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Chapter 458 Loki's Gift to Riven: Happy Birthday

“Things are getting a little complicated.”

Loki exhaled and said to Riven who was also frowning.

"Miss Chris, right? I remember your name. I am very interested in Mr. Marbury's collection. Maybe you can take me around the castle."

Loki turned his gaze towards the maid next to him.

There was some kind of hypnotic magic in his words, which had the effect of making ordinary people like the maid completely obey Loki.

The maid's mind felt a trance, and the image of Loki in front of her turned into Mabry. She blinked and nodded towards Loki, "Yes, sir."

"Thank you, Miss Chris."

Loki thanked the other party gracefully.

Then he followed the other person around the castle.

Riven stayed beside Marbury's bed, quietly looking at the old man who had fallen asleep on the bed.

The corridors in the castle are hung with ancient oil paintings. The figures in the paintings have eerie faces, as if they are about to walk out of the frame at any moment.

The candlesticks on the wall were shaky, emitting a faint light, adding a touch of eerie atmosphere.

Loki breathed in the faint smell of fermentation and decay in the air, and while following the maid, he looked around at the furnishings.

"Where does Mr. Marbury go most often on weekdays?"

Loki asked the maid.

"basement."

The maid, whose mind was affected, told Loki everything she knew without hiding anything.

"Uh-huh, very good. Please take me there, Miss Chris."

"Okay, sir."

A few minutes later, Loki followed the maid to the basement.

Looking at the huge glass ball placed in the basement, Loki slowly walked forward.

"What's this?"

At some point, Riven suddenly appeared behind Loki and asked him.

"A huge glass ball, supposedly used to trap the physical body of the Sandman."

As Loki spoke, he walked to the glass ball and reached out to touch the glass wall.

"But it's a pity that this cage still failed to trap the Sleeping Demon."

Loki said regretfully.

At the same time, Loki glanced at the magic circle on the ground.

One corner of the magic circle was worn and the traces were erased.

He turned to Riven and said, "It seems that the break in the magic circle caused the sleep demon to escape."

Raven looked at Loki with a regretful expression and thought to herself that the Sandman had escaped, and you seemed to feel more regretful than anyone else.

It was clearly you, the culprit, who summoned the innocent sleep demon from the beginning.

Although Loki was not the one who imprisoned her, Raven felt that Loki was more like the conspirator behind the scenes.

She was somewhat suspicious as to whether Loki had done all this on purpose.

Moreover, she didn't expect that her brother was so sinister and always wanted the sleep demon to be imprisoned.

After complaining about Loki in her heart, Riven accidentally noticed a bottle of pills on the table next to her.

She picked up the medicine bottle, looked at the pills inside, and asked Loki curiously, "What medicine is this?"

Loki came over and checked the ingredients of the pills before saying to Raven, "It's a psychotropic drug used to stimulate the user's brain and prevent them from falling asleep."

Loki put the drug down, pointed at the huge glass ball, and said to Raven, "I guess Marbury must have hired a guard to sit here and stare at the sleep demon all the time. In order to prevent himself from falling asleep and being lulled into his dreams by the sleep demon, the guard took this drug to keep himself awake at all times."

"How do you know this, Loki? Did you teach Marbury to imprison the Sandman?"

After listening to what Loki said, Raven looked at him with suspicion.

"No, of course not. Although I'm not as great and glorious as Clark, I'm not a bad person."

Loki immediately denied that he was behind this.

"Really? But I heard from dad that when you were a kid, you stabbed A-Zu with a knife, and you also pretended to be a snake to scare Clark. These are not things a good person would do."

Raven told her what Peter had told her about the bad things Loki did as a child.

Loki: "."

His expression became a little abnormal, and he coughed, "Don't you know that people will mature? We all did some ridiculous things when we were young, Raven, but as we grow up, we will become mature."

"is it?"

"Of course, we are brother and sister. I can't lie to you. We are a family. You are my sister."

Rocky says family won’t cheat each other.

"Ms. Chris."

After speaking a few words to Raven, Loki turned his gaze towards the maid.

"Can you show me Mr. Marbury's study?"

"Ok."

The maid nodded woodenly and turned away.

Loki followed the maid and walked towards the study of the owner of the castle.

Riven had no idea what he was going to do, so she quickly followed him.

After entering Marbury's study, Loki looked at the furnishings in front of him.

The study room, with the sunlight blocked by curtains, still seemed a little dim even with the lights on.

Loki casually searched the bookshelf, and finally set his sights on a locked cabinet. "What are you looking for?"

Raven asked him, feeling surprised.

"nothing."

Loki bent down, reached out and touched the lock, and the metal lock opened with a click.

Reaching into the locker, Loki pulled out a book.

"It seems that I am lucky. I found a treasure in one go."

"What's this?"

Raven looked at the black-covered book in Loki's hand and asked him puzzledly.

The cover of the book exuded a strange magical aura, which made her frown slightly.

"This is the Book of Magdalene. They used this book to summon the god of death."

Loki handed the book to her. "It contains all kinds of strange magics, dark magics from hell, death, or other dark dimensions. Although I am somewhat interested, it is obviously not suitable for me."

Raven held the thick magic book, feeling the magical aura coming from her fingers. She raised her head, took a deep breath, and looked at Loki with a complicated expression. "You mean, this book was given to me by you?"

"Yes, as your birthday present. Isn't your birthday in a week?"

Loki talked about Raven's birthday, "Although it's a bit sudden, Raven, I would like to say happy birthday in advance."

"I"

After hearing Loki's sudden birthday congratulations, Riven didn't know what to say.

Although her brother seemed a little unreliable on weekdays, and always had unknown thoughts and often got into trouble, she was still a little surprised to receive Loki's birthday gift here.

"Thank you, brother."

Raven let out a breath and thanked Loki.

Riven has always been able to feel the love and care of her brother.

On his birthday last year, Loki gave himself a beautiful hat.

Although the hat soon became unusable due to my rapid physical development, it was the best gift I had ever received besides the one my father gave me.

"You're welcome."

Loki saw Riven's expression and a hint of pride flashed in his eyes.

He only needed to make a slight move and Riven would obediently call him brother.

"Well, it's getting late, we have to go."

Loki coughed and said to Raven, "We must go back and tell our father about the Sandman's escape immediately."

Riven nodded and walked outside.

"and many more!"

After taking two steps, Loki suddenly called her.

"I forgot something very important."

Loki walked over to the locker and snapped his fingers.

A fake "Book of Magdalene" projected by him appeared in his hand.

He placed the fake Book of Magdalene in the locker and locked it again.

Facing the doubtful look from Riven, he explained to her: "It's just to avoid making things difficult for Miss Chris."

Looking at the maid, Loki thanked her again, "Thank you for your help, Miss Chris."

The hypnotized maid stared at Loki blankly, not knowing what was going on.

Then Rocky took out two "Franklin" notes from his pocket and put them in her hand, "Here is a tip. I am very satisfied with Miss Chris's service."

Raven looked at Loki's actions and a hint of surprise flashed across her heart.

She didn't expect Loki to tip the other party.

Raven suddenly understood that although Loki used hypnosis on the maid, he did not seem to be a good person.

But Loki and his father are actually the same inside. They have always had a bottom line and certain things that they stick to.

I actually don’t know this brother very well.

metropolis.

In front of the ruined Daily Planet building, construction workers are busy clearing away debris and construction waste.

A man wearing a black windbreaker and with sickly pale skin appeared in front of the building.

Giving people a mysterious and gloomy feeling, he squatted down and picked up a grain of sand from the ground.

Focusing on the insignificant grain of sand in front of him, his eyes saw how the building to which this grain of sand belonged collapsed.

A loud explosion erupted in the building. Zod's heat vision severely knocked away the superhuman in a blue and black uniform who was rushing towards him. Then the superhuman with the American flag on his back knocked Zod out with one punch.

Amid a deafening explosion, the building began to collapse amid the crowd's terror.

Dust filled the air and sand fell with the building.

The pale-faced man with messy black hair stood up and let the sand fall from his fingers to the ground.

Looking around, he saw ruins of buildings everywhere. Even though he had not been there in person, he could feel the extent of the battle that had taken place here.

"Superman?"

He murmured something in a low voice, and his eyes became much deeper.

After a while, after taking a look at the workers and buildings in front of him, the man was about to leave when a voice suddenly called him from behind.

"Dream God."

(End of this chapter)