You and me under the world tree

Having said that, the man suddenly stopped.

What is it like to live in dire straits?

For a moment, his mind fell into a little confusion.

This made him unable to control his expression at all, and the confusion was even written on his face.

"Can't you remember?"

After seeing this scene, Hodder couldn't help asking.

"Well, as you said, I can't remember."

Originally, he might have wanted to hide something, but after being exposed, he smiled wryly and shook his head.

"After all, it's been too long..."

"how long?"

"Forgot, it should be a long time anyway."

He said with emotion.

But not long after, his expression became ugly again.

"Although I can't remember exactly what I went through, I really don't want to go back to Midgard. All it brings is pain, and it's even difficult to fill my stomach."

He couldn't remember other things clearly, but he only remembered clearly the origin of that pain.

Because eating and sleeping are instinctive things, and it is precisely because there is no guarantee of safety and lack of food that they flee.

"If you are here, can you guarantee that you have hot meals for every meal?"

"Ah."

He nodded.

"It's just that sometimes you have to learn to watch your words."

His expression gradually became helpless, and in this helplessness, Hodder felt a trace of numbness and pain.

If you don't know how to read words and expressions, or make some mistakes, Huo De has already known the result.

Not to mention the life of the human servants kept by other giants, at least here in Utgarde, their life is a little... outrageous.

After thinking about it carefully, Huo De felt that it could only be described as outrageous.

Utgarde can provide these humans with three meals a day, but it can also kill them when they make themselves unhappy.

Before that, he directly beat the human servants into mud with a stick, but after that, he used magic to resurrect all the dead.

"Don't you feel pain?"

"..."

The man didn't answer for a while, he just re-examined the human wizard in black robe in front of him.

"Alright... alright."

I don't know what he was thinking of, so he couldn't help but stutter.

"Actually, you just need to get used to these things. Some things... don't hurt too much, and they disappear with a snap. It's just that sometimes you feel uncomfortable, and then subconsciously forget who you are. Many people have this situation. .”

Then he scratched the back of his head.

"Whenever I change my body, I always feel like I'm dreaming, and I always feel like I'm about to leave."

To put it bluntly, the so-called means of resurrection is 'rebirth', which is to regain the body by the simplest and crude fusion means.

"It's really not easy for you to persevere until now."

"It's not about persevering, that's how it is for this kind of thing, but you, you came from Midgard, right?"

"Well, come and take an adventure."

he added.

"You must have had a hard time. Living in a place like Midgard is also very difficult."

How should I answer this question?

Hearing what the man said, Hodder suddenly felt something was wrong.

"How should I put it, we live here, at least we can guarantee our own survival, but your words..."

"..."

He didn't continue talking, but Hodder already understood what he wanted to express.

"But, don't you think it's outrageous, there are exchanges in the City of Ash Trees, maybe you will be sold to other people the next day..."

"No problem, right? Aren't there slaves in Midgard?"

"..."

"Moreover, they are different from us and have no chance of resurrection."

"Indeed it is."

An unspeakable entanglement began to spread in his heart, and Hodder finally gave up on arguing.

"In short, I hope you have a happy life."

"Well, thank you."

The human servant belonging to the giant nodded slowly.

"Actually, I think you seem to have a good relationship with the giants. If you feel tired, you can probably live a better life than us."

Perhaps, this is a kind of euphemistic persuasion?

As a human slave owned by a giant, a servant who cannot even control his own life, he is trying to persuade himself to leave Midgard.

For a while, Huo De wanted to laugh, but he found that he couldn't laugh.

"That... can I go?"

Seeing Hodder fell silent, the human slave asked.

"I have one last question."

"what?"

"If, I mean if."

After coughing lightly, he emphasized on this.

"Ok?"

"If one day there are no more slaves in Midgard, and all human beings are united under one banner to form a complete and independent kingdom, would you like to return to Midgard?"

"No slavery?"

"Ok?"

"Unity?"

"Ah."

"Can I have enough to eat?"

"can."

"I do not know."

He shook his head.

"Actually, I don't know what Midgard is like now, and it even feels a little strange."

'boom'

These words exploded in Huo De's mind, and he suddenly realized the most critical point:

belong.

The long years have worn away the feelings and thoughts of the humans living in Jotunheim, and gradually, they no longer have any sense of belonging to the atrium world.

"And from the businessmen who came and went, it seems that there is still a war, and people are still dying..."

"Okay, I get it."

He interrupted the human slave softly.

In fact, he really wanted to accuse these slaves of being deformed at the cognitive level, but he couldn't do it.

"Actually, it is impossible for Midgard to want peace."

he said in a low voice.

"Lord Utgarde sometimes said that the gods in the sky need war, so they will just keep dying..."

When he said this, he couldn't help scratching his head.

"Although I can't remember clearly, but I remember a long time ago, it seems that someone had the same idea as you. I seem to have been born in that era."

"what?"

"Fighting for peace, it seems that there is a king, it seems to be called... what, Hud? Hal? I almost forgot. I was young at that time, but he was called a 'battle hero', even if the old man He is good at fighting even if he is blind, and it is said that he became a king when he was still a boy."

"Ah, that's..."

Hodder seemed to have guessed who he was talking about, but the slave continued talking on his own.

"He claimed that he had received the will of the gods to bring peace to the world, but in the end he didn't do it. He had fought and won battles all his life and was killed in the end. It felt like he was cheated."

"You...did you escape at that time?"

"Well, a huge, almost unified kingdom collapsed, wars swept through, and there were even scenes of people eating people."

He suddenly smiled wryly, and that kind of smile couldn't help but make Hodder feel chest tight.

"The peaceful situation you mentioned is very beautiful, but it is impossible."

Chapter 48: Change That Destroys Everything

There have been human beings who launched a large-scale unification war under the banner of peace and struggled to maintain it.

Because he got the will of the gods, to let the world get eternal peace.

However, in his later years, when his physical functions gradually declined, and his old age even took away his eyesight, he was abandoned by the gods.

The gods alienated the relationship between him and his nephew, and the two sides broke out into quarrels, and then had hatred due to accidents, which eventually led to a large-scale battle on the plain.

In the end, on the battlefield, the aged king was beheaded, and the legendary life was ended.

When Hodder first read this story, he actually found it strangely ironic.

He felt this highlighted the attitude of the gods towards humans.

If it is useful, contact them in the name of favor, lure or even force them to fight with various interests, and if it is useless, find a substitute and kill the old king who cannot start the war.

Maybe they will accept warriors who have exhausted their strength into God's Domain, or even into the Hall of Valor.

But there are also some fighters who are not even qualified to enter the God's Domain after being used, and eventually either enter the cold and silent Helheim, or completely dissipate between heaven and earth.

If the willpower is too strong and still remains between heaven and earth, then maybe it will become a monster.

And there is only one such end, and that is to become the stepping stone of the next hero favored by the gods.

This is the main theme in Midgard, and Hodder thought that the Wartooth King who established the current lord system in the atrium had a similar experience.

When he was young, he ascended the throne, fought everywhere, and unified almost half of the atrium world with an almost violent but majestic posture.

But he was so strong and made great military exploits that he was finally abandoned.

Although he was accepted into God's Domain and became Enheria with the highest honor, everything he once had disappeared in smoke.

That kind of being abandoned and giving up must be painful.

As the person in front of Hodder said, he was completely 'deceived'.

Only now, Hodder has a deeper feeling.

When he knew more things, what he felt was regret.

"Maybe, maybe it's not because I was deceived."