Chapter 117. Ragnarök (16) World Tree and Nidhogg (Part 1)

     The number of frost giants who survived must be more than the 20 who just died.

     More than 10 more appeared in the border area between the two realms. They came here after hearing the noise. They thought that their fellow tribesmen were having a doomsday carnival, but what they saw was a battlefield that had just ended.

     The unknown enemy disappeared, and their fellow giants died in the black river.

     Because the undead around the border died or escaped, the frost giants didn’t know the details for a while. They reasoned that the giants of the gods must have escaped from Asgard and Vanaheim in the God Realm. 

     “Roar!”

     The leading frost giant roared, summoned a dozen more of his kin. They decided that half of them would go to the sea of the underworld to look for undead and enemies, and the other half would wait for news on the spot.

     The frost giants didn’t know that the culprit they were looking for was approaching a few miles away from them under the Black River, slowly but surely approaching, masked by the obscurity of the borderlands.

     After a short while, Ye Mo, encased in a small block of ice, took advantage of the commotion caused by a group of frost giants departing, and with a whoosh, leaped from the River of the Dead into the Ice realm. The faint sound of her exiting the river, along with the subtle splash, was completely drowned out by the giants’ boisterous entrance into the river.

     Successfully entered the realm!

     In the Ice realm, the purity of ice spirit energy is more than 95% even in the border area, and there is always thick ice fog in the air. Midgardian  may not be able to see their hands in front of them.

     Ye Mo’s vision has also declined to some extent, but with HawkEye for long distances and Mental power for close-ups, she’s not afraid of this. On the contrary, the ice fog can also allow the ‘Suihou Pearl’ in her mouth to fuse.

     But this fusion with the ice fog is limited. Within a meter of Ye Mo, she can still be seen, equivalent to the ice fog having a visibility of 1 meter. This was confirmed by Eagle Eye.

     The range of olfactory masking is also similar, and sound has half the masking ability. This is a conclusion verified in the Midgard realm by demonic beasts such as the demonic bull, demonic sheep, and demonic snake.

     This is the first time that Ye Mo is so close to the living and uninjured giant. She dare not even breathe hard, for fear that they will find something wrong and freeze herself into a real popsicle with a mouthful of ice mist.

   Relying on the agility attribute, she carefully shuttled flexibly under the feet of the giant, and finally reached an iceberg relatively far away from the frost giant. She drilled into the gap under the iceberg, spit out the Suihou Pearl into the palm of her hand, and then carefully put the witch medicine into her mouth.

     Yes, witch medicine.

     Witch medicine can directly enter the mouth from the storage space and go down the throat, which is more convenient for treatment. In this way, when she leaves the ice, it will not leave the smell of plants in the air, thereby leaking information.

   【Survivor Ye Mo’s physical fitness has exceeded the critical value, and the physical attribute is +1. 】×3.

     After taking three kinds of witch medicine one after another, Ye Mo’s body injuries were mostly healed. She then took out some plant fruits from the elf space and ate them, as well as some meat jerky that was as small, soft, and bland as possible. Covering her mouth, she ate slowly like a squirrel.

     Although she was not full, it was better than being completely hungry.

     It was really dangerous just now!

     In a world where one wrong step would lead to death, Ye Mo’s mental pressure was greater than any previous copy. She also truly felt her own insignificance and her ability was far from enough.

     …

     After a while, a series of explosions suddenly came from the underworld.

     The frost giants stood up and looked into the distance. They could see colorful aura bombs and super high waves, and the roars and howls of their fellow tribesmen. Naturally, they thought it was an enemy attack.

     They rushed into the black river in a hurry, ready to fight the daring attackers.

     At the same time, Ye Mo came out of the ice crack, took out more than a dozen mechanisms and alchemy products from the space, and used the space key to move them to the giant corpse within 20 miles.

     She didn’t leave because she was waiting for this moment. These mechanisms are non-precisely timed to sweep and shoot, and the sweep range happens to be twenty miles, with arrows, magic items, flying needles, etc.

     After the sweep is over, they will self-destruct. At the same time as the self-destruction, a bottle of magic potion in the core hub of the mechanism will burst out instantly, and the poison will spread everywhere, which can also be regarded as an indiscriminate attack.

     Waiting for the dozen frost giants in the black river were still the same magic potions, hidden arrows, and highly toxic traps. As for how many could be killed, that was not something the mechanism master could control.

     But even if they survive, the poison within them won’t be easy to dispel. They must journey to the realm of the Elves. Can they, in their wounded state, safely traverse the realms of Hel, the Dwarves, the Mountain Giants, and Midgard, to reach the legendary realm of the Elves?

     At this time, Ye Mo had left the edge of the land and waited for the frost giants to fight the mechanisms themselves.

     ……

     Niflheim realm is devoid of mountains and mineral deposits, without forests or seas. It is an endless expanse of ice and ice mist, inhabited only by Frost Giants and ice-type magical beasts.

     This world is even more vast than Asgard, somewhat resembling the polar ice caps of Earth. The temperature here has plummeted to below -100℃, a place where even the hardy folk of Midgard would perish.

     However, it is better to be cold outside than inside. For humans, the dark energy of the underworld is the most terrifying.

     Ye Mo has not changed her name back to Traveler for the time being. She is not like a Traveler now. Although changing her name to Fire cannot improve the absorption of fire abilities, it may reduce the amount of ice entering the body.

     Time is running out.

     Try to avoid direct confrontation with the frost giants. She spends 95% of her time running at full speed, and the remaining 5% of her time is spent on eating, resting, taking medicine, and teasing the HawkEye.

     It is worth mentioning that during the period of eating and resting, Ye Mo’s first vehicle, the mecha car, was freshly produced.

     This mechanical car imitates the principle of skating, borrows the mechanical art of the Mohist school, utilizing materials such as metals, wood, and wind-type spirit stones from Norse mythology world. Its appearance is somewhat similar to the bumper cars in an amusement park.

     Its speed cannot match Ye Mo’s running speed, but during meal and rest times, it can be used for a leisurely ride.

     Rushing to get on the road every minute and every second.

…

     When the concentration of ice fog and ice-type spiritual energy in the air slightly decreased, Ye Mo stopped using the mechanical car and walked at full speed.

     Soon, spiritual elements such as gold, fire, wood, and earth began to appear in the air, and fire spiritual energy was the most abundant and purest.

     Ye Mo changed her name back to “Traveler”. This place is a good place to enhance strength and should not be missed.

     As the ice fog and ice-type spiritual energy gradually decreased, there were more and more traces of the lives of the giants around. For this reason, Ye Mo had to put on an ice coat to hide herself.

     When the ice fog became less and less, she had reached the border area of the Ice Kingdom and the Fire Kingdom thousands of miles away.

     The first thing that appeared in the HawkEye vision is a vast river. This is the legendary Ginnungagap, also considered the mother river of all beings in Norse mythology. The river is filled with the aura of ice and fire.

     In the middle of the Ginnungagap, there is a huge black tree trunk. The trunk soars into the clouds, reaching an unseen height. The trunk has no leaves, but it does have branches. The longest branch at the bottom connects the land of ice on one side and the land of fire on the other, which is the lowest part of this world.

     There were dozens of living giants waiting in the Ice Kingdom and the Fire Kingdom. They have prepared enough food and their eyes occasionally drift to the depths below the Ginnungagap not far away.

     After the end of the Ragnarök, the water in the Ginnungagap has not decreased, but has instead increased. In contrast, the energy of the World Tree is decreasing.

     A giant serpent with black scales emerges from the river. The serpent’s body is thicker than that of the giants of the Aesir, and it may be tens of thousands of miles long. Its terror is no less than that of the world serpent Jörmungandr, which she saw when she first entered the copy.

     The difference from Jörmungandr is that, in addition to its snake body, it has six legs, a bit like a giant lizard.

     This is the legendary black dragon Nidhogg. While it is perched on the trunk of the World Tree and gnawing at the World Tree, its ruby-like eyes greedily sweep towards the Ice Kingdom and the Fire Kingdom from time to time.

     In the Ice Kingdom and the Fire Kingdom, hundreds of giants gathered. In addition to the frost giants and the fire giants, there are actually some mountain giants. They have prepared a whole year’s worth of food, reveling day and night, and don’t care about the evil dragon Nidhogg’s cannibalistic gaze.

     “HawkEye, sweep again.”

     The gap in the trunk of the World Tree bitten by the evil dragon Nidhogg can no longer be called a gap. It looks like only some bark is left to support it. The surrounding giants are cheering for this.

     On this dark trunk, there is no shadow of seeds, no leaves, flowers, fruits, stems, and trunk age lines. It really doesn’t look like a tree, but more like a straight black pillar.

     “Stop!”