American comics: May the Holy Light deceive you

Chapter 44 The Banquet - Part 2

Many people want Vega's forging and alchemy techniques, so it's normal that Thor recognizes their extraordinary nature. However, his desire to exchange them with Vega is truly alarming.

If this idea were his own, then he couldn't have been bullied by Loki since childhood and lost the throne he was about to ascend!

"Li, why are you looking at me like that?" Thor felt uncomfortable under Vega's strange gaze. He looked down at his clothes, which seemed fine.

"It's nothing," Vega quickly averted his gaze, then asked, "Did you come up with this idea yourself?"

"No." Thor shook his head honestly, then saw Vega's knowing look, and he instantly understood the meaning behind Vega's strange gaze.

"You!" Thor was about to explode when Vega swiftly shoved a glass of wine into his hand, then raised his own glass and clinked it against Thor's: "Come on, have a drink, and then we'll have a proper talk."

"Hmph." For the sake of the wine, Thor suppressed his anger.

Vega looked around and, seeing that everyone was watching them, realized it wasn't appropriate to discuss things here. He thought for a moment, stood up, coughed lightly, and raised his voice slightly, saying, "Most of the people here probably have no concept of the Mirror Space, nor do they know just how precious that bodysuit is."

How about I take you to visit the Mirror Space and let you experience its magic firsthand?

Rest assured, I guarantee there will be no danger. Raise your hand if you'd like to experience it for yourself.

As soon as he finished speaking, Tony Stark was the first to raise his hand, and a few seconds later most people followed suit.

Vega: "Please stand up, and put down what you're carrying to avoid getting yourself all over yourself."

Everyone did as instructed. Vega raised his left hand and made a chopping motion in the air. A series of cracking sounds like shattering glass rang out, and a shard of glass appeared in the air as his palm struck.

"Follow me." Amidst the gasps of the crowd, Vega passed through the debris and disappeared from the room.

Tony Stark strode forward, activated all the functional modules on his glasses, and even boldly touched the fragments with his hands.

A strange thing happened: the fragments were right there, but he couldn't touch them with his hand, and all the detection functions of his glasses couldn't detect anything unusual.

"Heh, don't waste your energy. The technology you have now can't detect anything." Captain Britain, Brian Braddock, laughed as he pushed Tony Stark into the Mirror Dimension.

Soon, those who raised their hands entered the mirror space. To everyone's surprise, it looked exactly like the room outside, except that everything inside was reversed, and they could even see the people outside who hadn't come in.

Some people tried to reach the food on the table, but found that they could touch everything but couldn't pick it up; others tried to greet people outside, but when the other person didn't respond, they tentatively reached out to touch them, only to have their hand pass right through the person, which startled them.

After everyone had explored for a while, Vega spoke up: "The people outside can't see us, and we can't touch them either."

Nothing here can be picked up, because what's displayed here is merely a mirror image of the real world.

"Next, I will demonstrate the wonders of mirror space. Don't be frightened; if you feel uncomfortable, please close your eyes immediately."

After saying that, Vega raised his hands and began to move. With his gestures, everything around him slowly began to move, separating and combining like building blocks or puzzle pieces into all sorts of new patterns and objects.

The crowd watched in amazement, but most people didn't understand the purpose of such a change.

As if understanding what everyone was thinking, Vega changed his gesture, and everyone was surprised to find that they were actually moving away from the people next to them. They looked down in surprise and were shocked to find that the ground under their feet had somehow turned into pillars, and outside the pillars was a bottomless abyss.

Some people panicked immediately. In their confusion, some lost their footing and slipped, falling into the bottomless abyss. Just when they thought they were going to die, with a "bang," they actually felt themselves hitting the ground.

They opened their eyes with lingering fear and realized that, indeed, they had fallen to the ground.

Everyone around could see clearly that the pillars beneath these people's feet rapidly increased in size several times the instant they fell.

"Don't worry, you won't get hurt," Vega reassured everyone, before demonstrating a variety of attack methods.

Here, even powerful figures like Captain Marvel and Thor are powerless to resist and can only be toyed with at his will.

Of the group, only Captain Britain, Brian Braddock, who could also manipulate the mirror space, could stand up to Vega. After discovering this, Vega spared the others, letting them watch the two of them engage in an extremely spectacular battle while manipulating the mirror space.

Vega's ability to manipulate the mirror space was acquired after obtaining the Phoenix Force. If he had had this ability earlier, he wouldn't have risked hiding in the other dimension a month ago when faced with the nuclear explosion.

Vega's proficiency with the Mirror Dimension was far inferior to Brian Braddock's, but the main purpose of their fight was to demonstrate the wonders of the Mirror Dimension to everyone. With Brian Braddock deliberately holding back, the fight lasted for more than twenty minutes before it stopped.

Vega: "Thank you, Captain Brian. I'll need you to continue showing everyone around here. I need to leave for a bit."

Brian Braddock: "No problem, leave it to me."

"Thank you." Vega expressed his gratitude again, waving to change the environment and isolate him and Thor from the others.

Vega: "Alright, now you can state your terms."

Thor: "What do you want?"

"This..." Vega was stumped for a moment. He really didn't know what he was missing.

His most needed equipment has been crafted, and he has virtually no other needs.

After thinking for a long time, still unsure of what he could ask for, Vega shrugged: "Honestly, I don't lack anything right now. Why don't you tell me your bargaining chips?"

In fact, Vega was not very willing to sell his forging and alchemy techniques. The reason he was willing to talk to Thor was mainly to see what Odin, the God-King, wanted to do.

His forging skills were not much better than the dwarves'; he felt that Odin, the god-king, truly valued his alchemy skills.