Chapter 20: The Goddess of Death, and the Supreme Mage

"Eternal Flame..... Odin's death has something to do with you!"

Valkyrie was immersed in some kind of memory for a long time, and suddenly shouted to James like a fur, but before he could respond, the woman shook her head again and again, and muttered in self-denial:

"No... No, you are indeed very strong, but it is impossible to defeat Odin at this level, he is a god-king beyond the level of 'true god', how can it be..."

Ignoring Valkyrie's chaotic words, James collected his thoughts and didn't explain, leaving her and walking towards the top of the arena.

Instead, the woman leaned behind James and kept asking.

"You say 'should'? Should Odin be dead? What the hell is going on, make it clear - please... Please tell me..."

Facing James's sudden indifferent looks, the female warrior left behind by the Aesir Protoss suddenly felt her scalp tighten, and this familiar feeling of horror made her breathe a sigh of relief, and she no longer dared to make such an aggressive questioning posture.

"I had a fight with your God-King, and he wanted to use the Rainbow Bridge to send me somewhere, but something went wrong, so I got lost on Saka. As for his death... You're right, I'm really no match for Odin Poulsen."

James turned his face sideways and continued to walk forward, Valkyrie following along, lest he miss a word that came out of his mouth.

「..... Your skills are good, and you shouldn't be unknown among the Aesir Protoss, but I don't think even you will know the true source of your God-King's power."

"Odin's physical condition is not normal, a fight with me will accelerate his aging, and I am sure that a group of more troublesome people will find Asgard, if Odin strikes again... It's hard to survive."

As you march from the floor of the Saka Arena to the viewing box above where Gao Tianzun was located, the slaves and gladiators he met along the way bowed down and knelt down at James' sides, chanting many alien languages he did not understand.

When she walked outside the room where Gao Tianzun was, the guard at the door blocked Valkyrie's path, signaling that she was not qualified to enter.

Seeing this, James stopped and was not in a hurry to enter, and the expression of the Protoss woman next to him became strange again.

"I was a 'Valkyrie'... The Valkyrie who survived in the end, I listen to you, it should come from Midgard, if Odin returns to Valhalla, then your world... I'm afraid we're about to meet the true Grim Reaper.'"

"Valkyrie? It's been mentioned in the mythology of the Aesirs, but you seem to have mysteriously disappeared for whatever reason, so tell me about the so-called 'Grim Reaper', and maybe I can try to get you out of here with me."

After mentioning the title of "Valkyrie", Valkyrie took a few deep breaths, her appearance was not good-looking, with a square face and a broad nose, and her temperament was very different from the contemporary Asgard warriors that James had seen.

"Hela Odinson, Odin's eldest daughter, known as the 'Goddess of Death', he was the pioneer of Odin's conquest of the Nine Realms and the fiercest executioner, half of Asgard's territory was defeated by her, but her ambition and murderous desire were too heavy, and she still refused to give up after the Aesir Protoss ruled the nine kingdoms of the World Tree, so... Odin decided to get rid of her!"

James' expression finally became serious, such a secret has not been mentioned in any account of the Aesir gods.

"The Valkyrie Legion was sent by Odin to kill Hela, but he knew that we couldn't be her opponents, and the Valkyrie became a pure outcast, a cannon fodder to drain Hela's power! so that Odin can seal her away...... So once Odin died... Hela will definitely come back."

After Valkyrie finished speaking, he seemed to have been drained of his last strength, and his body trembled suddenly, and he did not speak again.

"Yes, you're more useful than I thought, and this secret information of the Aesir Protoss is much more decent than the specious Eternal Flame, and I will propose to the High Heavenly Venerable to take you away with me-"

"No need."

The last Valkyrie of Asgard had no interest in the slightest chance of leaving Saka, and shook decisively

shook his head.

"The Aesirs have nothing to do with me for a long time, this tattered planet of chaos... Hmph, it's a good place to grow old. Wolverine', I advise you, don't think that old man will honestly keep his promise, and if you want to get out of here, maybe you will have to pay another price."

James looked at Valkyrie's back as he turned away, and nodded slightly. He suddenly tugged at the corners of his mouth, shook his head with a smile, and strode towards the only box in the arena, pushing open the dark red door.

"Congratulations! Congratulations, my new champion, I can see your sculpture from this angle, I think the surface needs to be polished a few times, and it still looks a little dull now.....

Gao Tianzun saw James walking in and said in a loud voice, he pointed to the athletic tower in the distance, his mouth kept talking about the statue belonging to the champion "Wolverine", and even forgot to introduce the white-haired man next to him whose eyes were almost glued to James.

"Tanlia ~ Tivan... I've seen Mr. Wolverine, but I wonder if you have any other names besides this title?"

James watched Tiwan's hands flicker a few times quickly, and performed a strange and gorgeous etiquette, intuitively feeling that he had some kind of special relationship with Gao Tianzun.

The huge floor-to-ceiling windows of the arena box reflected James' wild face, now bearded and black-haired, and he was silent for a few seconds, and then whispered in response:

"Logan."

Like an arena star chaser, Tiwan excitedly snorted when he saw James talking back to him, and his short silver-white hair like a hedgehog was pinched up, and his eyes became even hotter.

Although compared to the obscene and shriveled Gao Tianzun, Tiwan looked much more "handsome" and more stylish, but James still looked at him a little awkwardly, didn't pay much attention to it, and said directly to Gao Tianzun:

"There are no gladiators left in Saka to be my opponents, and if you can't come up with a better fighter, I want to 'please' you through battle, and it should be considered complete."

Gao Tianzun was like a child trying his best to cover up, looking at his left and right, he talked about the statue of James for a long time, and after all, he still did not avoid the request of another champion to leave, and let out a long sigh of relief, his face was dry.

"Ugh... That's right, my champion, you've fulfilled our agreement, I promised to send you out of Saka, and Tivan is here, and his ship has the ability to enter and exit the turbulence of space, so you can leave with him." Tanlia Tivan nodded frantically in a hurry, his watery eyes full of anticipation.

Seeing James wandering between himself and Tivan with a little suspicion, Gao Tianzun spread his hands like a scoundrel and said:

"Otherwise, I have no other way, if you don't want to take this 'hitchhike' away, hehe! Nasaka is certainly happy for you to stay and be our champion!"

"Two pompous performances..."

James complained in his heart about Gao Tianzun and Tanya Tiwan's pretentious performance, but did not react, still in the usual cold appearance of Sakaxing, nodded briefly, and then turned around and left the box.

「... Hmm~ Your new champion really has a character, but he just won't live long."

"Don't forget our promise of Tivan, without this 'Wolverine' Logan, the Saka Arena will be boring again.....

The Collector and Gao Tianzun muttered to each other as they looked at the slowly closing metal door, the shadow of the door closed on the faces of the two mysterious and strange old things, and even they couldn't see through each other.

The champions of Saka are always so "short-lived", not a single champion has chosen to stay on the planet for hundreds of years, and they have always vanished after defeating all their opponents.

And people who have never left this chaotic planet will always imagine what kind of stories and legends these champions left behind in the universe when they left.

But no one would have thought that beyond this planet, what awaits great warriors is not the vast galaxy, but the .....

A narrow and transparent prison.

The ferryman is actually just a retired teacher who loves fishing.

He's like ever,

I paddled a small boat to the shore of the neighboring island and laid down some fishing tents and equipment, freeing up more space on the boat for a few big fish.

Then we paddled to the shore and fished from the morning until sunset.

But today, just as he had stopped the boat and moved things down one by one, he heard a somewhat hoarse female voice coming from a distance.

This season is always surrounded by mist and excessive moisture.

The angler couldn't help but take a few more steps in the direction where the sound came from, and faintly heard a few repeated "Heim... "Heimda..." vocabulary.

If it weren't for the fact that his job was to teach ancient Norse history, he wouldn't even be able to touch the semantics of this obscure Old Norse language.

The man walked forward, poking his head out, trying to discern something from the mist.

"Heimdall, hehe... Heimdall... Are you unwilling to respond to my call and think it will thwart my return, or have you already returned to Valhalla with my cunning father, why... I don't even feel your gaze."

「... The path of the true king to return to the throne of God is unstoppable."

The woman was tall and slender in a dark green ragged robe, with wet hair that seemed to have been immersed in the cold waters of a lake, and she sneered at the misty and lead-clouded sky, whispering like the murmur in her ears when she woke up from a midnight dream.

Hela suddenly sensed a figure approaching, stopped shouting at the Rainbow Bridge, and walked slowly over with her waist twisted.

"Ferryman, take me to the other side."

She saw a mottled man standing on the shore and peering at her in the mist, a wooden boat moored behind her.

Hela didn't ask the mortal much either, as if she was stating something that was taken for granted. Without looking at the man, she walked straight past him and stepped on the bow of the boat.

The angler blinked, and the ghost sat down in the boat, ignoring the luggage he had temporarily left on the shore, and just like that, he rowed his oars, and became a... Ferrymen.

The slightly upturned bow broke through the mist, and the sea was calm, as unwavering as Hela Odinson's.

In the first period of time sealed by her biological father, Odin, Hela could not tell the passage of time between the darkness and the silence of death, and she cursed and shouted wildly for thousands of years with the most vicious words, until even her soul felt deeply exhausted.

In the years that followed, only the silent silence was accompanied.....

The boat moved rhythmically towards the other side, across from the small town of Tensberg, the outline of which was still impressive, where the Aesirs first set foot in Midgard.

Swish.....

Hela's brow furrowed slightly, the ink at the corners of her eyes blurred, and on the opposite shore where the boat was about to approach, a ring of tiny sparks dangling unfolded, like a portal.

The orange-yellow figure flashed, and then the light door closed, and he stood on the shore with his hands in his hands, silently waiting for Hela's arrival.

"It's funny, the mortal world isn't as boring as it used to be."

The goddess known as "Death" jumped briskly out of the boat and looked at an emaciated figure wearing a wide-brimmed hood on the triangular embankment.

She took a deep breath and chuckled in surprise:

"Hmm~~ Disciples of Agamotto, the smell of magic... Midgard is out of the way, and those stupid mortals who still drink blood like animals have a glimpse of the mysteries of magic, hehe, it's good."

The Ancient One mage raised his hand and put away his hood, his pale face was very similar to Hela's, and a huge silver-white metal folding fan naturally sparked in his right hand.

"Fall, death, destruction... But it is full of the breath of the Aesir Protoss, the God King Odin Poulsen has already quit the war with the strong men of the earth, and this world has nothing to do with Asgard, God Domain, why are you here again."

"Huh? Ho one by one hahahaha! Hum, hum, ......"

Hela's eyes widened a little bit, and even her dark pupils became a little bigger, and she suddenly burst into a long laugh, and her voice was like a fingernail scraping against rusty steel, which was extremely uncomfortable.

"Oh my God... Odin has already mixed up with this? Are the Aesirs cowardly enough to make peace with the weakest of the Midgard mortals? Surely his death was also the work of mortals?"

The Supreme Mage's calm and indifferent eyes trembled slightly, and his hands were behind his back, holding the Edelman Gold Folding Fan that James had given him back then, which was getting tighter and tighter.

The short three or two sentences of the strange god woman made Gu Yi's mind turn a thousand times.

"I, Hela the goddess of death, the eldest daughter of Odin, the rightful heir to the throne of Asgard Asgard, the new king of the Nine Realms."

Hela said as she approached the Ancient One in a few steps, their eyes staring at each other, the faint sound of the shore swelling faintly inaudible.

「..... Mortal mage, it seems... You have never heard of my name." The fog seems to be thicker.