Chapter 286 – Thunder Wilderness

000

“Mimir!!”

A wild roar echoed from within the iron fortress.

The man, with his beard growing to his waist, was a little over 1m tall, but he was short.

His armor his was thrown off, and to his upper body his, where his rugged forearms were exposed, hard and swollen muscles, like a mass of stone different from those of humans, clung to him.

A body made for fighting, war, and hammering.

Every time I walked, my feet rumbled and thundered like the cry of an animal.

Sparks flew and electricity flowed out, but the specially designed floor that absorbed them absorbed the electricity into the ground without spreading it around.

What caused his anger his, the glow in his eyes his that radiated from blue to white whenever he snorted vigorously.

Inside the room he broke through the door, he was looking at a person sitting quietly reading a book.

“I’m glad you seem to be in good health today, Your Majesty.”

The person looked at the dwarf walking towards him and replied deftly.

His body was covered with a blanket that looked like a tile when he was sleeping, hiding his whole body.

His voice echoed because he was wearing an iron mask that covered his entire face.

However, the only thing with a hole was the right eye of his.

There, the pattern of divine wisdom floated.

“Right now, I could hammer and solder your brash snout myself, you damn son of a bitch!”

Seeing the man’s attitude of asking what he was so angry about, the dwarf called His Majesty ran rampant and approached the man and thrust his short index finger into his face.

“Totally in vain! Nothing showed up where you told me about! What happened!”

“So, did I tell you, Your Majesty Edin? What I did was predict to the last. Even this Mimir, it is impossible to completely predict the future.”

As if telling her to calm down, Mimir poured tea from the teapot placed in front of her.

He was the only one who could talk back to Edin, the Thunder Lord, while receiving his lightning-like wrath.

His role His is to help Edin in his war of conquest, so that he can absorb all the other realms that exist in the rift of the other dimension.

Although it has only been a year since Mimir joined Edin’s Legion, he has already been able to absorb 5 realms.

A magic tower created by an arrogant wizard who calls himself a god.

A forest of gigantic man-eating insects that ate countless humans and ideally evolved.

Someone might have been there before, but now there’s nothing left of the vast ocean.

A land of flames that burns each other and continues fighting.

A swamp of black elves who betrayed and corrupted the dragon and study dark magic.

Among these, in the 4 areas except the sea, there were higher beings who created the area.

Had it not been for Mimir’s advice, the Edin would have always wasted his infinite energies on mere plunder and small-scale invasions.

Edin did n’t completely trust this suspicious guy who suddenly appeared and fell from the sky one day, but she bought that ability as high as he could and kept him by his side of her and treated him special.

It was also a testament to his somewhat fondness for Mimir that, like his other minions his, he did not disintegrate his living body into an electrical energy body that would forever obey him.

Mimir’s greatest ability his, more than magic or wisdom, was his ability to foresee.

I don’t know how, but I looked up at the sky from the top of this tower built for Mimir.

After waving his hands, he told Edin about the next area to invade and the strategy.

It tells the enemy how to move.

Edin, dubious at first, was a born aggressor, and his armies were limitless.

Even if the souls of the fallen Legion were scattered on the spot, they returned to Edin’s realm and entered a new body of steel because of the soul’s pact with Edin.

I never thought that the old technology I had discovered in the desert land, which I had stepped on in my youth, would be so useful.

Edin believed in the infinite armies and acted on a whim, believing in Mimir’s nonsense.

And with that, after you succeed in killing the wizard you haven’t been able to defeat for thousands of years and absorbing the realm.

Edin had no choice but to trust Mimir.

“I can’t stand my men talking back to me for nothing. Mimir. So as soon as I got here, I took away all of that mouthed body. Do you want to be like that too?”

“Then, Your Majesty will never hear my wisdom.”

Mimir answered Edin, asserting his worth without backing down.

A sharp tension flowed between Edin and Mimir, and the lights in the room flickered as if in response.

Edin looked at Mimir’s pierced eye sockets and raised the short hammer he was holding at his waist.

Just like that, I hit it.

Of course- not towards Mimir, but toward the ground in the room they were in.

If you think that a great lightning bolt exploded from the hammer and a bright light exploded in front of your eyes.

Soon, the lightning bolt was also absorbed toward the ground and flowed into the fort’s electrical storage room.

Then, the flickering lights also return to normal and illuminate the room normally.

“Your predictions are useful. Most of the war satisfies me. But other than that, it keeps disappointing me. Didn’t I say that exiles like you would appear?”

At Edin’s words, Mimir answered by placing the book he was holding on the table.

“Of course. However, the time and place I mentioned were only predictions. If they were beings with a ‘connection’ to someone else, they would have fallen into that realm.”

At Mimir’s words, Edin groaned.

Thousands of years since entering this realm of banishment.

He knew very well that what this quack sage was saying was true.

In fact, most of the dwarves banished to this world fell into their own realm.

It was none other than Edin who used them as his subordinates each time and turned them into electricity.

“Can you predict where it fell?”

“It probably didn’t fall into the realm where it doesn’t have initiative. What’s left is the Paradise of the World Tree, the Snowfield of the Frost Kingdom, and the Kingdom of the Dead.”

At Mimir’s answer, Edin couldn’t help but click his tongue.

It was difficult to completely conquer any realm with the current army, so it stopped at the line where he periodically sent his subordinates to eat away at his strength.

In all three realms, the power of the higher beings was so powerful that they were fed up with the thought of spending the next hundreds of years in such a war of attrition because their own power was weakened as soon as they entered it.

What can change the game are the beings of a trend that are newly banned and fall into this realm.

The strange wizards who wore the mask were putting beings with powers that could threaten the world into this realm as a trash can.

So will this Mimir, and so will the new beings he foresaw.

Even if it’s not as much as the higher being himself.

“Wouldn’t it be better to continue sending soldiers to search?”

Edin had no choice but to hold back his anger and asked for advice from Mimir.

Mimir’s only visible eye answers his lord his with a smile.

“Of course. If we find them, Your Majesty will be able to get out of this realm.”

The biggest reason why the fight in these nine realms did not end properly was that the ruler of the realm could not escape the realm.

Realms are maintained by those who create them.

Thus, if Edin leaves this land, his iron fortress as well as his men, who have been captured and maintained by Edin, will disappear.

The fact that he couldn’t come forward was also one of the reasons why he was frustrated.

“Damn. I feel like I’m being duped by you… But that’s good. But you’d better come up with the next strategy quickly to absorb other realms as well. When it’s no longer worth using… You know . There will be.”

“Of course, Your Majesty.”

At Mimir’s reply, Edin turned and left his room with another lightning-fast gait.

Inside the room where the thunder passed, the wise man picked up the book he was reading quietly and started reading.

Everything goes according to the flow of fate, and wisdom is not wrong.

001

“…Please wait, Yggdrasil. It is… Impossible.”

Yggdrasil, who planted the blessings of the earth on Cleon and prevented the erosion of magical power from another dimension.

As soon as Cleon was ready to leave, she called ‘Freja’, a centaur-type plant creature who was her faithful henchman to her and was also the first creature she created.

Then, he asked her to accompany her Cleon to the lands of the Thunder Lord.

Naturally, Freyja takes orders from Yggdrasil.

It would have been possible to rule over the beings he created, like the realm of Edin or other realms that have now disappeared.

Yggdrasil did not, and gave them their own free will.

That’s because he didn’t want to erode the world around him indiscriminately, like the seasonal trees and other world trees.

Because of this, Freya was able to refuse Yggdrasil’s command her with her own will her.

Of course, with her strong loyalty to her to her mother, she would n’t have 99 percent of the time.

The remaining 1 percent of her was to leave this realm where she could protect Yggdrasil, her mother her.

“If I leave this place, who will protect my brothers and sisters and Yggdrasil?”

At Freya’s words, Yggdrasil gave a small smile.

“Of course, Freya is the strongest among my children. Freya was born out of my heart to protect her. Thanks to her, she has become a bit… Suspicious.”

“Because unconditional trust is dangerous to protect the village.”

Freyja spoke with a slightly somber expression, as if she had no intention of making excuses for her, but Yggdrasil heard that and put a hand on her daughter’s head her.

It was like a caring mother soothing her daughter to her.

“I promised Cleon that I would help him find a companion. I want to protect him. So, I’m entrusting it to you, the child I trust the most.”

“…Yggdrasil…”

Freya listened to her words, and she put on a slightly troubled expression.

“In addition, the children of this land have all grown up strong after you. Freya, why don’t you trust the other children a little?”

When Yggdrasil had said that, Freyja nodded her head as if she couldn’t beat her mother her.

Unable to intervene in their relationship, Cleon watched it silently from her side of her, then met Freya’s eyes her as she raised her head to look at him.

“…In her mother’s name, I swear to protect you, Cleon.”

“Thank you. But I just don’t like being guarded. Yggdrasil, I’ll bring this guy back properly.”

“What…”

Freya seemed a little taken aback by Cleon’s words, but Yggdrasil smiled and nodded her head.

And when she raised her hand, some of the clusters of light that made up her body her dissipated, drawing a circle in the air.

It looked similar to the portal Layla opened, but a little more organic, and the landscape of the land beyond it didn’t look too bland either.

Even though it was clear daylight, lightning was falling on the wilderness-like land.

“Is that beyond the realm of the Thunder Lord Edin?”

“Yes. Inside, I feel the spirit of a being other than the one that Edin rules over.”

When Cleon heard that, he closed his eyes for a moment and followed the existence of the imprint through the portal.

And beyond that- I could definitely feel Amelia’s presence in her.

“…Beyond this, I think there are my allies.”

“Can you even know that…? You seem very different from the humans Yggdrasil-nim told you about. You are.”

Freyja looked at Cleon for a bit as if she was curious, then turned her body her and walked towards the dimensional door.

“Then do not delay. The land of Edin is harsh to trespassers.”

“Are you worried?”

When Cleon talked like a joke, Freyja only responded with a nervous tantrum.

“If you don’t bring your companions safely and come back, you’ll just have to face Yggdrasil-nim!”

Freyja, who raised her thorns and did n’t erase her pointed attitude her, turned around with excitement and passed through the door and disappeared beyond it.

Yggdrasil looked at Freyja’s back and smiled bitterly before talking to Cleon.

“Then, both of you, please be careful.”

“Yes. …Thank you for being considerate in many ways.”

There was no way to explain why Yggdrasil sent her precious child along for Cleon’s sake, unless it was Yggdrasil’s kindness to her.

The moment she entered the exiled realm, Cleon became a member of her realm.

There was no reason for her to cooperate to save her comrade her and return him to her hometown her.

“I felt a familiar light… In you.”

Yggdrasil must have read Cleon’s gaze or intention of her, and she cautiously opened her mouth.

“It was warm, but it was a very dangerous light. Not the fantasy sky I created, but the starlight that passed through this land full of darkness. I felt that starlight in you too.”

Cleon tilted her head at her abstract story her, but Yggdrasil shook her head.

“Whoops. No, it’s not. You are you. The trend… Let’s say ‘friends’. My relationship with you.”

“…Not bad.”

When Cleon answered that, Yggdrasil nodded her head as well.

Cleon left such a friend behind, followed the door Freya had passed through, and moved her body her to the realm of the Thunder Lord.

002

The realm of the Thunder Lord, who stepped on with Freya, was completely different from the land of Yggdrasil.

Even if you look around, all you see is a gray wasteland that stretches out everywhere.

And, there are only rugged and high rocky mountains that can be seen even from afar.

It was true that the Dwarves were called the clan of the land, but just because they were called it didn’t mean that they lived in such a land because they liked it.

In that atmosphere where no life was felt anywhere, Cleon spontaneously put his hand on the handle of Arondite’s imitation that was wrapped around her waist.

“It’s still a bad place.”

When Freya, who was standing next to Cleon, said that, Cleon turned to her.

At some point, she was fully armed with her helmet on her head, ready to fight no matter who she appeared she at any moment.

“Have you been here before?”

“Only once. While chasing the followers of a runaway monarch.”

Freyja gave a short answer, then sealed it with his hand her and created a translucent magical wall around Cleon and herself.

“With this, you’ll be safe if lightning strikes your head. So? Where are your comrades?”

Cleon stretched out his magical senses at Freyja’s words and looked for the location of the imprint.

She felt her presence more clearly and closer than when she was in the realm of Yggdrasil.

“…The direction is this way. The distance is a little bit.”

“Yes. Then…”

Saying that, Freyja grabbed Cleon’s back of her and made him ride behind her on her own back of her.

“It would be faster to go this way.”

“…Are you okay?”

No matter how much she is called a centaur, Cleon was worried that the act of carrying people on her back would be humiliating her.

She said nonchalantly.

“There is a limit to moving this wide land with the speed of bipedal walking. I will return to my mother’s land as soon as possible and safely take you and your companions.”

As Freyja said, she placed Cleon’s hand her on her own waist her.

“Hold on tight. I’ll go full speed.”

It wasn’t that Cleon had no experience riding a horse, but it was his first time riding a centaur, let alone a horse without a saddle.

As she was trying to figure out where to grab it, she saw that the armor around her waist her had hooks like her handles her.

It seemed that she was not there from the beginning, but she was patched up later.

“…Are you giving other people rides often?”

“Yeah. The little ones especially want to ride on my back. …Wait a minute, that’s irrelevant.”

Freya frowned at her as if she had said nothing, but Cleon gave her a small laugh.

Then, as if to repulse Cleon, Freya started her sprint.

Cleon, who burst into laughter, closed her mouth as if thinking that if she opened her mouth at the speed of Freyja, who was moving forward at a rapid pace with her powerful vibration of her, she would bite her tongue of her.

“Hmph. It’s quiet.”

Freya raised the corner of her mouth as she watched Cleon shut her mouth.

“Now, wait… Freya.”

But soon, Cleon couldn’t stand it and opened her mouth.

“Didn’t she realize that opening her mouth would hurt her?”

Freya spoke to Cleon, but Cleon barely managed to carry on her voice her.

“Bar, the direction is reversed…”

“…”

Freyja turned her face her 180 degrees so that Cleon could n’t see her face her.

She ran back the way she had come.

Cleon let out a sigh of relief for the time being, feeling the presence of Amelia getting closer and closer.

Please, I hope she is okay.