Loki threw back his head and laughed.
"You lost, Odin."
This was a trap he had meticulously arranged, exploiting nothing more than Odin's weaknesses and flaws, as well as the vulnerabilities in Asgard's defenses.
Such a vast Asgard.
Once the gatekeeper Heimdall had been defeated, they could enter as though no one were there.
This had to be called Odin's miscalculation.
And Jotunheim's warriors were brave and skilled in battle.
That... invincible, unconquerable Asgard had become history. Tens of thousands of years of peace had worn away their sharp edges.
It had made them: depraved.
Complacent.
Meanwhile, Jotunheim's warriors fought desperately. They were bloodthirsty and brutal.
On the battlefield, their momentum utterly overwhelmed Asgard's warriors.
Their roars shook the heavens.
Screams continued without end.
Jotunheim's warriors fought more fiercely with every battle, while Asgard's warriors suffered a crushing defeat, falling one after another into pools of blood.
Asgard's myth of invincibility was no more.
"Loki!"
Witnessing Asgard's warriors fall into pools of blood one by one, Odin was filled with hatred.
He beat his chest and stomped his feet.
Odin, the All-Father... had conquered in every direction tens of thousands of years ago. By himself, he was stronger than all of Asgard combined! When Odin waged war across the cosmos, so long as the gods of the universe did not appear, he could swagger through the universe unchecked. Even the Kree Empire would cower upon seeing Odin, because there was simply no one in the Kree Empire who could fight him head-on.
Especially since Asgard possessed the divine artifact known as the Bifrost, capable of precise transportation across the universe. For instance, if the enemy were the Kree Empire, Odin could ride the Bifrost directly to the Kree Empire's homeworld and kill their "Supreme Intelligence."
And the Bifrost was also