Chapter 510 Goddess of Destiny, Come to the Bowl Quickly (6.1k)
The long night is quiet, and the silver-grey moonlight is like a thin veil covering the earth, bringing a dreamy and hazy beauty.
Brunhilde, who had quietly completed the infiltration, looked at the figure lying on the bed and sleeping soundly, and finally made up her mind. She raised her hand to take off her breastplate, half-removed the swan feather, revealing her delicate collarbone. Her long silver hair fell on the undulations of her chest, and the fluttering of her hair contrasted with her jade-like skin.
“Ahem…”
Just as she bit her cherry lips and placed her hands on the clasp of her bra on her back, a low cough was heard from the bed.
Brunhilde's body stiffened immediately, and her purple pupils shrank rapidly.
Sensing that the atmosphere was a bit dull, Luo En yawned, waved his hand, and said:
"Go back, there's nothing for you to do here."
Brunhilde pursed her lips, but ignored him and walked towards the bed stubbornly:
"I, I will help you go to bed..."
As the Valkyrie came closer and closer, the clothes on her body became less and less. Lorne turned around helplessly and sat up from the bed:
"Did Odin send you here?"
Brunhilde's body froze, her face filled with astonishment.
"How do you know?"
Lorne pointed to his temple and replied unhappily:
"When Odin goes out, he usually only brings the Asgardian guards with him. The Valkyrie Corps is under the command of Freya and me. He brought you to Turin City for peace talks this time. It can't be to please outsiders, right? With a little suspicion, plus the excuses he made to give you to me and your little tricks on the road, I can roughly guess the answer."
Brunhilde smiled bitterly after hearing this: "You are indeed as sharp as the rumors say."
"It's not the same as before." Lorne said self-deprecatingly, and then advised, "Go back. Don't worry about what that old guy Odin says. There's no need to force yourself to do something you don't want to do."
However, Brunhilde shook her head and said seriously:
"Serving you well is the mission that Father God has entrusted to me. It is also for the brighter future of Asgard. I have to do it regardless of whether I am willing or not. I am afraid I have to ask you to forgive my offense next."
Seeing that this stubborn Valkyrie would not listen to any good words and was about to take off his clothes, Luo En's face turned cold and asked:
"Serve me? Do you consider yourself a whore or a warrior?"
Brunhilde's body stiffened, and her clenched teeth left a bloody mark on her lips.
She was silent for a moment, put down her hands from the buttons of her clothes, tried to straighten her chest and neck, and gave a proud answer:
"I am a warrior! The Valkyrie of Valkyrie!"
"Very good, it seems you still have some self-respect."
Luo En snorted coldly, and then emphasized his tone.
"Since you remember that you are a warrior, don't despise yourself and do things like a prostitute!"
This wake-up call immediately made Brunhilde wake up.
She immediately straightened her chest and stood in the tent like a javelin, showing a cold and murderous temperament:
"Sir, thank you for your teachings. I will be your spear and shield on this trip, clearing the way for you and blocking the enemies. This is the service of a Valkyrie!"
Hearing that resounding answer, Loen nodded happily:
"Then follow my orders, warrior. Return to your tent and rest and recover from your wounds."
"I will follow your orders!"
The Valkyrie pounded her chest with her right fist, then looked down at the pieces of clothing scattered on the ground. Thinking of her frivolous behavior just now, her pretty face flushed unnaturally again.
Seeing that Lorne had closed his eyes again and lay down with his back to the front door, Brunhilde finally breathed a sigh of relief. She hurriedly bent down to pick up the clothes on the ground, held them in her arms, and fled from the tent like a thief.
As the figure disappeared into the night, Loen turned over and sat up, sniffing the lingering fragrance in the air, and shook his head helplessly.
Why is it that one or two of them keep giving me peace of mind?
Especially for the Haki wolf at home, just beating it is not enough.
Thinking of Holo, who was locked up and beaten by him before leaving, with her buttocks bruised and all the hair on her tail falling off, Loen snorted inwardly.
His adopted daughter thought she was smart, but she was still too naive to play tricks in front of him.
As one godfather named Ke said, "Never let others guess your thoughts easily."
Holo is a counterexample in this regard. She only learned the rhetoric and cunning of her adoptive father, but failed to learn how to hide herself.
Because the more you do something, the more mistakes you make; the more you talk, the more flaws you find.
Admittedly, Odin's image in this dwarf dragon disaster was not glorious, but Holo herself was not clean either.
The unification of the seven major dwarf clans was most likely orchestrated by her, or even facilitated by her. Otherwise, how could a god from the atrium care so much about the dragon disaster in the dwarf kingdom and participate in it throughout, and the seven dwarf kings have no objection to this?
And it is very likely that, under her guidance, the Middle-Atrium and the Dwarf Kingdom are gradually forming an offensive and defensive alliance in an attempt to compete with the Aesir Realm.
Because of this, Odin used the dwarves for biochemical experiments. Of course, behind this, he probably also wanted to cultivate the disobedient dwarves into his own dragon army to guard against his daughter Hela and her black dragon king Nidhogg.
Similarly, after suffering a loss, Holo tried her best to exaggerate the possibility of a quarrel between brothers in front of him, and criticized Odin's cold-bloodedness from a moral perspective.
But no matter how she argued and exaggerated, a life-and-death battle between him and Odin was only a possibility in the future, not an absolute fact.
Unfortunately, although Odin is cold-blooded, he is also very rational.
Odin was indeed cruel and ruthless towards the foreigners who threatened the power of the Aesir, but he would not necessarily take action against his blood brother.
On the one hand, he is closely related to the glory of the Aesir. If it is not a matter of life and death, Odin would rather change his plan than turn against him easily.
For example, when planning the war between light and darkness among the elves, Odin would intentionally conceal this not-so-glorious thing because he was worried about his image in his mind; and this time, due to his appearance, Odin would not hesitate to break Bragi's legs and end the action against the dwarves... All of the above can prove his position in Odin's heart and his importance to Asgard.
On the other hand, he is not a dwarf who can be flattened or rounded at will.
If they really fell out, Odin and Frigga combined might not be his match, and Asgard would lose more than it gained. With Odin's intelligence, he would only try every means to win him over, rather than forcing his blood brother to the opposite side.
Theoretically, as long as he does not take the initiative to kill the god of light Balder like Loki in the original Norse mythology, completely shattering Asgard's dream of becoming glorious, Odin will not take the initiative to attack him no matter what happens.
And he did not intend to go to the extreme and send Balder away personally.
Therefore, what Holo tried hard to prove was only half credible.
But because she danced too happily and was too active in the matter of the dwarf dragon disaster, she exposed her own little thoughts.
——Holo doesn't like Odin or the Aesir, and even has a bit of hostility towards the entire Asgard, hoping to use this to pull his adoptive father back to Midgard.
As expected, the exile of Hela caused her great harm.
Luo En sighed, with a complicated look in his eyes.
Holo and Hela grew up together and were as close as sisters, but Holo witnessed with her own eyes that Odin exiled Hela to the underworld for the so-called Æsir cause.
In addition, his adoptive father was also involved in the incident and had been missing for hundreds of years. It was normal for Holo to feel threatened and have some stress reaction.
In order to avoid the same fate, Holo dislikes Odin and the Aesir so much, and tries her best to pull her adoptive father back to Midgard and not let him follow Asgard and abandon his family and career and go down a dead end.
In order to increase his bargaining chips, the Haki wolf at home also made a lot of small moves:
Develop the [Chamber of Commerce] and [Tavern], huge wealth and powerful intelligence organizations;
Promote the union of the seven major dwarf clans, connect with the Warlock Brotherhood, and expand the influence of Midgard;
Opening the door for Eden and turning a blind eye to Eden's night attack;
Took in the dark elves and brought Rose under his wing;
Encourage Galadriel to inherit the throne of the elves and bridge the contradictions between the two major elf tribes...
Next, maybe one day, this good daughter will say:
"It's getting cold. I'll give you some more clothes."
It was because he saw that Holo wanted to tie him to death on her old car that Lorne played dumb and deliberately avoided giving a direct answer.
Living in the atrium with Holo for a long time, a large number of forces from the Nine Realms, such as elves, dwarves, and humans, gathered under his banner and moved towards unity, which was equivalent to launching Ragnarok in advance. He did not want to see this result;
As for following Odin and using the bones of other races to build a ladder to make the Aesir everlastingly great, he knew he couldn't do that.
There is no way, the palms and the backs of the hands are all flesh, and standing on either side is not the best solution.
He could only stay away from both and try his best to find a third way to achieve a more perfect ending.
Ragnarok is the result, but it does not mean that the entire Norse Age of Gods will be completely burned to ashes.
In the original Norse mythology, although the world tree was burned and the gods and countless lives died, there were still lives that survived, including the forest god Vidar, the god of gardening and revenge Vali, Thor's sons Manni and Modi, two mortals named Lib and Liptrasir, the black dragon king Nidhogg, and the world tree also sprouted new buds afterwards.
Therefore, the third path in Loen's mind is to satisfy the result of [Ragnarok] and obtain [The Reality of Destiny] without losing too much life.
To this end, he had to guard against Odin's extreme actions and leaving no escape route for the Aesir, and also guard against Holo, Hela and other large numbers of catastrophic factors that might cause trouble in advance, or be too radical and make Ragnarok out of control;
At the same time, he also has to find a way to adjust the trajectory of fate, let Ragnarok happen normally, and obtain the [Reality of Destiny] by using a substitute.
This situation of having to jump back and forth made him think of the famous quote by the Greek reformer Solon:
"I stand before both classes with a strong shield in my hand, and will not allow either of them to occupy unfairly."
Of course, Solon's ending was just like his position of jumping back and forth. He successfully made all classes dissatisfied, and only he was driven out of power.
I have a headache...
Lorne rubbed his aching temple, feeling somewhat empathetic.
He has been constantly trying to achieve this balance, but the results of the two previous methods were not satisfactory.
His excessive intervention almost caused Ragnarok to start prematurely due to the protracted war between the Aesir and the Vanir. He had no choice but to exile Hela, whom he had raised, and promote the alliance between the two major races.
Without caring about anything, within a few hundred years, Holo secretly set up a makeshift team, Odin came to conduct a wave of biochemical experiments, Hela hunted down her biological father who came to visit, and the entire nine kingdoms were in crisis...
If Galadriel had not kicked him awake from his slumber, when he opened his eyes, he might have seen Holo and Hela colluding with each other and leading a large number of troops to attack Asgard, fighting a life-and-death battle with the Asgard gods represented by Odin, and finally perishing together.
Therefore, the only way seems to be to intervene moderately. We can neither ignore it nor take full control of it.
And it is best to follow the Nordic world's principle of equal exchange.
Because of this, he did not reject the embrace of Galadriel and Eden, and while receiving the price they paid, he also helped them solve their respective difficulties.
However, after just two nights of sleeping, Odin could no longer sit still, fearing that Asgard would really side with the dwarves and elves, so he simply gave his own daughter Brunhilde to him, hoping to bring him back to Asgard's camp.
But Asgard was now at its peak, and there was nothing that needed his help. He and Brunhilde had only known each other for two days, and there was no emotional foundation to speak of, so there was naturally no need for him to have sex with this Valkyrie.
As for why Odin did not send Freya, who had a better relationship with him and a higher success rate, Loen could guess roughly.
When the Vanir and the Aesir exchanged hostages, Frigga hoped to send him to the Vanir and use his wisdom to guide them to grow stronger. However, Odin flatly refused and was evaded by Mimir, the "wise giant" who was also known for his wisdom.
Freya is the daughter of Frigga and a princess of the Vanir, not Odin's biological child. He probably doesn't want his blood brother to sleep with Freya, and then be abducted into the Vanir and become the new king of the Vanir.
Alas, you two really give me a lot of worry.
Luo En expressed the same sentiment once again, and sorted out the current situation of the Nine Realms in his mind, feeling even more depressed.
Odin needs him, and hopes to make the Aesir great forever together with him;
Holo needs him, and hopes that he will not be led astray by Odin, and lead Midgard to glory;
Galadriel and Lolth needed him, hoping to reconcile the conflict between the two major elves and avoid the suppression of the Aesir.
Iden needs him, hoping he can provide shelter to the dwarves and rescue her brother;
Freya and he are entangled, and Frigga hopes that he can lead the Vanir to become stronger;
Shikoti is engaged to him, and if the Giant Kingdom wants to cross the Iron Forest and march into Midgard and Asgard, they need him first;
Not to mention Hela, who had been hiding from him for hundreds of years. The meeting between teacher and student would definitely be more lively than expected:
The only people of the Nine Realms that had no connection with him were the Fire Giants of Muspelheim.
Therefore, the Fire Giant was raised by him. The Fire Giant King Surtur is still locked in a small dark room, which is a disguised way of being banned and offline.
It seemed that the more he struggled, the deeper his ties with the entire Nordic world became. All destinies, events, and lives revolved around him, and everything in the Nordic world was changing because of him.
The nine kingdoms were born because of him and will be destroyed because of him. Everything has been destined.
This situation made Luo En think of a word.
——Entangled in cause and effect.
If this continues, [Ragnarok] might break out due to the fight for the right to use him.
Luo En slapped his forehead, feeling a little amused and helpless.
If I had known earlier, I should have stopped Odin from attacking Hela, and we wouldn’t be in such a passive situation now.
When Luo En was regretting, his right hand accidentally touched his forehead, and ripples appeared in his heart. The time and space in his mind seemed to be distorted indescribably.
In a trance, he saw another possibility.
——Odin did not take the initiative to accelerate the growth of Hela, but because his teacher was detained in Muspelheim by Surtur for several years, Hela was worried about his safety and felt powerless. She took the initiative to find her biological father Odin, hoping to speed up her growth and help her father and teacher.
The deduction of fate?
Loen was stunned, and the vague premonition in his mind was suddenly shattered.
No matter how hard I concentrated, it was difficult to enter that wonderful state.
It seems to be passive, but how can I have this prophetic ability?
Is it because I have come into contact with the three goddesses of fate, Scotia, Belldandy, and Urd?
As Luo En was thinking secretly, he couldn't help feeling helpless when he thought of the result of the deduction.
Sure enough, whether actively or passively, what is supposed to happen will happen.
What he can do is not to stop or escape, but to intervene moderately and keep everything within a reasonable range.
But if you are not careful in this kind of work, it will go beyond the scope of "moderation" and bring more troublesome consequences.
Perhaps, he could find a few Palu to help him supervise and correct the trajectory of fate, and share this great cause and effect.
Thinking of the subtle premonition in his mind, a malicious smile appeared on Loen's face.
Three goddesses of fate, you don’t want to see the Nordic world left with nothing in the end, right?
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“A-choo!”
At the same time, the goddess of the future, Shikoti, who was far away in an ice and snow castle, sneezed loudly.
Feeling a somewhat ominous premonition, she looked around nervously, and then fixed her eyes on Belldandy who was in a daze in the hall:
"Second sister, are you sure that the eldest sister didn't come with us?"
"Don't worry, she doesn't dare to see me now."
Belldandi consoled him softly, then looked at the flame seal on his forehead in the teacup and couldn't help but sigh helplessly.
What should have been avoided was not avoided.
Although Shikoti didn't know who the culprit was at the moment, she had already gotten the general ins and outs of the matter from Bellandi.
Seeing her second sister looking unhappy, she couldn't help but muttered softly:
"In my opinion, you should just slaughter all those dwarves and dragons, or throw them all to the Land of Mist. That way, that person won't be able to investigate the cause of the dragon disaster, and the trouble will be solved."
"After all, those were innocent lives. My case has nothing to do with them. I can't bring myself to do it."
Belldandy shook her head in response, then she glanced at Shikoti and asked unhappily,
"Don't talk about me. If the dwarves were replaced by people you are familiar with, like Skadi, would you do the same?"
Shi Kodi thought about it seriously for a moment, then shook her head helplessly.
"Honestly, I still like this world. It's good like this."
Belldandy nodded in agreement, but then a hint of doubt appeared in her eyes:
"Come to think of it, don't you think we have changed a lot?
"What do you mean?"
“It’s more humane than before.”
“It seems to be true.”
Shi Koti nodded in surprise, thought for a while, and finally gave up.
"But I can't think of the reason."
"Me too, maybe it's just my illusion."
Belldandy comforted him softly and then changed the subject.
"By the way, where's your cat? Why haven't I seen it in the past few days?"
Hearing this, Shi Kodi showed a hint of pride on her face and said:
"I threw it into the territory of the frost giants. My scent is still on it, so I can use it as a target for my elder sister."
Hearing that her sister actually threw her pet out to attract fire, Belldandy was speechless:
"Are you going a little too far?"
"It's okay. It's already an adult cat and can take care of itself. Besides, the frost giants should remember my presence and will definitely take good care of Jörmungandr even if they encounter him. Even if I catch him, I'm afraid she won't take it out on a cat, right?"
"Your cat is so unlucky to follow you. He doesn't even have enough food to eat, and he is thrown out to be used as a shield."
"So, I let it go free. If it wants to come back, it can come back. If it doesn't want to come back, I won't force it."
Shikoti answered confidently, playing the role of an unscrupulous master to the end.
Seeing that he could not awaken his younger sister's conscience, Belldandy had no choice but to give up.
Shikoti threw herself into Belldandy's arms and begged affectionately:
"Second sister, it's rare for you to come to my place, so you should stay longer this time."
Belldandy nodded and said:
"If nothing unexpected happens, I may not go back to the atrium."
"What's wrong?" Shikoti was a little surprised.
"I have to hide from someone." Belldandi pointed to the flame divine pattern on his forehead and said with a wry smile, "It would be fine if I didn't meet him. Once I met him, I felt that I couldn't control myself and wanted to get close to him."
"It's all the fault of that idiot elder sister!"
Shikoti angrily criticized her elder sister who was at odds with her, and muttered to herself,
"That's strange. Why is my blessing useless? Could it be that the guy is just not smart enough? How about I think of a way to add fuel to the fire and offset it?"
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“A-choo!”
In the dense forest, Loen rubbed his itchy nose, bent down, and picked up a piece of dead branch that looked intact from a charred pit.
With a slight twist of the fingertips, the branches turned into powder and a faint arc of electricity flickered.
"It seems that Master Thor passed by here, so we found the right direction!"
Brunhilde answered in a deep voice, then flapped her swan wings, flew into the air and looked into the distance.
Through the boundless snow and wind, she saw a towering and rugged fortress standing on the bitter and cold wasteland.
"Sir, the city of Ertgar seems to be just ahead!"
"Well, come with me and take a look."
Loen brushed the dirt and sawdust off his hands, stood up and walked towards the giant city on the snowfield with Brunhilde.
(End of this chapter)
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