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Chapter 1373: Manzhangmu: I'm back from hell!

"Is this the top of the World Tree?" Jonouchi said as he walked out of the kingdom portal, looking at the world in front of him.

What he saw before him was a long, colorful bridge and a glorious country that the bridge led to.

  (The scene refers to Asgard in Marvel)

That country full of strange buildings seems to be the place where the Aesir in Norse mythology live. This is Asgard, the topmost realm among the Nine Realms, corresponding to Helheim at the bottom, which is now the [Realm of the Dead].

However, in the imagination of the people in the city, this place should be prosperous and peaceful. After all, even he knew that Odin in Norse mythology was the real king of the nine realms, ruling all the nine realms including Asgard, and brought unparalleled prosperity to his Aesir clan.

He is willing to harm other beings in order to bring benefits to Asgard, and at the same time constantly eliminates possible threats from other countries, trying his best to make the Aesir stronger in every sense to deal with the prophesied Ragnarok. Although his actions cannot make him a competent king of the Nine Realms, he is the best ruler for Asgard and can be said to have "made Asgard great again."

but now--

"There are two clouds floating in the sky, one is a dark cloud, and the other is also a dark cloud."

"Jounouchi, give up. You can't pretend to be an artistic youth." Yugi said as he walked out of the kingdom portal. "You are different from others. Don't waste your time memorizing famous quotes."

"Eh? Yugi, are you saying that the effect of my own words is almost the same as a famous quote? Hehehehe, it's not that great."

Looking at Jonouchi who was smiling innocently, Yugi didn't say anything and nodded: "Probably, right?"

As he spoke, he also looked towards Asgard outside the kingdom's portal.

Although Jonouchi's words just now, which sounded full of grammatical errors, were adapted from a great writer whom he rarely remembered, he actually did not say much wrong except for the grammatical errors, because the reason why Asgard at this moment was not as shining as they had imagined was perhaps one of the reasons why the dark clouds covering the entire country were as thick as spilled ink and as dense as the compacted cotton that had just been picked by hand from the plantation.

"It's just like, 'dark clouds are pressing down on the city and it's about to be destroyed.'" Looking at the lightning flashing in the dark clouds, Yugi's expression became a little serious.

Kyoko looked at Yugi with some confusion and said, "Although it does have 'black clouds' in it, and it sounds like it's used to describe the weather, Yugi, I remember that ancient poem described the enemy's army approaching the city, right?"

"Hehe, you don't understand this, do you? Darling obviously sensed the existence of something dangerous in those two black clouds, and he used this ancient Eastern saying to express that the other party 'comes with ill intentions', fully expressing his vigilance against the threat from the other party." Rebecca glanced at Xingzi with disdain and did a set of reading comprehension on the spot, her hands almost like an accordion, with an expression that said "no one understands Darling better than me."

Seeing this, Kyoko just slapped away Rebecca's arm as she tried to take advantage of the opportunity to hug Yugi, and said unhappily, "You are the one who came."

Noticing Jonouchi's gloating look, Yugi smiled helplessly.

  However, Rebecca was not wrong. He did feel that there was something hidden in the dark clouds, and - it seemed that the thing was approaching them?

"boom!"

A meteor wrapped in thunder fell from the sky and hit the colorful bridge in front of them, without causing any damage to it, but only brought down a tall being from the dark clouds.

"He actually climbed onto Asgard from the Rainbow Bridge. Does that mean that the Sword Realm that Frode was guarding was breached?" The lightning that was wrapped around his body slowly dissipated, and the burly existence that appeared in front of them in a "superhero landing" posture slowly stood up, making them realize that the other party was much taller than they had imagined.

He was wearing a close-fitting black and gold magic armor, decorated with sapphires and some animal teeth, and covered with an extra layer of dazzling black fur outside the armor. This was the appearance of the "uninvited guest" who appeared in front of them in the game. A more specific description of his appearance was not that they could not describe it, but that they could not do it.

This was because the face of this armored man, who looked to be at least two meters tall, was completely blocked by the specially reshaped armor. The collars on both sides stood up and extended, connecting together on the top of the head, making the armor look like an additional hood, completely burying the wearer's face in shadow.

However, whether it's the single scarlet eye that lights up in the shadow under his hood, the spear in his hand that has not yet completely dissipated all the lightning, the cloak behind him that is like a dark cloud and entangled with thorns, or even the image of the "hooded man" itself, all of them tell Yugi and the others the true identity of the other party.

"Tall, missing one eye, wearing a cloak and a hood, and holding a spear that looks like a meteor." Yugi took a step forward with some seriousness, standing in front of Anzi and Rebecca, "Could you be——"

"The pinnacle of gods in Norse mythology, a symbol of mind, inspiration, anger, madness and violence, an existence in charge of prophecy, royal power, wisdom, healing, magic, poetry, war and death." With a grandfather who is an archaeologist, Rebecca also has a good understanding of myths and legends from all over the world. She also looked at the existence in front of her nervously, "These are His names - God of War, Grimm, Raider and the Third Great God."

"He is the One-Eyed God, also known as the Supreme God, and the Seeker of Truth. He is Grimnir, the Cloaked God, the Almighty Father, the God of Scepters, and He has countless names, just as there are countless names for the wind, and countless ways to die."

"Hookie the Thinking and Moonie the Memory are His sacred crows, Flickie the Hungry and Gurley the Greedy are His pet wolves, The Gallows is His favorite horse, and Wednesday is His other name. He is——"

"——Odin!"

Amid Rebecca's powerful introduction, and amid the wary looks of Yugi, Jonouchi and the others, "Odin" glanced at everyone in front of him with his one eye, and finally stopped being silent and spoke.

But as soon as he opened his mouth, not to mention what others said, even Youmi, who had a serious face, almost couldn't hold it together.

"Hmph! A bunch of third-rate Duelists with a fourth-rate deck actually managed to make it to Asgard? It looks like [Sword King Battle - Frode] has been lost."

That iconic snort and the classic "three leads four" made Jonouchi unable to hold back and complain: "You, are you Kaiba? It's Kaiba, right!" "What you said casually in the game before turned out to be true. You are really going too far. You actually used my data to create an NPC to guard your door. It's really infuriating." As he spoke, he became even more angry when he saw "Odin"'s outfit, "So now you are playing the trick of 'What does Odin have to do with me, Kaiba Seto'? We have already tasted enough in the previous [Kaiba Man], take off the hood."

However, upon hearing what Jonouchi said, "Odin" simply snorted, "Nonsense, I cannot understand. One thing that needs to be corrected is that I am not the 'Odin' you are talking about. My name is 'Hal', [Todoroki Kaiou Battle - Hal]."

"Harr? No, it's Hár or Hárr?" Rebecca thought for a moment and said, "In Old Norse and Icelandic, it means 'High-One', right? Doesn't that mean Odin?"

"No, Rebecca, he may not really be Odin." Anzi pulled Rebecca's arm and pointed at [Boom Kai War - Hal], "Although I don't know much about Norse mythology, I have heard that Odin sacrificed his right eye in exchange for wisdom, right? But you see..."

After being reminded by Anzi, Rebecca also noticed that in the shadow under the hood of [Boom Kai Battle - Hal], the position of the lit single eye was not on his left eye, but on his right eye that should have been sacrificed?

Could it be that he really is not Odin?

"Whether it's Odin or Kaiba, you're here to fight us, right? [King Kai Battle - Hal]?" Jonouchi cracked his knuckles, making crisp "click" and "click" sounds. No matter who the opponent was, he was going to treat him as Kaiba, and beat him up in a duel to vent his dissatisfaction about his data being used to create NPCs. "In that case, your opponent is me, Jonouchi--"

"I'm not interested in wasting my strength in a duel with a mediocre person." [Todoroki Kaiou Battle - Hal] interrupted Jonouchi coldly, "You still have 20,000 years to go before you are qualified to fight me."

"Huh? You are Kaiba, right? That annoying tone is definitely Kaiba!"

Jonouchi rolled up his sleeves and rushed forward to fight with [Kaioh Battle - Hal], skipping the duel part and directly ignoring the height difference between the two. Peacock Dance also hurriedly held him back to stop her husband from doing anything stupid: "You idiot, don't get so carried away by just a few provocations."

Seeing that Peacock Dance persuaded Jonouchi, Yugi also took back the steps he had taken. However, he was not thinking about holding Jonouchi back. Instead, he was thinking that if Jonouchi angered [Boom Kai Battle - Hal] and made him their enemy, he would cooperate with Jonouchi to attack and subdue him.

However, now that Kongquewu had stopped Jonouchi, since [Hong Kaiou War-Hal] had not shown any hostility and he was happy to proceed with the normal game process, he asked [Hong Kaiou War-Hal]: "So, [Hong Kaiou War-Hal], what is the purpose of your appearing in front of us?"

After taking a few glances at Yugi, [Boom Kai King Battle - Hal] nodded and said, "This momentum is pretty good. He looks more like a real warrior than that three-legged cat over there."

"Huh? What did you say—"

Ignoring Jonouchi, [Booming World War - Hal] continued, "Although you did not come from the other nine realms as arranged in the prophecy, since you have come to Asgard, it proves that you have enough power to break through the blockade around the World Tree and have enough qualifications to be a guest of [Booming World]."

"Even though it is just around the corner, before the prophesied time arrives, you can move freely in Asgard, or participate as a spectator in the battle to determine the strongest among humans."

[Boom! Kaio War - Hal] said this and tapped the spear in his hand under his feet. They suddenly felt that the bridge under their feet began to move automatically like an elevator, taking them and [Boom! Kaio War - Hal] in front of them to the distant country.

Following the direction of the bridge that looked like a rainbow bridge but was actually an automatic elevator, Jonouchi, Mamoru and Yugi, who had excellent eyesight, had already seen a piece of open space left in the city's buildings. That seemed to be where [Boom Kai Battle - Hal] was going to take them, and it also seemed to be the venue for the semi-finals and finals of the Duel Academy exchange competition that was originally scheduled.

(Just pretend Hela and the army don't exist)

Just as [Boom Kai King War - Hal] and Yugi were about to arrive at the empty square, a sound suddenly rang out in the sky.

However, this time, the one who caused the sound was no longer [Boom! Kaio War - Hal]. After all, he was leading the way in front of Yugi and the others, and the voice gradually became clearer.

Looking up, they saw a dark circle opening under the dark clouds in the sky, revealing another world, which seemed to be a portal. And from the portal in the sky, a figure fell backwards.

Although the fact that the portal was in mid-air made him stunned for a moment, he still reacted quickly and drew a card in time to summon a black and white dragon to catch him below. After regaining his balance on the dragon's back, he shouted angrily at the rapidly closing portal above his head: "Damn [Death Realm King Battle - Hel], you can't beat me and yet you play dirty, don't let me run into you again!"

Seeing that the portal had completely disappeared, he looked down unhappily, and noticed that he had come to a place he had never been to before. He also laughed arrogantly in mid-air: "Hahahaha, Master Manzhangmu, I'm back from hell!"

“Even though I don’t know where this is, but the first person to arrive must be me, Master Manjome, right? Hahahaha—Ugh aaaaaaah!”

Before he could finish his words, a flash of lightning flashed through the dark clouds in the sky and shocked the flying dragon under the man's feet. Although the dragon could still endure this level of lightning, the driver on its back was not very resistant to electricity and fell on the dragon's back with convulsions.

Although his hair was turned into an exaggerated afro due to the electric shock, the black and white dragon [Dragon of Light and Darkness] and his self-proclaimed "Manjomu Oya", the man falling from the sky was definitely Manjomu.

This time, he really became a "lightning bolt" that was thousands of feet high.

  Someone complained earlier that the death in the virtual world king war was too crude. I am actually King Gerriöd in the famous Norse mythology "Edda" and "The Song of Grimnir" by neta.

He did not recognize Odin and had his men tie him to a bonfire for eight nights without food or water. Only his son Agnar gave Odin mead to drink. In return, Odin told him many secrets, including his identity.

  Gerriöd recognized Odin and hurriedly stood up to release him, but he lost his grip and the hilt of his sword slipped down. Gerriöd, who was not standing steadily, fell forward on the blade of the sword and died.

One of the names of Odin mentioned in this chapter is "Grimnir", which is the pseudonym of Odin in this poem.