What Odin Once Did

Xiang Qian had no idea Odin and Thor were feeling so emotional. When he looked up at Hela diving from midair like a hawk, the ground changed first.

Rows upon rows of earthen spikes abruptly halted, as though a machine's gears had jammed, and their overwhelming momentum came to an instant stop.

At the same time, the white mist gushing from the cracks in the ground instantly lost its force. No longer blasting out with tremendous pressure, it drifted aimlessly like steam in a sauna before quickly thinning and dispersing.

The changes on the ground were the Space Stone at work.

Meanwhile, the Reality Stone also began to exert its power. When Xiang Qian's gaze fell upon the sharp sword in Hela's hand, the gold-inlaid longsword forged by Asgard's world will gradually began to crumble.

All tangible and intangible matter in the universe was subject to the Reality Stone's influence. At its core, Asgard's world will was merely a form of energy, albeit one expressed in a unique manner.

The power of the Space Stone and the Reality Stone was brought into full play. Any ordinary Asgardian present could see that Hela's assault had been effortlessly defused.

Yet what truly posed a lethal threat to Hela was the Mind Stone's invisible attack.

Hela, suspended in midair, was horrified. An irresistible mental force was continually guiding her consciousness. Like a demon's whisper, it echoed unceasingly beside her ears: "Reject her. Abandon her. Leave her..."

As the whispers penetrated ever deeper into her mind, an aversion toward Hell arose from the depths of Hela's subconscious.

This aversion continually interfered with and tore apart Hela's true will, making her instinctively try to stay away from everything connected to the Hell Dimension, including the source of the Hell Dimension—Death.

This mental attack did not