Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Whip of Death and the Dragon of Despair

"Have you ever heard of the Whip of Death?"

"Is this a weapon?" Grayling was too embarrassed to speak again since just now. Unexpectedly, after being silent for a while, the girl actually took the initiative to ask, but this question made him a little confused.

"The name of this disease, a very terrible plague. As if thinking of something terrible, the girl wrapped herself in the skin of the beast, and then threw a piece of wood in the bonfire before continuing, "On the Kolia Peninsula near the Sea of Elves, there used to be a city called Gaffa, which belonged to the territory of the Eastern Bretonnian Empire. ”

"At that time, the powerful Vikings plundered from the northern part of the Demon Continent all the way south here, but due to the huge terrain advantage of Gaffa City, the strong walls and the stubborn resistance of the defenders, the Vikings who were superior in numbers were difficult to conquer for a while, and the siege lasted for a whole year. ”

"At this moment, a terrible disease began to spread among the Vikings, causing the death of a large number of soldiers. After the stalemate lasted for a while, the Vikings attacked again, but this time with a new 'weapon', throwing the dead bodies of the disease into the city of Gaffa, and soon there were many people infected with the disease. ”

"The patient begins with chills, headaches, and other symptoms, followed by fever, delirium, coma, extensive bleeding from the skin, sores, respiratory failure, and death in two or three days, or four or five days. ”

"Because of the dark and purple skin of the patients after death, and the Vikings who spread these plagues, they always like to carry horned helmets and attack when they are cold and foggy, similar to the demons of the legendary goddess of death Hull who take pleasure in killing, so people call this plague the 'whip of death'. ”

"This disease soon spread throughout the Demon Realm Continent, and everywhere it went, regardless of class, high or low, there was no cure, and no one could survive this kind of death play. ”

"In Marseille in the Kingdom of the Rhine, 56,000 people died from the Whip of Death, in the Duchy of Tulip only five survived in the city of Denheldt, in Moria the corpses of dwarves who claimed to never get sick filled almost all the pits, and in the Eastern Bretonnian Empire, the royal family of the thousand-year-old empire was torn apart by a plague that could not find an heir. ”

In many places, "corpses are mostly thrown into trolleys like garbage." In those terrible days, "funerals were continuous, and there were very few mourners". The bearers often carried the entire dead family and carried them to a nearby church, where the priests assigned a random place for a hasty burial. ”

"After this terrible plague, the Vikings who had conquered almost half of the Demon Continent disappeared as if they had never existed. But even so, the root cause of this catastrophe is the inhuman plunder. ”

After noticing the girl's words, looking at his dark eyes, Greene shrugged innocently, although he was also a Viking, but hundreds of years had passed since this incident, and he did not think that the root of this plague was the Vikings.

"And how did the plague end?"

Mary straightened her hair, which had been tossed by the sea breeze, and continued, "No one knows how it ended! ”

"Uh..."Greene touched his nose speechlessly, this thing is really a coincidence, no wonder the Vikings will become the backstabbers.

"Which old gods do you Vikings worship now?" said Mary, another question.

"Old Gods?" Greene didn't understand the term.

As far as he knew, most of the Vikings believed in a god clan called 'Asa'. This race of gods is male and female, and different gods look after different aspects of daily life and live in a place called 'Asgard'.

Odin is the god-king and father of the gods, while Grimm's tribe of Thor worships Thor, the son of Odin and the legendary god of war and agriculture. Thor was also called "Thor" because of the fact that Thor would come out in a carriage to patrol whenever there was a thunderstorm.

"The human ancestors of our Demon Realm Continent originally believed in gods, but later after a divine war called 'Ragnarok', most of these gods have fallen. Only the god of light, the incarnation of the sun, Badr, was reborn, so we began to believe in the reborn god of light, and those gods who have passed away are called the old gods. ”

When he said this, the girl's appearance was a little excited, and Greene felt very surprised, this was the first time he had seen another emotion in the girl's body.

"Does God die too?" said Greene, a communist-upped atheist.

Perhaps it was some disrespect from Ge Lin that stimulated the girl, who stared at him with big round eyes and said coldly, "Everything in the world will be destroyed, only light will last forever." ”

"Then why is night still coming, and where has the sun gone now?" Greene smiled lightly, feeling that he had the upper hand, and that the people who came to this world in his mind should not have understood the question, otherwise they would not have regarded the sun as an object of faith.

"You don't even know that, do you? The world is spherical, and the world we live in revolves around the sun. When night falls, it's just that our half of the world turns away from the sun. Even the stars in the sky don't actually shine, they just reflect the light of the sun. The sun is the center of everything, and the light creates everything in the world and is the root of life. Mary glanced at Greene with a slight squint.

Heliocentrism said?Greene was stunned by the girl's answer, has the scientific research of this world developed to this point? and... That look just now... Is it the meaning of looking at hillbillies?

Mary saw the way the Viking boy in front of her stammered, and somehow felt a sense of satisfaction that she had never felt before. She lifted her chin slightly, revealing a slender, white neck like a swan, and continued, "In the Book of Light Prophecy left by Badr, the god of light, there is a cold, foggy place in the northernmost part of the world, called Niforheim. ”

"The daughter of the evil god Loki, the goddess of death, Hull, founded a 'land of the dead' in this dark night where the sun never shines, and the people who live in this land of the dead are called 'Nibelungen'. ”

"After 'Ragnarok', the culprit who destroyed the entire universe - the World Tree, a black dragon named "Despair", Nidhogg, was not killed by the gods, but dragged his dilapidated body to hide in this underworld ruled by the goddess of death, Hull. ”

"One day, the dragon of despair will be resurrected!"

"It is the embodiment of all the negativity of the world, awakening on the frozen earth with a long-cherished desire to destroy the world. ”

"It is the end, it is the despair, the destroyer of destiny, the end of all things, the head of the dragon. ”

"The enemy of life in the world!"