Chapter 1 The Twilight of the Gods

The Twilight of the Gods—this should be the most tragic and highest-level battle since intelligent life appeared on Earth. Although it has been submerged in more than two thousand years of history and chaotic legends, standing on this battlefield, everyone can still feel the baleful aura of that fierce battle coming at them. The Wigrid Plain, turned into a wasteland, is full of wreckage, with humanoid skeletons and the remains of various terrifying behemoths piled up like mountains. Those scenes and characters that only appear in mythological stories are lying here in reality: cold, dead, covered in dust for two thousand years, yet still awe-inspiring.

Near the remains of Jörmungandr and Thor, Lily found the bones of another powerful alien. This was a tall male, fighting barehanded, with traces of flames burning everywhere he fell. Vivian recognized him as Freyr, a valiant warrior from the Vanir gods. He fought the fire giant Surtr barehanded, and finally died in battle. A hundred meters away from where Freyr fell, the bodies of the god of war Tyr and the hellhound Garm were completely entangled and twisted together. The two skeletons were almost completely broken, and they had obviously perished together in an extremely tragic fight. Vivian stood on a large rock protruding from the ground, pointing around with her finger: "I was standing here at the time... maybe a little further to the left. Tyr was fighting the hellhound there, and Freyr was behind me. I said to Freyr, let me help you—but he was immediately killed by Surtr. Then I was going to help Tyr, but at that time I was entering a sleep cycle. You know, I started to lose control of my actions. All the Vanir and Aesir gods in my eyes became hideous. Loki was still constantly laughing loudly at everyone in the melee on the Rainbow Bridge. I left this place quickly before I lost consciousness, so I didn't see the last intervention of the demon hunters. When I woke up, the age of mythology was over."

As Vivian saw more and more familiar things on this ancient battlefield, her deep memories began to recover. Originally, she had almost forgotten the course of the Twilight of the Gods, but now the things she recalled were greatly filling in the gaps in the information Hao Ren was looking for. The others listened to Vivian's description while walking through the wreckage and ruins. Lily kept digging holes curiously along the way, and would run to Hao Ren to show him whatever strange things she dug up. With the help of this active husky, Hao Ren quickly collected a large pile of mythological items, some famous and some not, which would be of great value in alien research and helpful in uncovering ancient history.

But what Hao Ren really wanted to find was still ahead.

"It should be near here," the data terminal suddenly interrupted Vivian's memories. It flew into the air and pointed to the front with a blue light, "The resonance reaction of Gungnir is increasing."

Hao Ren and his party immediately quickened their pace and soon arrived at the location indicated by the data terminal.

A crater with a radius of tens of meters appeared in front of everyone. The ground around the crater was made of glassy material that had melted and solidified, indicating that it had been subjected to considerable high temperature. At the bottom of the crater, a huge and twisted beast skeleton was half-buried in the sand and soil. This skeleton was even larger than Lily after her complete beast transformation. Although it had been twisted and deformed and buried by soil and rocks, Hao Ren could tell at a glance that it had once been a giant wolf. Lily jumped up in shock when she saw the skeleton: "If I die, will I become like this?!"

Gala卓尔 and Anthony immediately looked askance at this mentally abnormal girl.

"Fenrir..." Vivian whispered a name, then spread her giant wings and glided from the edge of the crater toward the skeleton.

The giant beast at the bottom of the crater was one of the most terrifying beasts in Norse mythology, the wolf Fenrir who swallowed the sky. Obviously, the descriptions in the myths are greatly exaggerated compared to reality: the size of this giant wolf is far from reaching the point of "swallowing the heavens and the sun and moon." Its terrifying reputation should come more from its powerful strength when it was alive than from its size. After everyone came near Fenrir's skeleton, the resonance signal detected by the data terminal immediately increased to its peak. The remaining fragments of Gungnir were undoubtedly nearby. Hao Ren looked around and did not find the shadow of the spear fragments, so he patted Lily's head and pointed to Fenrir's remains: "It's time for your two paws to come into play: dig."

As soon as Lily heard Hao Ren's instructions, she subconsciously summoned Fire of Very Happy and Frost of Grief, but just as she was about to bend down and start digging, she hesitated. The husky girl looked at Fenrir's huge skeleton and stuck out her tongue: "Do you really want to dig?"

"Nonsense, who is better at digging holes than you here?" Hao Ren glanced at Lily, "What's wrong? Weren't you digging happily all the way?"

Lily looked at the giant wolf's skeleton nervously: "It's too much like me, it's creepy."

"Creepy, my foot," Vivian slapped Lily on the head, "This is a wolf, you are a husky! And even if you weren't a husky, you would be a demon hunter ancestor! Why are you trying to claim kinship with this guy?"

Lily thought for a while and finally realized that Vivian was right, so she pounced on the skeleton like a hungry dog, waving her two paws and started digging like crazy. Immediately, sand and rocks flew and dirt fluttered, and Lily's figure disappeared into a cloud of smoke at a speed visible to the naked eye...

Hao Ren led the others to quickly retreat, leaving to a safe distance where they would not be buried alive by the husky, and then directed them with the data terminal: "I'm detecting a signal... a little further forward... to the left, to the left, did you see anything? No? Then continue to dig down a little... hey, take it easy, don't bury yourself!"

The excavation work lasted less than ten minutes, and Lily, with her ancestral digging skills and super-powerful treasure hunting talent, found something underground. She quickly threw out a large piece of gravel, and then drilled out of the big pit holding two stick-like things: "I found it, I found it! The handle of Gungnir!"

Probably only this husky would call the handle of the divine spear that way...

After Lily handed the two sections of metal sticks she had dug out to Hao Ren, she ran to the side and shook her head and tail vigorously to shake off the sand and dirt. Hao Ren put the two metal pieces on the ground, and then took out the spearhead of Gungnir from his portable space.

The moment the three sections of metal approached each other, a clear sound suddenly came from inside the spearhead, and then an incredible scene happened: the fragments of Gungnir seemed to be pulled by invisible hands. They shook and quickly moved closer, and then merged into one in a series of flashes and electric currents. The weapon that had been broken was so self-repaired!

Hao Ren looked at this scene in astonishment until Gungnir completed its reorganization, and then he picked up the spear hesitantly. He waved it slightly and found that it had indeed become a solid whole. The repaired Gungnir was about the same size as his usual plasma spear, but the structure of the spearhead and spear tail was more complex and heavier. Countless runes of unknown function were engraved on it, and there seemed to be a constantly running energy source inside the spear. Hao Ren felt a burst of heat coming from the place where he was holding it, and a slight vibration came from the spear.

"Gungnir is complete," Hao Ren weighed the spear, thinking that with the addition of the plasma war spear he usually used, he had become a man with two brushes. "It is said that most of the things in Odin's realm are controlled by the identification system on this spear. This thing should be useful later."

Vivian nodded, this was what she told Hao Ren. Then she turned her head to look at the dog who was shaking her head and tail vigorously beside her: "Big dog, did you find Odin's body?"

"Odin?" Lily stopped her movements and looked over blankly with a head full of exploding hair, "What does he look like?"

"A big face, a high nose, a forehead..." Vivian described a few words casually, but before she finished speaking, she realized, "Hey, why am I telling you this, he's been dead for more than two thousand years!"

Vivian was also led astray by the husky, and did not realize the key point for a while: no matter what Odin looked like two thousand years ago, he is definitely not like that now...

Lily shook her tail: "Then how would I know who Odin is."

"Didn't you find any human bones down there?" Vivian glared, "Wearing a golden helmet, wearing a blue cloak, should be in Fenrir's stomach."

Lily thought hard: "Didn't find it."

This time, not only Vivian, but even Nan Gong Sanba, who had not said a word, was stunned: "Wasn't Odin swallowed by Fenrir? Could it be that even the bones that were digested on the spot are gone?"

"No, Fenrir is not that powerful," Vivian immediately shook her head and looked at Lily suspiciously, "Could it be that you were careless and didn't find it?"

Lily thought for a while and was furious: "You can question my intelligence, but you can't question my ability to find bones! Even if those are Odin's bones!"

Hao Ren's cold sweat flowed down his face...