Parker was arranged to stay in the manor. His ability wouldn’t be of much use in Asgard, and Li Moyang’s armor had limited power, so they could only stay behind like Wang Ailin.
Chen Ke still had to rely on the witches—four witches plus him. If it were just a heist, that wouldn’t be too few people. After all, they were not attacking Asgard.
Chen Ke found a piece of ground on the lawn behind the manor and had the witches stand beside him to prepare to activate the Rainbow Bridge.
Considering that Asgard might be very cold, except for Diana, the other witches wore warm clothes, and Lucina even wore a ski cap.
"Let’s see something new," Diana said expectantly, with the mythological Rainbow Bridge and the realm of Northern Europe gods now close at hand.
"Gather closer; I’ll emphasize it one last time. We’re going onto the Rainbow Bridge first. Don’t easily fall off because I don’t know what would happen if you do..." Chen Ke said.
The witches gathered a bit closer. Sleery took Chen Ke’s arm, Lucina directly stuck to his back, Xu Jing faced Chen Ke, arms crossed, their faces just two fists apart, and Diana stood to the side, slightly awkward.
"This is a bit tight... No matter, stand firm; there’s no handrail later." Chen Ke said.
He clutched the bullet pendant with his right hand, looked at the sky, and with a thought, a mass of dark clouds slowly gathered, accompanied by the sound of thunder.
Wang Ailin, Parker, and Li Moyang stood in the distance watching them, also curious to see what the Rainbow Bridge was like.
At this moment, a seven-colored rainbow light descended from the sky, enveloping Chen Ke and the four witches. A buzzing sound like an electromagnetic field gradually grew louder, and then, with a swoosh, their figures vanished with the rainbow light as if sucked into the sky by the rainbow.
The dark clouds dispersed, and the sky turned red like a blood pool. Li Moyang and the others walked to where Chen Ke had stood and saw an unusual pattern left on the lawn.
"Is this the... Rainbow Bridge?" Wang Ailin murmured.
"Seems like it would be uncomfortable. If it were like an elevator, it would be too fast, you’d get dizzy," Parker shook his head.
"Ugh!!" Diana covered her mouth, the rapid scene change making her extremely dizzy, almost vomiting, and Chen Ke grabbed her arm to prevent her from falling.
Now they were on the Rainbow Bridge.
Chen Ke still remembered this place. A massive wall of light surged upward before him, the surroundings as dark as the cosmos. The Rainbow Bridge coiled around the wall of light like a spiral staircase. In the endless darkness, the Rainbow Bridge’s seven-color beams spread out overhead, bending into various shapes and rushing in different directions.
Seven enormous halos, like galaxies, were arranged above the pillar of light, with the golden one in the center and the other seven colors surrounding it. If the pillar of light was like a tree trunk, then these seven vortices were like leaves, spinning overhead with countless tiny starlights inside, very beautiful.
"So, where is Asgard? Is this Asgard?" Xu Jing asked.
"I thought you understood what Chen Ke said earlier," Sleery teased.
"This is the Rainbow Bridge, not a part of Asgard, Xu Jing. This is part of the reality you wanted to see. This is time... time is under your feet, around you, above your head, and behind you..." Chen Ke said.
Xu Jing glared at Sleery, pacing back and forth on the Rainbow Bridge, looking around. She was a reserved and composed woman, but even she couldn’t suppress her curiosity.
"We have to walk up there. The topmost part is Asgard." Chen Ke pointed to the orange-yellow section above the light pillar.
"Walk up? Looks like it would take a long time," Sleery said.
"We can fly up there. Put on your armor, and I can take you up," Diana patted Chen Ke on the shoulder.
"We can teleport directly." Meanwhile, the pendant trembled, trying to communicate with Chen Ke.
Chen Ke looked at the pendant in his hand. Was the hammer suggesting they could directly teleport to Asgard without using the Rainbow Bridge?
Merely having such a question, the pendant intercepted Chen Ke’s thought and immediately gave a positive response.
"We can go straight over without walking," Chen Ke looked at the witches again.
"I’d rather go by myself..." Diana was a little displeased. She didn’t like the dizzying sensation.
"Don’t be like that. Look at the size of the light pillar... How long would it take to walk around it?" Lucina shook Diana’s shoulder, laughing.
"Alright," Diana sighed.
Chen Ke and the witches gathered together again. As his thoughts moved, the surrounding scenery began to retreat rapidly, and everyone plunged into pure darkness.
In the darkness, a cold wind blew, snowflakes wafted in from the front, and a white light shone down from above, mixed with blue energy waves.
Some force was pulling them toward a cold place. Chen Ke smelled the aroma of earth, the frigid air filled his nostrils, the chill making his skin tingle.
"Asgard... what’s that?" Sleery sensed it too but saw something else. It was a golden speck of light flickering amidst the snow, giving an ominous feeling.
The others also felt vaguely uneasy, but since they hadn’t completed the teleportation yet, no one dared leave their spot.
"What is that thing?" Chen Ke asked the pendant.
"Interference/Man-made error," the pendant’s information echoed in Chen Ke’s mind.
The next second, the golden speck suddenly intensified in brightness, and closer inspection revealed it shooting a thick orange-yellow wave. The blue wave Chen Ke and the others were in was intercepted by this golden wave, and the ground beneath them began to shake.
"It’s interference! Someone doesn’t want us to go to Asgard!" Sleery shouted, feeling herself being pulled by something, dragged towards the void outside the blue wave. Chen Ke grabbed her arm, pulling her into his embrace.
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Xu Jing was bumped by something, leaning against Lucina, and this collision knocked her right out of the blue wave.
"What the hell! You fucking..." Lucina’s body tilted, falling into the darkness outside the blue wave, her voice gradually fading into the blackness with her figure.
"Lucina!" Chen Ke gasped, preparing to jump after her.
But just then, the teleportation completed, and Chen Ke slipped, falling to the wet muddy ground with three witches, under a sky filled with dazzling pale green auroras.