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Chapter 17 - Chapter 17: Nemesis

After swallowing the sun goddess Sol and the sun in one gulp, the giant serpent had yet to vent its anger when an ear-splitting thunder and roar suddenly came from beside it, and among them, a voice that sounded like an enraged lion was especially loud.

"How dare you!!!"

Although it didn't understand what language the other party was speaking, the giant serpent could somehow oddly understand what that sentence meant, and…

That voice sounded a bit familiar, as if it had heard it somewhere before.

"Humph…"

Two breaths like tornadoes suddenly exhaled from the giant serpent's nostrils. It raised its huge head like a mountain peak, trying to turn and see what was beside it, but before it could turn its head, in the corner of its eye, its vision suddenly turned pure white.

"BOOM!!!"

In an instant, a thunderbolt as huge as a mountain peak, as if tearing apart the entire sky, roared and danced like a dragon in the sky, suddenly striking its mountain-like head.

Those snake scales, harder than city walls and larger than small mountains, couldn't even resist for a moment and were easily shattered by this thunderbolt. That strong, thick flesh and those incomparably hard bones all seemed so fragile in the face of this thunderbolt. The giant serpent's head was instantly struck with a huge wound, and the bright red blood gushing from the wound was like rain, turning into a rain of blood falling onto the ground of the divine realm.

"ROAR!!!"

In pain, the giant serpent let out an agonized cry, the huge sound making all of Asgard tremble.

The intense pain from the head was still there, but this strong pain also made the giant serpent, which had fallen into madness, anger, and endless hunger, lost its calm and reason, regain a bit of rationality.

"Danger!!!"

For the first time since coming to this world, a strong sense of crisis suddenly appeared in the giant serpent's mind. This sense of crisis was so strong, like when a tiger accidentally encounters a lion, that instinctive, intense vigilance and wariness that arise from encountering an equally matched powerful enemy.

But what came with it was an almost instinctive, impatient excitement of encountering a nemesis, as if this excitement was constantly urging the giant serpent: "Go and fight that guy!!!"

This instinct and excitement were so strong, as if fighting that guy once was the highest pursuit of the giant serpent's life.

However, that bit of calm human consciousness was telling the giant serpent: "You're injured now, and it's too dangerous here, so run."

In the end, calm rationality prevailed.

Relying on the last bit of rational judgment, the giant serpent endured the pain, forcibly suppressed that primitive bestial nature, turned its head and body, and was about to return to the ocean. Before leaving, it couldn't help but glance back to see who had attacked it…

And it saw that many gods had already arrived behind it, but among the gods, a god with red hair and a red beard, looking majestic and imposing, was particularly eye-catching. His entire body was enveloped in lightning, flying in the sky, looking at it with a face full of anger. That face made the giant serpent instantly remember his identity.

"Thor…"

The giant serpent gloomily spoke this name. When it first came to this world, it was this guy who threw it into the endless ocean. It didn't expect to encounter him here.

And looking at that guy bursting with anger, it suddenly had a vague feeling that they would definitely meet again.

"Rumble…"

In the sky-covering fire clouds, the unwilling thunder roared and danced in the sky, but the giant serpent that caused all this had already returned to the endless depths, falling into slumber again.

Asgard.

Thor looked at the giant serpent that had escaped from him with a face full of anger, his right hand holding the war hammer Mjolnir trembling with rage.

Originally, he had gone with the gods to the Well of Urd guarded by the Norns to relax, which led to his carelessness. Asgard only had Heimdall and those fifty million warriors guarding it, allowing the giant serpent to take advantage of the situation and intrude. Even after hearing the sound of Heimdall's horn, he was still a step too late, causing a goddess of the heavenly realm to be swallowed by a monster right in front of him, and he wasn't able to save her in time. For this strongest war god of the heavenly realm, this was simply a great humiliation.

And as for who that monster was, he had a vague guess.

"Rumble!"

Every movement of a god affects the changes in the entire world. Thor's anger meant countless lightning bolts spreading in the sky. The lightning danced in the sky, and following Thor's will, they struck the ground one after another, extinguishing the storms created by the giant serpent one by one.

After the storms gradually dissipated, it revealed an Asgard full of ruins everywhere after being ravaged by the giant serpent. Those immortal warriors were scattered all over, each looking disheveled.

And seeing this scene of destruction before him, Thor finally couldn't hold back anymore. He raised his head and furiously roared at the sky.

"Loki!!!"

The angry roar spread from Asgard…

Somewhere in the human world.

"Burp~"

A slender, handsome man was lazily lying on a chair in a tavern, contentedly burping from being drunk. Beside him, the tavern owner was hiding under the counter in fear, continuously praying to various gods. The entire tavern was a mess, with no one else except the two of them.

The anomaly in the sky just now was too bizarre, scaring away many customers. Even the fearless Vikings had some reverence for the gods. But this slender, handsome man seemed to not care at all, not afraid of anything, and just lazily lay there.

"Hey, owner, bring a few more bottles of mead."

The handsome man impatiently tapped his wooden wine cup on the table a few times, but the tavern owner, who was already trembling in fear, obviously wouldn't respond to what he said anymore.

"Tsk, what's there to be afraid of, boring."

The handsome man, feeling very bored, pouted, then glanced at the sky outside the tavern…

In his sight, the sky was almost obscured by red clouds, and the sun, which should have been in the sky, had now disappeared. The light was visibly dimming.

The entire world was gradually sinking into darkness.

Looking at the sky, the seemingly lazy handsome man's gaze became a bit sharp.

"But it seems that something big has indeed happened this time…"

He muttered to himself while stroking his beard, his drunken face first showing a hint of interest, but then immediately returning to that carefree, drunken look.