Odin's Plan

The Bifrost shattered, Loki let go and fell, Thor was celebrating wildly with his friends, while Xia Yu was invited to a room by Odin surprisingly conjured up a typical Huaxia tea table and began brewing tea for Xia Yu.

The tea is excellent, a decades-old Pu'er tea cake, ripe Pu-erh. I don't know where Odin got it from. The tea-brewing skills are also superb, flowing smoothly and clearly showing that he has practiced extensively.

"Grandpa, your skills are truly amazing!" Xia Yu gave Odin a thumbs up.

Odin picked up the teapot and slowly poured the tea into the fairness cup. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "When a person's lifespan is so long that it's measured in thousands of years, it's only natural to be multi-talented. After all, you always need to find a few hobbies to pass the time, don't you? Also, I said, call me Uncle."

Xia Yu's lips twitched. "Okay, Uncle Odin, you asked me to come to Asgard, is there something you want to tell me in person?" Xia Yu adopted a very humble attitude in front of Odin, firstly because he was too terrifying, and secondly because they were, after all, on the same side, weren't they?

Odin did not answer Xia Yu's question directly, but instead asked Xia Yu, "Do you know what a god is?"

"You're the one who said that, someone at a higher level of life, and while I think it makes a lot of sense," Xia Yu replied.

Odin waved his hand, indicating that he didn't care about Xia Yu's words, and continued, "When I was young, I conquered the Nine Realms, and the name of Asgard shook the entire universe. I also considered myself a god, and I believed that we, the Asgardians, were a race of gods, who controlled all things in the world."

"But later, I gradually came to understand a principle: God is just a tool, a tool created by the World Will. Just like I want to drink tea now, I need a teacup and a teapot. Just like I gave Thor a hammer. Thor may not be as powerful as the hammer yet, but the hammer is a tool. Do you understand?" Odin asked Xia Yu.

"I kind of understand," Xia Yu answered honestly.

Odin smiled and pointed at Xia Yu, saying, "Do you know the difference between us?"

Xia Yu laughed, "I know that, there's too much to list. I'm younger than you; handsome; tall; popular with girls; and my eyes..."

Odin waved his hand, interrupting Xia Yu: "You child, do you always like to fool people like this?"

"The difference between us is that my power has an upper limit, a prescribed limit. I am Odin, the All-Father." Odin picked up a chalice and gestured.

"Like a large cup, my capacity is only so big, and I have to pour water into smaller cups, like Thor." Odin poured Xia Yu a cup of tea.

"Then my water level dropped a little and never came back up, unless I take back Thor's power myself. The same applies to others, and there's also unavoidable waste and evaporation in the process of pouring water back and forth," Odin said.

Odin pointed to the Cup of Justice and said, "This is what is called a god. This is the role I play. The word 'god' has never been a compliment. But you, humans, have no limits. You can constantly break through your own limitations, cultivate yourselves, master technology, and understand the truth of all things in the world."

"But we can't do that. When I was young, my strength increased year after year. I thought my level was rising, but actually I just learned to use the water in this cup better. So this has resulted in the fact that we will only get weaker and weaker. Even if all the water is in one cup, it will inevitably evaporate slowly." Odin paused to take a sip of tea and continued to speak to Xia Yu.

"So we are merely tools created by certain beings. I don't know when we will be discarded because we are no longer useful, such as the inevitable Ragnarok. I understood this principle long ago after I conquered the Nine Realms," Odin said.

"And you, humans, are the Creator's favorites. In your Huaxia language, you are the Fortune of Heaven and Earth. Among the Nine Realms, you are the Midgard, the core. So if the Asgardians do not wish to disappear from this universe, they can only go to the Midgard, where we will transform from gods into humans," Odin said calmly.

Xia Yu, who had been sitting quietly listening, couldn't help but ask, "Then how does one transform into a human? And what does that have to do with me?"

Odin looked at Xia Yu and said with a smile, "Don't be impatient, let me explain slowly. Because destruction is inevitable, I laid a trap thousands of years ago. I want to create an artificial Ragnarok to completely destroy Asgard. This is my source of divine power, and I want to utterly destroy it."

Odin picked up the cup of justice and smashed it to the ground. Then, pointing at the teacup, he said, "If the big one is destroyed, the small one will be fine. The lineage of the All-Father will be interrupted, Asgard will cease to exist, and the people of Asgard, deprived of divine power, will slowly turn into ordinary humans."

Xia Yu was shocked. Scenes from several Marvel movies flashed through his mind: Odin saying to Thor in Norway, "This can also be Asgard."

The appearance of Hela, Thor killing the Surtur, the Fire Giant to avoid Ragnarok, and then placing Surtur's skull into the Eternity Flame under Hela's threat, the destruction of Asgard, and so on.

What a cunning old fox! What a grand scheme!

Xia Yu snapped out of his reverie and pointed to himself, "And what about me?"

Odin pointed at Xia Yu and said, "You are a variable. Before I met you, you were not in my future fragments."

Some of these things had already been discussed between the two of them in the previous conversation, so Xia Yu wasn't surprised. He continued, "So, what does my future look like?"

Odin slowly said, "As I just said, the so-called fortune will remain on Earth for a long time to come, and will reside in certain individuals. Thor and Loki have also been affected by this fortune because of my exile of Thor, which is a good thing."

"Later I discovered you. You don't belong to this world, so fate has nothing to do with you. But strangely enough, the closer those who possess fate are to you, the more fate they accumulate. In our words, they are more favored by the universe."

"You're making me sound like a pile of dog shit, the closer you get to me, the stinkier I get," Xia Yu laughed heartily.