In Olympia, home of the Eternals, Odin stands over the
fallen Thor, his spear Gungnir at his son's throat, wondering at the Norn-fates
that brought him to this point. He
proclaims that he will not slay his only son again and hurls the spear
away. Thor asks for an explanation for why Odin led the Greek gods there—but
especially what he meant by not slaying his son “again.” The All-Father refuses
to answer, leaving him instead with the riddle “If an eye offend thee, pluck it
out. It shall ne'ermore be part of thee—yet it shall e'er be part of thee. For
it has known what thou knowest—seen what thou hast turned to see.” He stalks
off to where Hercules and others are trying to pluck Gungnir from the wall in
which it is embedded, summons it to him and vanishes, leaving the Greeks and
the Eternals whom he set against each other in a bit of confusion. After a bit
more trash-talking, Zeus concedes that he doesn't care anything about the
Celestials and only came to the fight out of old resentments. With that, Zeus
leads his stunned follower back home. The Eternals likewise decline an alliance
with Thor, preferring to pick up the pieces of their city and go their own
way....
Thor goes his way pondering Odin's riddle—and then recalls
that Odin plucked out an eye to gain wisdom from Mimir. The Thunder God asks
Mjolnir to show him where that eye went and hit conjures a vision of a fantasy
land inhabited by dwarflings. They are terrorized by a giant disembodied
eyeball that shoots fire. Thor commands the hammer to take him to that land and
there he confronts the eye which blasts him with fire for his arrogance. Thor
calls down rain to douse the fire so the eye calls up a herd of oddball
monsters; the hero fights them only to learn they are all illusions—all except
the last, a green-spotted lump of tentacles. Thor blows it apart and realizes
that his foe must be the Eye of Odin and he pursues it, capturing it by means
of a mighty tornado. Thor demands to know of the imprisoned eye what Odin meant
when he said he had slain his son once and would not do it again. The eye
agrees to tell him—but warns he will never be the same afterward....
Zuras, Ikaris, and Ares also appear.