Chapter 36: 36, Helheim

Amidst the howling cold wind, the system's notification sounded again.

[Discovering the Mysterious Realm of Death - Helheim - Bridge to the Past]

Complete 50% of the secret exploration - you will get [one-third of spell fragments]

(One-third of spell fragments, containing strange energy, you can upgrade one of your spell abilities after getting three pieces)

Complete 100% of the secret exploration - you will get [Knowledge of the Madman]

(Madman's knowledge, treat with caution, after having it, it is bound to deviate from your expectations)

"Madman's Knowledge" Hoffa stood on the bridge leading directly to the unknown void, looking at the extremely weird and extremely weird giant eagle phantom in the distance.

He rubbed his forehead and muttered to himself.

"Nimma, this is too magical..."

He is so angry!

Life played a joke on him again. Joey asked him to ask Thunderbird a word. He thought it was the same as visiting a dying distant relative in the hospital in his previous life. Take a look at the other party, and hear if the other party has any unfulfilled last wishes, and fulfill your responsibilities and obligations as a junior.

But with such a simple task, he was thrown into another world in one fell swoop, and he was still thrown into Helheim.

This is the legendary kingdom of the dead!

If this one can't go back, wouldn't he be trapped here to death?

Looking back, behind him, the huge flesh and blood eye is slowly closing.

Although the speed is slow, it is indeed closing.

Looking at the back of his hand, the pattern of the eye on the back of the hand is also slowly closing, the speed is synchronized with the eyeball.

Thinking of what Joey said to himself, "Come back before you close your eyes, don't force it."

He understood now that this eye was his passage back to Hogwarts.

Hoffa calculated the speed at which his eyes closed, and he estimated that he could only stay here for about half an hour.

Without further ado, act quickly!

After confirming his target, Hoffa ran quickly on the stone bridge against the strong wind.

As soon as he ran, his body was like made of sand, and a little bit of debris was blown out by the strong wind on this huge bridge. The debris dragged long behind him like thin threads.

Speaking of which, this is the second time he has left the original world. The first time was in the secret room of the Violet Club at school, where he entered a thing called the Book of Spells.

But this time was different from last time.

Last time, the system didn't give me a reminder at all, indicating that the place didn't exist, or had disappeared a long time ago. Whether it's true or not is still open to question.

But this time the system gave a prompt. And the reward has changed from the knowledge of a great god to the knowledge of a madman.

This place is real, Hoffa looked at the phantom of the giant eagle far away, and felt a little trembling in his heart.

He had read some old myths from this side of Europe,

The eagle was Hrasvarger, whose name means "Eater of Corpse."

An eagle transformed from a giant. This giant will put on the coat of eagle feathers and sit in the extreme north of the world. When he waved his arms that turned into eagle wings, the cold wind would howl across the earth.

He thought these were just legends, but he didn't expect this world to be a hundred times weirder and grander than he imagined.

If gods exist, are they alive now?

There was no one on the giant bridge, it was empty.

But as Hoffa ran forward, the exploration speed in the sea of ​​consciousness increased unexpectedly fast.

ten percent

fifteen percent

twenty percent

This giant bridge seems to be endless and extremely long.

But no matter how Hoffa ran, the scenery on both sides never changed. The wind and snow, nothingness, and the phantom of the giant eagle piercing the sky.

After running for about 10 minutes, the Flesh Eye behind him turned into a small dot.

A prompt came from the system.

Ding!

[Helheim - Bridge to the Past] Exploration reached 50%.

Gain spell shards (1/3)

Gain 50% exploration speed and get a spell fragment.

Before Hoffa can rejoice, imagine what the knowledge of the madman will be.

A strange figure appeared on the road ahead.

It looked square, tall, and walked extremely slowly. It was very blurred by the strong wind, and the debris on its body was peeled off very badly.

Is it Talas the Thunderbird?

Hoffa quickly ran towards that thing, and he didn't meet anything after walking so far. This was the first moving thing he encountered.

The closer it got, the clearer the ghostly figure became.

Only then did Hoffa realize that it was a hunchbacked stone figure, covered in iron chains, bony and hunched. The stone tablet on his back is nearly five meters high, and it looks extremely heavy at first glance.

"Is that you? Taras"

Hoffa turned around uncertainly, wanting to ask questions, but as soon as he turned around, he was scared and took a step back.

Look at the monster under the stele head-on.

It had no clothes, was dark and wrinkled, had no eyes, no nose, no ears, and only a mouth. His mouth was full of dense maggots.

"ho"

"ho"

"ho"

It shivered and panted in pain, and walked past Hoffa little by little, neither looking at him nor paying attention to him, let alone answering his question.

It just clutched its chest in pain, trembling and struggling to crawl towards an unknown place in the cold wind.

Hoffa looked at the stele on its back.

He couldn't read a single word on the inscription.

Not the text of this world.

With one, there is a second.

Soon, Hoffa saw a second figure carrying a stele, then a third figure, and a fourth figure.

They were all walking in the same direction, and one of them, like the one just now, only had a stone tablet on his back.

But some guys have dozens of stone tablets on their backs, so densely packed that they can hardly move.

They lay on the ground and struggled forward like snails.

Most of those people were extremely ugly and terrifying beyond description.

Only a very small number of people did not have steles on their bodies, and they walked forward with expressionless faces.

This grotesque scene shocked Hoffa's mind. After several rounds of meditation, Hoffa calmed down and walked forward slowly.

Follow his steps forward. There are more and more weirdos here.

"Taras?"

Hoffa called softly as he ran.

Try to find your purpose.

But all the people here have no face, some people are so ugly that they can't recognize their appearance, some people's face is just a plain white board, without facial features.

Hoffa instinctively felt that if Talas was not here, it would never grow up like this.

He wanted to change his mind.

However, at this moment, a frail figure carrying a stone stele was finally overwhelmed by the weight of the stone stele, and fell to the ground.

After it fell to the ground, the chain snapped as if it were made of plastic.

It was originally on all fours, but this time, after the stone tablet crashed down, it could finally stand upright a little bit.

But it was relieved of its heavy burden and didn't get up easily to go on the road. After it let out a terrific wail, it frantically rushed to its own stele, grabbed the iron chain with its thin arms, tried to pull up its own stele, and put it on its back again.

But it couldn't move the huge stone tablet at all. At this moment, countless maggots rushed out of his body, scattered like a tree falling and a monkey scattered, and crawled all over the ground.

Some of them fell directly down the high bridge, while others climbed onto other ghosts and got in.

After those maggots crawled away, the monster was left with only an empty skin, which was blown into pieces by the cold wind of Helheim, and disappeared completely.

This scene made Hoffa terrified. He thought that someone was punishing these black shadows and holding them down with heavy objects, but things didn't seem to be what he thought.

But he didn't wait for him to think about the reason for this.

Another camel figure fell overwhelmed, and the above process was also repeated.

But this time the figure was closer to him, and some maggots stared at Hoffa after leaving his predecessor's body.

They have no eyes, but they are "staring" at themselves, Hoffa sensed. It was an inexplicable twisted emotion of ecstasy, greed, and jealousy.

This emotion, like electricity, began to be transmitted on this stone bridge.

A stone stirred up thousands of waves, and all the maggots in the monster's body suddenly sensed the existence of Hoffa.

They quietly crawled down from their original host, and gathered on the ground into a large mass, gradually forming a humanoid maggot creature. It slowly crawled towards Hoffa, and while crawling, it stood slowly.

At first he stumbled, but then he adapted to walking upright, and became as tall and as big as him, and looked a bit like himself, like a maggot version of himself.

Hoffa took a shuddering step back.

As soon as he retreated, the maggot creature immediately opened its mouth wide, and rushed towards him with a maniacal laugh, with an extremely longing expression on its expression.

Hoffa's face changed when he saw the figure laughing wildly and rushing towards him. He had never seen such a distorted monster.

At this time, there was a warm feeling in his waist.

Hoffa stepped back and pulled out his own wand.

This guy actually came with him.

At this moment, the word [Seal] on the end of his wand turned out to be uncharacteristically bright red, not the usual faded look.

The maggot formed a figure roaring and getting closer, his face was full of jealousy, envy and madness.

what to do?

The wand is there, but what magic do I want to use?

Ghost Walk!

Hoffa tapped his arm.

The first thing he thought of was ghost walks.

boom! !

The expected disappearance did not occur.

Hoffa rolled away in embarrassment.

Embarrassed dodged this heavy blow mixed with maggots.

It was useless for him to come out for a ghost walk at all. After thinking about it for a while, Hoffa understood, and cursed himself for being too stupid. This is not the material world, and he obviously does not exist physically.

For ghost walks to work, there must be ghosts.

After quickly getting up from the ground, Hoffa scrambled away from the bombardment range of those maggot monsters, his brain spinning rapidly.

I haven't learned any attack spells so far, and I lack the necessary attack methods.

So how should we deal with this bad situation?

On the giant bridge, countless maggots crawled out of the void, gathered together, and became one after another grotesque creatures. Like the Cronenberg monster in the post-movie. Each of them had Hoffa's face, wistful.

At this time, Hoffa suddenly thought of the group of German black wizards.

The last time in Hogsmeade, he was almost killed by the black wizard's magical transformation spell. It was a very effective attack method, and the transfiguration spell seemed uncomplicated.

After thinking about it, Hoffa immediately took action. Transfiguration is the magic he is best at.

He immersed himself in the wand, trying to change the shape of the wand, like he did in the first transfiguration class.

As soon as he entered, he found that the wand deformed better than he had imagined, and Hoffa even felt the anticipation of his own wand.

It looks forward to transforming!

On the stone bridge, there were already dozens of monsters. They leaped over the group of monsters carrying the stone tablet, and rushed towards Hoffa frantically and decisively.

The magic power flowed in Hoffa's body, and it disappeared for a little while in an instant.

Then, he opened his eyes suddenly, and the wand changed rapidly in his hand, elongated, enlarged, and sharpened. Finally, a two-meter cross sword appeared in his hand out of thin air.

This great sword may seem heavy, but it is connected with Hoffa's blood, and he can drive this weapon with his spirit. Just like using your own wand.

He waved his hand!

The blade transformed by magic is extremely sharp!

A maggot monster was directly cut in half by Hoffa's sword.

While the other monsters rushed forward fearlessly.

Then Hoffa swung the big sword in an arc, and during the arc swing, the blade suddenly grew from two meters to five meters.

With a flashing cold slash!

A dozen maggot monsters were cut in half by this sword!

They all howled and fell to the ground!

Has it worked?

Hoffa was overjoyed.

Transfiguration is much easier to use than I imagined.

However, it didn't work.

The two halves of the maggot monsters that fell to the ground did not die, they were densely squeezed and deformed, and turned into two monsters again. With his sword down, the monster has more than doubled in size.

They continued howling and pounced.

"Depend on!"

Hoffa was startled. Seeing that nothing could be done, he immediately increased the input of magic power, and the big sword began to deform again in an instant. It became wider, thicker, and thicker, and finally quickly turned into a sledgehammer. The front end of the sledgehammer is square, with barbs, extremely thick.

Like a fantasy weapon.

boom! !

Hoffa smashed five or six maggot monsters into the air with one hammer, causing them to roll in the cold wind. They fell to the ground and retreated, knocking down a large row of maggot monsters.

Here, spirit is power!

But still not over.

The group of fallen monsters saw that Hoffa was troublesome, and after looking at each other, they all glued together, and they planned to become a super-large maggot monster.

As the tide of maggots surged, Hoffa felt that he would never want to recall this picture again in his life.

However, their integration will take time.

There is no Taras here, and Hoffa felt that it was time to go back, and half an hour had passed. If I don't go back, I'm afraid I will be trapped in the kingdom of the dead forever.

So Hoffa withdrew his magic power, and the hammer turned back into a wand.

But at this moment, at this moment, Hoffa suddenly felt his eyes go dark.

Something flew over his head covering the sky and blocking the sun, blocking the few lights.

He looked up, and in the extremely high sky, a large group of creatures flew past.

The shadows they formed obscured the bridge deck.

Taking a closer look, Hoffa saw a seraph among the creatures, which was Taras.

That's right, it is soaring in the void at this moment, flying to an unknown distance with a group of unknown creatures.

"tower"

Hoffa opened his mouth, but still didn't cry out.

The Thunderbird in the sky looked down at Hoffa, and then.

It picked up speed and continued forward, disappearing into the sky in the blink of an eye.

Uh, it's over...

Hoffa, with his head held high, didn't say a word, and held back abruptly.

It's over, he thought.

The guy didn't seem to want to kill himself at all.