Chapter 113. Ragnarök (12) Underworld

     The mountain giants, holding up torches, angrily rushed to the place where Ye Mo disappeared. They looked around and saw the corpses of their fellow giants everywhere. The corpses of the Midgard people and dwarves mixed in were completely ignored by them.

     “Roar!”

     The angry mountain giants roared and hammered the ground with their fists or weapons, causing a magnitude 4 or 5 earthquake in a radius of ten miles, and the ground cracked at the place where they hammered.

     No, it didn’t just crack.

     There was also a partial ground collapse, which caused a small portion of the bodies of eight or nine giants to fall into the snow pit. Whether they landed on their feet or other parts of their bodies, they all crashed down onto a pile of magical items.

     Bang bang bang —

     Boom boom boom —

     A series of explosions, with flying needles scattering in all directions.

     The explosions caused non-stop tremors within a ten-mile radius, and even the mountain giants’ thick hides were injured, not to mention the unlucky ones who were hit in the center of their brows and eyes.

     The tiny flying needles, which were insignificant to the Midlanders, pierced the giants’ wounds, and the various toxins specially made by the elven race spread into their blood vessels. They fell down one after another due to poisoning, and even died as a result.

     “Roar!”

     Less than ten mountain giants were still standing, and two of them, who were affected and injured, were extremely furious. However, they didn’t dare to smash the ground again. They were actually being toyed around by an ant. Just which realm did this ant belong to?

…

     Ye Mo was watching the miserable situation of the mountain giants through the Hawk Eye live stream, but she was a bit anxious because she wasn’t fully prepared and her plan wasn’t perfect, which allowed some of the giants to remain intact and unharmed physically.

     As for Hawk Eye, it was somewhat dumbfounded.

     Although the current mountain giants are far inferior to the giants led by the evil god Loki to attack Asgard, if Odin’s battle is like Ye Mo’s, there may be a glimmer of hope in the Ragnarök.

     This little human can always give it different surprises and surprises again and again. “Let’s go.”

     Ye Mo instructed Hawk Eye to withdraw the ground-level view. Their current target was not the jumping and cursing mountain giants, but the dwarves who were boldly causing trouble right under the giants’ noses. Their destination was the Dwarf Realm.

     The dwarf world was in the next world of the mountain giant world. There must be an unknown shortcut that could pass through the mountain giant world, which was several times wider than the elf world in the Midgard world, saving time to go to the ice country.

…

     As a goblin, even though she was 1.7 meters tall now, Ye Mo was still extremely flexible in the underground world. Perhaps because no one had ever competed with the dwarves for territory, the traces they left were very obvious.

     Tunnels, traces of heat treatment, ore residues, temporary workshops, scrap metal materials, monster corpses, weapon fragments, etc., and even a small part of shiny gold, crystals, and waste monster crystal cores. These were their favorite things and they didn’t have time to take them away.

     Unlike the goblins who liked to be tidy, the dwarf world in Norse mythology was a bit dirty and messy.

     Ye Mo stopped in the largest mine, her eyes fixed on the broken parts of the equipment and weapons. While researching and waiting in the mine, she used HawkEye to observe two dwarfs who were less than a thousand miles away.

     They never expected anyone to come to the underground world, so after a distance, confirming that the mountain giant’s ground fissures would not affect them, their speed immediately slowed down.

     Ye Mo could not understand the language they communicated, but from their expressions and behaviors, they were not so ruthless and cold, and they treated each other well. One of them also knew runes, so that they could trade with human priests.

     This dwarf was the one who had looked at her before, and he was recognized by Odin.

…

     The two dwarves took off their equipment, one of them took a precious potion, and after bandaging their wounds, they returned to their original path, along with the items they had obtained from their dead companions’ adventure.

     “Ah!” ×2.

     Then they met Ye Mo in the mine, and after letting out a slightly hoarse scream, they tried to escape, but Ye Mo simply lifted the two dwarves into the air by their shoulders.

     Their attacks seemed like nothing to her, but she could easily make them feel pain, itch, or even death.

     The dwarf who knew the Rune language finally stopped pretending to be stupid and started speaking the Rune language, and the content of his speech was unexpected: “Respect the kind, brave, beautiful and lovely traveler, we all know that you are a good person, we have no ill intentions, please don’t hurt us.”

     Ye Mo raised her eyebrows: “Do you know who I am?”

    “Yes! We know it from the Midgard people, they have been praising you.” The dwarf flattered, but the emotions scanned by her mental power were all escape, alienation, fear, and rejection, but because the Rune language cannot tell lies, the content was still true.

     Ye Mo didn’t expect that her reputation would spread so far: “What are your names?”

     “My name is Dick, and his name is Kaci.” The name “Kaci” is a transliteration of the Rune language.

     Ye Mo put them down and at the same time, gave them a pair of imitation handcuffs. She was still in the early experimental stages of space creation, but with the help of the Five Elements rules, she could still destroy space.

     Sure enough, Dick and Kaci had this plan at the same time.

      The result was that they were destroyed by Ye Mo at the same time. The two people’s faces changed at the same time. They knew that this was an anti-space array, but the magic array diagram engraved on this unknown metal was something they had never seen before.

     It would definitely take some experiments to crack it, but now, they couldn’t do any experiments at all.

     When the dwarves heard that a traveler from Midgard was said to be able to craft weapons and magical items, they were somewhat curious, but mostly dismissive and arrogant. In their eyes, the magical items of the people of Midgard were nothing but useless junk, a waste of resources.

     But now seeing Ye Mo’s formation diagram, the two dwarves realized they had underestimated her. It turned out that there truly were Midgardians capable of crafting magical arrays beyond the ken of dwarves. Considering her height and abilities, could the Traveler be a descendant of the Midgard and the dwarven, right?

     Ye Mo did not know the strange speculation of the two dwarves, and said to them: “Dick, Kaci, now we can talk about the deal, right? Since you know my name, you should also know what I am looking for, right?”

     “Of course, you are looking for Yggdrasil.”

     Ye Mo nodded: “Yes, I now know that Yggdrasil is located at the border between the Land of Ice and the Land of Mist. Do you know how to get there?”

     The two dwarves looked at each other. Kaci understood the name of the World Tree and nodded with Dick. No matter how reluctant they were, they were all the races that understood practical people the most in this world.

    “The Land of Ice lies opposite Hel, but we cannot reach Hel. We can only take you to the closest point in Svartalfheim (the realm of the dwarves) to Hel. From there, you must find your own way.”

     Ye Mo: “Okay.”

     When Dick mentioned the three words “Land of Ice”, even Kachi, who was next to him and only heard the transliteration, trembled and showed fear. It seems that the frost giants cast a big shadow on them.

…

     The realm of the Mountain Giants was vast, twice the size of the Elven lands, the Dwarven realms, and Midgard combined. Fortunately, they didn’t need to search the entirety of the Mountain Giant realm; they could travel directly underground to the Dwarven realms.

     The journey into the subterranean mines began in earnest.

     In these three years of war, the greatest progress the dwarves have made is in spatial arrays. This is their key to survival. It’s not that they can’t create long-range spatial arrays; jumping 100,000 li within the same realm is still possible. But they lack the resources and energy.

     The three-year battle consumed more than just human lives. Those magic weapons on the battlefield were all consumption of resources and energy. The one who experienced the most was the weapon craftsman caught in the middle.

     Ye Mo wanted to learn, but she didn’t speak for the time being. She just silently recorded the array diagram and array energy distribution, and then listed the questions in her mind bit by bit, and wrote them down in a small notebook.

     After three days of travel, there was no day or night in the dark world, and she could only use the hourglass to tell time.

     Gurgle, gurgle, Kaci’s stomach rumbled, and Dick was not much better. They still had food on them, but not much, because they were vegetarians. The plants in Midgard Realm were becoming increasingly scarce, and although the Mountain Giant Realm had fertile land, they didn’t dare venture there.

     Ye Mo shared some edible exotic plants with them, and of course she ate the beast roasted lamb that was several times bigger than the two dwarves combined. With the seasoning of the elves, it tasted even better.

     The first reaction of Kachi and Dick when they received the food was to wonder what they had to trade, and what the other party’s intentions were. It wasn’t until the other party mentioned alchemy during the meal that they relaxed, realizing that was what it was all about.

     Ye Mo asked some very basic questions, but she absorbed these basic knowledge very quickly, and was always able to draw inferences from them, occasionally coming up with examples that even Dick could not ignore.

     And when Dick’s curiosity was piqued, she had already moved the question on to the next one, which was even more difficult. What was even more rare was that the questions jumped around a lot.

     Kaci, who could not understand the Rune language at all, still knew that his companions were at a disadvantage in this transaction. It was not the disadvantage of force, but the disadvantage of intelligence and negotiation ability.

     The dwarves knew that Odin was the main god of the world, and they also knew that people from other realms in the Nine Realms and even in Midgard looked down on the dwarves, but they believed that their race had the highest intelligence in the world.

     What if they looked down on them? All the unnatural artifacts in the world were not made by them personally. The other eight realms had to cooperate with them. Although they were in the abyss, they were quite conceited.

     Because of this, Ye Mo’s appearance broke the cognition of the two people, in all senses.

     “Dick, it’s a pleasure to talk to you.”

     “Thank you.”

     In order to express her pleasure, Ye Mo took the initiative to sponsor each of them a bottle of healing medicine.

     If it were usual, the dwarves would be very happy, because the process and result of getting treasures from others are one of their pleasures, but today, both of them felt that they were at a disadvantage.

     After Ye Mo quickly finished eating the barbecue, she said, “There are still 800 meters to the next space jump point. I think we can pick up the pace a little. Would you mind if I gave you a hand?”

     The two dwarves were upset: “… I don’t mind.”

     Even their signature skills of mining, digging holes and finding their way were surpassed by this woman, and they were far behind. They couldn’t beat, escape or hide, so they could only accept it.