51. Dragons under the Norwegian Strait(1/2)
About Beowulf, this is an ancient legend.
This story originally appeared in a long narrative poem. It is not actually the official history of Nordic mythology, but it is also a very important part of the magnificent mythology system.
It tells the story of mortal warriors.
Beowulf was the king of the Danes. Of course, in that era, they were still Vikings. In short, this powerful man, who was suspected to be a berserker, challenged the giants, killed the sirens, and stabbed a fire dragon to death in his twilight years.
Ordinary people certainly cannot do this, and many wizards also suspect that Beowulf is likely to have the bloodline of Asgardian gods, just like the endless demigods in Greek mythology.
But here in Randolph who had personally experienced the Beowulf era, Merlin learned another version of the story.
Beowulf is not a demigod, he is just a strong ordinary person, but he is extremely talented and is one of the few geniuses among ordinary warriors who can understand the way of berserkers. The story of his killing giants and sirens is also true. The magic sword that killed sirens did come from Asgard.
That sword was once Randolph's sword.
The sword was made by Ulujin and was engraved with powerful evil-breaking runes. It is easy to kill a non-pure-blooded sirens.
However, the story of Beowulf's three epic battles and the story of Beowulf's challenge to the fire dragon are somewhat different from the legend.
The brave warrior who had already withered in time was not alone to challenge the angry dragon. He received help from the god Asgard. Thor, the son of Odin, who was still young at that time, also noticed the evil dragon descending to the earth through the Rainbow Bridge. He appeared in the lightning storm and fought against the evil dragon with the brave Beowulf.
In the end, the dragon was defeated and Beowulf was killed in battle. His soul was bridged by the rainbow and led to the Valhalla in Asgard, where he enjoyed happiness forever.
However, the evil dragon is not as described in the story. It is a fire dragon, not.
It is much more dangerous than the Fire Dragon.
Otherwise, how could its appearance attract the attention of the Asgardians?
You should know that after the Rainbow Bridge is closed, only when the earth is facing a great crisis, just like this time the Kree incident, Asgard will send soldiers to help.
This shows that the appearance of the evil dragon may destroy the earth's crisis.
And now, Merlin was about to set off to find the defeated dragon.
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"The time when the upper and lower crescent moons alternate."
Meilin stood on the grass in his home, raised his head, looked at the moon in the sky, and distinguished the astrological signs at this time.
Behind him, Gugu was lying in a ball, lying on the steps at the door, taking a nap. The cat's daily routine was different from other cats, and it became very sleepy every night.
Today is not a weekend, and the children are still in school and have not returned home.
Su Rui moved out to live with Ross, so only Merlin and Gugu were left in the huge house.
When the moonlight in front of me reached its brightest moment, Merlin took out the pebble that Randolph gave him from his pocket and let it hang in front of him. As the moonlight spread on the stone, white lines emitting faint light appeared on the surface of the pebble, and soon formed a miniature map.
"Icarus, scan and compare."
Merlin said softly, the next moment, on the lens in front of him, the map that was shrinking to the extreme was quickly enlarged constantly, and on the other lens, a map of the world was also tuned out.
Relying on his powerful computing power, Icarus quickly scanned the overlapping places of the two maps. After more than ten seconds, an accurate point was determined.
"The target point is near the Norwegian Strait, which is a remote ocean without a waterway."
Icarus' gentle voice sounded in Merlin's ears:
"The precise location of the target point should be under the sea...but SHIELD's satellites cannot scan the situation under the sea, so Mr. Merlin needs to be careful."
"Well, I've been ready, so don't worry."
Merlin reached out and pointed the pendant on the chest. The blue half-covered mask quickly covered his nostrils and mouth. He moved his hands and feet and wrapped his magic outside his body. He said:
"Open the video function, Icarus, we're going to explore."
"Gugu."
Merlin turned around and said to the lazy cat:
"Look at home."
"Swish"
Merlin's figure disappeared from the spot. Gugu looked at the scene, and his face showed human disdain. He raised his claws, covered his eyes, shook his tail, and fell asleep again.
On the other hand, Merlin did not waste time. He directly sent himself into the deep sea at the target point. This was the first time Merlin used the shapeshift spell to enter the deep sea. When his body appeared under the turbid sea water, the pressure from all directions made Merlin's activities very uncomfortable.
But now, he is no longer an ordinary person. After swaying his hands and feet for a while, he quickly adapted to the pressure here.
He looked around and the blue breathing mask could provide him with plenty of oxygen so that he would not suffocate.
In Merlin's perception, there is almost no life in the depths of this sea area, which is very rare. No matter how remote and desolate the ocean, there should be some life.
But here, even undersea plants with extremely adaptable properties cannot grow.
"It's true that there's something weird."
"Icarus, scan the terrain here."
Merlin gave the order in a muffled voice. The next moment, a faint energy was launched along Icarus's frame in all directions, like a miniature sonar. Soon, the terrain near the dark trench appeared on Merlin's lenses in the posture of a data model.
“There is a covered underground cave entrance at the bottom of the trench.”
Icarus said:
"There is special energy entrenched at the entrance, which seems to be dispersing any creature close to the entrance of the cave. That should be the source of life in this sea area."
“It should be my destination too…”
Merlin said, he swam quickly towards the deepest part of the trench. The further down, the greater the pressure brought by the water flow, but this had no effect on Merlin. He dispersed his body in a looser fog posture, and the pressure immediately dissipated invisible.
Soon, Merlin found the entrance to the underground cave detected by Icarus.
There is a standing stone tablet with traces of expulsion magic on it, and the cave was not formed naturally. According to Merlin's observation, it is more like a temple that has been sunk into the sea due to geological changes.
That kind of quaint and primitive temple.
He stepped into the temple, which had been flooded by sea water, but the internal passage was still intact.
Merlin walked deeper along the skewed pathway. He also found traces of murals that had been destroyed in the sea water on both sides of the passageway, some twisted corpses, and some very strange and indescribable things.
It was like the traces left by ink on the ground, black, with strange energy that was about to completely dissipate.
"Like some organic creature that does not exist with the earth."
Icarus started the analyzer, and after a moment, it reported the analysis results to Merlin:
"It has been here for a long time, and it is the 'wreck' left behind after its death."
"Yeah, interesting."
Merlin said, and he walked forward a few steps, and suddenly he said:
"It seems to be getting colder, Icarus, is the temperature here normal?"
“The temperature is falling.”
Artificial intelligence compared the temperature and said:
"The temperature in front of the passage is lower than here, and at the end of the passage is close to 0°, where the sea water has taken the form of an ice-water mixture... Above the end, a huge space was detected, in which oxygen should be present... but the temperature there has reached minus 76°."
"Let's go and have a look."
Merlin felt that he was getting closer to the final answer, and he said to Icarus:
"Always observe the temperature changes and notify me as soon as possible if you have any questions."
"receive."
The path simulation route ahead quickly appeared on Icarus' lenses. Although Merlin could see the road clearly without these, with the help of Icarus, Merlin's rapid movement in the water became smoother.
A few seconds later, with the sound of ice shattering, Merlin rushed from the lower floor of the temple into the upper floor, which was not flooded by sea water. This was a super large space and was not seriously damaged.
But it was frozen here.
It was as if it was immediately frozen after a war, Merlin saw the weapons, armor, war horses and remains of warriors scattered around her feet. They were all sealed in ice, making the mysterious temple look like an ice burial pit.
"Front forward! Danger! Icarus advises Mr. Merlin to leave immediately!"
The red warning was beating in front of Merlin's eyes.
But without these warnings, Merlin already knew what he was looking for.
At the deepest part of the upper level of this frozen temple, on the edge of this land of death, a giant mountain-like iceberg stands there.
The surface of the solid color, sturdy and steel-like irregular ice cube shines with a cold breath, and in the crystal clear iceberg, a terrifying creature that makes people unable to help but hold their breath is sealed in it.
That's a... dragon!
One of the heads reached nearly 50 meters in length, spreading its bat wings on its arms, raising its front paws, and roaring at the sky.
It had bone spurs and its tail with its tail vertebrae was in front of it. At the end of its snake-like neck, a ferocious, unlike a traditional dragon, but a more twisted head was condescending, maintaining a roaring and roaring posture.
Although it has been completely frozen, when seeing the frozen dragon, Meilin still seemed to hear a dragon roar from the past.
"This is not a dragon..."
Meilin stared at the crazy ice sculpture in front of him. After a moment, he shook his head:
"There are no such dragons on Earth..."
“It’s really not!”
To be continued...