owlsbooks Chapter 2227
Chapter 2227
Chapter 2227
In short, everything shows one thing, that is, Asgard has no contingency plan for the Earth at all!
Perhaps Asgard has been too successful in recent years, resulting in a lack of sense of crisis. Or it can be explained that Asgard's sense of crisis is too strong... After all, Ragnarok has always been a concern for Asgard... Of course, the lower class people don't know much about this matter, and only a very small number of high-level people know the prophecy of Ragnarok. Every Asgard king believes that the era he lives in is Ragnarok, so they desperately look for a way to break the deadlock.
Odin's grandfather, Bli, thought that Ragnarok would happen in his own time, so he tried his best to integrate all the tribes of Asgard, bringing them together as a whole to face the coming crisis.
As a result, the crisis did come, but it had nothing to do with them.
They just left the Earth.
Then, when the leader of the dark elves, Malekith, rose up, Bree's son, who was also Odin's father, thought that it was the twilight of the gods... Don't say it, it really looks like it. Malekith is definitely a ruthless man in the universe. The dark elves are a race lost in war, and Malekith is a victim of war. In the dark elf kingdom of Svartalfheim, there is a tribe called the Black Bile Clan, which is famous for raising and taming war dogs. But years of war have caused the population of this tribe to plummet and suffer heavy losses.
13 is an unlucky number, and Malekith is associated with this unlucky number. He is the 13th son of his father, his father is the 13th son of his grandfather, and his grandfather is also the 13th son in the family. A few years later, Malekith's father and brother died in the war. In order to prevent her son from becoming a soldier on the front line, Malekith's mother sold him to a funeral home. During the 3000rd Troll War, Malekith was sold by his mother to the funeral elves in the southern swamp in exchange for food for war dogs. His mother told him that at least he didn't have to be a soldier. The reward was two bags of dried snakes and a barrel of pickled toads. Malekith, who was only a teenager, was forced to become a corpse incinerator. At the end of each war, he had to burn at least dark elf corpses, which was also Malekith's most painful memory.
He didn't quite understand why these adults wanted to kill each other!
Obviously, this kind of thing is meaningless, and he often wonders what these adults are fighting for.
But he asked many people, hoping to get an answer.
Although the adults were impatient, some people answered him. They told little Malekith that they were fighting for land, resources, power and honor.
Malekith began to think that these things were good things, so everyone was fighting for them.
So who got it?
No, he only saw people dying. Today this tribe won and they were very happy, and then the next day, this tribe was wiped out. The next day, that tribe won, and then on the third day, that tribe was also wiped out.
Everyone is fighting for it, but no one can truly own it!
This made Malekith even more confused.
He only saw that everyone was losing, but didn't see that anyone actually gained anything.
One day, Malekith was captured by the trolls and locked up with other prisoners. An old prisoner asked Malekith to collect a lot of millennium bugs. He used these millennium bugs to cast powerful magic, destroyed the trolls, and escaped with Malekith.
Next, Malekith became a disciple of a powerful dark elf wizard. Malekith did not work as a corpse mover for long, and a powerful dark elf wizard who advocated peace saw his talent and decided to train Malekith into a powerful wizard. In the following time, Malekith became an apprentice of the old magician and learned to use magic. The old magician taught Malekith all the magic he knew. When the old magician was having dinner with Malekith, he told Malekith that war was meaningless and would only bring pain to people, and asked Malekith to use the power of magic to end the war and create peace.
Yes, this wizard is a rare pacifist among the dark elves. He possesses great power, but lives in poverty. He hopes that all dark elves can understand and share with each other, so that no one needs to fight and can live happily together.
Unfortunately, no one listened to him, they just thought he was crazy. So he was obviously a powerful wizard, but he was despised by everyone. Everyone thought he was a coward and a fool, these two types of people were the most despised among the dark elves. No one was willing to listen to him, even if he was very strong... After all, no matter how powerful he was, he didn't kill people. So he didn't deter other dark elves at all.
So Malekith felt that his mentor was wrong!
After becoming the most powerful wizard of the Dark Elves, Malekith killed his mentor who longed for peace. Before his death, the old wizard used a spell to hit Malekith's left face, leaving a black hideous scar.
Malekith also got his first title: Malekith the Cursed.
He then returned home and commanded his war dogs to tear his mother to pieces, inheriting the mantle of the Wild Hunt Lord of his family.
Malekith knew very well what the dark elves wanted.
They wanted war, so he gave them war!
Endless war!
So he quickly set off an unprecedented war among the dark elves! Soon all the dark elves who dared to resist him were killed, and he unified the dark elves. But he did not bring peace to the dark elves as his teacher had thought.
Because he knew very well that what the dark elves really needed was never peace. If he was really that naive, perhaps soon all the dark elves would rebel against him and return to the state of killing each other.
Therefore, Malekith chose the path that many militaristic countries would choose - foreign war!
Just like the ancient Assyrian Empire on Earth, in 2000 BC, the Assyrian city-state mainly developed its economy through local commerce and trade, and was also an important transit station for East-West trade at that time. Due to the relatively advantageous geographical location of the Assyrian city-state, the long-term status of a trade transit station not only brought huge economic benefits to the Assyrian city-state, but also brought external threats. Other countries began to covet this Feng Shui treasure land. In order to enhance its own defense, the Assyrian Empire gradually formed a warlike ideology, and at the same time, the people of the Assyrian Empire became more and more cold-blooded. In addition to defending the country's territory, the Assyrians were warlike because they had been engaged in economic and trade activities for many years, and developed a spirit of love for adventure. This spirit also laid the foundation for the subsequent wars between the Assyrian Empire and other city-states. In order to gain more benefits from the war, under the leadership of the Assyrian emperor, the Assyrian Empire began a large-scale conquest of the surrounding city-states. Another factor is that by 1000 BC, the strength of the countries surrounding the Assyrian Empire had gradually weakened or even perished. Without a strong enemy, the survival conditions of the Assyrian Empire, which was the only powerful country, became more favorable, laying a solid foundation for its subsequent expansion and development.
The word "warmongering" is the most appropriate summary of the militaristic ideology of the Assyrian Empire.
The emperors of the Assyrian Empire all had a warlike gene, and after they succeeded to the throne, they would focus on foreign aggression. The most typical representative is Samarnasar III. During his reign, the Assyrian Empire's foreign aggression almost never stopped, and he even spent his entire life on the battlefield. Although the war of aggression was costly, the Assyrian Empire's territory continued to expand and its international influence increased day by day after the successive emperors continued to expand their territory, which made the Assyrian Empire a glorious empire. The war of aggression not only meant the expansion of territory and honor, but also a large amount of wealth plundered, which also made the economy of the Assyrian Empire grow significantly. The Assyrian Empire gained a lot of benefits from the war of aggression, and it also contributed to the prevalence of militarism in the country. In addition to the real money and silver plundered, the people of the defeated countries and regions also became slaves of the Assyrian Empire. The Assyrian Empire was once the first slave power, which also shows how arrogant the Assyrian Empire's war of aggression was at that time. But the biggest beneficiaries of the war were the ruling class and the nobility. For the people of the Assyrian Empire at the bottom, the war still meant bloodshed and sacrifice. However, the most miserable people were those who were conquered, who faced extremely brutal repression and bloody rule. The Assyrian Empire had long been plundering and massacring the residents of conquered areas, and this form of exploitation never changed under the rule of the Assyrian emperors.
Ashurnasirpal II's rule over the conquered was the most brutal. He ordered the killing of all rebels and those who disobeyed his orders. Even the unarmed and willingly surrendered civilians would not be easily let go by Ashurnasirpal II, who would torture them at every turn. Where there is oppression, there is resistance. The Assyrian Empire's long-term expansion, killing and plundering began to encounter more and more resistance. Although the Assyrian Empire repeatedly threatened to massacre the conquered areas, it could not maintain its stable rule. After the Assyrian Empire's militarist policy caused irreversible and serious damage to the conquered areas, it also gradually reduced the local residents to slavery, causing extremely serious consequences for other city-states and itself.
Militarism prevailed in the Assyrian Empire, but the honor and benefits brought by the long-term war of aggression were only temporary, and the damage and impact caused were far-reaching. With the development and evolution of the Assyrian Empire's militarist policy, the long-term plunder and massacre eventually led the Assyrian Empire to an irreversible path of destruction. The massacres of the Assyrian Empire caused great damage to agriculture and industry, resulting in a significant reduction in the agricultural and industrial and commercial profits of the ruling class, and the people of the country also expressed dissatisfaction with the militarist policy of the Assyrian Empire. The Assyrian Empire's long-term foreign wars led to increasingly prominent domestic contradictions. During the war, the people of the Assyrian Empire faced heavy economic and population pressures. The resistance of the people of other city-states also caused the militarist policy of the Assyrian Empire to go into a vicious cycle, ending the war with war.
"The way militarism destroys civilization is to plunge an entire connected country into fratricide." This is exactly the reason why the Assyrian Empire gradually went from glory to destruction.
Looking at the development of world history, any country or region where militarism prevails will inevitably end up in ruin.
The same is true for the Dark Elves.
Malekith led his people and started an endless war!
Because he felt that war was the nature of his people, and in order to prevent them from killing each other, it would be better to kill outsiders!
I have to say, Malekith's approach is very effective.
The dark elves were indeed a race born for war. Their home world was extremely desolate and had limited resources. In order to survive, they had no other way out except to plunder others. Now that they could plunder other worlds, they naturally didn't have to target their own people!
In a sense, Malekith fulfilled his teacher's dream, making the dark elves stop killing each other.
It's just pointing the gun at other worlds.
In the process of conquest and plunder, Malekith obtained the Reality Stone, which the Dark Elves called "Aether Particles". Relying on it, the Dark Elves' technology has made great progress, and they can carry out even larger expeditions.
Malekith even wants to kill all other civilizations in the universe and leave only the dark elves. In this way, the dark elves will have countless resources and no longer need to start a war. This is the only chance for the dark elves to have peace... So, war is really not a good thing. It will alienate people into twisted monsters!
Malekith was a smart child with empathy and compassion. When he grew up, his thinking became extremely sharp.
If we kill all the people, there will naturally be no war.
There is a kind of beauty of the Holy Grail in Fate. In Fate, Kiritsugu wants world peace, and the answer given by the Holy Grail is to kill everyone in the world and leave only Kiritsugu, so that peace will come...
God damn world peace.
The key point is that the dark elves really have this ability. Although they will not kill all life in the universe, it will not be difficult for them to carry out a super massacre.
Baoer thought there was nothing wrong with this being Ragnarok.
In the end, Bauer won, although he suffered heavy losses, but it was obviously not Ragnarok! Then he saw Surtur, so he asked the three Odin brothers to steal Surtur's eternal fire, and they succeeded.
In this way, Ragnarok should not come.
Then came the Age of Odin, and it turned out he also saw Ragnarok… and Ragnarok was not prevented!
So he also launched a war, unified the nine realms, and killed everyone in the universe!
As a result, Ragnarok never came.
Originally Odin thought that like his father and grandfather, his generation would not be able to see Ragnarok, but Thor also saw the illusion.
This time the vision was incredibly clear.
Asgard is destroyed!
As a result… this time, with the help of two earthlings, they actually won!