The Biological One Was Even More Brain-Dead

Looking at the blue casket in Loki's hand, Loren's eyes immediately lit up with excitement.

That was exactly what he wanted: the Casket of Ancient Winters, the treasured artifact of the Frost Giants of Jotunheim.

This treasure was no ordinary item. It was a divine artifact capable of freezing an entire planet, its power on par with Eternity's Flame.

Back then, Laufey, the leader of the Frost Giants, had relied on this divine artifact to wage war across the Nine Realms, turning other planets into frozen wastelands.

That way, they became worlds suitable for the Frost Giants to inhabit.

However, the Frost Giants had ultimately been defeated by Odin and forced to sign a peace treaty.

Their treasured artifact—the Casket of Ancient Winters now in Loki's hands—had also been confiscated by Odin and placed in his vault.

It had remained there for over a thousand years, yet Laufey, Wong of the Frost Giants, had never stopped wanting to reclaim his people's treasure.

It was precisely to recover this artifact that he had colluded with Loki, intending to join forces and murder Odin.

What Loki had never expected, though, was that during this process, he would discover that he was not Odin's biological son.

The revelation struck like a bolt from the blue, overturning everything he believed. Naturally, he had been unwilling to believe it or accept it.

Thinking back on everything, he attributed Odin's favoritism toward Thor and his lack of approval toward himself entirely to this matter.

So, in order to prove himself to Odin and seize Wong's throne,

he had laid trap after trap for Thor, which was how Thor ended up stripped of his divine power and banished to Earth.

Everything had actually been proceeding according to the script he had written.

What he had never expected