American comics: Praising the sun, starting from Gotham!

All the heroes present, whether from DC or Marvel, were processing the information contained in Loki's words.

Conqueror Kang, Time Pruning, The Realm of Nothingness.

Each word represents a crisis they never imagined.

Silence fell over the party.

The silence was quickly broken by a sound like a boulder rolling.

"Waaah..."

The sound came from the corner.

Solomon Grandi stopped what he was doing.

His face, which appeared somewhat simple and bewildered, revealed an expression of displeasure.

He raised his head and looked at the god of stories.

Grandi, I don't like that guy.

From the moment this tall, thin, green-eyed guy appeared.

Grandi didn't like him.

His scent was too complex.

Lies, drama, pranks, and a faint, unsettling scent that reminded him of the massacre swamp.

Especially when that huge purple vortex appeared just now!

Everyone was terrified! His little human friends were terrified too! Ivy was exhausted!

But this guy is laughing!

So, Grandi, you're not happy.

Grandi thought this guy was a bad guy!

Seeing the dangerous glint in Solomon's eyes, Shuen spoke to Ivy through their mental link.

"Ivy, look at Grandy, he doesn't seem to like the new guest."

Ivy naturally understood what he meant.

Holding the golden roses, she glanced at Loki, who was still enjoying the attention of the crowd and thinking he was the center of attention.

Then, her divine will, belonging to the God of Nature, enveloped the entire plant dome.

This thought, however, inadvertently carried a faint emotional implication as it passed by Solomon Grandi.

The implication was simple.

He made everyone unhappy.

Go and make him unhappy too.

"roar!"

Solomon Grandi understood the instruction!

He flipped the table in front of him over and roared as he charged toward the center of the party!

"Wait! Dude! What's wrong?!"

Loki couldn't maintain his elegant smile as he watched the monster charging straight at him.

"Stop right there, you stupid guy."

His immediate instinct was to use words or illusions to control the big guy.

But Solomon Grandi wasn't buying it!

He only listens to Ivy!

His enormous hand attacked the emerald green magical shield that automatically appeared around Loki!

The shield shattered with a snap under Grandi's brute force!

Then, with his muddy hands, he grabbed Loki's ankle!

"Let go! You filthy thing!"

Loki's roar, along with his elegance, came to an abrupt halt.

Because he discovered it.

I can't move myself.

The power of the laws from this unfamiliar land locked his body, his divine power, and all his magic and illusions within this shell!

He couldn't even cast the simplest teleportation spell!

then.

The sky spins.

The ground turns.

"Bang!"

Loki's head made intimate contact with the ground.

"Bang! Bang!"

Solomon, gripping his legs as if wielding a tattered whip, slammed him left and right across the platform!

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

"Stop...I...I am...a god...!"

Loki's aria turned into a broken scream.

His suit was covered in dust and torn! His once neatly combed black hair was now a mess, like a bird's nest!

His face, which always wore an elegant, fake smile, was now sizzling with passion as he rubbed against the ground!

Thor watched as his younger brother was lifted up and repeatedly slammed around like a sandbag.

"No? No! Loki?!"

He wanted to laugh at the scene that felt so familiar, but he also wanted to help him, yet he didn't know what to do.

Tony, on the other hand, was laughing so hard he almost spilled his martini!

"Hahaha! Well done! You big oaf! I've had my eye on that green guy for ages!"

Most of the heroes, however, simply looked at each other in bewilderment.

What's going on here?

"Shuen!"

A voice filled with reluctance rang out beside Xiu En.

It's Clark.

The kind-hearted god of the mortal realm looked at Loki, who had been thrown to the ground and appeared to be on the verge of death, and his face showed obvious reluctance.

"Isn't this going a bit too far?"

"He may seem suspicious, but isn't this a bit much?"

"After all, he's a guest at our party, right?"

Xiu En picked up on his words, but showed no intention of stopping him.

"Clark".

Shum stopped Superman from stepping in to mediate the fight.

"Do you really think that Möbius guy would just happen to catch my bouquet?"

"What do you mean?"

Shuen pointed to Loki, who looked like he had been thrown so badly that he was barely breathing.

"Do you think someone with this guy's skills wouldn't be able to stop an ordinary TVA agent from appearing where he doesn't want him to be?"

"He did it on purpose."

"From the very beginning, that unfortunate guy named Mobius was a scapegoat he deliberately pushed out. A clown used to grab all our attention."

"He's the one who ruined our party."

After hearing Shuen's explanation, Clark fell silent.

He looked at Loki, who was still being whipped like a leather whip, and then at Shuen, whose face was completely expressionless, as if he were just watching an after-dinner entertainment show.

He thought about it.

In the end, they gave up.

He was an ordinary young man from a farm in Kansas.

I don't want to think about these things.

so tired.

He sighed. Then he walked back to Louise's side and asked Alfred for two more glasses of orange juice.

He gave Louise a loving smile.

"Forget it, let's just ignore them."

"Let's continue discussing where we should go for our honeymoon."

He decided to give up thinking.

Then he went to be with his girlfriend.

All eyes were focused on the giant who was still tirelessly wielding Loki, compacting the earth.

That's enough.

Ivy brought this one-sided violence to an end.

Upon hearing the command, Solomon Grandi immediately stopped what he was doing.

He casually tossed the God of Deception, who was already dizzy and covered in grass clippings, onto the ground.

Then, he scratched his head, with a simple and honest expression that said, "I've finished my work," and turned back to the corner to continue studying the principles of arm wrestling with the equally dumbfounded stone man.

Loki scrambled to his feet, looking disheveled, and pretended to clutch his aching back.

"A wonderful opening performance."

Loki straightened his clothes, forcing a smile that looked more like a grimace.

"Now, let's get back to our previous topic. My dear leading man, how do you feel about my invitation?"

"That sounds interesting."

Seeing Loki's miserable state, Shu En was no longer angry. He took a step forward, ready to accept Loki's invitation.

"Wait a moment."

A voice interrupted him.

Bruce Wayne emerged from the corner.

He approached the three men and looked at Loki.

"Before accepting any invitation from an unknown source."

"I believe it is necessary to conduct a basic risk assessment."

He turned to Shuen: "You know nothing about them. That so-called TVA, that so-called Conqueror Kang, and him."

He gestured with his chin toward Loki.

"These are all unknowns. We cannot rashly enter a game designed by the other side without any intelligence."

"So take me with you, I don't trust you to follow this guy."

Xiu En's excitement cooled down a bit.

"Okay, you're right."

Shuon shrugged and gestured with his chin toward Loki.

"Did you hear that, theater actor? Before I go to see your new stage, I require a due diligence visit to your company headquarters."

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"Oh, of course, of course!"

Loki wore a smile that seemed to have been expected all along. He found Bruce's caution quite amusing.

"It would be a great honor for TVA to invite such a professional audience member as Mr. Wayne to visit our backstage area."

He bowed slightly, then stretched out his hand and gently made a gesture in the air in front of him.

A secret time portal unfolded before him.

"Well then, everyone."

Loki made a gesture of invitation.

"Welcome to the end of all time, and the beginning of all time."

Shuon, who had become very interested in the mastermind behind the scenes, and Bruce, who believed the matter needed to be evaluated, ultimately decided to accept Loki's invitation.

Xiu En's main body remained in the Xi Mu Realm, just in case. He and Bruce each created a projection to enter the passage.

Out of distrust of both their unreliable Sun and the even more unreliable Batman in the butler's eyes, Ivy and Alfred, with Shum's help, also attached themselves to them in the form of projections.

The projections of the four people and the flower followed Loki into that bizarre and fantastical time tunnel.

At the end of the corridor, there was a seemingly endless, beige office space. It featured retro wood textures, old vacuum tube computers, mountains of paper documents, and hovering vehicles constantly shuttling through the air.

Countless men and women, dressed in suits similar to Möbius's, moved about with numb expressions, dealing with documents and cases that seemed to never end.

This is the headquarters of the Time Mutation Administration (TVA).

An institution that transcends all timelines.

"Gotcha! You committed this at this hour!"

While the group was still marveling at the sight before them...

A sound of chasing came from not far away.

They saw several TVA soldiers wielding strange batons with orange glowing lights pinning a man in a T-shirt to the ground with only one bite of a hamburger in his hand!

"No! I didn't! I just wanted an extra burger! I missed the ordering time!"

The man argued loudly.

"Shut up! Your act of eating an extra hamburger has created a completely new branch in time!"

The lead soldier pressed a baton against the back of his head.

"Now it's all over for you!"

The soldier pressed a button on his baton.

A flash of orange light appeared, and the chubby man, along with the hamburger in his hand, turned into a burning green phantom and then disappeared.

It was as if he had never existed.

Seeing this, Shuen was somewhat angry. He should have stopped it, but Loki had affected him and he didn't have time.

"Processed."

The soldier, expressionless, reported into his walkie-talkie.

"Recover the remaining time energy. Then prepare to enter the Void. Elios, it's time for lunch."

The soldiers used a strange device to absorb the wisp of time energy from the spot where the man had been. Then they went to a door marked "Disposal Slot" and threw the device inside.

Bruce watched all of this with a cold gaze.

A thoughtful yet dangerous smile appeared on Xiu En's face.

He said to Loki beside him.

"We almost became that monster's meal?"

"And you're doing this feeding activity every day?"

"Is this your story, Loki?"

"Erasing an ordinary person who just wanted to eat another hamburger in this way? Just because he deviated from your ridiculous so-called main timeline?"

Shuen took a step forward, and his aura of the sun pressed down on Loki without any attempt to conceal it.

Tell me, what's the difference between you and him?

He was referring to Kang the Conqueror, the tyrant director who was far beyond the end of time, as Loki had mentioned.

Faced with Shuen's oppressive aura, Loki took a half step back, avoiding the sharp edge of Shuen's presence.

"Oh, no, no, no, my dear leading man, you've misunderstood."

Loki spread his hands, his face showing an expression full of helplessness and compassion.

"This isn't my script. How could I have written such a crude and aesthetically unappealing tragedy?"

His gaze swept over the TVA employees who were hurrying around.

"That's right, I'm in charge of this place for the time being."

He readily admitted it.

"But I'm just a patch-up artist who was put in charge in a time of crisis. I'm just trying my best to fix the mess left by that real tyrannical director."

"Everything you see, these inhumane pruning procedures, is a necessary evil set up to combat Kang and prevent the resurgence of the multiverse war."

"I had no choice."

"Necessary evil? I hate that word."

"I don't care what grand reasons you have. I don't care which universe you're trying to save."

Two golden flames ignited in Xiu En's eyes, filled with uncontrollable disgust and anger!

"All I know is that just now, a living, breathing person was disposed of like trash by you for some ridiculous reason."

"Shuen, you don't understand!"

Seeing the increasingly terrifying energy fluctuations emanating from Shuen, Mobius, who was standing to the side, finally couldn't help but speak up again to defend himself.

"If we don't do this, that timeline will...

"I told you!"

Shuen interrupted him, staring at Loki.

"I hate this practice of arbitrarily eliminating ordinary people!"

"Yeah?"

Faced with Shuen's almost out-of-control rage, Loki's smile grew even brighter.

"What if I told you that those who were cut off didn't actually die?"

Xiu En's anger momentarily subsided.

"They were just thrown into that junkyard at the end of time."

Loki explained.

"That's the monster's hunting ground. That place is the Void Realm I was talking about."

"As long as we can get rid of Kang. As long as we can overthrow the dictatorial time-law he established."

"I have a way to bring them all back."

Bruce's principle is not to kill humans.

TVA's behavior was undoubtedly pushing the boundaries of what was right.

Ivy also loathed this kind of transaction that used life as a bargaining chip. But she cared more about Xiu En's choice.

Shuon looked at Loki.

He was also weighing the options.

He despised Loki's methods.

But he could not tolerate those innocent lives being wasted on a monster's plate.

If cooperating with this cunning god of trickery was his only option, then...

"Then how can I trust you?"

"Of course, we should let the facts speak for themselves."

Loki snapped his fingers.

A blank wall behind him transformed into a holographic screen.

What appeared on the screen was a top-secret file from the TVA!

"This is our enemy. Shuen."

A series of bizarre and fantastical images appeared on the screen.

A man dressed in purple and green armor and wearing a blue mask sat on a floating throne that could travel through time and space. Behind him were countless identical versions of himself from different timelines!

They formed a terrifying council that spans the multiverse.

Kangzhi Council

The scene shifts, and a city built at the end of time appears before us.

【Kang Dynasty】.

Then, countless interstellar warships, equipped with causal weapons capable of easily erasing a timeline, floated densely in the gaps of the multiverse!

【Conqueror Fleet】.

"As you can see, our adversary is a civilization that has conquered countless timelines."

"A time empire that treats all variables as viruses!"

Xiu En stared at the countless Kangs, so densely packed they could kill someone with trypophobia on the spot.

This seems quite troublesome, but fortunately Xiu En is not afraid of trouble.

"All right."

He glanced at Bruce beside him, whose expression was equally grave, and the two began a silent dialogue.

How much of what he said was true, and how much was false?

Unable to analyze. But the threat level is real. I need the full TVA database for cross-validation.

If you get your hands on it, I'll help you.

it is good.

The exchange is over.

Shuon looked at Loki.

"A very interesting story, Loki."

"We can consider your invitation for now."

"But before joining the crew."

"As is customary, shouldn't you first show us around your company's back office and complete project database?"

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