Odin Closed His One Eye

The instant He-El defeated the Destroyer, Odin, lying in Odin's Sleep and adjusting his own power within a magnificent, solemn chamber, suddenly opened his one eye. An incredulous look flickered within it.

"Who is he?"

Odin was even more shocked than Loki, Thor, or Tony Stark.

As the King of the Gods, ruler of the Nine Realms, there were already few things he had encountered that could still astonish him.

Yet at this moment, he was utterly shaken, so shaken that he opened his eye from Odin's Sleep.

Uru Metal could store the magic and will of gods. It was a unique and powerful metal, unmatched for forging divine artifacts.

And the Destroyer had been forged entirely from Uru Metal by Odin.

Odin had granted the Destroyer immense power of destruction. It was a machine born solely for destruction, and its offensive power and reconstructive abilities could drive every god in the Nine Realms into deep despair.

Loki might have appeared to be controlling the Destroyer, but the Destroyer had never left Odin's control.

Every piece of Uru Metal forged into the Destroyer carried Odin's will. The Destroyer as a whole was like an incarnation of Odin.

Odin could clearly sense the state of the Destroyer's interior.

When He-El's first slash severed one of the Destroyer's energy convergence points, everyone, Odin included, had been somewhat puzzled. They had even suspected that He-El had simply gotten lucky, since the world truly did not lack people with such good fortune.

In a universe with such an enormous population, luck would always favor someone at some moment. The odds might be small, but that did not mean it could not happen.

But when the second energy convergence point was cut apart, while everyone else was still bewildered and astonished, tumultuous waves had already