Nidhogg secretly observes inside the Inexhaustible Fountain.

There is a shadow beside the spring in the ground, like a stone, or a sculpture.

It's almost inseparable.

It was a tall knight covered in heavy armor, black armor covered in scratches and frost, and the metal surface was forged with a layer of red patterns, like fire sealed in ice.

The knight wields a dark red broadsword, and most of the time, it moves like a piece of iron.

Locals sometimes come to meet him.

"Good morning, Lord Blood Knight."

"Lord Blood Knight, you've worked hard, if you can, please take a break."

"Lord Blood Knight, may I ask, has Lord Yao sent down a new oracle?"

……

The Blood Knight rarely spoke.

He will speak only when a sacrifice is offered to him.

"I am not a god, and I must not trespass."

Thus refused.

The Blood Knight is an apostle who is subordinate to a god named Yao.

This made Nidhogg find it tricky.

It has dealt with the apostles in the past, and the apostles have their own strengths and weaknesses, and the most problematic thing is that if they can't beat them, they will ask the gods for help.

Nied Hogg was most annoyed by this.

Have the ability to go heads-up!

Don't you just bully yourself that there is no god behind you?

It knows it in its heart.

Can't clash head-on with the Blood Knight, the Inexhaustible Fountain has been occupied by that Yao God.

So Nidhogg followed the underground stream of the Land of Mist to a place far away from the Blood Knight. Soon it was exposed.

The discoverer was a Nibelungen, and the kid called a large group of children.

He pointed to the ice and said, "Look! There's a black earthworm in the poison spring! ”

Immediately, other children objected: "How can there be earthworms here, earthworms are in the soil, not in the water." It's impossible, it's stool, it's a very fine stool. ”

Nidhogg was furious, and wanted to hang the foul-mouthed imp immediately.

Someone else corrected: "No, it's not right, it's a snake, a little black snake." ”

Nidhogg said in his heart that it was good to have normal children.

In the past, the Nibelungens were not very intelligent, and they showed a clear stupidity, like a poisonous fountain here. Before they became giants, they were a bunch of strange children covered in poison.

"It's not good, you see it's all stiff, is it going to die?"

"Hurry up, rescue it!"

The children began to dig through the ice and rescued Nidhogg.

It did not resist.

That's part of the plan.

First of all, it is necessary to reach out to the locals to dispel the fears and vigilance of these children, and now their seemingly weak appearance is an advantage.

A true hunter always comes in the form of a prey.

And then it didn't take long for Niederhogg to realize that something was wrong.

Because he was locked up by the children and put in a box made of crystal.

The box was warm and bright and clean.

But Nidhogg felt like he couldn't breathe and was dying.

There is no poison here, and there is no underworld power from death.

It couldn't hold it anymore, and desperately hit the solid crystal inner wall to call for help.

Nidhogg only felt sadness coming from it.

Didn't he fall in Ragnarok, but he ended up planting in this crystal box in this way and returning to his hometown in the underworld......

But things soon took a turn for the better.

The children brought it to a frost giant.

"Mayor Baras, look, we caught a little snake that doesn't know what's going on and looks weak."

The tall giant pinched the crystal container with his fingers and stared inside with his eyes: "Oh? Stygian ...... It's a rare species, and it's the first time I've seen it, and it's feeding on poison and death. ”

"I guess it was born by the people who died here before. It lives in poisonous springs, and the cold environment and toxins are what it likes, and you can't raise its temperature. ”

"Try pouring poison into your [Spell Chamber], didn't you find it in the water under the ice? Looks like it can live in water. ”

saved.

Nidhogg breathed a sigh of relief.

The Frost Giant is a mature form of the Nibelungen, and sure enough, adults understand that survival is not easy.

The children did fill the boxes with poisoned water and changed the water regularly to make sure it was toxic enough.

The crystal box also has the ability to indicate the content of toxic elements, pale green means that there are many poisonous elements, and turning white means that there are few poisonous elements.

However, the crystal crate was placed on an ice platform next to the Blood Knight.

"Lord Blood Knight, let this snake accompany you!"

So said the children.

Niederhogg is like a mourner.

went around and around, and actually returned to the original point.

Located on the side of the apostle, it was under a lot of pressure and did not dare to act rashly at all.

The Nibelungen children often came to see it, bringing it all sorts of poisons. The Nibelungens possess the dual attributes of ice and poison, and their own long-term clothes and tools alone carry a lot of poisonous elements.

If you can eat a child, then there will be more toxins.

But this can only be thought about.

Niederhogg is too weak to eat a child now.

In fact, in the past, it had a good relationship with the Nibelungens, mainly because the children with their own toxins were also poisonous, and they respected it very much, and they looked pitiful, and anyone could bully them.

Nidhogg hadn't eaten any of these children at that time.

It is simply focused on gnawing at the roots of the World Tree and drawing strength from within.

The weak are not embarrassed by the weak.

As Nidhogg received a large amount of the toxin from the people's feeding, it grew in size, resembling a jungle python, and it was difficult to find a crystal crate large enough to contain its body.

With the permission of the mayor of Barras, the children released it.

So Nidhogg began to swim along the poisonous springs. It spends most of its time under ice, and is closer to the source of the Inexhaustible Fountain's power, drawing more of its toxin power.

The children always greeted it warmly.

"Snake, you're so strong now! Can you take me to the edge of the Land of Fog? My friend and I made an appointment to meet over there, and we were going to study in Shacheng. ”

It bowed its head and let the other person come up.

"Hades Snake, your hometown is in the underworld, can you take me to see it. I have a good friend who is missing, presumably dead, and went to the underworld, and I miss him a lot. ”

It shook its head to say no.

The underworld is not a place where you can come and go when you want.

When a living person outside of the gods enters that place, he becomes a dead person and cannot leave.

"Stygian Serpent, how did you get to the Land of Mist? Did the god Yao bring you here? ”

Nidhogg was silent.

If you don't speak, people will think that it can't speak, which will save a lot of trouble. This is a hand it learned from the Blood Knight.

Ned Hogg has to admit that his new life after being reborn is not bad.

Everyone knows that there is a snake in the "Immortal City" of the Land of Mist. Not only do locals often feed it with all kinds of poisons, but also travelers and vacationers come to give it a precious food.

The only thing that is a little troublesome is that these people, including humans, cat people, elves, white bone ancestors, etc., like to take pictures together. They will ask to be accompanied by a reflection on a type called Crystalline Phase, which will be used as a memorial.

Ned Hogg was very cooperative.

When people feed the Almighty Stone, they are just posing, and there is nothing to lose.

Also paying attention to it were the scholars of the Ziyao Clan, most of whom were potions researchers, alchemists, and magicians. They would come over regularly to allow Nidhogg to absorb all sorts of strange poisons and elementals, and to confirm its feedback.

Generally speaking, the more toxic and the higher the content of toxic elements, the higher the evaluation of Nidhogg.

It curls the tail in a loop for visual rating.

One circle represents the color of the ordinary goods.

The second circle is a boutique.

Three laps is superb.

Yao scholars will also collect its shed skin and tooth replacement for various drug experiments and materials.

In return, they would give them a large amount of all-round stones, as well as some experimental potions made of highly concentrated toxic elements, which were almost impossible to obtain outside.

Ten years later, Nidhogg had become a celebrity in the city, and it had a snake castle to its name, a strange castle made of ice and stone.

This was the suggestion of Mayor Barras.

"Mr. Stygian Snake, you have too many Almighty Stones, and it is very inconvenient to store them, it is best to find the [World City Treasury] or [Ocean Vault] to store these Almighty Stones, and then you can extract them anywhere. As long as you want, they will also come to your door, and there are two agencies stationed in the old city. ”

Nidhogg thought it was a good idea and nodded.

"Also, if you want to build a house that you don't have to live in, you can attract a lot of tourists. Letting them buy tickets can bring a lot of money......"

"The old city will be built for you, and all the proceeds will be divided into fifty-fifty points, what do you think? As long as you need to, you can cooperate with us to do publicity, including participating in the report and taking a group photo. ”

Nidhogg thinks it's okay.

Anyway, I did the same thing as before.

As the only serpent of the Yao civilization and a legendary resident born in the Land of Mist, Nidhogg is already a household name.

Even the apostles of the Yao clan from various worlds came to look for it, Yanjiu of the Blood Hill, Yanhu of Yancheng, Cat Grass and Red Dragon Daisy of the Resurrection Kingdom, and Nephili of Zhou Island...... They all came to chat with it, and there was only one purpose.

"Would you like to consider settling in our city?"

It all refused.

Not the old town is good, it is reluctant to leave.

Nidhogg never imagined that a monster like himself would become so eye-catching and sought after.

The Yao people are really a strange civilization.

One day, Nidhogg was awakened by a violent tremor.

It craned its neck to see the ice rise near the Inexhaustible Spring, and tree roots rising from the ground, entwining the children of the Nibelungen.

The Blood Knight and the three Frost Giants are coming to the rescue, but the roots seem to be endless, and they become countless hands, frantically hunting the children and sucking them into the roots.

Nidhogg was shocked.

The roots of the World Tree have been fully revived.

In fact, it knew before that those tendrils were secretly attacking the Nibelungenes, but they were very hidden. In Norse mythology, these children are the nourishment of the roots and are eaten when they are needed.

Nidhogg saw a little girl in the vicinity entangled in a tendril, and the child often came to see it, always looking outside the Serpent Castle, and shy when he saw it.

At this point, she was so frightened that she cried and her leg was pierced by the roots of the tree.

Nidhogg came back to his senses and found himself frantically biting at the roots of the World Tree.

The kid was on the side, his face radiating light: "Mr. Stygian Snake is so strong!" ”

"Mister Snake is helping us!"

"Mr. Snake will win!"

The surviving children in the vicinity all ran towards Snake Castle.

The entire Land of Mist was boiling and roaring, but the children's cries were incomparably clear.

Nidhogg raised his head and stared coldly at the myriad claw-like roots that were coming at him.

It seems that the roots of the tree that have only just recovered do not know who is the prey.