Myth: The Spiritual Dominator

call--

A sweet wind blew over Niflheim, and a light red mist enveloped the world. When Ryan crossed the boundary wall and looked at everything in front of him, he thought for a moment that he was in the wrong place.

The original Kingdom of Mist was cold and bleak. As one of the countries that existed before the birth of World Tree, it is the opposite pole of ice and fire from Muspelheim, shrouded in thick fog all year round.

Snow and ice cover the land of Niflheim. There is no light or temperature. Only the spring of Hwagmir, the world's first spring, flows meanderingly.

This place was originally a restricted area for life, and only the ethnic group known as the 'Nibelungen' lived here. But now, the original residents did not know where they had gone. In front of Ryan, everything seemed so 'vibrant'.

Various colorful plants bloom on the ground, swaying in the wind. Animals and birds shuttle through the forest, sometimes drinking from the river beside the road. If he didn't take into account the intertwined black and red colors on the horizon, Ryan would even think that he had arrived in the world of Chaos in the Second Age, where all living beings lived on the earth, and there were no natural disasters or monsters.

"It looks really harmonious, but it's a pity that everything is an illusion."

Although the scene before him was so real, Ryan was not deceived. From a spiritual perspective, nothing about this seemingly normal scene is normal. All the beings before him, including animals and plants, were indeed living creatures, but that was only their bodies. But the consciousness of these lives is so similar and unified.

Or to be more precise, they do not have independent thoughts of their own, but become part of another pan-consciousness.

And their subjective consciousness

Ryan raised his head. In the center of Niflheim, a giant tree connecting heaven and earth stretched out its scarlet branches and leaves, swaying in the breeze.

This change appears to be irreversible, at least to beings without relevant authority. Of course he could simply cut off the hand and replace it with a new one, but this would have to wait until he returned to Khaos, and the very thing itself made him feel sick.

"You should have noticed his essence, right? Do you really think you can solve him?"

His expression remained unchanged, and after two brief moves with the giant tree, Ryan finally looked in the direction of the Lord of Darkness.

The source of the noise was that on the giant tree, another slender branch cut through the space and penetrated into the dark sky in the distance.

"Ryan, what are you still looking at?"

This is the power of [life] on the material side, but the way it is expressed is not normal. Obviously, no matter what changes have taken place now, the predecessor of this 'tree' is after all the body of the world tree Yuctra Hill, so he undoubtedly has extremely terrifying power in the field of [life], but he faces Yes, it is another god who controls both [life] and [death].

As if he noticed that his attack had been erased, another invisible thought swept through the world. Ryan felt like he heard people talking, first one or two, then hundreds, and finally billions. This is not an illusion, but a reality, the call of all the dead lives in Niflheim.

Based on past experience and scattered information previously analyzed from mental pollution, Ryan already knew the origin of the giant tree in front of him.

There was a vibration in the sky, followed by the voice of Erebus. Apparently, he had noticed the scratches on the interface and discovered Ryan's existence.

With a sneer, Ryan's robe shook, and a small amount of black light swept across a hundred miles in a circular shape, and everything he touched turned into dust in an instant. But at the same time, a special force from the mysterious 'watching' body ignored the space and acted directly on Ryan's body.

With the 'tree's' gaze, birds, animals, swimming fish, and even all life around Ryan, even the water in the river, the fog in the sky, the whole world all 'looked' at him together. This scene is enough to make mortals lose their minds and even make ordinary gods feel silent fear, but Ryan remains unmoved.

"Then just leave. He really can't do anything to you, but I don't think we can do anything to him either."

Tree's attack on him just now was always just a test, and the other outsider who came in first was his real target.

"I know that nothing good will come out of the death of a world!"

"It's really troublesome."

At this moment, Ryan felt the desire and fear of the Eye of Odin in his sleeve, which came from the essence of the World Tree it absorbed and the high external power. They might originally have the same origin, but now, they are two independent entities.

The life and death of this 'tree' are the fall of spirit and the immortality of flesh and blood.

But in the darkness, Erebus's face was still a little gloomy as he looked at his left hand that seemed to have given birth to his own will.

"This style of painting really doesn't match classical mythology at all. Compared with it, my spiritual world seems like a pure land."

That is a different kind of [death]. Ryan suddenly discovered that this being entrenched in the ruins of the Nine Realms was surprisingly consistent with his authority, but the two sides took completely different paths.

His flesh and blood rich in divinity jumped a little, but returned to calm in an instant.

"Work with me to deal with him, or I'll just leave here. Although this monster is scary, you don't think it can really do anything to me."

For the first time, Erebus had a very direct dislike for a being. It had nothing to do with interests. He just wanted to simply destroy it.

The Nine Realms are dead. This is the result before us. What caused Ragnarok, which originally only killed gods, to evolve to this point is still unknown. But just like when a powerful god dies, other gods or creatures can often be born in his body. When a world dies, it will also give birth to some terrifying existences.

This is why He is said to be a 'living creature'. Material like flesh and blood continued to pour out of the wound, trying to fill the defect, but the effect was extremely limited. In addition, blood-like liquid continued to flow out of the wound. It fell into the roots of the tree, merged into a poisonous spring, and then flowed along twelve rivers throughout the Kingdom of Mist.

It is said to be a 'tree', but actually it is more like a tree-shaped living creature. In the middle of the earth, surrounded by countless lives, Ryan saw the source of it all.

"boom--"

Then of course, this mental shock was easily smoothed, purified, and decomposed in front of the spiritual master, and then the information contained in it was learned.

"You don't look good, Erebus."

Not just a piece of root, but a complete, real giant tree. Its roots penetrate into the earth, its main trunk supports the sky, and its six huge branches dance in the wind, looking magnificent and perfect.

Standing in the air, looking at this twisted and 'beautiful' giant tree, Ryan became more and more frightened.

As Ryan saw when he first entered the Kingdom of Fog, the boundless darkness occupied one third of Niflheim, swallowing up everything that came close like a huge black hole. But Ryan could notice that this huge dark field was constantly retreating.

If the stalemate continues, it's almost self-evident who will win.

Taking one step forward, Ryan's figure disappeared from the spot, but the power of the void did not affect the spread of the idea at all. It directly collided with Ryan's spirit body. Those dead beings told about their past insignificance and current 'greatness' in their calls. They spoke truths rich in the essence of life, and then 'invited' Ryan to become theirs. part.