The giants and evil spirits couldn't react easily.
The existence of the black dragon rolling on the battlefield was a nightmare itself.
The ground shook as if an earthquake was hitting. The huge and on top of that fast dragon rolling on the ground resembled a hail. It wasn't possible to dodge it even though you knew it was coming.
It was the same for the poison covering the dragon. The poison that got spread left traces where the dragon passed by. The evil spirits that barely managed to dodge the attack of the rolling dragon vomited blood in the poison and collapsed.
The enraged evil spirits and giants threw several throwing weapons but it was pointless. The black dragon was a hundred meters big and the thickness of its scales was also unimaginable. In addition, a defensive effect was added because of its rolling motion so mere throwing weapons couldn't leave even a scratch.
Choosing to get on top of it also wasn't an option. How were you supposed to get on it when it rolled without stop?
The evil spirits fell completely in a panicked state compared to the giants, that were thinking up of ways to fight back. The ones that got swept by the dragon fear unintentionally by Nidhogg just fled and kept fleeing.
Adenmaha, that saw all of that from a distance, spread her mouth with a dumbfounded face.
"She's really rolling."
Adenmaha thought of when she was rolling in the Winter tree forest but then shook her head. The scale was different from that time.
'She has already rolled before.'
It didn't seem like she was doing it for the first time looking at how she rolled. It seemed like she had quite the experience.
Well, didn't Tae Ho also tell Adenmaha to roll without hesitation? In one side, it was more effective than fighting with traditional methods.
Poison spread in the battlefield naturally. The evil spirits couldn't escape properly because of the ground shaking due to the roll and no openings could be seen on the dragon.
The owner of Adenmaha indeed.
The one sided roll was the best fighting method the current Nidhogg could come up with currently.
But her distorted admiration due to being in love also lasted for a moment. She thought of a fact suddenly.
'But why did Hraesvelg come with her if she was going to do that?'
If she was going to roll anyways, was Hraesvelg's command really necessary?
Adenmaha's doubt was logical but Hraesvelg would have felt depressed.
Hraesvelg, that was located on the head of the rolling dragon, was moving busily. There was no need to move his feet as he was standing on air but the movement of the dragon was faster than he had imagined so he couldn't stay still for a moment.
In addition, Hraesvelg was already performing greatly in an invisible way. It was because he was telling the direction Nidhogg should roll to as there was a high probability she didn't know where to roll and did something else.
Everytime Hraesvelg swung his arm, the sleeves of his arms fluttered at the wind. The white feathers that got fired at the same time pierced the forehead of the important ones among the giants.
The ones holding flags, the commanders, the ones fighting valiantly and the especially strong guys.
But of course, it was hard to defeat a giant with only one feather but Hraesvelg didn't mind too much. He just had to hit them with several feathers and if that didn't work either he just had to obstruct their movement.
'The protagonist of this battle is Nidhogg.'
Hraesvelg was a hidden supporter. If Nidhogg was the main dish served in a luxurious dish, Hraesvelg was the side dishes.
'Fight Nidhogg. My old ene...fight anyways.'
He erased the words he couldn't finish and cheered her. Nidhogg's voice was heard right then.
"H, Hraesvelg. I'm diz....dizzy."
Compared to when Tae Ho controlled her, she was sharing all her senses with the black dragon all by herself.
The heart room itself didn't spin as it was floating in a deep place of the dragon's body but there was no way to dodge the dizziness as she was sharing the spinning motion mentally.
Hraesvelg didn't ponder at Nidhogg's plead. He spoke with a blunt voice.
"Endure it and roll."
As they couldn't stop now.
"Bleeeergh."
Nidhogg let out a suffering voice but he ignored it and this decision of Hraesvelg rather brought a good effect.
The black dragon started to vomit at the same time as Nidhogg. A dense liquid that couldn't be compared to the poison until now covered the battlefield.
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"Th, they are doing well."
Rasgrid saw the black dragon shaking the battlefield from afar and said with a forced calmed voice. Reginleif, that was next to her, pretended to laugh magnanimously.
"ANyways, let's go. We have to hurry."
The one leading the rescuing troop was Rasgrid. Reginleif and Gandur were also included in that group and a dozen intermediate warriors followed her back.
As the warriors of Ullr's legion and Gandur covered themselves with a cloak to disguise themselves and started to cross the battlefield with the stealth blessing, the evil spirits and giants couldn't even notice them.
In the first place, they were entirely focused on the dragon.
Rasgrid didnt't get excited as expected of her nickname as the ice queen. She rather became calmer the deeper she went.
She thought while running. She only knew that the Valkyries were trapped deep in the battlefield, she didn't know in what state they were at.
The place Tiachi's army was residing at was originally a fortress of Valhalla. Could they be using the destroyed fortress as a prison? Or did they make a sort of net and gathered all the Valkyries?
There were thirty Valkyries that got caught based on Kaldea's words. Because of that Rasgrid determined herself.
Perhaps, half of them would be already dead. There was the possibility they got executed or got hung up.
Rasgrid imagined that. Just imagining it made her suffer but she still thought of it to not get taken aback when she faced it for real.
And when they reached the place the Valkyries were imprisoned, Rasgrid ended up freezing at the scene she never imagined.
"Rasgrid."
Gandur, that was always energetic and playful, said in a low voice. She, that was a shieldmaiden compared to Rasgrid and Reginleif, had expected the scene she was looking at to some extent. But of course, it was crueler to what she had imagined but still, she was able to maintain her reason because of that.
"Our objective isn't to kill them or sweep them all up. Our objective is to rescue our sisters."
Nidhogg was performing greatly but there were still a lot of evil spirits and giants. If they wanted to safely get away with the thirty Valkyries, they had to turn their eyes away at the rage for a moment and focus on escaping.
Rasgrid turned to look at Gandur. Her blue eyes that were usually calm were shaking with rage and grief. Gandur faced her eyes fixedly and said.
"He will take revenge for us. You believe in him, right? So we should do what we have to do."
The Beast king Tiachi, that was probably the one that had created this scene.
The one that would face him. The one that would execute the revenge of the Valkyries.
Rasgrid closed her eyes. When she took a breath and opened her eyes again, her eyes had regained its usual light.
Gandur smirked. She lightly hit Rasgrid's chest and then hit her own chest.
"For Asgard and the nine realms."
"For Asgard and the nine realms."
Reginleif and the warriors also regained their composure. Gandur glared at the evil spirits and little giants that were near the Valkyries that were hung up.
"For Idun's warrior."
Rasgrid mumbled. She charged forward after taking a breath and Gandur and the warriors followed her back.
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The Beast king Tiachi stopped at some point. The loud sound that was heard behind him from far away made him stop.
There was a fuss in the direction of the base. He couldn't see clearly because of the trees in the forest but it wasn't something normal looking at the earth that was shaking all the way where he was.
Something happened in the base.
Tiachi first turned to look at Itaka but he was also as bewildered as he was. The little giants that were by his side simply waited for his orders instead of running about in confusion.
Tiachi saw the clear bloodstains the Valkyrie left behind but she was now looking at him with eyes that were different from before while staggering.
Trap. Bait.
Tiachi smiled at the words that popped in his head. It was a smile mixed with cruelty and indignation.
"Itaka, I'm returning to the base. You go catch that bitch."
Itaka frowned at the short order but he assented. He had to follow the orders as it came from his king. In addition, it wasn't that the king was going to catch her himself but that he was going to return to the base so it wasn't much of a problem.
"I will do so."
Itaka made an eye gesture to some of the underlings that were next to him.
He and those underlings stepped up and Tiachi turned around with the remaining ones.
But right at that moment, an arrow of light pierced the heads and shoulders of the giants.
Three giants fell down. Itaka got surprised and turned around and Tiachi, that grabbed the arrow flying straight towards his head, turned to look at the direction the arrow came flying from.
"Hi."
The stealth blessing Siri was using broke. The warriors of Valhalla that appeared suddenly form the bushes attacked Itaka and the little giants.
Itaka put a defensive stance reflexively. Bracky, that appeared the first, concentrated only in one thing instead of attacking over his guard.
Creating more distance between him and Tiachi. Make him get farther from the battlefield.
Bracky tore a special scroll of Merlin and the earth started to twitch. Walls started to surge up and then pushed the ones that were at the side of Tiachi.
Tiachi opened his eyes widely and Siri headed to the other little giants instead of aiming for him. It was the same for the five warriors of Valhalla that charged along Siri and Bracky. They all tore one scroll each and generated changes in the ground.
Tiachi knew what the warriors were aiming for and that's why he laughed in an absurd way. He just waited for his opponent instead of charging towards the warriors of Valhalla.
"You are saying that you want to face me alone?"
Tiachi looked at the one that finally appeared and laughed.
Tiachi was the Beast king. One of the giant kings of Jotunheim.
"Arrogant bastard."
Tiachi glared at his opponent and his opponent also did the same. He faced Tiachi's anger head on.
Tae Ho heard Hrist's story from Kaldea. What she saw was merely a part of what Hrist had suffered but it was enough with that.
Odin had said.
That the ones hoping for destruction didn't wish a natural decay.
They actively wished the destruction of the world.
And they lived for that. They were existences that solely lived for that purpose.
The essence of the ones wanting to maintain and the ones wanting to destroy the world was different because of that way of thinking. Because of that, it was impossible to perfectly understand one side.
But Tae Ho could somewhat feel it the moment he faced Tiachi. He could know even without using the 'eyes of the dragon'.
Tiachi was one that hoped for the destruction of the world.
He enjoyed the scene when hope got destroyed and it became despair. Stepping and dirtying a noble way of thinking gave him pleasure.
He was a wielder of a black desire that got obsessed on the process rather than the results.
Tae Ho thought of the Tyrant Bress. The fomoires that were heated up about conquering and dominating. They were the same but different at the same time. Tiachi's desire was much darker and dirtier than Bress's.
[Saga: Idun's warrior]
The golden power of a God surged up from Tae Ho's body and a conspicuous color showed in Tiachi's eyes. It was a reaction he showed when he discovered a prey.
Tae Ho didn't stop there. He gripped Caliburn and activated more sagas.
[Saga: The warrior that had a Valkyrie meet him]
[Saga: His pocket is connected to a treasure vault]
Fake Valkyries appeared..
The fake Heda and the fake Adenmaha stood next to Tae Ho and followed by them the fake Rasgrid, Reginleif, Gandur, Ingrid and even Scathach appeared.
Tiachi put a smile at the sudden appearance of the Valkyries. He even snickered because the number of preys had increased.
The Valkyries grabbed the weapons that appeared in the air and stepped up.
[Saga: The legendary pro gamer]
The fake Heda, that had the highest completion rate, became the core. The other fake Valkyries got synchronized to Heda as the core and then, the auras they were emanating started to change one by one.
Tiachi flinched at that moment but it wasn't the end yet.
[Saga: King of Camelot]
The glory of Camelot got fired from the blades of Caliburn.
He added a new strength to the weapons of the knights of the round table the Valkyries were holding.
Tae Ho took a step and the Valkyries did the same.
The smile disappeared from Tiachi's face. Tae Ho saw him take a battle stance and said in a low voice.
'There's one thing I learned for sure in the fight against Hraesvelg-nim.'
'What is it?'
'There's no business with a deficient ship.'
'That's so true.'
Cuchulainn agreed. AT that moment, the fake Heda howled and charged. The other Valkyries followed her back.
7 Valkyries and Idun's warrior.
Tae Ho raised his sword.
Episode 42/Chapter 4 – Great counter attack (4) End