Although Hao Ren had already guessed what the world on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge looked like and what kind of destructive power the "magic radiation" in Vivian's words had, it wasn't until he and everyone stepped out of the portal that he
Realize how miserable the kingdom outside Asgard is now.
They crossed the spiral door of the Rainbow Bridge and stepped into a purgatory-like place.
The earth was burned to ashes, and everything in the world collapsed into ashes. Hao Ren stood on the ruins of the Rainbow Bridge on this side and looked into the distance. Every inch of the land he saw showed signs of severe distortion, with huge and terrifying cracks.
Valleys can be seen everywhere, with thick smoke billowing from the rift valleys, as if the endless karma fire in the cracks in the earth has not burned out to this day. Outside the rift valleys, you can see continuous sheets of dirty green glass covering everything.
Those glass bodies are fluorescent, and their shape is like a disgusting viscous liquid. They are distributed in clusters, extending from under the Rainbow Bridge to the end of the horizon. These glass bodies are the product of magic energy radiation, unprecedentedly powerful magic energy, and then
Coupled with the catalytic shock of the demon hunter's beam cannon, the mixed magic energy produced completely melted and destroyed the earth, turning all organic matter on the earth into this disgusting and weird glass-like thing, which was soaked in magic energy.
The residues can hardly be put to any use. They are like the curse itself, covering the earth with scorching heat and nausea, making it impossible to grow any grass even in the next tens of millions of years.
A sky dominated by ashes and dust enveloped the earth. Thick dust clouds almost blocked all light, and the heaven and earth were shrouded in darkness, making this purgatory-like world even more terrifying and gloomy.
This is a burned-out world, a world after all the prosperity and vitality have been smelted into slag. The air is filled with deadly poisonous gas and radiation. There is no more light in the sky. Life is cut off and everything is infected. No living thing can survive in this kind of world.
At least most common species cannot thrive in this environment.
Wu Yue grabbed Hao Ren's arm with a little fear, stretched her neck and looked into the distance, trying to find a trace of life. But it was obvious that she could not find it. In this completely burned place, only the only living thing was still alive.
It's those tentacles on the edge of the continent.
The powerful Yggdrasil. Its tentacles that penetrate the continent can still survive even here. Now everyone is standing on one of his tentacles, while the other dozen tentacles are swaying slightly in the distance, silvery white.
The weird runes are also shining brightly on these tentacles. However, these biological tissues cannot bring any vitality and warmth to this place. On the contrary, these weird things can only make this place look more eerie and terrifying, like a monster in the abyss.
Nightmare.
The Rainbow Bridge on this side is the same as the Rainbow Bridge in Asgard. Only the spiral door is still functioning, and the crystal paths covering the branches of Yggdrasil are fragmented, and due to the erosion of magic energy, this
The crystal walkway on one side showed a more tragic state. Hao Ren walked in front and led everyone slowly towards the completely dead land along the tentacles of the eldest son. He had seen Asgard before after experiencing Ragnarok.
At the time, he thought it was already a pretty miserable wasteland, but when he got here, he realized what a beautiful place Asgard was.
Even though that place was also destroyed by the war, compared to this place, it was so intact that it was like paradise.
"Which kingdom is this? The Kingdom of Death, Nibelungen? Wat Alheim? Mospelheim?" Nangong Sanba couldn't help but muttered, "It can't be Midgard... It's so miserable.
.”
"I can't recognize it at all," Vivian frowned. "I never thought that the magic energy burned so violently, that... this space was completely burned. Everything was beyond recognition, the mountains collapsed, and the rivers steamed.
Damn it, I don’t know where we are.”
"Those 'battlefield scavengers' we saw on the surveillance video crossed the Rainbow Bridge and came to Asgard," Hao Ren looked at Vivian, "That is to say, they passed through this wasteland. What do you think?
Who can do this?"
"A strong man among the Asaphs or a fire giant should be able to barely survive in this environment, but certainly not for a long time: there is no water and food here, and it seems unlikely that those things will be produced. In addition, the figures on the surveillance video
No matter judging from the clothing or physical features, he is obviously not a giant or an Asaph. I look more like a human from Midgard." Vivian said, helplessly spreading her hands, "Humans are absolutely useless.
You can't survive here for more than ten minutes, I can't explain this problem."
Everyone walked down the Rainbow Bridge and explored this dead world. There were no relics to collect, and there were no battlefield ruins or anything like that to examine. The magic energy storm destroyed everything here equally, leaving only a trace.
The worthless ashes are there for people to admire.
If nothing is found here, Hao Ren's next target is another Rainbow Bridge more than a hundred kilometers away from here, where there is a gate leading to the next "world".
According to Vivian, except for Asgard, which has only one "universal rainbow bridge", the other eight kingdoms each have two space passages that can lead to the two kingdoms respectively. After Heimdall died in the battle, these spaces
The passages were fixed two by two, connecting several kingdoms into a chain.
Now without the guidance of Odin's gem, Hao Ren and the others have no way to control the mapping of the Rainbow Bridge, so they can only proceed one kingdom at a time.
Originally, Hao Ren did not have any hope for this desolate continent, but hope always came inadvertently: there was not really nothing here.
"Landlord! There is something here!"
Lily, who was running around at the front, suddenly stopped in front of a hill, turned her head and shouted loudly to this side.
A group of people rushed over, and Lily pointed to a pile of objects on the ground: "It looks like it was left by humans."
Several hammered rocks were neatly stacked together. There were some meaningless pottery and leather fragments scattered around the rocks. At the top of the pile, there was a metal-cast cane, and next to it lay a cane.
There is a small device like a compass. These things may be some kind of symbolic souvenirs. A polished stone slab is placed flat on the ground, and something is written in ancient characters on the stone slab.
Hao Ren bent down and used the translation plug-in to read the writing on the slate: "...Tanarosa, the light seeker, rests here. He devoted his life to searching for the remaining light of the spark in the nine kingdoms, but he did not find any until his death.
, this warrior fell in Vanaheim, may the ancestors and Valkyrie protect his soul and lead him to the eternal kingdom."
Lily carefully opened the slate and found that there were words on the back of the slate:
"Friend, I will continue our journey. Even if only one person is left, I will arrive in Asgard. May you protect me in the palace of the eternal kingdom. If I fall, may we meet again in the eternal kingdom. If
One day in the future, new light seekers will set out. I hope they can read this text. We are trapped in the long night, but we will move towards the light until our death."
"Lightseeker..." Vivian repeated the word in a low voice, "I have never heard of this term in the Nordic cultural system."
"Obviously, it was a term that came into being after the Nine Kingdoms separated from the main material plane." Hao Ren frowned, reasoning about the hidden meaning in this passage, "Fell in Vanaheim...that is to say, here
Is it Vanaheim?”
"The former home of the Warner gods, it used to be rich in water and grass, with several large rivers and an inland sea, and phantom lights often appeared in the sky." Vivian looked at the surrounding land that was completely destroyed by magic energy and sighed softly, "I didn't expect that.
It turned out like this.”
Anthony carefully observed this small tomb and suddenly discovered something: "The handwriting is very new."
Hao Ren suddenly became energetic: "Just left behind?!"
The old mage immediately summoned a test-type magic ball. The magic ball circled the metal cane several times and then disappeared: "In no more than... two days, everywhere here is filled with magic energy. According to the magic energy
The degree of accumulation on the surface of the metal can tell when it was last touched by a living thing."
Lily jumped up immediately: "I'm afraid the person who left these things is still in Vanaheim!"
"Separately search for each other!" Before she finished speaking, Vivian shouted and summoned swarms of small bats. A large black group of bats spread out in all directions, "There are no signs of people passing through the rainbow bridge in Asgard.
I’m afraid something has happened to someone!”
Hao Ren, Galadra, and Anthony also immediately opened their personal spaces and released all the detection probes they carried. The detection probes and the bat swarm quickly disappeared under the chaotic sky of Vanaheim, and
A rapidly expanding scanning area was mapped out in the data terminal and Vivian's mind.
Galadra looked worried: "This man said he was going to Asgard, but we didn't find any trace when we came from the Rainbow Bridge. I'm afraid he was lost."
Hao Ren's heart sank: "Getting lost in this damn place... I can't imagine the consequences. That man was able to get all the way here. I hope he has more ways to save his life, otherwise we will be late."