Chapter 519 Hela, please go slow. I feel bad (6k)
After a fierce round of [tasting], Luo En looked at the scratches, bites and tearing marks all over his body, and the rebellious disciple of Chong Shi who was still riding on him. He was immediately furious and snorted coldly:
"Where is Brunhilde? You should tell me now, right?"
"you guess."
Hela answered jokingly, glancing at the sunken bed below her with a hint of unsatisfied amusement.
Taking advantage of the situation, Loen turned around and took back the initiative.
He dared to disrespect his ancestors. He is no longer an ordinary bad student.
We must strike hard and use the whip to teach!
"Where? Will you tell me?"
"No!"
“Bang!”
"Gu, I don't know~~"
“Pah pah pah pah!”
"Say, I say..."
After a round of incisive classroom persuasion and patient classroom teaching (liquid), the bad student Hela, who was lying on the ground and being scolded, finally repented and chose to confess.
"Right...here!"
As the syllables suddenly rose, Hela's white fingertips slid across the mattress beneath her. The closed space created by the power of death seemed to have its epidermis cut open, revealing the mysterious interior.
The rich power of death filled the entire space like countless black mycelium, fixing the torso and limbs of a certain Valkyrie, making her unable to move at all. She couldn't even blink, and could only watch everything happening in front of her with tearful eyes.
Brunhilde?
The moment their eyes met, Loen's body stiffened.
Teacher, you don’t seem to be a serious person.
The bad student Hela smiled sinisterly and took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, taking revenge on the teacher who dared to abandon her, while bullying her sister who wanted to take away her beloved things.
At this moment, she experienced the ultimate hardness and happiness.
Lorne came to his senses and wanted to rescue Brunhilde, but Hela did not give him any chance. She raised her hand slightly and re-sealed the area of death.
"Teacher, you don't want anything to happen to your subordinates, right?"
Hila whispered softly, and the madness and evil that had been suppressed in her bones for a long time spread out.
Death is often an ominous result, born out of many negative factors such as poverty, disaster, decline, shame, cruelty, decay, pain, and disease.
As the goddess of death, Hela has been living with death and ghosts for a long time. With no external factors to relieve her stress, her mind is naturally affected to a certain extent, becoming paranoid and depressed.
Whether it is chasing her biological father or bullying her teacher, it is a manifestation of her changing character.
She is no longer the little girl who only knew how to please adults and longed for praise, but a terrifying goddess who can subvert the nine realms just to please herself.
Loen could feel that if he didn't cooperate honestly, Hela might really take ruthless action against Brunhilde.
After all, she had even hunted down her own father, so what did a half-sister matter to her?
Perhaps out of caution, or perhaps out of guilt, Lorne had no choice but to play the role of the victim seriously and endure the torture and exploitation from his former students.
Pain and happiness.
Feeling the vibrations from above becoming stronger and stronger, Brunhilde, who was trapped in the realm of death, sobbed and wailed in her heart.
Slow down, don't treat Lord Loki like this...
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Nine days and nine nights later.
This long tug-of-war finally ended. Heila stretched out her arms and hugged Lorne's neck. Like a cat that had eaten all it could of dried fish, she curled up lazily in her teacher's arms, feeling the long-lost peace and tranquility.
However, Luo En couldn't help but speak, interrupting the moment of beauty, and said:
"Now, can we release Brunhilde?"
Hearing this, Hela raised her head with an unhappy look on her face:
"You came to the underworld just for her?"
"It's Eden. Before coming to the underworld, I went to the Dwarf Country to look for Holo. I happened to encounter a dragon disaster in the Dwarf Country. Eden's brother died in the dragon disaster. She cried and begged me for help, and I couldn't refuse."
On the one hand, Loen hinted between the lines that he had originally planned to come to the underworld to see her, and on the other hand, he used words to modify his itinerary and social interactions to alleviate Hela's jealousy.
After hearing this, Hela felt much better.
It would be acceptable to meet Holo before meeting her.
After all, Holo had been with the teacher earlier than her, and was also the teacher's adopted daughter, so their relationship was closer than hers.
Sensing that the smell of vinegar in the air had faded a little, Lorne took the opportunity to speak:
"You grew up with Eden, so please be more accommodating."
"What's the compromise?"
"Give me his brother's soul."
"Everything has a price. Bringing the dead back to life is a taboo that disrupts the order of the underworld. The girl asked you for help, not me. You should be the one to pay."
Hila lifted the hair by her ear and said in a businesslike manner,
"Tell me first, what are you willing to give for her?"
Luo En's face darkened when he heard this:
"Didn't I just give it to you?"
The bulging belly of the goddess of death was filled with his [rewards] and [gifts].
"This is used to redeem Brunhilde, which is a different matter."
Hila rubbed her belly and responded righteously,
"If you want to take Brother Eden's soul, you have to exchange it for an equal price."
"What?"
"I'll let him go, and you'll stay with me in the underworld."
“Wuwu…!”
Before Lorne could answer, a head broke through the mattress, bit through the black mycelium formed by the death energy in the mouth, and shouted angrily,
"You can't agree to her! Lord Loki, I'll rush you out right now!"
Actually broke my seal?
Looking at the head of her sister Brunhilde that suddenly popped out and the spell chains on her body that were all torn off, Hela couldn't help but show a hint of surprise in her eyes.
It didn't make sense, how could a mere Valkyrie escape the confinement she had set?
What's more, this is in the underworld, her exclusive divine domain.
Even if the old rival Freya came, she would be locked up for a few days.
Wait, Freya?
Hela looked at the cyan divine fire on Brunhilde's body, whose power was rising steadily, and the pink mist that was constantly surging and rolling in her eyes, and suddenly thought of a possibility.
As the founder of the Valkyrie system, Valkyrie Queen Freya is not only in charge of battle and victory, but also in charge of lust, and is known as the goddess of love.
According to this old rival, lust is a very complex and most irrational force.
——It can make the strong weak, and it can also make the weak strong!
The source of this power is related to emotional changes. Once the fire of love in the heart is ignited, the stronger the host's own obsession and love, the stronger the power she can exert. She can even burst out with power several times, dozens of times, or even hundreds of times beyond her own limit.
Originally, Hela thought Freya was just bragging, or using the legends of the Vanir to coax her.
Unexpectedly, she actually saw an example with her own eyes today.
In a chaotic, disorderly, and morally unrestrained world of the Age of Gods, a Valkyrie will burst out with power dozens of times beyond her own limit in order to save her beloved lord and break free from the constraints of the power of death.
Interesting, really interesting!
Moreover, the one who transformed this [lust] into power was not the old rival nicknamed the [Goddess of Love], but an unknown Valkyrie under her command.
Freya, you are behind.
Hela felt a strong sense of mockery in her heart, and she even had the urge to rush out of the underworld with a few people involved, and go to Asgard to face her old rival Freya and taunt her.
Just as the goddess of death was pondering secretly, Brunhilde had gradually broken free from the confinement of the [Bed of Sorrow]. The dead branch spear summoned in her hand continued to grow heavier and longer as her love and regret for someone grew. The blazing fire of fierce love even broke through the barrier formed by the death energy in front of Hela inch by inch.
At the same time, Jörmungandr and Thor, who were guarding the crystal bridge, also sensed the familiar aura rising and running wild in Hela's Temple, and subconsciously rushed through Hela's Gate, trying to rush to the crime scene.
However, the creatures of the underworld also sensed the will released by Queen Hela. The hellhound "Garm" and the black dragon king Nidhogg, one growled and threw down the honey cake, and the other flapped its wings and rushed out of the iron jungle to stop Thor and Jörmungandr who wanted to cross the border.
Seeing that the battle was about to break out, Loen quickly raised his hand and drew quickly in the air, outlining a series of golden runes.
"Where you come from is where you will return."
Along with low chanting, flying runes enveloped Brunhilde, Thor, and Jörmungandr. Three golden light bands shot up into the sky, teleporting them out of the underworld.
In fact, before setting out to visit Hela in the underworld, he had already carved a teleportation array in the Dwarf Kingdom and left space marks along the way to prevent Hela from fighting with him after seeing him.
Unexpectedly, this emergency plan was not used on himself, but instead allowed the teammates around him to escape successfully.
But there's nothing we can do. We can't just watch them fight Hela in the underworld, right?
What's more, the situation is only going to get worse and worse since the table has been overturned before the dwarf prince's soul has been obtained.
As the runes surrounding them shattered and disappeared, a low voice of admonition echoed in their ears:
"I can handle the affairs of the underworld myself. Don't be impulsive. Wait for me to come back."
Thor and Jörmungandr looked at each other in bewilderment.
Brunhilde gritted her teeth and decisively turned around and walked towards the teleportation array of the Dwarf Kingdom's sacrificial site.
Thor was stunned, then he stepped forward and asked:
"Brunhild, what are you doing?"
"To the underworld!"
"Didn't that guy tell us to wait for him here?"
"My Lord is willing to stay in the underworld and suffer humiliation for my sake. How can I sit still?"
Brunhilde turned her back to Thor and asked him a question, then stepped into the teleportation array without hesitation.
"So, I won't wait, I will just chase after him! I will bring Lord Loki back! No matter the cost!"
Just as the teleportation array was about to be activated, a man and a cat squeezed in.
Brunhilde saw this and suddenly a look of bewilderment appeared on her face:
"you……"
"It's not like he only saved you, of course we should be counted as part of this!"
Thorlang answered with a smile, while the Jörmungandr cat on his shoulder licked its forked tongue with satisfaction.
It didn't think too much about it, it just knew that it would get meat to eat if it followed the big guy Thor.
Moreover, it is the best meat of the divine sheep.
After a flash of light, the two men and the cat used the dwarf country's teleportation array to return to the giant country Jotunheim.
The Underworld and the Dwarf Kingdom are not connected. If they want to go back, they can only take the old route, cross the Giant Kingdom and the Mist Kingdom, and see if they can pass through the entrance of Hvergelmir's Spring and enter the Underworld again.
With the experience of the last journey, Thor summoned his goat chariot quickly and neatly, and set off towards the entrance of the Land of Mist with Brunhilde and Jörmungandr.
Two goats as big as hills rose into the air, and the rich magic factor turned into a rainbow-like road of light in the void in front of them.
The Goat Chariot rushed forward at lightning speed, like a dazzling golden meteor across the sky, vowing to rescue its teammates and partners from the dire straits of the underworld.
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At the same time, the scene in the underworld was completely different from what they had imagined.
"Open your mouth."
“Ah~~”
A red fruit covered with water droplets and similar to a grape was gently put into Loen's open mouth by a slender hand.
Loen closed his lips and teeth, bit through the skin, and the crystal clear flesh turned into sweet juice, flowing into his stomach, making his body feel warm.
Seeing Luo En swallowing the fruit pulp, Hela asked hurriedly:
"Is it delicious, teacher?"
"tasty."
"I cultivated it!"
Hela straightened her slender neck and added proudly,
"After eating this fruit, living things can also move around in the underworld for a short period of time without fearing the erosion of death energy."
"Well, you're still as smart as ever."
Lorne smiled and praised, raising his hand to touch the top of Hela's head.
“I’m grown up now. Don’t always treat me like a child.” Hela grumbled in protest, but her body honestly moved forward and closed her eyes to enjoy the caress from above her head.
After a moment, Lorne withdrew his hand, and Hela opened her eyes with an unsatisfied look.
She personally brought the plate and put the special product of the underworld into the teacher's mouth:
“Try this!”
“And this!”
“That’s good too!”
The hall was filled with cheerful voices. Hela personally entertained her long-lost teacher throughout the entire process, even refusing to let the ghost maids help with rough tasks such as wiping mouths and serving tea.
It seems that it is just a treat and not enough.
After dinner, Hela took Loen's hand, walked out of the palace, and introduced him to the scenery and buildings along the way.
Lorne watched patiently, listened patiently, and felt patiently.
Through Hela's words and body movements, he seemed to see a small figure staggering alone in the darkness for hundreds of years.
If he remembered correctly, the last time he came, the entire underworld was still desolate, filled with chaos and disorderly death.
Unexpectedly, in just a few hundred years, Hela has managed the entire underworld in order, as if it had become a part of her body.
It can be imagined that Hela must have suffered a lot during these hundreds of years.
Lorne sat under a tree in the Steel Forest, crossed his legs, and asked:
"How did you and Nidhogg meet?"
"That happened hundreds of years ago, not long after I came to the underworld. This dragon always came to make trouble, often messing up the palace. I was so angry that I found an opportunity to beat it up. Then, I saw that it could only eat the roots of the world tree all day long. It was quite pitiful, so I made a deal with it: I would throw those extremely evil souls to it to eat and satisfy its appetite, and it needed to guard the gate for me and minimize the damage to the world tree, so that the nine kingdoms could live in peace for a longer period of time."
While recounting the past, Hela lay down comfortably, resting her head on her teacher's thigh.
While listening, Lorne gently combed Hela's messy hair.
An atmosphere of tranquility and comfort flowed between the teacher and student, and everything seemed to have returned to the past.
This is how Lorne and Hela have been getting along in recent days.
For Hela, desire is only a manifestation of her longing, and companionship is what she wants more.
Therefore, after experiencing the madness of the previous nine days and nine nights, the goddess of death would rather get along with her teacher in this way.
But the good days were destined not to last long, and she couldn't be so selfish.
After nine days and nine nights passed like this, Hela reached into the River Styx and pulled out a glowing soul sphere.
"Take it. This should be what Eden wants. She will definitely thank you when she sees it."
"It has nothing to do with me. It's just that you, the goddess of death, are kind-hearted."
Lorne did not take the soul sphere. Instead, he held Hela's hand that was covered with red and black scars, and tried to use his own divinity to help her purify the death curse on it.
——Everything has a price.
Even the goddess of death who rules the underworld cannot let the soul go easily.
As the saying goes, what is worrying is not the lack of wealth but the inequality of wealth. When she fished the soul of the dwarf prince out of the River Styx, it naturally caused the roars and resentment of countless souls in it. The curse formed by this resentment would naturally erode Hela's body.
"Teacher, I'm fine. Please go now and don't keep Eden waiting anxiously."
Hela pulled back her right hand and reminded with a smile,
"If you stay any longer, I might not be able to let you go."
Luo En looked at his beloved disciple in front of him, his eyes filled with both relief and complexity.
Although Hela has been a little paranoid since she was a child, she is not a bad person by nature. Whether she is feeding the black dragon king Nidhogg with the souls of the evil to buy time for the survival of the Nine Realms, or giving up on forcing him to stay in the underworld and actively sending him away, these are enough to prove that her student has not really fallen.
After thinking for a moment, Lorne grabbed Hela's hand again:
"How about we go together? Eden and Holo have missed you."
"good!"
As if she had made up her mind, Hela nodded heavily, a bright smile spreading across her pale face.
After reaching a consensus, Loen pulled his beloved disciple into the space passage in front of him that was torn open by divine power.
However, the moment Hela stepped out of the underworld, her body trembled violently, and a thick black cloud of death rose into the sky, forming a dark cloud that covered the sky and the sun. The surrounding plants quickly withered and died, and countless snakes, insects, rats and ants rotted instantly.
Immediately afterwards, the death energy that had nowhere to vent surged and churned in Hela’s body like boiling water.
“Ah~~!~!”
The once heroic goddess of death was crawling on the ground screaming, half of her body seemed to have been splashed with concentrated sulfuric acid, her skin was peeling off, her flesh was rotting, revealing the white bones inside.
“Hela!”
Lorne was startled and rushed forward to help suppress the violent death energy.
But this innate will to die has long been integrated into Hela's flesh and soul and cannot be eliminated no matter what. The more severe the means, the more intense the pain it brings to Hela.
"Send me back to the underworld..."
A weak voice came, and Lorne gritted his teeth, picked up Hela, rushed into the space crack, and put his beloved disciple back on the land of the underworld.
This method really worked.
After Hela returned to the underworld, the boiling death energy on her body quickly cooled down, and her originally rotten flesh and skin also grew and healed quickly.
But the pain that penetrated her soul still forced Hela to lie on the floor of the palace for half an hour before she could barely stand up.
"It seems I can't go back with you, teacher."
Hela sat down on the chair, looked at her arm that had not yet fully grown, and answered bitterly.
Lorne bit his lip and fell into a rare silence.
He probably understood why Hela was so powerful, because half of Hela's flesh and blood had merged with the underworld, and the two were one.
Although this greatly increased Hela's strength, it also brought extremely serious hidden dangers.
Once Hela leaves the underworld, the death energy in her body will erupt uncontrollably, causing her extremely intense pain.
So, for the sake of her body, she could only stay in the underworld.
Lorne tried to squeeze out a gentle smile from his face and comforted him:
"Don't worry, I'll come to see you more often after I finish these things."
"Um."
Hela nodded, then bit her lip and added faintly,
"Don't make me wait too long..."
Loen paused, nodded with his back to Hela, then crossed the space crack in front of the palace gate and disappeared in the vast snow and wind of the Kingdom of Mist.
As she watched the warm color in her memory fade away, Hela smashed the stone table into dust with one punch, her pale face filled with gloom and unwillingness:
Why?
Why can a mere Valkyrie be by his side, but I can't?
It's not fair! It's not fair!
But if there is only resentment, nothing can be changed.
Hela knew this better than anyone else.
I can't accept it!
There must be another way for me to break free from this cage!
Hela lowered her head and thought hard, trying to find the answer.
But the underworld and she are too deeply involved, and it can be accomplished simply by relying on power and divine power. There is no way to separate her from the power of the underworld.
So, what if we don’t split it?
Hela looked at the world tree that reached into the sky, and an idea suddenly came to her mind.
There is another way.
Let the underworld expand infinitely and incorporate the nine kingdoms into its territory!
This way, she can come and go freely without restrictions.
Of course, according to the name of the Father God, this result should be called
——Twilight of the Gods!
Hela looked up at the gray sky of the underworld. Her eyes seemed to penetrate the surging deathly air and see the fairy palace surrounded by rainbows and her father sitting on the clouds, overlooking the world.
"You owe me this..."
Silent murmurs flowed from the bloodstained lips. The goddess of death in the darkness whispered to the empty hall with a silly smile.
"Teacher, don't worry, I will take you back."
(End of this chapter)
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