"Gone!"
"What?"
"Malekith is gone."
Lake stood atop the Heaven Nebula beside the three women. Feeling the moment when Odin brought down Gungnir like a declaration on the Dark Elf planet, he shook his head. The corners of his mouth curled into endless mockery toward Malekith. "Even if Odin is weakening, the World Tree Universe is still his."
He had taken the Infinity Stones from the Marvel Universe into the World Tree Universe, where even the fundamental laws were different, and tried to fight Odin.
What had he been thinking?
Odin was weakening, but the World Tree Universe was still in his hands.
That was why Lake had taken advantage of Odin being too busy to look after himself, making Heaven fall directly from the World Tree before moving it out of the Marvel Universe.
Up to this point, before Ragnarok finally descended, the World Tree Universe was still Odin's home ground.
If Heaven had remained in the World Tree Universe, Odin might not have been able to conquer it.
But...
Heaven would also have been unable to expand. If Heaven remained in the World Tree Universe, its angels would be fine inside Heaven. But once they left, who knew whether Odin had any other troops besides the two armies of kingship and war he had kept hidden?
But things were different now that Heaven had detached from the World Tree Universe and landed in the Marvel Universe.
At worst, everyone would be fighting on unfamiliar ground. It was fair and even.
Odin's strength could not be fully unleashed in the Marvel Universe.
Neither could Lake's.
But Lake dared to guarantee that if Odin dared to leave the World Tree Universe, Lake could humiliate this white-haired old man to his heart's content—the old man whose life was about to reach