The world-devouring dragon

"ah!!!"

In Asgard, a beautiful palace that emits infinite light, a scream suddenly came out.

In a bedroom surrounded by various gold and silver inlays, Badr, the God of Light, was sitting on the bed, half covered with a quilt. He had just woken up from a nightmare, and his handsome face, still stained with sweat, was full of panic and emerald green. The green eyes were still trembling from time to time.

After a long time, he stroked his forehead and slowly let out a painful groan.

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"Badr, the God of Light, is plagued by nightmares!"

This news spread throughout Asgard a few months later, causing discussions among the gods.

Baldr, who is naturally tolerant, has to say that his character is indeed good to a certain extent. Among the Nordic gods who mostly have berserker characters, he is an extremely rare good old man, and he can even be called a saint.

Just like the light he symbolizes, he will not have any dislike for the other person's good or evil, gender, race, or origin. Instead, he will treat everyone equally and treat them all with the same light.

Not to mention the gods, even the Orochi who was suppressed under the sea had met him a few times when he accidentally traveled out. After talking, the Orochi was surprised to find this guy more pleasing to the eye, at least from the perspective of "gods who must be killed" " was picked out separately and specially divided into a row of "gods that can be killed or not killed".

From Asgard, where the gods live, to Jotunheim, where the frost giants live, except for the underworld of Helm, which has such a harsh environment that only the dead and a few gods can stay, Balder has never been there. It can be said that there are friends of Badr everywhere.

This kind of character also makes him indecisive and difficult to make decisions. As Odin's oldest son besides Thor, he is also the heir to the God King. Therefore, for this reason, his son Forseti was regarded as justice and truth. God to assist him in making various judgments.

But now, the future God King is trapped in nightmares.

Gods rarely dream, but when they do dream, they are often extraordinary dreams.

Such as traveling through the past and future, foreseeing the past and future events; or traveling between life and death, communicating with the extraordinary living and dead in dreams; nightmares often mean some bad omen.

The God of Light, Baldr, is indeed so mild-mannered that he did not tell his nightmares at first. It was only because he had nightmares every night that the God of Light's consciousness weakened and his spirit became haggard. ——Queen of the Gods Frigga was able to notice, and then, after feeling pity for her son, the future God King, she summoned the gods in the Golden Palace to try to find a way.

The Queen of Gods has an edict, so of course all the gods will come.

In the Golden Palace, the gods used divination, spells, or even directly entered the dream of Baldr, the god of light. After exhausting various methods, including the god Odin, the god who had the ability to predict the past and the future, and the god None of the gods, including Frigga, could fully interpret the meaning of Baldr's nightmare, but there was only one thing that all the gods recognized, and that was that it was a huge omen.

After Odin pondered for a long time, he mounted his eight-legged Pegasus and prepared to go to the Kingdom of Helm in person to find Hela, the Lord of Death, to ask about the situation.

In this world, if there are some signs of death that even he, the God King who can predict the future, doesn't know about, then probably only the half-dead Hela and the wise giant Mimir know about them.

The eight-hooved divine horse cut through the sky, crossed the ocean, and followed the River Styx to the country of death shrouded in fog.

However, what makes Odin a little strange is that under his gaze, in the only illuminated palace in the Kingdom of Death hidden in the deep fog, there seems to be some celebration sound at this moment.

The God King frowned slightly. He rode the eight-legged horse and only hovered in the air, without actually falling into the Kingdom of Death.

The world of death, which has existed since the birth of heaven and earth, has its own rules and order. Even the God King Odin can't stand the environment full of death. If he really falls directly into that world of death, Go, even if he is the God King, he may not be able to escape the fate of transforming into the dead and then being enslaved by Hela, the Lord of Death.

Not to mention anything else, in the Kingdom of Death, those ancient creatures who died in the war between the ancient frost giants and the ancient gods long before the birth of the world are still there. At that time, the world of death already existed. However, even if they were once so powerful, after death, they would eventually have to succumb to Hela, the God of Death.

However, the inability to directly enter the world of death does not mean that Odin is powerless against the world of death. Otherwise, he would not be able to make Hela surrender to him.

He stretched out a finger and danced rapidly in the air, chanting various runes in his mouth. The sound in his mouth was like thunder and lightning. Not long after, cold wind and heavy rain came under his spell.

Amidst the howling cold wind and storm, Hela, who is much larger than humans and closer to a giant, responded to the call from the death world under Odin.

She was flying in the air, overlooking the god-king Odin who was riding an eight-legged divine horse in front of her. There was too much respect between her cold brows, and she just leaned slightly towards Odin to show some respect for the god-king. , and then asked slowly.

"The King of Gods called me here, what's the matter?"

Odin raised his head, looked at the huge Hela in front of him, and then asked loudly.

"Why is there a sound of celebration in your palace?"

Hela answered vaguely.

"The world of death is about to welcome a distinguished visitor, so we brewed mellow mead for him and prepared a feast for him."

"Who is that person?"

Odin did not listen to Hela's evasive words at all, but asked aggressively.

Hela didn't answer, just shook her head.

"God King, the living have their own rules, but the dead also have their own order. All things must die. Even though you are the King of God, there are some things that you should not pursue too much."

Odin's brows were furrowed, and his old face was covered by a thick gray beard, making it unclear what he was thinking.

"That's Baldr, right?"

He spoke suddenly.

Hela did not answer him, but the lack of an answer was already an answer in itself.

"Is there no way to stop it?"

The God King looked closely at Hela in front of him and asked.

In front of him, Hela's face was noncommittal, with a bit of coldness and dissatisfaction on her face.

"Perhaps, but that is no longer something you, as the God-King of the Living, can continue to ask."

With that said, without waiting for Odin to speak again, she returned directly to her palace.

Odin's face was silent, and Hela's attitude was obvious. The world of the living and the world of the dead are different.

As the king of the dead, all the dead are under the jurisdiction of Hela, even if the gods are dead, while Odin is the god-king who rules over all the living. The two should have equal status.

Although Hela is now forced to bow to him due to the power of runes, there are some things that cannot be asked, it is as simple as that. Therefore, Odin's pressing steps made her so dissatisfied that she walked away directly.

He touched his beard quietly, but a word inexplicably crossed his mind.

"Regaruk..."

Suddenly, the God King felt a little more fear and loss in his heart.