"Han, you can't say things like that carelessly."
Eitri looked at Han Yu with a grave expression. All-Father Odin of Asgard had waged war across the Nine Realms, united them, and ruled them. From what Han Yu had said, the "accident in Asgard" he spoke of seemed unlikely to be a simple calamity.
It might involve... the destruction of Asgard!
Han Yu asked, "Odin also has a daughter. Did you know that?"
"How do you know that?"
Eitri's pupils contracted. Everyone knew that All-Father Odin had two sons, but no one knew that before them, he had also had a daughter named Hela.
She was also known as Hela, the Goddess of Death.
She had once been Asgard's executioner, Odin's right hand, and the first wielder of Mjolnir. After Odin came to rule the Nine Realms, he wanted to govern benevolently, but Hela favored violence and intended to wipe out every country that refused to obey.
Odin discovered Hela's intentions and acted first, stripping her of her divine power and banishing her to Hel. Only afterward did the story of Thor and Loki begin.
Eitri had forged Mjolnir, so naturally he knew this history. Aside from some mighty gods who had remained hidden for a long time, only Odin and Eitri knew about it, which was why he was shocked that Han Yu knew.
How do I know? I can't very well tell you I transmigrated here and saw it in a movie, can I?
Han Yu grumbled inwardly, but his expression remained unchanged. With a faint smile, he said, "Don't worry about that. You just need to know that the future I showed you is real."
"What do you need?"
"I need Uru Metal!"
Uru Metal was a metallic ore found only in Asgard. It had the ability to store energy, especially magic, and seemed to have a natural affinity for magic.
If a mage could obtain equipment forged from Uru Metal, it would also be a tremendous help in increasing his magical power.
Its forging requirements were also extremely demanding. Ordinary flames were completely ineffective; melting the metal required at least the temperature of a planet's core or tremendously powerful fire magic.
Seeing the repeated looks of surprise on Eitri's face, Han Yu smiled and said, "Uru Metal in exchange for peace for your Dwarf Star. Pick one of the two. Take your time."
With that, he went back to refining the Vibranium, leaving Eitri to think it over.
Watching the boy's retreating figure, Eitri recalled that Han Yu had always struck him as a very powerful smith.
That was all. Now, suddenly, he had learned that Dwarf Star would be destroyed, and that Han Yu was capable of protecting them.
Eitri couldn't accept it all at once.
Ten minutes passed before Eitri's voice rang out. "If you can protect us, I'll make the deal!"
Han Yu turned around with a beaming smile. "Deal!"
"Ding! A new item from the Marvel Universe has been detected: unlimited usage rights to 'Uru Metal.' Reward received: upgrade points ×100!"
Hearing the voice in his head, even Han Yu couldn't help raising an eyebrow. He had actually been given a hundred upgrade points!
An ordinary collection mission in another world usually only gave around twenty points. This had saved him the time of five missions.
"As expected of Uru Metal. Vibranium can't compare at all."
Han Yu murmured.
Eitri thought Han Yu was speaking to him. "What?"
"Nothing," Han Yu said, shaking his head with a smile. Just as he had done with Black Panther earlier, he gave Eitri a Green Lantern Ring and said cheerfully, "Go back and make a shield generator. Put it on the outermost edge of the star ring, then insert this ring. The energy shield it produces won't suffer the slightest damage even if ten large warships bombard it for ten days straight."
Hearing this, Eitri accepted the ring in surprise and examined it from every angle. "It's that powerful?"
Han Yu was still smiling. "If it doesn't work, you get your money back."
In the Marvel Universe, conquering a planet still depended on the strength of one's weapons. The shield from Han Yu's Green Lantern Ring wasn't unbreakable; that kind of firepower simply wasn't enough to break through it.
Only weapons with immense attack power, such as the Power Stone, could deal significant damage to the shield.
Eitri knew nothing about Han Yu's general store, nor did he know that Han Yu had already obtained the right to use Uru Metal as soon as he agreed. He still went back, fetched a box of Uru Metal, and left it in the workshop before departing.
Given Eitri's personality, having obtained something so wondrous, he was just like Stark before him and couldn't wait to study it and discover what mysteries it held.
After Eitri left, Han Yu opened the box. The Uru Metal didn't look particularly extraordinary. It was an elongated, five-sided piece of metal, narrower at the top and wider at the bottom, and looked a lot like silver.
"Let me test its durability."
Han Yu eagerly picked up a piece of Uru Metal and tapped it. It felt astonishingly light, like holding an empty plastic box. Despite its size, it weighed only a fifth as much as an equal volume of ordinary metal. It was remarkably light.
Uru Metal could withstand an extremely powerful infusion of magic. Although Han Yu had no magic, both the powerful mental force in his Undying Divine Seal and his endless Green Lantern Energy could be treated as magic.
Han Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, holding the Uru Metal in one hand and suspending the other above it. With a small release, mental force from the Undying Divine Seal flowed through his five fingers into the Uru Metal.
The moment the mental force touched the Uru Metal, it was absorbed. Like a fish coming into contact with water, the Uru Metal began to tremble and glow faintly, greedily absorbing the mental force Han Yu sent into it.
"It really is extraordinary!"
Han Yu snatched his hand back as if shocked. A look of delight appeared in his narrowed eyes. This Uru Metal really was impressive. When other metals were infused with energy, the most it could do was coat the weapon, but with Uru Metal, it entered the weapon itself, and the weapon offered no resistance at all.
"Time to start refining it too."
There were twenty pieces of Uru Metal in the box. Forging a weapon like Mjolnir would only require around ten, but Han Yu threw all twenty pieces into the Planetary Thruster to be heated.
At fifty percent power, the temperature had already surpassed several hundred thousand degrees. The sun, upon which humanity depended for survival, had a surface temperature of only around 5,600 degrees, and even that was enough to vaporize metals such as silver or iron in an instant.
At the even more terrifying temperature of several hundred thousand degrees, Han Yu couldn't say he would emerge unscathed. Yet the Uru Metal showed no change whatsoever, except that it had grown a little brighter.
But the Uru Metal in the flames showed no change whatsoever, except that it had grown a little brighter.
"Oh, this is interesting. So heat-resistant. Good fellow, looks like you can really stretch your legs today."