Hundreds of black poisonous snakes more than ten meters long gathered together, silently and firmly eating the earth......

How weird this picture is.

No, that's not eating dirt.

From Gungnier's unusual reaction, Oakes came to a conclusion that he couldn't believe, but he had to believe -

"Something that looks like a hill ......"

Oakes's face became complicated, there were surprises, surprises, and understandings, and the rest was dignified.

"It's some kind of decaying plant...... No, or it can be concluded, it's the rotten roots. ”

"The World Tree, a small root!"

Oakes still has some research on mythology, especially Norse mythology.

In Norse mythology, the Hel underworld was not as simple as it appears to be.

It should be in the depths of a larger, more primitive world, the world where one of the three taproots of the World Tree is located.

"The World Tree has three taproots, which extend to Asgard, one of the Upper Three Realms, Jotunheim, one of the Middle Three Realms, and ......, one of the Lower Three Realms."

Oakes looked around at the extremely cold mist that was rapidly enveloping him again, and sighed:

"I should have thought that this environment ...... Niforheim, the 'Land of Fog'!"

The Underworld of Hull, just deep in Niflheim, is the true land of the dead, the Nibelungen.

But ever since becoming an advisor to the Asgardian royal family, Oakes has always felt that this is just a myth misinformation.

After all, there is no record of Niforheim in Asgard.

But he can't help but believe in reality.

Gungnir's unprecedented reaction had confirmed that the massive "hills" in front of him were made of the same origin as the branches of the Gun World Tree.

Then the root of the decayed World Tree gnawed by poisonous snakes made Oakes naturally think of a more troublesome existence.

"Niederhogg, the dragon of despair...... If this is really Niflheim, then it is likely to have disappeared with the World Tree, leaving only the Hel Underworld as one of the New Nine Realms. ”

Thinking about the pass, Oakes couldn't help but have a headache.

These poisonous snakes, legend has it that they gnawed at the roots of the World Tree together with the black dragon Nidhogg.

When this taproot is eaten away, the World Tree withers and decays, heralding the arrival of Ragnarok.

Like Badr's death, Nidhogg bites off the roots of the World Tree, a harbinger of Ragnarok.

Unlike Badr, Nidhogg is one of the few creatures that can survive Ragnarok.

So what does Niflheim, and even the disappearance of the World Tree, have to do with it?

While this version of Nidhogg doesn't seem to be as high as a mid-level, since he can do serious damage to the World Tree, he must be an extremely difficult guy to deal with.

According to Oakes' estimates, the size of the World Tree should be at least above a single Infinity Stone, and it is uncertain how many Infinity Stones it is equivalent to—

Of course, it is definitely far from the height of the Six Jewels.

"Whether it's Odin's last wish, or in order to find the World Tree, it seems that this trip must face this kind of world-destroying level boss......"

Oakes touched the Soul Gem necklace, a little rejoicing.

Now he can be regarded as the lowest point of strength in recent years.

But there's no way he's going to give up this opportunity and do nothing.

The roots of the World Tree in front of you have obviously been decayed by the gnawing of poisonous snakes, but if you follow it, you will definitely be able to find the taproot that has not yet decayed!

"Boom ......"

The Mind Gem has risen brightly, and now that he knows that Nidhogg may exist, Oakes must preserve his strength.

Harnessing the power of the Infinity Stones is undoubtedly the safest-

Physical strength needs to be preserved as much as magic, so use the Mind Gem to launch a celestial-level spell attack!

The cold mist turned into a violent ice storm, and the natural magic that was dozens of times more powerful than the one Oaks himself cast just now wiped out the group of low-IQ poisonous snakes in front of him who had not yet reacted to what was going on!

"Tsk...... I have to say, it's miserable. ”

Unlike the same species that Oakes had killed himself, the Vipers killed by Ice Storm had almost no corpses left.

The huge, tough body was strangled to pieces by endless ice slag.

After losing their vitality, these things were finally frozen into huge blocks of ice like normal biological tissue, and smashed to the ground with a bang.

"The Point Guard Is Here"

Maybe the undead creatures would love it, but right now, Oakes has no interest in them at all.

"This ...... How many years have passed. ”

Getting closer, standing under this huge "hill", with Oaks' natural magic attainments, he could barely perceive the peculiarity of these rotten roots in front of him.

"No wonder there are only so few vipers left here, and I'm so close that Gungnir has a new reaction......

It's not the same as the reaction on the alien planet before, I'm afraid the previous reaction was aimed at the World Tree itself. ”

Oakes frowned, perceiving the roots of the World Tree whose current life force had almost completely dissipated.

That's right, this is just a few roots, the World Tree is so big that it can support the nine worlds, and the insignificant roots are as huge as a hill!

The good news is that the World Tree itself should still be there, and it does have something to do with the fact that the seal was broken here, so Gungnir was able to react at such a distance.

The bad news is that things aren't going so well with the World Tree—

After all, according to the original time, Ragnarok has already happened.

Nidhogg's gnawing of the taproot of the World Tree is not the cause of Ragnarok, but its portent.

Ragnarok didn't happen, Badr didn't die, what happened to the World Tree?

If Nidhogg's task in the Asgardian civilization every season is to gnaw the roots of the tree, then in the course of civilization this whole season, the World Tree disappears, what role does he play?

"Really...... It's getting more and more interesting! ”

Touring the world is something Oakes has wanted to do for a long time.

But the world is not only at stake, it's unfathomable, and if you want to explore it without any scruples, you have to at least make sure that nothing threatens you.

Becoming a Dimension Lord only achieves the realm of basic invincibility within the dimension.

But since you want to travel the world, you can't always squat in the dimensional space.

The power of the real world, Oaks has only mastered the earth, and not even the Emerald One planet, let alone the remaining more than a thousand planets.

Igo gave him a way to become stronger, but the process was extremely difficult.

And finding and communicating with the World Tree is one of the few ways that Oaks can safely and quickly improve its strength.

It is also one of the most wonderful scenery on his way around the world.

So, Nidhogg, he's dead.

"Since the World Tree will be my help, then Nidhogg's existence is gnawing at my old roots, and this kind of guy must not stay."

Perceiving the remnants of life force in the decaying roots, Oakes struggled to find his way to the taproot.

Seeing the endless root system "mountain range" in front of him like an ancient giant beast, his eyes flashed with excitement.

"Although it is extremely faint and almost dissipates completely, there is no doubt that the quality is unprecedentedly high, and it is no wonder that so many poisonous snakes can still be fed.

With this kind of almost top-level life force, the World Tree must already have full consciousness, right? ”

With the size of the World Tree, the name of the god of nature is completely unqualified to carry it.

However, the larger the size, the more difficult it is to develop a complete sense of self, especially for plant-based life.

"Whew...... So let's find out, there seems to be a disgusting aura ahead...... It seems that these poisonous snakes are really everywhere. ”

Traveling along the roots to the taproot, the scene felt somewhat familiar to Oakes.

Before meeting Bruce Banner for the first time, Oakes practiced natural spells in the Amazon rainforest.

As the world's second longest river and the largest in terms of flow, the Amazon River has about 15,000 tributaries.

Oakes did it, starting with a small tributary, going up the trail and finally finding the main road of the Amazon River, where it belongs.

What we have to do now seems to be very similar to what we were back then.

Oakes, who enjoyed this process, began to push the poisonous snakes remaining here in the root system of the World Tree.

Over the course of an unknown number of years, most of the root system of the Niflheim taproot has fallen into decay.

Otherwise, Oakes would not have needed to orient the taproot in this stupid way at all.

The closer you get to the taproot, the larger the remnants of the viper population becomes, and the stronger the individual strength becomes.

Even later, a poisonous snake can be tens of meters long, and the poisonous gas emitted far away can make ordinary people be directly poisoned.

But they still couldn't stop Oakes.

It's just that Oakes has been gone for so long, and he hasn't found any traces of Hela's battle.

"It seems that the initial spatial transformation sent Hela and I to different roots.

I don't know how long Hela has been here, it's much easier for the Reality Gem to break through here than the Mind Gem......

She should be able to discover the secrets of this place too, so Nied Hogg ......"

As soon as he thought of this, Oakes, who was moving forward, stopped.

Deflected more than ten degrees in the direction he was going, there were terrifying energy fluctuations.

"Someone is fighting...... What a scale! ”

But this kind of all-out explosive battle energy fluctuation only lasted for a short dozen seconds before it fell silent.

Oakes looked in that direction, and then at the World Tree roots beside him.

It was already a secondary root that was several times larger than the previous one.

"There's a high probability that it's taproot over there, and there's a higher probability that Hela is there."

Transformed into a death raven, Oakes flew directly in that direction:

"Hela, this guy, it couldn't have been the movement of fighting with Nidhogg just now, that level of death magic, she has actually touched the threshold of life and death transformation?"

Hela, who was able to do this, broke out for more than ten seconds and then fell silent, which ......

Niforheim was too big, more than any of the Nine Realms were currently in.

With Oaks' speed, it also took a short time to reach the place where the energy exploded just now.

But all that remained at the scene were the corpses of countless poisonous snakes, as well as a huge black object.

"Dragonscale ......"