38.Ragnarok (Part I)
In the dimensional mirror of the ruins of the Golden Palace, Ciri is opening a dimensional rift leading to the wasteland hell.
The blood of the elders is truly a mysterious anomaly, and the ability to ignore any obstacle to travel is the envy of Merlin.
To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that Ciri couldn't take too many people through the dimension at once, Merlin and Odin wouldn't have to bother enough to occupy the Rainbow Bridge at all.
This ability given to her by Ciri's bloodline has made her the most powerful shuttle in the dimensions of the worlds.
And next to the slowly opening dimensional rift, Raven was burning the ice chips that were constantly spawning Scati's body with a black fire of arrogance.
The Winter Scepter was held in Merlin's hand, and without it, the weakened Scati could no longer be replenished by the power of the White Frost, and her self-sealing state was forcibly terminated.
But cold ice chips are growing.
Scati hasn't given up yet.
She had already lost, and she had lost badly, but she still had to use her last strength to issue the most vicious curse on Merlin and Elsa, the bitter mandarin ducks.
"You can't save her!"
The demon screamed madly.
The viciousness in her eyes shuddered.
However, no one in this place paid attention to her, it was just the wailing of the defeated dog, and there was no need to pay attention to it at all.
"Brother, I'll take Elsa back to the wasteland first."
Raven's fingers rested on Scati's neck, and a black flame burned against Scati's skin under her control.
The Pride Queen told Merlin, who was checking on the condition of the Winter Scepter:
"But the fire of arrogance can only stop her self-freezing, and if you want to completely suppress the frost power of the evil spirits, you will have to find more and more powerful flames."
"Flames?"
Merlin pursed his lips, he put away the Winter Scepter, and looked at the blank third page of the Book of Ravens, and he nodded:
"There's a good guy out there, Eternal Flame, is it enough?"
"That's sure to be enough."
Raven nodded, she looked at Merlin, and said:
"But I don't think Surtr would be so generous with his heart, would he?"
"It doesn't matter how you get it."
The Raven Lord said to his more and more mature sister:
"Just as Surtr's opinion doesn't matter, I'll get it, go back to the mystery house and wait for me, if something happens, Carol can help you."
"Are you sure?"
Raven blinked, and the girl looked at her brother, and she whispered:
"You're going to let Carol meet with Elsa like that?"
"They've met before, and between me, Carol and Elsa, we're long past that stage."
Merlin put his eyes on Scati glaring at him again, and he leaned down and reached out to scrape the bridge of his nose as if he had flirted with Elsa.
He didn't care about Scati's murderous gaze.
He said softly:
"We are family, family will help each other, family will never give up on each other, as long as we need it, no matter where we are, home will come for us..."
"Scati, you just don't understand this to lose so badly."
"I'm going to say goodbye, but not with Elsa, but with you... You heartless monster. ”
"Be patient, it won't be long."
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The battlefield in Asgard is supported by a fresh force from the Wasteland Prison.
Caught between the attacking Asgardians and the Intelligence, the Dark Alliance, which had lost all its leaders, quickly fell into a desperate situation of defeat.
Especially after the dark elves saw that the situation was not good and withdrew from the sky battlefield with a strong man's broken wrist, the dark alliance army with only the ground legion left was defeated.
And in the current Asgardian Command, in the Great Rune Tower, the diva Frigga who was desperately sent here by Thor and Loki is also waking up in the treatment of rune wizards.
The moment the queen woke up, when she saw her son and daughter, she couldn't help but seep tears in her eyes.
"Oh my God..."
The queen of heaven hugged Thor and Loki, and she cried silently and said:
"Audrey, I didn't expect that I would see that poor child."
"Mother, who is that?"
Thor asked in surprise as he comforted his grieving mother.
On the other side, Loki, who had witnessed the battle between Angela and Odin, handed a glass of water to the diva, she glanced at Thor, and she whispered in a complicated tone:
"It's Angela, that's not her name, she's Audrey, if I heard me right... She is supposed to be our older sister, the first daughter of the Queen Mother and the Father. ”
"We thought the poor child had been killed by a vicious angel."
The queen of heaven lay on the sickbed and said in a haggard tone:
"The angels didn't kill her, but they were more vicious, and they raised my poor Audrey to be an assassin, instilled in her terrible thoughts, and sent her to assassinate her real parents."
"Those vicious crumbs!"
"Anjila used the Power Gem."
Loki saw Thor's dazed face and explained to him:
"My father was stabbed by her, but... I don't know what happened next. ”
Speaking of this, Loki turned his head to look at the queen of heaven, and with a somewhat irrational complaint in her tone, she said:
"The Queen Mother! If you've got reinforcements in advance, if it's all your plan, then you should at least let us know in advance! You're also working with Merlin... He did such a radical thing to me..."
"More on that later, Loki!"
The queen drank a sip of water and somewhat recovered some of her spirits.
She was helped by Loki to the window of the Great Rune Tower, watching the battle in the center of the city, and the Queen of Heaven could see her rebellious daughter Hela, who was fighting the roaring Lord of Flames with seven Heavenly Hammer Venerables.
During the time she was unconscious, the figures of Odin and Angela seemed to have disappeared into the land of Asgard, and the unrestrained Surtr had lost his restraints.
The mountains behind the city had been flattened by the mad flame giants.
It has torn open the earth in the ruins of the Golden Palace, and has summoned the magma flames underneath, and the mad giant desperately wants to see Ragnarok bring, it is destroying the foundations of this world.
Once the dangerous Twilight Branch is pierced into the core of Asgard, the world is truly finished.
"Go... Go help Hela! ”
The queen clenched her fists, and she said to Loki and Thor beside her in a complicated tone:
"Go help your sister! Asgard cannot be destroyed, and Ragnarok is not today! Surter... This dangerous mad giant must be killed! ”
"Help that rebel?"
Loki immediately asked rhetorically:
"Mother, you're not kidding, are you? Why help her? She's a traitor to the family! Wouldn't it be better for her to kill herself with the Lord of Flames like this? ”
"Hela, she's really not a good family member."
The queen sighed.
She was weak and her head ached, but she held on to her body and explained to Loki:
"I can guess why she fought to the death with Surtr, and I can probably guess how Merlin persuaded her to betray Skati."
"Listen to me, Loki, Hela's starting point is not pure."
"You know too little about your sister, who is also a godhead, a rare genius in the family. But it is precisely because of her godhead that she and Asgard are tied together. ”
"If this world is destroyed by Surtr, Hela will lose a lot, so at least in the matter of fighting against the Lord of Flames, we have a common interest."
"But help her kill the Lord of Flames, she's afraid she'll kill us all if she turns around!"
Loki retorted:
"Father is away, you're seriously injured, and if Hela goes crazy, no one can stop her. What's more, there are seven people by her side, and you can see the war hammers they hold in their hands..."
"That's... It was the Heavenly Hammer Venerable under the command of the Great Serpent. ”
The queen of heaven said in a quiet tone:
"Your father and I thought we had defeated the Dread, but we didn't. These Celestial Hammers must be removed as well, but like Hela, the Great Serpent is a godhead. ”
"The destruction of Asgard will re-traumatize its already weakened body, so we can trust them, at least in the fight against the Fire King."
"Go help them."
His Majesty Frigga closed his eyes.
She was a little overwhelmed by the injuries in her body and the chaotic thoughts swirling in her head.
She said to her two sons:
"How we should deal with their relationship and where the family's affairs will go in the future are all things for the future, at least for now, we can't sit back and watch our homeland be destroyed."
"There are still our people on the island, and they are still waiting for news of our victory... Go! Just go! ”
Loki tried to argue a little more, but was dragged out of the temple by the arm of the silent Thor, and moments later, amid the neighing of the gnashing and grinding of the teeth, the third and fourth princesses of Asgard rushed into battle with a group of rune mages.
After they left, the queen returned to the sickbed tired.
She leaned there and said in a languishing voice:
"Come out, Lord Raven, it's unseemly for a character like you to hide in the shadows and listen to my conversation with my sons."
"Huh"
With a chuckle, Merlin, with his hands on his back, floated out of the shadows of the Great Rune Tower.
The Raven Lord looked at the seriously injured queen and said:
"I didn't mean to eavesdrop, I happened to appear in the rune tower after the revoked mirror image of that dimension, which is a coincidence... But then again, I'm sure I'm going to have to visit you, if not by coincidence. ”
"Asgard will not forget your help, Your Excellency."
The queen closed her eyes, and she said weakly:
"When my husband returns, when the war is over, we will go to the wasteland to say thank you."
"No, I don't need any thanks."
Merlin waved his hand, and he said:
"The agreement is not done yet, it is too early to say this. Actually, you may not know, Your Excellency, there is such an agreement between me and Odin..."
"I advised him from the beginning to be prepared for Asgard to move."
The raven looked at the queen of heaven and said:
"But Odin has not been able to make up his mind, and I can understand that he is a king after all, and there are many things to consider. It was only after hearing your conversation with your sons that I realized that I shouldn't have talked to him about it. ”
"I should talk to you, a mother who thinks about her children everywhere, should be able to make up her mind."
"Why?"
Friga opened her eyes and looked at Merlin.
The charming diva calmly asked:
"Why should I make such a determination?"
"Because of Thor."
Merlin chuckled, and said very calmly:
"I asked the Great Snake to be involved in this matter, not just to use the power of the Great Snake to plot against Skati, no, in fact, as long as Hela and Surtr are involved, it doesn't matter if the Great Snake comes or not."
"I found it because I wanted you and Odin to see one thing clearly..."
"You see, the Great Snake has summoned all the war hammers it has hidden so generously, and let the Heavenly Hammer Venerables participate in this war, and it is very confident."
"Isn't it worried that the rest of the Warhammer will suffer the same fate as the Original Sin Warhammer? Did it just let its fearhammer be destroyed by me and Odin? ”
The Raven Lord shook his head, and he said earnestly:
"I used to wonder about the serpent's actions, but now I guess that it's not that it doesn't care about the fear of the warhammer, but that it has confidence, and I don't know where it got its confidence, maybe it's the one who gave those warhammers a hand."
"In short, I hope you can understand, Your Majesty, at this point in time, the serpent's escape is already a sure thing, and the prophecy about it and Thor..."
"Thor will kill the serpent, then walk nine steps and fall into his father's arms, you and Odin will lose your son forever, Asgard will lose its prince, and I will lose a friend."
Merlin paused, giving the diva plenty of time to think.
He looked into the eyes of the queen of heaven and said:
"Don't say anything like Thor is no longer Thor, you can also see that what your son did on this long journey, it is only a matter of time before he becomes Thor again."
"That prophecy will be fulfilled eventually!"
The diva's fist clenched at this moment.
What Merlin said is true, at least logically irrefutable.
"But what does that have to do with the Asgardian migration?"
The queen of heaven asked rhetorically:
"Don't beat around the bush, Lord Raven, we are allies now, Asgard wants to stand with you, we have proven that we need each other, let's get straight, your thoughts, your plans."
"My plan, it's simple."
"If that prophecy is unavoidable, then why not find a way to weaken the serpent? Ordinary weakening is not feasible, because you have the special power of Godhead. ”
"But the Asgardians are godheads, and they are gods, and they are gods."
In the flickering shadows behind him, Merlin seemed to be hovering in front of a dark mirror, talking to the diva.
He whispered:
"The Asgardian migration is just the first link, I already have a complete plan, but it's not time to reveal it yet."
"This war is just the beginning, but as you said, Your Excellency, I have proven my sincerity and goodwill, if you are willing to believe me, you are willing to work with me to find a way to save Thor's life... It's hypocritical to say that. ”
"Well, I have my own private purpose, but it doesn't conflict with saving my friends, actually, I think it's a good thing for the Odin family."
"Hela, Loki, and... Angela, a group of children who don't let people worry, the Asgardians are really problematic about the education of children, maybe, maybe you can change places and start over. ”
Merlin looked at the silent queen and said:
"There's still some time before Surtr dies, or triggers Ragnarok, you can think slowly, I'll stay in the shadows..."
"I'm waiting for your reply."