You and me under the world tree

Those people I care about and know question myself one after another in front of me.

But she had no way to refute anything, because her mood at the moment was extremely contradictory.

As the leader of the Valkyrie, the rationality in her mind told her that if it really didn't make sense, she could use force to suppress it.

At least for Brunhilde in front of him.

Ever since she entered that state of hysterical madness, she was filled with a strange aura that Slude didn't know about.

"Bryn, we can have a good talk."

Staring at the woman with distorted and flamboyant expression, Slude finally spoke.

After hearing her words, Brunhild suddenly laughed.

On her face, the smile was mocking and sarcastic.

"Talk? What else is there to talk about between us? You have taken away the fame and status from me, and then you are driving me like a pawn."

In Brunhilde's eyes, the actions of the gods may have really hurt her heart, so she repeated these few words over and over again.

Moreover, it was these words that sustained her anger and distortion.

"Follow me back to God's Domain, you need to calm down, we have to figure out what happened."

"God's Domain? Asgard? How dare you mention that in front of me? I gave everything for it! But it gave me nothing, and even took away those people I cherish from me!"

"Brin..."

And just as the two women were engaged in a fruitless but quite effective confrontation, a sudden explosion broke the silence.

'boom'

Eventually, the towers of Schindal Castle collapsed, followed by a raging fire.

No one knows what happened inside, not even Brunhilde and Slude.

In fact, from the moment the castle collapsed, Slude subconsciously turned his attention to his friend Brunhilde.

However, she found nothing.

Because at this moment, Brunhilde's face was also full of astonishment.

Immediately afterwards, after looking at Slude for a moment, lingering horror quickly appeared on her face.

"No, no, there are still his things in it!"

At the moment when the castle kept collapsing, Brunhilde rushed to his castle like crazy.

But before she could fully rush in, she was mercilessly knocked into the air.

'boom'

Accompanied by the heavy blow, she flew upside down.

But before her fragile body flew into the courtyard, she was dragged back by the magic.

'click'

Finally, under Slude's sight, a man slowly walked out of the fire.

The evil dragon's armor showed varying degrees of damage, and at the same time, his body appeared to resemble a half-dragon.

"Hodder..."

The moment he saw him, Slude suddenly clenched the hammer in his hand.

However, this reunion did not make her happy.

Because at this moment, she clearly saw that Brunhilde was being strangled by the man, and then held up high.

"It was really calculated by you, Brunhilde, thanks to my sympathy for your experience before, I didn't expect that all of this was a lie."

What exactly is going on?

After hearing the gloomy words from under the man's helmet, Slude's mind suddenly fell into chaos.

And before she could think much, she heard Brunhilde's painful voice.

"not me……"

At this moment, she seemed to want to justify something and to say something.

However, her eyes kept focusing on another thing held in Hodder's hand.

It was a clavichord with a wolf pattern engraved on it.

To be precise, it was Ingwey's instrument.

Epilogue [-]: Painful Coercion

Time seems to be completely frozen at this moment.

No one spoke, no one even dared to take a deep breath and make unnecessary noises.

On the castle of Schindal, the flames were burning quietly, and the sound of something collapsing seemed to be the only background music.

At this moment, the only thing that is still moving is the Valkyrie who seems to have no resistance.

She was being strangled by the brutal sage, but even so, she reached out to the key violin in his other hand as if possessed.

However, Hodder is not a kind person after all.

There has never been any words such as pity and pity in his eyes.

It would be fine if that woman was ordinary, but the point is that now he completely regards Brunhilde as an enemy.

Yes, the enemy.

Although Slude can't figure out what's going on now, judging from what Hodder said before, he seems to regard Brunhilde as the mastermind behind everything.

So now the question becomes weird.

Brunhilde argued and confronted her hysterically there, saying that it was because of the existence of Slude that she took everything away from her, and now she is going to murder her with the gods and bring her out of a long sleep Awakened heroes.

And this point itself has already made Slude puzzled, because she didn't know anything about it from the beginning to the end.

She descended directly from Asgard, and then rushed in after a rough inspection of the entire Shinndall peak, leaving her subordinates outside to continue the investigation.

These are not just to fulfill the work and obligations as the leader of the Valkyrie, more importantly, she doesn't know the man's thoughts and purpose, let alone how he will treat Brunhilde.

As a result, since she came in, the situation has been out of control.

Although she is not an idiot, the things that happened in front of her are obviously beyond the scope of ordinary people's thinking and control.

Why does everyone say things differently, and who is playing tricks behind the scenes?

Most importantly, who would choose to completely destroy this castle?

And who exactly caused everything so far?

For Slude, there are really too many things to consider.

And when these things were all crowded together and exploded, she even felt unable to do anything.

So at this moment, she simply gave up thinking about these messy things.

Yes, give up completely.

In the vortex of chaos, she couldn't tell the order at all, and she didn't know how to deal with such things.

In this situation, she can only let herself not be distracted, not think too much, and focus all her attention on the things in front of her.

But as far as the current situation is concerned, what happened in front of her also made her extremely sad.

"Hodder!"

Staring at the man who also looked scarred, Slude finally spoke.

"Put her down!"

At this moment, the Storm Goddess was still very nervous.

She knew that Hodder should be a measured person, but she didn't know how much the man in front of her valued Brunhilde.

Just when Valkyrie thought so, a sneer suddenly came from her ear:

"Are you afraid?"

It was not Hodder who spoke, but a woman.

And at such a time, there is only one woman who can say such words.

At this moment, Slude's gaze turned to the direction where the voice came from.

It was a sea of ​​fire...

In a short while, the flames ignited in the castle had already engulfed the majestic main castle of Schindal, and in the flames, the woman in molten iron armor slowly walked out.

The fire seemed unable to hurt her in the slightest.

And, let alone hurt.

Those burning high-temperature flames touched the armor on her body in a strange manner, and then penetrated into the armor, making it gradually turn red.

This kind of change is enough to make Slude's teeth hurt as a witness.

Even though gods have stronger bodies than mortals, that doesn't mean they're really 'invulnerable to fire and water'. Powerful magic and other forces can harm them as well.

It's like in the realm of the gods, only Thor, the god of thunder, and his children will use thunderstone weapons.

In the mortal world, it is rumored that Her Highness the Gothic Princess has the unique ability to play with flames wantonly.

In the eyes of some so-called insiders, she is regarded as the supreme magic masterpiece of the previous king Ditmar.

But no matter what, as a god, Slude did witness this 'masterpiece'.

Because this woman is really special, and the armor on her body is also extremely unique.

The elf blacksmith Wieland always likes to create some strange things, and the set of molten iron armor named [Greedy Fortress Anvidet] is one of them.

In the eyes of most people, this is a tasteless.

For those who can cast magic to protect themselves at will have no need for this armor, and those who need such powerful armor with special abilities cannot bear the painful heat.

It absorbs high-temperature flames and finally forms high-temperature armor that can melt ordinary metals.

This kind of armor was neglected from the moment it was born, until after several rounds, it finally fell on the body of this woman named Dietrich.

This is simply the most suitable armor for her...

Even from Slude's own point of view, she had to admit this.

The woman walked over from such a distance under her gaze, like a burning steel ram.

What's more, this 'ram' is particularly hate-inducing.

That cold but weird tone made people quite uncomfortable.

"Actually, I don't really understand. For us humans, death is terrible. That's because we can't escape from birth to death. We live on your chessboard when we are alive, and we can't get liberation after death. There will be a rotten day."

When she said this, she even raised her hand and tapped her breastplate.

The clanging metal sound made people feel uncomfortable for a while.

"This is the first time I know that gods are also afraid of 'death', it's just the simplest 'killing method'."

In fact, Dietrich's rhetoric can be said to be full of loopholes.

Definitely not enough to justify.

But after all, her purpose is not to refute, but to disgust people.

Anyway, as long as she can disgust the god she hates, she will be very happy.

And it turns out, this sort of thing works.

"you……"

"Okay, Dietrich."

Before Slude could instinctively argue, she heard the man speak.

"She is not afraid of death, what she cares about is this kind of pain."

"Hodder..."