Chapter 908 – 908. God’s Atlantis
“Little boy, are you thinking blasphemous thoughts?”
Hel looked at me and let out a cool laugh.
The chill on the floor rides up your legs and up your spine, leaving your head cold. I hurriedly shook my head and denied it.
“Oh, no. How dare I do that!”
“There are two main types of human reactions to seeing me. Fear me or despise me You are the latter.”
“Absolutely not!”
“Done. Don’t make excuses. I don’t care either way.”
“…….”
I didn’t make excuses when I told them not to make excuses.
Hel’s eyebrows twitched. Soon, her laughter spread throughout the palace.
“You are an interesting person. You really are not afraid of me.”
“No. I’m afraid. If you fight, you will lose.”
“You don’t seem to want to fight? What did you come to see me for?”
“I want to get out of the Hell Zone.”
“Do you want to use Niflheim’s door? Fortunately, you are qualified.”
I knew what that qualification was.
One is the living, not the dead.
The other would be the nobility of Hell.
I could have her justly asked for her as her infernal aristocrat. This is why I talk to Hel in front of Elena.
“You seem to know everything, so don’t talk too long. What will you pay in return?”
“I will pay AP.”
Atlantis Point.
To the Shinjwa, it was influence and what could be called power.
“There is no need. I already have enough AP.”
“…… We came with only AP in mind in return. It’s embarrassing to say you don’t need it. What price do you want?”
“Originally, I am not ruling all of Niflheim.”
“Yes. I understand that you rule Helheim, which belongs to Niflheim.”
“But this time in Atlantis, I was in charge of the entirety of Niflheim. Niflheim is vast. It’s so wide that it hurts my head.”
“…….”
“So I want you guys to work as managers.”
“We want to get out of the Hell Zone.”
“I’ll send you out as soon as I finish the manager’s work.”
“…… What is it?”
Although she didn’t like it, she had no choice but to do what Hel wanted. It is Hell that she is now standing in the position of A.
“Nippleheim is so wide that there are places that I can’t reach. Clever dead and dead frost giants avoid me there. Go there, clean up the dead, pull out fingernails and toenails, and bring them to me. Ten thousand. A giant must have at least three thousand fingernails and toenails.”
It was a breathtaking quest.
This is Niflheim. The longer you stay here, the faster time goes by outside.
“Ten thousand… It seems like too many. Please shorten it a bit.”
“Can not be done. Quit if you don’t like it I don’t care if you stay here for thousands of years. Ah, did you know that the cold of Niflheim freezes even time?”
“… I know.”
“It’s good to know. Come on, go to work. Be careful not to be too late.”
The congratulatory order fell.
Before me and Elena could even move, we were out of Hel’s palace. Hel used his authority to send us outside.
“I feel like a slave. Wouldn’t it be better to fight that goddess?”
Said Elena, raising her body. She doesn’t mean it. She just spat out words as if lamenting.
“No matter how much you have a full recovery, you can’t win. At least we have to fight somewhere else.”
“Do you know where the power of that goddess is out of reach?”
“It’s obvious. You saw it when you came here.”
“I saw… ? Oh, indeed. Is it there?”
As we visited Hel’s palace, we looked around. And I found something peculiar. In some places there is heavy snowfall, in some places you can feel the cold, but there is no heavy snowfall.
“It doesn’t snow in the realm of the goddess.”
“Right. And we’ve never been attacked even if we’ve made eye contact with the dead since we’ve come this far, right? Where there is no snow, Hel completely dominates.”
“Now that we have a purpose, we must act. I’m running out of time, so I’m going to move through space.”
“Is it possible?”
“I’m not confident in magic other than magic, but most of my magic is all-round.”
Elena snapped her fingers.
10 blue butterflies appeared. Butterflies fluttered around me and Elena. Space distorts around the butterfly.
In a blink of an eye, the space changed. Strong winds and heavy snow blow. The ground is full of accumulated snow.
“Are you okay? I’ll give you the Hecate Cape if you want.”
“Done. I already gave it to you. And there are others.”
Summons a red cloak from the inventory.
「Hermita’s Cloak
A cloak made by changing the properties of iron wood into fiber.
It has excellent durability and does not get dirty easily.
It has high cold tolerance.
Rank: A」
It is a cloak made at the request of the Iron Root Dwarves in the past.
As soon as I put on the cloak, the cold that cut through my skin disappeared. My body stopped shaking.
“All that remains is to find and eliminate the dead. Ten thousand fingernails and toenails. Hmm. Eugene, how many days do you think it will take?”
“Well. If I’m lucky, I might be able to finish it within a month. Humans have 20 fingernails and toenails.”
You can get 2,000 claws for 100 dead. If there are 500 dead, 10,000 will be collected for fun.
“The troublesome thing is to collect 3,000 claws of dead frost giants.”
“Dead.”
Elena pointed to the front. There is no need to delay. She summoned Stormbreaker in the form of a long sword, held it in her hand, and charged at the dead.
The dead were walking corpses. The skin is peeled off, and parts of the body are made of bones. It moves nonetheless. Raising nails at me and attacking me.
‘Thunderbolt.’
Grip support.
It caused lightning strikes and sword energy on the blade and cut through the body of the dead.
“Keeeee!”
The dead scream that they don’t want to hear. It’s like stabbing your brain with an awl.
“The dead curse you.”
「Your high spiritual power shakes off the curse of the dead.」
“Keeeee! Kieeck! Kieh!”
“It’s too loud for the subject of the lower dead. Stop dying.”
Cut off the neck Still, the screams of the dead continued. After the skull was smashed and the body was dismembered, the dead became quiet.
“Eugene. The nails must be retrieved.”
“Know. I hate to touch a corpse with my hands… I can’t help it. … Damn it.”
“Why?”
“This little fingernail only has three.”
“The corpse is so messed up that it doesn’t even have normal nails. It will take longer than expected.”
He clicked his tongue and retrieved his toenails.
We wandered around looking for the dead. In the process, he also encountered a dead frost giant. Frost giants averaged over 10 meters in size. As large as it was, it was so strong that it was incomparable to the common dead. It took three minutes of fighting one-on-one to defeat the dead frost giant. Of course, with Elena’s help, she can take it down faster, but Elena has to focus on finding the dead.
“I can’t.”
“Have you given up? Keep moving in the time to grumble.”
“It can’t go on like this. It’s taking too long. It’s not very efficient.”
“I agree with that, but this is the only way. A place called Niflheim. Maybe it’s because it’s not normal, and my magic doesn’t work well either.”
“Fifty nails a day. Does this make sense? At least three years will have passed by the time you go outside.”
“…… Also, there is no way to come to mind. I have no choice but to act faithfully.”
“Wait a minute.”
At times like these, it’s best to look around at what you have. There might be an item with a helpful effect in this situation.
‘The fishing hook of temptation… This doesn’t work for the dead, so it’s meaningless…. Found! If this… !’
“The Golden Mask of Tutankhamun
No curses work when wearing a golden mask.
Become dead
Mana rises by 50.
Depending on the mana level, you can control the undead. However, Mira can be manipulated regardless.
Destroys the wearer’s mind. If your mind is sane, you can become a complete owner. However, when the mind is destroyed, it turns into a mummy.
Rank: SSS」
I heard the golden mask.
The dead are undead. It’s a moving corpse, so it’s no different from a zombie or a ghoul. Although there is a bit of an overly strong feeling about the zombie theme, probably due to the influence of Niflheim.
“You brought out another strange item.”
“The dead are nothing now!”
He wore the golden mask of Tutankhamun on his head. Her mana rose by 50 and her whole body was overflowing with power.
At the same time, my qi waves spread out in all directions.
A dead man buried in snow, a dead man wandering aimlessly, a frost giant dead quietly sharpening his weapon while holding his breath.
I can feel the presence of the dead. I knew it instinctively. I can rule these dead.
‘Not enough. I need to broaden my horizons a little more…. Oh, that’s right!’
[I open my eyes.]
Activate Cheonan.
The range of contact is more than twice as large. Even a blizzard blown by a strong wind cannot block my gaze.
“Deads! Come here!”
I gave orders to the dead I identified. The common dead accepted my rule without saying a word. The dead frost giant resisted, but eventually came under my control.
34 in total. Of these, there were only four frost giants.
“Hoo. This will increase efficiency.”
Haha. You stupid bastards Come on, pluck out your toenails and offer them to me!”
Wooooo….
The dead could not refuse my orders. They plucked out their nails and offered them to me respectfully.
“There are 337 in total. Among them, frost giants have fewer than 50 claws. Eugene, deal with the dead now.”
“No. It’s too wasteful to get rid of these useful guys like this.”
“Tell me honestly. Are you enjoying yourself?”
“There is that too.”
Chuck!
He pointed to the front with his finger. The dead walked towards the front.
“Things that exploded slowly, move quickly! There you, the front toothless one! You guys are too slow what are you doing, idiots Eat that toothless dead!”
“Keeeh!”
“Uh uh uh uh….”
The dead rushed at the dead I pointed at. It eats the arms, necks, and shoulders of the dead. Homologous predation! Rather than being scary, the visuals were like a cheap B-grade movie.
‘Also. The dead became stronger because they ate the dead. This is funhaha.’
The raising game comes to mind. A simple but highly addictive breeding game.
“I see a group of dead people wandering around there. Kill Offer your nails to me, and eat the body of that dead man.”
The dead I control and a group of wandering dead entangled in battle. Elena and I stood one step apart and just watched. The battle of the dead was quite worth watching.
The ones who won were the dead under my control. From the beginning, the numbers on this side were higher.
“The black pharaoh is looking at you.”
Maybe because I was wearing Tutankhamen’s golden mask, some goddess kept an eye on me. I didn’t do anything else, so I ignored it. Excluding the black pharaoh, there were many gods who looked at me.
Elena narrowed her eyes and looked at me incomprehensibly.
“No matter how you think about it, it makes no sense. Thinking of collecting nails soon…… Well!”
Elena, who had been complaining, suddenly opened her eyes.
“I understand your intentions. To deal with the dead of a strong frost giant. The number of dead frost giants is small, so a stronger one will come out as time goes on.”
The dead become stronger when they eat the dead.
That wasn’t a word that only worked for the dead I ruled over.
“… Uh. As you say. The number of frost giant dead is small, so there must be many strong ones. To deal with them, we also need to increase our strength. Because only you and me have limits.”
“You’ve been thinking about everything. It is quite.”
Elena smiles and strokes my forearm while looking at me proudly. It seems that he realized my greatness. I wrapped one of her arms around Elena’s waist.
“Elena. Let’s make a warm carriage with your magic. Let the dead pull the wagon… We eat rice cakes or chi… You can eat.”
“Not bad. I get it. But do I have to wear that mask? It makes me uncomfortable to watch.”
“You have to keep wearing this to control the dead. The moment we take this off, the dead will try to kill us.”
“There is nothing you can do about it.”
