Chapter 425: Piercing the Heart

The giant leaned on the spear, his one eye scanning the country he once called "Midgard."

After more than a thousand years, he finally returned here again.

His gaze looked toward the north, the land covered in ice and snow, where his hometown was.

However, just as he took a step toward there, suddenly a beam of light lit up in the air.

The giant was caught off guard and was hit by the green beam of light. He held one arm above his head, forming a shield made of lightning, but the huge magic torrent still pressed him so that he couldn't move for a while.

Just then, thousands of meters away, the giant caught a glimpse of dust and smoke rising in the sky, as if something was rushing toward him here.

Immediately after, two more white lines shot from the air and smashed into him.

"Boom boom!" The thick fire light swallowed the giant. He was flipped over by the missile, and two big pits appeared on his rock-like body, debris peeled off, and blood sprayed all over the ground.

He hadn't stood up yet, and two more white lines attacked, exploding beside him again.

"Boom boom..."

At high altitude, more than a dozen Hela drones launched the missiles carried on their bodies one after another, and then opened the heavy machine guns loaded with the "Thor's Hammer" enchantment, firing at the giant below who was locked by magic.

In an instant, tens of thousands of bullets, like cannonballs after being enlarged, bombed toward the giant at a speed of nearly two Mach.

This bombardment, which was no less than a heavy artillery cluster, lasted for a full minute.

The Siberian permafrost seemed to have been loosened by a shield machine under this terrifying firepower strike, and the huge dust and smoke rose tens of meters high, lingering for a long time.

The dust and smoke obscured most of the detection equipment, and the Hela drones, designed for Muggle warfare, were equipped with low-precision magic radar and were also interfered with, so the strike had to be paused.

However, the satellite equipped with high-precision magic radar was not affected by this line-of-sight obscuration. The green beam of light, like a sword from the sky, tracked the traces of the giant being pushed back by kinetic weapons, splitting the earth all the way, trying to bring him back into the attack range.

Just then, "Bang!"

The air wave exploded, the dust and smoke cleared, and a white light shot up into the sky.

Below, the giant still maintained the posture of throwing the spear, but the white light had already shot into the high altitude of more than a thousand kilometers in an instant, piercing through the magic satellite.

The satellite exploded into a pile of fragments in space, and the white light returned to the giant's hand again.

At this moment, he only had half of his tattered body left, and blood was splashing on the ice and snow on the top of the mountain everywhere, but the giant roared, holding the spear high, and endless thunder fell, as if putting a layer of armor on him.

The storm sweeping the world rose around him. A few more missiles flew over, but they were all swept into the storm, just exploding into a ball of fireworks, unable to cause damage to the giant again.

"Boom boom boom!" The rolling dust and smoke in the distance stopped. Those were hundreds of unmanned combat vehicles, which now adjusted their angles one after another and fired at the storm.

But the storm seemed to be a copper wall and an iron wall. Thunder and fire, in the violent wind, could melt steel in an instant.

"Kaunan! Hagalaz! Gebo!" In the storm, the giant's voice shook the earth. After the spell ended, countless lightning spears flickering with electric light appeared in the air.

The next instant, the storm dissipated, and the giant roared, throwing the spear in his hand, and at the same time, thousands of lightning spears also sprinkled toward the location of the combat vehicles like a rainstorm.

"Clatter!" The lightning spear had amazing destructive power, piercing through the 20-centimeter armor of those combat vehicles in one go, blowing the mechanical equipment inside into a mess.

"Boom boom!" Several combat vehicles were hit in the ammunition department and exploded directly.

With just one attack, the giant wiped out an unmanned combat vehicle regiment.

Immediately after, he gathered countless thunder spears again and threw them into the sky. In an instant, the drone swarm was also destroyed.

However, even so, the attack seemed to be endless, and two more missiles dragging two white lines attacked him.

The giant swept his spear, blowing the missiles up.

But this time, after the dust and smoke dissipated, suddenly a flash of lightning leaped into the clouds and disappeared in an instant.

Thousands of kilometers away.

Finland.

A flash of lightning fell from the sky, with a bang, blowing up the top of a snow mountain.

The giant leaned on the spear, half-kneeling on the ground.

He breathed weakly, the rocks on his body peeled off piece by piece, and blood splashed on the ice and snow on the top of the mountain like a waterfall.

But just then, the mountain seemed to sense his existence, and it trembled faintly. The ancient songs, as if there were nothing, were sung in the howling cold wind, and the thunderous war drums rolled in the gloomy clouds. He heard the calls of countless people again, just like the motherland of more than a thousand years ago.

This land still hasn't forgotten him.

The giant's breathing gradually calmed down, his wounds slowly healed, but his body gradually shrank.

Before long, he changed from a giant nearly ten meters tall to an old man in a white robe.

The majestic halo dissipated from behind him. He took a deep breath, took a step, and came to the side of a large lake.

He walked barefoot on the gravel by the lake, his old hands stroking the ferns on the shore. Before long, he came to a rotten tree stump.

"Yggdrasil..." He touched the long-decayed tree stump. "The World Tree that supports the world has actually become like this."

"Without the nourishment of divine power, the Nine Realms must have collapsed."

"Our world died, not destroyed by Ragnarok, but by an evil conspiracy."

"But now I have returned. We will rule this land again! The Aesir will rebuild Asgard!"

He said, punching into the tree hole, digging out a seed from the decayed mud.

He washed the seed clean in the lake water and held it in his palm. The seed had originally withered, but in his palm, it quickly regained its luster. Before long, a tiny sprout drilled out of the seed.

"Grow, Yggdrasil! You will be the new World Tree!"

He threw the seed into the gravel beside him. The seed expanded a circle as soon as it landed, and then the thick roots twisted and drilled out, digging into the ground, and the whole body was constantly expanding and growing. In just a few moments, it had become a towering giant tree of tens of meters high.

He looked at this scene happily and was about to recite a spell to make it stretch out its branches again and open up the Nine Realms.

Just then, his body suddenly froze, and the electric light all over his body trembled involuntarily. In his chest, chains made of incomparably complex runes were wrapped around his heart. At this moment, the chains were tightening, reminding him that even if he escaped from that cage, he was still not free.

"Roar!" He let out a roar of extreme anger.

He almost wanted to dig out the heart that was enslaved by the runes.

But he didn't do that in the end.

Cannot die here, the Aesir are still waiting for his rescue.

Although the blood feud of being enslaved must be repaid, at this time, they still have a common enemy.

He looked toward the south again. There was a city there, and the core that imprisoned them was right there.

Thinking of this, he turned into a giant again, held the spear high, and disappeared as a flash of lightning.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 426 =====