You and me under the world tree

Thanks to the actions of that man named Huo De, his previous situation can be said to be quite miserable.

After the soul left the completely stopped functioning body, he was not able to return to Asgard, but was directly beaten to the junction of Helheim and Niflheim.

The dead are different from the living. If the living want to directly go to the underworld with their own bodies, they need to go to Niflheim in the extreme north, and walk a long time on that ice and snow land to get there.

And relying on the speed of the god of speed in Asgard, the war messenger and the god horse Sleipnir, they can walk for nine days and nine nights regardless of day and night, let alone other people.

If Slude hadn't made a decisive decision after his death, went to Niflheim immediately, and spent nine days dragging him back from the junction between the Ice Mist Kingdom and the Underworld, he might have died in Modgud. He crossed the river under the watchful eye of the old witch who guarded the bridge.

And once he crossed the river and stepped into Hela's country, even the Asa protoss could do nothing, and he would be in trouble if he wanted to come back.

Wandering in the dark world of ice and fog without divine power and strength, to be honest, this is not a good thing.

Even now, Hermod, who has long been revived and even recovered his divine power, still remembers the helpless coldness and pain. He walked in the ice and snow like a mortal, and he did not know how many times he fell into a coma. I don't know how many times I woke up.

And now, after hearing that the man with enough power to kill gods finally died, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

After all, that man didn't really have the ability to kill gods. Although that man was a mystery, one thing was certain, that was that the other party didn't really have the ability to surpass gods.

The reason why he was able to kill the gods was entirely because he did not know where he obtained his identity. As long as the people of the gods conflicted with him, the gods would lose their power because of the power of the oath of 'no internal fighting'.

But in the final analysis, why does he have the identity of the Protoss?

After feeling refreshed from the bottom of his heart, Helmode couldn't help but have such thoughts in his mind.

To be honest, this has become a lingering shadow in the heart of this war messenger, although he does not doubt what Slude said, he believes that the man named Hodder is dead.

However, he is still curious about the identity of that man, and this kind of doubt born of psychological shadow must be answered, otherwise he will not even sleep at ease.

Who the hell is he...

With this question in mind, he went to another silver palace of Odin - the Hall of Silver, but when he reached the door, he was stopped by the attendants guarding the Hall of Silver.

From these attendants, Hermod heard an unbelievable news:

"Not here? But... I just came from Valhalla, so do you know where Father God is?"

Generally speaking, Odin will only appear in two places in Asgard:

One is the Hall of Silver, because he overlooks the entire Nine Realms from the Supreme Throne every day

The second is Valhalla, because he likes to drink wine with these warriors who have proved their bravery in the mortal world

As for the Golden Palace, a symbol of power and status, he actually doesn't often show up there.

But now, he is not in these two places, so where will he go?

After bidding farewell to those attendants, he went to the Queen of Heaven's palace again, Lord Frigga's palace Seth Rainier and the misty Crystal Palace Fensarill. their paradise.

However, the great god is also not here, but got the news from the Valkyrie guarding here: the Queen of Heaven closed the door to thank guests.

The queen who has always been gentle and enthusiastic, even a child born to a giantess like Thor would call her respectfully: mother.

In order to give care to those children who died young, she specially vacated her Sea Mist Crystal Palace for these children to live in, and specially raised them.

Although Hermod, who is a god of the new generation, doesn't know when Tianhou started to have this habit, but she really likes to take care of those children herself.

And more importantly, she is also willing to treat Odin's other heirs as her own, and Hermod grew up under her care.

Why doesn't she even want to see her own child?

And at this moment, he saw another person, a male god.

He was handsome, innocent, and cheerful, and his fair hair and fair face seemed to be forever radiant.All things love him, and he loves all things.

God of Light Baldr...

And compared to Hermod's kind of respect, he is more casual.

"Mother!" he yelled

Then he wanted to ignore those Valkyries and walk directly into the Palace of Sea Mist, but immediately after, two long spears crossed directly in front of him.

"Master Bader, thank you behind closed doors today, please come back another day."

Even Badr?

That's all for me. After all, Hermod is the heir of Odin's mortal lover, but Baldr, the God of Light, is the only child of the Queen of Heaven.

Now, not to mention Bader himself, even Hermod's mind is completely at a loss.

What happened to one or two?

…………

In the palace of sea mist, a beautiful and motherly woman sat quietly on a chair. She watched the arrangement in the room, motionless, like a sculpture.

"Master Frigg, your child has come to visit you." El, the Goddess of Medicine, said at the door of the room.

But this was rejected by her:

"I'm not in the mood..."

"But, it's nothing more than an envoy, Baldr is your only child."

only……

Hearing this word, Tian Hou couldn't help biting her lips tightly.

"Yes, he is... my only child." She repeated this sentence

The beautiful queen patted her cheek, and finally set her gaze on the translucent crystal ceiling.

"Child... ah."

"Master Tianhou?"

"I'm going out for a while."

"??"

Before El could react, the goddess of medicine, one of the twelve maids, saw a goshawk leap out of the window of the Crystal Palace, and the Queen of Heaven disappeared.

The Feather of the Heron...

"Eh??"

Epilogue [-]: Thoughts of the God-King

On this day, Odin did not stay in Asgard.

Although Dawn Guardian Heimdall saw a huge raven flying away from Asgard, he didn't say much, and he didn't even say hello to the God King.

The god who was jointly born by the nine wave goddesses just stood on the edge of the rainbow bridge dutifully, as silent as Vidal, the god of silence.

The huge raven first flew to the branch of the world tree, overlooking the nine worlds that operated according to the law, and then flew to the bottom of the country of ice and fog.

Niflheim...

In theory, it should be uninhabited, because it is not suitable for long-term living. As one of the first two worlds born in the Nine Realms, it corresponds to the barren and hot Muspelheim.

If Muspelheim is a fiery place that never sees night, then Niflheim is a land of ice and fog that never sees day.

But this country of ice and fog is not without any life, even in places as hot as Muspelheim, there will be creatures made of similar elements like 'nightmare horses', so Niflheim is even more useless. said.

Muspelheim is inhospitable to living things, because living things cannot resist the fire and magma rising there, but Niflheim is different.

Unlike Helheim, which has been shrouded in death, in the land of snow and ice all year round, in addition to various animals that have learned to resist the severe cold, there are occasionally wandering animals from Helheim. dead thing.

However, these dead things are generally the eyeliner or messenger of the queen of the underworld, and it is nothing if there is no direct conflict with the queen.

Apart from these things, there are actually humans living in Niflheim...

Just like the Asa Protoss and Vanir Protoss have human believers in Midgard, the goddess in charge of death and disease certainly has her own believers.

However, the beliefs of these believers were regarded as heresies in Midgard, and they were repelled, and they finally passed through the extreme north and settled in this never-ending ice and fog country.

They have dwarves, humans and even giants. There is only one city and one kingdom here, and this city is named after this land: Niflheim, which means the land of the dead.

The souls of those cowardly and fugitives in the legend will come to somewhere in this ice and fog country, and they will have to walk here for nine days, nine nights or even more time to reach the entrance of Helheim.

Even the gods are...

The souls in the Nine Realms have a place to go, either Asgard or Helheim, and now, Asgard has received the news of the death of the warrior, but when the Valkyries went to pick up the corpse of the warrior, they did not Can see the soul of the warrior.

That's all for the dwarves, the vital sage Horde and the souls of the descendants of Volsunger who were favored by the Asgardians disappeared. This is obviously a top priority for the gods of Asgard.

There is a conspiracy in this...

Even if a god like Hermod doesn't care about these things, Odin can't help but care. That man named Hodder has been involved in too many things.

The lineage of the Aesir...

Thinking of this, Odin couldn't help feeling a headache.

As the king of gods who rule the Nine Realms, Odin does not actually pay attention to the entire Nine Realms all the time. Although he has the supreme throne and two ravens patrolling the Nine Realms, the visual "overlook" fairly limited.

More importantly, he can't stay on the Supreme Throne forever, so he needs Heimdall to watch over the entire Rainbow Bridge and even listen to the Nine Realms.

And the first time the man named Hodder appeared in Odin's vision was nearly 60 years ago, and he appeared as Siegmund's friend.

At first he was like a novice, holding a sword was quite difficult, and killing a wild boar was very difficult, so of course he would not attract the attention of others.

The reason why Odin and Tianhou noticed him at the beginning was because of his name: Hod, he introduced himself like this, this name evoked the thoughts of the couple, so they paid attention to him.

But later, this man who was supposed to be worthless somehow hooked up with Slude, who went to the world to play and not do business. Under her casual teaching, he began to learn runes.

Then there was a legendary road to rise. Although most of the gods paid attention to Siegmund holding the sword of God's Wrath, that man could not be ignored either.

In the final analysis, these people related to the Volsunger family are all qualified to enter Valhalla, although the other gods are somewhat dissatisfied because of the man named Huoder.

Especially Thor, this irascible person has always disliked his daughter often mentioning him, and often questioning his combat effectiveness.

But this was resolved by Odin in the end—he planned a giant raid, exposing the giant kingdom in the border area to his sight, and established his achievements and combat effectiveness with the blood of the entire robber city.

And at this point, there shouldn't be any problems. All that's left to do is to wait for the 'war', and the Valkyries welcome the heroes into Valhalla.

However, a problem arose in this step, the man finally exposed his thoughts that were completely different from others, and he began to disobey the will of the gods.

It happened that the Queen of Heaven, Frigga, was restless, so she went to the tree roots around Niflheim—the location of the original Kinlunga chasm. On the edge of the abyss, she did not find the prophesied tree-swallowing creature. The dark evil dragon, Asgard has since fallen into inexplicable chaos.

The queen who is in charge of marriage thinks that the hero of "Slaying the Evil Dragon" is useless, and she who is in charge of marriage doesn't like his unethical behavior and flawed behavior.

So she wanted to reclaim the holy sword Gorum, and she didn't even want Siegmund's soul to be reborn in Asgard.

Odin hopes to preserve the brave Volsung family completely...

What the gods don't know is that Odin once had a big fight with his wife because of this incident.

They each have their own opinions, but in this situation, the war is over, and the Valkyries have not received instructions from the gods for a long time, so they can only let the war develop, and the result is that they must all die in battle according to the predetermined plan The Volsung family won the victory simply and neatly.

And in the end, when things got to this point today, the man named Huo De was completely beyond the control of the gods.

After the gods managed to connect the descendants of the Volsung family to Valhalla, he disappeared inexplicably.

This is a very long period of time for human beings, who have appeared and disappeared under the eyes of gods, and now they have revealed their inexplicable 'gods' identity.

This kind of thing had to arouse Odin's vigilance, and he came to Niflheim again to verify his guess in the bottom of his heart!

'ga'

Then, the raven transformed by the god king saw that there were only tree roots born from Ymir's corpse above the original Jinlunga gap, and this huge tree root was Yuktrashi part of ur.

More importantly, this place is where all the rivers of the world: Elivagar converge.

From the darkest source of Niflheim, Hvargmere, the rivers of the Nine Realms poured into this chasm.

It was mentioned in the prophecy that a desperate evil dragon would be born here to devour the roots of the tree, but it didn't appear now. What is there now is only the calmest dark thing that exists in the abyss.

That's what the boundless silent darkness is made of...

It was placed here by God King Odin. It is as silent as ever, without any restlessness, lying quietly in the deepest part of the abyss, the Jinlunga Gap.

After seeing its calmness, the God King couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief.

Nothing happened, and the guy in it didn't move.

NEXT: The Name of the Sage

As Lai Jin said, the appearance of the three corpses plunged the entire Nine Realms into inexplicable chaos.

According to what Slude said, there were no traces of magic on the three corpses, they were just three charred corpses, and their appearances before they were alive could be vaguely recognized on their faces.

According to the official statement of the Gothic Kingdom, they died in fierce battles, heroically fighting the giants.