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Chapter 371: Thor's Proposal
🕑 Added 2025-09-10 01:14:33 +0000 UTCNoah and Victor had a decent relationship. As fellow mages from Kamar-Taj who had both passed the Archmage examination, they naturally shared some common ground. Especially since Noah had always maintained good popularity at Kamar-Taj, and now he was basically recognized as Kamar-Taj's future Sorcerer Supreme. From any perspective, Victor was quite willing to help Noah. And just as he said, Mordo and Kaecilius were too familiar. These Wizards all knew a bit about Kaecilius's affairs, so letting Mordo watch him would probably raise suspicion.
However, Noah's second topic made Victor a bit stunned: learning more advanced mechanical science? To be fair, wouldn't pure mages generally be uninterested in the mechanical sciences of ordinary people? How was this one different?
"You"Victor looked at Noah strangely, but he quickly thought of something: "Are you on good terms with Tony Stark?" Victor wasn't a fool; he had stood over the skies of Manhattan in New York and naturally remembered that Tony was involved in the battle a few days ago. But Victor wasn't clear about Noah and Tony's relationship, and Victor had to pay attention to the aliens at the time, so how could he have time to pay attention to him?
Thinking about it now, Victor suddenly felt that Tony seemed to be somewhat different. Especially his armor; now that he thought back, it really seemed somewhat unusual, didn't it? That thing seemed to even contain magical fluctuations?
"He's my apprentice." Noah said with a straightforward laugh: "Although his personality is a bit terrible, this guy has great talent. He's very interested in the fusion of technology and magic. If we look at it from a mage's grading perspective, his technological level has probably reached Tier Seven or above."
"Oh?" Victor was now slightly interested: "Learning from him? Forget it. If you want me to cooperate with him"
"Of course, you can teach him; he can only guide you."
Noah wasted no time in setting the tone for this matter.
Mages have pride, especially high-ranking mages who have passed the Archmage examination. Tony was indeed good at technology, but as a fellow mage, his technological level wouldn't be considered. Besides, he was Noah's apprentice.
After clarifying things with Victor, Noah also took Victor to meet Tony. At this moment, Tony was gathered with Steve and the others, talking about something, but when Noah came over, they consciously stopped their idle chatter. Noah wasted no words, directly introducing Victor and Tony to each other and explaining their purpose for being there. After Noah's explanation, Tony suddenly felt it was very interesting; he hadn't expected such an existence in the magical world. This couldn't help but make Tony's impression of Victor greatly improve.
Of course, Tony didn't dare to call him brother or anything. In any case, Victor was also a mage on Noah's level"at least in human form"and Tony could guess Noah's intentions, so how could he refuse?
"You, are you planning to pull him into your camp?" After Victor left, Tony playfully accused Noah of trying to build a faction to become Sorcerer Supreme. Noah dismisses this, asserting his confidence in becoming Sorcerer Supreme on his own terms. "Thinking too much."
Noah rolled his eyes: "There are many candidates for Sorcerer Supreme, but I can say without hesitation that I have no rivals, unless I myself am unwilling."
"Alright, very confident, I like it." Tony shrugged indifferently: "I'll learn from him properly, don't worry."
"Of course, you should also teach him what you excel at, and leave a good impression, understand?" Noah nodded, finally admonishing him.
"Still saying it's not for the Sorcerer Supreme position?"
"Of course not. You wouldn't understand even if I told
you. You just need to remember that Victor has high potential, and what you two are researching is a very good direction. Don't you hope to have a like-minded friend?"
"Tch, I know. I'll help you win him over, make him absolutely support you as Sorcerer Supreme."
"Damn it, how many times have I told you it's not for that, idiot!" Looking at the impervious Tony, Noah simply gave up arguing with him. Noah indeed planned to have Tony win over Victor, but not for the Sorcerer Supreme position.
To put it bluntly, the Sorcerer Supreme position entirely depended on Ancient One's own choice. Noah intended to win over Victor purely because Victor was indeed strong enough and talented enough. Of course, this also contained Noah's deep dark humor. Whether it was turning him into the Piltover enforcer or adding the surname Von Doom to his name, it would be very interesting.
"What a pity there's no Reed Richards here, but thankfully, there's also no such guy, otherwise, who knows if this world would have been reset." Noah didn't even dare to think about Reed Richards, because that guy could no longer be described as human. The movie version might be alright, just a rubber monster, but the comic book version of him was simply an omnipotent god!
In every parallel universe, he was an extremely terrifying individual. What Noah remembered most vividly was in the comics, that guy used the same item to force back Galactus, one of the five cosmic abstract entities. And then, after his friend The Thing died, he actually opened the gates of heaven, traversed dimensions, and found the author" Was this guy really human, or a god?
What's even more exaggerated is that this guy, after accidentally releasing the Cosmic Cubes representing the dark side of the universe by opening the gates of heaven, he actually simply used the Ultimate Nullifier to forcibly reset the universe, making the Cosmic Cubes never exist! As for blowing up sixty-seven parallel universes or destroying Asgard, those were just basic operations; Noah didn't think they were a big deal. If such a guy appeared in this world, Noah felt this world would definitely be over.
"However, if it were that guy, maybe my teacher wouldn't be a woman, but an old man." Noah secretly complained in his heart, then left. Noah felt that if he continued to stand there, they probably wouldn't be able to continue their conversation. After all, they weren't completely familiar with the mage community yet, and Noah could only let them adapt on their own.
"Noah, over here." Just as Noah was lost in thought, Thor's voice quickly reached his ears.
"Thor, Loki." Since there was nothing else to do, Noah simply walked over to the brothers. If nothing unexpected happened, after tonight's dinner, they would at most stay on Earth for one more night, and then they would have to return. As for their return, Loki would probably face judgment and then be imprisoned in Asgard, unable to cause trouble.
So Thor probably knew Loki's situation, which was why he deliberately stayed to let Loki enjoy a bit more freedom. But then again, if Loki himself didn't have some mental issues, and Odin's way of expressing affection wasn't also problematic, how could it have come to this?
"How's the party, guys?" Shaking his head, Noah stopped thinking about these issues. He smiled slightly and asked.
"Not bad, though compared to Asgard, it might"" Thor smiled and trailed off.
"No choice, time was a bit rushed, and we mages aren't hedonists." Noah didn't think there was anything wrong with what Thor said; he had been to Asgard and naturally knew Thor was right. In Asgard, Noah had also attended some banquets hosted by Odin. Honestly, the atmosphere and preparations for those banquets could only be described as perfect. It wasn't impossible for Noah to create such an atmosphere, but Noah didn't have that much time, and of course, he didn't think it was necessary. His pockets were always kept very tight.
"By the way, Noah, can I discuss something with you?"
Just then, Thor suddenly lowered his voice and whispered.
"Hmm? What is it?" Noah looked at Thor's appearance, also lowering his voice and looking at him strangely.
"It's like this: if nothing unexpected happens, Loki might be sentenced to imprisonment by Father when he returns, and it will be for a very long time." Thor pulled Loki by the shoulder, disregarding his protest, and blurted out the matter: "Of course, Loki can also choose to be exiled."
"Exiled?" Noah looked at Thor and Loki strangely: "You want to exile your brother?"
"Yes." Thor nodded: "Loki thinks so too; he doesn't want to be locked up."
What the hell was this? Noah looked at Thor and Loki in bewilderment. He didn't understand why they came to him with this, and he couldn't figure out why Loki would think this way. Loki had teamed up with Thanos, received the Mind Scepter from him, and promised to take Earth and hand over the Tesseract to Thanos.
Although Loki didn't know that his scepter contained the Mind Stone nor what the Tesseract was, Loki had betrayed Thanos afterward! Even putting aside the betrayal, simply the fact that the Tesseract wasn't obtained and the scepter was lost could be considered a mission failure. If Loki had any sense, he could guess that Thanos would certainly not let him go.
In such a situation, choosing exile was definitely not a good option. Thanos's sphere of influence in this universe was vast; who knew if they might run into him?
Moreover, Noah didn't think Odin would agree to this choice. Exile was basically impossible; only imprisoning him would be his best punishment. Thinking this, Noah internally rejected the plan; in his opinion, it was simply incredibly foolish.
"I just want to say, you shouldn't be discussing this with me. You should go back and discuss it properly with your father."
"We will certainly go back and discuss it, but this matter still needs to be communicated with you."
"Why?"
"Because I plan to have Loki exiled to Earth."
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