Chapter 515: Reunion with Hela
In the spring of Hvergelmir.
Lorne and Thor sat by the pool with their arms spread out, while Jörmungandr lay on his back and floated quietly on the water. The two people and the cat enjoyed this unique healing service together.
The spring water, which contains rich vitality, washes over their bodies, washes away external filth and fatigue, repairs injured muscles and bones, brings a tingling and comfortable feeling, and makes their minds gradually become lazy.
"boom!"
A dull explosion came from a spring pool not far away, splashing water several feet high, suddenly waking up the sleepy two people and one cat.
"Father God, Rune, give me strength!"
Along with the high-pitched chanting of divine words, a long spear made of dead branches shot forward with a sharp arc of light, and the hissing of snakes could be heard in the mist.
No, Brunhilde!
Luo En's eyes focused, and he immediately activated the power of [Super Speed] and rushed into the spring pool not far away.
The originally clear spring water turned scarlet, and hundreds of broken snake carcasses floated on the water.
They have black scales like thick ink, scarlet eyes, and are dozens of meters long. Even if they are shattered by the powerful flow of magic power, the remains of their bodies are still twisting like earthworms, and the dead but not yet stiff snake heads unexpectedly shoot towards Brunhilde in the pool.
Brunhilde obviously did not expect that these black snakes would still have such strong vitality after being dismembered, and the defense set up in a hurry was bound to have loopholes.
Seeing several snake heads breaking through the light net woven by dead branches and spears, and about to bite Brunhilde, Loen didn't have time to think too much. He raised his hand and grabbed forward, using his divine power to create a vacuum cyclone, and suddenly pulled it back to the shore.
Suddenly, a muscular and graceful body crashed into his arms, and the contact surface of his palms felt soft and firm.
Hearing the moan in his ear, Loen quickly let go.
Brunhilde also broke free from Lorne's arms with a flushed face and hurriedly kept some distance.
"etc!"
However, just as the Valkyrie was about to summon the swan feathers to cover her body, Loen suddenly pressed her shoulders and stared at her chest.
Seeing the outlines of a man and a cat gradually becoming clear in the mist, Brunhilde subconsciously crossed her arms, her pretty face flushed, and there seemed to be steam rising above her head. She spoke weakly:
"grown ups……"
Without even turning his head, Lorne drew a line with his feet, and the power of the [Labyrinth] was activated, temporarily blocking Thor and Jörmungandr who were rushing over. At the same time, he frowned and looked at Brunhilde:
"Take your hands away!"
The Valkyrie's body trembled, but she still bit her lips tightly and put down her arms obediently.
"Don't move!"
Along with the deep command, Loen pressed down Brunhilde's half-lowered arm in front of her chest with his left hand, and bent his right hand into a claw, digging into the ravine between the two snow-capped peaks as fast as lightning.
"puff!"
A streak of golden-red blood splattered, and Brunhilde, who was caught off guard, uttered a muffled groan, and suddenly felt an uncontrollable pain spreading throughout her body. Her body trembled uncontrollably, and cold sweat broke out on her forehead.
At the same time, Loen clenched his bloody index finger and thumb, and looked at the three-inch long black snake between his fingers, which kept twisting and hissing, and couldn't help but frowning.
I clearly remember that I should have stopped all the snakeheads.
Unless, this thing is not a physical entity!
Loen applied a little force with his fingertips, and the little black snake exploded with a hissing sound, turning into wisps of gray-black mist.
Sure enough, these black snakes seemed to be the product of some kind of condensed death energy. Even if they were cut into pieces, the death energy inside them would pass through the spring water and invade the bodies of living things.
No wonder the Hvergelmir Spring has such a strong vitality, and there are few living creatures visiting nearby.
Loen looked at the spring pond thoughtfully, and saw that the snake corpses floating on the water were turning into wisps of gray-black mist, flowing back into the tangled root system of the World Tree.
"There's something weird under these tree roots!"
Hearing the reminder, Brunhilde immediately understood, and she leaned back with her waist bent. Her body was stretched to the limit like a longbow, and all the divine power in her body was gathered in her palm. Finally, she threw out the dead branch spear that was full of power.
Seemingly in her haste to carry out the order, the Valkyrie apparently forgot that she was still naked.
And with that dramatic backward lean and hip twisting, almost all of her secrets fell into Lorne's eyes without omission.
Loen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and could only slightly turn his gaze to look at the arc of light falling to the ground.
“Boom!”
Several tangled tree roots exploded, and countless black snakes of varying sizes swarmed out from the hollows deep within the roots, hissing and rushing towards the shore.
Runes appeared in front of Loen, and then shot forward like a meteor shower, blasting the swarm of black snakes into floating death air.
The fierce bombing was met with an equally fierce counterattack.
"Bang!"
Huge waves surged in the pool, the tangled roots were broken and fell, and even the World Tree dropped its dead branches and leaves.
Amidst the dense mist, a huge shadow rushed out from the hole under the tree roots, and a giant claw covered with pitch-black scales slapped towards the shore.
It seemed that the monster realized that the combination of Lorne and Brunhilde was difficult to deal with, so it chose another pair of living creatures on the shore as its target of attack.
The man and cat on the shore were caught off guard and swept into the pool by the aftermath of the shock.
When the man and the cat looked up, they suddenly saw a huge, ferocious head covered with sharp black scales, staring at them with golden-red eyes.
The iconic lizard-like body, snake-like vertical pupils, ferocious bat wings, as well as hard horns and scales allowed the man and the cat to instantly recognize the name of this species.
——Dragon!
Loen narrowed his eyes and looked at the monster that exuded the breath of death and invisible pressure, and whispered secretly in his heart.
Or should we call it - Black Dragon King Nidhogg!
According to the Prose Edda, the three major kingdoms of Asgard, the fairy palace, Jotunheim, and Niflheim, the kingdom of mist, each have a taproot of the world tree, and each taproot is connected to a holy spring and is guarded by a different powerful divine life.
For example, the three goddesses of fate are responsible for managing the Holy Spring of Urd in Asgard, the wise giant Mimir is responsible for guarding the Fountain of Wisdom in the Land of Giants, and finally, the Hvergelmir Living Spring in the Land of Mist is the property of the poisonous dragon Nidhogg.
In Norse mythology, the black dragon king Nidhogg seems to have built his nest under the main root of the World Tree in the Land of Mist, and tried desperately to eat up the World Tree. In addition, there were a large number of poisonous snakes to help him complete this mission.
These venomous snakes are usually nameless, but from what we have seen so far, they seem to be the embodiment of some kind of death will and are difficult to completely eliminate.
And when the Black Dragon King and these black snakes bite through the main root of the World Tree, the predicted "Ragnarok" will come.
Of course, it must be made clear that the cause of Ragnarok was not Nidhogg biting off the tree roots.
The black dragon king biting off the tree roots was only a precursor to the arrival of Ragnarok, not the cause, so it was also called the Herald of Evil Omens.
Ultimately, the real reason for Ragnarok was the hatred accumulated from years of war between the gods and the giants, so the two camps were destined to have a final battle to end it all.
But no matter what, the fact that this Black Dragon King was able to survive [Ragnarok] and successfully live until the World Tree sprouted new buds was enough to prove that he possessed great strength and high-level destiny.
“Roar~~!”
At this moment, Nidhogg stared at these alien creatures that broke into his territory, opened his mouth and let out a sinister and violent roar. The stirring sound waves spread around like thunder, and the surging flow of magic power formed light ripples visible to the naked eye.
Suddenly, the terrifying hissing of snakes came from the tree roots, from underwater, and from caves. Thousands of black snakes formed an overwhelming black tide and swarmed towards Thor and Jörmungandr who fell into the water.
Those two were obviously closer to you, but they came to bite me first?
Do you really think your Grandpa Thor is easy to bully?
Thor, who was filled with rage, raised his arms and shouted:
"Mjolnir!"
The sky was covered with dark clouds, and thousands of silver lightning bolts struck down, turning into a silver short-handled hammer that fell into Thor's hands.
Mjolnir, commonly known as Thor's Hammer, means "lightning maker" and is derived from the Old Norse language. Odin spent a large sum of money to hire dwarf craftsmen to make it for his son Thor.
If used as a weapon, the holder can use it with ease; if used as a tool, it can give a person supernatural powers.
In addition, Thor's hammer has many magical properties. For example, it can return to Thor's hand after being thrown. Thor can hit it hard at will, and the hammer will not break no matter what the target is. If Thor wants, the hammer can also shrink and be put away.
But it has a flaw that the handle of the hammer is very short, only enough for one hand to hold. In order to make up for this defect, the dwarf craftsmen created an iron glove - Yangripper. This glove is specially used with Mjolnir, so that Thor will not feel tired no matter how he swings and fights.
As the silver hammer fell, dense arcs of lightning shot forward, turning thousands of black snakes into green smoke.
But it is well known that impure water sources are conductive.
Thor, the god of thunder, is naturally not afraid of accidental injuries from lightning, but Jörmungandr, who is bathing in the Hvergelmir spring with him, is not so resistant.
"Meow!"
Along with the cat's shrill screams, surging lightning flashed through Jörmungandr's body, electrocuting the World Snake until it was burnt on the outside and tender on the inside. Its bones and internal organs were illuminated brightly. Puffs of green smoke spewed out from its eyes, ears, mouth and nose, giving off a faint meaty aroma.
“Ah~!”
At the same time, Thor, who was holding the hammer of Thor and ready to kill everyone, suddenly let out a loud scream, his body twitched uncontrollably in the water, and his hair stood up.
Looking at the man and the cat floating on the water and twitching from time to time, Lorne fell into rare silence.
I just engraved the divine seals of [Sharing Pain] and [Sharing Damage] on them, but these two idiots forgot about it in the blink of an eye.
As a result, Thor didn't kill many black snakes with one move, and almost killed himself and his teammates.
These two poets hold each other!
The sum of the two brains is probably not as big as a walnut!
At this moment, Nidhogg looked at the man and the cat, whose bodies were charred and floating on the water like dead pigs, and couldn't help but sniff.
They smell so good!
The smell of meat in the air and the rich divinity in the man and the cat awakened the Black Dragon King's long-lost appetite.
It's tired of chewing tree roots every day, so it's a good time to change its food today!
A pair of pitch-black wings suddenly opened and vibrated, and the monster, which was nearly a hundred meters long, flew over the water. It grabbed a man and a cat on the water with its two claws, turned around and rushed into the hole under the tree roots.
Seeing that Thor and Jörmungandr were about to be captured by Nidhoggr and taken back to the cave as a snack, Lorne didn't care to complain in his heart. He quickly hugged Brunhilde's slender waist and jumped onto Nidhoggr's back.
"Stop, let him go!"
The warning was ineffective, so Loen didn't hesitate and punched Nidhogg on the back.
As for why they didn't use the flaming sword Levadin, it was because Nidhogg could fly extremely fast and in the blink of an eye he had carried them under the roots of the World Tree.
If the magic sword with special attack bonus against the World Tree was revealed at this moment, in a fierce battle, the legendary endurance king Nidhoggr might be fine, but the main root of the World Tree would be destroyed by him first.
However, even without weapons, the shock of divine power alone was enough to kill Nidhogg.
“Ah~~”
Feeling the severe pain in his back, the Black Dragon King hissed in agony and summoned countless black snakes from the shadows to attack the two people on his back.
Brunhilde held up the divine iron shield and brandished the dead branch spear, slashing down the swarming black snakes one by one.
But these black snakes seemed to have evolved from Nidhogg's divine power. Once they died, they would turn into thick death energy and flow back into Nidhogg's body to help him repair his wounds.
Seeing the death energy around her becoming increasingly dense, as if there were thousands of tiny black snakes of death swimming in the air, Brunhildr, who had suffered losses from this before, immediately pushed the defensive divinity of the Divine Iron Shield and the Swan Feathers to the extreme, firmly protecting herself and Lorne.
Without any external interference, Loen jumped over Nidhogg's back, which was full of pits and dents, and jumped directly onto the black dragon king's head, striking the top of its skull with heavy blows.
Along with the strong shock of divine power, even though the Black Dragon King had thick skin and flesh, he couldn't help but see stars and had a splitting headache.
"roar!"
It roared, flapped its wings violently, accelerated, and spun, trying to throw the two people off its back.
But what he got in return was an even more brutal beating.
Broken scales stained with blood flew down from the top of his head; the withered branch spear followed the gaps between the scales and stabbed downwards continuously...
At the same time, the man and the cat in its claws also woke up. One swung Thor's hammer and hit its jaw, while the other opened its mouth wide and bit its scales, injecting poison into it.
Nidhogg could no longer bear the brutal beating. As soon as he rushed out of the hole, he fell headfirst to the ground.
A dark wave of earth rose high up. Thor and Jörmungandr, who had recovered, pulled away the claws that were pressing on their bodies, spat out the dirt in their mouths, and looked around.
This is a pitch-black mountain range, with transparent souls emitting black air floating in the wilderness.
When they saw the Black Dragon King Nidhogg crashing, they were frightened and fled in all directions as if they had seen their natural enemy.
"What is this for us?"
Thor patted the black mud on his body, kicked the black dragon king Nidhogg who was lying dead beside him, and asked with a cold snort.
"The Underworld, Nastlund."
With a low reply, Lorne jumped off Nidhogg's back with Brunhilde.
Næström is a region of the underworld where sinners who commit murder, adultery, and breaking of oaths are forced to wade through poisonous waters and become food for Nidhogg.
And in the entire underworld, there is naturally only one person who is qualified to feed these souls to Nidhogg.
Lorne held down Thor and Jörmungandr who were violently abusing the Black Dragon King, and tried to put on a gentle smile. He looked up at the dark green flames burning in front of him, and at the black-haired goddess walking slowly out of the flame gate, and uttered the long-lost name:
"Long time no see, Hela."
(End of this chapter)
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