The originally drowsy thoughts gradually became clearer, and with the slowly awakening consciousness, the giant serpent finally noticed the abnormality in its body.
Near its head, a scorching hot energy was flowing upstream, gradually approaching its oral cavity, making it feel very uncomfortable.
"What's going on?"
The giant serpent shook its head, trying to rid itself of this unpleasant feeling.
For the giant serpent, it was just casually moving its head, but for some other things, it wasn't so simple.
…
In the originally dark and vast esophagus, the world suddenly turned upside down. The sun chariot, which had been desperately flying through the air, also staggered and lurched under this dizzying rotation. The two flaming horses instantly lost their proper direction, bumping and stumbling, nearly crashing headfirst into the flesh wall and being captured by those scythe-like tentacles flailing everywhere.
"What's going on!"
Thor grabbed the side of the sun chariot beside him, struggling to stabilize his body in the chaos while bellowing loudly.
As for the sun goddess Sol, who was driving the chariot, her body reeled and she nearly tumbled off, but fortunately, she was nimble, and with Thor beside her grabbing her in time, she managed to sit steady.
However, Loki was not so fortunate.
He, who was not renowned for his combat prowess, had already been sent tumbling head over heels in the violent rolling and turbulence, and then inadvertently fell off the chariot.
"Ahh!!!"
Feeling the sudden emptiness beneath him, he couldn't help but scream instinctively.
Instantly, countless scythe-like tentacles shot out from the flesh walls, surging forth, brandishing the sharp scythes at their tips, trying to drag this god who had accidentally fallen directly into the deepest part of the serpent's stomach and completely devour him.
And if they succeeded, even if Loki had great abilities, he could probably only be totally at their mercy.
But at this moment…
A thick, large hand directly grabbed Loki's wrist, causing Loki's body to stop falling.
"Get up here!"
Then, accompanied by an irritable roar, the owner of the voice forcefully hauled him up, making those tentacles below Loki that had originally aimed at their target directly pounce on empty air.
After dragging Loki back onto the chariot, Thor didn't bother with Loki anymore, but furiously roared at Sol in front of him.
"How much longer until we can get out of this damned hellhole!"
This irascible and short-tempered thunder god was clearly about to lose control of his fury.
And Sol, who was driving the flaming horses and trying her utmost to escape from here, shouted back loudly without so much as a backward glance.
"Very soon!"
Her eyes were tightly surveying the surrounding situation. Under her gaze, the surrounding flesh walls that had originally been slowly contracting were now rapidly tightening at an astonishing speed under the compression of powerful muscles. And in front of her, the narrow esophagus had already appeared before her eyes, but at this moment, the esophagus was also rapidly contracting.
If it continued at this speed, they probably wouldn't last until they escaped. The fully awakened giant serpent would completely close its esophagus, making it impossible to escape, and they could only be utterly trapped here.
"No choice."
She calmly thought, and instantly made a resolute decision in her heart. She brought a finger to her mouth and bit down hard. Golden divine blood immediately oozed out from the wound.
Then, her finger swiftly wrote in the air, the golden divine blood seeping from her fingertip imprinting faint traces in the void.
One after another, complex and abstruse runes appeared floating in the air.
"ANSUZ… PURISAZ… RAIDO…"
As she wrote, she rapidly chanted.
Deity, monster, knight…
With these three runes as the core, along with various transformations and modifications, a complex magic personally written by a deity was formed in an instant.
Runes wielded immense power. They were the mystical symbols Odin saw after hanging himself from the world tree for nine days and nights, offering himself as a sacrifice to himself. They possessed all sorts of incredible powers, almost omnipotent.
Afterwards, Odin passed on this magic, known as "runic magic", to the deities and a few mortals. The depth of wisdom of different beings resulted in vastly different levels of mastery over runic magic.
For example, Thor, who was accustomed to directly charging through everything, although recognized as the strongest among the gods as the god of strength and thunder, had nearly zero mastery of runic magic. On the other hand, the sun goddess Sol, as a descendant of the giants, was instead more adept in using the power of runic magic than this deity of pure bloodline.
And when the complex runic magic vanished into the void, the speed of the originally lightning-fast flaming horses instantly increased by several levels, almost like light, traversing countless obstacles in the blink of an eye.
However, such a fast speed also meant that the difficulty of Sol controlling the sun chariot was increasing exponentially. She, who had just awakened not long ago and was in poor condition, now had beads of sweat forced out on her forehead, and several times, she nearly crashed directly into obstacles.
"Be careful! You almost crashed just now!"
Behind her, the thunder god's loud shout, completely devoid of sympathy, rang out again, and Sol could only roar back without turning her head.
"I'm trying!"
The flesh walls were still rapidly contracting. Just as it seemed that they would soon be less than four or five meters wide and completely trap the few of them here, finally, in Sol's joyful gaze, a gaping serpent mouth appeared in their line of sight.
Outside was a long-lost world.
As long as they endured for one more breath, they could break free!
"Clip-clop!"
As if sensing Sol's elation, the speed of the two flaming horses also quickened a bit. They suddenly leaped forth, directly pulling the entire sun chariot and the scorching sun, flying towards that long-lost world.
But at this moment…
"Whoosh!!!"
The thunderous sound of air being sliced rang out. A blood-red object as huge as a mountain peak suddenly sprang up from below, rushing towards the soaring sun chariot head-on.
The direction it blocked was exactly the direction the sun chariot was advancing in, not deviating in the slightest.
That was the giant serpent's slender forked tongue!
The giant serpent, now almost fully awake, finally realized that it seemed to be the sun emitting infinite light and heat in its stomach that was flying out of its belly, and at this moment, it had already reached its throat.
Without any hesitation, the giant serpent directly used its slender forked tongue to roll up, trying to block the sun and swallow it back into its stomach.
It didn't care why it had flown out at all. The giant serpent only cared about one thing.
"The sun is mine!"
It absolutely could not tolerate the sun leaving its control!
This beautiful object that radiated infinite light and heat originally should belong to it! And could only belong to it! No one could steal it from its stomach!
Whoever dared to do so would only have death awaiting them!!!
Faced with that sudden attacking object as immense as a collapsing mountain, Sol's heart abruptly tightened.
At this moment, just controlling the sun chariot was already extremely taxing for her, let alone sparing any effort to deal with such a thing. Could it be that she really could only be swallowed into this monster's stomach again, falling into a coma once more…
"Thor!!!"
Suddenly, Loki's urgent roar rang out beside her ear.
Then, a furious bellowing shout followed.
"Go!!!"
The thunder god, who had already mustered all his strength to vent the dissatisfaction and anger in his heart, raised his arm high, let out a loud roar, and suddenly swung out. The thunder god's hammer Mjolnir flew out of his hand!
The war hammer, filled with the deity's wrath, drew a straight line in the air.
There were no anomalies, only pure power, that magnificent force sufficient to shatter thousand-foot-tall mountains and cause rivers to run dry.
That tiny arc looked utterly insignificant in the face of the immense object as vast as a mountain peak, with the momentum of mountains collapsing and the heavens crumbling. However, when the two collided…
"Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble!!!!!!"
The severed forked tongue then fell, plummeting towards the surging, turbulent sea.
"Roar!!!!!!!!!"
The endless agony from the giant serpent's forked tongue suddenly struck, the unbearable pain making the giant serpent almost wish for death, involuntarily roaring in excruciating anguish with its head raised.
In an instant, in the gloomy and dark sky, countless bolts of lightning wandering in the clouds were drawn out by this earth-shaking roar, rumbling and howling as they struck the seawater and land.
At that moment, it was as if the sky and earth were suddenly filled with flashing lightning and rumbling thunder.
And in this moment of flashing lightning and rumbling thunder, the sun radiating infinite brilliant light had already flown out of the giant serpent's mouth. That bright radiance, that dazzling figure, almost seemed to want to illuminate this hazy and dark world.