Chapter 227: Differential Treatment of the Sealing Device (Second Update, Seeking Full Subscriptions!)

A place of absolute darkness and dead silence.

At the moment the red space, which seemed alive and flowed like blood, abruptly appeared, Jane Foster, who had been pulled in without warning, was once again shoved out without warning, stumbling forward in a stagger.

Ahead lay an abyssal cliff with no bottom.

Jane's eyes were filled with terror.

The next second.

An arm rested on her shoulder, instantly halting her figure, which had already stepped half a foot over the cliff.

"Careful."

"..."

Jane instinctively turned around, saw Hawk appearing before her eyes, her face showing terror, and instinctively stepped backward.

And then...

Accompanied by a scream as her right foot stepped into emptiness, Hawk could only reach out once more to grab Jane, who was about to fall into the bottomless cliff for the second time.

Hawk was somewhat speechless: "Once again, be careful. I saved you twice; I won't save you a third time."

Once, twice, but never thrice.

If the Jane Foster before him acted out that scene one more time, he would definitely not reach out to help.

After all, no matter how much he saved, he couldn't stop others from courting death, could he?

After Hawk finished speaking, he ignored Jane Foster and turned his gaze to look around this space, then, via the stone path beneath his feet, arrived at a large platform.

The space where this platform was located seemed to be in a state of weightlessness.

Countless shattered, massive black stone tablets floated in every corner of this platform, suspended in an inverted posture.

But what attracted Hawk's attention most was the ruin of a huge, inverted, gothic-style spire church far away on the platform.

The ruin was not the focus.

The focus was the black geometric device at the base of the church, emitting a deep and ominous aura.

Within this geometric device, liquid resembling viscous blood seemed to flow, jump, and swirl.

The Reality Stone!

Also known as—

The Aether!

Among the six Infinity Stones, the other five appeared in solid form, while only the Reality Stone was presented as a strangely flowing red liquid.

But this was not important.

What was important was that the Reality Stone was the Aether, and the Aether was the Reality Stone.

That was enough.

Hawk looked at the Reality Stone flowing within the strange geometric device, right before his eyes, lifted his foot, and walked toward it.

The next second.

Crack!

The strange geometric device was covered in electric arcs within the pitch-black space; immediately, a thick electric arc, as large as an arm, instantly surged toward Hawk.

Hawk's sword-like eyebrows raised, and his figure instantly vanished from the spot.

Boom!

The electric arc passed through the afterimage Hawk left behind, shot into a massive rock behind, and accompanied by a violent explosion, the massive rock instantly turned to dust, not even a pebble the size of a fingernail splintering out.

The strange geometric device was covered with countless electric arcs that looked like silver snakes dancing wildly around.

In an instant, the silver, leaping, and flashing electric arcs illuminated the entire sealed area; the crazily dancing electric arcs turned into a violent storm, covering Hawk head to toe.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

What's going on?

Hawk's figure constantly shifted and changed in the air, dodging the electric arcs that his intuition told him would injure him if struck, his heart very puzzled.

In the original plot, Jane Foster didn't seem to encounter such a scene, did she?

Hawk's thoughts turned rapidly, then he seemed to think of something; looking at the electric arcs that almost covered the entire sealed area, after his figure leaped and shifted in the air, he retreated back to the position where he had just stood.

Accompanied by his retreat, the electric arcs on the geometric device sealing the Aether flickered, but it did not fire another electric arc.

As expected!

Seeing this, Hawk thought to himself.

It was just as he had thought.

Rather than saying Jane Foster found the Aether, it was more accurate to say the Aether specifically found Jane Foster and pulled her here.

The reason was very simple.

The Aether needed Jane Foster to leave this sealed area.

As for why it could only be Jane.

Who else but her, being Lei Shen's girlfriend, carrying the aura of Lei Shen, the God of Thunder?

Long ago, when the Asgardian God King was still Bor, Lei Shen's grandfather, the Aether was in the hands of the Dark Elves.

After Bor defeated the Dark Elves and seized the Aether, he originally intended to destroy the Aether.

But...

If the Infinity Stones could be destroyed, could they still be called Infinity Stones?

So Bor could only settle for the next best thing, building a device to seal the Aether, which was this very geometric device sealing the Aether before his eyes.

Because this device was created by Lei Shen's grandfather Bor, naturally, the device's attack mode was also divided by person.

Jane Foster is, after all, Lei Shen's girlfriend, and from a certain angle, if Lei Shen insisted, Jane Foster would in the future be the Queen of Asgard, so naturally this device had no effect on Jane.

As for everyone else?

Then there's no need to say it—smack the hell out of them.

For example, Hawk.

Hawk had no way at all to approach the sealing device right now.

After all, this thing was forged by Bor, the previous generation God King of Asgard, at the height of his power.

Hawk needed the Aether.

Bor had ignored and sealed the Aether.

Which was stronger and which was weaker was plain at a glance; there was no need to compare at all.

So…

Hawk looked ahead at the geometric device that, after he retreated, had its arc of light gradually fade and return to calm, sealing the Aether within, his gaze flickering.

Just then.

Jane's voice rang out from the side.

"Who exactly are you?"

"Where is this place?"

Jane, who had just barely recovered from the strangeness all around her, then saw the geometric device not far away crackling with arcs of electricity that carried a faintly familiar feeling, snapped out of her shock, and asked the Hawk standing ahead of her as much.

She had only been panicked a moment ago, but now she had come back to herself; clearly, the Hawk before her bore her no ill will.

After all…

Facts speak louder than words—judging from Hawk's quick reflexes in dodging the arc just now, if he had designs on her, she would have had no chance to resist.

Hawk listened to Jane's voice, turned his head to glance at Jane beside him, then set his gaze back on the geometric device sealing the Aether not far away.

Jane frowned, looking at Hawk, who showed not the slightest response.

"Hello?"

"Don't rush me, I'm thinking about whether to lie to you."

"…"

Jane's mouth twitched at the words.

"What?"

"I'm wondering whether to tell you the truth, or to lie to you."

Hawk turned his head to look at Jane.

Jane looked at Hawk, whose expression was serious and not at all like he was joking, opened her mouth, and her gaze swept once more over the strange and deathly-still surroundings: "What exactly is this place?"

Hawk shook his head.

"I don't know."

"Is that a lie?"

"No, that part is the truth."

Hawk shook his head again: "I gather this place is probably Vanaheim, one of the Nine Realms."

He was recalling the original plot.

Back then, after God King Bor obtained the Aether, it seemed he had sealed the Aether away in Vanaheim.

But he wasn't entirely sure.

After all, that was in the movies; this is reality. Vanaheim is the Dark Elves' planet—using ordinary logic to think about it, it's rather unlikely that the Aether seized from the Dark Elves would be sealed on the Dark Elves' own planet.

There's no logic to that.

Jane was taken aback for a moment at his words, then blurted out: "The Dark Elves?"

Hawk came back to himself, looked at Jane, his thoughts turning, and laughed: "I almost forgot—when Lei Shen came to Earth back then, he went over the basics of the Nine Realms with you."

Hearing Hawk mention Lei Shen's name, Jane's expression grew a little excited as she looked at Hawk.