Days as a Spiritual Mentor in American Comics

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The outpost is not large, even smaller than a space station. There aren't many people working inside. According to the male employee who opened the door for them, recently there have been quite a few more Chinese people, it used to be even fewer.

After all, there's no Earth network connection here, and outside it's just barren with nothing much to see. The main job here is to collect Jupiter's data and send it back to Earth. Although the public transport ship comes every week, unless there's a special situation, you can't leave your post irresponsibly. The work is tedious and boring, not many people are willing to do it.

Through the staff's introduction, Shiller learned the basic situation of the outpost.

Jupiter's moon is a synchronous rotation satellite. Its relationship with Jupiter is similar to the Moon's relationship with Earth, always showing only one face to Jupiter. That face is equivalent to the front of the Moon.

And the position of the outpost they are currently at is actually equivalent to the back of the Moon, which is the side not facing Jupiter. Shiller was actually a bit curious why the outpost wasn't built on the front side.

But he thought about it, and realized that Jupiter's moon is relatively far from Jupiter. Standing on Jupiter's moon and looking at Jupiter isn't much larger than looking at the Moon from Earth.

If built on the front side, seeing Jupiter rise every day instead of the Sun and Moon would create a strong sense of anomaly, possibly intensifying employees' sense of loneliness and affecting their mental health.

As the third largest satellite in the Solar System, Jupiter's moon is roughly 2.6 times the size of the Moon, but still much smaller than Earth. So even if the outpost is built on the back side, it wouldn't take much time to go to the front side. Considering employees' mental health, they ultimately decided to build at the back.

After visiting the outpost, Stark began asking questions. Mainly about whether they had discovered any strange ships or spotted any suspicious activities.

The answers from the outpost staff were all negative. Although a bit disappointing, it wasn't unexpected. Roxon Corporation is already this secretive, they obviously wouldn't blatantly hang around in front of a human civilization's official outpost.

Stark concealed Roxon Corporation's name and briefly explained the current situation to the staff. Employees who have worked here for a long time are certainly more familiar with the place and should be able to give some useful guesses.

Sure enough, the employee confirmed Stark's previous guesses and said, "If someone is mining here secretly, they would definitely place the base on Jupiter's moon. On one side, it's rich in thermal energy, and on the other, Jupiter's moon is the closest large satellite to Jupiter."

"If they're using mining ships to travel between Jupiter and its satellites, they'd definitely pick a close one. This way, it saves energy and is faster. The shorter the travel distance, the more concealed it is. Overall, Jupiter's moon is the best choice."

"Of course, Jupiter's moon is actually not far either. Plus, Jupiter's moon has a better orbit. So choosing Jupiter's moon is also possible. I even feel, there might be bases on both moons."

"Why?" Stark asked curiously.

"If, as you said, they're mining but haven't dispatched ships to transport ores out, there must be a place to store resources, right?"

"Jupiter's moon is close and thermally rich, but it has a major drawback: frequent geological activity. The moon has the most volcanoes in the Solar System, erupting frequently. It's not a good place for storing resources."

"Although Jupiter's moon is a bit farther and particularly cold, it's relatively stable. You can build storage there to store large amounts of resources and transport them in one go."

Stark nodded, feeling that the explanation made a lot of sense. Because they knew that Roxon Corporation was likely using some magical means of transportation, most likely some sort of teleportation portal.

Apart from human teleportation portals, most civilizations' portals have a major drawback: they require a relatively stable environment. Once the runes and framework are damaged, the portal is basically unusable.

If Roxon Corporation is not using Earth technology but instead other civilizations' teleportation technology, they might be limited by this drawback. This means it's impossible to build a teleportation portal on Jupiter's moon; they would have to move to other more tranquil planets, possibly on Jupiter's moon.

Since both moons are highly suspicious, they decided to investigate them one by one. The order also requires careful consideration. After thinking for a moment, Stark said, "We should split into two teams. The main force should go investigate Jupiter's moon, leave one person to keep an eye on the other moon."

"Just Roxon Corporation mining Jupiter doesn't prove anything. If we rashly charge in and interrupt their mining process, not only will we fail to defeat them in one shot, but we might also be counter-sued for trying to monopolize the Solar System's resources."

"But if they really use magic to transport resources out of the Solar System, then their transportation process is solid evidence of their betrayal. We need to first capture the evidence; the rest will be easy to handle."

Shiller nodded in satisfaction. He thought the same way.

Roxon Corporation is a company particularly skilled in abusing legal tools. In the original comics, they sued superheroes more than once, even suing Thor and making him lose.

On the surface, they appear to use the law to protect their rights, but they're actually setting traps, capturing ambiguous evidence, and bribing juries. They bully superheroes because they don't have the time and energy to fight legal battles.

To handle companies like this, you have to hit them where it hurts. First, get evidence of their betrayal so they can't recover in the court of public opinion; only then can you easily handle the rest.

Although Stark often seems unserious, he's reliable in the big picture. He continued, "They must also know that portals are their lifeline. They'll definitely send many people to guard them, and there might be traps we don't know about."

"It's better if we can secretly obtain evidence on Jupiter's moon; if discovered, the person watching the other moon should create a distraction. With issues in two locations, they won't have time for us, allowing us to escape smoothly."

"Then I'll go to Jupiter's moon," Shiller said.

Stark, however, looked at him somewhat distrustfully and said, "There's no moon here. Are you sure your spells will work?"

Even though there was nothing under the hood, Stark seemed to sense an eye-roll from Shiller as if looking at an idiot.

Moon Knight lightly raised a hand, and a moon rose in the sky above Jupiter's moon.

"Alright, alright, I get it, you're powerful," Stark waved and said, "Spider Man and I will go to Jupiter's moon."

Then he tossed a headset to Shiller and said, "Put this on. If anything happens, I'll call you in the headset, and you'll act accordingly."

After finalizing their strategy, the two sides split to carry out their actions.

Shiller flew towards Jupiter's moon. There's no air traffic control here, so he directly used a long-distance teleport to a place not far from Jupiter's moon.

Despite his prior confidence, he now asked Khonsu internally, "Are you sure your abilities work here? Don't tell me they don't when I jump down later..."

"Don't worry," Khonsu replied irritably, "If you can see me, you can use them."

"Why does it work? There is no moon here."

"Magic is not something you should ask too much about... Okay, if you must get to the bottom of it. In Egyptian mythology, the concept of a star system doesn't exist. There are no planets, no orbits, nor overlapping relationships."

"The moon and the sun are eternal entities, while stars are merely their embellishments. The magical layers of the moon and sun are hardly affected by the state of planets in your real world."

"Even if one day the celestial moon in your universe no longer exists, my magic won't fail. Because the moon defined in magic still exists and will never disappear."

"Then why did it take so much strength to conceal the celestial moon?"

"It takes just as much strength to conceal the celestial Mars, the celestial Jupiter, and the celestial Mercury. Because I need to use divine power to entirely cover the sunlight they reflect. Do you know how much power that requires?"

"Can't you conceal them magically?"

"Can ordinary people see magic? If they can't see the magic layers of stars, what's the point of concealing them?"

Shiller had no reply.

"I can control the celestial moon because I have divine power, not because I, the Moon God, have anything special about your satellite," Khonsu said, "My power is limited to ancient human romantic fantasies about the moon. You can't expect me to evolve just because your era has developed, recognizing more functions of the moon. I can't do that."

"Okay," was all Shiller could say.

In fact, he thought it was rather good that Khonsu couldn't control the celestial Moon. Otherwise, if one day the Chinese happens to take the Earth on a runaway, he'd have to drive the moon to chase after them.

Shiller circled around Jupiter's moon. At the foot of what might be the largest volcano on this satellite, he saw a strange structure. It genuinely didn't seem like a human creation.

Mainly because the color scheme isn't something humans would typically construct. The outpost on Jupiter's moon is white, and space stations near Earth are blue and white. Even the new starships are painted black for combat purposes, with deep blue embellishments.

However, the building at the foot of the volcano was purple.

Shiller really couldn't understand what kind of human architect would design a space structure in purple, especially in purple and black. The style looked more like it belonged strictly in a game setting collection rather than a functional building, more like a temple.

"Why does this style look familiar?" Shiller muttered to himself.

Shiller suddenly remembered that the style of this temple somewhat resembled that of Asgard. But Asgard typically used gold, which is why he didn't recall it immediately.

"Could it be possible Roxon is colluding with Asgard?"

This assumption was overthrown in a second. Asgard wouldn't care for Jupiter's meager resources, let alone be so secretive.

Asgard's mining process probably involves finding a resource-rich planet, dispatching a battleship, aiming, firing, and capturing and taking home what's left after the planet is obliterated.

Most advanced civilizations in the cosmos operate this way. Only those who haven't left their star systems will deploy an array of equipment to mine.

If they're not colluding with Asgard, then it's possible they're conspiring with other civilizations within the Nine Major Kingdoms. Since Asgard, as the ruler of the Nine Major Kingdoms, significantly influences the aesthetics and culture of the other civilizations here, leading them to have some Asgardian elements more or less.

At this point, Shiller remembered the plot in the "War of All Realms" comic, where Roxon Corporation traded the skull of King of Frost Giants, Laufey, for the mining rights of all minerals in the territory of the leader of the Dark Elves, Marleski.

"Could Roxon Corporation be collaborating with the Dark Elves?"

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