You and Me Under The World Tree

On this day, Odin did not stay in Asgard.

Although Dawn Guardian Heimdallr saw a huge raven flying away from Asgard, he didn't say much, and he didn't even say hello to the God King.

The god who was jointly born by the nine wave goddesses just stood on the edge of the rainbow bridge dutifully, as silent as Vidar, the god of silence.

The huge raven first flew to the branch of the world tree, overlooking the nine worlds that operated according to the law, and then flew to the bottom of the country of ice and fog.

Niflheim...

In theory, it should be uninhabited, because it is not suitable for long-term living. As one of the first two worlds born in the Nine Realms, it corresponds to the barren and hot Muspelheim.

If Muspelheim is a fiery place that never sees night, then Niflheim is a land of ice and fog that never sees day.

But this country of ice and fog is not without any life, even in places as hot as Muspelheim, there will be creatures made of similar elements like 'nightmare horses', so Niflheim is even more useless. said.

Muspelheim is inhospitable to living things, because living things cannot resist the fire and magma rising there, but Niflheim is different.

Unlike Helheim, which has been shrouded in death, in the land of snow and ice all year round, in addition to various animals that have learned to resist the severe cold, there are occasionally wandering dead animals from Helheim. 

However, these dead animals are generally the eyeliner or messenger of the queen of the underworld, and it is nothing if there is no direct conflict with the queen.

Apart from these things, there are actually humans living in Niflheim...

Just like the Asa Protoss and Vanir Protoss have human believers in Midgard, the goddess in charge of death and disease certainly has her own believers.

However, the beliefs of these believers were regarded as heresies in Midgard, and they were repelled, and they finally passed through the extreme north and settled in this never-ending ice and fog country.

They have dwarves, humans and even giants. There is only one city and one kingdom here, and this city is named after this land: Niflheim, which means the land of the dead.

The souls of those cowardly and fugitives in the legend will come to somewhere in this ice and fog country, and they will have to walk here for nine days, nine nights or even more time to reach the entrance of Helheim.

Even the gods are...

The souls in the Nine Realms have a place to go, either Asgard or Helheim, and now, Asgard has received the news of the death of the warrior, but when the Valkyries went to pick up the corpse of the warrior, they did not see the soul of the warrior.

That's all for the dwarves, the vital sage Hoder and the souls of the descendants of Völsung who were favored by the Asgardians disappeared. This is obviously a top priority for the gods of Asgard.

There is a conspiracy in this...

Even if a god like Hermod doesn't care about these things, Odin can't help but care. That man named Hoder has been involved in too many things.

The lineage of the Aesir...

Thinking of this, Odin couldn't help feeling a headache.

As the king of gods who rule the Nine Realms, Odin does not actually pay attention to the entire Nine Realms all the time. Although he has the supreme throne and two ravens patrolling the Nine Realms, the visual "overlook" is fairly limited.

More importantly, he can't stay on the Supreme Throne forever, so he needs Heimdallr to watch over the entire Rainbow Bridge and even listen to the Nine Realms.

And the first time the man named Hoder appeared in Odin's vision was nearly 60 years ago, and he appeared as Siegmund's friend.

At first he was like a novice, holding a sword was quite difficult, and killing a wild boar was very difficult, so of course he would not attract the attention of others.

The reason why Odin and Frigg noticed him at the beginning was because of his name: Hoder, he introduced himself like this, this name evoked the thoughts of the couple, so they paid attention to him.

But later, this man who was supposed to be worthless somehow hooked up with Thrúd, who went to the world to play and not do business. Under her casual teaching, he began to learn runes.

Then there was a legendary road to rise. Although most of the gods paid attention to Siegmund holding the sword of God's Wrath, that man could not be ignored either.

In the final analysis, these people related to the Völsung family are all qualified to enter Valhalla, although the other gods are somewhat dissatisfied because of the man named Hoder.

Especially Thor, this irascible person has always disliked his daughter often mentioning him, and often questioning his combat effectiveness.

But this was resolved by Odin in the end—he planned a giant raid, exposing the giant kingdom in the border area to his sight, and established his achievements and combat effectiveness with the blood of the entire robber city.

And at this point, there shouldn't be any problems. All that's left to do is to wait for the 'war', and the Valkyries welcome the heroes into Valhalla.

However, a problem arose in this step, the man finally exposed his thoughts that were completely different from others, and he began to disobey the will of the gods.

It happened that the Queen of Heaven, Frigga, was restless, so she went to the tree roots around Niflheim—the location of the original Kinlunga chasm. On the edge of the abyss, she did not find the prophesied tree-swallowing creature. The dark evil dragon, Asgard has since fallen into inexplicable chaos.

The queen who is in charge of marriage thinks that the hero of "Slaying the Evil Dragon" is useless, and she who is in charge of marriage doesn't like his unethical behavior and flawed behavior.

So she wanted to reclaim the holy sword Gram, and she didn't even want Siegmund's soul to be reborn in Asgard.

Odin hopes to preserve the brave Völsung family completely...

What the gods don't know is that Odin once had a big fight with his wife because of this incident.

They each have their own opinions, but in this situation, the war is over, and the Valkyries have not received instructions from the gods for a long time, so they can only let the war develop, and the result is that they must all die in battle according to the predetermined plan The Völsung family won the victory simply and neatly.

And in the end, when things got to this point today, the man named Hoder was completely beyond the control of the gods.

After the gods managed to connect the descendants of the Völsung family to Valhalla, he disappeared inexplicably.

This is a very long period of time for human beings, who have appeared and disappeared under the eyes of gods, and now they have revealed their inexplicable 'gods' identity.

This kind of thing had to arouse Odin's vigilance, and he came to Niflheim again to verify his guess in the bottom of his heart!

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Jinlunga chasm there were only roots born from the corpse of Ymir, and that the great roots were part of Yggdrasil.

More importantly, this place is where all the rivers of the world: Élivágar converge.

From the darkest source of Niflheim, Hvergelmir, the rivers of the Nine Realms poured into this chasm.

It was mentioned in the prophecy that a desperate evil dragon would be born here to devour the roots of the tree, but it didn't appear now. What is there now is only the calmest dark thing that exists in the abyss.

That's what the boundless silent darkness is made of...

It was placed here by God King Odin. It is as silent as ever, without any restlessness, lying quietly in the deepest part of the abyss, the Ginnunga Gap.

After seeing its calmness, the God King couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief.

Nothing happened, and the guy in it didn't move.