At the bottom of the Cosmic Tree is a quagmire of countless gigantic roots spreading and entrenched. After the ancestor of the ancient serpent inhabited here, and after the ancestor of the gods, Rhodes and his sons, defeated the black serpent and forced it to plow to open the earth, and the black dragon Zanircha became the new host at the bottom of the cosmic tree.

It was no longer Nidhogg, who had eaten away the World Tree, the black dragon had spread its wings to cover the sky and the sun, and countless corpses hung from it, all that had been the existence of the ancient northern gods, and now a weathered skeleton.

The black dragon Zanircha witnessed a ragnarok, the final destruction of the Norse gods.

It also bears witness to the rise of a giant serpent.

In the battle of the gods hundreds of years ago, Veres single-handedly challenged the gods of the temple of gods, and was finally forced to retreat into the deep sea by the god-king Sventovet to send a heavenly fire to burn him, and then locked in the deep sea under the joint efforts of the god-king and Kadong.

The black dragon Zanir found the best wedge.

It heard the sound of wings fluttering, and from the top of the World Tree, a bird that was out of step with the decaying environment around it, landed there.

As a bird of prophecy, Gamayoun, like the black dragon Zanircha, is at odds with the gods and the world.

It is rumored that at the beginning of the heavens and the earth, Gamaeun found the well of Suriya in the mountains of Libei on the other side of the vast ocean in the east, in the place where the island of Berezan was full of charming drunken flowers, and Gamaeune drank the water of the well of life, and the prophetic bird of prophecy became an immortal being.

He landed on Zanircha's shoulder, flapped his wings, and said, "Zanircha, the Stygian Sea has begun to churn with great waves, Morian and the Descendants of Darkness are wreaking havoc on everything, and the gods of the Temple of the Gods spend endless years every day in drunken dreams and death. Did you verify what you said about Ragnarok?"

Zanicha looked up, his eyes filled with indifference and disdain.

"Zanircha, the serpent Veres is chained to the dark Stygian Sea, and will never be able to get out of it again, will the end of the gods never come again?"

In the face of Gamma Youen's noise, the black dragon Zanircha said impatiently, "Great Gama Youen, you are the bird of the omniscient prophet. Didn't you anticipate the twilight of the gods? The mortals of the earth will experience endless suffering, and the gods of the heavens will turn against each other and turn against each other. At that time, the key that triggers Ragnarok will open the box of calamity, and then the entire tree of the world will collapse in the face of evil, die, and be reborn again. ”

The prophet of prophecy, Gamma Eune, like Zanircha, watched coldly on the rise, prosperity, and eventual end of the Lord's heirs.

The death and life of the gods have nothing to do with them.

"There are people among the gods who are trying to prevent this from happening, not knowing that all they are doing is catalyzing the end times. ”

The black dragon Zanircha spread his wings and leaped out of the mire at the bottom of the World Tree, and the entire World Tree shook slightly.

It's time to help Veres break free from his shackles and regain his freedom.

An overwhelming shadow roamed the Red Sea, and those black eyes looked at the skeleton that spread out at the bottom of the sea—no, it couldn't be called a skeleton anymore. The regrowth of flesh, the visible stirring of the heart, and the evil, huge head, after tens of millions of years of changes, the great evil god Jörmungad, who had crushed the entire tree of the world, was reborn again.

Then the black dragon Zanir looked at the dying Veres, soaked in his own blood, and no part of his body was intact except where he was bound by chains.

Kadon cruelly made Veres suffer from pain.

Zanircha came to Veres, looked at the serpent in front of him, and said, "It seems that you enjoyed the process, Veres. ”

Veres raised his head, he looked at the black dragon in front of him, and reluctantly said, "Zanircha, you're still here." When you took me into the twilight world of the destruction of the gods, I knew that none of this was as simple as I imagined. ”

"Your reaction was calmer than I expected. ”

"When the gods on high find themselves not the center of the world, they will inevitably fall into madness and chaos. ”

When the consciousness of the traveler and the deity becomes one, it is both a god and a man. "It was a long time ago, when I wasn't like this, that I thought that myths were just the product of a dichotomy mind. Humans did not have full self-consciousness in ancient times, and before that, they relied on a dichotomy to survive—whenever they encountered a difficult situation, one half of the brain would hear guidance from the other half, and this guidance would be regarded as the voice of God. As human society becomes more and more complex, this dichotomy eventually collapses, and human beings' modern self-consciousness is awakened, and finally has the ability to tell an inner narrative. When God's silence is followed by chaos, this new way of coping is just right. That's why, in the myths described by almost every civilization, there will eventually be a natural disaster and the twilight of the gods. Humanity can no longer hear"

Zanircha's eyes narrowed, it wagged its tail, and whispered, "What are you talking about, Veres?"

However, Veres was unimpressed by Zanircha's rhetorical question.

"Before the collapse of the mind, the legend of the serpent will inevitably be mentioned in the development of every civilization's mythology. There are many different groups throughout Mesoamerican history that have worshipped Quetzalcoatl, but its exact origin is unknown. The Aztecs have always made Quetzalcoatl the centerpiece of their monasteries. In Japanese mythology, there is a large snake with eyes like red lantern fruits, moss, cypress and cedar trees, and its belly is always bloody, like a rotten corpse. Greek mythology also has basilisks such as Tifeng, Hydra, and Lamia. Hermes and Hippocrates' rods were also entwined with serpents, and of course it was Satan in the Garden of Eden who took the form of a serpent and became the author of original sin. Ra, the Egyptian god Ra, always had to fight against the serpent of Hades, and the serpent would protect the pharaoh of the demigods, and the Sumerian hero Gilgamesh got the undead grass but was taken away by the serpent. Why in all myths, the image and behavior of the serpent are so similar, as conventional? ”

"It wasn't until I saw Jörmungård's bones that I was sure of one thing. ”

"All the snake gods worshipped by those civilizations are the same god!"