Nick thought so, and he asked it outright.
"Why do you think I did this without Asgard's consent?" Luke gave Nick a puzzled look, unable to understand the question. Did he usually give people the impression that he liked sneaking around and doing bad things behind their backs?
Wasn't he always open and aboveboard, putting everything out in the open?
At most, he hid some information.
But that stuff was irrelevant!
Besides, how could a black-hearted bastard like Nick question him like that? Saying they were equally bad was already giving Nick far too much credit.
"How could they agree to this?" Nick looked astonished. No one knew better than he did how resistant the Asgardian royal family was to Ragnarok, which in turn proved how important Asgard was to Thor and the others. If someone said they intended to harm Asgard, Nick had no doubt Thor would smash them with his hammer.
But then he thought of something even more terrifying. "You didn't put this kind of dangerous life-form inside our planet too, did you?" Nick had no desire to one day see a giant drill out from the core of the mother planet he protected, celebrating its birth with the destruction of humanity's Homeworld.
"The gestation of a World-Soul is an extremely long process. Even with abundant nourishment and an excellent environment, the time required is beyond human imagination. I don't intend to use any methods to force their growth, so there's no need for your concern.
By the time that day comes, most humans will probably have migrated to other planets or other universes. Besides, what I prepared for Earth is different from this."
Nick's worries seemed entirely unnecessary to Luke. Refusing to eat for fear of choking was not the answer. Without methods to accelerate their