MFG - Chapter 57 (Patreon)

Note: Oh wow, finally a False God chapter! Apologies for the zero update in the last month, but finally regained motivation to write this again.  Enjoy!

Chapter 57: The God of Mischief (1)

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The universe belonged to those who were truly powerful. Such as the Mad Titan – Thanos.

Loki learned it the hard way.

When Loki faked his death and fell from the Bifrost, he wasn't expecting to fall before the throne of Thanos. The figure of the Mad Titan was menacing enough, but the powerful being didn’t have Loki’s best interest in mind. At least, not at first, when Loki was refusing to take his request.

After a lot of talking, and a little bit of torture, Loki had to accept the deal that Thanos was proposing. He had to agree to lead an army of Chitauri to go and take over Earth.

The Mad Titan was the one to give him all the resources, and even one of the Six Infinity Stones that governed the universe, and all he had to do was to take over the world in his stead.

Ultimately, he would get to rule over humanity and the entire planet Earth as a whole. In return, he would be serving Thanos. As for why Thanos was being so generous, Loki didn't know the direct answer but he had a pretty good guess.

If humanity was under Loki's rule, and by extension Thanos' rule, then a lot of the Earthly

Pantheons would go down. Even the greatest Pantheons will be weakened, namely Olympus and Asgard, which will help Thanos in the long shot.

The Mad Titan was planning something big.

And for that, Loki guessed, he wanted to deal with the threatening Gods of the earthly Pantheons first. Namely Odin, the All-Father of Asgard, as they already had a history with one another.

It’s been centuries since their last clash, but Loki vividly remembered how Thanos was always weary of Odin. Despite his… hate for the old man, Loki had to admit how great and powerful Odin truly was.

Still, he wanted to kill Odin. Just like Thanos did. Or at least, put him to his Odin sleep for eternity. So, Loki agreed to Thanos’ mission.

Now, here he was, riding a Chitauri and shooting across the city. The fools who called themselves the “Avengers” were fighting the army quite well. Oh, and they even had a few new backups. Namely, a woman whose arms were fiery red as she destroyed enemies with ease.

More than her, however, Loki noticed a sense of divinity in the area. It was as if a God… other than Loki and Thor themselves, was around. No, not really a God, but something close.

“How annoying.”

Loki turned in the direction in which his Chitauri flying vehicle was going. Just then, his senses flared, and he shot his hand toward his face. Smoothly, a modern arrow slipped into his grip, and he smirked.

His eyes locked onto the archer who shot the arrow, the same human named Clint whom Loki had mind controlled before. Loki had to admit his archery was better than most Asgardian, but whatever the case, he was just a human who was shooting arrows as a God.

“Foolish hu-”

Then, the arrow exploded in his face.

– Boom!

Loki groaned and was shot flying from the sky. The Chitauri vehicle shot to the other side, and he shot behind, falling back. Thankfully there was a pretty solid building right behind him, and he landed on its balcony. Not that falling would have killed him, despite it being hundreds of meters in the sky, but he would rather not fall.

“Agh, these swine.”

Loki’s Scepter had fallen to the side, and he slowly got up while groaning to pick it up. However, just as he was about to do that, something else landed near his feet.

It was that lowly human female, the pitiful assassin. Black Widow jumped from the Chitauri she had hijacked, and rolled on the balcony, getting up and turning around to face Loki.

“Haha…”

Loki slowly grinned as he stood up, his hands reaching up for the Scepter. But honestly, he could beat her even without it. She was just a mere human who knew how to fight more than well.

Then, just before he could grab Scepter, a white nova shot through the air and slammed him on the chest.

“I got this, go take care of other things.”

Super-Nova, the man from whom Loki was feeling the faint trace of divinity, picked up Scepter and ordered Black Widow. The woman hesitated for a moment, but looking back at the way he had come from, the trail of dead enemies behind, she quickly nodded and jumped off, hijacking another vehicle.

Then, the bright superhero turned into Loki. He grabbed Loki by the collar, lifted him from the floor, and flew away from there in a burst.

What he was planning to do couldn't be done in the Stark Tower, where a million and a half CCTV was observing everything.

“Let me free!”

“Soon.”

Loki struggled, and Enrique maintained a stoic frame.

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Rogue and Greer were supposed to be together but it was kind of hard to pull off in this sort of situation. To deal with an immediate enemy, or perhaps to save a civilian, the two overtime grew apart and now they didn’t know where they were.

Thankfully, they could still speak via their earpieces. Mother Goddess Mut could actually set up a telepathic network between them, but since they couldn’t speak to Enrique due to his special affinity, that plan was scrapped.

Finally, the earpieces became useful.

– [Rogue? I want you to move to the designated location.]

While Anna was busy tearing down a few Chitauri, Enrique’s voice rang in her head and she paused.

“On it.”

Rogue jumped around a car, rolling on the roof, and dodged a few beams of attack. She kicked the ground and moved like a hungry tigress, her amulet shining gently, as she reached the enemies and kicked them in the neck. Each kick had the force of a hammer, and the necks of the enemies shattered like plastic.

Rogue turned around, looking for more enemies, but when she noted that there were none in the near vicinity, she kicked the ground and dashed towards where Enrique called her to go.

Till now, Rogue wasn’t aware of what Enrique was planning for him. So she felt a little nervous, but at the same time – she felt very excited.

Perhaps today was the day when she would get over her meek and pathetic self.

“Let’s focus.”

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