Chapter 525 Be My Husband

At this time, inside the house.

Seeing dozens of burly black shadows quickly gathering outside the door, as if ready to break in, Skadi quickly coughed and ordered:

"It's me. You have nothing to do here, so leave."

The giant guards gathered in the corridor hesitated for a moment, but did not disperse. Instead, they rushed towards the door together.

"Bang!"

The tightly closed door was forced open, and a female mountain giant captain rushed into the room with several subordinates, looking around the room unscrupulously.

Seeing this, Skadi became furious:

"Asshole! Didn't you hear my order?!"

Facing Skadi's rebuke, the mountain giant captain explained calmly:

"Your Highness, the Land of Noise has been in turmoil recently. Some powerful outsiders have broken in and are wreaking havoc on our territory. Even Lord Solem next door has been harmed by them accidentally. I heard that among those outsiders there are experts in illusion. Although it was your voice just now, we cannot be sure that it was you. For your safety, we must come in and check."

Faced with this high-sounding rhetoric, Skadi suppressed his anger and snorted coldly:

"Have you finished reading? If you're done, get out!"

The mountain giant captain didn't care. He looked around and his eyes fell on the broken bed in the corner. He frowned and asked:

"Your Highness, what are you doing?"

"Just now this cat broke in and crawled under the bed, and I took action without paying attention."

Skadi pointed at Jörmungandr, who was licking his paws after stealing some fruit under the table, and responded indifferently.

Is this the one that the previous guest, Angleberda, kept?

The mountain giant captain recognized the origin of the orange cat and felt relieved.

Realizing that it was a false alarm, she looked at Skadi, who was now only wearing a silk underwear, and the wooden bathtub filled with hot water and sprinkled with flower petals in the corner, and asked with a dry smile:

"Are you going to take a bath?"

"Any questions?"

"Nothing, just reminding you to pay attention to the time." The female mountain giant captain immediately added, "His Majesty just sent a message that he wants to see you and discuss some important matters with you. The carriage for the trip is ready, so don't keep His Majesty waiting."

"Got it, go away."

Skadi waved her hand impatiently, as if to chase him away.

However, the female mountain giant captain remained unmoved. She raised her hand and summoned two attendants, saying:

"You two help Her Royal Highness the Princess bathe. I'll go and select the people to accompany us. We'll set off in thirty minutes."

Seeing two tall female mountain giant attendants entering the room on their own and heading towards the bathtub, Skadi's face turned cold, and the magic power around her body instantly surged, knocking the two female mountain giants who were approaching to stagger back. Her voice couldn't help but lower its temperature:

"Get out with your people! Now!"

Seeing the frost on the wooden furniture, the giantess captain's pupils shrank. She smiled and retreated to the door with her men.

"Well, we'll be waiting in the corridor. If you need anything, you can always tell us."

The door creaked shut, ripples appeared on the surface of the water in the wooden barrel covered with flower petals, and a head floated up from the water.

After wiping the water off his face, Loen looked at the several mountain giant guards standing outside the door like iron towers, and was a little surprised:

"Why do your guards seem to not take you seriously?"

"They were sent by my father."

Skadi replied coldly, and when she mentioned the word "father", there was an indescribable complexity in her tone.

Seeing that the other party had no intention of going deeper into this topic, Luo En tactfully did not ask any more questions and changed the topic:

"You seem to be taking a shower, so I'd better step away."

As a group of giant guards were standing outside the door, he could not make any obvious movements. He could only suppress his divine power, carefully stood up from the barrel, and prepared to open the window and move to another room to take shelter.

However, before he could fully stand up from the barrel, the tightly closed door was pushed open again.

Almost in an instant, Skadi instinctively reached out, grabbed Lorne's shoulders, and stuffed him back into the water of the barrel.

"Your Highness, these are the clothes you need to change into."

The two mountain giant guards put down the tray and looked at Skadi, who was still wearing underwear and testing the water temperature beside the barrel, and couldn't help but frown and remind her,

"Time is running out, please take a bath as soon as possible."

As they spoke, two mountain giant guards walked forward and stripped off Skadi's underwear without saying a word.

"That's enough, I'll do it myself!"

Seeing that the two were about to touch the barrel again, Skadi's scalp numbed. She gritted her teeth, raised her long legs, and stepped into the barrel on her own initiative to block the sight of the two giant guards and hide the secret in the barrel.

But because he squatted too much, his body inevitably pressed on a round object.

Realizing what it was, Skadi's body stiffened, and her cold and beautiful face instantly turned red.

At the same time, with someone sitting on his head, Loen instinctively wanted to get up.

At least, it would be nice to change positions.

But as soon as he made any move, his head was held down tightly by a bare hand.

Because the giant guards in the house had no intention of leaving. They were waiting by the side, holding clothes and jewelry, as if they were determined to urge Skadi to take a bath quickly and go meet the mountain giant king Shaki immediately.

Seeing this, Skadi could only bite the bullet and complete the painful bath under the watchful eyes of the two giant guards.

Finally, after enduring for more than ten minutes and getting ready, she jumped out of the barrel as if escaping for her life, put on new clothes, and ordered with a dark face:

"lead the way!"

The two giant guards did not suspect anything and bowed, then led the princess out of the castle and drove the chariot pulled by the frost wolves to the palace of the mountain giant king Shaki.

As people inside and outside the house left one after another, a sound of water flowing out of the wooden barrel could be heard.

With water stains all over his body, Lorne stepped out of the barrel, stood in front of the window, and watched Skadi's convoy go farther and farther away.

This doesn't seem like a subordinate getting along with a princess, but more like a prison guard monitoring a prisoner.

It seems that the relationship between this mountain giant princess and her father is not very good.

Loen shook his head and used his divine power to evaporate the water from his body.

Looking at the silk underwear on the ground and recalling what happened in the wooden barrel just now, his heart began to beat fast.

So, is this considered dark history?

When Skadi comes back from meeting Shaki and sees that he is still there, will he get so angry that he will chop him to pieces?

Otherwise, just run away?

After thinking for a while, Loen finally gave up the idea of running away and chose to stay in the house and wait for Skadi to return.

On the one hand, the winter goddess had made a great sacrifice to save him from the giants, so it was somewhat ungentlemanly for him to leave without a word.

On the other hand, Skadi has gone to such lengths to conceal his existence, so it is impossible for her to take action against him easily.

Moreover, the whereabouts of the three goddesses of fate are currently unknown, and he is still waiting for Skadi to help find out their whereabouts.

Having made up his mind, Lorne leaned back in the rattan chair, closed his eyes and waited for Skadi's return.

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As the night grew darker, dozens of frost wolves the size of calves ran across the snow. The Winter Goddess, who was on her way to meet her father, Shaki, drove her chariot alone into the castle.

As soon as he entered the room, Lorne stood up and greeted him, took the cloak thrown by Skadi, and asked carefully:

"They didn't come with us?"

"I found an excuse and left them at my father's place."

Skadi answered casually, sat down on the rattan chair, tilted his head back and drank a full cup of scented tea, but it still couldn't dilute the heavy gloom on his face.

Lorne took the initiative to fill up Skadi's cup of tea, and asked quietly:

"From your looks, you don't seem to be very happy about this conversation?"

Skadi was silent for a moment, then nodded. With the desire to talk rising in her chest, she began to confide her frustration:

"He wants me to marry?"

"who?"

"Two. One is the Frost Giant King Laufey, and the other is the Vanir God King Njord."

"Is your father planning to use you to form a marriage alliance with a foreign race?"

Lorne frowned, and probably understood why Skadi and Shaki had such a bad relationship.

It is understandable that the Vanir God King Njord appears on the marriage list.

Because in the original Norse mythology, Skadi married the Vanir king who was in charge of summer, harvest and the ocean.

But not long after the marriage, the two parted ways due to incompatibility of personalities.

But, what the hell is Laufey, the Frost Giant King?

"Hasn't your father always been unwilling to accept Lao Fei's succession to the throne? Why is he suddenly planning to marry you off?"

Lorne frowned, somewhat puzzled.

"It's all because of those outsiders." Skadi muttered, and explained helplessly, "My father had planned to let me marry Solem before. He wanted to merge the two major clans of mountain giants and frost giants through this marriage. In this way, he would have a reason to enter the city of Utgar and control the entire giant country."

Then, Skadi paused and snorted unhappily:

"However, that idiot Thorem relied on his strength to steal Thor's hammer, and even tried to use it to threaten the Aesir and bring Freya, the goddess of love, into his group. As a result, he offended the wrong people and was killed by Thor and Loki."

Hearing that the blame had fallen on his head, Luo En couldn't help but cough dryly:

"So, once Solem died, your father changed his mind and planned to marry you to the Frost Giant King Laufey?"

Skadi nodded and said, "Tholem was the previous Frost Giant King after all, but he couldn't even stand up to the two main gods of Asgard. Seeing how powerful Asgard is, my father is of course afraid that he will follow in the footsteps of Thorlem, so he wants to reconcile with Laufey through marriage. Or, marrying the Vanir God Clan is also fine. My father heard that the Vanir God King has a weak personality, so he hopes that I will marry into the Vanir God Clan and take the opportunity to control the entire Vanaheim and become his helper."

Well, after going around in circles, I still can't completely escape the influence of fate.

"That guy named Loki and Thor did this, and it can be said that they indirectly implicated you."

The person involved, Loen, sighed helplessly, once again feeling the omnipresent influence of "fate".

Skadi shook her head and said, "It's nothing to do with it. I didn't like Thorem in the first place, and I've been trying to delay this marriage. If Loki and Thor hadn't taken action to deal with that guy, I would have been annoyed to death. So, in a sense, I should thank them."

"Then what about your father? Isn't he planning to marry you to Lao Fei?" Loen asked with a frown.

Upon hearing this, Skadi showed a light smile on his face:

"It doesn't matter. I've already told him that I already have a husband. Even though he got furious at the scene, at least he can use this excuse to hold him back for a while."

Hearing this and looking at the subtle smile on Skadi's face, Lorne suddenly had some ominous premonitions in his heart and asked:

"Excuse me, who is your candidate..."

"Of course it's you."

Skadi raised her head and looked at the person in front of her, and explained shyly,

"I can't help it. I don't know many men, and there's only one I can name and am relatively familiar with."

Then, a helpless expression appeared on the face of the Winter Goddess:

"I'm sorry, the situation was a bit urgent at the time, so I had to use you to save the situation first."

"fine."

Luo En waved his hands. Although he felt amused but also understood.

On the one hand, Skadi has a good relationship with him, so he would naturally help if he can.

On the other hand, in a sense, he was to blame for Skadi's current predicament, and just now, he had taken considerable advantage of Skadi. Now he had to wait for Skadi to help him find out the whereabouts of the three goddesses of fate.

According to the principle of the Norse Age of Gods that everything has a price, of course I have to pay it forward.

However, it would be best not to have any unclear relationship between Skadi and me as in the myths and legends.

At this moment, Skadi seemed to understand Lorne's concerns and took the initiative to speak:

"I'm sorry to involve you in this. If you continue to stay in my castle and get discovered, it might not be safe. How about this? I have a more suitable place for you to stay. You can stay there for a few days. I'll tell you as soon as I have the result."

As she spoke, Skadi led Lorne out of the castle and drove the Frostwolf chariot into the vast night.

At dawn, the first ray of sunlight penetrated the mist and gently sprinkled on the roofs made of logs and covered with moss. The golden light and the snow-white walls intertwined to create a dreamy color, like a beautiful painting slowly unfolding.

This is a village surrounded by ice and snow.

Around the village, towering old trees stand tall, their branches and leaves swaying gently in the breeze. Occasionally, the clear chirping of birds can be heard in the forest, echoing with the gurgling sound of the stream in the distance, forming a melodious song of nature. Along the path, clusters of wild flowers are colorful. They are not afraid of frost and bloom in the most tenacious manner, adding a bit of vitality and vigor to this quiet village.

In the center of the village stands an ancient temple, which is made of huge stones. The years have left deep marks on its surface, but also endowed it with endless solemnity and sacredness. The lintel of the temple is carved with complex runes and a unique snowflake pattern.

As Skadi drove into the village, figures of all sizes walked out of their homes and enthusiastically greeted their goddess.

(End of this chapter)