The Record of Unusual Creatures

The Twilight of the Gods was probably the most tragic battle since the appearance of intelligent beings on Earth. Although it had been buried deep in 2,000 years of history and legends, they could still feel the brutality of the battle while they stood on the battlefield. Vigrid had been turned into a wasteland; the skeletons of humanoids and horrible behemoths were piled up like mountains, and those scenes, as well as characters they once heard about in myths, lay before them. It was all cold, dead, and covered in dust. It was an appalling sight.

Near the skeletons of Jormungandr and Thor, Lily found the bones of another powerful otherworldling. These bones belonged to a tall male, tall who appeared bare-handed. There, the land around the bones had burned marks. Vivian knew him; it was Freyr, a warrior from the Vanir gods. Freyr fought with the fire jötunn, Surtr and died. A hundred meters away from where Freyr lay, the body of the warrior god Tyr and the dog of Hel, Garmr, were completely twisted together and their bones were almost completely crushed. It must have been an extremely fierce battle. Vivian stood on a large boulder and pointed around with her finger. “I was standing here… maybe a little more to the left where Tyr was fighting the dog of Hel while Freyr was behind me. I told Freyr to let me help him, but before I could do anything, Surtr had killed him. Then I turned to help Tyr, but my next hibernation cycle suddenly set in. As you know, as I began to lose control of myself, the gods of Vanir and Asgard became detestable in my eyes. Loki, who was at the Rainbow Bridge, laughed at everyone in the melee. I left this place before I lost my consciousness completely. So I didn’t see the demon hunters intervening. When I finally woke up, the Mythological era was over.”

Seeing more and more familiar things on this ancient battlefield, Vivian began to regain more of her memory. She had now remembered what was happening during the Twilight of the Gods. This part of the memories was what Hao Ren was looking for. They walked in between the ruins and the skeletons while listening to Vivian’s narration. While they walked, Lily would curiously dig things out from the ground and passed them to Hao Ren. With the help of this energetic husky, Hao Ren had quickly collected a large number of mythical items, some of which he could recognize but some he could not. These items had great value in his study of otherworldlings and ancient history.

But what Hao Ren was really looking for was still up ahead.

“It should be near,” the MDT suddenly interrupted. It flew up in the air and pointed to the front with a blue light beam. “Gungnir’s resonance response is getting stronger.”

Hao Ren and his team picked up their pace and quickly came to the spot which the MDT indicated.

They came before an impact crater of dozens of meters in radius. The ground around the impact crater felt like solidified molten glass. Clearly, this place had been burned in high heat before. At the bottom of the impact crater, twisted bones were half buried in the sand and gravel. This skeleton was a size larger than when Lily was form-shifted. Despite the deformation, Hao Ren could still recognize the skeleton belonged to a giant wolf. Lily jumped to her feet. “Will I look like this after I die?”

Galazur and Anthony Alfonso looked sideways at the maiden who appeared to have a lot of loose screws.

“Fenrir…” Vivian whispered. She then spread her wings and glided down the crater.

The behemoth at the bottom of the impact crater was one of the most terrifying beasts in Norse mythology. The moon-snatcher Fenrir appeared more exaggerated in mythology than in reality. The size of this giant wolf was far from being able to swallow the moon, sun or anything in the sky. Its fearsome name was attributed more to its strength than the body size. As they came near the bones, the detected resonance signal almost shot through the roof, which meant the fragments of Gungnir were just nearby. Hao Ren looked around but did not find anything. He patted Lily on the head and pointed at Fenrir’s bones. “It’s time to show off your digging skill.”

Delighted, Lily yanked out her Flamejoy and Frostmourne, but she hesitated. The husky looked at the massive skeleton of Fenrir, sticking out her tongue. “Are you sure you want me to do that?”

“Who else can dig better than you do?” Hao Ren shot Lily a glance. “What happened? Weren’t you very enthusiastic just now?”

Looking at the wolf skeleton, Lily became nervous. “It looks too much like me. I’m panicked.”

“Oh come on.” Vivian smacked on the Lily’ head. “It is a wolf, and you are a husky! Even if you are not a husky, you are still the ancestor of the demon hunters! You and this wolf are not related at all!”

Lily thought for a while and realized that what Vivian said made sense. She immediately lunged forward and dug with her claws. Sand and gravel were thrown up behind her, and she began to disappear in a cloud of dust.

The others quickly kept a safe distance lest being buried alive by the earth. Hao Ren held the MDT in his hand. “The signal is getting stronger. Dig deeper. Move to the left… right… Now, do you see anything? Not yet? Then dig again. Don’t get yourself buried!”

The digging lasted only less than ten minutes. With Lily superb digging skill and super-powerful detective talent, she found something. Reemerging from the hole with a pair of sticks in her hands, she said, “Found it! It’s the haft of Gungnir!”

Lily handed the two metal rods to Hao Ren before shaking the sand and dust off her body. Hao Ren laid the two metal rods on the ground and then took the Gungnir’s tip out from the dimensional pocket.

When the three fragments of spear came near to each other, a sound suddenly sounded from inside the spear tip and then the incredible happened. The pieces of Gungnir began to come together as they vibrated. It looked like a pair of invisible hands were at work. Amid a string of flashes, the broken weapon had restored to its original condition.

Looking in amazement, Hao Ren picked up the spear. He waved the spear, and it was in one solid piece. The Gungnir was about the size of his plasma spear, just more complex and heavy on both ends, engraved with some kind of runes. The spear seemed to have some sort of energy as he could feel the heat and the slight vibration as he gripped the haft in his hand.

“The Gungnir is restored,” Hao Ren said, weighing the spear in his hand. With this Gungnir and his plasma spear, he would be a double-speared warrior, he thought to himself. “It was said that the identification system on this spear controlled most of the things in Odin’s domain. This thing will come in handy later.”

Vivian nodded; she told him this before. Looking at Lily who had not finished shaking her body, Vivian said, “Doggie, have you found the body of Odin?”

“Odin?” Lily stopped, looking at Vivian, her hair was as messy as it could get. “What does he look like?”

“Big face, high nose, head…” Vivian suddenly stopped. “Why am I still telling you this? He has been dead for two thousand years!”

No matter what Odin looked like two thousand years ago, he definitely did not look the same now.

Swinging her tail, Lily said, “Then how do I know which one is Odin?”

“Did you find human bones below?” Vivian asked. “He was wearing a golden helmet and a blue cloak. He should be in the stomach of Fenrir.”

Lily thought for a moment. “I didn’t find any.”

At this time, Nangong Sanba, who was silent all this while, was astounded. “Didn’t Fenrir swallow Odin? He could have been digested in Fenrir’s stomach.”

“Impossible. Fenrir wasn’t that powerful.” Vivian immediately shook her head and looked at Lily with suspicion. “Have you missed something?”

Lily thought for a moment again and was furious. “You may question my intelligence, but don’t ever doubt my ability to find a bone, even if it is Odin’s bone!”

Cold sweat was trickling down Hao Ren’s back.