"Then... what happened after that?" Jane asked curiously.
"After that, with the support of many other powers, Asgard fought a fierce war against the Dark Elves. In the end, Asgard obtained the Aether and successfully drove out the last surviving Dark Elves." Frigga slowly recounted that heroic chapter of history.
Loki found it strange. Why had Asgard emerged victorious in the end?
If things had been as his mother described, shouldn't the Dark Elves have defeated Asgard?
Their technology and magic had been countless eras ahead, yet they had lost to Asgard, which had only just begun to rise back then?
Loki grew a little more interested in the Dark Elves.
"In the end, Asgard's God King at the time destroyed the Aether and wiped out the Dark Elves... of course, that is only a legend," Frigga continued. "The truth is difficult to verify now. Whether the Dark Elves were slaughtered to the last remains unknown, but we can be certain that the Aether was not destroyed.
In fact, the Aether cannot be destroyed at all. That claim was only made to mislead the many powers of the universe."
Loki frowned. His instincts told him there was more to this. "Mother, since the Aether is so powerful and so dangerous, why didn't Asgard investigate how to use it back then? I don't believe the Dark Elves could have created a weapon that was utterly impossible to destroy."
If they couldn't destroy a weapon they had made themselves, what would happen if it was turned against their own people someday?
Either the Aether wasn't a weapon the Dark Elves had created at all.
Or Asgard had actually kept it back then with the intention of studying it.
Loki continued, "And why give the Aether to Blue Star's Sorcerer Supreme?"
Frigga gently