Druid’s Marvel Travels

Chapter 394: The Roots of the World Tree

Hundreds of black venomous snakes more than ten meters long gathered together, eating dirt silently and firmly...

This picture is so weird no matter how you look at it.

No, that's not eating dirt.

From Gungnir's abnormal reaction, Oakes came to a conclusion that he couldn't believe but had to believe——

"Those things that look like hills..."

Oakes' complexion became complicated, including surprise, surprise, and understanding, and the rest was solemn.

"It's some kind of rotten plant... No, or it can basically be concluded that it's a rotten tree root."

"A small piece of root of the World Tree!"

Oakes still has some research on mythology, especially Nordic mythology.

In Norse mythology, Hell's underworld was not as simple as it is now.

It should be deep in a wider, more primal world, where one of the three taproots of the world tree resides.

"The World Tree has three taproots, extending to Asgard, one of the upper three realms, Jotunheim, one of the three middle realms, and one of the lower three realms..."

Oakes looked around at the extremely cold mist that quickly enveloped his surroundings again, and sighed:

"I should have thought of it earlier, this kind of environment...'Niflheim, the country of fog'!"

Hull's underworld, just deep in Niflheim, is the real country of the dead, where the Nibelungen is located.

But since becoming an advisor to the royal family of Asgard, Oakes has always felt that this is just a misrepresentation of myth.

After all, there is no record of Niflheim in Asgard.

But in reality, he couldn't help but not believe it.

Gungnir's unprecedented reaction has confirmed that these huge "hills" in front of him are exactly the same material as the branches of the world tree of his gun barrel.

Then the decayed roots of the world tree that were eaten by poisonous snakes made Oakes naturally think of a more troublesome existence.

"Dragon of Despair, Nidhogg... If this is really Niflheim, then it probably disappeared along with the World Tree, leaving only Hell's Underworld as one of the New Nine Realms. "

After trying to understand the pass, Oakes couldn't help but feel a headache.

These poisonous snakes are said to have gnawed at the roots of the world tree together with the black dragon Ned Hogg.

When this main root is eaten away, the world tree will wither and decay, heralding the arrival of Ragnarok.

Like Baldr's death, Nidhogg bit off the root of the world tree, which is also a harbinger of Ragnarok.

Unlike Baldr, Nidhogg is one of the few creatures that can survive after Ragnarok.

So Niflheim, and even the disappearance of the world tree, has something to do with it?

Although this version of Ned Hogg does not seem to be as high-quality as in a certain novel, since he can indeed cause serious damage to the World Tree, he must be an extremely difficult guy to deal with.

According to Oakes' estimate, World Tree should be at least larger than a single infinite gemstone, and it is uncertain how many infinite gemstones it is equivalent to——

Of course, it is definitely far from the height of six gems.

"Whether it's Odin's last wish or to find the World Tree, it seems that this trip will have to face such a world-destroying boss..."

Oakes touched the soul stone necklace, feeling a little lucky.

The current him can be regarded as the lowest point of strength in the past few years.

But he couldn't give up this opportunity and do nothing.

The root of the world tree in front of me has obviously been rotted by the gnawing of poisonous snakes, but if you follow it, you can definitely find the main root that has not yet rotted!

"Boom..."

The mind gem's yellow light rose sharply. Now that he knew that Ned Hogg might exist, Oakes must preserve his strength.

Using the power of infinite gems is undoubtedly the safest——

Physical strength needs to be preserved as much as magic power, so use the mind gem to launch a celestial level magic attack!

The cold mist turned into a berserk ice storm, which was dozens of times more powerful than the natural magic that Oakes had just cast, and wiped out the group of low-intelligence poisonous snakes in front of him who hadn't realized what was going on!

"Tsk... I have to say, it's pretty miserable."

Unlike the one killed by Oakes himself, almost none of the poisonous snakes killed by the ice storm left their bodies.

The huge and tough body was crushed into pieces by the endless ice slag.

After losing their vitality, these things were finally frozen into huge ice cubes like normal biological tissues, and smashed to the ground without stopping.

Perhaps the undead creatures would like it very much, but now, Oakes has no interest in them at all.

"This...how many years have passed."

Getting closer, standing under this huge "hill", with Ochs' natural magic attainments, he can barely perceive the specialness of these decayed roots in front of him.

"No wonder there are only so many poisonous snakes left here, and I am so close, Gungnir has a new reaction...

It is not the same as the previous reaction on an alien planet. I am afraid that the previous reaction was aimed at the body of the World Tree. "

Oakes frowned, sensing the roots of the world tree whose vitality had almost completely dissipated.

That's right, this is just a mere root. The World Tree is huge enough to support the nine worlds. The mere root is as huge as a hill!

The good news is that the main body of the World Tree should still be there, and it is indeed related to the breaking of the seal here, so Gungnir can respond at such a long distance.

The bad news is that the situation of World Tree is probably not very good——

After all, according to the original time, Ragnarok has already happened now.

Nidhogg gnawing off the taproot of the world tree was not the cause of Ragnarok, but its harbinger.

Ragnarok didn't happen, Baldur didn't die, what about the World Tree?

If Nidhogg's mission in Asgard's civilization every season is to gnaw the roots of the tree, what role will he play when the World Tree disappears during the entire season of civilization?

"It's really... more and more interesting!"

Touring the world is something that Oakes really wanted to do a long time ago.

But this world is not only dangerous, but also unfathomable. If you want to visit without any scruples, at least you have to make sure that nothing can threaten you.

Becoming a dimensional lord just achieved the basic invincible state in the dimension.

But since you want to visit the world, you can't just squat in the dimensional space all the time.

With the power of the real world, Oakes only controls the Earth, and he hasn't even fully grasped the planet Emerald One, let alone the remaining one thousand planets.

Yi Ge gave him a way to become stronger, but the process was extremely difficult.

Finding and communicating with the World Tree is one of the few ways that Oakes can safely and quickly increase his strength.

It is also one of the most wonderful scenery on his way around the world.

So, Nidhogg, he's dead.

"Since the World Tree will be my support, the existence of Ned Hogg is gnawing at my foundation. This kind of guy must not stay."

Carefully sensing the remaining life force in the decayed roots, Oakes struggled to find the direction to the main root system.

Excitement flashed in his eyes when he saw the endless "mountains" of root systems crawling on the ground like ancient giant beasts in front of him.

"Although it is extremely weak, almost dissipating, but the quality is undoubtedly high, no wonder there are so many poisonous snakes.

This is almost the top-level power of life, the world tree should not have full consciousness, right? "

With the size of the World Tree, even the name of the god of nature is not qualified to carry it.

However, the larger the body, the more difficult it is to produce a complete self-awareness, especially for plant life.

"Huh... Then let's find out, there seems to be a disgusting aura ahead... It seems that these poisonous snakes are really everywhere."

Walking along the roots to the main root system, this scene feels a little familiar to Oakes.

Before meeting Bruce Banner for the first time that year, Oakes practiced natural magic in the Amazon rainforest.

As the world's second longest river and the largest river, the Amazon River has about 15,000 tributaries.

Oakes has done it, starting from a small tributary, tracing the source layer by layer, and finally finding the main channel of the Amazon River to which it belongs.

Things to do now seem to be very similar to then.

Oakes, enjoying this process, began to push the venomous snakes remaining here in the root system of the world tree.

After an unknown number of years, most of the root system of this Niflheim taproot has fallen into decay.

Otherwise, Oakes wouldn't need to use this clumsy method to determine the direction of the taproot at all.

The closer to the main root system, the larger the group of remaining venomous snakes, and the stronger the individual strength.

Even later, a poisonous snake can be tens of meters long, and the poisonous gas emitted from a long distance can kill ordinary people directly.

But they still can't stop Oakes' footsteps.

It's just that after walking for so long, Oakes didn't find any trace of Hela fighting.

"It seems that the space transformation at the beginning sent me and Hela to different roots.

I don't know how long Hella has been here. It is much easier for the Reality Gem to break through here than the Soul Gem...

She should also be able to discover the secret here, then Ned Hogg..."

Just thinking of this, Oakes who was walking stopped.

A terrifying energy fluctuation came from a direction where his direction was deflected by more than ten degrees.

"Someone is fighting... on such a large scale!"

However, this kind of explosive fighting energy fluctuation only lasted for a short dozen seconds before quieting down.

Oakes looked in that direction, and then at the roots of the World Tree beside him.

That is already a secondary root that is several times larger than the previous root.

"There is a high probability that the tap root is there, and the probability is even higher that Hela is there."

Turning into a death raven, Oakes flew directly in that direction:

"Hela, that guy, couldn't it be the fight with Ned Hogg just now? With that level of death magic power, she has already touched the threshold of life and death transformation?"

Hela, who was able to achieve this level, erupted for more than ten seconds and then fell silent. This...

Niflheim is too big, bigger than any of the Nine Realms currently.

At Oakes' speed, it took a long time to reach the place where the energy erupted just now.

But only the corpses of countless venomous snakes and a huge black object remained at the scene.

"Dragon scale..."