Staring straight at the snake girl who had shrunk into the shape of a ring, Gaia held back her words for a long time:
"Can't you turn into a human and follow me?"
"Um……"
She scratched her head with her slender tail. The snake girl was not interested:
"No, it's very tiring to walk with your legs. It's easier to move with your tail on the ground."
Hearing Snake Girl's reply, Gaia fell silent again.
After a long time, he sighed deeply:
"ha--"
That's all, this is also people's natural ecology, there is no need to force this, just like people can't force a fish to like flying in the air.
After thinking about this, Gaia subconsciously rubbed the snake girl with her fingers a few times:
"Then I won't go into details. Tell me which direction is the nearest town... By the way, you should have a name of your own, right?"
"Yeah! Sorry, I don't have a name of my own. How about you give me one, sir?"
After being rubbed by Gaia's fingers, the snake girl let out a few gasps. After seeing Gaia's face darken, the snake girl decisively stopped speaking, and raised her face to please Gaia to ask for a name.
"...First of all, my name is Gaia, don't always call me Sir. Secondly...my name..."
After correcting the snake girl's name for herself, Gaia's thoughts couldn't help but wander to another dimension.
After all, he is a wise creature, so forget about the nickname Snake, otherwise he would really be a pet.
Snake...forget it, let's take the name seriously. Only I can understand this transliteration. I can't tell if it has any special meaning when converted into the local language.
How about calling her Medusa, or Gorgon?
No, no, no, if you think about it carefully, Medusa is actually a poor person who has been distorted and cursed. Even when she turned into a monster, she always found a place to hide in an uninhabited place. She was attacked by countless heroes for her reputation, and was crowned in the end. With the reputation of hero killer and gorgon.
No matter how you look at it, she is much better than this snake girl who has no moral integrity and is absolutely a scumbag.
Moreover, this guy also eats dead people, so giving her the title of Medusa is a stain.
Thinking of this, Gaia suddenly had an idea.
Eat dead people?
So, he looked at the snake girl wrapped around his middle finger maliciously:
"What do you think... of the name Hela?"
"Hela?"
Wagging her tail curiously, Snake Girl looked confused:
"Why is it called this name?"
"Hmm... do you know the myths and legends of previous civilizations?"
After thinking for a while, Gaia was ready to make good use of the extinct civilization of the previous generation.
"Lord Gaia, are you talking about the Twilight Era? Then I don't know. After all, those myths and legends have long disappeared in the years. It is not something that a newborn child like me can know."
He was more than 20 meters tall when he was born. You are lying.
She silently complained in her heart, but Gaia secretly breathed a sigh of relief:
"Then you are lucky. I know the myths and legends of previous civilizations. Let me tell you the origin of the name Hela.
In the myths of previous generations, there was a residence of the dead called Helheim, which was located deep underground and could only be reached by walking on a rugged road for nine days and nine nights in the cold and dark land of the far north.
Hela was originally the youngest daughter of the evil god Loki and the frost giant Angelboda. She was later demoted to the dark kingdom of fog by the god Odin and became the queen of the underworld.
The gate of Hades is so far away from the human world that even Hermod, the famous god of speed, rode Odin's eight-legged horse Sleipnir and ran for nine days and nights before reaching the Gjoll River. . This river is the border of Niflheim, and there is a gilded crystal bridge on the river, suspended by a hair. The bridge is guarded by the ferocious skeletal Modgud (Modgud, war-mad or war-weary). Anyone who wants to cross the bridge must first let him suck his blood as a toll. Most of the ghosts after death cross this bridge on horseback or in cars. These horses and cars are burned together during cremation.
After passing the Jiol River, there is a forest of iron trees. There are only steel leaves in the forest, and the ground is hairless. After passing the Iron Tree Forest, you reach the "Gate of Hel", guarded by the terrifying blood-spotted giant dog Garm, who curls up in a cave called Gnipa.
This terrible monster can only be bribed with a food called "Hella Cake". In the "Gate of Hella", there is biting cold and profound darkness; there is a sound like a hissing and boiling cauldron, which is the sound of the Hwagmir spring. In addition, there are nine rivers in the underworld, one of which is called Slid, with sharp knives flowing in the river.
Further ahead is Hela's palace, Eliudnir (Misery). Hela's favorite food is "hungry" and her knife is "gluttonous". Her male servant is named Ganglati, her maid named Ganglot (they move so slowly that no one can see which direction they are moving), and her bedroom is named Destruction. , the bed is named "Sorrow", and the curtain is named "Fire".
Hela has many rooms to accommodate guests who come from the underworld every day; she not only accepts all murderers and ghosts who died unjustly, but also those ghosts who unfortunately died without bleeding. All the ghosts who died of old age and illness also came to Hela; this so-called "death of illness" is also known as "death of grass and firewood", especially those who died in bed in an ordinary way. "
"oh oh!"
The snake girl's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she kept patting her tail:
"Is it the name of the Lord of the Underworld? That's really incredible - forgive me for rejecting it."
After being stunned for a moment, Gaia silently stretched out her fingertips and turned them into probes to approach the snake girl:
"If you don't want such a good name, then why should I keep you?"
"No, no, no! Master Gaia, please listen to my explanation!"
Trying her best to hold the needle away from her with her hands, the snake girl began to quibble very quickly:
"After all, this name is the name of the God of Death. Even if the civilization of the previous generation has perished, the name of the god cannot be used casually. I want to live for two more years, so please show me your noble hand!"
After hearing what she said, Gaia also hesitated:
"Gods... Let's not talk about the nature of this kind of thing. Hasn't the civilization of the previous generation been reduced to nothing? Why are you so resistant to a mere name of a god that you don't know whether it is true or false?"
Seeing Gaia casually commenting on the gods, the snake girl suddenly shivered, and then spoke seriously and seriously for the first time to retort:
"Lord Gaia... You said that, and you don't understand the common sense of the civilized world. I guess you are a visitor from another dimension? Although existences like you are rare, they have appeared, but they are usually in the abyss. Visitors from this level, you don’t care much about the gods in this world, but gods are gods after all, and simple powerful creatures are still just creatures in terms of classification.
Therefore, I hope you will remember that unlike Lucifer, the lord of the abyss, gods, even simple names, contain great power and origin, which is not something that an ordinary creature like me can bear. "
