Greek Mythology: The Spiritual Dominator

The nine kingdoms are hung on the World Tree, but they are not without communication with each other. Just like the famous Rainbow Bridge connecting Asgard and Midgard on earth, the Iffingal River is the boundary between the Æsir realm and Jotunheim, the country of giants.

In addition, there is also a connection between Jotunheim and Midgard. It is a terrifying iron forest that separates the kingdom of giants from the human world. Only a few mountain giants often travel between the two.

But just like Ryan failed to see the Rainbow Bridge in Asgard, perhaps it has collapsed due to the destruction of the world. As for the frozen river Ifenger, now only the dry river channel remains.

One side of it is still connected to Jotunheim, and the other side is the endless void. Ryan relied on this old connection to directly enter here.

Standing on the edge of this broken world, he could even observe the collision between the fragments of the world and the power of Chaos. Obviously, the resistance of this world was already very weak.

"What's this?"

While rushing towards the extremely conspicuous roots of the World Tree, Ryan discovered something interesting on the land of Jotunheim.

Unlike the artifacts of Asgard, the giants of Jotunheim still maintain their primitive life. Therefore, Ryan could not find anything useful from the ruins of their scattered civilization, except for these in his hands.

A stone crystal that looks a bit like a large heart contains an extremely condensed earth element aura and some divine power.

It was buried in the ground, like a tomb, but the energy it emitted was very conspicuous, so Ryan easily discovered its existence.

"This is the heart of the stone giant, a creation between elements and matter. They can be used as sacrifices, props for casting certain spells, or other uses."

"As a member of the giants, I didn't study this deeply. After all, these are the corpses of our kind. The Asgard gods of Asgard regard them more as decorations and honors to represent their own strength. , with the exception of the gods of Vanaheim.”

Although he was killed by the Warner Protoss, Mimir still praised them highly. His head was able to remain alive after being returned to Asgard thanks to a mysterious spell.

"They master secret rituals and spells that even Odin would be amazed by, making Thor's divine power helpless. Mjolnir's power is indeed unmatched, but his master has no control over these exquisite technologies. No idea.”

"In Vanaheim, they made this heart into a powerful puppet, which became famous in the war with Asgard. But I'm not very clear about how they did it. Just like Odin has never been able to learn the spell of 'immortality', many of Vanaheim's secrets are not spread to the outside world."

Ryan nodded, understanding this.

Puppet technology sounds good, but that's not what he wants. After all, what he is best at is creating life rather than exquisite structures. If Ryan were to try to make a puppet, he would probably not be able to compare with the knowledge accumulated by others over tens of thousands of years.

He has no memory for future generations to refer to these special spells and alchemy techniques.

"I understand. So, these are the hearts of frost giants and fire giants?"

After flying for a while, special cores rich in elements and divinity like this were not uncommon here. Ryan quickly found two other types.

However, the remnants of fire giants are particularly rare, perhaps because in mythological records, they mainly live in Muspelheim, the country of fire, and respect Surtur as their leader.

"Yes, it seems that you are very interested in them. Maybe I can take you to the place where the giants bury themselves later."

"Most of what you find here are cores scattered outside for various reasons. Not only are there few of them, but there are basically no remains of powerful giants after their death."

There is no shame in taking outsiders to the cemetery of the same race, Mimir suggested from the side.

"That would be great. After we finish dealing with the problem of the roots of the world tree, we will go to the place you mentioned."

With his heart core put away, Ryan has an extra target on the road. Without deliberately taking a detour, he collected all the special crystals he could sense.

Unfortunately, in the realm of elements, frost giants can symbolize water, mountain giants and fire giants can symbolize earth and fire respectively, but there are few giants symbolizing wind in Scandinavian mythology. I have to say that this is also a minor shortcoming.

Flying quickly in the sky, I don't know how long it took. Under the guidance of Mimir, Ryan successfully found the target of his trip directly under the main root of Yectrasil.

But just like the Fountain of Urd in Asgard, under the prosperous roots of the World Tree, the famous Fountain of Wisdom was not spared, and it even 'died' more completely.

On the barren and dry ground, the vegetation has died, and the slightest breeze blows, and the dust splashed up makes the sky darker and darker. A few thin dead trees trembled in the wind, shaking unbearably. The originally holy spring pool has turned into a dark pit, filled with mud and siltation, and there is no bright water splash anymore.

A section of Yectrasil's roots hung down above the spring pool, with mottled blood stains scattered on it. Perhaps in the long past, Odin sacrificed himself here.

When he came here, he took a closer look at the surroundings. Ryan couldn't even find the seeds left in the spring. There was only an uncomfortable breath escaping in the surrounding air.

"Sir Ryan, the Fountain of Wisdom is spiritual. Perhaps in the previous disaster, it instinctively attached itself to something nearby and restrained its aura."

Beside, Mimir's huge head reminded him.

"Maybe it's drilled into the root system here, or maybe it's integrated deep into the earth, and you may have to look for it to find it."

"You're right, in fact, I've found it."

Looking at the desolate and ruined land beneath his feet, Ryan couldn't see any emotion or anger. Under the pothole, there was a strange aura that was obviously different from the surroundings.

It is somewhat similar to the traces left in the Golden Palace, but it is also very different. Not surprisingly, it is the eye that Mimir said before, Odin sacrificed. So Ryan stretched out his hand and touched the pothole lightly.

The next moment, the mud rolled, and a white eye slowly floated up from it, flying towards Ryan's palm. However, just when it was about to fall into his hands, something changed suddenly.

The dark pupils were originally scattered and lifeless, but in an instant they became condensed and crazy. Countless strange sounds echoed in the surrounding space, and shadows rolled up from behind Ryan, winding towards him.

"careful!"

Upon seeing this, Mimir hurriedly reminded him that he did not expect this to happen.

He is just a head and has lost all extraordinary power. It is impossible for him to leave here alone. And this Eye of Odin, who didn't know when he had self-awareness, was obviously not an easy being to talk to.

"It doesn't matter, its essence is very high, but its power is too scattered."

Faced with the sudden change, Ryan did not panic. For him, it is not difficult to judge whether a being is conscious. Although the strangely changed Eye of Odin in front of him has extremely chaotic and evil consciousness, there is no doubt that it is conscious.

The tentacles turned into shadows penetrated Ryan's body from behind, but there was no sound of piercing the object. Diagonally behind the eyeball, another Ryan appeared quietly at some point.

He didn't even glance at the Eye of Odin, which was constantly emitting filthy spiritual fluctuations, but instead grabbed the air hard.

"laugh--"

The next moment, the eyeball in the distance was instantly shattered, and it turned out that it was just an illusion. The real Eye of Odin was held directly in Ryan's hand. Because it was imprisoned, it struggled and beat wildly. A strong ray shot out from its pupils, but it had no effect at all when it hit Ryan's palm.

Around it, blood vessels have stretched out, as if they want to penetrate into the body of the god in front of them and suck his flesh and blood, but this also fails, and is easily blocked by the glimmer of light on the surface of the palm.

But looking at all this, Ryan's expression became solemn, and he could feel the terrifying power hidden in this little thing.

It just hasn't been able to completely integrate everything into one. It's a bit like what Ryan did when he first opened up the spiritual world in his early years. He gained a lot of power in a short period of time, but it hasn't completely digested these things. Otherwise, Ryan asked himself, he I'm afraid it won't be that easy to win over the opponent.

"what do you?"

Turning the eyeball in his hand over so that its pupils were pointed at him, Ryan asked slowly. In any case, it should be conscious, and if it is conscious, it can communicate.

However, the result disappointed him. In his spiritual perception, the Eye of Odin's thinking is still chaotic and violent. It has its own simple logic, but this logic obviously does not include communicating with the beings it regards as food.

Around Ryan, the shadows turned into various forms of life, rushing towards him without fear of death, and then disappeared into ashes the moment they approached him.

Even if it's just one eye, the power it displays at this moment is extraordinary. If it were not in this world where its roots collapsed, but within the world of Chaos, Ryan had no doubt that it could pollute millions of miles of land in an instant, and the rays in its pupils could also shoot down stars.

Of course, that was before the birth of legal suppression in this world. But whether a twisted being like this would care about the law is still a question.

"Do you know what's going on?"

After observing for a while, but with no clue, Ryan looked at Mimir aside.

At this moment, this strange eye is still shooting out various different rays from the pupil, but only the spiritual ones are the most powerful.

That kind of chaotic and crazy spiritual will reminded Ryan of the sun god Hyperion, who he turned into a ladder to the gods.

".The last source of the Fountain of Wisdom seems to be one with the eyes of Odin's sacrifice. It has thus gained endless knowledge and hazy consciousness, but this will never make it become like this, because from the spring water The knowledge acquired is in order.”

Looking at the Eye of Odin in Ryan's hand, Mimir was not very clear about it.

"Maybe this is related to the destruction of the world, Mr. Ryan, this is the only thing I can see."

I have said a lot, but it is all nonsense. Ryan can also see what Mimir knows.

The Fountain of Wisdom probably has no chance to be reborn in the spiritual world, because it is now completely integrated with the mutated Eye of Odin, and is also mixed with other powers.

The spring water brought knowledge, the eyeballs originally used as sacrifices for the master brought sacrifices, burdens and shadows. The last power of the root system of the world tree Yectrasil brought life, and the external power was in Finally twisted them together.

As a result, knowledge becomes crazy, sacrifice becomes killing, bearing alienation becomes corruption, and shadow is combined with life, one is activated, and the other contains curse and pollution.

And as a creation of the Nine Realms, although it does not have the immortal essence like the innate gods of Chaos, the mixed power is extremely terrifying. It is suspected to be related to the death of the world, and therefore has acquired a similar personality.

Immortality is the most basic characteristic of this level. The immortal nature of the gods is precisely because of the gift from the complete world that makes Ryan helpless against it.

"It needs to be divided."

Whispering to himself, Ryan realized that it might be difficult for him to use this power directly, and he would need to use some other method to deal with it. And the most important thing is that he does not intend to let the power in this eyeball continue to fuse.

It's better to separate such dangerous things. If it were allowed to completely integrate everything, it would probably truly become a special existence that was a little higher than a powerful divine power. If you want to suppress and utilize it at that time, you will have to spend an incredible amount of energy.

After making a decision, Ryan's hands immediately turned black and white. The essence of [reincarnation] is never the combination of [life] and [death], but the transformation and cycle between the two.

At this moment, under his control, the black and white colors connected end to end, slowly leaving a mark on the Eye of Odin. From then on, it will continuously extract the ability of its host and turn it into the power to block it.

This seal was rough, but it was enough to temporarily block the eyes that had awakened to consciousness. As for more sophisticated seals, Ryan himself doesn't know how to do it.

“Next, it’s time to cut down the trees.”

Sighing, there is no doubt that in front of Ryan, the root system of the second world tree is not alive, and everything it left has been absorbed by the Eye of Odin.

Therefore, Ryan had no choice but to cut down the severed roots as before, and then put them away. After all, even if it lost its vitality, it was still a rare treasure in the world.

"It seems that Yggdrasil is completely dead. Compared to these two places, the root system of Niflheim is impossible to survive."

Seeing this scene, Mimir also sighed. Compared with the two interfaces that Ryan explored, the main root of the Kingdom of Mist has been being eaten by the poisonous dragon Nidhogg. Even if the nine kingdoms did not collapse, it is destined to be destroyed, let alone now.

"Maybe, but no matter what, I have to go and see."

"And it's probably not a bad thing that it's actually dead."

Soon, Ryan converged on this root system.

"Time is running out. The progress of the nine kingdoms being eroded by Chaos should be almost the same. Unfortunately, I originally wanted to go to Vanaheim to experience the pinnacle of magic skills in the nine realms. Now it seems that I will not have this opportunity for the time being. ”

Ryan's tone did not have much regret. After all, the nine kingdoms and smaller fragments were eroded by Chaos and were not directly destroyed. You can’t see it now, but there will be a chance to see it sooner or later.

"Where is the cemetery you mentioned, and is there any other valuable place in Jotunheim?"

"Of course, please come with me. In fact, in addition to the place where the bones of the powerful giants are buried, there should also be something worthy of attention in the place where the ancestor of the frost giants, Begelmir, lives."

Following the good deeds, Mimir immediately showed Ryan the way.

For the past tens of thousands of years, he had stayed alone in the silent Golden Palace, unaware of changes in the outside world. But now it seems that there are probably no living creatures left in the Nine Kingdoms.

The only thing he wants to do now is to leave this dead place and go to this world where outsiders live.

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"Tear-"

There was no medium for transmitting sound in the dark void, but the tearing sound was clearly audible.

As a scratch appeared on the dark blue fragments, Ryan stepped forward.

"Is this the world where Lord Ryan lives? Is this the beginning of creation?"

Just after exploring the two areas, Mimir was suspended next to Ryan. He looked at the quiet void and felt a little surprised.

Previously, Ryan entered Jotunheim directly from Asgard, because the two were connected before they separated. However, if he wanted to enter the Kingdom of Mist, he had to transfer in the void.

Therefore, Mimir still knew where the fragments of his country had come. He thought that beyond the fragments was a complete world full of life, but he did not expect such a scene.

"No, this is outside the world. The real Khaos is no worse than the Nine Kingdoms, and is even much bigger."

Responding casually, Ryan glanced around.

Bits and pieces of fragments have disappeared, and only the main bodies of the nine kingdoms are still holding on. However, the chains formed by the rules of Khaos have become denser, and I am afraid that the remaining ones will not last long.

The focus was on Svartalfheim, which was where Erebus entered before and was also the home of the dark elves and dwarves (dwarves). They were good at forging and had a unique spell system. However, Ryan found that even though there was a barrier, he could notice that it seemed to be empty.

Obviously, unlike Ryan who was as purposeful as Ryan, the Dark Lord directly adopted the simplest and crudest solution - he probably directly 'uprooted' the places that seemed valuable.

But this also makes him much slower than Ryan. Not surprisingly, he should have just left here, and his second goal

"Did you repeat it?"

Looking at Niflheim, the Kingdom of Mist, where someone had clearly just entered, Ryan didn't have any sense of urgency as someone entered first.

If he really came to the first two realms for the treasures, then this was not the case for the last one. In the myths of later generations, it was precisely because Nidhogg gnawed off the roots of the World Tree that the Twilight of the Gods was brought about. Now the 'twilight' of the Nine Realms is even more terrifying. What changes will happen here because of this?

"world Tree"

Feeling the presence of Odin's Eye in his sleeve, Ryan cut through the boundary wall and stepped into the Kingdom of Mist.

No matter what, he would always see it. What's more, this time, someone else was one step ahead of him.

So the next moment, when Ryan set foot on the land of Niflheim, what he saw was the sky full of black and red.