I Go Seek Answers

Knull narrowed his scarlet eyes slightly as he looked at Loki, bound by responsibility before him.

The anger in his heart gradually subsided, replaced by a complicated emotion.

They had both once stood at the very pinnacle of the universe, yet before powers from higher dimensions, they seemed so powerless.

What lay beyond the universe?

"So." Knull's voice softened somewhat.

"You're planning to give up just like that?"

"No." Loki shook his head, and a faint glimmer rekindled in his eyes.

"I can't act personally, but I saw a variable."

His gaze seemed to pierce through time and space, falling upon some distant universe.

"An outsider beyond the wall like you. No, someone even more special than you."

"Xiao Han." Knull spoke the name.

"That's right." Loki nodded.

"His existence belongs to no timeline. He is the only variable capable of breaking this deadlock. There was no script for him in the Beyonders' experiment."

"So you called me here just to tell me this?" Knull frowned.

"No." A familiar, sly curve rose at the corner of Loki's mouth.

"I wanted to tell you that although the game was laid out long ago, there is now a player on the board who belongs to us."

"And what you need to do..." His gaze sharpened.

"...is become the sharpest sword in his hand when he needs it."

Knull fell silent.

He looked at Loki, then at the timelines around them that sustained the entire Multiverse.

At last, he understood that this war was far more complicated than he had imagined.

"I understand."

Knull put away the Necrosword and turned to leave.

He had already received the answer he sought.

"Where will you go next?"

"To seek answers." Knull replied without looking back.

"I will become stronger! I will seize my fate in