And accompanying the fierce battle between the two monsters above the great sea, in an undersea temple in the even deeper parts of the already quaking endless deep sea…
"Ah~"
Inside the temple, falling bricks and stones were everywhere, along with panicking maids running around, if it were before, the unfathomable old sea god Aegir would have already severely punished them, but now, he just sat on his throne with furrowed brows, observing everything before him, doing nothing.
His face was covered in whiskers, his hair like seaweed, his eyes piercing, simply from his appearance one couldn't discern what he was pondering at this moment.
"Father."
A beautiful maiden worriedly looked at her father, her upper body human-shaped while her lower body was flowing water, her lovely countenance beautiful enough to be called enchanting, and beside her, eight sisters who appeared to be of different ages also surrounded their father, although their expressions varied, the worry in their eyes was all the same.
The Wave Maidens, nine beautiful goddesses born from the foam of the waves above the great sea, were the old sea god's most cherished daughters, usually, there was nothing the old sea god couldn't give them, but facing this catastrophe of unimaginable scale, they were also completely baffled, but facing his daughters' fear, the old sea god actually didn't respond to them, but was contemplating something.
He sat on his throne, contemplating something, finally saying to his nine daughters.
"No need to mind that guy Thor, if Thor wants to fight that monster, let them fight, it's best if they destroy each other."
Saying that, he raised his head, the dim seawater unable to obstruct his vision, in his sight, a god and a serpent, two monsters with the power to move mountains and overturn seas with every move, were in the midst of a frenzied battle.
Whether it was the great sea, or the land, the sky… they could only tremble before them, powerlessly enduring the grave damage inflicted on this world when they fiercely fought.
The ocean under old sea god Aegir's control was even more so the main battlefield of the two monsters' fierce fight, one undersea mountain peak after another was pulverized, one stretch of ocean after another evaporated into air, the quaking stars fell one after another from the firmament into the sea, igniting inextinguishable flames on the sea, countless marine life went extinct and perished because of it.
However, there was no fury on this old sea god's face, instead he muttered with glee.
"Fight… Fight! It's best if both are gravely wounded…"
The old sea god who had existed since the primordial era when the world was first born was definitely not some loyal servant of Odin, controlling the entire endless deep sea, he had always been regarded with apprehension by Odin, although accepted into the twelve leaders of the Aesir gods, that was merely an olive branch Odin extended to him, and his attitude towards Odin had always been neither cold nor warm, neither distant nor close.
And in his heart, there had always been an ambition…
To drive out all the Aesir gods from his exclusive domain, the ocean, not needing any other deities to meddle.
Whether it was Jormungandr who resided in the deep sea or Thor the thunder god whom he regarded with apprehension, they were both constant irritants to him, which he wished to remove sooner rather than later.
…
"Roar!!!!!!"
The furious great serpent raised its head and bellowed, its immense tail rising high from the distant ocean, blotting out the sun and obscuring the sky, then the colossal tail suddenly smashed towards the boundless land.
"Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
In an instant, the world quaked, Thor narrowly escaped this lethal blow by the skin of his teeth, but where the tail heavily fell, countless mountains, rivers, and vegetation were instantly pulverized, who knows how many nations were obliterated because of it, seawater also flooded into the deeply sunken land, forming a vast strait, forcibly splitting the entire landmass in two.
From then on, humans could only gaze at each other across this vast strait separating the sea.
And the devastation wrought by the fierce battle between the two monsters was far from just that.
In the sky above, the panicked fleeing moon was nearly shattered by the great serpent, only a crescent left bitterly persisting, not daring to show its face again; the glittering stars in the sky, the vast majority of them plummeted into the seawater, from then on only able to become undersea volcanoes on the seafloor.
And the venom spewed out by the great serpent when it raged directly corroded vast swaths of land, turning it into swamps; the scales Thor forcibly ripped off the great serpent's body also turned into mountains and hills.
That noxious blood flowing into lakes and marshes in turn spawned countless venomous snakes and little serpents, as well as numerous deadly poisonous plants, later on, they would all revere Jormungandr as their ancestor, and the flesh torn from the great serpent's body would also transform into ferocious beasts in rivers and lakes, gnawing on human flesh and blood.
And this was still merely a small part of the impact on this world when the two fiercely fought, there were far more effects, too numerous to quantify.
From geography to astronomy, the entire world was forcibly altered too much, if this wasn't a world where deities manifested, the devastation caused could be even more immense.
At this moment, the great serpent's body was also already covered in blood and wounds, although compared to its colossal body these wounds were actually not big, at most like a human being bitten by mosquitoes and getting bumps all over, but what truly vexed the great serpent was that it still had no way to pose any lethal threat to Thor opposite it.
Thor's combat experience was so extensive that this great serpent lacking sufficient experience simply couldn't handle it, often as soon as it made a move, Thor could directly evade it, while the great serpent often couldn't dodge Thor's attacks, only able to passively take a beating.
Although the great serpent didn't believe these minor wounds would make it lose, in its view, as long as they continued to be locked in stalemate, there was no need to land too many hits, four or five times would be enough to pummel this thunder god until his bones were pulverized, the great serpent still had considerable confidence in victory.
However, this couldn't negate the fact that it had already grown somewhat impatient with this fierce battle.
"Huff…"
From the great serpent's nostrils, two violent gales were exhaled, it observed Thor the thunder god not far in front of it who was panting heavily, Thor's condition definitely couldn't be described as too good, drenched in blood, but the fanaticism and exhilaration in his eyes made the great serpent find him very troublesome to deal with.
And the war hammer in his hand also made the great serpent quite apprehensive, if not striking a vital point, this war hammer didn't pose a very lethal threat to the great serpent, but if it struck a vital point…
"Should I temporarily withdraw…"
A question arose in the great serpent's mind.