Among the many ancient gods active on Earth, Odin was the last to die. They were like the end of the Mythological Era. The collapse of Yggdrasil more than two thousand years ago was the last act of this era.
The Twilight of the Gods of the Norse gods was also the Twilight of the Gods of the entire Mythological Era. When the beam cannons of the demon hunters tore the sky of Asgard apart, the entire Nine Worlds collapsed, and the history of the otherworldlings ruling the human world came to an end.
Under Anthony's control, the spherical aircraft turned into a low-speed hovering state and slowly patrolled over the torn land of Asgard. The detection array at the bottom of the aircraft emitted a faint blue light, sweeping across the devastated land to detect any abnormal energy reaction.
In the spacecraft, Vivian was telling Anthony Alfonso and Galazur about the destruction of this place based on human legends and her own memory. "There were signs before the Twilight of the Gods. A few years before the war, Yggdrasil was corrupted. The climate in the Nine Worlds was out of balance, and there were several years of cold winters. Then the magic used by the gods of Asgard and Vanir failed, and the contractual connection between them and Yggdrasil was broken for unknown reasons. All kinds of curses and vows in the Nine Worlds were broken. The races living in the Nine Worlds blamed each other. Then, under the provocation of some people, wars broke out in the world, and these wars further destroyed the balance of the various kingdoms."
The spacecraft flew over the ruins of the walls of the temples, and the high walls and buildings of the Garden of Asgard were gradually left behind. After flying over a narrow gravel wilderness, they arrived over the scorched land of Vigrid Plain. There were all kinds of huge wreckage on this scorched land. Not only were there weapons, but there were also skeletons of creatures. Although more than two thousand years had passed, the corpses of those powerful creatures were not so easy to be completely weathered. Also, because of the lack of large-scale geological changes in the alternate dimension, the battlefield was largely preserved in its original state. Many things were not completely buried or dissipated.
Vivian continued, "It was a cold winter day when the Twilight of the Gods came. The sky was overcast, and everything was withering. Midgard, the atrium of human life, had experienced three consecutive winters. The cold wind blew through the cracks between the mountains into Asgard, and the whole world seemed to be frozen. The alarm in Odin's Golden Palace kept ringing. The whole family, men and women, old and young, were preparing for war. Even I was helping them carry weapons. The valkyries stuffed the souls they had collected before into the adamantine armor and prepared to send them to the front line. At the other end of the Bifröst, the giants had assembled an army, and Hel of the Kingdom of the Dead was also attacking from the lower dimension with the undead. Hao Ren, you have seen Hel. She is now guarding the gate of the Athens' sanctuary. You can never imagine how impulsive and cold she was. She did not realize that the whole war was a conspiracy. She only wanted to destroy the Garden of Asgard and save her father, Loki. Later, the warring parties met on the Vigrid Plain. Although Odin had found out that the demon hunters were behind the changes in the past few years, the giants and the undead would not listen to any reason, not to mention the other demons. So, Odin had no choice but to fight. "
When the spacecraft arrived at its destination, Anthony Alfonso let the capsule land slowly. The center of the hemispherical platform caved in to form a passage. They walked along the passage and finally stepped on the land of Asgard. Nangong Wuyue was the last to leave the gangway. She transformed into a sea snake to enhance her courage, though the effect was questionable. She slithered to a huge skeleton, which was three times the size of an ordinary human. Although it was far less than the ten-meter-tall guardian giant like Ymir, it was still worthy of the name 'Giants' on Earth. Obviously, this was the main force of the attack on Odin's domain, the giants from Muspelheim. Next to this giant skeleton, there were other remains that were similar in size to humans, but slightly different in structure.
These must be the remains of the gods of Asgard. These creatures with supernatural powers were regarded as gods thousands of years ago. But after all, they were just flesh and blood. Even if they were stronger than ordinary people on Earth, they could only keep their bones strong after two thousand years of weathering in the open air.
Hao Ren noticed that the equipment of the giants was completely different from that of the Asgardian warriors. It was not just the difference in equipment specifications due to the difference in body size, nor the difference in style due to the difference in the culture of the two races. It was a more fundamental and thorough difference.
The giant's armor was heavy and cast with dark steel. Its shape was more similar to the heavy plate armor of the era of cold weapons, but there were more runes on it. It looked primitive and reliable. The warriors of Asgard were equipped with more delicate and lightweight alloy armor. The armor was inlaid with gold and silver, and the lines were smooth and neat. Each piece of armor was obviously a standard product from the assembly line. Some of the armor was damaged, and the complex structure of the lining and cable harness inside could be seen. Almost every Asgardian soldier had two small square boxes on their waist. Those boxes had now lost their function, but delicate cables and various unknown components could still be seen inside. It was much more complicated than the equipment of the giants.
"This is a isotope thermoelectric battery pack," Vivian noticed Hao Ren's gaze and explained casually. "Ah, it translates like this. I didn't understand these things at all back then, but now that I think about it, I really have a feeling of enlightenment. In addition to the magic they learned from Vanir, the most common energy source for the Asgardian gods in their daily life is radioactive energy. "
"They should be from different civilizations." Galazur had been an inspector for many years. She could understand many things at a glance. She pointed to the different skeletons and the weapons and equipment scattered around the skeletons. In her eyes, there were at least three branches of the technology tree. "The technology level of the giants is relatively low, but their equipment is made of special metals. Coupled with their strong physique, these Asgardian gods who use advanced weapons do not have much of an advantage. In addition, some equipment is a pure product of magic energy, these … "
"They are the Vanir gods," Vivian said. "They are indeed from different civilizations. I now speculate that they may be from three planets. The giants are a fighting people who use shamanic witchcraft and steam power. The Asgardian gods use radioactive energy, machinery, and some kind of innate spiritual power to fight. The Vanir gods are a pure magic civilization. Their form is very similar to that of humans, but they have some elven characteristics. Because of their relatively similar form and culture, the two families of Asgardian and Vanir quickly reached an understanding and formed an alliance in the Mythological Era. But the giants could not integrate into the circle, so they lived together in Northern Europe. But at this time, it was the middle and late Mythological Era. The power of the demon hunters rose rapidly, and the 'god' families in other parts of the earth were destroyed. The three races had to temporarily put aside their disputes under external pressure and forcibly coexisted for a period of time. At that time, they already had the embryonic form of symbiosis like today's Athens Sanctuary. But … in the end, they could not reverse their fate. The demon hunters at that time were far crazier than they were in modern times. The Order of Combat absolutely did not allow any otherworldlings to survive, even if they huddled and hid in Yggdrasil. So the demon hunters still found a way to start a war in Northern Europe and finally blew open the gate of Asgard. "
Anthony Alfonso moved the wreckage on the ground with his staff and used the Mage's Hand to pick up some of the more intact relics and put them into the dimensional pocket (Hao Ren and Galazur were doing the same). The old sorcerer sighed. "To tell you the truth, I envy you, Hao Ren. Your jurisdiction has the most special civilization structure in the universe. It is an extremely rare observation sample. If only I worked for you, I could spend hundreds of years studying mythology without doing anything else."
"If you really worked for me, do you expect to do research peacefully?" Hao Ren glanced at the old sorcerer. "A bunch of things will annoy you to death. The Mythological Era did collapse, but after the collapse, there were all kinds of counterattack parties and the old and the young left behind. It's really annoying."
Vivian was the only one among them who was familiar with the battlefield. Her unreliable memory finally came in handy this time: she still remembered the battle that took place here more than 2,000 years ago. Following her fragmented memory, she led them on a trek on the scorched earth.
They passed by a huge skeleton, which seemed to be left by some kind of long and narrow reptile. It was astonishingly long, probably tens of meters long, and the vertebrae were covered with blackened lightning scars. It was the remains of Jörmungandr, the serpent. It was much smaller than what was described in the mythological stories, but it was still an appallingly huge creature. Near the remains of Jörmungandr, Hao Ren also saw a human body curled up and deformed. The body's armor had been corroded through, and its owner must have suffered a terrible fate when he was alive.
However, his courage to challenge such a terrible monster like Jörmungandr was still awe-inspiring.
Vivian looked for something between the two skeletons and finally found a dull one-handed warhammer. She infused the warhammer with magic, and the latter immediately burst into a beam of electric light, but soon the electric light went out, and a strange crackling sound came from inside the warhammer.
Vivian handed the warhammer to Hao Ren. "Mjolnir, Thor overloaded its core capacitor when he killed Jörmungandr. This thing can still be used after repair, but I don't think it's as powerful as your plasma spear."
Hao Ren looked at the battered Mjolnir and could not help but murmur to himself, "How many mythological items are there here?"
"Welcome to the Twilight of the Gods, where the Mythological Era ended." Vivian opened her hands and welcomed the wreckage on the ground. Countless acquaintances and friends of hers were lying here. "Welcome to the stage of the Twilight of the Gods, where the Mythological era ended."
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