Chapter 201 Ares' Invitation
After this brief conversation, Carol and others might not have noticed it for the time being, but Brunhilde immediately noticed that Gao Tianzun's attitude towards Levi had changed significantly.
He respected Levi more than before, and was even a little afraid of him.
Even if Gao Tianzun was deliberately hiding it, she had known him for thousands of years after all, so she still noticed it.
This made her a little confused. She didn't know what had just happened. How come Gao Tianzun suddenly became like this in just a few sentences?
She began to become more curious about the mystery of Levi.
When we were chatting just now, Sif said that Levi was originally a human from Midgard. In fact, he had never even been to Asgard. He just got the recognition of Mjolnir in Midgard and then went directly to the universe.
He had only one achievement, which was killing the Fallen in a head-on duel.
Although he became famous with just one battle, after all, he had too few achievements before that. As a member of the Elder Council of the Universe, does Gao Tianzun need to have this attitude?
Judging from the attitude of Lord Gao, there is only one possibility, and the truth is obviously not just that!
No matter what, it is obviously a good thing to follow a strong person.
Even though he suffered a small setback at Levi's hands, when facing outsiders, Gao Tianzun immediately acted as if nothing had happened.
He began to act as the host, holding the microphone and shouting loudly, stirring up the emotions of the gladiators, spectators and gamblers in the arena and making them participate in this grand fight more enthusiastically.
While Levi and his companions were eating and drinking, they witnessed with their own eyes the fighting methods of people from thousands of races.
Although it is of no use to Levi, as the entire Sakaar planet would be reduced to ashes with one punch from him, it is still quite entertaining.
For a dangerous situation, it is indeed a very rare opportunity.
Although her usual work focus changed rapidly after following Levi, she herself still remembered that her original purpose was to record a large amount of enemy combat data and then help the X-Men conduct virtual combat training.
In the entire universe, there is probably no other place with richer combat data than here. Levi doesn't believe that Gao Tianzun did not store relevant videos.
At the same time, Levi also took a fancy to Gao Tianzun's energy protection facilities. For people like Bill and the two-headed man, a random punch could pack hundreds of tons of force.
Occasionally there are gladiators with magic and supernatural powers, and even some giant beasts as big as mountains, whose destructive power is also not low.
Even Ares had personally participated in the battles many times before, but the arena was never damaged. This was quite impressive.
Since it can protect internally, it can naturally also be used to defend against attacks from the outside world, such as protecting the Hex Tower.
What else could Gao Tianzun say? Of course, he could only give it all.
Compared to his beloved daughter, even the planet Saka is nothing, let alone other things.
However, Levi did not get everything for free. He passed the gadgets that Skywalker and the others had given him to Gao Tianzun, who reused them as waste.
This went on for most of the day. As expected, the two-headed man and Bill easily defeated ninety-nine opponents, and began to meet officially and fight for the opportunity to duel with Ares.
In fact, at the beginning of the war, many people had already foreseen who the final winner would be.
Perhaps in terms of strength and defense, the two are almost the same, but the weakness of the two-headed man is too obvious, that is, his upper and lower heads will quarrel with each other.
When facing ordinary enemies, it may not matter.
When fighting against enemies of the same level, it becomes very deadly.
Moreover, he had been injured by the enemy before, and his metal body was exposed.
Coincidentally, as the future Horse-Faced Thor, Bill is quite good in terms of strength, combat skills and combat wisdom.
He keenly grasped the opponent's weakness and selected an electric weapon in advance. After struggling to injure the two-headed man, he directly stuffed the electric weapon into the wound.
Then, accompanied by a flash of lightning, the two-headed man with smoke coming out of his facial features fell down.
Seeing this, the winners among the surrounding audiences immediately cheered, while the losers cursed loudly, and the huge noise waves pushed the event to a new climax.
Next, Bill will challenge Ares after taking a short rest and replenishing his strength.
The winner will win the honorary title of Sakaar's Ultimate Gladiator Champion and enjoy a special service from the High Lord: the construction of a statue.
Many spectators began to place bets frantically, not on who would win. Even though Bill showed very strong strength, he was still much inferior to Ares, mainly because he had no equipment.
They were betting on how long Bill could hold out against Ares's onslaught, and whether Ares would kill Bill.
Although Ares is said to be quite cold and cruel, if he occasionally encounters some beings he is interested in, he is willing to generously spare their lives, but he cannot guarantee that their arms and legs are still intact.
Li Wei couldn't help but admire him, "Not bad, Gao Tianzun, when you get tired of playing with him, why not give him to me? The Immortal Palace is in need of a guard like him."
Thor, Bill and himself, these are the three Thunder Gods. No matter they are facing the big snake head-on or dealing with other enemies, they will surely have a higher chance of winning, and it will also be convenient for Levi to slack off.
Gao Tianzun looked at Levi with a rather resentful look. Did he have the right to refuse?
He said he would wait until he got tired of playing, but in reality, if Levi really suddenly asked him for it one day, it would be difficult for him to refuse.
Now he only wanted to send Levi away as soon as possible. No one knew about his daughter. If Levi mentioned it a few more times, even Ares would probably notice it!
Levi laughed and said, "Don't worry, I am willing to pay a certain price for this. I will exchange him with a gladiator of the same level."
"By the way, do you want to make another bet?"
Apart from anything else, catching Hulk is a very simple matter.
Gao Tianzun suddenly became excited: "What are you betting on?"
"I'd wager Silver Glider will go back to Galactus soon and still be readmitted."
Among the many messengers, the one who is most loyal to Uncle Tun is undoubtedly Stardust, who has love for him.
Uncle Tun’s favorite is the Silver Glider. No matter how many times the latter leaves without saying goodbye and makes Uncle Tun hungry, Uncle Tun will forgive him every time.
According to the information obtained by the Nova Corps from the Flame Emperor, this is probably the first time that the Silver Glider has betrayed. No one knows about Uncle Tun's preference yet, so it is just the right thing to use as a bet.
Upon hearing these two names, Gao Tianzun suddenly felt a little bit of a toothache. The other party was not someone he could easily provoke or manipulate.
In addition, the Fallen died at Levi's hands, which inevitably made him suspicious. Levi already knew about it in advance and even caused certain things to happen, and then got the answer.
It's true that he likes gambling, but he is not a fool who is willing to gamble even though he knows he will lose.
Li Wei could certainly understand what Gao Tianzun was thinking, so he continued, "Oh, it seems like you don't have confidence? Then why don't I add one more thing."
Gao Tianzun asked tentatively: "What conditions? Is it related to them?"
"Yes, I bet the Silver Glider will betray me again."
Just like Flame King and Skywalker, Silver Glider is also a superhero. In order to fight against greater threats together, he is willing to reconcile with Uncle Tun for a short period of time and help him find some edible planets, etc. He has a relatively flexible bottom line.
But once the threat disappears, he will immediately run faster than anyone else.
This time Gao Tianzun's curiosity was really aroused. Even though he knew that Levi must have obtained some information in advance, he still couldn't help it.
If it concerns those two guys, even if the chance of losing is greater, it is worth taking a gamble!
"Okay, I agree!"
After thinking for a while, Gao Tianzun stretched out his hand and took out two points of light.
"This is the collector's contact information. He and I have the best relationship among the Cosmic Elders. Perhaps you might be interested in some of his collections."
In fact, he was planning to trick his old brother.
Even though they had only known each other for a very short time, he felt that he had already roughly grasped Levi's character.
He is willing to make some deals where both sides get what they want, and he is also willing to pay some price, but whoever does a deal with him will have to pay a little, which is just right for the collector to feel it.
Levi reached out and took it. In fact, he had originally planned to go find the collector.
The Collector's abilities are somewhat similar to those of the Supreme Lord, but with two more. The first is true eternal life and immortality.
He made a bet with the goddess of death, one of the five major gods. In the end, he lost the bet, and then Lady Death deprived him of the right to enter the kingdom of death, that is, natural death.
For the goddess of death, this is a punishment, but for the collector, it is a great joy, okay?
Even though most members of the Council of Elders of the Universe have used various methods to significantly increase their lifespans, the Collector will always be the one who can theoretically live the longest.
Of course, he could still be killed by a powerful force, there is a big difference between immortality and undeath.
The second is to foresee the future.
It is said that he once foresaw a powerful being that would carry out a crazy massacre across the universe.
In order to prevent the extinction of all living things in the universe, the compassionate man created a special museum dedicated to collecting all species in the universe.
Levi knew that what he saw was most likely Thanos, but the other members of the Council of Elders of the Universe believed that the Collector was simply finding a nice excuse for his hobby.
But no matter what, there are indeed countless species in the collector's museum, and Levi feels that when he gets to his place, he may need to stay for a little while.
With the panacea, even the most useless abilities can be used as consumables. Just copy them all first.
"As for the second one, it's Habi from the Egyptian pantheon. I think he'll be happy to help you a little."
Levi understood in his heart that compared with Asgard, the Greek pantheon, or heaven, the Egyptian pantheon did not appear often in the Marvel world, and there was basically only one moon god, Khonsu.
Kong Su was also the first generation Moonlight Knight. Later, when he got tired of playing, he passed this special inheritance to humans.
There was a time when Khonsu and Osiris, the king of the Egyptian pantheon, both disguised themselves as pharaohs and played around in the human world, and thus formed a certain friendship.
When Osiris gave birth to his son, Horus, Khonsu became Horus's mentor and guardian.
Later, Osiris was killed by his brother, the snake god Set, and was reborn as the god of death in the underworld.
This Habi is one of the four sons of Horus and works for his grandfather.
Strictly speaking, he is not the orthodox god of death, but the god of funerals.
In Egyptian funeral beliefs, the four Hapi brothers protected the internal organs of the deceased, which were placed in four jars. Hapi was responsible for the lungs.
All in all, he is a pretty small and weak god.
In terms of popularity and strength, he is not only far inferior to Sif, but may not even be as good as Hogan and the other three warriors. Only when he was in the Egyptian Hades, his strength was strengthened a little bit.
With Gao Tianzun's strength and status, it would be basically the same if Ha Bi didn't kneel down and lick his ass.
If it were me, it would probably be about the same.
But based on Ha Bi's strength, he can only help with small things within his ability, such as pointing the way or something. If it comes to killing the enemy, don't expect him to do that.
Despite this, Levi still felt very satisfied.
There's nothing he can do about it, mainly because he has no choice.
Asgard's only god of death, Hela, is being sealed by Odin, and Tyr, the bootlicker general who usually performs many tasks in the underworld on her behalf, is simply unable to help the Asgardians.
Even though Tyr was Odin's son and Thor's half-brother, after his death, his only loyalty was to Hela.
Now that we have HaBi, he can be of some use. At least he should be familiar with the roads to hell and the underworld.
However, Levi was not in a hurry. He had to see what Odin thought. If he didn't want Balder to come back now, or didn't give him a satisfactory reward, Levi would not bother to bother.
As for Balder's priesthood related to light, it is not a big problem either.
There are at least dozens of pantheons of all sizes on Earth, and there are double-digit gods of light, so there are plenty of opportunities.
Not to mention the distant past, Apollo in the Greek pantheon is the god of light, medicine, prophecy and music.
"Thank you, Lord Gao. Next, let's enjoy the battle between Ares and Bill."
Through actual contact, Levi felt that Ares' character was not as bad as the legend said, and the shield he lost to him in a bet was also quite powerful.
Coincidentally, Sif's upper shield was pierced by her own Redshift sword, so the shield from the God of Fire could match it.
It didn't take long for Bill to recover to his peak condition with the help of various foods, water, spells and super powers.
Ares, who had been waiting for a long time, also jumped into the arena and started this exciting duel.
However, when seeing Ares, who was fully armed and covered with magical weapons, and then looking at Bill, who was only holding the weapons temporarily provided by the arena, everyone could foresee the winner of this fight.
Ares likes gladiatorial combat, but he will not voluntarily give up his advantages in pursuit of so-called "fairness."
This is indeed the case. Although Bill showed outstanding skills and tenacious fighting spirit, he was still suppressed by Ares from beginning to end.
Bill did not give up, because his victory or defeat was not just a matter of honor, but could also determine the future fate of the Corbin people!
As the battle continued, Bill was bleeding and leaking oil all over his body. He was afraid that he would be scrapped soon. Levi couldn't help but look at Gao Tianzun.
As a bet between the two of them, Bill can't die now.
Gao Tianzun immediately understood. In fact, he was just about to speak.
"Haha, the winner has been decided. It seems that our great God of War, Ares, has won as always. He has become our true ultimate gladiatorial champion!"
Although Ares had not fought enough, he felt that he had been given enough face by being acknowledged by Gao Tianzun himself, so he stopped the fight at the right time.
"Centaur, you fought well!"
He was not a fool. Of course he knew what Gao Tianzun meant by suddenly speaking at this moment. He must be pitying the horse-headed man and wanted him to spare his life. After all, this horse-headed man was Gao Tianzun's property.
But Bill refused to give up. He had too many expectations on him, and he couldn't admit defeat until the last moment!
But before he could say anything, Levi had already stood up.
He smiled and clapped his hands: "You have performed well to hold out against Ares for so long, Corbin man. You deserve a reward."
As he spoke, he looked at Gao Tianzun.
Gao Tianzun knew very well that Levi wanted to use his money to give Bill face so as to make it easier for him to control him later.
This made him somewhat unhappy, but the thought only lasted for less than seconds before disappearing into thin air.
A planet is insignificant to him. If he can send Levi away earlier, or even win a little favor from the other party, it will definitely be worth it!
He immediately coughed dryly and said, "Yes, since General Nova has spoken, and you have been recognized by the God of War, we can say that you have won our previous bet!"
Bi was immediately pleasantly surprised. He thought that in front of so many people, Gao Tianzun would definitely not bother to lie. His people would finally have a place to stay!
This time he did not hold on to the end, but chose to surrender in a very generous way, and said several compliments in succession, giving Ares enough face.
His life was to be used to protect the people of Corbin. If he could avoid risking his life, there was certainly no need for him to fight Ares!
At the same time, his eyes were full of gratitude when he looked at Levi.
He had heard of the great name of Gao Tianzun a long time ago. If Levi had not asked him this time, he would never have been so generous to him!
Next, Gao Tianzun began to prepare to celebrate Ares and discussed what the statue of Ares should look like.
After a simple treatment, Bill took the initiative to find Levi and thank him in person.
At the same time, he also wanted to know why Levi was so special to him.
It is obvious that the two people's identities and status are extremely different, and today is the first time they meet.
Could it be that he simply admires his fighting ability?
Or because he lifted the hammer?
Levi did not hide the fact that there was another reason.
"We have a common enemy: the Firelord Surtur!"
The Corbin people's home planet was destroyed by the Balrog, and in the prophecy of Ragnarok, the Balrog is destined to destroy Asgard. Aren't the two connected?
Bill immediately understood, and he gritted his teeth and said, "If it's to deal with that demon, I'm willing to fight alongside you at any time!"
"Haha, good, now go and take care of your body. You will definitely have a chance for revenge."
Levi first helped him solve the problem of the Corbin people's settlement, and the two sides had a common enemy, so Bill's role as a tool was basically secure.
At this time, Sif, Brunhilde and others also roughly knew Levi's purpose.
Indeed, it would be a very good idea to make Bill a guard of Asgard.
Bill has initially won their recognition in terms of martial arts and character. The only things Bill lacks are weapons and armor.
As it happens, this isn't a problem for Asgard, and the dwarves will be more than happy to help.
After dealing with Bill, Levi and others started to attend a new banquet again. They found an opportunity to drink some wine with Ares and successfully copied his abilities.
Ares even enthusiastically invited Levi to go to Olympus.
Apart from anything else, the goddesses and fairies there would definitely welcome a powerful and handsome being like Levi.
Levi was indeed quite attracted, but of course not for the girls themselves.
In the Greek pantheon, except for a handful of virgin goddesses such as Athena, the private lives of other goddesses and fairies were quite chaotic.
Rather than saying that they are gods, it would be more accurate to say that they are people who possess great power and long life and choose to indulge themselves. He is not interested in this.
But he was quite interested in the abilities of the Greek gods.
If he could go there, copy them one by one, and then give them to other people, he might be able to form a whole new pantheon by then!
And another point is that Angela of the Eternals changed her name to "Thena", joined the Greek pantheon, and became the representative of Athena on Earth.
Levi asked Ares, and he didn't know his current whereabouts, but there must be other gods in the Greek pantheon who would know.
As long as he finds Tina, Levi can follow the clues and find other Eternals on Earth relatively easily.
Their fighting ability is quite good, and Levi is particularly interested in Igris and Cersei among them.
Generally speaking, Dujian, Hyperion, Sentinel and Blue Marvel are regarded as the four Marvel superheroes, and Igris can be considered the fifth.
Their abilities all have something in common, like super strong offense and defense, amazing speed, the ability to fly, and occasionally self-healing or laser eyes.
According to Levi's previous comprehensive investigation, except for Dou Jian, the other three people do not exist in this world.
But Dou Jian is the captain of the Shi'ar Royal Guard and they are not often seen together. Naturally, Levi wants to see Igris's strength.
As for the other Eternals, probably only Sersi's ability is worth looking forward to. She has the ability to reshape molecular structure.
It's not as simple as turning carbon into diamonds, she can transform it into flowers or gold.
Similarly, flesh and blood that is not protected by energy may also be transformed by her.
All the rules of physics or chemistry were completely overturned by her.
Muscular brutes like the Hulk are the ones she can control the most, and no one knows where her limits are.
As for the others, they seemed very ordinary in comparison.
For example, Makari, who is known as the speedster, has a maximum speed of only a few Machs, and it is not very stable.
If it were placed in the universe, it wouldn't even be able to absorb the exhaust gas of the most ordinary nova.
These Eternals fight mostly with their physical qualities. They have a force of hundreds of tons, as well as defense and physical strength to match.
But there is no need to rush. Similar to Asgard, Olympus of the Greek pantheon is also very close to the Earth.
When Levi gets tired of playing and returns to Earth, it won’t be too late to find Ares.
Soon after Levi and Ares made a rough agreement, Ares said goodbye with a smile, saying that he wanted to go back and show off a little.
Levi took a quick look and saw that after such a busy day, most people had almost left, so he immediately offered to leave.
He really wanted to know how many surprises his next target, the famous collector, could provide him.
(End of this chapter)
