The Frost Giants had originally intended to surrender to Asgard as a whole, even voluntarily offering tens of thousands of young and able-bodied troops as hostages to demonstrate their sincerity.
Naturally, Thor had no intention of wiping them out completely. Even if his plan succeeded and linked the Plane of Fire with Jotunheim, it would still take thousands of years to completely exterminate the Frost Giants.
Now that the Frost Giants were willing to surrender, Asgard could at least gain a thousand years of peace. It was hardly a loss.
Moreover, those magic arrays would not be dismantled. If the Frost Giants showed any unusual movement, Thor could activate the arrays without even declaring war and complete the final step of linking the two planes.
Only once he felt that everything was secure did Thor invite Luo Xia to attend this surrender ceremony.
After all, Luo Xia had helped Asgard fend off Laufey's surprise attack, directly crushing the Frost Giants' last hope. Though that contribution did not compare to Thor leading from the front and fighting for so long, it was unquestionably second only to Thor's.
This was Asgardian highest courtesy, almost more solemn than marrying one's daughter to you.
Naturally, Luo Xia would not refuse an opportunity to deepen their relationship, so he gladly went.
Yet no one had expected that once everything was ready, what awaited them before the magic array was not the Frost Giant leadership arriving bound and surrendering, but a mad army.
The army of Frost Giants appeared to consist entirely of the old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled. They did not even possess half the quality of a regular army.
Dragging their frail bodies along, they charged the magic array without regard for their lives, only to throw those lives away in