The Land of Shadows, also known as the Land of the Dead, is where the spirits of the Viku people are said to go. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Tens of thousands of years ago, when Hela and Odin were not at odds, they studied this mysterious world of shadows together, which seemed to be a half-plane associated with Azeroth, like the Emerald Dream and the Elemental Realm, but the Shadow Nation was much smaller than those worlds.

And the souls of those dead Viku people will also be sent into that place by mysterious powers, and then re-enter the world through some mysterious way that Odin doesn't know, completing the cycle of life and death.

Actually, the place is still running, and it is closely related to every living being, but so far, whether it is Odin's golden Vargri, who can induce souls, or Hela, who already controls a huge part of the Shadow Country, it seems that they are only interested in the souls of the Viku people.

Neither the souls of dwarves nor humans were intercepted by them, perhaps because they were too weak, or perhaps for other reasons, in short, neither Odin's Heroic Spirits nor Hela's Kvadir had seen a single soul other than a Veku.

The location of the Shadow Nation is mysterious, but it also has a gate in this world... And right in Storm Fjord.

After Hela and Odin fell out, the King of Wisdom Lorcan colluded with Hela and used the rules of Ulduar and the Shadow Country to bind Odin in Valhalla for tens of thousands of years, but this was only the starting point of Hela's revenge, in order to make Odin feel frustrated and suppressed, Hela deliberately placed the entrance to the Shadow Country directly under Valhalla.

The Viku city of Hosswald was once inhabited by the Odin-believing Viku people, but in Hela's rage, tens of thousands of Viku were thrown into the Shadow Nation in the form of living beings, wailing and dying in agony, and their dead spirits are still scattered in the ruins of the city that has been shrouded in moss and shadows.

In the city that has been shrouded in darkness and fog for tens of thousands of years, perhaps even the bravest Viku people are reluctant to set foot here, and it is said that the bones of the Viku people in Hoswald were collected to build a tomb, which occupies a large mountain.

It's not that the brave warriors fear the dead, but that the place itself is a wound in the history of the Viku people, representing those dark years.

But today, this ghost place has an uninvited guest.

Just after Hela swept through the mist and returned to the entrance of the Shadow Nation in Hoswald, the black passage was covered with a layer of black energy, and it was about to close in reality, but the next moment, a holy light mixed with purple thunder and lightning crashed into it, forcibly tearing the passage that was about to close again.

The escaping thunder and lightning formed a diffuse power grid in the sky, completely piercing the air, making the sky blurry, like the wrath of an angry god.

It's been a long time since Dick has been so angry, and when he's not looking, Hela... This madman, who he had never thought of intersecting with him, kidnapped two people who were very important to him.

How can you not make him angry?

Thunder and lightning fell from the sky, and the earth shook several times as it slammed into the ground, and a shocking depression appeared in the center of the ruins of the city of Hosswald, and the shock wave spread in all directions, knocking down all the ruins of the buildings and turning them into rubble.

Dick half-knelt in it, slowly rising from the bottom of the pit that had been shattered several cracks, Hela's roar was still in his ears, and under the escape of the power of the Shadow Country, the entire Hoswald Necromancer emerged from the darkness, and slowly, with a cold aura surrounded Dick.

And the creepy click that sounded in the darkness, like the roar of some kind of giant beast.

But Dick didn't pay any attention to these more and more necromancers, he looked at the entrance of the Shadow Country, which was getting smaller and smaller in the intertwining of light and darkness not far away, and strode in that direction with the Wind Chaser in his hand.

Behind him, the power of the gods was windless, and the power of the flames from the red spirit and the holy light of Dick were mixed together, and with the footsteps of the paladin, they became more and more majestic, and finally, it was like a small sun rising behind Dick.

Golden sunshine!

Like a rain of flame light falling from the sky, from above the clouds, endless golden raindrops, in the heavier and heavier chants fluttering, smashed down on this city of necromancy, every drop falls, it will be like a real raindrop, the flames, holy light and order in it spread to other places, those dead souls who come into contact with this point of light are like dry bones thrown into the flames, with the clicking sound of burning from the body, slowly dissipating in the scorching light.

And that darkness!

The ubiquitous darkness, the most powerful symbol of this land, was forced to retreat for the first time in tens of thousands of years, Dick's will was as strong as steel, driven by the angry killing intent, the rain of light fell faster and faster, the ground began to shake again, and the small world was groaning, as if it could not withstand this terrible bombardment.

The darkness is also wailing, no matter what kind of life is mixed with it, what kind of ugly existence it is, it is burned out in this forced strangulation, in the golden flames that are constantly swinging.

Not even a chance to escape.

This is probably the first time that Dick has completely driven his power after accepting the core of thunder and lightning and becoming a hero, and in less than 15 seconds, this place of death, which has not been approached for tens of thousands of years, has completely turned into a white land.

All existence, whether solid or broken, all existence, whether righteous or evil, all existence, whether pathetic or hateful.

All of them were completely swept away in the chant that had been low to the extreme, in the rain of light that fell from the sky.

This is a hymn of destruction.

But this is definitely not Hela's all means, in fact, Dick and Hela really fight, the chance of winning is very slim, but not nothing, this can be seen from Dick cutting off one of Hela's tentacles with a sword, the gap between the two is not so big that it makes people desperate, but if the battlefield is in the country of shadows, then Dick will definitely lose.

That's not an easy opponent to defeat.

After all, it was an existence in the name of death, and even Odin had to go all out.

"Whew!"

At the moment when Dick completely cleared the darkness of Hoswald, as the rift in the Shadow Land expanded again, a behemoth jumped out of the shadow and pounced on Dick, it was a beast, three heads, a snake-like neck, and a lava-hound-like body, but at least 10 times larger than the lava dog, like a small mountain.

Flames, shadows, and frost sprayed filthy energy from its three large mouths towards Dick, and when the completely different energies were mixed together, its power increased in vain, and with a single breath, it turned the small half of Hoswald City directly into a sea of filthy energy, and its two front claws clawed at the ground, and with a single blow, it brought six rifts to the ground, as well as endless cracks.

This bone-white, ominous, cruel, deadly, and indifferent beast with eyes is Hela's pet, the gatekeeper of the Land of the Dead, the three-headed dog of hell named Gorm.

For hundreds of thousands of years, it has defended the Land of the Dead for Hela, and countless Vikku warriors have sought glory from it, but almost none have ever won.

The beast looked at its results with satisfaction, Hoswald had been completely destroyed, and in its modest intelligence, the creature that radiated a nasty glow all over his body must have been killed by the invincible Gohm.

But the next moment, a cold call came from above its head,

"Ugly dog, look here!"

One of Gohm's heads turned to the sky in vain, and he was greeted by a pillar of light that was thick with two people hugging each other, filled with unimaginable heat and order, and almost smashed head-on on Gohm's face.

Cerberus let out a wail, its teeth were almost completely knocked out by this blow, but before it could launch a counterattack, a silver-purple light flashed from its constantly shaking neck, and the sides of the Wind Chaser Sword were covered with unbelievably sharp blades and leaping thunderbolts, under the blessing of this shadow-like speed, in the swing of the six light wings behind him, driven by all the blessing spells and endless holy energy, with the sword as a sword, the energy exploded, and after this blow, the stinky blood sprayed wildly in the air behind him.

Then came Gohm's worst scream since birth, a blow that tore open a two-thirds wound in its neck, and the bones, throat, and mist-covered flesh were directly ignited by the enraged Dick.

The golden and silver flames danced on the wound, with evil as firewood, darkness as sparks, and the body and head of Cerberus were like a large golden torch, and its body jumped, it was pain, it was fear... Fear of death.

This monster with six wings in front of him, as if he manipulates all the holy light, he has the ability to kill himself!

Gohm went crazy, driven by fear, so that all the energy in his body was constantly sprayed towards the place where Dick was, trying to make a defensive circle that would not be attacked, its huge body, its proud vitality, its incomparably powerful power, was meaningless in the face of extreme speed and extreme destructive power.

It didn't even dare to turn away from it, it had already seen Dick's speed... Can't escape!

Will die!

Really going to die!

Gatekeeper of Hell, scared...

But its fear could not affect the paladin at this time, he was like a wild golden meteor, dragging a long golden tailitis, galloping back and forth around Gorm's huge body, like a hot meal knife cutting into flesh and blood, constantly leaving deep scars on Gorm's solid skin.

He landed on Golm's body, ripping a lump of flesh from Gorm's back before the flames sprayed down, before disappearing into thunder.

He slammed it down from the sky, the Wind Chaser in his hand sinking into Gorm's belly with the hilt, and then ran across the ground, tearing Gorm's skin open.

He knew that if he was hit by Gohm once, he would end up with a minor or even serious injury, like a dance on a blade, but he didn't care... Because this dog can't hit him at all.

Before the complete evolution to a certain extreme, such as the extreme of life force, the demigod, the larger the body, the more places that will be attacked, frankly speaking, although Gom is strong, but there is still some distance from the demigod, its self-healing speed is also very fast, but not as fast as Dick's destruction.

Most importantly, it chose the wrong battlefield... Hundreds of thousands of years in the Shadow Country, its body has been transformed from the inside out by the shadow energy, those shadow energy can make it stronger, can make its breath more threatening, and more importantly, the pervasive death of the Shadow Country will greatly weaken Dick's speed, and even affect his order and the threat of the Holy Light, thus making it invincible.

But the proud beast chose to fight Dick in the world of order... This is Dick's home turf!

Dick held the alien sword in both hands, the core of thunder and lightning was beating wildly in his chest, this was definitely the craziest beating after the core of thunder and lightning entered his body, every vibration, will transmit huge power into his limbs, the energy mixed with the power of thunder and lightning, is quietly changing the energy distribution in Dick's body.

When Gohm's second head was directly cut off by Dick, his whole body was like being wrapped in silver thunder and lightning, and the air around him became blurred and scorched under the penetration of this extremely unstable energy, and the thunder and lightning... That's nature's wildest and most difficult energy to harness.

Gorm couldn't take it anymore, and it wailed, dragging its half-severed head, and the only one that remained, and wailed towards the entrance to the Shadow Nation.

It was going back to its own territory, it was going back to its master, it was going to the dark but warm nest that made it feel gentle.

Behind it in embarrassment, above the sky, Dick, who had been wrapped in thunder and lightning, and even his eyes were constantly rippling with blue-purple lightning light, looked indifferently at Gomm, who fled for his life, and the wind-chasing sword in his hand was held in his left hand, and the rippling light on it, mixed with gold, and the continuous jump of slender thunder and lightning.

It's like the most indifferent hunter, waiting for the moment when the prey enters the net.

When Gorm approached the entrance to the Shadow Country, the moment the entrance that had been completely shrunk to the point where it was invisible suddenly expanded enough for Gorm to pass through, Dick's figure disappeared in place with a thunderclap-like thunderclap, and the space in that place was shattered like broken glass.

The silver lightning slashed through Gaum's body, its body suddenly stopped, the scorching and smelly blood gushed from behind it like a fountain, its huge body shook twice, the desire to survive and the last glimmer of hope completely bloomed in Gorm's last two eyes, and then froze forever.