Chapter 864: Rebirth: I Was Fed in the Yao Clan

Nidhogg secretly observed in the Inexhaustible Spring.

There was a shadow next to the spring on the ground, like a stone or a sculpture.

It was almost always there.

It was a tall knight covered in heavy armor, with scratches and frost on the black armor, and a layer of red patterns on the metal surface, like a fire frozen in ice.

The knight leaned on a dark red sword, and most of the time, it was as motionless as a block of iron.

Locals sometimes came to pay him a visit.

"Good morning, Lord Blood Knight."

"Lord Blood Knight, you have worked hard, if you can, please take a rest."

"Lord Blood Knight, may I ask, has Lord Yao God given any new oracle?"

...

The Blood Knight rarely spoke.

He would only speak when someone offered him a sacrifice.

"I am not a god, I cannot overstep my authority."

He refused with this.

The Blood Knight was an apostle, belonging to a god called Yao God.

This made Nidhogg feel tricky.

It had dealt with the apostles in the past. The apostles had their own strengths and weaknesses. The most difficult thing was that they would ask for support from the gods when they couldn't win.

Nidhogg hated this the most.

If you have the guts, fight alone!

Isn't it just bullying that there is no god behind you?

It knew it in its heart.

It couldn't have a direct conflict with the Blood Knights, because the Inexhaustible Spring had been occupied by the God Yao.

So Nidhogg followed the underground stream of the Land of Mist to a place far away from the Blood Knights. Soon it was exposed.

The discoverer was a Nibelungen, who called a large group of children.

He pointed under the ice and said, "Look! There is a black earthworm in the poisonous spring!"

Other children immediately objected, "How can there be earthworms here? Earthworms are in the soil, not in the water. It's impossible. It's feces, very thin feces."

Nidhogg was furious and wanted to strangle the foul-mouthed kid immediately.

Someone else corrected him, "No, no, it's a snake, a small black snake."

Nidhogg thought to himself, fortunately there are normal children.

In the past, the Nibelungen people were not very smart. They showed a kind of clear stupidity, just like the poisonous spring here. Before they became giants, they were a group of strange children with poison all over their bodies.

"Oh no, it's stiff, is it going to die?"

"Hurry up, rescue it!"

The children began to break the ice and rescued Nidhogg.

It did not resist.

This was part of the plan.

First, we must contact the locals and eliminate the fear and vigilance of these children. Now his seemingly weak appearance is an advantage.

The real hunter always appears in the form of prey.

Then Nidhogg soon found that something was wrong.

Because he was locked up by those children and placed in a crystal box.

The box was warm, bright and clean.

But Nidhogg felt that he could not breathe and was about to die.

There was no poison here, nor the power of the underworld generated by death.

It couldn't hold on any longer, and desperately hit the solid inner wall of the crystal to ask for help.

Nidhogg only felt sad.

I didn't fall in Ragnarok, but ended up in this crystal box in this way, returning to my hometown in the underworld...

But things soon took a turn for the better.

The children brought it to a frost giant.

"Mayor Baras, look, we caught a little snake. I don't know what happened to it, it looks very weak."

The tall giant pinched the crystal container with his fingers and stared into it: "Oh? The underworld snake... It's really a rare species. This is the first time I've seen it. It feeds on poison and death."

"Maybe it was bred by the people who died here before. It lives in the poison spring. It likes the cold environment and toxins. You can't raise the temperature for it."

"Try to fill your [Spell Box] with the poison spring. Didn't you find it in the water under the ice? It looks like it can live in the water."

Saved.

Niedhogg breathed a sigh of relief.

The frost giant is the mature form of the Nibelungen. As expected, only adults know how difficult it is to survive.

The children did add poisonous water to the box, and they changed the water regularly to ensure that the toxicity was sufficient.

The crystal box also has the ability to indicate the content of poisonous elements. When it is light green, it means that the poisonous elements are abundant, and when it turns white, it means that the poisonous elements are very few.

However, this crystal box was placed on an ice platform next to the Blood Knight.

"Lord Blood Knight, let this Hades Snake accompany you!"

The children said so.

Nidhogg was like a bereaved mother.

After going around in circles, he actually returned to the starting point.

Being next to the apostle, it was under great pressure and did not dare to act rashly.

Those Nibelungen children often came to see it and brought it all kinds of poisons. The Nibelungen family has the dual attributes of ice and poison. Just the clothes and tools they have used for a long time will carry a lot of poisonous elements.

If a child can be eaten, there will be more toxins.

But this can only be thought of.

Nidhogg is too weak now and can't eat a child at all.

In fact, it had a good relationship with the Nibelung clan in the past, mainly because those children with toxins were also poison-type, respected it very much, and looked pitiful, so anyone could bully them.

At that time, Nidhogg did not eat these children.

It just focused on gnawing at the roots of the World Tree and drawing strength from it.

The weak do not make things difficult for the weak.

As Nidhogg obtained a large amount of toxins from people's feeding, his body grew stronger and stronger, shaped like a jungle python, and it was difficult to find a crystal box large enough to accommodate his body.

With Mayor Barras' permission, the children released it.

So Nidhogg began to swim along the poisonous spring. It spends most of its time under the ice, which is closer to the source of the power of the endless spring and can absorb more toxin power.

The children always greet it warmly.

"Underworld Snake, you are so strong now! Can you take me to the edge of the Kingdom of Fog? My friends and I made an appointment to meet there. We are going to Shacheng to study."

It lowers its head and lets the other person come up.

"Underworld Snake, your hometown is in the underworld. Can you take me to see it? A good friend of mine has disappeared. He must have died and went to the underworld. I miss him very much."

It shook its head no.

The underworld is not a place where you can come and leave as you please.

If living beings other than gods enter that place, they will become dead and unable to leave.

"Nether Snake, how did you come to the Kingdom of Mist? Did Yao God bring you here?"

Nidhogg remained silent.

If it doesn't speak, people will think it can't speak, which can save a lot of trouble. This is a skill it learned from the Blood Knight.

Nidhogg had to admit that his new life after rebirth was not bad.

Everyone knows that there is a ghost snake in the "Eternal City" of the Kingdom of Mist. Not only do local people often feed it various poisons, but foreign travelers and vacationers also generously give it precious food such as Almighty Stone.

The only troublesome thing is that these people, including humans, cat people, elves, bone ancestors, etc., all like to take photos. They will ask to leave a reflection with it on something called [Crystal Phase] as a commemoration.

Nidhogg was very cooperative.

When others feed the Almighty Stone, he is just making a gesture, and he has nothing to lose.

Also paying attention to it are scholars from the Yao tribe, the most common being potion researchers, alchemists and magicians. They would come regularly to let Nidhogg absorb all kinds of strange poisons and poisonous elements to confirm its feedback.

Generally speaking, the more toxic and the higher the poison element content, the higher Nidhogg's rating.

It curls its tail into a circle for visual rating.

One circle represents ordinary goods.

The second circle is excellent.

Three laps is the best.

Yao scholars will also collect its shed skin and replaced teeth for various medicinal experiments and materials.

As reward, they will give generous omnipotent stones, as well as some experimental potions made of high concentrations of poisonous elements, which are almost impossible to obtain outside.

After ten years like this, Nidhogg has become a celebrity in the Eternal City. It also has a Snake Castle in its name, which is a strange castle made of ice and stone.

This is the suggestion of Mayor Barras.

"Mr. Underworld Snake, you have too many omnipotent stones. It is very inconvenient to store them. It is best to find [World City Treasury] or [Ocean Vault] to store these omnipotent stones, and then you can withdraw them anywhere. As long as you are willing, They also provide door-to-door services, and both of these agencies are located in Fu Lao City.”

Nidhogg thought this was a good idea and nodded.

"Also, if the Eternal City wants to build a house of your own, you don't have to live in it. This can attract a lot of tourists. Letting them buy tickets to enter can bring a lot of revenue..."

"Forever City will have full power to help you build it, and all profits will be divided 50-50. What do you think? As long as you cooperate with us in publicity when necessary, including participating in reports and taking photos with each other."

Nidhogg thinks so.

Anyway, what I do is still the same as before.

As the only underworld snake in the Yao civilization and a legendary resident born in the Kingdom of Mist, Nidhogg is already a household name.

Even apostles from various worlds of the Yao tribe came here to look for it. Yanjiu from Blood Hill, Yanhu from Yancheng, Maocao and Red Dragon Daisy from Resurrection Kingdom, Nefeli from Zhoudao... all came over to chat with it. On a.

“Would you consider settling in our city?”

It rejected them all.

The Everlasting City is so good that it doesn’t want to leave.

Nidhogg never thought that a monster like himself would become so noticed and sought after.

The Yao people are really a strange civilization.

One day, Nidhogg was awakened by a violent shock.

It raised its neck and saw the ice bulging near the Eternal Fountain, and tree roots rising from the ground to the sky, entangled with the children of the Nibelungs everywhere.

The Blood Knight and the three Frost Giants were trying to rescue them everywhere, but the tree roots seemed endless. They turned into countless hands, hunting the children crazily and sucking them into the roots.

Nidhogg was shocked.

The roots of the World Tree are completely revived.

It actually knew before that those roots were secretly attacking the Nibelungs, but they were very covert. These children are nourishment for the roots in Norse mythology and will be eaten when needed.

Nidhogg saw a little girl tangled in roots nearby. The child often came to see it, always looking outside the Snake Castle, and would be shy when seeing it.

At this time she was so frightened that she cried and her leg was pierced by a tree root.

Nidhogg came back to his senses and found that he was already frantically biting the roots of the World Tree.

The child was standing aside, his face glowing: "Mr. Underworld Snake is so strong!"

"Mr. Underworld Snake is helping us!"

"Mr. Dark Snake will win!"

The surviving children nearby all ran this way, towards Snake Castle.

The entire Land of Mist was boiling and roaring, but the children's shouts were extremely clear.

Nidhogg raised his head and looked coldly at the countless claw-like tree roots attacking him.

It seemed that the newly revived tree roots did not know who their prey was.