Chapter 107

That person in front was indeed Yang Xin! Feng Yan stared at him with his eyes fixed, and behind him was Wang Tingwan.

"Oh dear, what is that look? Is it pity, sorrow, or unwillingness?" Yang Xin teased Feng Yan with a playful tone.

"I just find you disgusting." Feng Yan's face darkened, his teeth grinding, and he finally said those words. Feng Yan thought he no longer cared, but seeing Wang Tingwan behind him, he still felt a bit sad.

Chen Hao realized that the girl behind him was Wang Tingwan, the girl Feng Yan liked. This was the first time he properly saw her appearance; although she wasn't exceptionally beautiful, her demeanor added many points.

"Good timing, Yang Xin!" the king said with a pleased expression, then ordered Yang Xin: "Now, kill them!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Yang Xin replied, and following the king's gesture, the soldiers once again surrounded them. Yang Xin's crossbow had already been aimed at Feng Yan.

"Well then, goodbye!" Yang Xin said, but just as he was about to pull the trigger, he stopped.

The ground suddenly trembled! Although there had been a previous one, it was brief and they hadn't paid attention. But this time was different!

They saw the sky darken at a speed visible to the naked eye, then the sky became hazy, as if covered with a layer of frosted glass...

Everyone stared blankly, all looking at the sky, forgetting what they were supposed to do, everyone dumbfounded.

Until a soldier in the crowd said, "What are we supposed to do again?"

The soldiers then remembered their duty and once again surrounded Feng Yan and the two.

Feng Yan naturally didn't regard those foot soldiers as a threat, but he was watching Yang Xin's crossbow; if that bolt hit, the consequences were unthinkable!

Yang Xin was also worried, thinking that if this shot missed, he would likely be killed by a sword! The two were engaged in a standoff, locking eyes, while the soldiers dared not act rashly, merely surrounding them and awaiting orders.

"Why are you just standing there? Attack, attack quickly! As long as you hit them once, I'll reward ten gold coins! Ten gold coins!" The king grew anxious, directly offering a ten-gold-coin reward to try to spur the soldiers into attacking.

Meanwhile, at the center of the soldiers' encirclement, Feng Yan and Chen Hao were calculating; they knew the greatest threat was Yang Xin. Those soldiers could easily be dealt with, but Yang Xin's weapon was the hardest to handle.

Meanwhile, Aodin was in the air watching all this, not descending to help; he watched the Dwarves and Benefit State soldiers fighting indecisively, while also observing Feng Yan and Chen Hao.

But the scene before him felt wrong—the World Tree's sudden rampage, with huge branches and even the vines on its body beginning to seize passersby to gain energy, which made Aodin feel uneasy. Yet looking at the hazy sky, he recalled the witch's prophecy.

That witch looked like a lowly nobody, yet Aodin still believed her words.

"Ragnarok cannot be stopped, yet the King of Gods will not die; he will go to another world to gain life and experience death again. And the Dwarves will become slaves of a nation, awaiting rescue by the world's most unfamiliar adventurer, which will grant them freedom. The World Tree will corrupt, the sky will be like a shattered mirror, and the King of Gods will die once more." Aodin recalled these words again, looking at the situation on the ground, he gradually came to agree with the witch's words, he took a sip of wine and removed his wide-brimmed hat.

Aodin still tightly gripped the Eternal Spear in his hand, then flung off his wide cloak, revealing his golden armor, and rode his eight-legged horse into midair.

The Red-clothed Devil looked at Aodin in midair, a smile curling his lips, he raised his head and said to Aodin: "You're still impatient, King of Gods! But this time, it's not exactly Ragnarok, is it? Who knows?"

The Red-clothed Devil's words were thought-provoking; meanwhile, watching Aodin ride his eight-legged horse slowly away, circling the entire Benefit State city.

"Our god has come! Kill!" The Dwarves, seeing Aodin in golden armor, became instantly excited, and upon seeing the Benefit State soldiers, their combat power surged!

"Is this... the Dwarves?" The Benefit State soldiers grew fearful; the Dwarves were no longer timid or afraid, nor were they still material for the soldiers to bolster their own combat strength. The soldiers fumbled at their waists, preparing to drink the strengthening potions they had prepared...

"For the glory of my god Aodin! Kill!" The Dwarves' morale soared, and they launched an attack on the Benefit State soldiers!

The soldiers repeatedly blocked the Dwarves' assaults, feeling exhausted. Once so timid, cowardly, and fearful in their eyes, those fellows now showed this side! They looked at the Dwarves' attack again, this time without hesitation, and directly drank the potion!

Facing the Dwarves' offensive, they also gained confidence. Jin Meng sensed something was wrong, seeing the changes in these people, he shouted at the Dwarves: "Retreat! Retreat!"

"What, retreat?" The Dwarves were first puzzled—clearly they had a good chance to defeat them, why? But when they took a close look, they immediately understood and obediently retreated.

"Is this the potion made from their comrades' bodies?" One Dwarf, after retreating and watching from afar as they went berserk, also felt sorrowful.

Jin Meng also stared, having seen it before yet still being frightened by the sight before him. They were like they had lost reason; within their line of sight, any living thing could not escape disaster.

They were no longer human.

The Red-clothed Devil watched all this, as the World Tree slowly began to tilt toward the ground. He knew, everything was coming!

"Great wolf! What sin do you have? To bring suffering to the gods? And who am I? Tyr the war god? No, I am myself, I am the Red-clothed Devil!" The Red-clothed Devil shouted at the World Tree, raising his head to look at the hazy sky.

Then he said: "So, you may begin as well."

The Red-clothed Devil's tone carried a hint of mockery, then he gazed at the sky, seemingly sensing someone's presence.

That was certainly Aodin, riding his eight-legged horse in midair, circling, trying to prevent the World Tree's collapse—but how could that be possible? He held the Eternal Spear in one hand while observing all this; the witch's prophecy was quite clear, yet he still tried to achieve another outcome.

Until, this moment occurred.

The sky shattered like ordinary glass, fragments falling directly from heaven to earth; people lifted their heads to look, realizing danger had arrived too late.

Accompanied by people's painful cries, some fragments pierced their bodies, blood flowing everywhere...

Is this hell on earth? Perhaps this was the only thought in those people's minds.

"This won't end like this!" Lin Xiyan gazed at the slowly collapsing World Tree; there, a person wearing a shadow helmet and golden armor struggled to halt the tree's tilt.

This was Aodin, who for the first time felt his power limited; even though he had already added eighteen runes to his body, he still could not stop the World Tree from falling.

Aodin smiled helplessly, his eyes full of reluctance; the ravens on his shoulders had not left him, but used their eyes to observe the surroundings.

"Come on, go see this world for me." Aodin said to the two companions on his shoulders.

The two ravens flew off, perching behind Aodin, looking at him, then continuing forward.

Aodin turned his head to look at those two ravens, while pushing hard against the World Tree before him; although he gained a foothold, it continued to tilt downward incessantly.

The ground's vibration never ceased, then with a bang, the sky seemed smashed by a giant fist, the sky also like shattered glass, slowly falling down!

Aodin sighed, then threw the Eternal Spear from his hand, simultaneously drawing a rune on its shaft.

The Eternal Spear danced in the air, simultaneously shattering most of the fragments, which had become harmless granules to the human body.

"Ah, that's how it is!" Lin Xiyan watched the Eternal Spear dancing in the air, understanding why fragments about the size of a palm hadn't fallen to the ground—it was because of this.

Lin Xiyan nodded, then glanced at the forgetful one beside her, and said: "Let's go."

"Are you alright?" the forgetful one asked.

"It's fine; everyone will be alright, we'll go together to the next place." Lin Xiyan replied to the forgetful one, her words affirming.

"Mm."

Meanwhile, outside the city gate, the Benefit State soldiers' bodies appeared extremely strong, their faces flushed red, their skin turning dark red, they were about to catch up to the Dwarves.

The Dwarves felt a little afraid; those soldiers, after drinking the potion, were simply no longer human—could this be the energy belonging to the Dwarves' bodies? This is the question of all Dwarves.

And just as the Li soldiers were about to catch up to the Dwarves, they were directly taken out by something.

"What's going on?" The Dwarves were utterly confused, and just then, some powder slowly fell from the sky, some of which had already been inhaled into the Dwarves' noses...

Ahchoo! The Dwarf sneezed.

At this moment, all the dwarves stopped, discovering the cause of death of the Li Kingdom soldiers.

It turned out that their bodies had been pierced by things similar to glass shards; some had been fiercely stabbed into their skulls.

Jin Meng sighed, unable to bear looking that way—was that a battlefield? Yet they died in a natural disaster.

And the dwarves had already seen the World Tree; they knelt on the ground. And the God King Aoding, using the sword in his hand, had chopped off a thick branch of the World Tree, propping it up.

"It won't hold for long." Aoding said.