Chapter 296: Transfiguration
An enclosed subspace, the legendary battlefield of Ragnarok.
The Garden of Asaph shrouded in a gray sky is full of devastation, and this former battlefield of the gods can be seen scattered with swords, guns, swords, and halberds, even after ten thousand years, these weapons still retain their cold luster, and there is no sign of decay and rust, except that there is no one to see on the battlefield, whether it is dead or bones.
The sky surrounded by mountains in the distance shimmered with brilliant and colorful auroras, undoubtedly adding a bit of life to the entire almost dead space, and there was a ruin in the mountains, with collapsed masonry and rubble, and huge beams and pillars towering, and the solemnity of the palace of the ancient gods could be vaguely seen.
This is the abode of the ancient gods in the past, and the paradise of the gods opened up by mankind ten thousand years ago when mankind was still in the period of ignorance.
However, time has passed, and the years have passed.
No matter how prosperous and magnificent the scene was, it has become a thing of the past.
In the Great Plains of Wiglet, the place of the final battle, a team of more than a dozen people was struggling towards the distant mountains, stepping on the scorched earth with no vegetation in sight, and the desolation after the raging war was everywhere.
"Be careful!"
At this time, someone in the team suddenly issued a sharp warning, and for a while, the entire team quickly formed a defensive formation and was on full alert, and in a moment, the light and shadow in front of him distorted and inexplicably appeared a large group of giants with flames riding flame war horses, holding various strange weapons and charging at them.
"Here they go again!Gregory!Illusions!Lovren!Activate the defenses......"
One order after another was given in an orderly manner, and when the Flame Giant cavalry approached them, half of the Flame Giants fell under the concerted efforts of everyone in the team.
"Hold on to your formation! Don't let them break up! Otherwise, none of us will escape death!"
At the time of the handover, someone suddenly roared.
The flame giants instantly crashed into the rock-solid formation of the team under the overwhelming charging momentum, sharp ground thorns, flying weapons, and the collision of ice and fire, like a flat boat crumbling in a storm, when the team was about to be torn open and about to collapse, these flame giants disappeared in an instant.
"Win!"
After a while, some people in the team collapsed to the ground as if they were exhausted.
"Don't let your guard down, those monsters are likely to reappear. ”
Some people still tense their nerves and did not relax.
It wasn't until a quarter of an hour later that no monsters were seen, and the whole team began to rest.
Hou Wenjun sat on the ground without any scruples, took the kettle handed by her companion and poured it, she gasped, reached out to wipe the sweat from her forehead, and her fair and delicate face in the past was gray-haired and sloppy.
No one would have thought that there were about a hundred people who had entered the battlefield of Ragnarok, but now only poor people were left after stepping on the Rainbow Bridge.
Since entering this space, they have been in an environment with excessive radiation all the time, and the weaker ones have finally become difficult to breathe, and most importantly, they don't know how many inexplicable enemies they have attacked along the way.
Giants, wolves, serpents, devils, barbarian warriors and more.
According to the scholars in the team who are familiar with ancient mythology, the enemies they encountered were the armies that had fought each other in Ragnarok, but for some reason, these armies appeared in front of them as if they had traveled through time and space, but fortunately they did not exist for long, otherwise they would have been completely wiped out under this endless onslaught.
If it weren't for the organization leader Doragon realizing this in time and uniting the psionic beings of each organization, he would have survived until now, but the first twenty-three people have also died eight of their companions due to various accidents.
"Everyone, let's get ready to go!"
After resting, Doragon, as the temporary commander and leader of the team, stood all the time looking at the mountains in the distance, and after a long time, he turned around and said to everyone with a resolute face.
"Doragon! I want to quit!"
A middle-aged man in the clinker team raised his hand tiredly and said.
"Eduardo, you've already arrived at this place, and you chose to quit?" the companion next to him looked incredulous. "Besides, how can you go back alone? Aren't you afraid of dying halfway?"
"Curtis, don't persuade me, I've already decided. Eduardo shook his head and sighed. "Have you noticed that on the way to the Golden Palace, the enemies we encountered are getting stronger and stronger, and we were already very difficult to defend against the flame giants just now, if we encounter Fenrir or Jörmungård's space-time phantom again, I am afraid that all of us present will be in danger...... If I go back now, at least I still have the strength to deal with those ordinary enemies, I just want to live, as for the treasures of the Golden Palace, whoever loves it will go!"
As soon as the words fell, everyone in the team fell silent.
"Does anyone want to quit?" said the silent Doragon after looking around.
“...... Doragon, I also decided to quit. In a moment, someone in the group stood up.
"And my ......"
"Me too. ”
As a result, someone started and immediately followed by a succession of people who stood up like a domiru effect.
"Anything else?" said Doragon, looking at the crowd with a calm expression.
After about ten seconds, Doragon saw that no one stood up and chose to quit, so he turned his attention to the people who decided to quit, a total of seven people, minus them, and there were only eight left in the team.
"Since you have made up your mind, I will not dissuade you, let's go our separate ways here, take care!"
"Doragon!
"I'm sorry!"
“......”
Afterwards, those who left began to return the same way under the leadership of Eduardo.
"Let's go too. ”
After watching the other man drift away, Doragon shook his head.
With that, the team set off again.
Hou Wenjun, who wanted to explore the truth of her father's death, naturally would not quit easily, she stood up silently, followed the back of the team and cautiously began to move forward step by step, because the people who left were in charge of vigilance and reconnaissance matters before, the team needed to rearrange their respective tasks, and Hou Wenjun, who was good at close combat and was not inferior in strength, was responsible for the rear guard, so as not to suddenly appear The enemy caught them off guard, and they had caused a lot of casualties before.
Although there are all kinds of weapons scattered in the Garden of Asaph, these weapons may be divine weapons in the eyes of the ancients, but in the eyes of modern people, they are nothing more than valuable antiques, not to mention the psionics, they need artifacts that can really increase the power of psionic energy, not these broken copper and iron, but they have never found anything here.
Therefore, everyone speculated that perhaps the weapons of the gods that disappeared from the battlefield may be hidden in the palaces of the mountains, especially in the golden palace where Odin, the king of the gods, is located.
Wealth touches people's hearts, and power makes people drunk.
In the eyes of psionics who have personally experienced the illusion of war of the gods, the soldiers in the decisive battle are so strong, but what about the gods who wield artifacts? Odin's spear, Suter's sword, Thor's hammer, etc., all of which are clearly recorded in mythological history.
The Golden Palace, the mythical palace where Odin lived on the top of the mountains, and Valhalla.
During the period of the rise of the ancient gods, Norse mythology and Greek mythology can be said to be competing with each other, the difference is that Norse mythology has a beginning and an end, and Greek mythology has no problem after evolving into Roman mythology, secular scholars believe that the rise of Christianity has led to the lack of interest in Greek mythology, but in the world of psionics, the gods of Greek mythology are just a group of descendants emulated after Norse Ragnarok, their strength is far less powerful than the Norse gods in their heyday, and the final decline is just another group of psionics in the name of Christ to be wiped out one by one, and the scale of the war is not even one-tenth of that of Ragnarok。
On the long journey to the Golden Palace, the party was attacked by different enemies one after another, but fortunately the worst that Eduardo had envisioned did not materialize, but the team still died, and three of them died in one death.
"It's finally here!"
At the foot of the towering mountains, some people came over with a near-death life, and some people couldn't help but kneel on the ground and sigh deeply.
"Have you noticed that we haven't encountered any enemies since we entered the foothills. Someone mused.
"After all, according to the myth, this place is far from the main battlefield. Doragon said with a look of fatigue on his face. The final destruction of the gods came from the death of Frey, Prince of Asaph, and Suter, the flame giant, and the collapse of the palace of the gods was affected by this battle. ”
Hou Wenjun looked up at the palace on the top of the mountain in a daze, as if she saw the Golden Palace and Valhalla that had turned into ruins.
"Let's go, there's nothing to see here. ”
After resting, Doragon, who had carefully observed the surroundings, said.
"Golden Palace!" ...... Kinamiya "Someone muttered continuously.
"You say, 'Are there any people alive here?'
On the way to the top of the mountain, someone broke the silent atmosphere of the procession.
"Curtis, this joke isn't funny at all. Edgar shuddered.
"No, I suddenly remembered someone. Curtis said silently.
"Who?"
"Valkyrie Brünnhilde. Curtis said. "After Ragnarok, her name continued to circulate into the sixth century AD. ”
"No way, these are just the imagination of posterity!" retorted Eggberg. "After Ragnarok, all the gods died, including the Valkyries. ”
"That being said, I have a foreboding feeling that there may well be Valkyries still alive in the Valraha Shrine. Curtis looked up at the top of the mountain and took a deep breath.
"Ten thousand years have passed, and no one will survive. Doragon finally spoke.
"But what do you say about Wiglett's real illusion of war?" said Curtis. "It's hard to guarantee that someone will survive in an endless cycle of time and space, maybe the outside world has passed 10,000 years, but their time hasn't changed at all. ”
"Makes sense. Doragon muttered for a while. "Everyone, pay attention to maintaining your formation, and be vigilant about any anomalies that may occur at that time. ”
Until they arrived at the Golden Palace, which had collapsed badly at the top of the mountain, everyone did not encounter any enemies or accidents, and they all stopped at the magnificent ruins in front of them.
"This is the Golden Palace?" said Edgar, looking down for a moment. "It's just a bunch of ordinary temples made of stones, how can a myth depict it so exaggeratedly. ”
"Myth is myth, reality is reality, and the gods are all human beings, and with the social conditions of the time, what kind of buildings could they build?" said Egerberg.
"At the very least, let's make something like a pyramid. Edgar said.
"However, this is the land of the gods where humans are grounded, how could the gods let humans in at will. Egberg said. "Unless it's in the capacity of a Heroic Spirit. ”
"Let's go inside. ”
Doragon waited for them to finish before proposing.
"Remember not to let your guard down. ”
After the words fell, everyone began to enter the corridor of the palace, and only the sound of footsteps echoed among the ruins and broken walls, which invisibly made people's mood become depressed.
Soon they came to a place that resembled a side temple.
"No, there's nothing here! ”
Edgar, who was looking around along the way, couldn't help but say.
"Shut up!"
As a result, Curtis suddenly raised his hand and said with a serious expression.
"Listen, there's a sound around?"
"What?"
Edgar didn't care about anything else, and the rest of the group held their breath.
Click, click-
In the depths of the corridor in front of the side hall, footsteps were heard.
"All on alert!"
Doragon whispered and immediately gave orders, and immediately everyone gathered in a circle, staring intently at the corridor.
The sound grew closer, and the heartbeat grew stronger.
After a long time, a vague figure walked out of the corridor.
waited until the other party came out of the shadows, and everyone saw each other's true faces.
It turned out to be a woman wearing armor all over her body and a long sword hanging from her waist.
"It's been so many years, and I finally smell the breath of the living again. ”
Before Doragon and the others could speak, the woman opposite looked at them hoarsely and said.
"You... You...... Who are you?" said Edgar, trembling.
"I've had many names, some have called me Stitcho, some have called me Renas, some have called me Valkyrie, and the last time, they called me Brunhilde. Because she was wearing a helmet, the woman's appearance was difficult to see, and she thought back to saying this, and her hoarse voice became a little smooth and clear, as if she hadn't spoken for a long time.
"Brunhilde?!How could it be?!Aren't you dead long ago??," Eggberg cried out in disbelief.
"I am indeed dead. Brünnhilde looked wistfully at the ruins of the palace road. "But I stand before you before me, who is not yet dead. ”
"What do you mean?" said Edgar, confused.
"Due to the space-time chaos caused by the final battle, everyone, everyone...... are all involved in the turbulence of time and space...... And I was torn into countless pieces in the turbulence of time and space, scattered in the past, present, and future turbulence of time and space, and the present me is the past me, the undead me. ”
"Excuse me, Lady Brunhilde, did you come out of the blue, intending to deal with us?" said Doragon, in a deep voice.
"No, I've just been lonely here for too long and want someone to talk to. Brünnhilde sighed.
"So, you're trying to force us here?" said Egberg's face.
"Yes. Brünnhilde nodded.
"I beg your pardon for refusing!" said Eggberg instantly.
Qiang –
A sword was unsheathed, and before the others could react, Brünnhilde withdrew his sword.
Eggberg, on the other hand, froze in place.
"Egberg?"
Edgar, who was beside him, carefully touched his body, who knew that it was okay not to touch it, and when he touched it, Eggberg's head fell to the ground.
"Run!"
Seeing that the situation was not good, Doragon immediately shouted angrily.
"None of you can leave today. ”
In the distance, Brunhilde's voice rang out in everyone's ears.
Suddenly, everyone froze their bodies.
"Space psyker?"
Although his body couldn't move, his mouth could speak, and the moment his body was fixed, Doragon was suddenly shocked.
Footsteps are approaching.
"Have you forgotten that I am the goddess who leads the spirits, and no one can escape from me...... Now, I'm here to take you to the new Warraha. ”
Brünnhilde's voice rang out faintly.
"No, I don't want to go, please let me go!"
Edgar screamed as hard as he could, but halfway through his shouting, his voice stopped abruptly.
Immediately after, Curtis and Doragon's breath disappeared into perception, but Hou Wenjun desperately turned his fate around the spiritual energy and telekinesis in his body to try to break out of the other party's restraints, and moved!
But—
Brunhilde had come to her.
"The last one is you, beautiful little girl. ”
She stretched out her pale hand and caressed Hou Wenjun's cheek, although she couldn't see her face clearly, the wonderful arc outlined by the corners of her mouth was full of tempting taste.
"You can take me, but before you take me, I just want to ask you one thing. ”
Hou Wenjun stared at Brunhilde, as if she had completely given up on struggling and resisting.
"I like your attitude, excuse me. ”
Brunhilde held Hou Wenjun's face and kissed her lightly on the lips.
Hou Wenjun, who felt a bad chill all over her body, calmed down and said. "More than a decade ago, someone broke into this place by the same accident, but he mysteriously died shortly after he came out, do you know how he died?"
"More than a decade ago?" Brünnhilde recalled. "I remembered...... More than 10 years ago, it seems that two groups of people did break into this place. ”
"Two groups?" Hou Wenjun said with wide eyes.
She didn't remember what her father had said about it.
"Yes, two groups of people, the strength of the first group is very strong, so strong that I don't dare to come out, I can only peep in the dark, and in the end I can only watch them take Kungunir, Thor's hammer...... I remember that the latter group came in and ran into them, and as a result of an asymmetrical battle broke out between the two sides, and in the end, someone escaped from them, and you may be talking about the one who escaped, I remember, he was hit by a black light, probably because of some kind of curse that caused his mysterious death. Brünnhilde said.
"Where did they go?" Hou Wenjun's eyes were red and her tone was excited.
"Gone. Brünnhilde said in a deep voice. "They didn't leave the Rainbow Bridge, but disappeared directly, and in the dark, I felt a blink of an extremely evil aura enveloping them. ”
"Extremely evil? ”
"Who?!"
Suddenly, Brunhilde rarely showed a dignified fighting posture and glanced back and forth, because it was an unfamiliar voice.
"Hello, I take the liberty to disturb your peace, my name is Chen An. ”
Chen An slowly walked out of the depths of the corridor as Brunhilde had just appeared.
"I'm very interested in what you said about the extremely evil aura, could I please consult you a little deeper?"
"When did someone like you appear in the world?"
Brunhilde still didn't relax, holding the long sword at his waist and staring at Chen Andao.
"I'm sorry, but I'm not from your world. Chen An smiled. "I'm just a passer-by in time and space. ”
"......," Brünnhilde was silent for a moment. "Do you know someone who broke into this place for more than a decade?"
"I don't know. Chen An denied it. "But I may have guessed where they came from, so, I need your help. ”
"How do you need me to help you?" said Brünnhilde.
"I want something from you. Chen Andao. "What they left behind before. ”
“...... How do you know I have their stuff on me?" Brunhilde froze for a moment, flipped his palm, and transformed into a mysterious silver metal orb.
"Because the smell of it is so familiar to me. Chen An said lightly. "Even from thousands of miles away, I can smell it. ”
"Do you know what it is?" asked Brunhilde.
"A marker. Chen Andao.
"You want it?" said Brunhilde, no more asking, and casually took the metal ball.
"If you are willing to be the beauty of a human being. Chen Andao.
"Yes, if you're willing to stay. ”
As soon as the words fell, a silver light flashed.
Chen An's fingers were clamped between the blade of the sword that was close at hand, and he looked at Brunhilde with a calm expression who tried to draw the sword but failed.
"I'm sorry, you don't seem to have the strength to keep me!"
"How is it possible, you ......"
Brünnhilde simply gave up his sword and quickly stepped back, stopping until he reached what he thought was a safe distance.
There was a reason why Brunhilde was surprised, when she pulled out her long sword to attack Chen An, she had already used her spatial ability to freeze Chen An, but Chen An was not affected, but instead clamped her long sword between two fingers.
"Now, you can give it to me, after all, I don't want to cause unnecessary conflicts. ”
Chen Anfeng said lightly.
"Don't try to escape, now that I've completely sealed off the entire space and cracked your soul mark, even if you escape into the turbulence of time and space, I can catch you back. ”
"You won. Brunhild looked blank and pulled out the small metal fairway. "But please promise that you won't care about it after you take it, and immediately unlock the space blockade and let me go!"
"Of course, I'm a man of promise, and you can verify this from the lady next to you. ”
“......”
Brunhilde quickly disappeared after throwing the metal ball to Chen An, as if he was afraid that the other party would regret it.
Her departure means that the restraints on Hou Wenjun's body no longer exist.
"Tell me, who are you talking about?"
I didn't want Hou Wenjun to rush to Chen An as soon as he was free, and he couldn't wait impatiently.
"It's just a bunch of so-called reincarnations. Chen An carefully observed the metal ball in his hand and said casually. "I didn't expect them to be here. ”