The world-devouring dragon

"You created this world and made this world 'born', so this world is destined to 'die', and the 'death' of the world... is Regaruk."

Although they are facing the enemy who killed his father, and it seems that there should be a deep hatred between the two, they both seem to have nothing happened, and they are still talking calmly, and even The wise giant was still slowly explaining his confusion to Odin.

It has been too long, and the grievances that happened tens of thousands of years ago have been forgotten. Everything has been settled. With the death of Ymir, the ancestor of the frost giants, the birth of the World Tree and the formation of the entire nine worlds, as early as Before the birth of heaven and earth, when everything was in chaos, the grievances between the ancient gods and the ancient frost giants that had lasted for countless years had long been wiped out.

"In this world, there are two inevitable and inescapable fates. In other words, it is precisely because of these two inevitable fates that this world was born."

"One of the two destined destinies is the birth of the world... My father, Ymir, the ancestor of the frost giants, was destined to die at the hands of brothers Odin, Willy, and Wei, and to transform into the World Tree. This was his destiny. destiny, because if he had not died, the world would not have been born.”

"My father Ymir knew this fate and tried to break away from it. His power far exceeded the imagination of all gods and giants. He once seemed to be able to break away from this fate and saw the vague hope. Hope. But your brother, Loki, is far smarter and more cunning than everyone else thought. He completely shattered the giant's hope, and ultimately Ymir was defeated in vain by you three brothers. , the corpse transformed into the world tree to support the entire nine worlds..."

At the end, Mimir's voice had some subtle changes for the first time, which seemed to be emotional and sad.

And listening to Mimir's words, Odin was silent. Having experienced that battle personally, he knew exactly what a magnificent and epic battle it was. He was still young at the time, and he still clearly remembers that kind of battle. With a deep sense of despair and invincibility, when he forgot all distracting thoughts and chose to risk his life and fight with all his strength, when he came back to his senses, his magic gun Gangnir had penetrated the opponent's chest. The seemingly invincible Frost Giant Ancestor had no choice but to collapse to the ground in front of him.

"And now, Odin, another fate is about to come... In other words, from the moment this world was born, this fate has been doomed. No one can disobey it. All the living and dead in the entire universe, It is destined to be destroyed under Regaruk—the Twilight of the Gods.”

Mimir looked at him with an extremely calm tone.

Odin's face was uncertain, and he asked again.

"Is there really no way to stop Regaruk's arrival?"

Mimir shook his head and said.

"Odin, can you give eternal life to a mortal and make him immortal?"

Odin opened his mouth to speak, but then stopped as if he had reacted.

The old wise giant looked at him and nodded.

"It seems that you also understand... Is a mortal who has eternal life and never dies really still a mortal?"

"Is a universe that can escape the fate of cosmic death really still the universe that you hope to see and work hard to maintain?"

But Odin still said unwillingly.

"But I can postpone this fate until later."

His eyes were filled with reluctance, and his face, which had long since lost its youth, was full of stubbornness and stubbornness, just like that year... that high-spirited young god who was not yet the King of Gods.

Mimir nodded.

"Yes, you can indeed try to postpone this fate, or even postpone this fate endlessly, just like you imprison giant snakes and magic wolves. They are hidden dangers in the entire universe. If you do not act decisively, They are imprisoned, and I am afraid that the Twilight of the Gods, which has destroyed the entire universe at this moment, has already arrived with their greed and violence. But in other words, as long as they cannot break free from the shackles that imprison them, they will never be able to make the gods Dusk fulfills it.”

Unexpectedly, Mimir unexpectedly agreed with Odin, but then...

"But... do you really think that this way you can avoid Regaruk, the inevitable fate of all gods and creatures?"

Mimir's old eyes stared at the God King Odin in front of him, and he spoke word by word.

His expression became indifferent and cold.

"The last person who tried to escape fate in this way...my father, the frost giant Ymir, died under your sharp spear."

Odin was speechless.

Mimir didn't pay attention to the expression on Odin's face, but turned his head and looked at the fountain of wisdom beside him. He was silent for a long time, and then suddenly murmured an inexplicable sentence in his mouth.

"You can't get the past, you can't get the present, you can't get the future..."

His voice was low, and when he said this, it seemed to be filled with infinite heaviness and inexplicable sadness.

Odin thought for a moment, then shook his head.

"I haven't heard of that."

"Of course you have never heard this sentence, because the person who said this sentence has never existed in this universe, and has never even appeared in any time or space. He has never existed."

Mimir closed her eyes and murmured softly.

"Odin, you connect yourself to the fountain of wisdom, and you can know what has happened in the past, what is happening now, and what will happen in the future... However, I, who have drunk from the fountain of wisdom, can know those things. Things that have never happened and will never happen in the universe.”

"Just like Loki's sudden 'world monetary system', you have never seen that future, so you cannot understand or know that that sudden idea will give birth to a monster called 'capital'. And there will be a mortal for whom Capital will be written.”

"You can see Regaruk and the day when Ragnarok comes, fearing this future, trying to escape this future, and fighting against this future, but I can know deeply... you will eventually You will bow your head in front of this future, hang down your pride as the God King, and admit your failure."

"Odin, I declare this future to my mouth and your ears because I have understood the irresistibility of this destiny. Among countless possible futures and infinite possible pasts , you don’t even have the slightest chance of success.”

"Just like in the past, during the protracted war between the Asa Protoss and the Warner Protoss, I was handed over to the Warner Protoss as a hostage by you to stop the war, but in the end, I was beheaded again and was deeply affected. The deceived Vanir Protoss sent the head back to the Asa Protoss..."

"Another example is the giant snake Jormungandr. It does not necessarily eat the sun, but it may grow slowly on the seabed until it wraps itself around in the sea, holding its tail in its mouth and unable to move... …”

"No matter how your brother Wei, he did not die in the war with Ymir as you remember, but he should still be alive between heaven and earth..."

"And the guardian of the gods, Heimdall. In some past times, he was not shaped by the power of the gods, but should have been created by the nine daughters of the old sea god Egil, the daughter of the waves. Conceived and born..."

"..."

Mimir was talking nonchalantly, saying all kinds of absurd and uninhibited words, which were both fantasy and reality, but Odin frowned as he listened.

"Mimir, what exactly do you want to say?"

The wise giant looked at him, and then sighed sadly.

"God King Odin, what I want to say is that even among the countless possible pasts and countless possible futures, I have never seen the possibility of escaping from these two inevitable fates."

"No matter how many possibilities there are, there is no way to break away from these two destined fates. Regaruk's arrival is unavoidable and irresistible."

"From the moment this world was born, everything was doomed, and all the struggles... were just in vain..."

As he spoke, the look of tiredness on his face became heavier and heavier, and his voice became slower and slower.

Then, the old giant fell asleep leaning on the fountain of wisdom.

Odin stared at Mimir in front of him, with an uncertain expression on his face. Finally, he took a deep breath and whispered to the old giant who had already fallen asleep.

"Mimir, the God King will not and cannot succumb to any force, even if it is fate."

With that said, he turned around resolutely and headed towards the path he came from.

Behind him, the sleeping old giant leaned against the fountain of wisdom and fell asleep quietly, as if he had not changed since ancient times.

After a long time, a sigh of regret seemed to echo in the air.