novelkee Chapter 2241 Asking for a guaranteed monthly ticket! ! ! !
Chapter 2241 Asking for a guaranteed monthly ticket! ! ! !
Chapter 2241 Asking for a guaranteed monthly ticket! ! ! !
But it’s not all bad news for Ger, because he knows that Sif is not in Asgard!
He had indeed never seen Sif, but he had tortured the frost giants when he was causing trouble in Jotunheim. Although the frost giants' technology was very primitive, their magic level was not bad. These guys were the race that knew the most about the Nine Realms Passageway among the Nine Realms. Long before Asgard discovered the Nine Realms Passageway, the frost giants had discovered the special space passage between the Nine Realms.
When Asgard was still a mess and was attacking each other, the Frost Giants began to plunder everywhere through those space channels. It was also at that time that the Frost Giants came to the earth and began to love and hate the Asgardians.
Even in the ancient legends of Asgard, the Frost Giants and the Asgardians themselves have the same ancestor.
According to the creation legend of Asgard, before the world was born, there was no sky, no earth, no life, only endless emptiness and chaos. This endless void is called the Kinlunga Chasm, which is a void space before the creation of the world. To the north of the Chasm is Niflheim, the "Land of Mist", where there is a spring called Hvergelmir, which extends twelve rivers called "Ice Waves", one of which carries the poisonous "Eitr". To the south of the Chasm is Muspelheim, the "Land of Fire", which is bright and hot. After the poisonous Eitr flows away from the source with the river water, it freezes into a glacier in the cold Niflheim. The glacier flows southward and extends to the Kinlunga Chasm; the flames in Muspelheim in the south continuously emit a lot of heat into the Chasm, melting the glaciers in the Chasm into water droplets. In the intersection of flames and ice, Ymir was born in the water droplets.
He is the ancestor of all giants.
Soon, another cow named Oudhumbra was born.
Ymir survived on the milk secreted by Odumbra, while Odumbra licked the salt grains on the ice. Under the licking of the cow, the ancestors of Asgard appeared in the ice (later this legend spread to Earth and became Buri), and a boy and a girl were born from the arm sockets of Ymir. A nameless giant and a six-headed Thredgemir were born from her legs.
Then the Asgardian gods and giants had a conflict. The Asgardians killed Ymir, the ancestor of the giants, and used his remains to create a realm for humans to live in. After Ymir's death, his blood caused a huge flood that submerged many giants. Bergelmir, the son of Thredgemir, and his wife survived, and Bergelmir gave birth to the frost giants.
They fled to Jotunheim and founded the kingdom of Frost Giants, and continued to hold a hatred for the gods.
The gods used Ymir's body to create the earth and sky. Ymir's head became the sky, her brain became clouds, her body became the earth, her blood became the ocean, her bones became mountains, and her hair became trees. When Ymir's body rotted and maggots grew, these maggots became light elves and dark elves. Brimir's blood and Brin's limbs created dwarves, and ordered four dwarves with strange powers to support the four corners of the sky. Ymir's eyebrows were used to create a wall to surround the middle world Midgard.
This legend is widely circulated on Earth and Asgard, of course, there are still some differences between them.
But this is normal. Legends are passed down from mouth to mouth, and who knows what they will become. For example, in Asgard, Loki is obviously the brother of Thor, but in the legends on Earth, Loki is the brother of Odin. What's more interesting is that Loki also gave birth to three children with the giants.
The goddess of death Hela, the giant wolf Fenrir and the giant snake Jörmungandr!
When Loki first came to Earth, he was stunned. How could he, an unmarried young man, have a child?
And who is Hela? (Loki didn't know about Hela's existence at that time. After defeating Hela, Odin blocked all information about Hela. Very few people in Asgard knew about Hela.)
Who is the giant wolf Fenrir? (Fenrir was Hela's pet, and followed Hela in battles, but was eventually killed by Odin)
As for Jörmungandr, Loki knew him. This guy was very famous and was considered one of the main enemies of Asgard. Since the establishment of Asgard, this guy has always been an enemy of the Asgardians. It seems that the current Asgard originally belonged to Jörmungandr, but after the Asgardians came, they drove it away. Since then, it has been fighting with Asgard to the death. Later, it was completely defeated by Odin and sealed in the deepest part of Asgard. Unless Asgard is destroyed, it will never appear again.
Jörmungandr is unfathomably large, capable of enveloping the entire Earth in his ethereal form. By squeezing his coils around the Earth, he can cause many natural disasters, including severe storms, fires, floods, earthquakes, tidal waves, and landslides. If he allows the Earth to shrink for long enough, he can completely destroy it. He possesses nearly unlimited strength, can fly, is nearly immortal, and secretes a powerful venom that is deadly even to the gods of Asgard. Its hide is nearly impenetrable from the inside out, and its interior is filled with poisonous fumes, ensuring the swift death of anything it swallows. The serpent can fire energy blasts from his eyes and exist indefinitely in space or the deepest oceans. He is a shapeshifter, having taken on a wide variety of shapes and sizes while retaining his full weight and strength. When he manifests on Earth, he can freeze time itself, though creatures from Asgard or other mystical realms associated with Asgard are unaffected. Despite being a snake, Jörmungandr is a sentient being and is able to speak.
So the more widely this thing spreads, the greater the difference between it and the original version becomes.
But what’s interesting is that the Frost Giants’ legends about creation are inexplicably similar to Asgard’s.
This is very interesting.
Maybe the two races really have a lot to do with each other.
All in all, the Frost Giants have been very familiar with the Nine Realms Passage since a long time ago, so even though the Frost Giants seem backward and barbaric, they are actually not isolated from the news at all.
Gur learned from the Frost Giants that Sif had left Asgard long ago and had been leading troops outside.
It is said that, it is said that.
It was because Thor had an affair with a foreign goddess that Sif became very dissatisfied, so she refused to return to Asgard out of spite.
Before, Gol had never taken this information seriously. He thought that the Frost Giants were so bored that they spread such gossip. Did they really... have nothing to do?
But now it seems that this news is good!
Ger had a general understanding of Heimdall's status in Asgard. In short, he was a big shot. The sister of a big shot should also be a big shot. Since she was a big shot, she must be in the safest place, such as Asgard. If this was true, it would be too difficult for Ger to catch Sif and use her to threaten Heimdall.
If he really had the ability to rush into Asgard and capture Sif... he wouldn't have to kidnap her.
Can't we just rob the Rainbow Bridge?
So, the problem now is to find Sif!
……
Sif has been staying at the dwarves' star forge lately.
Nidavellir, the world of dwarves.
This is a planet with abnormal gravity. Overall, Nidavellir's gravity is about five to six times that of the Earth.
But strangely, Nidavellir's planet is much smaller than Earth's.
This is because the density of Nidavellir is much greater than that of the Earth, and the reason is very simple, that is, this planet is rich in various metals. This is also the reason why the dwarves like smelting and forging so much, because on this planet, various mineral veins are very rich, and even the surface itself has a large number of rich ores.
Because of the strong gravity, short people are so stout.
However, unlike what we imagined, Nidavellir is not actually desolate, it can even be called dreamy.
In our general concept, the greater the gravity, the harder it is for creatures to fly. The smaller the gravity, the easier it is for creatures to fly.
There was a movie called John Carter, in which the protagonist John Carter, who grew up on Earth and adapted to Earth's gravity, came to Mars, where gravity is lower (about 2/5 of Earth's), and became a "superman" with great strength and swiftness among the Martians. This seems reasonable. But if, on the other hand, an Earthling goes to a planet with greater gravity than Earth (for example, gravity is twice that of Earth) that is suitable for the reproduction of life, will he become a "weakling" with difficulty in moving among the aliens there?
Not always!
Planets with greater gravity than Earth have to be either as dense as Earth but larger in size, or smaller in size but much denser. The planet must be in the "habitable zone" of their star system, and whether or not life on the planet has a respiratory system, it must have an atmosphere to protect against harmful radiation from space. On a high-gravity planet, it is almost certain that its atmosphere is denser, which means that, counterintuitively, it is easier for life there to float in the air. If humans go to a planet with an atmosphere several times denser than Earth's, it may be possible to swim through the air. On such a planet, there may be plankton-like forms at the bottom of the food chain. Larger floating organisms feed on them. They can control buoyancy through special, lower-density organs to keep them afloat in this thick atmosphere.
Therefore, the world of the dwarves is filled with various suspended creatures, giving a dreamlike feeling of moving the ocean world to land.
The only downside is that there is no decent forest here.
On such a planet, there may be no tree-like plants. The surface may be covered with reef-like vegetation, because the atmosphere is too thick, the light from the star is easily blocked, and the gravity is too strong, nutrients are difficult to transport upward from the roots, and tall plants are difficult to grow.
Then there are animals that can't fly, so they have to overcome a lot of gravity, and they have thick, stocky bodies with lots of strong legs, similar to millipedes. It takes a lot of energy for them to move around, so they usually adopt an ambush hunting strategy like crocodiles on Earth.
Lifeforms on such a planet might also take this form of predation to a higher level and evolve voracious fungi that act as ambush predators, with underground mycelium that could span several square kilometers, simply spreading trap-like structures over the ground to catch prey that were unfortunate enough to trigger the trap.
In short, this is a world that is completely different from other planets.
Sif has been here for a long time.
During this period, Asgard did ask her to go back, but she just refused to go back.
Even when Queen Frigga spoke personally, she remained indifferent.
This kind of serious act of disobedience would have been met with the iron fist of the law if it had happened under normal circumstances.
Asgard's laws are still very strict. There is no way around it. Since Asgard was born, laxity and bloody courage have been engraved in its bones. Although ten thousand years have passed, in fact, Asgard has only been established for a few generations, and many things have not completely changed. Therefore, strict laws are needed to limit the laxity engraved in Asgard's bones.
Therefore, disobedience is a very serious matter in Asgard. Once discovered, even the royal family will be subject to the most severe punishment.
For example, Thor secretly ran to Jotunheim and went crazy, and was directly exiled by Odin.
It's not just that Odin is disappointed in Thor, but also because he disobeyed the king's order!
But this time, everyone in Asgard turned a blind eye to Sif's disobedience.
There's no way, everyone feels sorry for Sif.
Sif and Heimdall are both descendants of immigrants from Vanaheim. In order to allow the two gods to mend the rift caused by Odin, Sif was chosen to be the crown prince's partner very early on.
This is a very serious political task.
Being born into a royal family, Thor's choice of a spouse is very, very narrow.
In fact, from the day Thor was born, he had not had many free choices.
Among them, marriage absolutely does not have the option of free love.
Maybe someone will say something like "true love is invincible" or something like that. People who say this are actually just bored. You should know that the concept of free love itself has only been around for a few years.
Today, when the concept of "free love" is widely advocated, let us look back and realize that this concept is actually very, very new. It probably started in the Victorian era, and only about 200 years have passed. In other words, most people only have a maximum of three generations of "free love" experience to refer to.
But in Asgard, there is no such concept as free love!
After all, two hundred years...is not enough time for Asgardians to grow up...
In Asgard's view, marriage is always a matter between two families, and the relationship between the two people getting married is not particularly important.
So both Thor and Sif themselves have known this since childhood. Sif accepts the future of herself as Thor's partner, and Thor hates Sif even less.
This matter is basically a done deal!
All of Asgard approves!
But now something unexpected happens!
And twice!!!