manynovel Chapter 156 Loki, is magic really such an inconvenient thing?
Chapter 156 Loki, is magic really such an inconvenient thing?
Maya Hansen gestured to their surroundings: "I need to talk to you alone, not here. And we'd better move quickly and hide."
“That’s right, Tony,” Steve agreed. “We’ve been exposed; we can’t stay here any longer.”
“I know. But what about the others here if we leave directly? Jarvis, arrange a cruise ship to send these girls back first.”
Although the situation was urgent, Tony's sense of responsibility prevented him from simply abandoning these ordinary people and leaving.
Steve nodded, agreeing with Tony's plan, but loudly reminded everyone to be on guard.
Tony led Maya Hansen to a room and suddenly asked in a low voice:
"Do you really have a lead? Please don't tell me I have a child I haven't seen in eleven years. I already have a girlfriend and we're engaged."
He is already twelve years old.
Tony: !!!
"Just kidding."
Maya Hansen couldn't help but laugh when she saw Tony's startled expression.
“I do have a lead. I know who masterminds this attack is, Aldrich Killian.”
"The weapon he used in this attack was the Extremis virus."
"The Extremis virus?!" Tony asked. "The Extremis virus that helped me perfect the Equation back then?"
“Yes.” Maya Hansen nodded.
"Why did he attack me?" Tony asked, puzzled. "According to you, he should be thanking me, right?"
"Because you stood him up."
"By the way, where's Russell?"
Steve suddenly remembered that there was another great god here.
“Russell? I just saw him leave with Loki,” Pietro said.
After the suicide bombers were identified, Russell and Loki left.
He could roughly guess what would happen next.
After failing to capitalize on his information advantage and ambush Tony in the first wave, Killian had no further chances.
Tony won't give him a second chance like that.
In a direct confrontation, the enhanced Tony Stark could easily defeat Killian, who had been injected with the Extremis virus.
Back in the bookstore lounge, Russell invited Loki to sit down and poured him a cup of tea.
"Try it."
Loki thanked him, first picking up the teacup to smell the aroma, then swirling the teacup around a circle and a half before taking small sips.
After drinking, clean the corners of your mouth that have touched the tea, and then turn the teacup back to its original position.
The entire set of etiquette was impeccable.
He truly lives up to his title as the second prince of Asgard.
However, that's not the point.
Russell tapped the table lightly, and tea overflowed from the bottom of the teacup, filling it to the brim again.
"Loki, how's your time magic coming along?"
Loki raised an eyebrow, understanding Russell's meaning.
He picked up the teacup and drank it all in one gulp.
Then put it on the desktop.
The next moment, tea began to bubble up from the bottom of the teacup, then disappeared.
However, the tea appeared much faster than it disappeared.
A short while later, the cup was full again.
“Not bad, Loki,” Russell exclaimed.
Just now, they had a contest using time magic.
Russell reverses time in the teacup, but Loki stops him.
Although Loki still lost, he demonstrated a fairly good level of skill.
Considering that Loki has only had access to the Ancient One's collection of books for a short time and does not have the Time Stone to aid him.
It can be said that he has an extremely high talent for time magic.
Loki simply smiled at Russell's praise, not taking it seriously.
He was a man of his word, so he picked up his teacup and drank it all in one gulp before putting the cup back on the table.
"Again."
The tea in the teacup appears and disappears again in a recurring cycle.
This time, it took a little longer for the teacup to fill up.
"Again."
"Again." Loki repeatedly picked up the teacup, drank it all in one gulp, then placed it on the table, waited for the cup to refill, and then picked it up again to drink it all in one gulp.
After a long time, Loki couldn't take it anymore.
Although the two controlled the intensity of their energy output to a single cup of tea, they competed in skill.
But after doing it many times, Loki was starting to feel the effects of the time magic.
"Russell, why is your proficiency so much higher than mine?" Loki couldn't help but ask curiously.
Later on, he reached his limit.
Logically speaking, he should be roughly the same as Russell. Even if he is slightly different, the difference would be very small.
It's like a test paper; he's already scored over 90 points, at most 10 points short of the maximum.
However, in reality, the tea disappears much slower than it appears.
This gap is greater than ten points.
Russell smiled mysteriously: "Loki, are you feeling too full and need to go to the bathroom?"
Loki's face darkened; he understood what Russell meant.
“Master Russell, you cheated.”
During the contest of time magic skills, Russell also used spatial magic to move some of the tea over.
In other words, his perfect score on this test was not 100!
Faced with Loki's accusations, Russell remained dignified and composed:
"Loki, is magic such an inconvenient thing!"
"Analyze specific problems in specific ways. When solving problems, different combinations of solutions should be used depending on the specific circumstances; a one-size-fits-all approach is not appropriate."
Loki stared at Russell for a moment, then smiled with relief.
This at least shows that his proficiency in time magic is already very close to that of Russell.
Russell's proficiency was almost perfect.
Thanks to the bonus talent of his first talent, [Energy Drain], Russell is extremely sensitive to the flow of energy when spells are cast.
With each panel upgrade, this sensitivity is significantly improved.
This allows him to not only learn various spells at a glance, but also quickly reach a very high level of proficiency.
Loki got up, took a new cup, poured some tea, and pushed it in front of Russell.
He wanted to try again with Russell.
However, this time it's the other way around.
Russell picked up his teacup, took small sips, and savored the sweetness of the tea.
He was confident that he would only need to drink it once.
After finishing his tea, Russell placed the cup on the table.
The next moment, the cup was instantly filled with tea.
Russell raised an eyebrow.
This is neither time magic nor space magic; it is an illusion.
An illusion created by Loki using magic.
However, it belongs to Russell now.
The tea in the cup was emptied instantly as well.
"Loki, your illusion is no good. I saw through it."
Next, the cup is continuously changed between being full and empty.
Loki kept layering on the illusion of a full cup.
Russell simply didn't try to solve it; instead, he superimposed an illusion of an empty cup on top of Loki's illusion of a full cup.
Finally, Loki stopped.
In fact, Loki lost the moment the illusion was seen through.
He only became interested in competing with Russell after seeing that Russell used his magic to break the spell.
If Russell hadn't realized it was an illusion, neither time magic nor space magic could have emptied the cup.
Because it is empty in itself.
But once you realize it's an illusion, the illusion loses its meaning.
"That's enough, Loki. I need to rest."
Russell began to kick people out.
He saw that Gwen had returned.