Chapter 18: The Nexus

Cyril walked into Asgard again, through his portal. Thor and Hela was standing there waiting for him patiently.

Cyril thought calling the dimension inside the bag of holding the "bag dimension" no longer seemed to fit as Cyril decided to make the dimension a transdimensional connection between all the portals and the repository of all the things he wanted to save from Asgard. 

So he named it the Nexus

Cyril started filling up the Nexus with Asgard's treasures that remained. He found a pile of the Goddess of Youth Idunn's apples, the apples that gave the Asgardians immortality. They were filled with the law of life. He was unwilling to eat the apple yet as he did not want to be stuck in a 16 year old body. 


While the belt made of Baldur's skin was a permanent standby, it would not be big enough to fit everything he wanted to take from Asgard. So he started enlarging his portal he used to get back. He got Thor to stand guard, then continued exploring with Hela.


He entered the portal and took one of his spare Nexus bags from the Nexus and placed them inside Lady Sif's armoire in Odin's castle as a regular portal to Asgard from his dimension. If Asgard is ransacked by bandits, no one would look into a wardrobe full of women's clothes.

He found the bodies of the Dwarven brothers Sindri and Brokkr, makers of Thor's hammer Mjolnir, and made them his puppets. Sindri was missing his legs, so he crafted wheels for himself. Brokkr had his right arm missing from the elbow downwards, so he made himself a fake arm, but instead of a hand, he had a hammer head.

With the two dwarf masterbuilders as puppets, he started building a mansion inside the Nexus, using materials and rubble from Asgard. Thor used his enormous strength to help with the heavy lifting.

The Nexus was filling up and getting more to his liking. He created several large rooms to store different things.

He had his magic room, where he filled with all the items and magical ingredients that he scrounged up from Loki's old spell room. 

He had a treasure room which he filled with the treasures of Asgard, such as Idunn's apples. 

He had an armory with attached workshop where he kept all the broken magical weapons, and where he stored the dwarf brothers. 

He had his library filled with all the knowledge from all the libraries of Asgard. 

He had his morgue where he kept Baldur's remains, as well as the body parts of hundreds of God's and Goddesses that he recovered. The morgue was where Hela preferred to stay as she helped sort out their remains.


The mansion was actually built around the area where Kyra and Cyril originally had their bag portals and where they stored their items, so they didn't have to move. 

The larger portal to Asgard led to outside the mansion. Kyra never bothered to leave their shared portal room in the mansion as Cyril had too many weird, scary and disgusting dead things lying about. 

Outside the mansion, there were the inanimate body parts of his sons Jormungandr and Fenrir, as well as the ice and fire giant Kings Ymir and Surtur. There was also the bodies of the giant eagle that lived at the top of the Yggdrasil the World Tree, and Nidhoggr the dragon that lived in its roots. 

These would soon be part of his monster puppet army, Cyril thought to himself. 

The project of building his mansion and searching for treasures took Loki approximately 6 months in total. Entering the Nexus and looking at Asgard for a last time, he closed his large portal to Asgard.

He then returned to the large room he shared with Kyra. He now called his portal room as there was where most of the connections to the Nexus would be. 

Thor stood completely still nearby in readiness next to the portal on his side. There were Cyril's usual pile of stinkbombs, several whistles of mischief, and also a rack of weapons. 

He had Gungnir, Odin's spear on the rack, as well as the mysterious bent spear he got at the Mercantile shop. Gungnir, was one of the two most powerful weapons in Asgard, the other being Mjolnir, Thor's hammer.  

He then looked at the bent spear he acquired at the Mercantile shop. It was still bent, so he sent it down to the armory to get it repeared by the dwarf brothers.

After half a year in Asgard, it was time to return to StarRock. He met Kyra in the portal room and informed her that he would return back to StarRock Academy through Grimdeath forest. She nodded, gave him a hug and left using her Nexus bag. 

Thor lifted up his mighty hammer Mjolnir. Upon touching the hammerhead, Cyril used the law of space-time on it. Immediately he is transported back to the top of the StarRock in the jungle.

He immediately started walking towards StarRock. Within a few days, he found a road that led towards StarRock. It was seldom used due to the danger from Grimdeath Forest.

Cyril stopped at the side of the road, and Hela stepped out of his Nexus bag. She was wearing a black dress, and looked mysterious and unbelievably alluring. He gave her a Nexus bracelet made from more of Baldur's skin, for her to stay in touch, and gave her a big goodbye hug.  

For thousands of years, she was the Goddess of death. She now had a second chance at life and happiness. She wanted to explore Eurathia, have her own adventures, make friends, maybe even find romance. 

"Have a good life. You deserve it" Cyril said, as they looked at each other. "I will father, see you around in the mansion" answered Hela as she departed to find her own adventure. She had her own nexus necklace.

Cyril didn't worry about Hela. After all, who would be able to cause trouble for a Goddess of Death?