Watching Asgard's underground palace continue to collapse, Loki knew that the mistake he had made this time could not be undone.
Loki had simply been unable to accept why his father had made Hela, who had once sought to destroy Asgard, its king.
That was why, when the opportunity arose and he met Surtur, Loki had helped him.
Yet he had never expected things to turn out like this.
Asgard would be destroyed because of it. Ragnarok.
"Was I wrong?"
Loki looked at the scene before him and spoke slowly.
Then he waved his hand, and an ice casket appeared in it. It was the Casket of Ancient Winters, the Frost Giants' divine artifact, which burst with pure white light in his hand.
The bone-chilling power of ice seemed about to freeze even the surrounding air.
The frost power in Loki's blood fully awakened at that moment, too.
Before the underground palace could collapse, he unleashed Thousand-Mile Ice Seal, and everything there slowly froze.
Even the destruction there could not completely annihilate the place.
Loki had, in a sense, preserved Asgard's underground palace, preventing Asgard from being utterly destroyed.
Neither the explosions nor the collapse could shake this Ice Palace. Loki had only just awakened his power, and although he had protected Asgard from its final destruction, he had exhausted his energy. Utterly drained, he fell into a deep sleep.
Meanwhile, Asgard's destruction continued.
It was swallowed by seawater, with only countless flames still burning.
However, Surtur had also vanished along with Hela.
Thor managed to pilot the spaceship away before Asgard was destroyed.
He rushed out of the region where Asgard stood and began passing through one star system after another, heading for Earth.
Although Wang Yang would not be defeated by Karu out in space, defeating Karu would