Rognar Island, interior of a longhouse.

"Crackling ......"

The longhouse, made entirely of stout logs, has a rough and savage style with all kinds of weapons and animal skins hanging all over the walls.

And in the center of the large room, where the warm fire crackled, old Edgar sat at the front of it, ale in hand, silently thinking about something.

"What's wrong? Are you worried about the kids again? ”

On the side, Jenny, who was already over middle age and inevitably had a few wrinkles on her once beautiful face, looked at the old Edgar beside her and said softly.

Old Edgar was silent, and as a very traditional Norse, he had many of the characteristics inherent in the Norse, heroic, brave, and fearless of death, and was a heavy drinker and often angry.

But this is such a person, at the moment there is a rare silence, sitting quietly, so that people don't know what he is thinking.

In Norse culture, the death of a family member is a family feud that is enough to give everything you have, even if it costs for thousands of years. Therefore, neither he nor his children questioned whether it was necessary to risk the lives of their sons in order to take revenge.

It is undeniable that, unlike other myths, in the world of the Norse gods, both gods and humans, men and women, strong and thin, tend to have serious berserker tendencies, and all of them can be called born warriors.

However, revenge is one thing, love one's children is another, and even if he supports his daughter, old Edgar sometimes can't help but worry about his children.

However, as a man in the family, the responsibilities on his shoulders made him unable to speak, so he could only remain silent and hide his words in his heart.

In the face of Jenny's inquiry, he just sat by the fire, silent, staring at the flames in front of him, without the slightest intention of trying to speak.

Seeing that he didn't mean to speak, Jenny looked at him, shook her head, and then muttered.

"Also, it's been more than a month. ”

As she spoke, she sighed.

According to common sense, it is normal for a ship to go to sea for several months, but the delay in returning still makes her feel a little inexplicably worried.

"O Nejod, god of the sea, may you bless my children for a safe return. ”

She prayed silently in her heart, but at this moment, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps in her ears, followed by a violent knock on the door.

"Bang Bang!"

The loud banging on the door made the heavy wooden door swayed a little, and at the same time, there was the eager shouting.

"Old Edgar, Old Edgar...... Open the door!"

She immediately heard the other person's voice, it was Ogg, the messenger on Rogner Island.

"Is it ......?"

A thought flashed through his mind, and he got up and stepped to the rough gate made of wooden planks.

"Squeak......

She pushed the door open, revealing a panting figure in her sight, none other than the Courier Og.

In front of her, the long unkempt blonde hair on Og's head was mixed with a lot of morning dew, and the athletic body, which was known for being a good runner, was also exhausted at the moment, proving that he had probably been running for a long time.

Raising his head and looking at Jenny in front of him, Og first tried to adjust his breathing, and then said with some hesitation.

"Mrs. Jenny, I hope you will calm down when you hear this......"

“......”

With the words of the messenger, everything around him seemed to gradually lose its color and turned pale.

Looking at the eager face of Og in front of him, his upper and lower lips opened and closed, but he couldn't hear any sound.

The originally noisy world gradually faded away from the existence of sound, and the whole world ...... The silence is terrible.

The gaze became a little shaky.

Atler, Harriet, Hanna, Olga, Lena......

Countless names stuck in Jenny's throat, as if they were about to erupt, but she couldn't say anything.

His lips opened, trying to say something, but in the end he couldn't say anything.

Instead, the body suddenly leaned backwards, and the husband who looked panicked in the gradual darkness......

......

A month later, through the panicked descriptions of the Norse warriors who had barely managed to save a life, the name of the serpent "Jörmungad" spread throughout the coastal region, and gradually spread to the continent inhabited by humans, above Midgard.

Whether it's a fisherman, a warrior, or a woman, they can't help but exclaim at the legend of the serpent.

Legend has it that the unheard-of serpent, the son of the god Loki, has a body comparable to that of the endless mountains, and its head is comparable to that of any mountain, and when it rages, it can swallow an entire city with its open jaws......

In the mouths of the bards, the serpent was so angry that it often stirred up the sea, causing storms and waves......

The people who were in awe of the huge serpent began to call it ......

"The serpent that entangles the world. ”

......

But in the bottomless deep sea, this behemoth is sleeping quietly in the depths of the sea like never before......

As far as Meng is concerned, he doesn't care much about the world's amazement and surprise at him, in fact, he doesn't care too much about the little people in the "small boat" he met when he molted before.

Without him, too small.

For him, it was just the equivalent of being bitten by an ant while he was sleeping, and then he slapped it casually and ran him to death, which was not worth mentioning at all.

Except for the slight discomfort when he was bitten, for him, he didn't even remember this incident.

On the contrary, Meng is more concerned about his stomach than those humans who are smaller than ants.

As a standard mythical creature, Meng is extremely unscientific in every sense of the word.

For example, even though he doesn't have to eat anything, he can become bigger inexplicably, which is completely inconsistent with the law of conservation of mass and energy, and from his consciousness to now, he has even just passed less than two years, and his body has become incredibly large.

But on the other hand, as his body continues to grow, he also keeps getting hungrier, and only by constantly eating like crazy can he barely fill his hunger.

This hunger was so strong that Meng had no way to do more useless thinking, because just racking his brains to try to fill his stomach had already exhausted all his energy.

As the saying goes, "people are poor and short-minded, but horses are thin and long-haired".

When you are hungry all day, sometimes you will even be so hungry that your eyes are red, you lose your mind, and you think about what to eat every day. Think of something else.

However, the only good thing is that although this strong hunger feeling is strong, it will not let Meng be starved to death, it is just a simple hunger feeling.

And when Meng molted for the first time, this hunger pang also stopped for the first time, although he was still hungry, but he would not be as hungry as before, to the point of completely losing his mind.

But because of this, for the first time, this big snake also had a quiet rest and a time to wait for the molt to be completed.