John had no interest in Thor and Jane's subsequent kissing and lovey-dovey antics.
He headed to the Asgard Library, access to which he had secured through their bargain.
In Asgard, where everyone lived long lives, the records were far more detailed.
They covered everything from the customs of the Nine Realms to their hidden histories.
John even found records of Heaven.
"The Heaven Dimension?"
John narrowed his eyes.
With Hell in existence, Heaven was hardly surprising.
Heaven had originally been the tenth realm, but certain events had led to its expulsion from the World Tree.
To John, being able to move an entire realm away was truly remarkable.
His journey to Asgard aboard the Bifrost had also helped him understand a few things.
Asgard could be considered a peculiar dimensional domain, or rather, a unique universe.
This world was not even a sphere, but a continent suspended in space.
It was more akin to a dimension.
The Nine Realms could be seen as nine different worlds.
Asgard was so unusual because it was an open universe connected to the others.
Asgard's magic was also different from Kamar-Taj's.
It focused more on applications between dimensions.
The Bifrost, for instance, allowed travel across universes.
John also found quite a few records on dimension magic here.
They were written in all sorts of languages, including Elvish and runes.
Elvish itself was divided into the languages of the light elves, the Dark Elves, and the ancient elves.
Fortunately, John could read them all.
Odin showed no intention of driving John away.
There was none of the arrogant disdain for Earth's people he had displayed at the beginning.
Perhaps it was because he knew John could extract the Aether, or perhaps it was because Thor, the Asgard Prince, had already agreed to John's demands.
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