Stuttgart, located in the Neckar Valley in central Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany, lies near the Black Forest, which gave birth to countless fairy tales and dark, terrifying legends.
It was Germany's sixth-largest city, as well as a renowned economic and cultural center in Europe, with an exceptionally long history.
But today, the city welcomed an uninvited guest—the "Third Princess" Loki from the Asgardian Realm.
At this moment, he was holding high a scepter embedded with the Mind Stone, threatening a group of upper-class men and women in suits and formal gowns, demanding that they kneel before him.
The nearly crazed, twisted look in his eyes made it obvious that ever since his failed coup to seize power, Loki had completely descended into a hysterical state.
As the saying went, if you did not erupt in silence, you went mad in silence.
Even he himself did not know whether he was doing this to obtain some so-called kingdom, to take revenge on his brother Thor and adoptive father Odin, or simply to vent the resentment and hatred in his heart.
Of course, there was no point in thinking about that now.
Ever since he had thrown in his lot with Thanos, Loki no longer had any way out. He could only follow this dark path to the end.
Otherwise, that terrifying being, infamous throughout the universe, would surely make him wish he were dead.
At the thought of Thanos's purple old face, Loki could not help shuddering. He immediately turned that bone-deep fear into rage and roared at the panicked crowd before him, "Kneel! Now! Immediately!"
In an instant!
Under the threat of death, hundreds of civilians dropped to their knees, not daring to defy the madman holding a strange weapon and dressed in such bizarre attire.
"Hahahaha! Wasn't that simple?