Chapter 1350: Mysteries of the Feast (Part 17)

"You mean, the Shi'ar Queen might have already visited Charles? What did they talk about?" Shiler narrowed his eyes and asked.

"I want to know too." The light of the Eye of Agamotto in Strange's hand gradually brightened. He smiled and said, "Even if the two of them have old feelings, they probably won't be dry wood and raging fire on the first night of reunion, so there probably isn't any content unsuitable for children. We can see it with our own eyes."

After speaking, the light of the Time Stone enveloped several people. Asgard's time changed from night to day, and then from day to night again. When Shiler landed, he looked out the window again and saw the bright light of the engine when the Shi'ar Empire's ship landed.

A group of people walked out of the ship, laid out the carpet on the ground, and the honor guard of Asgard stopped opposite the carpet. Thor walked forward and first tapped his chest lightly with his fist, while Lilandra, who walked down from the ship, slightly bent her knees with her right hand supporting the feathers on her temple.

Both sides greeted each other with the etiquette of their own countries, and then entered Xiangong side-by-side. Several phantoms stood on the balcony, and Strange blinked and said, "It seems that after the Queen came to Asgard and finished the official meeting, the first thing she did was to go find Charles."

"You mean, the Shi'ar Queen might have already visited Charles? What did they talk about?" Shiler narrowed his eyes and asked.

Miss Witch's age group meant that she still believed in the set of pursuing true love, but at the same time, her moral outlook also made her unable to accept extramarital affairs, so she felt a bit terrified, fearing that she might hear some words that would shatter Professor Charles's filter in a moment.

But Strange and Shiler's expressions were very calm. Not to mention that things probably wouldn't be so simple, even if the Queen really intended to rekindle old love with Charles, they wouldn't use human moral views to demand aliens. Maybe people's marriage views and emotional views were completely different?

Soon, several phantoms slipped to the balcony they had stayed on before. That was a good place to eavesdrop.

Shiler understood that Charles would not casually open his mind-reading ability in Asgard. This was not because Professor X's moral level was high, mainly because there were many races in the universe, and not every race was like humans who would not notice mind-reading. If discovered, it would be troublesome. Professor X would not take such a risk.

Therefore, several people were exceptionally fearless, all stretching their necks to look into the window of the guest room opposite. Sure enough, not long after, a cluster of bright feathers appeared in everyone's field of vision.

"What are they saying?" Rocket Raccoon, held in Shiler's arms, asked very puzzled. He only saw the mouths of the two people in the window opposite moving, but couldn't hear any sound.

"The Shi'ar Queen cast a magic spell to shield the sound. Let me see if I can crack it... Not very good, I can't make a big move here, otherwise I will be discovered. Or should we pause time and hide in the guest room?"

"Get out of the way, let me come." Scarlet Witch shook her head, Strange decisively took a step back, Wanda stepped forward, red light flashed in her hand, and soon intermittent sounds were transmitted to where several people were.

"... I'm afraid I really need your help, Charles. You should understand me. If the situation wasn't really extremely critical, I wouldn't be in such a hurry to come here and find you!"

"Of course, I understand, Lil. Let's not mention the past. When we were young, there were too many senseless quarrels. Now it seems it was just making a mountain out of a molehill."

Charles sighed, showed a sad expression, and said, "Actually, I am also very worried about the situation of the Shi'ar Empire. When I was still in the Aerie Palace, I saw that group of nobles smiling with knives hidden in their smiles. Once the Shi'ar Empire is in chaos, it will do no good to the cosmic situation at all. Too many innocent lives will suffer. This is what we don't want to see."

"Precisely because of this, Charles, you should help me." Lilandra walked closer to Charles. Charles, sitting in the chair, looked up at her, and tears flickered in Lilandra's eyes.

"For so many years, I have been alone in the Aerie Palace. My brother's remaining forces constantly want to shake my throne. The nobles are not enterprising, and even feel that the decision my brother made back then was right. They feel that as long as the power of the m'kraan crystal can be thoroughly developed, they can sit firmly as the head of the three major empires forever."

Lilandra's tone became more and more sad. She continued, "The economic policies I proposed to improve the lives of the people, the plans to resist the invasion of the other two major empires, were all hindered by them and could not be implemented at all."

"Now, they have set their sights on the m'kraan crystal again, wanting to use that big bomb that might destroy the universe to manufacture a second large portal."

"The gods were blinded by the power they might obtain, and my stupid husband was also bewitched by power. Charles, besides you, I really can't think of anyone else who can help me."

Charles reached out and gently touched the feathers behind Lilandra's head. He looked into Lilandra's eyes and said, "I think you should understand that mutants can help you once or twice, but they cannot help you forever."

"I hope you can come back, Charles." Lilandra's tone began to tremble. She said, "The days we spent together in the Aerie Palace were the happiest period of my life."

"You have to calm down, Lilandra. Now is not the time to talk about feelings. The Shi'ar Empire still depends on you." Charles withdrew his hand, looked into Lilandra's eyes, and comforted her.

A trace of disappointment flashed in Lilandra's eyes. She took a step back slightly, then turned and walked to the chair opposite Charles and sat down.

She picked up the cup and took a sip of water, saying, "Perhaps you also know that the m'kraan crystal is not a Shi'ar holy object at all. It originally belonged to a race called m'kraan and has nothing to do with the Shi'ar twin gods and the Aerie."

"However, generations of brainwashing have made the nobles of the Aerie really feel that this is a holy object bestowed by the gods upon the Shi'ar, so we should obtain great power from it."

"This group of people is stupider than my brother. The mad King D'Ken was clear that the so-called holy object was just a tool. The craziest thing he did was just to use living beings for various experiments, but this group of nobles seems to really worship the m'kraan crystal as a god, and even wants to offer sacrifices to the m'kraan crystal in exchange for the mercy of great power."

"Do the Shi'ar twin gods not care about this?" Charles frowned and asked.

"This is the key point. The Shi'ar twin gods also have no way to deal with the m'kraan crystal." Lilandra covered her eyes with one hand and said, "Our great gods seem to want the power of the m'kraan crystal even more. Without their indulgence, the nobles could not have reached this step."

"That kind of magic that can produce mental links with other things is my talent. When I was very young, I once had mental links with both the Shi'ar twin gods and the m'kraan crystal."

Lilandra showed a look of recollection and said in a serious tone, "So, when others were worshipping the gods without knowing the truth, I knew that they were just slightly more powerful creatures in the universe."

"When I had a mental link with the m'kraan crystal, I discovered that it was not a holy object, but the first star at the birth of the universe. The center of the m'kraan crystal hides the door to other universes."

"But that is actually entirely a trap." Lilandra shook her head with a painful face and said, "Anyone who wants to borrow the power inside the m'kraan crystal is destined to meet destruction. This is the reason why I oppose anyone touching it. It's not that I don't want that kind of power, I just don't dare."

"Lil, I know you fear the m'kraan crystal, but to solve the internal problems of the Shi'ar Empire, I'm afraid you really have to start with this crystal."

Lilandra looked up at Charles. Charles shook his head and said, "I'm not saying you should study the crystal and then use its power to solve the nobles, but as long as this so-called Shi'ar holy object stays in the Shi'ar Empire for one day, then the greed of those in the know for it will be endless."

"I think you should destroy the m'kraan crystal." Charles said decisively.

Lilandra opened her mouth wide. She stared at Charles blankly, as if she didn't believe he would say this, but suddenly, she felt a bit embarrassed, because she found herself hesitating.

"But... but..."

"You are reluctant, right?" Charles looked at Lilandra with his consistently gentle expression, but his tone became more aggressive.

"Actually, in your heart, you also regard the m'kraan crystal as the property of the Shi'ar Empire, as part of the power of the Shi'ar Empire. You also think it may become a powerful weapon of the Shi'ar Empire, and the ultimate means in confronting other empires."

"Lilandra, this is the biggest reason why you are still alone after so many years. You oppose certain things, but you don't oppose them thoroughly. You agree with certain things, but you don't dare to fully agree. You avoid taking extreme measures, and you drag on things that are imminent until you can't drag them on anymore, and then you look to others."

"Perhaps, the life of the second princess who was stuck in the middle and not favored at all made you develop such a habit of being cautious and not offending either side. As a princess, it's okay, but as a monarch, it won't work."

Wanda outside the window was completely stunned. He had never seen such an aggressive Professor X, but Shiler shook his head and didn't show surprise.

In fact, any excellent psychologist knows how to poke other people's pain points and how to use words to break the other party's defense. Professor X doesn't often use such techniques; it's just that his edge is restrained and he doesn't easily draw his sword, which doesn't mean he won't.

"Charles!" Lilandra gritted her teeth and called Charles's name in an angry and panicked tone. She stood up from the table, looked at Charles with red eyes, and said, "I thought you would understand me!"

Lilandra took a deep breath, as if she had lost her reason, and said, "Yes, that's right, I am an unfavored second princess, but so what? In the end, didn't I ascend the throne?!"

Lilandra blinked rapidly, her lips kept trembling, and she shook her head with a tiny amplitude, bringing the feathers behind her head to sway slightly.

"What happened to that eldest princess who was famous in the universe in the end?" Lilandra panted while showing a cold smile and said, "Did she defeat Odin?! Seize the throne? In the end, wasn't she imprisoned by Odin in the death kingdom where no one lived, and could only watch her brother ascend the throne, but didn't even have the qualification to attend the wedding?!"

Lilandra closed her eyes tremblingly, and those defensive pictures kept replaying in her mind.

Every child born in the royal family has the heart to ascend the throne. Once upon a time, Lilandra was not that inconspicuous and cowardly second princess. She also had ambition and had even taken action.

But Hela's tragedy gave her a head-on blow. That legendary eldest princess, who was the only heir to Asgard and was once famous, only ended up with a failed uprising and life imprisonment.

Then what about her? An ordinary princess who was neither the eldest son nor as favored as the youngest son?

Indeed, for so many years, Lilandra lived cautiously. If it weren't for saving her life, she wouldn't have spoken directly to her brother. But this only act of rebellion allowed her to obtain the throne.

Perhaps the throne came too easily, without pain, naturally there would be no growth. A country is easy to change, but nature is hard to change. Lilandra herself also knew clearly that years of caution had changed her personality. She was not a tyrant who could be arbitrary, and didn't even have the decisiveness that an ordinary monarch should have.

Being so bluntly exposed by her old lover, anger filled Lilandra's heart. She thought, if Hela wasn't too dazzling, how could she appear exceptionally cowardly?

She gritted her teeth and looked at Charles and said, "If that eldest princess could appear at the wedding banquet, that would be great! I'd like to see, now that she has no throne and no army, what else can she be arrogant about?!"

"So what if she has been traversing the universe for many years? In the end, wasn't she imprisoned by Odin?" Lilandra said coldly, "I dare say, this is the most correct decision the All-Father has ever made."

"It's over." Shiler outside the window said.

Everyone turned to look at him, but Shiler's gaze fell on the pine branch outside Charles's guest room window, on that raven that had just taken off.