Stupid Odin

Subduing Jormungandr was not part of Tang Si's plan.

Jormungandr's sudden declaration of allegiance to the Aesir was entirely unexpected. After all, in Tang Si's eyes, Jormungandr, with its 10-kilometer length, had absorbed a considerable amount of Chaos energy and was ripe for the taking.

Who would have thought that Loki would be so clever, figuring out Thor and Tang Si's plan, and having Jormungandr step in to help deal with the Kraken?

Similarly, as a God-King, Odin in the epics could shamelessly break his own promises and find various excuses to weasel out of them.

Tang Si couldn't bring himself to do such a thing.

Of course, Tang Si left a small loophole—no further growth.

If Jormungandr continued to greedily feed, absorbing the Chaos energy near the continent of Midgard, its length would inevitably exceed one hundred kilometers.

That's a terrifying number.

To mortals, it would be a mountain range.

Tang Si thought he had made a very harsh request.

Unexpectedly, Loki and his son agreed without hesitation.

"Please, Your Majesty, give my son a chance to live."

"Even the greatest pain, Jormungandr is willing to endure!"

It's not surprising that Loki had this idea; what's rare is that Jormungandr was also intimidated.

In reality, this is because Tang Si doesn't quite understand his own power.

Think about it, when Jormungandr was still a small snake, it almost lost its life with just a glance at him from afar.

After finally growing to ten kilometers long, Tang Si put on a live show of killing a sea monster.

Kraken was one of the Ten Great Beasts, and even if Jormungandr were to kill it, dealing with such a slippery giant octopus would be difficult to kill, even if it won.

You should know that Kraken has ink-spraying, soft-body techniques, and other unique skills to escape Jormungandr's pursuit. Yet, against Tang Si, who possesses powerful divine authorities such as [Ocean], it was completely powerless.

Jormungandr insisted that it had only added the finishing touch.

Since Jormungandr acknowledged it, Tang Si didn't stand on ceremony: "Let's give it a try then. I will inscribe runes on your body, trying to completely incorporate your body into the realm of order. In this process, you will be in great pain, expelling a large amount of Chaos energy, and may even shrink in size again. Can you accept this?"

Jormungandr shuddered, and even this small movement stirred up huge waves dozens of meters high around it.

It accepted.

Tang Si told it to swim to the Ironwood Forest by the sea, where he would perform a major surgery on Jormungandr.

This was destined to be a long and painful process.

In the future, Jormungandr would most likely regret it, even doubting time and again whether the God-King wanted to kill it…

Tang Si had settled things on his end.

As for the god involved in this abduction case, well, Tang Si had actually forgotten about it.

Only the dutiful Thor, seeing that his father had already taken action, went to do his job.

In a burst of thunder and lightning, Thor caught up with the giant shapeshifter Skadi and fought a brief but not intense battle.

Whether it was just a feeling or not, those who were good at shapeshifting seemed to have weak combat power in their original form.

Loki was like that, and this Skadi was similar.

It must be admitted that this Skadi was truly in love with Idun. Seeing Thor swing his hammer with an air that he didn't care about the safety of the captive, Skadi, who had transformed into a giant eagle, actually released his claws at the last moment, dropped Idun, and launched a counter-charge against Thor.

This was a courageous… death wish!

Against the number one thug under the God-King of the Aesir, Skadi died!

After killing the opponent with one hammer, Thor even suspected that he had killed a fake abductor.

It wasn't until he flew back, grabbed the goddess of youth Idun, and asked about the whole process that he realized things were really that simple—Skadi was infatuated with Idun, transformed into an eagle to bypass Heimdall's surveillance, observed for a long time in the sky above Asgard, discovered Idun's weakness of trusting people, and decisively chose to frame Loki by transforming into Loki's appearance and abducting Idun.

Of course, Thor knew that Idun had probably suffered a lot from being abducted like this.

Whether or not she would accept Idun's experience in the future was her husband Bragi's business; Thor was only responsible for rescuing Idun.

In the end, those elderly pure-blooded Aesir only cared about whether they had golden apples to eat to maintain their youth.

No one cared what Idun had gone through.

When Thor and Loki successfully rescued Idun back to Asgard, Thor rightfully received the praise of the pure-blooded Aesir. As for Loki, those proud Aesir originally wanted to go back on their word.

Who knew that Tang Si on the throne would speak up.

"This time, Loki put in a lot of effort. He not only contributed his wisdom, but when the giant Skadi used the Kraken as a shield, he called out his son, the giant serpent Jormungandr, to help attack the Kraken, which is why Thor was able to safely rescue Idun. This rescue, Loki's contribution is even greater than Thor's."

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"Yes!" Brother Hammer, Thor, righteously nodded in agreement.

Now it was the pure-blooded Aesir's turn to feel embarrassed.

"We, this, that…"

"At worst, we'll call it even…"

Seeing that they still wanted to play tricks, Tang Si frowned deeply. Tang Si suddenly understood why the Norse gods in the epics were almost all stingy.

Odin took the benefits and refused to acknowledge them, and these pure-blooded Aesir who considered themselves to be of noble status were all the same, none of them were good people.

"Humph!" Tang Si first coldly snorted, mixed with boundless divine might, and all the pure-blooded Aesir dared not speak.

Tang Si said coldly: "This time, Loki didn't just save Idun, he saved your lives. Compared to your lives, which is more important, the pranks he used to play on you? If you can't even tell the difference, then don't live, get out of the Aesir, and don't even think about golden apples!"

These Aesir were all silent, and in the end, they could only lower their heads and come to Loki one by one, bowing to Loki.

Regardless of whether it was from the heart or not, those thank yous at least sounded sincere enough.

Did Loki care whether they were sincere?

He didn't care!

On the contrary, the feeling that the other party resented him but had to bow their heads to him was what Loki enjoyed the most.

"Hahaha! Everyone! You're too polite. Don't worry, in the future, you can trust me, Loki, when you encounter something."

If looks could kill, Loki would have enjoyed at least ten slow slicings.

Still, Loki didn't care.

His daughter had ascended, his second son now seemed to be able to be saved, and Loki suddenly felt a sense of belonging to the Aesir.

Tang Si was happy, Loki was happy, so there must be someone who wasn't happy.

Right, Odin!

After learning about this, Odin's face was dark.

Bragi was relatively weak by nature, and Odin had long given up hope for him, but he couldn't allow Bragi to break up with Idun.

Idun's golden apples were a strategic resource!

ps: The next update will be normal. There will be two updates before 12 o'clock in the evening, and the rest will depend on fate after midnight. If possible, I'll schedule them.