"Rumble!!!"
The cloud layer, as thick as continents, crumbled with just one strike from the giant serpent. Millions of cloud strands were torn apart, transforming into a rainbow mist in the sky.
Countless streaks of bright red blood spread across the heavens, as if the wounded firmament was weeping tears of blood for it.
"ROAR!!!"
The monstrous behemoth, darker than the abyss, blacker than the night, greedily opened its ravenous maw. As if mustering all its strength, it pounced, trying to swallow the entire sun in one gulp.
However, the valiant sun goddess was clearly unwilling to let this happen.
"Sizzle!!!"
Galloping upon the cloud tops, the sun chariot, pulled by two fiery divine steeds, suddenly swerved sharply to the right, tracing a graceful arc, avoiding the giant beast's attempt to devour it.
Under this sudden immense pressure, the pure gold wheels violently rubbed against the cloud layer, countless sparks instantly bursting forth.
The divine fire from the heavenly realm burned in the clouds, directly leaving two flame-formed wheel tracks on the cloud tops.
The flames rapidly spread through the clouds, the sea of clouds transforming into a raging sea of fire in an instant.
Seen from below, the entire sky was now filled with a red glow, as if blazing flames were scorching the heavens.
And in fact, that was indeed the case.
But at the same time, some of the sparks directly fell into the mortal world…
…
The Hlidskjalf Mountains.
In the lush mountain range, birds and beasts roamed and frolicked. On the surface, it seemed like another peaceful day.
"Bleat…"
In the dense forest, a larger doe led a small fawn, walking through the woods. At this moment, they were still unaware of what was about to transpire.
Suddenly, as if sensing something, the little fawn raised its head, involuntarily looking upwards.
In its transparent, curious eyes, the sky above, now a patch of scarlet, bloody red, a point of light shining with a red glow was slowly growing larger…
At the same time, the temperature around it also seemed to be gradually rising.
The change in temperature clearly made the doe anxious and panicked. It bleated urgently, trying to urge the fawn to leave this place with her.
But… it was too late.
"Rumble!!!"
The huge fireball, burning with divine fire from the heavenly realm, suddenly crashed into the verdant mountain range. In an instant, an earth-shattering boom resounded, the ground quaking and mountains shaking.
The intense white light that erupted from the impact flashed between heaven and earth. The brightness it emitted was as if a thousand suns, ten thousand suns had suddenly exploded at the same time, making it impossible to look at directly.
The enormous shockwave it produced directly flattened everything on the ground. Whether mountains or forests, they were all like insignificant dust, directly erased from existence…
All that remained was the boundless sea of fire and the towering mushroom cloud rising into the sky.
The mountain range once named Hlidskjalf by the world had now vanished.
Here, there was only a place that would later be revered by people as Hlidskjalf Volcano. Here, the divine solar fire from the heavenly realm would burn for millions of years.
And at the same time, in many places in the mortal world, similar scenes were also constantly unfolding…
…
In the dome of the sky, the sun goddess Sol, who had just narrowly escaped the fate of being devoured by the giant serpent, didn't have time to care about the mortals endangered by the shockwaves of their battle. She abruptly turned her head, looking at that brutal behemoth behind her, at that head more magnificent than high mountains, darker than the night sky. Her face showed a look of fury.
"Son of Loki, how dare you be so presumptuous! Insulting a goddess of the heavenly realm."
Human anger needed to be answered with swords. But a valiant goddess spoke with her bow and arrows.
The giant serpent was still trying to pursue the sun. The two divine steeds were desperately pulling the sun chariot, galloping across the cloud tops. And in this chase, the sun goddess Sol took down the gorgeous bow and arrows that never left her side.
"Sizzle…"
Her fair, strong arms steadily drew the bow, one hand nocking an arrow on the bowstring.
Eyes slightly narrowed, her sharp gaze directly stared at the giant serpent rolling like mountain ranges behind her.
On the sea of clouds, the raging flames of fire soared to the heavens, the vast dome of the sky infinitely magnificent.
And in this howling fierce wind, the goddess stood on the speeding chariot, clad in armor, drawing her longbow, her eyes filled with anger.
That vigorous figure, compared to the majestic giant serpent before her, appeared infinitely small, as tiny as a speck of dust, yet also awe-inspiring and heroic.
"ROAR!!!"
The greedy giant serpent bit fiercely towards the goddess. But at the same time, the fingers on the bowstring had already loosened!
"Go!"
She suddenly shouted, her fingers releasing. The arrow sharp enough to pierce the stars instantly shot out like thunder.
"Whoosh!!!"
In an instant, the wind and clouds changed, fierce winds and heavy rains arrived in a flash, thunder suddenly born, intertwined with the arrow…
An arrow?
No, that was light! That was lightning!
The sky was growling, the fierce wind, the lightning… forming the perfect accompaniment.
Wherever the light went, whether wind, lightning, or darkness… everything was instantly split in two by this light.
An incomparably dazzling light, crossing countless barriers of wind and rain, directly charging towards that gluttonous behemoth whose body spanned the universe.
At the same time, on the ground, countless people raised their heads, stunned as they watched that extremely beautiful aurora streaking across the bloody red dome of the sky.
That aurora was so stunningly beautiful, as beautiful as death itself…
"Boom!!!"
The sky was also roaring for it. In the fierce wind and heavy rain, in an instant, the extremely beautiful aurora had pierced through the mountain-like head of that giant beast…
In a flash, a dazzling white light brighter than the sun, more intense than flames, suddenly burst forth, its radiance sweeping across the entire sky.
In an instant, golden, green, blue, purple, red, all kinds of indescribable, gorgeous colors suddenly blended together in an incomparably beautiful manner, illuminating every inch of sky, every inch of earth, every inch of ocean, adorning everything with a dreamlike, fantastical splendor.
Whether in heaven or on earth, countless people knelt before that miraculous light, trembling, praying in fear and unease for the wrath of the gods.
Even after the light gradually faded, in the distant sea of clouds and the edge of the sky, that uncanny gorgeous radiance still lingered and flickered, refusing to dissipate for a long time.
That kind of vast, boundless majesty, more lofty than mountains, vaster than oceans.
This was the great power only gods could possess.
But looking at the colossal being before her, shrouded in the lingering white light that refused to disperse, the sun goddess Sol's face showed a hint of shock.
"How…"
She said in surprise.
As if echoing her voice, at the same time…
"Roar…"
In the still undispersed white light, the furious majestic behemoth let out an angry roar of pain, the deafening sound reverberating across the vast sea of clouds.