Chapter 609: Giant Court
The peak of the Yarki Mountains towered in the clouds and mist, and Lu Xiao passed through the clouds and mist in the process of descending at high speed, smashing heavily on the winding mountain road halfway up the mountain like a cannonball.
The mountain road has not been used for many years, and its disrepair has caused the originally paved road to become potholes.
"Boom!"
Lu Xiao, who fell from the sky, stepped out of a big hole in the already tattered ground, and after standing firm, he jumped again with his strength, and continued to move towards the next section of the mountain platform.
After jumping more than a dozen times in a row, Lu Xiao finally left the spell restriction range of the Yarki Mountain Range, and after the last jump, he used the wind to lift himself up and accelerate down to the foot of the mountain on the south side.
"Huh!"
Opening the portal to pick up Yongzhen and the others, Scati who stepped through the portal was full of surprise.
"In addition to time spells, you can also use space spells?"
Lu Xiao smiled disapprerovingly: "Time and space are not separated." ”
After stepping over the biggest obstacles, the rest of the journey is much easier.
With a gentle breeze blowing on the vast plains, the majestic giant city of Jumirheim, made of a large number of stones, is already in sight.
As the group approached the capital city, the 20-meter-high gate suddenly closed, and the giants near the gate hurriedly took refuge under the beckoning of the giants.
Dozens of oversized harpoon cannons were lifted from the city wall of Yumirheim, aiming directly at the traveling team led by Lu Xiao.
"Outsider, stop!"
A male giant with a third eye on his head stood at the head of the city, pointing his spear at Lu Xiao and the others with a stern warning: "Explain your intentions!" Otherwise, you will be considered trespassers! ”
Lu Xiao was about to raise his hand to push behind Scati, when he suddenly remembered what happened to the village chief of Langham, and his movements stopped again.
"Ahem~ Scati, it's up to you to negotiate with him, we're outsiders after all."
After the total lockdown of Jotunheim, the giants had not encountered outsiders in years, and Lu Xiao's appearance made some giants wonder if something was wrong with their blockade plans.
After Lu Xiao and the others retreated, Scati rose against the wind and turned back into the giant prototype.
"Fellow citizens, I'm Sharkey's daughter, Scati."
The three-eyed giant at the head of the city had a look of astonishment on his face, and the giant soldiers near him also exchanged their heads in shock.
"The Queen of the Hunt?"
"Isn't there a rumor that she's long dead?"
"That's a rumor from Asgard, it's not necessarily credible, isn't she standing in front of us right now?"
"Damn Asgard again! Those untrustworthy liars! ”
Scati is also a celebrity among the giants, and he can hone a skill beyond the gods, which is rare among the giants.
The Three-Eyed Giant solemnly saluted Skati: "Queen of the Hunt, it's an honor to meet you, I'm Ushtaha, the son of Solem. ”
"These outsiders behind you......"
'Solem? ’
Lu Xiao has some impressions of this name, in the original text of Norse mythology, he seems to have stolen Thor's hammer and forced Thor to wear women's clothes and disguise himself as Freya to recapture the warhammer.
Mimir has also told this story before, and the outline of the story is no different from the original text, except that Thor wears women's clothes instead of Odin selling his wife for glory.
At that time, the relationship between Odin and Freya had fallen to a freezing point, and Solem, who happened to steal Thor's hammer, asked Odin to marry Freya to him, and Odin simply agreed to Solem.
Solem's motives are unknown, either to humiliate Odin or to really fall in love with Freya.
At this time, Freya was useless to Odin, and Odin planned to take advantage of Freya's remarriage to attack Jotunheim and destroy all the giants when Solem opened Jotunheim's passage to meet his bride.
However, the prophecy of Ragnarok was not so easy for Odin to break in the game.
Freya is angry that Odin has made her a negotiating condition, and she has a plan to retaliate.
With the door to Jotunheim open, and Thor and Odin slaying Solem as they prepare to invade the land of giants, Freya casts a spell to bounce off all the Asaphs who are ready to attack, banishing them to the corners of the Nine Realms.
It is said that Odin's roar resounded through the Nine Realms at that time, and this was the moment he came closest to changing his fate, but in the end it still did not materialize.
Soon after, the husband and wife were completely torn apart, and Freya was sealed as a Valkyrie's wings and warrior's soul, banished from Asgard, never to leave Midgard.
Both Solem and Scati have a grudge against Odin, so it's no wonder that Solem's son is so respectful and kind to Skaty.
On the one hand, it is out of respect for the hunting queen's amazing hunting skills, and on the other hand, it is also because of the same hatred.
With this relationship and Scati's assurance, the harpoon cannons on the walls were finally removed.
Ushtaha sent people to the royal court to inform the king of giants and the sages, but Lu Xiao and the others could only wait patiently outside the city for the results to be reported.
"Bang dang!"
About half an hour later, the closed gate of Yumirheim reopened, and Ustaha stood at the gate and politely saluted the group.
"Travelers from afar, Yuhemi, King of Giants, summons you."
After entering Yumirheim, Lu Xiao and Yongzhen felt very uncomfortable.
They are like Thumbelina who has fallen into the human world, and the sturdy and furnishings around them are so large that they can only look up and enjoy the scenery along the way.
Because the viewing angle is too low, Lu Xiao and Yongzhen can't intuitively see the layout of the entire city.
Skati noticed the distress of the two, frowned and thought about it for a while, and finally picked up Lu Xiao, Yongzhen and Fenrir from the ground and put them on his shoulders.
From a higher angle, Lu Xiao was finally able to roughly see the style of the entire city.
If the city were to be reduced to human-adapted specifications, it would be a rather majestic medieval-like castle, but with many differences in detail.
Mimir chattered excitedly: "Ah~ Ymirheim, how many years have I not been here?" ”
"The cityscape looks the same as before, but alas...... Things are not people. ”
Under Odin's special design, many well-known giants died at the hands of Thor, and Mimir lamented the names of these giants on the way.
Among them is the giant's most famous sage, Gloya, known as the Guardian of Knowledge.
Odin covets her library and uses her missing husband, Olfan Diel, as a bait in the hope that Gloya will invite her to borrow books from her library in Midgard.
In order to obtain relevant information about her husband, Gloya agreed to Odin's request, and her end was doomed.
Orfan Dill did not disappear inexplicably, but was poisoned by some butcher who ate and slept and beat giants.
Odin, who was the mastermind behind the scenes, deliberately obscured Gloya's foreknowledge of Olfan Deel, and after being invited into the library, he mercilessly killed Gloya and seized her library.
This is not an isolated case, as the Giant's greatest military general, Stalkard, was also assassinated by Odin's stigmatization plot.
And that's just the story Mimir told, and Skati was just one of many more innocent giants who died in Odin's crazy calculations.
The size of the Giant Court seemed very large to a human of a normal size like Lu Xiao, a middle-aged giant wearing a crown sat on the throne of everyone, and three men and women dressed as wise men and women in robes were lined up on the left and right.
Mimir whispered to Lu Xiao and Yongzhen, "Yuhemi, a descendant of the great Giant King Bergemir, has the direct bloodline of the original giant Ymir. ”
"The Prophesied Traveler."
Yuhemi opened her hands to the crowd and smiled softly, "Welcome to Ymirheim, Queen of the Hunt, Scati, and welcome back to your homeland." ”
"I know you have a lot of questions to ask, but it's not the hospitality of giants to talk about business when you meet, so let's enjoy the giant's banquet first!"