The System placed the shard of Jörmungandr into her Inventory before traveling out of his dwelling; the ocean floor quickly fell away as the black turned to gray, then blue, and finally green.
Even when the System was basking in the warmth of the sun from Earth, residual shivers still coated her body, the memory of that... that 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 disturbing to remember, the sickly yellow of those scarcely opened eyes engrained in her memory.
No wonder he was destined to be the spark of Ragnarök—the System felt disturbed to be even close to his presence, and she'd seen her fair share of gods from all sorts of mythologies.
"This'll be interesting... and if he does act out in my realm, I at the very least have a trump card in one of the other worlds..."
Reassured but still spooked, the System who floated above the waters of the great deep winked out of existence, the meeting between the two supernatural beings undiscovered by the humans.
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An odd sense of disconnection was felt by Jörmungandr, a part of his conscience being pulled into an unknown direction by a foreign force before being deposited into a body.
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Then, like a latch clicking into place, the weightless impression vanished and suddenly he was falling, falling, falling...
He collided with a somehow familiar body and came into being; breath rushed into his lungs as a feeling of energy rushed through his body, circulating with the blood in his veins and imprinting itself into his very being.
Sunset yellow eyes with slit pupils burst open, a spasm wracking foreign yet unnervingly familiar limbs, his chest heaving with air he had not tasted for millennia.
A blindingly white sun and a crisp wind ruffled his face and introduced his hair, the bright blue of the sky swallowing his gaze. A green carpet of grass was all he laid on, and the cool feeling of the soil and plants beneath his body was unfamiliar, but pleasant.
After millennia of rest, the World Serpent had seen the outside world...