Old Knight Carter Slade looked at Alvin in a daze. He seemed to have seen enough of those two skeletal Einherjar, too. By the time Alvin came to his senses, Carter had already left...
Alvin believed what Carter Slade had told him. Even if the old knight had been mistaken about certain things, he had no reason to lie to Alvin.
As far as Alvin was concerned, there wasn't much difference between Asgard "voluntarily" protecting Earth and being "forced" to protect it.
At least, from what Alvin had seen of Frigga, Hela, Thor, Odin, and the other so-called "gods," they bore no ill will toward Earth. Or, as Carter Slade had said, they "dared not"...
The other information—like the fact that angels were incarnations of the Vanir Einherjar in the mortal world—struck him as pretty interesting.
Those "Immortals" Hela had mentioned seemed far more powerful than Alvin had imagined. A single rune had the two Gods running in circles, and forced them to act as Earth's outposts, defending the planet with all their might.
That was pretty interesting...
The Gods were like little fish, struggling in the river of Fate with a string tied around them. That thin string was their connection to Earth...
They were counting on having a way out when Ragnarok came: the chance to "be reborn as ordinary people"!
Thinking of that, Alvin felt sorry for these beings who called themselves "gods"...
As for Carter Slade's talk of "protecting the world and defending freedom," Alvin thought that was only natural. When faced with a matter of such importance, no one could stand apart...
As for how to protect it, Alvin had no idea!
"Fate" was an abstract thing, after all. He couldn't see it or touch it, and he couldn't exactly go chop it up. In