The nine kingdoms hang from the World Tree, but they are not unconnected to each other. Just as the famous Rainbow Bridge connects Asgard to the human Midgard, the River Ifingerel is the boundary between the Aesir Realm and the land of giants Jotunheim.

In addition, Jotunheim is also connected to Midgard, a terrifying iron forest that separates the kingdom of giants from the earth, and only a few mountain giants regularly travel between the two.

But just as Ryan didn't see the Rainbow Bridge in Asgard, perhaps it has fallen apart due to the destruction of the world. The frozen river of Efingal, now only a dry river remains.

It was still connected to Jotunheim on one side and the Endless Void on the other, and it was with this old connection that Ryan had stepped straight into here.

Standing on the edge of this ruined world, he could even observe the collision between the fragments of the world and the power of Kaos, and it was clear that the resistance of this world was already weak.

"What is this?"

In the midst of his rush to the most conspicuous World Tree roots, Ryan found something interesting in the land of Jotunheim.

Unlike the artifacts of Asgard, the giants of Jotunheim still maintain a primitive life. So from the ruins of civilization they scattered, Ryan couldn't find anything useful, except for the ones in his hands.

A stone crystal, somewhat like a large heart, containing an extremely condensed aura of earth elements and a little divine power.

It was buried in the ground, like a tomb, but the energy it emitted was so conspicuous that Ryan easily discovered its existence.

"This is the heart of Golem, a creature between the elements and matter, which can be used as a sacrifice, a tool for casting some kind of spell, or something else."

"Once as a member of the giants, I didn't study it deeply, after all, this is the corpse of our kind. The Asirtic gods of Asgard, on the other hand, saw them more as decoration and honor as a sign of their prowess, with the exception of the gods of Warnerheim. ”

Although they were killed by the Warner Protoss, Mimir still spoke highly of them. His head was able to survive after being returned to Asgard thanks to a mysterious spell.

"They have secret rituals and spells that even Odin would marvel at, and even Thor's divine power is beyond the power of Thor. Mjölnir is a real rival, but his master knows nothing of these subtle techniques. ”

"In Warnaheim, they made this heart into a powerful puppet that made a name for itself in the war with Asgard. But how they do it, I'm not very clear. Just as Odin never learned the spell of 'immortality', many of Warnerheim's secret spells were not disseminated to the public. ”

Nodding, Ryan understood.

The technique of the puppet, it sounds good, but that's not what he wants. After all, what he is best at is creating life rather than delicate structures, and if Ryan tries to be a puppet, he probably can't compare to the knowledge accumulated by others for tens of thousands of years.

These special spells and alchemy techniques, he did not have the memories of later generations to refer to.

"I see. So, these are the hearts of the Frost Giants and the Fire Giants? ”

Flying for another while, special heart cores like this one rich in elements and divinity were not uncommon here, and Ryan quickly found the other two.

However, the remnants of the Fire Giants are particularly rare, perhaps due to the fact that in mythology, they lived mainly in the Fire Land of Muspelheim, and revered Surtr as their leader.

"Yes, it seems that you are very interested in them, maybe I can take you to the place where the giants bury themselves in the future."

"Most of what you find here are nuclei scattered out for various reasons. Not only are they few and far between, but there are few of them left behind after the death of powerful giants. ”

There was no shame in taking outsiders to the cemetery of the same clan, Mimir suggested on the side.

"That's great, when we're done dealing with the World Tree Roots, we'll go to the place you said."

With the heart core put away, Ryan has one more goal on the road. Without deliberately detouring, he put away all the special crystals he could perceive.

Unfortunately, in the realm of the elements, the Frost Giants can symbolize water, the Mountain Giants and the Fire Giants can symbolize earth and fire, respectively, but there are few giants in Scandinavian mythology that symbolize wind. I have to say that this is also a big and small shortcoming.

Passing quickly through the sky, I don't know how long it took, under the guidance of Mimir, Ryan successfully found the target of the trip directly below the taproot of Utdrasil.

However, just like the Fountain of Ould in Asgard, under the flourishing roots of the World Tree, the famous Fountain of Wisdom has not been spared, and it has even 'died' more completely.

On the barren and dry ground, the grass and trees had died, and the slightest breeze blew and the dust splashed up made the sky darker and darker. A few emaciated dead trees trembled in the wind. The once holy spring pond had become a large black pit, muddy and silted, and there was no bright splash of water.

A piece of Yggtrasil's roots hung above the pool, mottled with blood. Perhaps in the distant past, it was here that Odin sacrificed to himself.

Coming here and perceiving the surroundings, Ryan couldn't even find the seeds left behind by the spring, only an uncomfortable breath escaped in the air around him.

"Lord Lane, the Fountain of Wisdom is spiritual. Perhaps in the previous disaster, it instinctively clinged to something nearby and restrained its own breath. ”

Beside him, Mimir's massive head reminded.

"Maybe it's got into this root system, or maybe it's deep in the earth and you need to look for it to find it."

"You're right, in fact, I've found it."

Looking at the desolate and dilapidated ground beneath his feet, Ryan couldn't see joy or anger. Underneath the crater, there was a strange aura that was distinctly different from the surroundings.

It was somewhat similar to the traces left in the Golden Palace, but it was very different, and it was not surprising that it was the eye of Odin's sacrifice that Mimir had said before. So Ryan reached out and made a gentle gesture at the pothole.

The next moment, the mud rolled, and a white pupil slowly floated up from it, flying towards Ryan's palm. However, just as it was about to fall into his hands, a sudden change occurred.

The pitch-black pupils were originally scattered and godless, but they became condensed and crazy in an instant. Countless strange voices echoed in the space around him, and shadows rolled from the shadows behind Ryan and wound towards him.

"Be careful!"

Seeing this, Mimir hurriedly reminded that he did not expect this to happen.

He was just a head, and he had lost all extraordinary powers, and it was impossible for him to get out of here on his own. And this Eye of Odin, who doesn't know when he has self-awareness, is obviously not a good existence.

"It doesn't matter, its essence is high, but the power is too scattered."

In the face of sudden changes, Ryan was not panicked. For him, it is not difficult to judge whether an existence is conscious or not, and although the Eye of Odin in front of him has undergone strange changes, although the consciousness is extremely chaotic and evil, there is no doubt that it is conscious.

Shadow-shaped tentacles pierced Ryan's body from behind, but no sound of piercing objects was heard. Behind the oblique eyeball, another Ryan quietly appeared at some point.

He didn't even glance at the Eye of Odin, which was constantly emitting filthy mental fluctuations, but grabbed it into the air.

"Whew-"

The next moment, the eyeballs in the distance were instantly shattered, and it turned out that it was just an illusion. The real Eye of Odin was held directly in Ryan's hand, because of its own imprisonment, it struggled and beat wildly, and a strong ray shot out of its pupils, which could hit Ryan's palm, but it had no effect at all.

Around it, blood vessels had stretched out, as if they wanted to penetrate the body of the god in front of them and suck his flesh, but this was also in vain, and was easily blocked by the faint light on the surface of the palm.

But looking at all this, Ryan's face had become solemn, and he could feel the terrifying power hidden in this little thing.

It's just that it hasn't been able to completely integrate everything into one, a bit like Ryan did when he first opened up the spirit world in the early years, he gained a lot of power in a short period of time, but he hasn't completely digested these things yet, otherwise Ryan asked himself, I'm afraid he won't be able to take the other party so easily.

"What are you?"

Flipping the eyeball in his hand so that its pupils were aimed at him, Ryan asked slowly. In any case, it should be conscious, conscious, and communicative.

However, the results disappointed him. In his spiritual perception, Odin's mind is still chaotic and violent, and it has its own naïve logic, but this logic clearly does not include communication with beings it sees as food.

Around Lane's body, the shadows turned into all kinds of life, rushing towards him without fear of death, and then disappearing in ashes the moment he approached his body.

Even if it's just one eye, the power it shows at this moment is extraordinary. If it weren't in this world where the roots were crumbling, but within the world of Kaos, Ryan had no doubt that it could pollute the land for millions of miles in an instant, and the rays in its pupils could also shoot down the stars.

Of course, that was before the birth of the law suppression of the world. However, it is still a question whether such a distorted life will care about the law.

"Do you know what's going on?"

After observing for a while, but having no clue, Ryan looked at Mimir to the side.

At this moment, this strange pupil was still shooting out various rays from the pupil, but only the spirit-biased one was the most powerful.

That chaotic and crazy spiritual will reminded Ryan of the sun god Hypperion who he turned into a ladder to the gods.

The final source of the fountain of wisdom seems to have become one with Odin's sacrificial eye, and it has thus acquired infinite knowledge and hazy consciousness, but this will never make it so, for the knowledge gained from the fountain is orderly.

Looking at the Eye of Odin in Ryan's hand, Mimir was not very clear about it.

"Maybe it has something to do with the destruction of the world, Lord Lane, that's the only thing I can see."

A lot of it is said, but it's actually some nonsense. What Mimir knew, Ryan could see.

The Fountain of Wisdom probably has no chance of being reborn in the spirit realm, because it is completely fused with this mutated Eye of Odin at the moment, and it is also mixed with other powers.

The fountain brought knowledge, the eyeballs that were originally sacrificed to their masters brought sacrifices, burdens, and shadows, and the last power of the root system of the World Tree, Uctrasil, brought life, and the foreign power distorted them in the end.

Knowledge thus becomes mad, sacrifice becomes killing, carrying alienation becomes depravity, and shadow is combined with life, one animated, the other containing curse and pollution.

Moreover, as a creature of the Nine Realms, although it does not have an immortal essence like the innate gods of Kaos, the mixed power is extremely terrifying. It is suspected to be related to the death of the world, and thus acquires an approximate person.

Immortality is the most basic characteristic of this level. The immortal nature of the gods is also precisely because of the gifts from the complete world, which makes Ryan helpless against it.

"It needs to be divided."

Whispering to himself, Ryan realized that it would be difficult for him to use this power directly, and that he needed to deal with it in some other way. And most importantly, he didn't plan to let the power in this eyeball continue to merge.

It's better to separate such a dangerous thing. If it is allowed to completely unify everything, it is likely to truly become a special existence that is a little higher than the powerful divine power. When the time comes, if you want to suppress and use it, you don't know how much energy it will take.

As a result, Ryan's hands lit up in black and white. The essence of reincarnation is never the combination of life and death, but the transformation and cycle between the two.

At this moment, under his control, the black and white colors were connected from end to end, slowly leaving a mark on the Eye of Odin. From then on, it will continue to extract the power of its host and turn it into a force to block it.

The seal was rough, but it was enough to seal the awakened eye for a short time. As for the finer seals, neither will Ryan himself.

"Next, it's time to cut down the trees."

Sighing, there is no doubt that in front of Ryan, the root system of the second World Tree has no vitality, and everything it left behind has been absorbed by the Eye of Odin.

Therefore, Ryan only cut down this cut off as before, and then put it all away, after all, even if it loses its vitality, this is still a rare treasure in the world.

"It seems that Yggdrasil is completely dead, and compared to these two places, Niforheim's root system is unlikely to be alive."

Seeing this scene, Mimir also sighed a little. Compared to the two interfaces that Ryan explored, the taproot of the Land of Mist has been gnawed by the poisonous dragon Nidhogg, and even if it does not collapse the Nine Kingdoms, it is destined to be destroyed, let alone now.

"Perhaps, but I'm going to check it out anyway."

"And it's probably not a bad thing that it's dead."

Soon, Ryan was able to rein in the roots.

"Time is running out, the progress of the Nine Kingdoms being eroded by Kaos should be almost the same, but unfortunately, I originally wanted to go to Warnerheim to see the magic skills at the peak of the Nine Realms, but now it seems that there should be no such opportunity for the time being."

Ryan's tone didn't have much regret, after all, the Nine Kingdoms and smaller fragments were eroded and swallowed by Kaos, not directly destroyed. I can't see it now, but sooner or later I will have the opportunity to see it.

"Where is the cemetery you are talking about, and is there anything else of value in Jotunheim?"

"Of course, please follow me. In fact, in addition to the place where the bones of the powerful giants are buried, there should be something worth noting in the place where the ancestor of the frost giants, Begelmir, lives. ”

As good as a stream, Mimir immediately showed Ryan the way.

For tens of thousands of years, he had been alone in the dead Golden Palace, ignorant of the changes in the outside world. But now, it is very likely that there are no living creatures left in the Nine Kingdoms.

The only thing he wanted to do now was to leave the dead land and go to the world of the outsider.

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"Torah—"

There was no medium to conduct sound in the dark void, but the tearing sound was clearly audible.

On the dark blue shard, as a scratch appeared, Ryan stepped out.

"Is this the world in which Lord Ryan lives, at the beginning of creation?"

Having just explored two areas, Mimir hovered beside Ryan, looking at the quiet void with some surprise.

Previously, Ryan had entered Jotunheim directly from Asgard, as the two had already met before they separated, but if he wanted to enter the Land of Mist, he would have to transit through the Void.

Therefore, Mimir still knew where the fragment of his kingdom had been, and he thought that beyond the fragment was a complete world full of life, but he did not expect such a scene.

"No, it's out of this world. The real Kaos is no worse than the Nine Kingdoms, and even much greater. ”

Responding casually, Ryan glanced around.

The scattered fragments have disappeared, and only the main body of the Nine Kingdoms is still holding on. However, the chains of Kaos's rules are even denser, and I'm afraid the rest won't last long.

The focus is on Lower Svartalfheim, where Erebos entered before and home to the Dark Elves and Dwarves (gnomes), who specialize in forging and have a unique system of spells. But Ryan found that even through a barrier, he could notice that it seemed to be empty.

Obviously, unlike Ryan's purpose, the Dark Lord has taken the simplest and crudest solution - he has probably simply 'uprooted' what seems valuable.

But it also made him a lot slower than Ryan, and unsurprisingly, he should have just left here, and his second target

"Is it a repeat?"

Looking at Niflheim, the Land of the Mist, who had clearly just been entered, Ryan didn't have much sense of urgency to be entered first.

If the first two realms were really for the treasures, then the last one was not. In the mythology of later generations, it was precisely because Nidhogg gnawed off the root system of the World Tree that it brought Ragnarok, and now the 'Twilight' of the Nine Realms is even more terrifying, what kind of changes will happen here?

"World Tree"

Feeling the presence of the Eye of Odin in his sleeve, Ryan cut through the boundary wall and stepped into the realm of fog.

Whatever it is, he always wants to see it. What's more, this time, there are still people who are one step ahead of him.

So the next moment, when Ryan stepped on the land of Niflheim, he was greeted by the black and red of the sky.

(End of chapter)