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In Asgard, in the palace infirmary, Jane lay unconscious on a stone bed, her forehead furrowed and her face showing signs of discomfort.
Beside her stood an old man looking like a Sorcerer, with a cloak and holding a wand. His withered hand hovered over Jane as he chanted a series of complex and obscure spells.
After a while, the Sorcerer withdrew his hand, his face showing no emotion. Thor, who had been waiting anxiously, couldn't help but ask, "How is Jane? Is she all right?"
"It is very strange," The old Sorcerer said quietly, his eyes lowered as he looked at Jane. "There is a powerful and mysterious force within her, far beyond what a mortal can withstand. I dare not use magic lightly, for it could endanger her life."
"Jane..." Thor's face darkened as he stood beside her, carefully holding her delicate left hand with his rough ones.
"Please leave us," Kyle said, sitting cross-legged on a chair.
"Yes, Guardian," The old Sorcerer replied respectfully to Kyle and then left the medical room.
"Thor, she's going to be fine," Kyle reassured Thor, his eyes fixed on Jane on the stone bed. Unlike Thor, who couldn't feel the energy within Jane, or the Sorcerer, who could only glimpse a fraction of it through magic, Kyle could clearly feel the overflowing red energy within her.
This energy carried with it not only a sense of menace, but also a surprisingly faint sense of familiarity.
The Aether seemed to want to communicate with Kyle. Was it because he possessed the Power Stone, or because of the dual-star energy the Space Stone had awakened within him? Or perhaps both?
Kyle thought deeply. He didn't have all the Infinity Stones with him; the Mind Stone was still guarded by Raina, enhancing her mental abilities.
The Space Stone was kept at the Carl family headquarters to create advanced weapons with unlimited energy. Currently, he only carries the Power Stone as a precaution.
Given Kyle's current strength, no one posed a lethal threat to him. With the Power Stone enhancing his abilities, few in the Marvel Universe would dare challenge him.
Before Kyle could figure it out, Odin strode into the room holding a golden scepter, accompanied by the voices of the guards.
Thor's eyes lit up when he saw Odin. He pleaded urgently, "Father, please save Jane! With your power, you can surely do it..."
Odin looked at Jane on the stone bed with a stern look on his face. He said in a deep voice, "Thor, you should know that she is not of our world. You shouldn't have brought her to Asgard. She should be treated by doctors on Kyle's world."
Thor, growing increasingly concerned, quickly said, "But she has..."
Before Thor could finish, red energy erupted from Jane's body again, like boiling lava rippling through the air.
The sudden burst of energy caught both Thor and Odin off guard. Kyle, however, had already stepped forward, his golden eyes flashing brightly. His right hand, wrapped in brilliant energy, shot out like a bolt of lightning.
The red energy was violent and destructive, and Kyle's double-star form was equally powerful and domineering. But when these two destructive energies collided, they neutralized each other in a surprisingly gentle manner.
Circles of radiant energy swirled around Kyle's body. Bathed in the glowing flames, his powerful aura surged, causing the objects in the medical room to tremble.
Compared to Thor and Odin beside him, Kyle looked more like a God at this moment. His right hand grabbed the air, suppressing the red energy that had leaked from Jane.
"This is..." Odin narrowed his eyes with a thoughtful expression on his face.
"Huff." Kyle exhaled lightly as the red energy dissipated, and he deactivated his double-star form, which made him appear as if he were wearing a halo.
Thor looked at Jane's now slightly rosier face and said excitedly, "Kyle, can you control the mysterious energy within Jane?"
"I'm not sure, but I can try," Kyle shrugged. He was confident that the energy within Jane was the Aether, similar to the Tesseract containing the Space Stone.
Extracting the Aether without harming Jane was probably something only he could accomplish in the entire universe.
"The only way to do it is to extract it. But with something the size of the Infinity Gem, that could take a long time," Kyle thought to himself. It had taken him a full half hour to successfully extract the Space Stone.
"Kyle, I'm counting on you!" Thor said, his eyes filled with intense hope as he looked at Kyle.
Odin opened his mouth slightly to speak, but a guard rushed into the room. His face was pale with panic as he loudly announced to Odin, "Your Majesty! A large number of enemy warships are breaking into Asgard from the direction of the Bifrost! They've already breached the first gate!"
"What did you say?" Thor's eyes widened in disbelief. The last time Asgard was breached, it was because of Loki's internal conspiracy. This time, it was an external force that broke through.
Odin gripped his scepter tightly, maintaining his composure as he calmly asked, "Who are the attackers?"
The guard quickly replied, "Judging by the design of the warships, it must be the Dark Elves!"
"Dark Elves! Let's go!" Odin snorted coldly before thwacked his scepter on the floor, and then left the medical room with the guard. Halfway out, Odin turned and said, "Kyle, we're counting on you this time, too."
Odin didn't speak to Thor again, obviously still harboring some disappointment in him about his actions about Jane.
After Odin left, Thor's rugged face tensed. He grabbed his hammer, Mjölnir, and started to rush out, but Kyle stopped him.
Thor looked at Kyle in surprise and asked aloud, "Kyle, why are you stopping me? Asgard is under attack; I should be on the front lines stopping the enemy!"
"If you leave, what about Jane? Stay here at the palace. As for the enemies at the Bifrost, I'll take care of it!" Kyle patted Thor on the shoulder. Without waiting for an answer, he walked briskly out the door.
A major reason Kyle wanted Thor to stay was the Aether within Jane. The Dark Elves would undoubtedly come for the Aether.
"If you want to take the Reality Stone, you'll have to go through me first... It's been a while since I've had a real fight. My bones are almost stiff," Kyle muttered to himself before twisting his neck and wrists slightly, which crackled like popping beans.
He walked alone through the golden palace hall, against the flow of the gathering Asgardian troops, and stood at the edge of a high platform overlooking the direction of the Bifrost.
Boom!
Dozens of black, T-shaped warships emerged from the distant starry cliff at the end of the Bifrost, their cloaks falling away to reveal their cold, metallic hulls. Hundreds of black warships burst through the Bifrost Gate and charged into Asgard under the barrage of the realm's defensive energy cannons.
Facing the fierce wind, laden with the smoke of battle, Kyle closed his eyes and spread his arms wide. When he opened them again, his golden eyes blazed with fierce light, and his body radiated waves of divine, domineering double-star energy.
It's been a while, War.
(End of the chapter)