Berserker Staff (Part 2)

"You're hurt." After receiving Ada's notice, Shen Fei arrived at an ordinary motel and saw her pale face.

"Just a minor injury." Ada waved dismissively, but her tightly furrowed brows gave her away.

"Your ribs are broken, and you call that a minor injury? Why didn't you go to the hospital?" After examining her, Shen Fei immediately took out a scalpel with his left hand and activated the Op-Op Fruit's ability. He cut out Ada's injured area, treated it, and only then returned that part to her body.

"You can do that? You really should become a doctor." Ada touched the injured area with an astonished expression.

"I am a doctor. Anyway, what happened?" Shen Fei immediately asked what had occurred.

"The item was taken. I never expected a Doctor to be that powerful." Ada immediately explained the reason for her injury.

Ada had been carrying out the four tasks Shen Fei had given her, merely assigning them different priorities. She had taken the Berserker Staff matter particularly seriously. Professionals truly were professionals.

Although Shen Fei had not mentioned the book's title, its contents concerned Asgardian myths and legends. Ada had people specifically investigate believers and pagans in Norway, eventually finding the book through them.

Moreover, she had found it through the man and woman from the original work who had gone searching for the Berserker Staff.

Before Asgard revealed itself, everything concerning Asgard was merely legend, and few people believed it. In the original work, the pair had only begun searching for the Berserker Staff after the Battle of New York, once Thor appeared.

Since Thor existed, Asgard surely existed as well. That meant the records in the book might be true. With that thought in mind, the pair had begun their search.

After obtaining the book, Ada consulted several professors and experts on mythology before finding the first Berserker Staff. What she had not expected was that while locating the second one, she would unexpectedly encounter a Doctor she had consulted before—Dr. Elliot Randolph, a university professor.

Since he was merely an ordinary professor, Ada had not paid him much attention. She paid the price for that mistake. This seemingly ordinary professor possessed astonishing strength. Ada could not defeat him, and the item was taken afterward.

"After searching everywhere in vain, it practically fell into our laps." Shen Fei could not help smiling after hearing Ada's account.

He knew who this professor was. However, since he did not know his name or location and only knew that he was a professor, there were simply too many such professors around the world. Therefore, Shen Fei had not made much effort to find him.

But now, the man had delivered himself right to their doorstep.

"You know who he is?" Ada immediately noticed Shen Fei's expression.

"I only knew there was someone like him, but I didn't know his identity. Can we find him now?"

"Of course." Ada took out a tracker as she spoke.

As an agent, her belongings were not something people could simply steal.

"Aren't we going after him?" Ada asked curiously as Elliot Randolph, carrying a long package on his back, looked around before quickly getting into his car and driving away.

"Isn't one piece still missing? Rather than search for it ourselves, we might as well let him lead us to it." Shen Fei smiled from the passenger seat.

"He knows where it is? Then why did he only start looking now?" Ada asked in astonishment.

"He was the one who hid it in the first place. Why would he need to look for it?" Shen Fei said with a smile, turning to Ada.

"You mean...?" Shen Fei's words shocked Ada so deeply that, if she had not been wearing a seat belt, she might have jumped to her feet.

Magic and the like had certainly impacted Ada, but superpowers already existed, so magic was simply magic. After all, Earth had plenty of legends about it.

But figures from myth and legend were different. This was Asgard from Norse mythology. To find the Berserker Staff, Ada had read that book countless times.

"Why are you so surprised? So-called gods can simply be regarded as aliens."

"Aliens?"

Even with Shen Fei putting it that way, it was impossible for Ada to accept it immediately.

"Alright, let's follow him first."

In Ireland, Elliot Randolph quietly entered an old-looking church and took out the final piece of the Berserker Staff he had hidden there.

"Where should I hide it?" Elliot Randolph muttered to himself as he looked at the three pieces of the Berserker Staff inside the package.

"You can hide it with me." Shen Fei and Ada walked out as he spoke.

"It's you two." Upon seeing Ada, Elliot Randolph roughly understood what was happening.

"You're an Asgardian, the Berserker who hid these things." After sizing Elliot Randolph up, Ada immediately asked.

"What are you talking about? I'm just a professor curious about mythology." Ada's words startled Elliot Randolph, and he gave an awkward laugh.

"Enough denying it. I know who you are. I'm not interested in you. Just give me the items." Shen Fei stepped forward.

"These things should never have appeared." Perhaps realizing he could no longer conceal the truth, Elliot Randolph directly grabbed one piece of the Berserker Staff. Once it began to glow, he attached the other two pieces. In an instant, they formed a complete Berserker Staff, with no trace of the broken sections remaining.

Elliot Randolph's bearing immediately changed as he gripped the Berserker Staff.

"Asgard's Berserker, this is a church. It wouldn't be good to damage this place. Let's go outside."

"It's not too late for you to give up now." On a mountainside nearby, Elliot Randolph, holding the Berserker Staff, suddenly drove it forcefully into the ground. The earth around them instantly shook, and half the staff plunged beneath the surface. This was rocky terrain.

"Not bad strength, but I'm taking that staff today." Shen Fei formed hand seals with both hands, and a golden rod appeared in his grasp. "Watch out."

With that, Shen Fei charged forward. Although his opponent had merely been an ordinary Asgardian soldier, that was only by Asgardian standards. Compared to people from Earth, he was far stronger. Hadn't even Ada been unable to defeat him?

In terms of physical ability, even ordinary Asgardians were far stronger than people from Earth. Shen Fei remembered that in the original work, Elliot Randolph had bent Ward's dagger with his bare hands and snapped handcuffs apart directly.

At present, only a handful of people on Earth could rival that strength.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Shen Fei and Elliot Randolph fought head-on, with no techniques involved whatsoever. As the rods in their hands continuously collided, dazzling sparks flashed without end. At first, Elliot Randolph could still withstand several direct blows, but afterward he was forced back step by step.

"Hmm!" Elliot Randolph roared. The Berserker Staff in his hand emitted a strange glow, and he charged at Shen Fei.

"His strength has increased quite a bit. And this is only a stonemason. I wonder how strong Thor and Loki's bodies are." Although Elliot Randolph's strength had increased, he was still no match for Shen Fei. After Shen Fei drove him back with a strike, he twisted his hands, turning the rod into an iron chain. He swung it at Elliot Randolph's feet and yanked, sending him crashing to the ground. Then the chain lashed out at the Berserker Staff in his hand, knocking it away.

"Beating him is no problem, but if I want to fight Thor and the others, I'm still far too weak." The gap between ordinary Asgardians and the royal family was like the difference between heaven and earth.

The average lifespan of an Asgardian was five thousand years, but that statistic only applied to ordinary Asgardians. Nobles and the royal family were not included. Just think about how long Odin had lived—hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of years.

Of course, that was also related to Odin's strength. The stronger one was, the longer one lived.