Bab 93: Chapter 93 Aiding the Realms of Asgard
*Author's Note.*
*Me re-reading the chapter*
*My gods, what have I done...*
The intergalactic portkey Harry made was powered by his own magic and used himself as an anchor, so a period of time after it had been set off, the item popped into existence next to Harry who took it and confirmed the recorded coordinates.
Harry was not sure if he should be surprised or not that where-ever Thor set off the portkey, was not in the milky way galaxy or andromeda. Either way, Sorcerer portals don't care for distance so once Harry made his preparations, he made a silver portal to the exact coordinates and peered through.
At the other end of the portal was an ornately carved stone room with a fancy looking bed and a table with a few chairs. Harry figured it was a bedroom of sorts and currently an empty one.
Harry stepped through and took a bit of a look around before taking a seat and crossing his legs. Harry then entered the Astral Plane to scout a bit before opening the door.
Passing through walls was easy enough but the map and layout of the astral plane was not always the same as the material world, so it can only be used as a vague reference at best. Harry was able to spot various people wandering through the halls and confirmed this was probably Asgard or somewhere similar.
Harry returned to his body and transfigured his clothes to match what the others wore. Black hair and green eyes was not a particularly uncommon sight so he did not need to change his appearance.
The room itself had a few tapestries of various symbols and images which told of many stories. Some included who Harry guessed was Thor meaning there was a chance this was his room. He wasn't completely sure since he didn't check the adjacent rooms to compare them since he might walk in on a naked Asgardian dude and Harry did not want to risk that.
After confirming he looked the part, Harry opened the door and left the room into an empty hall and walked until he could find where there were people gathered.
Something that quite stood out about Asgard was that it had the scent of death all over it. To someone who spent centuries living in the land of the dead, it wasn't something he could mistake for anything else. This place felt a bit like a graveyard or mausoleum. As he explored more, he had a few ideas as to the source. Much of Asgard had gold built into the structure granting it an ethereal beauty and majestic appearance. But Harry doubted a single gram of the gold was acquired peacefully. This place was built using gold acquired through trading blood and death.
However, the scent was ancient and had not been renewed in thousands of years. So Harry didn't particularly care about the origin or history of the place.
After taking a bit of a tour, Harry asked someone, "Do you know where I can find Thor? There is something he asked to discuss with me at this time, but his room is empty."
The passerby answered, "He is probably in the mess hall."
Harry thanked him and headed over. Now that he had enough information, he used a Point Me charm to direct him through the halls to the Mess Hall to where Thor was. The spell only works if you know the destination and need assistance with the journey. Useful for mazes and finding your way through unfamiliar cities, but not much else.
Eventually he saw Thor sitting on a table looking at a mug of something. He seemed deep in thought about something. Harry remembered when he met Thor at the Diner, Thor had acquired a mug somewhere and given it to the waitress at the diner because he'd broken a mug there the prior day.
Harry took a seat next to him and asked, "Penny for your thoughts?"
Thor turned to look at Harry Potter and then turned back to his mug. Then he quickly did a double take and once again looked at his mug. He sniffed it, perhaps worried he had been drugged with something.
Harry sighed and asked, "You used that thing and now I'm here, so what do you need help with?"
Thor stated, "Actually I placed it on a table and it fell to the ground and vanished. I was not sure what it meant."
Harry shrugged. False alarm apparently. "Well, you're sitting alone and pensively staring at a mug. I'm sure there is something you need help with. Jane is still trying to figure out how to find you, you know."
"And tell me, how are you here?"
Harry answered, "There are Sorcerers in my world who have mastered dimensional magic. It's thanks to their help that I can come and go to many places. I also have a way back so don't mind me."
Thor looked surprised at that. "I was not aware that the Seidr of Midgard made themselves known to others. Asgard has had no contact with them in centuries."
"They have hidden themselves and keep to themselves mostly. So. What has you so glum?"
Thor sighed once more and emptied his mug before starting his story.
Turns out Loki did not handle the knowledge of his adoption well, killed his birth father, and tried to destroy his birth world. In order to stop this, Thor had to destroy the Bifost, but doing so cut off Asgard from the rest of the nine realms and beyond. Though Asgard had craft capable of space travel, they were far inferior to the Bifrost. So Thor was personally responsible for the destruction of the Bifrost, though it saved Jotunheim, he still felt responsible for the problems now spreading amongst the worlds that once relied on Asgard to be their shield.
Harry asked, "Any chance of fixing the Bifrost?"
Thor shook his head. "I have asked of this. The Bifrost was created with a powerful artifact thousands of years ago. The artifact has since been lost. My mother searches the records for it, but its location is not known at the moment. Once it is, I shall retrieve it personally."
Which of course meant Thor could do nothing but hurry up and wait. Harry wondered if there was anything he could do.
Harry asked, "So what's the situation of the other realms?"
Thor sighed once more and stated, "The Badoon have revolted and are at war with each other. Their war spreads beyond their worlds to Asgard protected worlds and Alfheim has suffered greatly for it. The Troll Lords have set a blockade around Nidavellir, preventing food and metal from being sent to the dwarves. Every day their own stores of food and weapons lessen as those rock trolls wait for King Eitri and the dwarves to starve to death so they may take the forges of Nidavellir for themselves. Vanaheim, Nornheim, and their neighboring worlds have fallen under the mercy of marauders and pirates. The Vanir have always relied on Asgard to protect them, and now they are defenseless."
As Harry was considering the problem, he got a nice pop up.
*Ping*
[New Quest: Defender of the Realms
-Protect Alfheim from the Badoon.
-Protect Nidavellir from the the Troll Lords
-Protect Vanaheim, Nornheim, and their neighboring worlds from the Marauders.]
Harry figured that it was quite the convenient quest. Despite the difficulty, the quest itself provided pointers Harry could use to find the other worlds himself.
Harry had to ask, "What happened to Loki? For something like this, he'd probably be able to think of something."
Thor smiled but looked sadder than before. "Indeed. Loki always had a way of going where he wanted, even if it was somewhere he was not supposed to be. But Loki fell off the Bifrost. Mother says he is alive. She contacted him using magic and offered assistance returning home, but he ignored her. I do not know what has become of my brother."
Harry nodded and said, "Then maybe I can think of something. First, give me a few more details."
Thor thought it was an odd request, but answered all the questions Harry asked.
For example, the reason blockading Nidavellir would cause the dwarves to starve was because the dwarves had forged their own planet into a forge. There was no longer arable land and they got by on trade.
Vanaheim and its surrounding worlds had mines containing metals of great value and the target of the Marauder's greed. In the past they would trade it and their crops to Asgard in exchange for protection. Asgard would trade it to Nidavellir along with food in exchange for dwarven crafted weapons. Apparently, they really relied on the Bifrost for trade in the Nine Realms.
The Badoon which were now invading Alfheim were a violent reptilian species. Asgard forced their leaders to behave and their leaders forced their people to keep their heads down. Once the Badoon learned that Asgard was not coming to help those in need, they revolted and started a civil war. War requires resources and the peaceful elven paradise of Alfheim was now being used by both sides of that civil war for resources.
At the end, Thor asked, "Do you really think you can do something that would require the might of Asgard's armies?"
Harry smiled, "These problems can be solved using the force of Asgard's armies, but they can be solved other ways as well."
Thor, not believing Harry could do so, stated, "Well, I wish you the best of luck Harry Potter."
Harry nodded and got up to find a place he could portal out of. Both Heimdall and Odin watched over all of Asgard at all times, but unless Harry was in front of them, they would not see him.
Harry's first stop was Alfheim. He used his spacecraft to search the planet a bit for where some Badoon had set up camp and admitted it was probably the most beautiful planet he'd ever seen. Definitely a spot to take the girls on a future date.
Alfheim had a variety of elves and most if not all elves had a disposition to certain forms of Sorcery. Light elves could use light magic, water elves could use water magic, air elves could use air magic, etc. Most elves could also learn nature magic and used it creatively. As could be seen from the fields of growing candy Harry flew over.
Eventually Harry found a space filled with stumps and ash and ugly creatures. Harry turned invisible and captured one before pulling out a Crystal Rabbit.
This was an upgraded version of his original Rabbit of Caerbannog, but lasted even longer and he could set even more parameters.
First, Harry had the Rabbit fully scan the captured reptile man. Then Harry set in some additional parameters. They would primarily target those of the same species, and those who attacked them multiple times.
The improvements included a built-in Point Me charm which would lead the rabbits to the closest target and a power saving standby mode in case no targets were available. Harry also added a program which would have them sneak aboard ships and become invisible until the ships landed. These Badoon had brought their war to other worlds right?
Did Harry mind the possible genocide? Not particularly. Though he wouldn't have gone this far if he was not given the Quest. Quests are usually absolutes, so it is easy to tell good from bad during one.
The rabbit was released upon the captive and after a quick death, the rabbit transfigured its corpse into two more rabbits. The upgraded version didn't multiply as quickly, but they were sturdier. Guns wouldn't affect them much and their heads could ram through blast doors when given enough time.
About half an hour after the rabbits were released into the camp, the camp was deserted. All the dead Badoon had turned into more rabbits and the live ones had fled to their spaceships. Unfortunately, some rabbits may have gotten aboard said ships before they left. Oh well.
The remaining rabbits started hopping off in the same direction. It would be the way to the next closest Badoon camp.
Next Harry spent a few hours making a very large batch of a very powerful potion. Once done, he dumped a vast amount of glitter into the cauldron.
Once he had his diabolical concoction, he headed over to Vanaheim and used the Point Me Charm to find the various Marauder camps. In each one, Harry didn't bother being subtle, he dumped what amounted to tons of ore outside of each one he found. Within a day, each Marauder ship had loaded the ore onto their ship and blasted off. The ore was not actual ore of course. Harry transfigured his glitter of doom into the ore and used a Gemino charm to duplicate the ore. Once they used a Jump point, the various spells on the ore would go off.
First, the transfiguration would end, turning all of the ore into glitter. Then, the Gemino Charm would activate, causing the piles of glitter to multiply into vast amounts of glitter. Depending on the size of the ship, that may or may not be enough to destroy it then and there, but probably not. Still, it would probably get everywhere and onto the skin of the pirates.
The potion had two terrible effects. The first was something Harry got the idea for from a comic book. It induced fear. Thankfully, fear was something that worked the same way in everyone, so it was something that had a large chance to work, regardless of the species. People became rather stupid when scared. Would they attack their comrades, hide, cry in the corner? Who knows.
The second effect was much worse. Harry has saturated the potion with Malaclaw venom. Anyone who came into contact with it would become terribly unlucky for a week.
Harry put these trap ores all over Vanaheim, Nornheim, and the few planets around the system. Each had a spell which would make the locals ignore it, thinking it was too dangerous to keep until the Asgardians returned.
As for Nidavellir, Harry decided it was time for an encore of Goose the Giant Flerken. Nidavellir was not so much a planet as it was a ring around a star. It used to be a planet much further away from its star, but the dwarves were just a bit too enthusiastic about forging and forged their planet into a forge that directly used the fires of the star itself. The dwarves used to be short, but Nidavellir lost much of its gravity after being forged around the star and the dwarves ended up adapting to the change in gravity by growing to titanous proportions.
Harry's spacecraft was already capable of illusions, so Harry fully charged it and flipped the switch.
Outside the ring of Nidavellir were hundreds of spacecraft of various sizes. They were piloted by the Rock Troll race led by the Troll Lords. They stayed just outside Nidavellir's firing range and simply planned to wait the dwarves to death.
Suddenly, behind the fleet of ships, a massive portal opened up and an orange tabby cat walked through as if standing on a solid surface. It then walked over to the closest ship which immediately began firing at it.
The illusion rippled when fired into but did not break. The orange cat then opened its mouth and out poured a mass of horrific purple tentacles. The cat walked forward and the tentacles wrapped around the ship. Harry used a bit of telekinesis to shake the ship and then he opened a giant silver portal, hidden within the illusion, and threw it forward, over the ship as the illusion tentacles made it look like the ship was being pulled into the cat's mouth.
Once they realized the ship was indeed gone, all ships fired at the titan cat. Harry flew his ship and the illusion over to the next rock troll spacecraft and did a repeat performance, followed by a silver portal thrown over the ship.
He was transporting them to the various ends of the universe. If they made it home and tried again, Harry would not be so merciful next time. No Badoon would be harmed if they didn't go to Alfheim or other planets. No Marauders would be glittered if they didn't take ore from Asgard protected planets. Harry's prank style of war required the enemy to perform the action which doomed themselves.
By the fifth ship, Harry was picking up speed and since the ships were getting closer to shoot him more, he started taking multiple ships at the same time. By the time a third of the ships had been 'eaten,' they had stopped firing and started fleeing for their lives. Harry would have to make a portal to check if they'd returned every once in a while, but the dwarves should be able to start up trade with local systems once more for food and ore.
Harry nodded and returned home. The rest was only a matter of time.
Heimdall had been having a very strange few weeks. He'd witnessed the slow descent of the nine realms into panic and chaos and without the Bifrost there was nothing he could do but watch. Now, things had changed.
Alfheim and her nearby worlds had a new species, a white rabbit that did not chew grass nor vegetables. Instead, it hunted the Badoon, somehow turning the fallen into more rabbits. They had spread to several worlds and the Badoon had to mostly flee back to their home world, being very careful not to bring one of these creatures with them. When no Badoon were on a world, these rabbits simply stayed in place until attacked by the creatures of Alfheim. If a wolf attacked the same rabbit three times, the rabbit would rip off the wolf's head and turn it into more rabbits.
Heimdall watched in amazement as the elves figured out the details of these rabbits and kept them as pets. They did not require food or care and could simply be picked up and petted and set back down. Many elves loved them.
The situation of Vanaheim, Nornheim, and their nearby worlds was stranger still. When Heimdall looked at the Marauders who stole from these worlds, they were often covered in glitter and screaming at various small, non threatening things and each other. Many of their ships broke down after being covered in glitter and there were difficulties in repairing them.
And of course the strangest occurrence happened at Nidavellir. A creature that appeared to be a massive Flerken arrived and started eating the vessels of the Troll Lords with unstoppable momentum.
Even Heimdall could not find where these eaten ships had vanished to. The Troll Lords did return, but less than a day later, so did the Flerken, and more ships were eaten. They had not returned since. Heimdall decided to call Odin and Thor and inform them of the situation. Thor had been depressed lately and this should cheer him up. What Heimdall had not expected, was what Thor told him after being informed of the news.
*Ping*
[Quest Completed: Defender of the Realms
Reward: A Favor from Odin]
Harry returned to Asgard not long after getting the message and quickly found Thor.
Thor brightened upon noticing Harry and said, "Harry Potter! Know this, from this day forward, you are a friend of Asgard. Come, you must meet my father and mother."
Harry nodded and headed over. He'd checked back after getting the quest complete message and the results were better than he expected. There were many planets with rabbit-like creatures on them. After what Harry did to the Badoon, all Badoon now avoid these planets. The Badoon were now terrified of rabbits.
The Marauders were worse off. They lived in a state of constant fear surrounded by glitter with terrible things happening again and again for a week every time they went to steal ore. Because of this, most of the Marauders now had a psychological fear of shiny and sparkly things. Many have given up on stealing and have become farmers.
And of course, all Rock Trolls were now terrified of cats of all sizes.
Harry was very pleased with himself for protecting several worlds using rabbits, glitter, and a cat.
When Harry was brought to Odin, he gave the customary ceremonial bow as a subject would his king. Odin looked at this and asked Thor, "Who is this mortal you have brought before me?"
Harry's energy was hidden by Death and though Odin was probably about level 1500, he still couldn't sense anything from Harry and believed him to be a powerless mortal.
Thor answered, "Father, this is Harry Potter, the one I told you about. It was Harry who advised me when I was on Earth and Harry who I believe is responsible for the matters Heimdall has spoken of."
Odin looked over Harry once more and asked, "How is it a powerless mortal is capable of such and how have you arrived here?"
Thor answered, "Harry is in contact with the Seidr of Midgard. They are more capable than we have given credit for."
Odin considered this and nodded. He turned to Harry and said, "The Seidr rarely involve themselves in mundane matters. The Seidr of Vanaheim have great power, but they remained silent when the Marauders came. I am surprised you can reach out to them and acquire their aid on your world."
Harry nodded understandably. He'd noticed a number of mystical protections on Vanaheim which limited his options. They too had a Sorcerer Supreme and Odin's wife was a powerful Sorceress of Vanaheim, so the planet was not lacking in magic. But as Odin said, they did not interfere in mundane matters such as theft and murder of mundane.
Harry said, "I was contacted by the Sorcerer Supreme of Earth when Galactus invaded. I assisted in driving him away and we are close friends." All true, but it implied that Harry did not know her before then and did not use magic himself.
Odin stated, "I created the protections around Midgard myself, he could not have found your world."
Harry replied, "A massive explosion occurred in our system outside of your protections and his Herald came out of curiosity and discovered our world in the process."
Odin frowned. He was obviously aware of the S.O.S. Harry had sent but had ignored it, leaving Midgard to fend for itself. That was rather bad form for a King.
Odin said, "Then it seems I owe you a debt for your actions in protecting the Nine Realms. Very well. What is it you want? Gold, a weapon, a woman perhaps?"
Harry answered, "I would like permission to read from the Asgardian library and the tomes on Asgardian magics."
Odin frowned. Centuries ago, he'd cast a massive spell using the Odin Force which erased and blocked all knowledge of Asgardian magics outside of Asgard, leaving them with the monopoly over it. Without his permission, even if someone in Midgard found and read a book on Asgardian magic, the knowledge would be blocked and unusable.
Odin answered, "Very well. But you may not share what you have learned or teach it to others. Understood?"
Harry nodded. If only he was given permission, nothing he told others or tried to teach would be remembered.
Odin nodded and a small spark shot from Odin to Harry. Odin then turned and left.
Harry did his best to hide his smile. This was one of the good parts about hiding his abilities. Odin was under the impression Harry could not use magic because Odin felt nothing from him. Odin would never have agreed to such a favor if he knew.
*Ping*
[Magic Path has risen to Rank 50]
Harry had to Pause to keep the headache that just appeared from showing on his face. Everything he learned from analyzing Thor's Hammer had become tangible in his mind. Also, the Sanctum Sanctorum did in fact have several books on Asgardian magic which Harry did read, he just didn't have access to that knowledge before. Now he did, and his Magic Path Rank had risen three ranks just from that. Asgardian magic was very powerful. It had been researched longer than any other magic and was the magic closest to science of any other magic.
Harry and Thor discussed various things and Thor asked if Harry could deliver a letter to Jane which Harry agreed to. He could probably arrange for her to visit or for Thor to visit Earth. Thor declined such a request though as Heimdall would know if Jane showed and there was still much to be done in Asgard so he could not visit yet.
Thor took Harry to the library and Harry used Point Me to find the magic books. Once no one was looking, he stuffed them into his Inventory and Paused to read them. Harry wondered how Odin would feel if he knew Harry would memorize the whole library in just a few visits.
Winter on Earth ended and Spring came. New York was oddly silent and Harry had a few suspicions why. It was the calm before the storm. Since Jean was fully capable of Precognition, she'd pretty much confirmed there would be something big coming so Harry was just using his time to prepare.
The only thing of interest that really occurred was when he heard from Tony that Captain America had been found frozen in the ice and thawed out. Not only was he alive, but according to the Shield records Harry hacked, he was doing fine, though feeling a bit out of place.
It was on the morning of May 1st, a few weeks before graduation, that Link called and informed Harry that something was going on. A Shield Base had just exploded.
*Author's Note*
Hopefully this chapter won't give anyone strange nightmares. And yes, I'm planning a terrible prank on Loki. Look forward to it.
I completed this at 3:30am. Im sure it needs PR, I'll do that later. This chapter was written so fast because of all the stones I got which motivated me.
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