Big octopus in the deep sea: I can evolve infinitely

Chapter 54 Odin, are you crazy?

"Are you crazy?"

When Odin's voice fell into Mimir's ears, the giant who had been chopped off with only one head opened his cloudy eyes to the maximum, looking at the god-king Odin in disbelief.

The gods are mighty,

Rebirth with a broken arm, finding and replacing lost eyes, these are all easy things for witches, let alone gods.

But there are some things that even the gods cannot violate,

Such as the rules of sacrifice.

What you want to gain, you have to lose,
What is lost cannot be remedied by other means.

The great god Odin gave him his eyes in exchange for drinking a sip of wisdom spring water, in exchange for boundless wisdom and seeing a future that is related to himself and the gods. This is essentially a sacrifice.

Therefore, no matter how much medicine Odin took afterwards, and no matter how many eyes the god king put on, his eye could not see the light again.

Unless, he returns what he got.

So he couldn't understand why Odin would sacrifice his only remaining eye in exchange for a more powerful wisdom and a more distant future.

Doesn't he know that once he sacrifices this eye, he will lose his light forever?

even,

He couldn't even sit firmly in his seat of God-King,
Because the gods can accept a one-eyed king, but absolutely cannot accept a king without eyes, no matter how brave and wise the king is.

However, facing Mimir's disbelieving gaze, Odin just asked in a flat tone, "Will you reject this deal?"

His tone was very flat,

It's so bland as to ask 'Have you had a drink? ’, but this kind of calm made Mimir more and more confused. Odin is not a fool, on the contrary, he is very smart, otherwise he would not have thrown himself down in order to obtain the almost omnipotent runic text. Hanging in the world, dedicating oneself to oneself, taking advantage of a loophole.

And at the beginning, He wanted to snatch the water from the Fountain of Wisdom without paying any price. It was only because He found out that he could not drink the water from the Fountain of Wisdom by brute force, so he sacrificed an eye according to the rules.

Will such a god king really offer his only remaining eye?
But if not, what was he thinking?
Mimir feels that he has the wisdom that surpasses the gods, giants, and monsters. There is nothing in this world that his wisdom cannot see through, but at this moment, he feels that he can't guess or see What is Toodin thinking in his heart, and what is his plan?

Is he really crazy?Or have you found a loophole to circumvent the rules?
Looking at the great god Odin in front of him, Mimir frowned slightly, then shook his head, "Of course I won't refuse the deal, but is Odin really going to dedicate your only remaining eye to the Fountain of Wisdom? You should know, Once the deal is done, unless you return what you got, you lose the eye forever."

Hearing that, Odin didn't speak, he just pushed the hand holding his eyes in Mimir's direction.

Seeing this scene, Mimir's eyes covered with old wrinkles half-closed, and then under Odin's gaze, the eye that was snapped off by Odin flew up and fell directly into the Fountain of Wisdom.

This clean and clear spring, which supports one of the three roots of the World Tree, immediately rippled, and then completely swallowed the eyes offered by Odin without a trace

"The Fountain of Wisdom has accepted your sacrifice, you can go and get what you want."

Mimir stared at the God King in front of him, observed his every move, and wanted to see something from it, but to his disappointment, Odin only slowly approached the fountain of wisdom, and then stretched out his hands. The water is gently scooped up from the wisdom spring filled with clear spring water,
He held the spring water in his hands, raised his head, and drank the spring water in one gulp.

The clear and sweet spring water flowed down His mouth into the esophagus, and then into His stomach,

And as the spring water flowed in, his brain began to swell violently, and a large amount of knowledge that ordinary people and gods knew or didn't know got into his brain. The wisdom spring is called wisdom, but what it gives is actually knowledge. It is knowledge that ordinary people can or cannot touch.

After obtaining this knowledge, even an ignorant person can still speak freely, concocting various spells and secrets at will, acting like a wise man.

In the past,
Odin once drank from a spring of wisdom, so he obtained almost all the spells in this world. Using these spells, he could see the past, present, and future. This world, in front of him, has almost no secrets. In the face of the fate that must come, it is useless.

That's why he appeared in front of Mimir, the wisdom giant, and exchanged one of his eyes for more powerful knowledge that was unknown to the world and belonged to taboos.

But before that, he still had a question to answer.

Thinking about it, Odin held his head with both hands, and the intense pain caused cold sweat to flow out of his forehead quickly. In the feeling of dying, his thoughts flew away.

The past cannot be traced.

Even as powerful as the gods, as powerful as the almost omnipotent runes, there is no way to change what has happened in the past.

The past, from the moment it happened, has been solidified into fragments at the front of time, which can be traced and observed, but cannot be changed.

But he wants to know,

if,

If I hadn't been obsessed with that prophecy, if I hadn't broken with my brother Loki, if I had patiently taught Loki's three children, what would all this be like?Will Ragnarok still come?Will the gods abandon the affection of a brave man for his brothers and sisters for some other things?
he thought.

quickly,

He felt that his mind had drifted to another timeline.

A 'what if' timeline where He made another decision, going a different fork.

(End of this chapter)