2047 Discriminating Against Aliens, Declining Asgard
To be honest, Luke really should thank Malekith, this villain.
Not only did this Dark Elf leader have a magnificent plan to destroy the universe, he had only been one step away from success.
For the system, it didn't matter if Malekith had only been talking big about destroying the universe; just making Earth a target made this mission worth a lot of experience and credit points.
Hence, the mission to save the world, which Luke thought wouldn't happen, appeared twice in less than two years, and he had stolen a huge chunk of the pie.
The total experience and credit points for this mission was 148.7 billion, which was slightly higher than for the 2023 mission.
Here, half of Earth's population hadn't been destroyed by Thanos's Snap, and it was still full of life; it made sense that there would be 100 to 200 million more people here than in 2023.
Luke had a 32% contribution rate.
He wasn't too surprised.
In those critical ten minutes, Thor had tussled with Malekith for about six minutes.
Luke liked experience and credit points, but he got them to become stronger so that he could better protect his family and live a safe life.
The prerequisite for all this was to ensure that Earth was safe and sound, not to blindly pursue experience and credit points.
Thus, he didn't mind watching silently and holding down the fort. Only after he figured out the Malekith + Aether behavioral pattern did he take action to clinch victory.
At the same time, he didn't mind letting the Avengers join the battlefield and take some of the contribution rate for destroying the Dark Elf fleet.
This way, he might get 20 to 30% less in terms of contribution, but things were more than safe enough.
Coupled with the shared contributions from his teammates in the system, Luke obtained a total of 61 billion experience and credit points.
He scratched his head. F*ck! The amount of points still depended on his opponent's performance.
Compared with the fight against Thanos in 2023, Malekith was too weak.
Still, both of them had the power to destroy Earth. It was just that Malekith tried to pull a fast one by using the Convergence of the Nine Realms, which only happened once every 5,000 years.
While the devastation they could cause was pretty much on par, there was a world of difference in their true strength.
At that moment, Luke had leveled up twice and was now level 42. He had 22 extra stat points (From level 41 onward, he got 11 extra stat points with every level-up).
To reach level 43, he needed 50 billion experience points. He currently had over 22 billion, which was under half of what he needed.
Luke didn't think much of it.
He would graduate at level 50, and had just suddenly gone up two and a half levels. There was really no need to be anxious.
Also, 22 extra stat points from these two levels were enough to increase his Dexterity to 120, and his Strength to 140.
Coupled with the Tesseract that he had obtained, Luke was looking forward slightly to how things would go with Thanos in this universe.
However, after two consecutive cosmic-level disasters, the system had only calculated the gains from saving all of Earth, which confirmed one thing — for Daddy System, the human beings on Earth were absolutely paramount.
Thanos, who had been killed in 2023, had destroyed half the population of many alien races, but the system hadn't given any experience or credit points in relation to that.
The Dark Elves had also caused a lot of casualties in Asgard this time, and the system didn't say anything.
Clearly, the system didn't recognize saving aliens as a good deed.
In fact, Thor was a good dark green in the system, and Loki was an evil dark red.
But most of the ordinary Asgardians whom the Big Dipper clone came into contact with in Asgard weren't neutral yellow, but… a blank white.
Good and neutral targets were protected by the system. Unless they were hostile, Luke couldn't seriously injure or kill them, or he would lose a lot of credit points.
As for aliens that were a blank white, they clearly didn't have this protection.
In other words, aliens who didn't do good for the sake of Earth could be killed.
But given Earth's overall strength in the universe and how remote it was, it was impossible for Luke to go out and kill such aliens.
There were no benefits, and it was easy to draw hatred.
Even a cosmic tyrant like Thanos had been taken down twice, which was ample proof.
…
Following this huge gain, Luke needed to study the Infinity Glove and also allocate stat points to increase his overall strength again, so he didn't dwell on Odin's strange behavior.
The defense measures in the Royal Palace were quite troublesome. Even the system had gone silent; there was no way to confirm Luke's speculation.
In addition, the Dark Elves had charged into the Royal Palace and killed God-Queen Frigga, but Odin hadn't taken revenge himself; it was possible that his body couldn't handle it.
Connecting this to the information which Luke had gotten out of Thor over the years, and the prophecy about Ragnarok, Luke suspected that the end of Asgard was right in front of them.
This prophecy involved a 'god,' and while it was likely that there would be many twists and turns, it was even more likely that the prophecy would come true.
The difference was the extent to which Asgard could still make a comeback.
Given what Asgard had accumulated, as long as there was a certain number of people, it wouldn't be hard for them to occupy another planet and expand.
At most, they would no longer be part of the Nine Great Realms, and would decline from a top power in the universe to a second-rate force.
This wasn't a good thing for Earth.
Asgard's protective umbrella was quite powerful. At least, there hadn't been too many world-ending crises in the last 100 to 200 years.
It wasn't until something happened to Odin's body that all sorts of huge crises popped up over the last few years.
At that moment, it wasn't good for Luke to sound Odin out.
If something really happened and his actions triggered the prelude to Ragnarok, that would be a pain in the ass.
Thor's shortcomings were also very obvious, and he might not be able to help Luke withstand the pressure.
To put it simply, Luke had to play it safe.
Thinking about it, of the three titans, Tony and Steve were very reliable.
If any one of them had been the crown prince of Asgard, Luke would have definitely communicated with them in private to fix any possible issues.
As for Thor, it was best not to pin any hopes on him.
…
There were other gains from the battle.
Luke turned into the bigshot who sold everything and went to collect the best of the cross-shaped battleships and fighter planes.
His Mental Strength had skyrocketed, and he didn't have to worry about cooking his brain when collecting the huge battleships and fighter planes.
The Dark Elves' battleships and fighter planes perhaps couldn't be considered sturdy, but they were still very practical.
If they weren't, they wouldn't have been able to hide from Heimdall's eyes, which were known to be able to see all of the universe, right up until they charged into Asgard.
From this point of view, Malekith, this crap leader, had given the wrong order during the battle in Greenwich.
Battleships with extreme stealth and heavy firepower were actually most suitable for mobile warfare.
If the battleships and fighter planes had been allowed to move and attack freely, the Bat Squad and the Avengers really wouldn't have been able to destroy this army so easily.
It wouldn't even be hard to send Thor and Big Dipper flying with a few cannon blasts at the right time to allow Malekith to seize the moment.
Unfortunately, Malekith had been too hasty, and treated his men as cannon fodder and stepping stones.
In the end, he and the fleet were torn apart, and the race was wiped out in one go. He had brought this on himself.
He got nothing, while the Bat Squad and the Avengers profited.
After all, these were spaceships.
The Chitauri fleet from back then didn't have technology that was as good, and no mothership had been left behind on Earth – it couldn't compare with the harvest this time round.
