Chapter 534: Returning with a Full Load

Loki carefully outlined what needed to be done after they left. Though he trusted the person he had chosen to take care of it, it was after all his brother’s soul—any mishap would bring him eternal regret!

Before Loki could finish speaking, Donald burst into laughter. “Why wait a hundred years? If Your Highness Loki is willing to give up this divine kingdom, then I’m confident I can take you out together this time!”

At that moment, Loki also realized this and smiled happily from the bottom of his heart.

“I had forgotten you possessed a high-grade divine artifact! That’s even better. This divine kingdom means nothing to me. Although a divine kingdom is part of a true god, it’s merely an external object. Just like the powerful true gods of the Pangu pantheon, they regard divine kingdoms as ordinary artifacts—losing one doesn’t significantly affect their strength, as they can recreate it.”

Though he said this, Donald understood exactly what Loki was giving up.

Once Loki revived, with the foundation of a powerful higher god’s divinity and his extensive accumulated knowledge, his divine tomb would immediately transform back into a powerful higher god’s kingdom—much easier than building one from scratch!

But since Loki was willing to even descend into Dusk for his brother, how could he care about a divine kingdom? Even if he left the Ruins of Forgetfulness and went to the main world to create a new one, his divine rank might drop below that of a higher god, and it would take who knows how long to rebuild such a powerful kingdom. Yet Loki chose this path without hesitation.

“Since Your Highness Loki is willing to give up this place, let’s hurry up and act!”

There were less than a few days left before the deadline at the Ruins of Forgetfulness. Before being expelled by the rules, he still planned to explore another divine tomb for more gains!

Although his own gains already exceeded everyone else’s imagination, the others still hadn’t returned empty-handed. In his eyes, their gains weren’t very substantial, which didn’t quite match Donald’s original intentions!

He wasn’t the kind to hoard everything for himself, nor would he rejoice secretly. Instead, he also thought of his fellow companions.

Loki was extremely familiar with the Dusk Divine Tomb that had once been his divine kingdom. Since he had decided to give it up, he immediately started collecting everything valuable in the tomb that could be taken away.

This volcanic island is vast and fertile, teeming with magical materials worth less than demi-gods in sheer abundance—tens of thousands more than the flame crystals found in legendary magical beasts. Just picking a handful of them would cause a sensation in the mortal kingdoms of the main world. Yet in the realms of the higher gods, these are nothing special at all, as common as weeds by the roadside, representing only the most basic resources. The most precious thing in a true god’s realm is the unique immortal resources that have emerged over years of development through the power of laws. Donald’s realm, Azeroth, has existed for too short a time; even with the ability to accelerate time, it would take at least three to five years before unique products of its own realm could appear, unless higher-grade divine artifacts are used to hasten the process, which could bring results much earlier. However, it still takes a long time for such resources to truly develop into renewable immortal assets. Many of the most precious resources in Loki’s former realm were destroyed in battles, leaving him with only two remaining. One is a garden containing a single precious Golden Apple Tree—a famous magical entity from Babylonian mythology. It is said that consuming the golden apples produced by this tree can grant immortality to mortals. According to Loki, the Golden Apple Tree is a sacred tree grown from a branch of the World Tree, the foundation of Asgard’s realm. It was never meant to be under the control of someone like him, an outcast from his own pantheon. The World Tree itself is an existence on the level of supreme immortals, but as a plant, it possesses great power yet struggles to utilize it fully. This led to the emergence of the supreme god Odin and the high-tier artifact Mjölnir, and it gave rise to the nine worlds, including Asgard, the stronghold of the northern gods and the source of their pantheon. Thus, the Golden Apple Tree, grown from the World Tree, is considered a high-tier immortal artifact of the higher gods, capable of producing golden apples that restore youth to mortals and grant them immortal traits akin to those of demi-gods. It is said that similar sacred trees, the Golden Apple Trees, also exist on the mountains of other pantheons, such as the Olympian pantheon. When Donald asked Loki, he received an affirmative answer—just as he had guessed, the Golden Apple Trees of other pantheons were obtained through exchanges from the gods of Asgard.

The golden apples produced by such a sacred tree are truly remarkable treasures, even for true gods. They can be used to craft divine medicines that restore vitality; taking them when injured can greatly speed up recovery. It should be noted that true gods are hard to injure. Yet, as immortal beings, once injured, they require a long time to recover. Thus, such restorative divine items are very popular among the gods! Not only golden apples, but the branches and leaves of this golden sacred tree can also be used as materials for crafting divine weapons. Of course, few true gods would waste such precious resources by cutting down its branches for use as materials.

The second source is not actually a product of Loki’s own realm, but rather the corpses of mid-tier and high-tier gods that Loki gathered during the chaos. These divine bodies belong not only to the Babylonian and Asgardian pantheons but also to countless other pantheons across the universe, as that great war affected everything. Tens of thousands of gods perished. Loki, who is skilled not only in magic but also in alchemy and creation, naturally wouldn’t miss the opportunity to obtain the powerful bodies of true gods.

The children he is said to have taken on the form of world-destroying demons are actually not his biological offspring. Instead, they were created using his own divine blood and the bodies of mighty giants who were slain by Asgard. It’s not wrong to call them his children, as Loki is the creator who gave them life, acting as both their father and mother in a complex role.

He created these monsters out of resentment toward the rejection by the other gods, as well as envy and jealousy toward his brother’s succession as the next god-king, along with complex feelings of admiration. However, before Loki could launch Ragnarök, the great war had already begun. The powerful demons he created, whose combat strength rivaled that of mid-tier or even high-tier gods, played a significant role in the battles. After Odin and the World Tree disappeared, it was thanks to these demons that he and Thor were able to lead a group of Asgardian gods to escape the chaos!

“I wonder if these can be used…”
Donald was extremely envious of the powerful divine body materials that Loki had collected and preserved, especially the three bodies of high-tier gods. Even though their owners were dead, their divine radiance still exerted a tremendous pressure on him. With such excellent materials, even a true god who wasn’t skilled in creation could easily craft mid-tier divine weapons.

Since the divine kingdom had already been abandoned, Loki certainly wouldn’t be stingy with such things and immediately gave some to Donald. After all, he was now fully focused on Thor and had no intention of creating any world-destroying monsters!

After quickly gathering the most important items, Loki used a divine artifact in the form of a golden bowl to store everything, then handed over Thor’s soul sphere to Donald.

When it came to dealing with damaged souls, Donald undoubtedly had more methods than Loki. He carried with him a complete soul sphere of sub-divine level, containing 100,000 units of pure soul energy. By replenishing it slightly every day, he could maintain Thor’s soul’s stability and even greatly nourish it.

“Pure soul energy? How rare!”

Seeing this, Loki breathed a sigh of relief and confidently handed Thor over to Donald. He himself prepared to exit his Twilight God state and leave this lifeless world with his brother!

It was because the constant need to maintain Thor’s soul’s stability drained Loki’s own strength that he had been unable to recover, struggling in an awkward state between falling and remaining intact. Now freed from this burden, Loki easily reignited a brilliant divine flame within his body in less than half a day, completing the recovery process and returning to his divine status.

At the same time, an aura of oldness and decay gradually faded from him, as his Twilight God essence absorbed power and slowly began to restore its former status as a supreme god.

However, this process would take some time, as Loki had lost a source of power like faith energy. This was also why most true gods in that universe didn’t rely heavily on faith energy—otherwise, just losing faith support would be enough to drive a true god into twilight!

Free from his Twilight state, Loki displayed the majesty of a supreme god. Although his divine power hadn’t fully recovered and he could only exert the strength of an ordinary mid-tier god at present, it still caused tremendous upheaval within the divine tomb.

As the divine tomb was about to be restored to a divine kingdom, Loki voluntarily gave up control over its core, causing the kingdom to collapse instantly.

Donald, watching from the side, also felt regret. It was a shame he hadn’t brought the actual Truth Book with him; with that high-grade artifact, he could have easily taken this divine kingdom and left this world of forgotten ruins. Otherwise, burdened by the divine kingdom, the true god Loki could never leave this world unless he regained his full strength and used it to break through the world’s barriers.
“Let’s go!”
Glancing once at his divine kingdom, Loki turned without any hesitation and said to Donald.
That was just how masters were. Though Donald felt some reluctance, he didn’t dwell on it. He promptly set Charlie and the others free and climbed onto Sphinx’s broad back along with Loki, heading toward the next divine tomb.