouse until the end of time, in case they may really be used one day."

Loki looked into Thor's eyes and said, "Thor, you are not only a general and a king now, but also a politician, and the first thing a politician must learn is how to be irresponsible to your voters."

Thor opened his eyes wide. Although she rolled her eyes, Loki said confidently: "Few people in Asgard can understand what we are facing now, what kind of pressure makes us have to support humans, and even please them in some aspects..."

"If we make all these plans public, we will not get support, but endless condemnation and protests. But if we tell others about Ragnarok, panic and rebellion will be waiting for us."

Hearing this, Thor sighed and nodded reluctantly, which was considered to be an approval of what Loki said. After all, he also knew that in order to deal with Ragnarok, all forces must be gathered, and humans with great potential are also objects that need to be won over.

However, the gods of Asgard, who are high above, cannot accept that they still need to ask humans for help. Under the premise that the truth of Ragnarok is not announced, everyone will think that Thor is abusing his power for personal gain.

But if the truth is made public, let's not talk about whether the Asgardians will believe it or not. Even if they do, it will only cause panic and anxiety. Facts have proved that most of the extreme militants can only accept victory, not failure.

If they knew that Asgard was doomed to fail, what kind of turmoil would be caused, Thor knew it without even thinking about it.

Even if every god in Asgard is loyal and willing to fight with Thor until the last moment, their long-term thinking inertia has made them lack political thinking, which will cause Asgard to suffer diplomatic losses. At this time, the role played by Loki is indispensable.

"That's it. We reached a deal and each got what they wanted. At the same time, it also allowed the factions on Earth that are closer to Asgard to get more funds and narrow the distance with the Sanctuary, S.H.I.E.L.D. and Asgard..."

As Loki counted the gains from the theft of the Time Stone, Thor couldn't help but sigh: "You are the only one in Asgard who can do this. If we rely on Sif and me, we can't come up with such a complicated plan..."

Loki shook his head and said: "It's not difficult, but you don't think about it. Or, in other words, Asgard didn't have any diplomacy before. Our only diplomatic means was naval guns, but now it's different..."

"Don't say that, Loki, others can't do it, and what you can do is of course your strengths." Thor put his body Leaning back, leaning on the back of the chair, raising his head and saying, "I really can't imagine how painful it would be if I were alone, facing the doomsday that is destined to come."

But Loki shook his head and said, "Even until the end, you will not be alone. Although humans are very stingy with money, their emotions are too abundant, and they wish they could share a portion with everyone."

Thor thought of many people, including those who helped him when he was stranded on Earth. He nodded and said, "I'm going to Earth to spend Christmas with my friends. What about you?"

"I have no friends." Loki stood up with the book in his arms.

The goddess girl turned her head and looked into the distance, where there were the silver-clad spires of the Fairy Palace on the horizon, the curling smoke from the martial arts field, and the backs of the pine trees standing on the ground like guards.

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