Valkyrie Hrist was at the point of dying.
She, that belonged to the legion of Hermod, was accomplishing a task given by Freya.
Notify of the urgency to Olympus and the Temple.
72 Valkyries received a letter that had the same contents. They, that got out of Valhalla when it got sealed, scattered to two directions while praying for each others safety.
The direction Hrist headed to was the path that connected to the Temple.
There were small worlds in Asgard just like Midgard and Svartalvheim.
Asgard, Midgard and Niflheim were connected directly to the manifested part of the world tree and the remaining smaller worlds were connected by an invisible path through the system of Yggdrasil.
The Temple and Olympus were realms that were comparable to Asgard.
The realms in the motto of Valhalla 'For Asgard and the nine realms' referred to the Temple, Olympus, Erin and such worlds.
You had to first pass through a special location to go outside of Asgard. If you thought of each world as being a continent or an island, the place in between was a sea and the special location was a port.
Hrist breathed roughly. She had no strength while being carried by the Beast king Tiachi. Her limbs fluttered strengthlessly following Tiachi's steps.
Her sisters that headed to Olympus couldn't know the situation but the ones that were heading to the Temple knew how terrible the situation was.
Could Kaldea have escaped?
The Valkyrie that had been with her until the end among the 31 Valkyries that were headed to the Temple.
The Valkyries got helplessly hunted down by Tiachi and his underlings. They cruelly hunted them down one by one from the fortresses that got destroyed due to the great earthquake as if hunting down foxes.
When all of her many sisters got caught and only Hrist and Kaldea were left, Hrist made a decision. She would become bait so that Kaldea could escape.
Hrist couldn't think anymore. She felt absent minded. It was because all the things the Beast king did to her after she got caught had worn her away physically and mentally.
"We are almost there."
Tiachi snickered and said. Hrist, that was being carried in his shoulder naked, couldn't see her surroundings properly. But she could know where she was just by smelling the nasty smell piercing her nose and the wicked laughters.
It was the headquarters Tiachi had set up in the path leading to the Temple.
Originally, he had to come here as soon as he caught Hrist but Tiachi took a long detour. He played with Hrist for a few hours and then went to the base that was located near Valhalla to boast about his hunt to the magician king and he then roamed its surroundings to hunt the remaining warriors.
"Valkyries are always good bait."
The warriors of Valhalla were way too simple. It was because they went crazy whenever they heard a scream from a Valkyrie.
Tiachi laughed for a long while and threw Hrist to the ground. The pain that covered her body when she hit the ground made Tiachi enjoy the scene.
"You look just like a bug when you twitch."
Tiachi kicked Hrist. If she was a normal human, she would have already died but ironically, she couldn't die as she was a Valkyrie. SHe just squeezed out a groan and suffered.
The underlings of Tiachi, the small giants and evil spirits, gathered next to her. There were some that gulped saliva as if looking at food and there were others that were panting because their bodies heated up.
"Play with her moderately and leave."
Tiachi snickered and said and then, one of the underlings hurriedly raised Hrist as if he was waiting for it. He forcefully grabbed on Hrist's jaw and made her look at one place.
Hrist became dumbfounded. She couldn't think anything as if her head had stopped.
There were naked Valkyries hanging on a board as if they were flags. There were clear traces that they got toyed with and one of them was still being toyed by the evil spirits.
It was a cruel and terrible scene. An exclamation that was like a scream came out from her mouth.
"Ahh, ahhhh!"
It was a cry filled with despair. The voice that was mixed with grief and still had some resolution in it transmitted a new pleasant feeling to Tiachi.
Tiachi moved his chin slightly and then his underlings laughed and threw Hrist to the ground. They started to toy with Hrist to their heart contents while the Valkyries that were hanging on looked that.
A sob was heard. Even the Valkyries that had steel like resolution had a limit. Tiachi could feel his breath get rough just by hearing the weak cry.
The joy of dirtying a white snow field.
The pleasure of breaking a clean glass.
It was this fun just to toy with the Valkyries so how fun will it be with the Goddesses? What kind of pleasure will he get when he broke Freya and Idun?
Blood gathered to his lower body just by imagining that. Tiachi then looked at the Valkyries that were hanging.
"My king."
One giant appeared at that moment and called out to Tiachi. It was Tiachi's underling, Itaka that was about 3 meters tall.
Tiachi frowned as the sexual desire that had surged up had disappeared but he didn't get angry. Itaka was a precious underling to him. In addition, it would be something important if he came to speak to him knowing how he would be feeling right now.
And it was as he expected.
"We have discovered traces of a Valkyrie. It seems like it's the one we missed that time."
The one that was together with Hrist.
Tiachi's eyes shone with greed. Itaka started to explain a bit faster.
"It seems like there's a connection with the evil spirits that disappeared from the small destroyed fortress. Currently, the beaters are driving her to a corner."
Itaka explained briefly the things he guessed had happened in the small fortress. Tiachi didn't mind that weak evil spirits died but he felt joy in Itaka's explanation. And the reason for it was simple.
"She's still lively. It would be worth playing with her."
Looking that she slashed away dozens of evil spirits alone meant that she still had energy. The more energetical and outstanding a Valkyrie was, the more fun he got when he broke her down.
Itaka explained about the place and the situation that they were driving the Valkyrie at. IT seems like the Valkyrie didn't choose to escape but chose to pierce a path to go to the Temple.
"She's also quite faithful."
Tiachi snickered.
The path going to the Temple wasn't completely blocked. Tiachi had left one open on purpose.
The strand like path that was connected to the Temple.
It was really obvious that it was a trap but you had to pass through it to reach the Temple.
Teachi made a decision. There was no reason to delay. He shrugged his shoulders once and then approached the evil spirits that were playing with Hrist. He slapped her cheek as was closing her eyes while taking in all of the humiliation to make her open her eyes.
"I discovered the place the sister you have rescued is at. I will bring her now."
He whispered with a low voice and waited. For Hrist's expression to contort. For her to show him eyes that was filled with grief and sorrow.
And it turned out as he wanted. Tears flowed down from Hrist's eyes.
"It will be a beautiful reencounter."
Tiachi slapped her one more time strongly. He snickered at Hrist that had blood flowing from her mouth and stood up.
"Let's go."
Tiachi took the lead after he spoke freshly. He heard the footsteps of Itaka and the hunters from his back and the groans of the Valkyrie and looked at a distant place.
He went out to hunt once again.
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Valkyrie Kaldea was fleeing right now. Her unique battle uniform of Valkyries was torn and broken, and there was a big blood stain in her stomach.
The small giants chased after Kaldea, that was fleeing desperately. The beaters could catch up to her whenever they wanted but they maintained some distance on purpose. Their role was to harass their prey, not to catch it.
Kaldea panted while sweating like rain. Anyone could clearly see that she was at her limit.
It was too pitiful to see her escape while limping.
The beaters snickered and chased her back and there was someone looking at that from afar.
'It looks real. It was worth having closed my eyes at your atrocities.'
Cuchulainn laughed as if it was absurd.
The Kaldea that was fleeing right now was a fake made with Tae Ho's saga. But you couldn't differentiate her from being real or not just by looking at her looks. In addition, fleeing as if she was greatly injured didn't seem like an act but the real deal.
The place the fake Kaldea was running at was a forest that was close to the Temple.
Tae Ho hid his body in the shadows and waited for the hunt to take the bait. However, beings such as the beaters weren't the hunt Tae Ho was waiting for.
The Beast king Tiachi.
One of the giant kings that came from Jotunheim.
The situation wouldn't end by simply removing him. There were many things to take into account.
And among them, one of the most important thing was to send Kaldea safely to the Temple. That's why they also had to remove Tiachi's forces that were blocking the path.
And one more thing in here. Something they must do.
They had to rescue the Valkyries. Leaving them at their current state wasn't something a warrior of Valhalla would ignore.
The strategy was simple.
They would split Tiachi from his force and then destroy them one by one.
'The fish is coming.'
Cuchulainn said and Tae Ho turned around to look with his 'eyes of the dragon'.
[Giant king]
[Beast king Tiachi]
Red words.
Tae Ho looked at a more distant place. He looked at the direction Tiachi came running from.
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Tiachi's forces that were blocking the path to the Temple wasn't small at all.
There were at least a hundred little giants and the evil spirits easily numbered ten thousand.
Even if the warriors Tae Ho was leading were the elites of the elites, it was impossible to defeat that number in an instant. In addition, they also had to rescue more than thirty Valkyries. They certainly needed additional reinforcements.
'We are going to get caught anyways, so let's go out boldly.'
Adenmaha, that hid herself on a cliff looking down at the base of Tiachi, remembered Tae Ho's words and took a deep breath. She rolled her fingers and prepared to dispel the mystical magic she had prepared with Merlin.
They would strike the base head on to create chaos and the detached force Rasgrid lead would rescue the Valkyries.
Tae Ho used a new summoning rock Merlin created for this strategy. There were three of these summoning rocks and one registered being.
A signal came from afar. Adenmaha, that was glaring at the evil spirits that were gathered at the entrance of the base, rolled her fingers and completely removed the mystical magic. She made the existence that was hiding in the sky appear completely.
There was no loud sound or roar.
But the evil spirits all looked at the sky almost at the same time. The shadow that covered them made them do that. The huge existence that couldn't be ignored forced them to do that.
The evil spirits looked at the sky with absent minded eyes. They got suppressed by the really huge existence and couldn't even scream.
A black dragon that reached a hundred meters.
That dragon fluttered its wings. A huge wind blew in the ground and poison was spread widely along the wind. The evil spirits that breathed in the poison unconsciously screamed and collapsed.
And it finally descended. The black and huge dragon landed down on the ground roughly. The countless evil spirits that were below it got crushed just by it landing in the ground.
There was still no roar but complete silence covered the base. The ones that barely squeezed out their voice were the giants.
Scream, surprise, loud voices and displeasure.
All kind of voices were heard in the base and Hraesvelg, that was looking at all of that while standing on the head of the black dragon, clicked his tongue.
"How unsightly."
They have left their real bodies in Midgard. It was to hide their existence that would become the trump card against the magician king.
Actually, not even their essences were going to come but a reason appeared that they had to stand on the battlefield.
"What do we have to do now?"
Nidhogg asked Hraesvelg in the heart room. It was really ironical that the voice of a cute woman was heard from the dragon that emanated an overwhelming pressure but Hraesvelg didn't lose his composure.
He let out a roar towards the giants and evil spirits that were in the base before he gave the next order to Nidhogg.
He, that had the clearest eye even in the highest branch, knew what the Valkyries that were deep in the base suffering just as if they were right in front of his eyes.
"Lowly beings! I will kill you!"
A loud yell shook the sky and the ground and the thousands of evil spirits trembled at that. Hraesvelg felt proud at that and tried to say something. But Nidhogg's bewildered voice came out a bit quicker.
"Hraesvelg! Tae Ho master said that you can't say your name...Ah!"
Nidhogg hurriedly covered her mouth but it was too late. It was because the black dragon covering its mouth was really a strange scene and couldn't cover Nidhogg's words.
Hraesvelg.
Most of them didn't know him and there were few that had heard it as Nidhogg's voice was low. But some of them heard it clearly. Their terrified expressions was proof of that.
Hraesvelg, that checked the expressions of the giants with his clear eyes, closed his eyes. He wanted to go somewhere and lament himself but he suppressed his feelings and then spoke to Nidhogg that didn't know what to do while she shrunk her shoulders.
"It doesn't matter. We just have to get rid of everyone in this place."
If they eliminated everyone that had heard it, the secret would be protected.
"Oh, that's the case?"
"Yes, it is."
Hraesvelg answered to Nidhogg's shy question and then looked down at the battlefield with his exalted eyes. He glared at them, that were preparing to flee or fight, and ordered Nidhogg.
"Nidhogg! Roll!"
Because that was much better than trying to fight sloppily.
"Yes! I will!"
Nidhogg answered freshly and started to roll without hesitation.
The movements of a black dragon that reached a hundred meters and covered its body with poison.
It was enough with that.
Hell spread out on the battlefield.
Episode 42/Chapter 3 – Great Counter Attack (3) End