Chapter Ninety-Seven: In the Dark

A long, long time ago, nothing existed, but there was already an invisible force in this darkness, this force is neither good nor evil, without thoughts or thoughts, or Tao, or extreme, or fate, or law.

It has never created the world in seven days, never given birth to a lotus flower from the navel, never opened the heavens and the earth, never made up the heavens and created man, has not opened its eyes for the sun and closed its eyes for the night, but has fallen asleep in ignorance, not so much as an existence, but a natural law.

And after a long, long time, the chaotic world finally stabilized, and then a huge chasm formed in the chaotic world, and on both sides of the chasm were the land of fire and the country of fog, which was the earliest world.

After a long, long time, a fire giant was born in the chaotic fire country, and the fire giant didn't know what to do, but he just felt that he had some kind of mission on his shoulders, so he raised the fire sword in his hand and slashed the glacier in the chaotic world.

The glacier melted into water and fell into the chasm, and in the cold and heat of the land of fire and the land of fog on both sides of the chasm, a fiery steam was formed, and in the steam gave birth to a giant with great power, the frost giant Ymir.

The oldest frost giant grows up by licking the salt stains oozing from the earth as nutrients for his growth, but when the salt stains on the earth are licked, another giant hidden in the depths of the earth is revealed, the oldest god Boli.

The two giants got along well with each other and became good close friends, but this rapport was broken when the frost giant Ymir found a spring.

Having drunk the water of the fountain of wisdom, Ymir saw a distant but destined future......

At the end of that long river of time, there is an unimaginably powerful force that will fall into the mouth of this sleeping force and be swallowed up by it when the world continues to flow in ignorance.

That power was called Orlaug by the two giants......

A deep sense of fear gripped the two giants, and the oldest giant and the oldest god erupted into a fierce quarrel like never before, and the end result was that the frost giant Ymir killed his best friend with his own hands in order to complete his plan.

However, Boli's descendants swore to avenge their father, and a protracted war between the ancient frost giants and the ancient gods began.

Much later, Odin, who had gained great power but could no longer live forever, was born with a mixture of frost giants and divine blood, and almost at the same time, Loki, the frost giant with infinite wisdom, was born.

Like their ancestors Ymir and Boli, the young god and the young frost giant met by chance, eventually becoming friends and swearing to be brothers.

"We are brothers of flesh and blood, not the honey wine that we both drink together, I will never drink him alone......"

The young and vigorous gods and the frost giants, together with Hainir, three powerful young men, are determined to overthrow the boring world of their fathers and create a new, infinitely wonderful world.

Eventually, Ymir died, his body turned into the World Tree that supported the universe, the remaining Frost Giants fled Jotunheim, and the young and energetic Asaph Protoss ruled the world.

However, in the fierce battle, Hainir lost his wisdom and Loki lost his power, so Odin ruled the entire nine worlds as a god-king, and in order to seek the wisdom to rule the world, he went to the Fountain of Wisdom to seek wisdom from the wisdom giant Mimir, and sacrificed his own eye to the Fountain of Wisdom, so he understood the destined result......

Odin hangs himself upside down from the World Tree and obtains the almost omnipotent Runi script, gathers the brave and dead warriors to Valhalla in preparation for the final showdown, breaks with Loki to keep an eye out for the three rebellious children, and keeps Thor in the west all year round to guard against the Frost Giants...... Everything is done just to try to keep the entire universe going.

However...... Mimir deceived him, and all he did was to facilitate the massive sacrificial ritual known as Ragnarok.

At Ragnarok, all the giants and gods died, and the great sacrificial ritual succeeded in appeasing the power at the end of time, and the giant Ymir, who was considered dead, reawakened and buried all the dead into the depths of the earth.

There, too, there was still the great chasm, the land of fire and the land of fog, the fire giants were born, the frost giants awoke, and the bodies of the dead were reunited into the ancient god Boli......

The world has been opened up again and again, and destroyed again and again.

Everything is in an infinite loop, the beginning is the end, the end is the beginning, there is no beginning and no end, although it has been moving forward, it can never reach the end of that time, but it also escapes from that doomed fate.

However, in the endless repetition, even though Ymir and Mimir erased all traces, only the traces in the fountain of wisdom could not be erased, and the phantoms that once existed in it would have one more with each reincarnation.

Finally......

An evil god, driven by some kind of dark feeling, inexplicably chose to follow his brother......

And in the end, the endless cycle ended, and the universe was completely destroyed.

And at the end of the long river of time, something indescribable, bigger than the sky, bigger than the universe, bigger than all the time and space combined, has always just fallen asleep and never woken up......