In Noah's opinion, Odin's entire family had issues.
Every last one of them.
Thor. Loki. Even Hela with that bizarre hairstyle. None were normal.
The only one who seemed remotely normal turned out to be a peeping tom.
Noah could understand doing it for your children.
But doing it like this?
He stared at the old man in silence.
Odin smiled back calmly, completely unconcerned that his secret had been exposed.
That realization left Noah speechless.
Maybe this was the pinnacle of shamelessness.
Of course, being shameless for your kids was understandable. But did that mean Odin also knew about Noah beating Loki half to death in the past?
That thought made Noah uneasy.
Was this old man hinting at something on purpose?
Fortunately, Odin didn't continue the topic.
He quickly arranged accommodations for Noah and Wong-the familiar room beside the library.
A place Noah had stayed many times.
Wong wanted to return to Earth.
He was immediately stopped.
By Odin. By Noah. By Thor.
Thor even spoke bluntly.
"Since you're already out, why not stay a little longer?"
"You've helped me a lot. I need time to recover."
"Wouldn't it be better if we left together after that?"
Wong didn't quite understand what "leave together" meant.
But in the end, he compromised.
Noah clearly had no intention of leaving either.
So Wong stayed.
Wong wasn't idle.
Asgard's library was vast, and Noah was happy to share his experiences and techniques. Wong used the opportunity to cultivate and study, which eased most of his complaints.
Noah, on the other hand, couldn't sit still.
After settling Wong, he focused on his own matters.
Honestly, he felt a little sour.
That bastard Thor-with the Power Stone-could unleash strength beyond Tier Nine.
And Noah?
He controlled two Infinity Stones.
Yet the improvement felt... muted.
He understood that Infinity Stones interfered with each other.
But this much?
Sitting alone in his room, Noah narrowed his eyes and entered the system space.
"System," he said flatly. "Why are my Infinity Stones so ineffective?"
The system was busy integrating his domain.
From Noah's perception, progress was already very high.
His domain now clearly carried both space and time.
"Don't you already know the answer?" the system replied mechanically.
"The power of Infinity Stones naturally weakens when influenced by other Stones."
"Unless you possess all six, this result is inevitable."
"So gems can only counter gems," Noah muttered.
"Correct," the system replied without mercy. "Embedding two Stones together is, from a combat perspective, a foolish choice."
"Although it benefits domain fusion, the direct effect is mediocre."
Noah sighed.
The frustration was real.
Embedding them together caused interference.
But separating them wasn't an option.
That setup was the only way he could reasonably claim he had "only taken one."
Otherwise, explanations became troublesome.
"However," the system continued, "auxiliary functions remain unaffected."
"You can still manipulate time."
"You can still traverse space freely."
Noah nodded.
That much was true.
The Star of Time and Space was now primarily used to amplify magic. Everything else was secondary.
But those secondary effects were hardly weak.
Combat wasn't always about raw force.
Thor smashed.
Noah calculated.
Unless he ran into a system-space monster, he usually crushed opponents anyway.
He'd grown accustomed to the Stones' support.
Blowing up planets didn't interest him anymore.
"You need to be hard yourself to forge iron," Noah muttered.
"Domain fusion progress?" he asked, changing topics.
"Stable," the system replied. "Integration of time and space remains difficult."
"To fully manifest both within your domain, further improvement is required."
"You are still somewhat weak."
"Smooth is good," Noah said calmly. "My growth rate is already absurd."
And it was.
No one in magical history had reached the brink of Tier Nine in their early thirties.
No one.
His Tier Nine dragon form alone could annihilate Chitauri armies with a single breath.
In this universe, Tier Nine was already classified as "do not provoke."
Such beings could erase planets.
Noah knew how ridiculous his current position was.
And he knew something else just as clearly.
He was no match for Thanos.
Not yet.
Thanos was Tier Ten.
A threshold between god and mortal.
Fail to cross it, and no matter how strong you were, you were still mortal.
Noah understood this deeply.
Which was why he remained cautious.
Overconfidence only led to tragic endings.
Like Ronan.
"That idiot wasn't even strong," Noah scoffed internally. "Held the Power Stone and thought he could challenge Thanos."
"And then he said something like, 'How could a mortal like you...'"
"In the end, wasn't he turned to dust by Star-Lord?"
Noah chuckled.
If Ronan hadn't died like that, it would've disappointed everyone.
If you stripped the blue paint, gave him golden hair, and normal skin, maybe fewer people would've wanted him dead.
After all, he looked like an Elf King.
An annoyingly handsome one.
Sometimes Noah wondered if, after getting coordinates from Odin, he should go mess with that guy when he went to bother Gandalf.
Just to see the reaction.
But it was only a thought.
Gandalf annoyed Noah, sure.
Turning a mage into a melee fighter was a sin.
But he was still a Maia.
A demigod.
Noah didn't know what tier that placed him at.
If it was Tier Ten, that would just be self-inflicted trouble.
Noah never looked for trouble he couldn't handle.
"Hm." Noah paused.
"Speaking of Ronan... how's Peter doing?"
"Did he meet Rocket yet?"
"And is Gamora already hunting him?"
He suddenly realized something.
With the plot already disrupted, something big was probably coming.
Whether the Guardians of the Galaxy still existed was questionable.
And if they didn't-
What would that brain-dead Ronan do?
Noah rested his head in his hands.
Then he stopped thinking about it.
Not his problem.
"Whatever happens, happens."
He sighed.
"I should focus on my own issues."
"Damn it... light."
Where was he supposed to find the power of light?
He couldn't comprehend it at all.
What frustrated him even more was that he wanted to capture angels-but his strength wasn't enough yet.
By the time it was, he might not even need integration anymore.
The contradiction was maddening.
After some thought, Noah dropped it.
If all else failed, he'd look to parallel universes.
Dangerous.
Uncertain.
But maybe they held what he needed.
Time passed.
A few days later, after Thor fully recovered, bad news arrived.
"Ronan," the messenger reported, voice heavy,
"is leading his fleet toward Earth."
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