Chapter 813 – Tales From a Distant Age (3)
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“Myth is something that gradually changes as it spreads.”
Said Loki, who destroyed the perspective of the room and changed it to look like outer space.
“So, the myths I’m telling you may be a little different from those known in the human world, in Midgard or Nord’s homeland, but I’d like you to ask me all the questions.”
Hyuk-. The light thrown by Loki like a dart swam through space and became a star.
After making the room where we were gathered into a bright universe, Loki began to explain.
“It is said that after the creation of the world, there were only Ymir, a dumb giant born in chaos, and Audumrah, a huge cow, in the primordial universe.”
White giants and cows were swimming in space.
Although the cow was bigger than the stars, it was colorless and odorless and made no sense, but the giant was different.
Ymir was a being that engendered a chilling fear that was not befitting his flickering white body. Rather than feeling like she was holy, her breathing stopped, as if she was imprisoned in a white asylum.
“You know Shade’s magic, right? It was Ymir’s dream that kept this universe alive. Ymir was far from the Creator because she never woke up.”
The stars came together to match the story. It has become a familiar human figure to our eyes.
However, I found a white goddess among the dogs and soon realized that I was wrong. They weren’t human. They were the gods of the beginning.
“And everywhere in the universe, from ice, fire, and rock, the oldest gods were born. From the beginning, they are beings who were born alone without even parents.”
Loki looked at the universe while saying that.
“Most of the deities that humans talk about are beings around this time.”
In her dimension she looked at, there were Odin and Henir when both eyes were intact.
And there is one unknown god near them.
Maybe that’s Loki’s true form.
“Then one day, at a time when we hadn’t called ourselves gods yet, we found out. That stupid giant is evil, and he shouldn’t wake up.”
Terrible monsters rained down from the giant as if wastes such as skin and sweat were falling. They tumbled down different dimensions and thrived on their own.
‘… There are also frost giants from Niflheim.’
Among them were monsters familiar to me.
I felt a little strange about the fact that monsters that were not very strong were monsters with a much longer history than I thought.
“Ymir was a being that we can’t understand, but it’s a lie to say that she can’t tell the difference between good and evil. Because beings that threaten our survival cannot be called good.”
The fact that the stupid giant was an evil being was confirmed by the way it existed.
An existence that causes fear just by looking at it, giving birth to evil monsters that fill the universe. Loki’s only fantasy figure is so disgusting, but what was the real thing like?
“So we killed Ymir.”
The white colossus’ neck was ripped apart, and the universe was stained with blood.
“Then, I made a world tree out of the corpse.”
The giants survived the drowning of their placenta, and Odin planted a small seedling on their corpse.
The sapling expanded as if it transcended the flow of time and space, and gave birth to a very small tree compared to Ymir. Of course, being small is a story when compared to a giant.
The enormous world tree bore new fruits, connecting its roots and branches with the dimensions that existed even then. I saw the figures of the gods flying with the fruits.
“We created the continent and humans with the power of creation.”
Before the giant disappeared, Fran looked at the little beings that had formed at the tips of the toes, then turned his head to Loki’s explanation. I turned her head as if she was following her.
In the middle branches of the World Tree, I could see the gods creating continents and new creatures.
The fertile land of Ymir’s corpse, and the power of creation that manipulates laws.
It would have been possible because of those conditions.
“The tens of thousands of years spent with the creatures were but a fraction of a second compared to the time it took for them to decide to destroy Ymir… Still, it was very fulfilling, and it was a fun time.”
Loki’s explanation was like that, but I was looking at the gods who were uniquely more ruthless.
【~♬】
It seems that Loki in his Leeds days was no joke, but Odin went a step further.
She had been meditating under the world tree for decades, and she suddenly opened her eyes. I am also very familiar with the background. Sure enough, she got up clutching her spear.
“I thought that sister was crazy.”
─Pu-wook.
Odin hanging himself on the world tree.
It was a sacrifice ceremony to offer oneself to oneself.
“But after that, I came down intact, and when I saw my sister telling us a story that even we didn’t know——before our first gods were even born, I lost all my strength.”
A bloody, crazy magic psycho.
The two gods rubbed their eyes as if they were troubled by what they said after hanging on for days and days.
Henir and Loki then slightly mixed their eyes and shrugged.
“But you can’t do it if you don’t want to admit it, can you? She is an older sister who enlightens us with knowledge we did not know and even puts all the truths of the world into that small string.”
It was a way of praising the achievements of a family-like opponent, but Loki’s voice remained subdued.
“… If we had stopped it then, Odin-nee might not have pursued more knowledge.”
Time passes, and man prospers.
Gods who ruled the world with the protection and blessings of the gods, sometimes with despicable jealousy or evil. There were some ugly gods, but there were also good ones.
However, the knowledge Odin pursued was endless.
It’s probably because Odin’s way of existence itself, which was determined by the flow of fate, was like that. Just as people fall asleep when they are hungry, Odin, the god of wisdom, must have been destined to do so from the beginning of time.
A god who endlessly seeks knowledge and controls his anger when he fails to do so.
Was it like that? She met Mimir, a wise giant, on the periphery of the universe where the World Tree did not take root, and gained further wisdom in return for devoting her eyes to his fountain.
She gave up her eyes to see the future.
Her gaze was able to reach the end of the world, which no gods could see.
She still wasn’t satisfied.
She still isn’t satisfied, so she continues to stretch her gaze farther and farther——
Odin saw.
Somewhere in the vast universe that even the wisdom of the gods has not reached. A god of a completely different lineage who watched over the sea of stars like Odin. A being that neither God nor man resembles.
‘She’ was bigger than the giants.
It grew tentacles resembling polypods and had wings with membranes attached to its back, but in fact it was a spiritual being with no fixed form or appearance.
Unlike the gods of Yggdrasil, they are heterogeneous people who do not have physical bodies.
Was it an illegitimate child born by a stupid primordial god before he was alive?
Or is it a divine existence that arose because he wanted to be born himself like other gods?
And if not even that, perhaps they existed even longer than they did.
Odin found them after infinitely indulging in wisdom.
─A flash.
And since Odin saw ‘her she’, her ‘her she’ could also see her Odin.
I suddenly remembered the famous phrase of the earth.
When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
“Her sister found out too late. She knows that coming to know ignorance is not necessarily a good thing.”
Only when Odin observed ‘her’ did her ‘her she’ and her kin know the existence of her world tree.
Gods who were at the end of the world and the world.
They were destined to meet like that one day.
“My sister, who came to her senses, hurried to solve her problem. The day they come will soon be the beginning of a war. I found prophets with foresight like him.”
“… And you must have heard.”
Veronica, a descendant of those prophets, spoke as if she were forced to open her mouth.
“The ruin of the gods. The prophecy of Ragnarok.”
Ragnarok.
The cause of the death of most of the gods and the end of the Age of Gods.
─Passes.
As the universe collapsed, the Hittite capital returned to its original form.
We sat at the table as well.
“… Odin read fate better than anyone else, and she hated the existence of that fate.”
Loki sighed and closed his eyes.
“Yeah, that’s right. It was because I called for ruin as the fate given to me. Sister, she was not so irresponsible as to place her responsibilities on the convenient excuse of her own destiny.”
“After that, it must be similar to the contents of the myth.”
Tirthy, who had been touching her lips, frowned at her.
She met Mimir and borrowed her wisdom, making Val Curier or gathering Einheri.
In preparation for the war with the old rulers, Ragnarok.
“The gods tried their best to stop Ragnarok, but in the end they couldn’t stop it and perished.”
“… It’s not. Maybe, just maybe, that destruction could have been prevented.”
Loki rolls his eyes. He wasn’t forced to justify their failure.
“But the octopus head didn’t just sit still. She killed Njord, the king of Vanir, the lord of the gods with whom we had a hard time, and put on that skin.”
“That’s what you said.”
“Yes. As for her name, the creatures of the World Tree cannot pronounce it properly, so I still call her 【Sea God】. Even though I know the name, I don’t intend to call it. You should never call.”
You didn’t have to ask why. Since we all had the same facial expressions, Loki answered without bothering to hear the question through our mouths.
“The old rulers have power in their names. It is part of that that we are called sky gods and thunder gods, but they are more terrible.”
“If it’s terrible, how?”
“If a person with the qualifications calls his name correctly, he will immediately descend on that spot.”
Dana looked disgusted with the expression that she had asked for nothing. Loki chuckled.
“But I can’t express it with normal letters or pronunciation. Only the runes made by my sister were able to express the pronunciation as closely as possible.”
“So Odin sealed the runes so people couldn’t use them?”
“There is a reason for that, and since her sister’s constellation was contaminated, I thought that the runes could also be affected. I was only allowed to ‘engrave it with letters’ so that it would remain as a record.”
Frank looked at his knife as if he was convinced.
Humans cannot see the effect of pronouncing runes. The effect could only be seen when it was imprinted on a suitable object, and the same goes for some monsters that are mutants of humans.
The exception was the gods, such as the bicorns.
“… Well.”
When I heard this, I thought of Earth’s famous horror novel, but I asked for something else.
“After that, what will 【Haishin】 do?”
