Chapter 4: A Way to Leave the Seal
This time, Orion Cross did not have to wait several days. In less than ten seconds, Hela returned again.
"Hel."
Hela stepped out of the dark green portal and coldly spat out that single word. Clearly, she was not in a good mood.
"Hel? Isn’t that your territory? So that means you really did leave the seal?"
Orion Cross raised an eyebrow and asked.
"Leave, my ass! Do you think that old bastard wouldn’t have thought of that? The moment I go to Hel, I’m immediately rejected and sent back!"
Hela walked over to the stone throne in extreme irritation and sat down.
She had already begun to suspect the magic lamp Orion Cross had taken out.
Could this bastard have deliberately brought out some prank toy to mess with her?
"Looks like we can only wait another month."
Orion Cross shrugged, indicating that it had nothing to do with him.
One month later.
"Let me leave this sealed area."
Hela carefully made another wish.
Six hours later, Hela, filthy and disheveled, crawled out from underground. Without saying a word, she grabbed the Night Sky Sword and charged at Orion Cross.
"You are definitely messing with me!"
The two of them fought for another month.
"What reason do I have to mess with you? Do you think I enjoy being sealed?"
Orion Cross helplessly took out the magic lamp again and tossed it to Hela. "If I knew magic, I would definitely do it myself."
"Hmph!"
Hela accepted the magic lamp with an icy expression. After rubbing it and injecting magic into it, she said, "Let me see Odin!"
After several failures, Hela had developed a rather reckless, screw-it-all attitude.
"I will do my best to fulfill your wish."
The blue-skinned idiot genie repeated the same line like a broken record before drilling back into the magic lamp.
Then, a stone statue as tall as a person appeared in front of Hela and Orion Cross.
"This counts as fulfilling my wish to see Odin?!"
Hela stared at the stone statue of Odin before her and slammed a furious punch into it, shattering it to pieces.
At that very moment, in a city not far from there, a stonemason was standing in his backyard utterly confused, searching for the statue of the God-King he had just finished carving.
...
"Forget it. This thing is trash. Zephrys is an idiot!"
After countless failures, Orion Cross gradually became irritable.
"Don’t be like that. What if it works?"
Hela hooked one finger through the magic lamp’s handle and casually spun it around, her face filled with delight.
Why had the attitudes of the two of them reversed so completely?
It turned out that ever since Hela had summoned Odin’s stone statue, every wish she made had Orion Cross as the main character.
"Let him leave this seal." Orion Cross experienced free fall once again.
"Let him gain freedom." Orion Cross inexplicably ended up wearing Mr. Banana’s pants and headscarf.
"Let him kill Odin." Orion Cross fell from a height of one hundred meters and crushed Odin to death in one sitting... Odin’s stone statue, that was. The stonemason:?
Orion Cross now seriously suspected that Hela had already started treating Zephrys the Great as a toy for pranking him.
"No!"
Orion Cross rejected it decisively.
What did she mean, what if it worked? If it could really work, they would have been out long ago!
"Then what wish do you suggest?"
Hela handed the choice back to Orion Cross.
"Sigh..."
Orion Cross sighed. "I haven’t eaten anything in a long time. Give me a few burgers, a few pounds of fried chicken... please."
The moment the words left his mouth, before Zephrys could speak, Orion Cross suddenly became alert and immediately changed his wording. "No, a few pounds of fried chicken. No ’please.’"
"I will do my best to fulfill your wish."
Thud.
Several paper bags filled with fried chicken and burgers landed in front of Orion Cross and Hela.
"The desire for food. Such a lowly mortal craving."
That was what Hela said, but she still reached out before Orion Cross, took a burger, unwrapped it, and bit into it. "Mm. Not bad."
"Looks like this idiot Zephrys can only serve as a delivery man."
Orion Cross sighed and also took a burger from the bag.
The moment he bit down, Orion Cross’s originally gloomy expression changed instantly.
"What kind of burger is this?!"
A salty, foul stench assaulted Orion Cross’s senses.
He lifted the bun and looked inside. It was not the usual fried chicken or beef patty.
Stinky tofu, fermented bean curd, lemon, and a huge spoonful of the Chinese chili sauce.
"To hell with your secret-recipe mini burger..."
Orion Cross looked at Hela, who was eating with great relish not far away, and silently threw the burger away.
Perhaps because that foul stench had stimulated his brain, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck Orion Cross, giving him an idea.
First, relying on the magic lamp’s wishes to leave the seal was basically impossible. As for relying on the Ancient One to discover that Orion Cross had arrived on Earth, who knew how long that would take?
Then was there any way to send a message to the Ancient One?
There was!
Odin’s seal could only block everything that had originally been sealed here, while the magic lamp, Zephrys the Great, was something Orion Cross had obtained after completing a mission.
In other words, the magic lamp could leave the seal!
Using the magic lamp required magic, and on Earth, those most likely to possess magic were the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj!
Once the thought appeared, Orion Cross acted immediately.
A ray of starlight descended from the sky and struck Orion Cross. He once again transformed into his War Aspect state, and his spear and shield appeared in his hands along with the stars.
"What are you doing? Do you want to fight again?"
Hela stuffed the last piece of burger into her mouth and looked at Orion Cross, who had suddenly transformed, with confusion.
Orion Cross hung the magic lamp on the spear, gathered all his strength, and aimed diagonally upward. Then, he hurled it with full force.
The star-piercing spear shot toward the heavens like a comet.
Boom!
The spear was blocked in midair by Odin’s seal, but because of inertia, the magic lamp flew out without losing the slightest bit of speed.
Ten thousand meters high in the sky, Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers, who had just dealt with the Kree, deactivated her Binary form. All the energy withdrew back into her body as she prepared to return to Earth.
Thwack!
An unknown object smashed viciously into the back of Captain Marvel Carol’s head. Completely caught off guard, Carol grew dizzy and dazed as she plummeted rapidly toward the ground.