Loki looked at the completed runes at his feet, but his face did not show any happy expression.
Because in the whole process of writing the runes, Odin only stopped him at the beginning. After that, it was smooth sailing without any monsters or monsters coming to disturb him.
This also made all the back-ups he carefully prepared ineffective.
The runes of the Ouroboros ritual are real, and they are not knowledge that Loki found anywhere, but learned from his own "Book of Stories" and from a certain experience in his past reincarnation. p>
In that reincarnation, Loki also accidentally discovered this ritual when he was investigating Ragnarok. The two have a strange symbiotic relationship, and they can be said to have the same origin.
Logically speaking, this powerful ritual can see the future destiny of the three sisters and Odin and others. Those who want Ragnarok to continue should do their best to stop themselves.
At that time, he will be able to fight them directly in the atrium, which has the most restrictions on divine power, and win the final victory.
A hundred years ago, he pretended to know the ending of Ragnarok, so he came to dissuade Jormungandr. After being devoured, he has been reading the "Book of Stories" in his son's belly, learning the infinite things he once had.
Spell.
Although Odin's Vision Eye can see the future and destiny, there are also things that he cannot see through. For example, things that will never be shown to him from beginning to end, such as the shadows of the gods, such as Jörmungandr's
Scales.
Nowadays, Loki is confident in his own strength. In the courtyard where the Asgard gods have limited power, he is enough to compete with many gods, including Odin and his son.
After all, fighting relies not only on pure force, but also on strategy.
When faced with the foreign god's weakness, Loki just didn't want to expose his various trump cards. As a god who can read all reincarnation events in the past, Loki thought that he might understand their prophecy abilities better than Odin and the three sisters of destiny, but
Slightly apprehensive, but not very afraid.
But they didn't come...
Loki thought about it and found only two possibilities. One was that for whatever reason, they suddenly couldn't see the future and were not sure whether the ritual rune they didn't know where it came from was effective, so they didn't want to
Take risks to stop yourself.
The second possibility... is that they have seen that their ritual will not succeed.
Of course Loki hoped the former was correct, but he wasn't sure.
It's just that the ceremony has just been completed, and he can't leave Jörmungandr's side. He can only continue to protect him until Jörmungandr completes the Ouroboros ritual...
That is, eat yourself.
This may sound strange, but at least Jormungandr is halfway there.
The entire lower body that had been blasted off by the outer god had been completely swallowed up by Yermungandr. As a result, Jormungandr gained enough energy for the first time in his life, and his body actually began to grow again!
The original cross-sectional wound had completely healed by now, and a new tail vertebrae was even slowly growing from the severed limb.
This growth rate is extremely rapid. Loki speculates that in just one year, Jörmungandr's body length will be able to circle the entire atrium again.
Loki was suspended in mid-air and breathed a long sigh of relief.
After working hard for so long, I can finally take a break... After all, engraving runes is still very energy-consuming.
As for the alien god who poked his head around every day, Loki never paid attention to it from the beginning.
He has been the god of trickery countless times. He can hide tricks like invisibility even from Odin, but he can pretend to be more invisible than Odin.
Moreover, from the very beginning, Loki knew what the alien god had planned.
He wanted to learn how to perform the Ouroboros ritual by watching himself carve runes.
Loki just laughed in his heart at the coveting of this outer god. The runes can really be learned just by 'looking', and there will not be only one Odin in the World Tree and the Nine Realms.
The runes themselves contain life and wisdom. It can even be said that any rune itself is its own controller and the ruler of its own destiny.
No one who has not been approved by Rune can master it by learning Rune... At most, they can understand what the Rune is saying and use it like a daily language.
That has nothing to do with the runes spoken by the gods.
The process of learning and mastering the real runes is actually a process of communicating and communicating with the runes themselves. After all, the runes are not mortals, let alone gods with distinct emotions, anger, and sorrow. They have no desires and cannot
There is no unified pursuit and goal.
It can be said that the gap between runes is greater than the gap between ordinary mortals and Asgardian gods. After all, most of the Asgardian gods are brainless fools who only know how to drink, eat and find women all day long. Therefore, it is impossible to use coercion and inducement to force the runes to surrender... After all, who can make a language surrender?
At this time, the meaning of the so-called ‘ritual’ is revealed.
Who was the ceremony for? No, Odin hung upside down on the World Tree and sacrificed his eyeballs to himself, and then he obtained the Eye of Vision, so why didn't he give himself this ability from the beginning?<
/p>
To put it bluntly, the so-called 'ritual' itself is just to meet the requirements of the runes and obtain the approval of the runes.
Runes are not tools used to perform rituals, rituals are the key to activating runes.
As I said before, runes are not mortal beings. While they have all kinds of requirements, they are not half-hearted like humans and gods. As long as they can get the recognition of runes, at least among the gods,
Before dusk restarts all things in the world, the runes will remain in a recognized state until the life of this god or mortal comes to an end.
When Loki thought of this, he laughed at himself and sarcastically said to himself: "Oh, looking at it this way, what kind of god is Asgard? His lifespan is actually limited."
This is why Odin strongly supports Ragnarok.
He is the biggest beneficiary of Ragnarok... Whenever reincarnation begins, he is born quickly. When reincarnation is about to end, he is about to die of old age. In most cases, he is the king of gods above ten thousand people.
, the rulers of the entire Nine Realms can be said to have eaten up all the dividends from Ragnarok.
Loki also understood that there were very few people like him who were unwilling to have their memories cut off again and again and were in pain in most reincarnations. Therefore, he never thought about using the authority of the God King to arrange anything. p>
Perhaps it was the subconsciousness carried deep in his soul during countless reincarnations that made Loki accustomed to relying only on himself and no one else could rely on him. This is why he regarded the God-King as a down-and-out homeless man who was eaten by snakes for hundreds of years. But Loki thinks there is no problem with this... Anyway, in the face of real power, the idiots in Asgard's Hall of Valor are basically useless.
Not only this time, through the book of stories, Loki has seen it countless times. In the final battle, Odin or Thor personally took action to solve the problem. The so-called Asgard, the so-called gods, in most cases
To handle chores and let the person sitting on the throne enjoy the taste of power.
Loki was like this at first, but he immediately became bored within a mere hundred years. Those bastards wanted to ask him for advice on every little thing. In fact, they were just passing the blame layer by layer. So in the end, he became the scapegoat.
Shopkeeper, run out on your own and take risks.
Only then in this process did he gain the authority of the God of Stories, master the Book of Stories, and obtain the truth that overturned his own life and three views.
Loki ignored the prying eyes of the invisible alien god behind him and landed on Jörmungandr's scales. He sat cross-legged and slowly touched the thick and wide scales with his right hand.
He looked at Jörmungandr's nearly endless body, with its spines as broad as the earth on both sides, and sighed.
"Jormungandr, I can only help you so far. The one who really wants to be recognized by the Ouroboros rune is ultimately you. Break your destiny and welcome a free future." p>
After he finished speaking, the sky suddenly began to become cloudy.
Countless clouds began to gather, like dense black ink, but the ink remained thick without dripping. Then, blue flashes lit up.
"Boom boom——!"
"Boom——!"
The lightning came first, then the thunder roared, and a moment later, the drizzle fell.
Loki raised his head, looked at the sky, and showed a smile.
He raised his voice and said with a heroic gesture: "Thor! Why don't you come down and see your uncle now that you're here?"
Zhang Zicheng felt a little awkward when he saw this scene.
After all, he only came into contact with Norse mythology through the Marvel series. It is very normal for American companies to magically modify mythology from other regions. However, only locals will find this kind of magical modification inexplicable and ridiculous, while other foreigners can see it.
With relish...
But the setting that Loki and Thor are brothers is really confusing. Even if we know that not only the original Nordic novels are not like this, but also that the Nine Realms are a world that constantly experiences Ragnarok and opens up new world lines, the situation is even more absurd.
Thousands of miles away, but he is still not used to it.
At this time, a head suddenly appeared among the thunderclouds in the sky.
This is a little boy with a very large metal helmet on his head. There are also very realistic and soft-looking feathered wings on both sides of the metal helmet made of unknown materials, which makes him look extremely sacred.
It's just that the little boy didn't wear it honestly. Maybe he didn't like it obstructing his vision, so he raised it high and hung it diagonally on his head, which looked nondescript.
He has long blond curly hair, big and bright eyes, and is full of vitality and boundless energy that should be expected of an eighty-nine-year-old.
After seeing Loki below, the little boy immediately cheered happily: "Uncle Loki!"
Then with a wave of his hand, a small, exquisite, square hammer took him out of the clouds and landed downwards.
Zhang Zicheng could clearly see that this little boy was naked on the upper body and wore a crotch cloth like shorts on the lower body. He also had no shoes on his feet. Rather than saying that this thing was Thor, the God of Thunder, it was better to say that he was Cupid with a hammer. Zhang Zicheng somehow felt relieved when he saw this scene.
Fortunately, it's not a muscular man calling Uncle Rocky, otherwise he might really be disgusted to death by his own inherent knowledge.
When Loki saw this, his expression changed: "Wait, don't come down yet!"
Little Thor was obedient and hovered in mid-air without knowing why. At this moment, the entire ocean began to surge suddenly!
The quiet, thick, and stable snake body beneath Loki's body, which was originally like land, suddenly began to turn upside down.
This time, Jörmungandr, who was finally full, gained a speed ten thousand times faster than when he was attacked by Zhang Zicheng!
At least, the time it takes to straighten up is no longer slower than that of ordinary people... In other words, it lifts nearly a quarter of its entire upper body in just over a second.
The violent howling wind blew away the rain and blew up the sea water. Along with the clouds and thunder in the sky, the sea area on the skyline completely turned into a scene like the end of the world!
Jormungandr's eyes were fixed on Thor in mid-air. Fortunately, there were no reference objects around him, so Jormungandr's face, thousands of miles away, only occupied half of his field of vision.
Thor was stared at by Jörmungandr's eyes, and his whole blood seemed to solidify instantly. He felt numb for a moment, as if he had been bitten by a small poisonous snake.
But Thor was also a coward. He only recovered from fear for a moment. He looked at Jörmungandr, raised his hammer without showing any signs of weakness, and yelled: "What are you looking at!"
Loki sighed, disappeared into a cluster of flames, and then reappeared next to Jörmungandr's eyes.
He looked at the huge snake eyes that seemed to occupy the entire world, and said: "Jormungandr, do you still remember the story I told you? Do you want to be a person who loses opportunities because of impatience, and in the end can only become
The protagonist who teaches lessons to mortal children?"
Hearing Loki's description, Jormungandr had no reaction, but he also made no further moves.
Seeing this scene, Loki also breathed a sigh of relief. As long as Jormungandr does not further intensify the conflict, it means that he has listened to his words.
It's no wonder that he has been telling stories to Jörmungandr for hundreds of years, otherwise this kid would not listen to anyone, and his mind was filled with only hunger and endless appetite, and eventually became one of the ritual artifacts of Ragnarok. Of course, it was also thanks to the outside god who broke Jörmungandr's body in half, allowing Jörmungandr to finally eat his fill. Otherwise, in the past hundred years, even if Loki continued to use his power to
Jörmungandr provides satiety, but he is still as hungry as if he could eat a continent, which is not easy to persuade.
Thor saw that the big snake was silent and saw Loki in the distance. He didn't know where he got the courage to go directly to the snake's head.
As he approached, he looked up at the snake head that was getting bigger and bigger. Until it disappeared from the sky, he sighed: "Wow... He is really big, even bigger than Fenrir."
Loki was silent for a moment and sighed: "He is Fenrir's brother, and of course he is bigger than Fenrir."
Thor was stunned and couldn't help but open his eyes wide. The helmet on his head fell down and covered his entire face.
He quickly raised his helmet, exposed his eyes, and said with a trembling mouth: "He, he, he... he is also Hela's brother?"
Loki nodded: "Yes, that's why he is so angry at you."
When Zhang Zicheng heard this, his ears stood up.
What kind of melon is this? What does it have to do with Hela?
I always feel that the relationship between the gods of the nine realms in this world is really chaotic.