Chapter 102. Ragnarök (1) Searching for the Seed of the World Tree

     When Ye Mo opened her eyes again, she saw the familiar white space.

     There is no doubt that she was the first survivor to wake up, and also the last one, because there was only one person in the white space of this copy, and this time it was a single-player copy.

     She can only meet Watson, Wang Xue and others in the real world after completing the copy.

     Maybe because it was a single-player copy, or there were other unknown reasons, Ye Mo entered the copy with an exact replica of her real-world body. She was wearing the spring cotton pajamas she had on before entering the instance, barefoot, with around 80% satiety, and 100% authenticity.

     Because time was urgent and there was no time to waste, she immediately said to herself, “Dungeon mission.”

   【E-level copy “Ragnarök”

     Main quest: Find the seeds of the world tree.

     Note: If the survivor dies in the copy, she will be eliminated; if survivor fails in the line mission, she will be eliminated. 】

     First: So this dungeon actually has a level, an E-level.

     Were all the previous ones just crappy F-levels? Is an E-level dungeon only accessible to survivors who meet certain standards?

     Second: There’s no time limit for this mission.

     What about other survivors’ missions? If there’s no time limit, how does the system app manage to control all survivors in all dungeons to exit at the same time? I don’t understand.

     “…”

     After coming out of the Irish copy, Ye Mo looked up mythological information from various countries, and now she can put it to use.

     Ragnarök, as it’s known in Norse mythology, translates to ‘twilight of the gods’ or ‘doom of the gods.’ As the name suggests, it’s a prophesied apocalyptic event in Norse mythology that foretells the death of the gods, including the supreme god Odin, the thunder god Thor, and formidable foes like the wolf Fenrir and the trickster god Loki.

     In this mythology, Yggdrasil, also known as the World Tree, is a colossal cosmic tree that supports all nine worlds. It’s a central figure in Norse cosmology.

     The World Tree’s branches divide the cosmos into nine realms, arranged in three tiers. The upper tier consists of the divine realms of (Asgard) and (Vanaheim), and the bright elves realm of (Alfheim). The middle tier is the realms of giants (Jotunheim), Midgard, the realm of mortal humans, and the underworld home of the dark elves and dwarves (Niðavellir/Svartalfheim), The lower tier encompasses , the land of ice (Niflheim), the realm of fire (Muspelheim), and (Helheim) The final resting place for most of the dead. 

     These nine realms are inhabited by a diverse range of intelligent beings, including gods, giants, elves, humans, dwarves, and various other creatures.

     According to Norse mythology, the end of the World Tree was that it was bitten off and destroyed by the black dragon Nidhoggr after the deadly battle of the gods. The creatures of the Nine Realms fell into countless natural catastrophes, ushering in the real doomsday.

     According to legend, the later Nordic people were descended from the human ancestors who survived the apocalypse, similar to the role of Adam and Eve.

     This task has a clear objective and difficulty: finding the world tree seed across nine realms in this copy.

     “…”

     Ye Mo took a deep breath, pulled out a set of convenient clothing from her storage ring and changed. Because she was the only one to wake up in the copy, the whole preparation process only took 10 minutes. Basically, just after she changed her clothes, the system sounded. ——

   【The ‘Ragnarök’ copy was launched successfully】.

……

     As soon as the system’s voice faded, Ye Mo instantly found herself in a pitch-black, lightless place. Activating her night vision, she approached closer. The ground beneath her feet was not stone nor grass, but a corpse, frozen solid below zero degrees.

     Apart from that, she received no memories related to this world. Everything remained to be explored.

     Ye Mo walked around and realized that the place where she was might be the head of a death giant.

     Because she saw the giant’s fiery red hair that was an average of 20 meters long, a nose as high as a hill, super-large black hole nostrils, a pair of anxiety-free blue eyes, a purple-black bloody mouth, and two rows of terrifying white teeth in his mouth.

     He seemed to have died of poisoning. On his chin, which was as wide as a square, there were two blood-black holes several dozen meters long. It was speculated that they were caused by two large and long fangs.

     Ye Mo walked to the other side of the nose bridge and stood up. She could see three sections of a giant python near the giant’s body. In one section, she could see most of the giant python’s eye. It was estimated that Its eye is over 5 meters in diameter.

     The ground was covered with blood, and some of the blood had accumulated into a small blood lake or blood river. Of course, the river or lake was named relative to her body size, and it might be a puddle for the giant python.

     The strong smell of blood all around covered up other information. This smell of blood was even stronger than the battlefield outside Chuyang City in the previous copy. Fortunately, this smell of blood did not carry more unpleasant smells such as corpse odor and sweat odor.

     Taking the giant python as a reference, this giant may be several sizes larger than the Ultraman and monsters we saw as children.

     Ye Mo pulled the giant’s golden beard from his chin and jumped to his chest. When her feet landed on the ground, her shoes collided with the giant’s silver armor with a bang.

     She half-knelt, palms flat, and a dagger materialized between her hands.

     Ye Mo grabbed the dagger and slashed at the giant’s gleaming armor. With two sharp clicks, a thin scratch appeared on the golden armor, but the armor itself remained undamaged.

     But the dagger was useless, and it changed from a medium-high-level attribute to an ordinary dagger. The golden armor was obviously damaged in the battle, and the cloth inside was exposed in some places, but the defense was still so strong. That’s amazing.

     Ye Mo turned around the silver armor and finally found its three core arrays, which were also where the four golden gems were located. Compared to the giant, these four gems were several times smaller than buttons, but in her eyes, They are golden gems with a diameter of 0.3 meters.

     Golden gems represent the metal attribute among the five elements and the pure thunder attribute among the metal attributes. The golden spiritual energy overflowing from each golden gem in front of her is stronger than high-level beast cores and high-level spiritual jade.

     Ye Mo just touched them and could feel the obvious thunder aura. It might also be related to the fact that ‘compared with other auras, thunder aura, like electricity, has greater attack capabilities.’

     However, electric energy and thunder aura are different. Electricity can shock people all the time, but thunder aura is essentially a kind of power. It is inert when it is not released and will not shock people at will.

     The reason why Ye Mo has a keen sense is determined by her physical talent. Ordinary people may only feel ordinary gems.

     Because the golden armor was broken, Ye Mo found the gap between the gem and the armor, and then took out a high-level earth-resistant dagger. She took off the three golden gems one by one, and the golden armor seemed to have suddenly lost its original shape. The luster returned to the appearance of ordinary metal armor.

     Now, Ye Mo’s sharp dagger could easily slice off a piece for material analysis. Preliminary speculation suggests that the battle armor is composed of a sophisticated composite metal, containing elements such as silver, copper, iron, tin, and platinum.

……

     Ye Mo continued her exploration. In addition to the golden armor, she found that the giant’s white belt emitted a spatial energy. After repeatedly confirming with a testing array, she unfastened the hundreds-meter-long belt.

     Fortunately, it was determined that the spatial storage was limited to a small inner section of the belt, approximately her height. She used a pair of scissors to cut off the excess, as the machinery room was well-equipped.

     When the mental power scanned the space, it encountered a wall at the beginning. This wall was not for defense, but the residual spiritual power of the belt owner going in and out. The residual spiritual power was so overbearing. Are all giants so strong?

     After Ye Mo used mental piercing, she finally entered the belt space. The space was incredibly vast, perhaps a third the size of Chu Yang City, but it was also a complete mess.

     It was clear that the owner was too lazy to clean up, clothes, shoes, and socks were scattered everywhere, some even mixed with bottles of alcohol. There were also random animal skins and heads, especially the skulls, which would be quite terrifying if lined up.

     In addition to these messy daily necessities, there is a square empty space with nothing on the ground, but it is the cleanest place in the space, far away from the clutter.

     Ye Mo thought for two seconds, then quickly searched the red-haired giant, but did not see any other eye-catching treasures, nor did she find the seeds of the World Tree.

     But she finally found the treasure that should have been placed in the belt space in the empty space on the side of the giant’s right foot. This treasure also indicated the identity of the giant – a golden giant hammer.

     “Mjolnir?”

     If this giant hammer is Mjolnir, then the dead red-haired giant is the legendary Norse god of thunder Thor, and the giant python broken into three parts is the Midgard Serpent Jörmungandr.

     Thor and Jörmungandr have died in the battle. The time point is very certain, it is after the Last War of the Gods.

     Ye Mo understood why “Ragnarok” was an E-level copy. It was because almost all the gods and evil gods were dead that the level of this copy was so low. If the gods were still alive, she would just be here to deliver food.

……

     Leaping from Thor’s back, Ye Mo dodged the crimson pool of blood and sprinted toward the colossal Mjolnir, its size akin to a small mountain.

     She halted hee charge a thousand meters away.

     She threw several kinds of animal meat in the space of her belt at the golden Mjolnir at the same time. The animal meat bounced and flew away, but there was no electric shock or other attack phenomenon. It seems that the legendary Thor’s hammer does not attack people randomly. The lightning energy was not released, and they continued to move forward.

     Finally arrived in front of Mjolnir.

     Ye Mo’s physical constitution talent began to absorb it energy without needing to touch Mjolnir, and her hair even began to float upwards, showing a clear static electricity reaction.

     Compared to the metal properties of Mjolnir’s hammer, the three golden gems just now are like dust in the desert and cannot be compared at all. She heard that the material of Mjolnir’s hammer came from an alien planet in the universe. She don’t know if it is true and false.

     She took a dozen steps back, then ran and leaped forward.

     Her shoe made contact with the body of Mjolnir mid-jump, and she felt a jolt of electricity course through her. Afterwards, it was clear that her body had absorbed a portion of the energy, but her physical attributes hadn’t increased.

     This might be related to absorbing only a single attribute. She needed to balance all five elemental attributes to make a significant breakthrough in her physical abilities.

     Soon she arrived above Mjolnir.

     Ye Mo’s main purpose in approaching Mjolnir was not the hammer body, but the handle. According to legend, the handle of Mjolnir was made of the branches of the World Tree.

     Compared to the gleaming golden hammerhead, the wooden handle was rather inconspicuous. Upon closer inspection, the handle is brownish-black, with a fine wood grain that has been polished to a mirror-like finish, making it appear almost grainless. 

     Before this, Ye Mo subconsciously classified the World Tree as a wood attribute, but after a close-range detection, she discovered that while the hammer head was indeed a gold-thunder attribute, the handle was not a wood attribute but a rare five-element complete wood.

     Or rather, a five-element balanced wood.

     It makes sense. The legendary World Tree connects the Nine Realms, so naturally it couldn’t be a single attribute.