Lu Xiao originally planned to rush to Freya's courtyard to look for Brachi in person, but when the group walked out of the Temple of Tire, the mysterious rune stone hanging on Lu Xiao's chest suddenly began to heat and tremble.
"This is……"
He took out the rune stone from his chest. The usually unresponsive stone was shining with a faint green light.
As Lu Xiao's right hand holding the rune stone moves up, down, left and right, the vibration and light will increase and decrease to varying degrees.
Mimir explained: "Brother, it seems that Gloya's library is calling you, so we should split up for the time being."
"Um……"
Lu Xiao looked at the stone in his hand and thought about it: "Sigurun, follow Yongzhen and the others to Freya's courtyard."
"Mimir, considering the possible knowledge traps in Gloya's library, you'd better go with me."
According to the information provided by Mimir and Sigurun, Braki's personal combat effectiveness is very poor. Once he leaves the protection of the heroic warriors, even Shirud can easily defeat the God of Poetry.
But the musical instruments he plays on the battlefield can boost the morale of the soldiers and improve the comprehensive combat capabilities of friendly forces in all aspects.
In Lu Xiao's words, this guy is a full-time buff machine.
After experiencing battles with many Valkyries, Eigen's strength has increased, and his cooperation with Fenrir and Tamamo Mae has become more tacit.
With the assistance of Sigrun, the strongest among the Valkyries, they should be able to capture Brachi before a larger-scale battle breaks out.
Odin's peeping tom must have been watching Freya's former residence, and he saw the battle clearly.
A mere hundred heroic warriors led by Blaki cannot pose a fatal threat to Kratos and his son. Once he senses that the situation is not good, Odin may use the Rainbow Bridge to send more reinforcements at any time.
The top priority is to fight quickly, capture Brachi before Odin has time to react, and try to find the golden apple from him, or at least force him to find out how to get the golden apple.
After saying goodbye to Yongzhen and others, Lu Xiao used the rune stone as a guide and slowly groped for the library hidden by Odin.
On the other side, when Yongzhen's team arrived near Freya's former residence, the situation was just as Lu Xiao expected.
Even with the blessing of Brachi's war music, the heroic warriors still cannot get any advantage in front of Kratos, who is experienced in combat.
Kui Ye, who was used to having more than a dozen, easily divided the formations of the heroic warriors, bit by bit eroding the enemy's numerical advantage.
Brachi was unable to play music peacefully under the interference of Atreus' countless animal companions, and the situation was gradually tilting in favor of Kratos and his son.
"Clang!"
A sudden movement occurred in the Temple of Tire in the center of the Lake of Nine Realms. Hundreds of neatly lined up heroic warriors were teleported from Asgard by Odin.
Although Kratos couldn't see anything unusual in the Temple of Tyr, he could roughly guess that the enemy had reinforcements.
Forcibly knocking away the fragmented formation of the heroic warriors, Kratos saw Brachi in a hurry.
"drink!"
Kicking the ground hard with his strong legs, Kratos leaped high into the air, pointing his raised battle ax directly at Brachi, who was surrounded by a large number of energy creatures.
"Wait! Don't kill him yet!"
"clang!"
The translucent energy shield like a mirror blocked Kui Ye's jumping attack. Although the shield was eventually broken, it at least saved the life of the shocked Brachi from Kratos.
"Xiao Fen, clean up the battlefield!"
"Ouch!"
After receiving the order, Fenrir turned into a stream of gray light and rushed into the group of heroic warriors with broken formations.
Kratos looked at Yongzhen and Tamamo who suddenly appeared in front of him in astonishment. His vigilant eyes focused on Sigurune, whom he had never seen before.
"you……"
Sigrun interrupted Kratos' question: "If you have anything to say, we'll talk about it later. Let's go back to Freya's courtyard first!"
Fenrir's high-speed movement knocked the heroic warriors staggering around. Brachi was lifted up by Sigrun with one hand. The group took advantage of the enemy's temporary inability to move and entered the boundary of Freya's courtyard together.
Sigrun threw Braki to the ground, and when she saw Fenrir breaking away from the battle circle and rushing into the courtyard, she wrote several sets of complex runes in the air one after another.
"change!"
Under Sigrun's control, the entrance to Freya's courtyard miraculously disappeared from the sight of the heroic warriors.
Although he and Freya have not seen each other for many years, as her most valued lieutenant, Sigurun is very familiar with Freya's spells.
It was the first time for Sigrun to see the enchantment structure of this courtyard, but she was no stranger to Freya's method of arranging the wards, and she easily took over control of the entire courtyard.
Freya is a goddess who is extremely insecure, and the home she chose for herself has multiple protections.
One is the conventional defensive barrier controlled by Atreus.
The second is the transfer of the barrier entrance controlled by Sigrun.
Finally, there is the giant turtle that Freya took away. In the worst case scenario, it can escape into the phase space with Freya and avoid Odin's pursuit.
Sigrun didn't know where the other barrier entrances set by Freya were. They moved from a snowy forest to the top of a hill.
Kratos and Atreus had been here before when traveling in Midgard, and they recognized the statues located in the middle of the upper and lower lakes at a glance.
Atreus looked at the scenery below the mountain in surprise: "Is this Vesegarde?"
Sigurn: "I guess so. I know that disgusting statue of Thor that turned into ashes."
"It doesn't matter where."
Kratos stood on the edge of the cliff and looked towards the Lake of the Nine Realms. The heroic warriors who had just been teleported to the bridge by Odin had no purpose and were piled up at a loss.
Sigurn cast a spell to repair the damaged barrier, and Freya's courtyard completely disappeared from Odin's surveillance.
"Kratos is right." Yongzhen turned to look at Brachi who was knocked unconscious by Sigurun: "It's time for us to talk about business with the God of Poetry."
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When Odin's heroic warrior reinforcements arrived, Lu Xiao was floating above the Lake of Nine Realms with his breath blocked.
"Ha~ Sure enough, we sent reinforcements, but your actions are still half a beat too slow, King of the Gods."
Lu Xiao could always feel Yongzhen's magical aura through the soul contract. At this time, they were no longer in the woods by the lake, but had moved to a strange place.
"To the northeast...forget it, let's find the library first."
With the rune stone as a guide, Lu Xiao's process of finding the library was not difficult, but it was more time-consuming.
When the group of heroic warriors blocked on the bridge were sent back to Asgard, Lu Xiao finally found the entrance to the library on the east side of the Lake of Nine Realms.
The library hidden by Odin was invisible. Lu Xiao could feel the outline of the library's outer wall, but could not see its shape, and even his eagle vision was useless.
Carefully groping to open the door, Lu Xiao entered the library without Odin noticing.
"Da~da~da~"
The library, which has not been opened for many years, senses the arrival of guests, and the magic lighting equipment in the library automatically lights up.
The first thing that caught Lu Xiao's eyes were the bookshelves, countless giant bookshelves.