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Chapter 390: Sounds Like Thor Struck Lightning
🕑 Added 2025-09-23 02:18:53 +0000 UTCThe Casket of Ancient Winters is a treasure of the Frost Giants, possessing powerful ice magic, said to be able to freeze a planet in an instant. This artifact was stolen by Odin during a fierce battle with the Frost Giants and was kept in Asgard's treasure vault for a long time. Noah remembered that in the first Thor movie, Loki stole this treasure.
Given his personality, even if he were caught multiple times, he wouldn't obediently return it. Noah suddenly thought of this item while considering Loki's possibilities, and the more Noah thought about it, the more he felt that this item seemed truly perfect for Loki.
Aside from anything else, as a descendant of Frost Giants, the Casket of Ancient Winters could be said to be tailor-made for him. Moreover, Noah felt that Loki, possessing the Casket of Ancient Winters, would be like a second Thor. Although there were some clear differences from Thor, as a second-generation god, he also had something relatively inherent to him, and the Casket of Ancient Winters was precisely that!
"You have an idea about the Casket of Ancient Winters?"
However, what Noah didn't expect was that Loki immediately showed a wary expression upon hearing Noah mention the Casket of Ancient Winters: "I advise you to abandon that thought. I won't give it to you, and I don't think you can control the power within it." Loki wasn't looking down on Noah; he was just stating a fact, and of course, he was also sufficiently curious and
cautious.
He didn't know where Noah got this information, but he still had to be wary, because once these mages became interested in something, their behavior wasn't much better than that of lunatics.
The Casket of Ancient Winters is different from the sealed and hidden Infinity Stones. Infinity Stones are truly masterless treasures; anyone who finds the correct method can effectively use their energy. In comparison, the Casket of Ancient Winters has a certain "entry" threshold: one must possess the bloodline of a Frost Giant to use its power. If an ordinary person rashly tries to use the Casket of Ancient Winters, the ultimate consequence will be being frozen by its powerful force.
Even if that person is a mage, they might not be able to withstand the power within it; the Casket of Ancient Winters is truly not weak.
Noah certainly knew what Loki was thinking, which made him a little speechless. In Noah's own memory, he didn't seem to have ever shown any greed, right? Besides, greed is the nature of mages, what does that have to do with Noah?
"Don't worry, I'm not interested in your Casket of Ancient
Winters. I just had some other ideas. If it's with you, that's best. If not, then forget I said anything." Noah shrugged indifferently, explaining himself, while Loki looked at Noah seriously, and after a long while, seemed to choose to trust him. Loki lightly spun his hands in front of him, and then a square casket emitting a faint blue light appeared before everyone's eyes.
The moment the Casket of Ancient Winters appeared, everyone felt
the temperature begin to drop, and Loki, who controlled the Casket of Ancient Winters floating in front of him, completely changed: his body turned light blue, and his eyes emitted an eerie red glow.
"You're truly ugly."
Wong, in a moment of haste, couldn't help but blurt out what was on his mind. Instantly, everyone seemed to see a 'well' character appear on Loki's pale blue forehead. As Loki once again swiped his hands, the Casket of Ancient Winters vanished, and the sudden drop in temperature felt like a momentary illusion.
"I have to say, you look more comfortable this way."
Noah nodded. Loki's appearance had now returned to its previous state. The whole body turned blue with red eyes was really not very attractive. Just as Wong said, that monstrous look was indeed ugly enough, but Noah held back from directly complaining.
"You should have felt the power of the Casket of Ancient Winters," Loki asked with a dark face. He now somewhat regretted why he had taken it out.
"I felt it," Noah nodded. He indeed felt the power of the Casket of Ancient Winters. Perhaps the energy contained within the Casket of Ancient Winters was far less than the almost infinite energy in the Tesseract, and not as pure as that azure power. However, the energy inside the Casket of Ancient Winters was more violent, more suitable for use as a "weapon" of course, it could also be used as pure energy, as long as one was confident in perfectly controlling this violent frosty power.
"Very powerful, but how much power can you unleash from it?" Raising his head, Noah looked at Loki. He guessed that this item should be Loki's last trump card, but Noah could clearly feel that Loki couldn't perfectly control the Casket of Ancient Winters.
Setting aside everything else, just the fact that taking it out made him "reveal his true form" didn't look like he had control over it. But then again, in the original plot, Loki only used the Casket of Ancient Winters once, and the fleeting appearance of the Casket of Ancient Winters was almost imperceptible, and it didn't completely kill Heimdall.
Besides Loki possibly not wanting to kill Heimdall, a large possibility was that he simply couldn't truly unleash the real power of this treasure.
"Huh? I remember he never used this thing again after that. Could it be that he felt he couldn't master it, so he was too lazy to use it again? Or did this idiot simply forget about it?" Noah tilted his head, secretly thinking, while Loki still had a dark face and was too lazy to bother with Noah's questions. Loki didn't want to answer such embarrassing questions, as he could only think of humiliation, especially with so many "lower-level mages" watching!
"Forget it, if you don't want to say, so be it." Noah wasn't
too concerned about Loki's attitude, but rather spoke to himself: "Before, I was wondering how to improve your abilities. Now I think that was a foolish question. Why don't you try to completely control the power of the Casket of Ancient Winters?"
Loki was stunned. He had never thought about this question. In his impression, the Casket of Ancient Winters was just a powerful treasure, and those who met the requirements could use its power.
How much power could be unleashed depended on one's own strength and whether they met the Casket of Ancient Winters' "requirements." He had always thought he couldn't unleash the Casket of Ancient Winters' power because he wasn't a "true Frost Giant."
Having grown up in Asgard and based his magic on Asgardian spells, he didn't meet the Casket of Ancient Winters' requirements, and Loki himself didn't truly recognize himself as a descendant of Frost Giants. But he overlooked that no matter whether he acknowledged this identity or not, his bloodline was absolutely correct and without issue.
Moreover, the Casket of Ancient Winters' greatest strength lies in the energy it contains for mages, any energy can be used, whether absorbed into one's body to become magic, or made into a weapon.
"You mean, let me use the power of the Casket of Ancient Winters?" Loki frowned. He had never thought about this before; it was entirely due to habitual thinking. After Noah, as a complete outsider, brought it up, he began to consider the possibilities, but soon Loki shook his head again. "The energy contained in the Casket of Ancient Winters is too violent and cannot be controlled by me. And I don't dare to absorb such dangerous things into my body like you, although I may not get injured, but..."
"But you're worried your father's magic will be undone?"
Noah tilted his head, effectively revealing Loki's last secret. Loki is a descendant of Frost Giants, and his original form is naturally that of a Frost Giant. His current appearance was transformed by Odin using magic. Loki's worries were not unfounded; he only slightly released the Casket of Ancient Winters' power, and he immediately transformed.
If he completely absorbed this thing into his body, who knows if he would still look like this afterward? He genuinely believed himself to be the "Prince of Asgard," not a "descendant of Frost Giants."
"Since you know, then you don't need to say more," Loki looked at Noah seriously: "I am the Prince of Asgard; I don't acknowledge any other identity. Moreover, even if I wasn't a prince, I'd still be Loki of Asgard."
"Idiot." Noah rolled his eyes. This guy was truly incredibly stupid. Shaking his head helplessly, Noah said,
"Do you still remember how I dealt with the Chitauri?"
"Of course I remember, you're the idiot." Loki glared at Noah, clearly displeased, but quickly his expression became serious: "You mean, that dragon-like form? You want me to differentiate between two forms?"
"This is the most helpless choice," Noah admitted directly: "And why don't you use your supposedly smart brain? Since I can turn a person into two forms, and the magic is right there, why can't you merge the two forms into one you desire?"
"Merge two forms into one?" Noah's words were like Thor striking lightning on Loki's head, leaving Loki stunned.
Yes, this damned mage could conjure a form out of thin air, so why couldn't he, based on Noah's magic, merge two forms together and choose a form he desired? It must be said that this idea was somewhat terrifying and incredibly insane. But precisely this stimulated the arrogant Loki.
Why could an Earth mage do something that he, an Asgardian mage, couldn't? And if he had this magic, what if he completely transformed into a Frost Giant while extracting from the Casket of Ancient Winters?
Couldn't he just change back? At this moment, Loki's heart became exceptionally agitated, completely unaware that he was no longer thinking about Infinity Stones or meditation.
His mind was entirely focused on how to use the Casket of Ancient Winters, and how to reverse-engineer Noah's magic.
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