Jiuye hung on a tree swaying in the strong wind and was stabbed by a spear...
Sacrifice yourself to yourself, on the big tree that no one knows...
——"Poetic Edda"
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In the distant past of the Nordic world, there once existed a fountain of wisdom.
It is located in Jotunheim, the residence of the giants, next to the second root of the world tree Yectrasil. The person who guards this spring is Mimir, so it is named after it.
When the gods did not dare to approach, the king of the Asaph clan sacrificed his right eye to connect himself to the spring of Mimir, because that eye has been immersed in the spring of wisdom, which is equivalent to In exchange for unparalleled wisdom and insight through sacrifice, he can gain a glimpse of all destiny and eternal knowledge.
Then……
This great god-king also learned a huge secret.
This secret made Queen Frigga feel extremely worried, and she became taciturn and sat in front of the spinning wheel all day spinning the mysterious golden thread. This secret also made the God King worried about it. He tried his best to postpone the arrival of that day, and at the same time tried hard to find hope that could counter his fate.
The God-King spares no effort to enhance her own power. Through the Fountain of Mimir and the one eye immersed in the spring, the wisdom and insight she obtains are almost unlimited. She is the all-seeing one who can see all things, so she is not only Being able to grasp what happened in the past and what will happen in the future...
She can even know things that have never happened in the past and will not appear in the future.
then.
Through a mysterious omen that has not been recorded by time and does not know when it happened——
Odin sensed the existence of the secrets of the universe that even the gods did not know, were unaware of, and could not understand... Only truly powerful knowledge usually had to be obtained at the expense of sacrifice, especially for those who were not even aware of the gods. This is often the case with knowledge that should be acquired.
I can't even find the sacrifice...
Because there are no sacrifices that meet this specification in the Nine Realms, not even the gods...
Only the God King himself was stabbed with a spear, declared in his own name, offered himself as a sacrifice, and used the World Tree as a horse to ride on the universe... After nine days and nine nights of this ceremony, almost everyone Only when the King of Gods was sacrificed together with the cornerstone of the entire Nordic world could he meet the requirements.
However……
Destiny is not an accident, it is a matter of choice.
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A three-color rainbow bridge composed of ice, fire and atmosphere spans the void.
The strong wind blows endlessly against the World Tree. It is so fierce that it sweeps across the endless void, like the endless thunder, an almost endless and endless storm.
But compared to Yuctra Hill, whose leaves are always green, whose branches support the weight of the universe, and whose roots run through the whole world - for this tree that sprouted in the "past", flourishes in the "present", and extends to infinity. future" in terms of the huge majestic ash tree.
But it can only be regarded as a swaying wind.
The mighty and endless strong wind rustled the World Tree, and the lush branches and leaves were as tall as a canopy, and they also swept up waves of ripples. There is infinity hidden in every gap on the branches, leaves and buds. A corner of the branches and leaves that are slightly blown by the wind can always reveal the many stars and the universe hidden in it.
——This dream again...
——Like some kind of emotion, but also like a simple thought that flashed across...
The invisible ghost quietly watched this scene from a distance, quietly watching everything develop downwards, but it had neither feeling nor consciousness about it. It seemed that thinking and feelings had disappeared, and it seemed that it had lost the name " The concept of "self" is, after all, just an invisible, ghostly existence, so it only exists here without any purpose.
From an absolute observer's perspective, I saw and heard what happened in this place.
In other words, it was something that happened before...
Just watching again and again, just watching...
Over and over again, this recurring dream is monotonous and boring, just repeating the endless reincarnation. It's like being in a dream state, dreaming about the same dream over and over again, dreaming about the same thing.
The ghost who foresaw the outcome was an irresponsible god who knew everything but did nothing.
No expectations, no hopes, no opinions.
How many times has this unchanging cycle of reincarnation been repeated so far? He didn't answer this question, not because he didn't know, but because he didn't calculate it. He probably didn't think it was necessary. Because no matter how many times he does it, he will neither be amused nor bored.
Just like not asking why you are here.
Ah, precisely because all meaning does not exist, simply "existing" is enough.
So...the invisible ghost that does not belong to this time and space is just quietly watching the "story" play out again.
The strong wind was howling, and the great god hanging upside down on the tree had obviously become weaker. Blood was dripping from the shining wound on the god's body, and the brilliant divine radiance still contained it, as if it was going to shine through the entire body. Heaven and earth distort light and time.
Even though it has become dim now, it is still hotter and more dazzling than a million suns combined.
The dripping divine blood penetrates the deep light-year distance.
The roots, branches and leaves of the World Tree were also contaminated.
The dripping divine blood is burning and glowing all the time, as if it is eroding through reality, and spreading on the timeline creates countless possibilities. Every moment, a new world sprouts into the blood, but also every moment, a different world disappears and dissolves in the blood.
--coming.
——This is the time.
The invisible, ghost-like existence just watched quietly, already knowing the outcome of all this, just like it had seen it countless times before.
The next moment, this nine-day and nine-night ritual finally reached its end.
After being watered by the divine blood for almost nine days and nine nights, the entire tree began to glow. The great god hanging upside down on the tree noticed this while he was dazed, and shouted excitedly.
She struggled to look below the extremely huge World Tree, and finally saw the ultimate wisdom she was pursuing.
The divine blood on the stem and branches was glowing, mixed with the leaves and buds.
Together with the World Tree, which runs through the nine realms and supports countless time, space and stars, it seems to be slowly becoming distorted and abstract——
Along with the infinity hidden in it, all the visible and invisible phenomena in the numerous universes have been inexplicably disturbed. Those secret numbers, constants, concepts, and even logical conclusions of nothingness cannot be described by any rhetoric. Something like an anomalous law that can be expressed obscurely through suggestion...
At this moment, it was performed in an extremely intuitive way.
In other words, it is embodied as a great collection.
The measure that determines everything, the power that defines everything, maintains everything under the One... They are burning and glowing, turning into abstract and twisted mysterious symbols... That truly exhausts the secrets of the universe, and is almost omnipotent. The origin of the runes that cannot.
The great god hanging upside down on the tree was so excited that he shouted ecstatically...
Shouting...
Then, it suddenly stopped without warning.
The great god's one eye suddenly looked into the empty void, seeming to be looking at an invisible ghost that should not exist, and also seemed to see the face behind the ghost that was beyond comprehension, the endless faces, and the ghost was far away. It cannot represent everything, and it does not show the full picture of the invisible and huge things behind it.
The one-eyed God King seemed to be confused, and then he showed a bit of astonishment and astonishment, as if he had seen something extremely unbelievable. After being confused, he fell into a long silence.
for a long time……
for a long time……
In the long and almost despairing silence, there was only the sound of the strong wind between the sky and the earth.
"So, so it's like this...Is this also fate..."
Suddenly, it seemed that he finally realized something. The god king laughed silently, and the laughter became louder and louder. Even his perfect and powerful body full of god blood began to tremble crazily. His whole body There is almost a sense of madness.
In the almost manic laughter, the God King closed one eye in pain, and squeezed out the trembling and angry words from her throat——
"Regaruk..."
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"Norse mythology still has more space, at least one-third alone..."
"What's left is divided into different sects and myths, which together account for the remaining two-thirds..."
Flicking through the ancient yellowing books in her hands, she turned her head from time to time and quickly slid her slender white fingers on the data terminal, from paper information to electronic records, and cooperated with the investigation. The blond monster girl frowned slightly. brow.
"No matter how you search, it's the same. Although there are other religions and mythological systems, they are obviously derived from the World Tree as the core..."
"Does this tell anything?"
Alice was thoughtful, she frowned, vaguely thinking of something, but she was not sure, so she could only look out the window of the library.
Just like an ordinary city, you can see the skyline of high-rise buildings, you can see the forest made of reinforced concrete, people come and go, traffic is busy, and the flow is endless. They are in the library in the city center, the sunshine outside the window Spilled in.
You can see the sky and clouds, but you can only see the end of the horizon rising high like a ring, forming an obvious arc.
Although all the information clearly points out that this is a ring world in the interstellar era——
A huge ring-shaped structure that revolves around the star. The new world is built on one side of the inner ring. It has an extremely vast land and space. Its surface area is far more than a million times larger than that of the old earth era. All the old worlds converge on it. Here, the dismembered picture of the planet is unfolded again...
The location where they are now is only a small and insignificant area above it.
"Of course it makes sense. The background of the world can reveal a lot of information. Even if it is constructed in fantasy, the subconscious activities of the founder must be contained in it. This is the clue shown to us..."
The realm monster said seriously.
"That guy is obviously too sleepy. There is no way to wake him up directly and get him out of the dream state. He himself has no such consciousness, so we can only look for clues from this information. . He specially called us here, and he must have had this idea..."
"Um……"
Alice nodded slightly and made no comment.
"This world is really interesting. New insights into mythology, stories with the same origin, changing the details and then spreading widely, and finally being criticized by everyone... Or maybe it's because after many years, the majestic culture The phenomenon caused by the introduction and migration of ethnic groups..."
The realm monster looks like a scholar who is full of bookishness and is doing serious research.
"But what if we look at it from a more macro level and see that similar phenomena occur in different worlds? Historical changes in the human world affect the world of gods, with changes in beliefs and culture, causing myths to change accordingly. This is worthy of discussion. , it may be the other way around or both may be observers of each other..."
"In the mythology we know, the Bible has basically replaced the Norse mythology, so the connection between them is very interesting..."
"For example, at the beginning of the creation of the world in the Bible, there was darkness over the abyss, the earth was void and formless, and the Spirit of God was moving..."
"In Nordic mythology, dating back to the earliest times, before the world was born, there was also a great abyss, called the Jinlunga Divide. There was only endless emptiness and chaos, and the invisible Orlaug had already existed..."
"Well, why do I feel that they are exactly the same..."
