Chapter 80: Chapter 37: Dream Serpent 1
Earth shattering and mountain shaking!
In the rumbling of the earth, a rift hundreds of meters long appeared before Su Ziyu.
The figure of Black Mud Jack was directly evaporated by that golden lightning.
Skadi seemed to have entered a berserk state because of Black Mud Jack’s words. Behind her, out of nowhere, appeared a pair of blood-stained wings. The originally white feathers were now tainted with many bloodstains, which had yet to fade for unknown reasons. At this moment, Skadi resembled the Valkyrie in Su Ziyu’s impressions. She grasped a golden long spear and soared into the heavens with a roar, charging at the massive mud puppet.
"So strong!"
"Is this the power of the Divine Spirit?"
Su Ziyu was a bit stunned, looking at the gully that stretched for hundreds of meters. Even with modern missiles, such a massive crack wouldn’t appear. Her recent outburst was like an earthquake.
The power released by a Divine Spirit seemed more concentrated, whereas modern weapons were more about area damage.
Only now did Su Ziyu start to understand how the broken mountain peaks in the Old World came about. If those Divine Spirits possessed such terrifying might, their battles indeed seemed like earth shattering and heaven collapsing.
The neighing of a Pegasus came through.
After the blood-stained wings appeared behind Skadi, the Pegasus came to Su Ziyu’s side.
It neighed towards Su Ziyu, then lightly landed on the ground.
"You want me to get on?" Su Ziyu asked.
Being the only one among the three without the ability to fly, Su Ziyu hesitated not and leaped onto the horse’s back.
Hiss, hiss, hiss!
Just then, some snake-like sounds came from the forest mist, followed by the appearance of many snake monsters.
These snake monsters were different from the giant snakes seen outside. They seemed like a fusion of a human body and a snake body, the head was a ferocious snake’s head, with a long snake tongue flicking out. Their bodies were quite human-like with a pair of arms, but they were covered in scales, and their tails were long and slender, allowing them to move quickly.
Aaaah!
A piercing scream reached their ears, the painful cries were an amalgamation of countless voices.
Turning his head, Su Ziyu saw that the scarecrow’s bodies burst into flames, each sunflower face on them showed a pained expression as they screamed while withering and burning in the flames. At this moment, the White Queen was flying with her eyes closed; nobody knew what special method she had, but even with closed eyes, she could sense everything around her, avoiding the black vines shooting from the scarecrows.
"It’s useless."
"You can’t kill me!"
"I have seen the despair in your heart! Why don’t you give up?"
Bit by bit, black mud gathered in that ravine, and Black Mud Jack reappeared. His body began to swell, with the aged faces of numerous Great Elves appearing, as if a heap of indescribable collections. Each black mud-formed head gushed from his body, frantically shouting, "Join us!"
"Become one with us!"
A cacophony of crazy voices merged into indescribable multiple whispers, making one’s spirit feel infinitely suppressed and despaired.
Rumble!
Another golden lightning bolt descended from the sky.
"In your dreams!" Skadi beckoned, and the golden long spear flew back to her hand automatically.
This attack evaporated Black Mud Jack again.
But in less than a minute, his figure reappeared, he opened his mouth to speak but suddenly froze in place.
"I said long ago that I wasn’t lying."
"I really went outside."
In the obscure shadows, Pick’s figure alone appeared. He quietly gazed at Black Mud Jack ahead, slowly saying, "So you are the despair in my heart!..."
"I remembered everything."
The shadows on Pick gradually faded, he returned to his Great Elf appearance, but only as an illusory spirit body, he murmured, "I remembered. I have been to the Old World after the gods’ twilight; what I saw there filled me with great fear, fright, and despair."
"I saw the burning World Tree, the collapsing Rainbow Bridge, the shattered mountain ranges, and countless bones..."
"I had a nightmare, dreaming of a giant serpent."
"I was tempted by it."
"I stole the Golden Apple and ate it."
"And then you were born."
A trace of pain and remorse appeared on Pick’s face as he murmured, "I remembered everything."
"So I was the culprit!"
Everything around trembled as if the entire Dream Realm began to change because of Pick’s memories.
As Pick emerged, Black Mud Jack began to dissipate little by little, and the mist enveloping this world became thinner and thinner, yet as these mists dispersed, a truly shocking scene appeared before them.
"Look at the sky!"
In the sky.
A colossal figure, unimaginable in size, appeared before them. It was a giant serpent, so huge it couldn’t be described by words, its immense body almost concealing the entire sky. The giant serpent intertwined its body around the Dream Realm, and just the part visible to the naked eye spanned thousands of kilometers!
It coiled in the skies of the Dream Realm, and the mist was the breath it exhaled.
A gigantic snake head obscured the moon.
After Pick finished speaking, it slowly opened its eyes, and the unimaginably massive serpent body began to tighten bit by bit, causing everything around to tremble violently, making the entire world appear as if it was disintegrating like an oil painting, even causing Skadi and the White Queen, engaged in battle, to stop in shock and dismay.
—"Dream Serpent!"
—"Jormungandr!"
When this serpent appeared, entwining the entire Dream Realm, a stream of data in Su Ziyu’s mind immediately reacted.
"Mission accomplished!"
"Authority Level elevated!"
"Unlocking Plane Positioning Authority!... Unlocking partial Hourglass of Time Authority!..."
"Discovered Source of Evil Thoughts!"
"Mission objective: Eliminate Dream Serpent—Jormungandr [Incarnation of Despair]!"
"Mission reward: Divinity Value, Dream Realm."
Without a doubt!
The culprit corrupting the entire Dream Forest was right before their eyes, yet Su Ziyu couldn’t fathom that it would be this immense!
"Damn it!"
"How did this monster revive?" Skadi spread her wings and ascended, rushing directly to Su Ziyu, speaking in a deep voice, "The thing Diana feared most has happened! Those beings who perished during the gods’ twilight have revived due to the filth of the Old World!"
Jormungandr!
The legendary giant serpent that could wrap around the Midgard World?
Though right now, it didn’t seem to be a body of flesh and blood, rather it was in a spirit body state that Su Ziyu couldn’t understand. Its enormous body, partly real and unreal, was slowly tightening the entire Dream Realm. Who knows how long it had been entwining this world, possibly since they brought back the Golden Apple ten years ago, Jormungandr was already coiling around this world.
"Take it to the Elemental Pool!"
"Diana must have told you what to do by now!" Skadi turned and looked towards the distant Winter Witch.
After the massive figure of Jormungandr appeared, the Winter Witch seemed to suddenly awaken from a terrible nightmare, murmuring, "I remembered."
"It’s it!"
"It invaded our world and dragged everyone into an unending nightmare!"
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