The moment Odin regained his ability to move, the two huge magical coils above and below the glass case had already activated.
He had just been about to turn into lightning and leave, only to discover that his own magic seemed to have been frozen. He could not mobilize even the slightest trace of it.
And he himself was being held up by some force, suspended inside the glass case.
"Roar!" Odin let out an enraged bellow and, with all his strength, threw a punch. A thin flicker of lightning struck the glass case, yet it could not leave even a mark on the casing.
"Oh, another newcomer." Outside the glass case stood a bald old man in a white lab coat. "Looking like this... could you be Odin?"
"Who are you?! And what is this place?!" Odin glared at the old man and roared.
"Ah, my name is Leonard Tomic. I'm a researcher. This is the Deity Research Institute, and you are our nineteenth research subject," the old man said, pointing as he spoke to a label in the upper-left corner of the glass case. Sure enough, the words "No.19" were written on it.
"Deity... Research Institute?" Odin was startled and uncertain. "You know I am a god, and you still dare imprison me?!"
"At first, we were still a little uneasy, but after doing more research, we got used to it," Leonard said. "But if you really are Odin, then you're the first chief-god-level deity we've captured. The ones we caught before were all minor gods, usually revived through sacrificial rituals, and their divine power was very weak."
At this point, Leonard said to the assistant beside him, "Add two more coils and activate the liquid nitrogen cooling system to put it into a magical superconducting state. A