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Chapter 1327 Mimir: Will Win

The [Divine Monument] deck is a deck in the mortal world that is full of virtues and the process of using it can be called "cultivation" (certainly).

  Humble - The first player will not do any counter;

Tolerance - will not stop you from doing hand pits such as ash, G, bubbles, etc.;

Generous - allows you to use any expansion method;

Temperance – Retrieve three cards from the graveyard each turn;

  Courage - Skip all of your combat phases;

Loyalty - start with five backcourts and end with five backcourts;

Diligent - Actively banish the opponent's deck regardless of whether it is your turn or the opponent's turn.

Players who play [Divine Monument] will have high taste, quality and cultivation. This is the destiny of [Divine Monument], and it is also the way of gentlemen and virtues. They will abandon vulgar interests and become a progressive player.

——The above is what Hayato himself thought when he was playing [Divine Monument].

  But if it's not him who's playing [Divine Monument] but the other player is playing Divine Monument

How could there be such a filthy existence in the world as a [Divine Monument] player? First, a set of hellish combos interrupted the deployment of others and locked the opponent to stop him, and then the [Divine Monument]'s original cards were used one after another to humiliate him, blowing up the front field and the back field and throwing the deck away. And because the original cards can almost be recycled, this torture is almost endless.

What's even more outrageous is that when the opponent of the [Divine Monument] player has no front or back court and the resource chain is broken, and is about to lie down on the bed with legs spread open to be killed by the opponent - [Divine Monument] doesn't even touch you with a finger, and still stops the challenge!

Looking at the spring water in front of him, Hayato was somewhat aroused by the past resentment, and couldn't help cursing: "Damned [Divine Monument], you actually excluded my [Divine Monument Fountain]! You are a born evil [Divine Monument], I will--"

"Rune Fountain. Are you talking about me?" The "demon" that looked like a rock statue in the fountain scratched his cheek in confusion, "But I didn't do anything."

The Japanese name of [Divine Monument] is "ルーン", which means "Rune". The English name "Runick" is a compound word composed of the general rune letter "Runes" and the old word "Magick" for "magic". The "demon" statue mistakenly heard Hayato's [Divine Monument Fountain] as "Rune Fountain". There is nothing to worry about, but Hayato should be more concerned about——

"You can actually talk?"

"What are you talking about?! Why can't I speak, man?" said the "devil" statue in the fountain unhappily. "I wanted to have a chat with this rare guy who can talk and drink some mead with you, but now I regret it!"

"Mead? Don't tell me it's the kind of mead that's been in someone's stomach for three days and then vomited out." Hayato complained.

The "demon" statue looked at Hayato in surprise and said, "Huh? You know a lot, but do you really not want it? This is honey wine that can give the person who drinks it unparalleled talent."

"I doubt if a guy who is inseparable from spit from birth to death can have any talent."

The words of Hayabusa and the "demon" statue may seem a little strange, but those who are familiar with Norse mythology will definitely remember one of the three attempts Odin made in the myth to gain wisdom - stealing mead.

The two warring gods held a ceremony for peace and spit into a bucket one after another. The bucket full of spit was made into a human being - said to be the smartest person in the world. His name is not important, all you need to know is that this person was killed while playing and sharing knowledge, and his blood and honey were mixed to make three barrels of wine. It can be said that he was born in a barrel, died, and returned to the barrel.

Later, the three jars of mead fell into the hands of a giant, who hid them in the mountains and asked his daughter to guard them. However, he never expected that Odin, the old god, had already set his eyes on the three barrels of wine in order to bring wisdom to his own Aesir tribe. He found ways to run into the mountain where the wine was hidden and started picking up girls, and tricked the giant's daughter into sleeping in a daze for three nights.

Every night he begged for a sip of mead, but it was like "I'll just have a sip" and then eat the whole piece of fried chicken, "I'll just rub it" cough cough cough, in short, Odin said he would only have a sip but he couldn't resist drinking a bucket in one gulp. After three days, he finished the wine, and without even thanking or apologizing to the deceived girl, he turned into an eagle and ran away. Then after returning to the Aesir, he spit the wine from the air onto the ground.

(Odin and the Forsaken Giant's Daughter)

Let’s ignore the scumbag Odin for now, but after knowing this story, Hayato can no longer be interested in things like mead, especially the "mead" mentioned by the "devil" statue in front of him, which may really be Odin's mead of wisdom.

However, although Hayato used the "devil" statue to refer to the other party in his mind, he also knew that the other party was not a "devil" to that extent, so he asked the other party to confirm: "There is something I want to confirm first, what is your name?"

"That's the question I should have asked at the beginning. How can anyone say someone is 'born evil'?" The "devil" statue stroked the horns on its head narcissistically, and introduced itself in a singing tone like a bard, "Ymir, who was forced to sacrifice her body to create the world, is my ancestor, the thorn of disaster is my father, and the goddess of marriage and trees is my eldest sister."

"The Memory One and the Wise One are both my alternate names. I stand guard beside one of the three roots of the World Tree. The Galarhorn carries spring water for me to drink. I am the wise giant - Mimir!"

".You could actually just say the name. The previous setup was so long and wordy." Hayato was silent for a moment and complained.

"That's too much! I've thought about this self-introduction for a long time and revised it almost six hundred times. Can't you just go against your conscience and say something nice to make people feel better?" The "devil" statue in the fountain, no, the giant Mimir, the guardian of the fountain of wisdom in Norse mythology, had a hurt expression on his face.

  (The picture may not be clear enough, but in fact Mimir is not a statue but standing behind the fountain, reaching out to the center of the fountain to scoop up the water)

As he spoke, under Hayato's gaze, the Mimir giant stood up from the pedestal, walked down the fountain and came to Hayato.

Because Hayato had modified his height in the game, he was a little shorter than in reality, but even if he hadn't modified it, when Mimir stood in front of him, he could only look up at the other person. Although this height was not more than 10 or 20 meters, it was definitely more than 3 meters, and he was worthy of the name of "giant".

As for the goat horns? In order to find an excuse for the goat horns on the ship, the sailors of the Age of Discovery forced the goat's hooves and horns on the "devil". The horns on Ymir's head are nothing special among the giants. Among the giants, which are symbols of natural phenomena, there are even animal forms such as Fenrir and Jörmungandr. Some giants, especially female giants, are not even much different from humans in size.

  (Mimir in the "God of War" set next door also has horns)

"Wow, when I saw the card before, I thought you were a statue in the middle of the fountain, but you can not only talk but also walk out by yourself?" Hayato was not afraid of Mimir's size at all, and he comforted the [Water Dispatcher of the Temple] who hid back in the card and dared not face the famous wise man in Norse mythology. "Although I don't know what 'card' you are referring to, I can't be a statue, right?" Mimir pointed behind himself, "Otherwise, who will guard this fountain? It would be a pity if some messed up guy took away the power inside."

Leaning his head out from Mimir's side, Hayato looked at the spring water that began to flow out from the base inlaid with some kind of gemstone into the jar as Mimir left, and the ripples continued to appear. He said sarcastically, "You weren't sitting on that stone blocking the spring water just now? I suddenly feel that the spring water in the jar definitely has a bad taste."

"Huh? How is that possible? This is the most precious of the three springs in the world, the Fountain of Wisdom. How could it have a taste? Even if it does, it would only be the taste of knowledge."

"The taste of knowledge? The taste of the ditch!" Hayato pointed at the spring water, "Why don't you go and have a sip yourself?"

"Tsk, why don't you believe me? How could I, Mimir, lie?" Wanting to prove that his ditch had not polluted the spring water, Mimir pointed to a circle of bricks and stones beside the spring. To be more precise, he was referring to the inscriptions engraved on them. "Do you see the runes on them? Although ordinary people like you probably can't understand them, they are combined into a magic that can protect the spring water, maintain its cleanliness, and detect pollution."

Hayato glanced at the inscriptions on it and subconsciously complained: "You still say you won't lie? There is no combination on it. It's obviously just writing all the runes at once like writing 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D' as a decoration. There is not even a magic combination, and it is still clean?"

(Author's note: This is not made up. Someone has compared the runes in the card and thought it would have some special meaning, but it turns out to be just the ancient Futhark rune alphabet)

"Hmm, I was found out." Mimir didn't expect that his casual trick would be exposed by Hayato in front of him. He was about to turn his head away in embarrassment, but suddenly realized that something was wrong and turned back to look at Hayato in surprise, "No, how do you understand runes?"

"Speaking of which, there is something strange. This should be the first time we meet, why do I always feel that you are very friendly? To be honest, I am actually a very cold person. Could it be that I have become nagging because I haven't talked to anyone for too long?"

"Maybe your eyesight is not good." Hayato looked at Mimir's only eye and said, "I remember Odin exchanged his right eye with you in exchange for a spring of water. Why is your right eye still empty?"

"Why do you have the illusion that eyes can be grafted like the branches and leaves of a plant, plug and play?" Mimir complained. Today might be the day when he, the "wise giant", had the most doubts. He heard too many things from the human in front of him that even he couldn't understand. "One more thing - who is Odin?"

"You don't know Odin?" This surprised Hayato. "He's Odin, the son of King Borg, the god-king of the Aesir, who killed Ymir and created the world."

In Norse mythology, Odin has appeared since the birth of the earth and only met his "destined death" at Ragnarok. In a sense, he is the absolute protagonist. It can be said that without Odin, most of the stories of Norse mythology would be lost. But Mimir said that he didn't know Odin?

So where did his mead come from, and what runes were inscribed on the spring? In addition to stealing wine and seeking spring water, the third thing Odin did to seek wisdom was to hang himself upside down on the world tree and become a lamb to be sacrificed to himself to obtain the runes.

In the poem "The Maxims of the High Ones" in the "Edda" which records myths, Odin's self-narration is recorded: "For nine nights I hung on a tree swaying in the wind, wounded by a spear; I was offered as a sacrifice to Odin, and sacrificed myself on a tree unknown to anyone! There was no bread to satisfy my hunger, no water to quench my thirst. I looked down and picked up the runes, shouting as I picked them up, and fell from the tree."

And the record of Mimir in the poem is that "Every morning Mimir enjoyed the mead left by Odin as a bet."

Noticing the troubled expression on Hayato's face, Mimir didn't pay much attention to his previous question. He stepped aside from Hayato, allowing him to walk unimpeded to the flowing fountain of wisdom, and said, "I don't believe it can't be proved. If not, go taste the spring water yourself and see if it really tastes good?"

"Let me make it clear in advance, I'm not being provoked. Those mortal schemes are totally ineffective against someone as wise as me, Mimir. It's just that it's rare to see someone like me. If you don't want to drink mead, then I can only treat you with spring water." As he spoke, Mimir grinned and smiled naively, making it impossible to tell where his "wisdom" lay.

Hayato did not answer anything, but walked towards the Fountain of Wisdom, standing in front of the clear spring water and feeling the abundant water vapor and magic in it. It was obviously just a pool of spring water, but Hayato could clearly feel the sweetness and deliciousness coming out of his mouth as if he had already drunk it, and his brain was telling Hayato that this deliciousness and pleasure was the pleasure of having his curiosity satisfied.

"Drink it, this is part of your destiny." Such a voice could even be heard faintly in Hayato's ears.

"So Mimir, what is the price?" Without turning back, Hayato said with his back to Mimir.

"Hmm? You're asking me this all of a sudden? I don't really want anything, but you said so." Mimir stood there motionless. Hearing Hayato suddenly say this, he scratched his head in confusion. Suddenly, an idea came to him. "I got it. How about you compete with me? Just use the cards you have on you?"

"Are you sure you want to duel with me using cards?"

"Of course, I'm a giant of wisdom, no one can beat me in a battle of brains!"

"I'm very strong, right?"

"But I am the strongest!" Mimir pointed at himself with his thumb, "I will win!"

Having not met anyone to communicate with for a long time, Mimir excitedly declared victory!

——Three minutes later——

  In the valley where the fountain of wisdom is hidden, terrible things are happening. The invincible Mimir has fallen, and no one knows what is happening here.

"You are so weak. I will probably never forget you, Mimir."

After hearing what Hayato said, Mimir fell on his back and said sadly, "I'm sorry that I couldn't satisfy you, Hayato."

  In the next chapter, Hayato will be able to obtain the [Divine Monument], but I can reveal that the [Divine Monument] was not made by Kaiba.

The following plot will contain some Norse mythology.

Hint: Fimbulwinter

If you are interested, you can search and guess the plot direction (but there is no prize)