Ego took the wine glass, tilted his head back, and drank it all in one go.
"What's your relationship with that woman?"
Hela, encountering such a situation for the first time in her life, provocatively played with Ego's nerves.
"Does that matter?"
Ego, putting down the wine glass and sighing with relief, no longer had a gloomy expression on his face.
"Right now, I have no relationship with her."
"Perhaps. Have fun."
Hela nodded, reached out, and took her sunglasses from the edge of the bar, waving goodbye to Ego.
Ego, watching Hela leave, scanned the now incredibly silent tavern. His gaze fell upon a man closest to where Beckett had been standing earlier.
With a flick of his right hand, a silver stream of energy formed an arm, directly grabbing the man and pulling him in front of Ego. "Tell me, what happened here between that woman and that man just now?"
His icy gaze made the already terrified onlookers tremble.
...
"You... know Ego?"
After leaving the tavern, Jennifer finally spoke after a long silence.
Beckett, walking ahead of her, didn't stop. His voice, carried by the Knowhere wind, flowed into her ears.
"I've met him once."
Excluding the video Woz recorded, it was indeed only once. If that video was included, it would be more than once.
"You two—"
"My relationship with him isn't as complicated as you think. Yours, however, with him, is quite complicated."
Perhaps unwilling to answer questions about Ego, Beckett directly exposed the secret Jennifer had always kept hidden in her heart.
Jennifer's face changed drastically.
"Why?!"
"No reason." Beckett turned, glancing at Jennifer. His pitch-black pupils gave Jennifer a chilling sense of being seen through.
Her relationship with Ego had always been a secret; she could even say her teacher didn't know. Why, why would Beckett...?
"My father once said that there is no such thing as a perfect concealment in this world. As long as something truly exists, it will leave corresponding traces."
Beckett's figure gradually moved further away, his words drifting with the wind, causing Jennifer's expression to fluctuate.
She began to recall her meetings with Ego on Knowhere these past few days.
Beckett had only arrived on Knowhere two days ago. Could it be...
Jennifer thought of a more horrifying possibility.
Before falling out with Robin, Beckett was a VIP at the Interstellar Auction House. What if he heard about this from Robin?
Doesn't that mean that because of her, Ego has truly been targeted by Robin?
Gritting her teeth, the uneasy Jennifer dialed the private communication channel. However, she only received a signal interference sound, indicating she had been blocked.
[Ego...]
"Ego, listen to me. I know, I know it was wrong of me to break up. But I really did it for your own good, please believe me."
"Also, you are in great danger right now."
"I'm sorry, because of me, you might have been targeted by Robin's people. You must be careful of every stranger who appears around you during this time."
"Be very careful!"
In the spacious room, Jennifer's sincere concern echoed.
Ego, standing by the window and overlooking the night view of Knowhere, swirled the liquid in his glass. His eyes narrowed, his gaze flickering, lost in thought.
Knowhere Control Center.
Hela, casually tossing the shattered sunglasses into the trash pulverizer, suddenly felt a premonition. With a raise of her right hand, a black, magically infused metal weapon was instantly thrown out.
"Death Divinity? Not a bad ability."
Robin, with his unique magnetic voice and clad in purple armor, looked at the weapon that landed at his feet and nodded approvingly.
"What do you want with me?"
Hela was very displeased with Robin's intrusion into her room.
She was not this man's subordinate. Their relationship was merely a brief and unstable partnership.
"How is the matter with Ego progressing?"
Robin clearly didn't care about Hela's attitude.
"Initial contact went smoothly. Why do you care about this? Shouldn't you be more concerned about your own safety?"
"Just a friendly reminder, that Beckett once nearly destroyed the world of Svartalfheim."
Back then, if it weren't for his father Odin's intervention, the Nine Realms would likely have been thrown into utter chaos due to the destruction of Svartalfheim.
"And then what?"
"What are you trying to say?"
Robin showed no fear on his face, remaining as calm as still water.
"Compared to Beckett, I'm more worried about that Ego." A life that has existed since the dawn of the universe, its mysterious nature made Robin wary.
According to his intelligence network, Ego was Jennifer's boyfriend.
"No, how do you know all this?"
Hela suddenly felt something was off.
This man had clearly shown the Collector that he knew nothing about Ego.
"Do you know how long I endured to defeat the Xiangluo Tribe thirty million years ago?"
"Five hundred years?"
"No, far longer."
Hela's eyes widened abruptly...
...
Three days later, in a desolate area on Knowhere.
Beckett, clad in a loose black combat suit, slowly landed, with golden-haired Jennifer following closely behind.
"Teacher."
Upon landing, Jennifer respectfully knelt and bowed. The short figure gazing up at the sky in the center of the desolate land heard her and slowly turned around, holding a cane.
He was less than 1.3 meters tall, even shorter than Woz. His face was aged, his beard white, he held a cane, and a dark green turtle shell was strapped to his back.
This was far from the image Beckett had in mind.
"Beckett, survivor of the Titan disaster, Son of Thanos, the one who almost destroyed Svartalfheim."
"He calls himself a Super Saiyan who has surpassed Saiyans; that is indeed a very interesting form."
The moment Beckett's eyes met the old man's, the words spoken by the elder made Beckett's gaze instantly sharpen.
"I am Jennifer's teacher, the Great Sage of Knowhere, Gubo."
"You know what happened on Svartalfheim?"
That was a secret Odin had personally sealed, not revealing a single word of it.
The official explanation was that their ally, Thanos, had shattered mountains and rivers with a single strike, killing the leader of the Dark Elves, Malekith.
"Cough, cough, I know far more than you imagine."
Coughing, a glass ball about the size of a normal fist slowly appeared in the Great Sage's right hand.
"Then, as a welcome gift."
An energy flow began within the glass ball, and Beckett's face immediately appeared inside it.
Then, blue and red light suddenly enveloped Beckett's head, and the glass ball exploded with a bang!
"Unpredictable gods?"
The Great Sage Gubo's gaze towards Beckett immediately changed.
"What do you mean?"
Beckett frowned. This old man was being cryptic, saying things he couldn't understand.
"Beckett, Son of Titan,"
"Do you wish to become a god?"
The Great Sage Gubo lightly stroked his white beard, his words full of temptation.
Cough, cough, I almost forgot to post the update while having coffee with the young lady (●—●) Tiramisu is really delicious (ω) Hey
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