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Chapter 867 Nidhogg and the Eye of Heimdall

Nidhogg, the dragon, is also famous in Norse mythology and is naturally not comparable to ordinary giant beasts.

Although before the new God of War, the image of Nidhogg that Li You was familiar with was closer to a winged black dragon than the World Tree root guardian with a serpentine body, no wings, two legs, a long tail, and a lizard-like head.

The Nidhogg in the new God of War is very different from the regular Nidhogg in terms of both design and appearance, but his strength does not seem to have been diminished.

In the game, even Kratos and Freya, who had just broken free of the curse and could move freely in Vanaheim, still had a lot of trouble to defeat it, which shows how powerful Nidhogg is.

However, its opponent now is none other than Yuzu, whose strength has also greatly improved.

"Roar--!!"

Two giant beasts, similar in size and posture, clashed and bit each other, their massive bodies intertwined, locked in a fierce and evenly matched battle.

However, Yuzu's form is essentially a manifestation of demonic power from the Devil May Cry world. While her body is somewhat similar to Nidhogg's, its operation is completely different. Therefore, Yuzu's body is actually much more agile than Nidhogg's.

At this moment, he used his lower body, which was covered by wooden skin, to lock Nidhogg's body tightly, while Yuzu himself was still able to float lightly in the air, his movements were not affected at all, and his arms could still reach out and grab Nidhogg's two forelimbs.

In this form, the entire pomelo is a weapon of war.

No matter how powerful Nidhogg is, it is still limited by its body and cannot move like Yuzu, whose tail and body seem to be separate entities. Therefore, it is inevitable that it will be suppressed at this moment.

However, Nidhogg was not going to surrender so easily. Seeing that it was being suppressed, it let out a fierce roar. The end of its tail, which was not locked by Yuzu, twitched and disappeared into thin air!

The next moment, the space behind Yuzu's head was torn open, and Nidhogg's long tail, which was covered with multiple crystalline spikes and emitted a strong indigo light, actually emerged from it and stabbed towards Yuzu's head!
In an instant, it pierced through the crack in the World Tree with its tail, extending it from another position to launch a sneak attack!

As a venomous dragon living beneath the roots of the World Tree, Nidhogg has long been able to skillfully utilize the rifts in the World Tree to unleash incredible power.

However, in that instant, Yuzu suddenly turned its head, twisting its neck 180 degrees, and its head, which had the characteristics of many ferocious beasts, opened its mouth and bit down on the gleaming tail spike!
Nidhogg was startled, and then instinctively tried to unleash the World Tree Domain power it had accumulated from the end of its tail to blast Yuzu's head apart.

However, at this moment, a golden light was also brewing in the pomelo's mouth!
The next moment, first there was a flash of indigo light, and then a golden beam of light shot straight into the sky!

"boom!!"

"Gah——!!"

Nidhogg let out a scream as it was struck by the golden beam of light spewed from Yuzu's mouth. It desperately retracted its tail spikes, managing to avoid the breath attack.

Its long tail was only grazed by the pomelo's death breath, and the scales and skin at the base of the tail began to curl and turn black. If it had been hit head-on, it would probably have lost a large part of its tail.

However, its jagged, sharp spines, which grew in clusters at the tail, were first bitten by the pomelo and then burned by the dying fruit, yet they remained unscathed.

Li You, who was standing to the side, saw this and his eyes lit up.

Freya stood beside him, the runestone still glowing, maintaining her human form.

Looking at Yuzu and Nidhogg locked in battle, she asked with a hint of worry, "Aren't we going to help?"

Li You smiled at her and said, "Don't worry, Youzi can handle it. If necessary, we will also step in. Just relax and break the curse seal."

Just then, Nidhogg let out a sharp screech and struggled to break free from Yuzu's grasp, trying to tear open a large spatial rift to escape. Yuzu, of course, desperately tried to stop it.

With his obstruction, Nidhogg, seeing that the situation was hopeless, had no choice but to give up his escape and instead used a short-distance teleportation technique that did not require opening the World Tree rift to move to the plaza next to him. Yuzu immediately followed.

Li You then said to Freya, "Go and lift the curse; leave Nidhogg to us."

"V, you keep an eye on things here for a bit. Edge is coming with me to chase after Yuzu and Nidhogg."

Neither of his companions had any objections, so Li You led Edge to the nearby plaza. Freya exchanged a glance with V, then took a deep breath, choosing to trust Li You and the others. They arrived at the knotted roots of the World Tree and reached out to grasp the root system that represented Vanaheim.

—On this side of the square, Li You and Aiji quickly arrived at the edge and looked at Yuzu, who had gained more room to maneuver and was beating up Nidhogg. They couldn't help but smile.

Nidhogg can move freely through the rifts in the World Tree. He can move short distances instantly without even tearing space, and he can even move only part of his body. He can be described as unpredictable.

Therefore, Nidhogg is actually better suited to play in relatively narrow spaces.

But in a spacious abandoned plaza like this, it's no match for the pomelo.

However, Nidhogg fled here to gain a larger area of ​​activity and to find an opportunity to escape.

Although it is determined to protect the roots of the World Tree, it will not fight head-on when it encounters danger. Instead, it will hide its main body in the cracks of the World Tree and look for opportunities to launch a sneak attack.

Yuzu is now able to use the power of multiple attributes, and has even mastered a trace of the spacetime power inherited from the Dragon King, but she is not good at perceiving pure space.

The tail spike attack just now almost hit, but Yuzu noticed it through the magic power emanating from her body and countered it.

Therefore, if Nidhogg uses his abilities properly, he is not without a chance.

Unfortunately, Li You and Aiji were also there.

Ahead, Nidhogg was hit by another miniature version of Yuzu's breath, its scales burned. It roared, flicked its long tongue, and its massive body vanished again, its attack seemingly about to begin from nowhere.

Yuzu couldn't catch the elusive Nidhogg, but he wasn't worried because everything Edge sensed through the mental link had been transmitted to his mind.

"To the side and behind!"

"Roar!!" Yuzu suddenly turned around and unleashed another miniature version of the Death Breath. A golden beam of pure flame shot out, striking Nidhogg, who had appeared behind it and was about to pounce, and knocking him to the ground. Nidhogg roared in pain, his body writhing in agony.

However, just as Yuzu was about to rush over, Nidhogg once again disappeared into the rift in the World Tree.

Aiji closed his eyes slightly, but his senses were fully activated, and he quickly made a discovery: "This time it's on the right!"

Yuzu immediately prepared to launch an attack, but at that moment, Li You's voice also rang out in the mental link: "Don't fight head-on this time, dodge!"

Upon hearing this, Yuzu didn't hesitate. He immediately coiled his body and took flight! Although he had no wings, this posture allowed him to fly freely in the air.

The next moment, Nidhogg appeared, its claws raised high. Indigo light shimmered in all the crystalline protrusions on its head, torso, and even its tail, as well as in the gaps between its skin and scales, and finally converged on its claws.

Immediately afterward, as Nidhogg's claws slammed down, a terrifying shockwave instantly spread out, tearing apart the entire plaza's ground and spreading throughout the space along with the light of the World Tree!
However, at this moment, Yuzu, having received Li You's reminder, had already flown into the sky and dodged Nidhogg's space-shaking attack.

Nidhogg's eyes also showed a human-like look of shock. He obviously did not expect that Yuzu could avoid his attack, and he would not have expected that it was Li You who saw through all of this.

Aiji was somewhat surprised. He glanced at Li You, then looked slightly taken aback.

At this moment, Li You himself was still standing casually, but behind him, a tall and blurry dragon-man phantom appeared.

On the head of that phantom, a round bead emitting a purplish-red light floated between the dragon-man phantom's eyebrows, like a third eye.

Aiggie understood: "You've found a way to use that eye?"

Li You smiled and nodded: "That's right. This eye is very special. In fact, it is more like a condensation of divine power, somewhat similar to the Sakura Dragon God Crystal of the past. So if I integrate it into the dragon-man phantom, then I can also use its power."

This purple bead is naturally Heimdall's eye. Before his death, Heimdall returned one eye to Asgard and gave it to Odin, while the other fell into Li You's hands.

Li You took the eye and asked Freya and Tyr, and the answer he received was that the divine power within it was complete, and he could use it as long as he installed it on himself.

The problem is that Li You himself can certainly see this, but he obviously can't give up one of his own eyes to replace Heimdall's eye, even though he is very tempted by Heimdall's ability to see through people's hearts.

In the past, he probably wouldn't have had any other choice but to use the eye on prosthetic puppets, bionic teardrops, or similar clones.

Fortunately, Li You's vision and understanding of power are now far beyond what they used to be, so after thinking it over, he came up with a substitute method—to use the dragon phantom to replace himself and activate Heimdall's eye.

The dragon-man phantom was a semi-physical entity, and also a manifestation of divine power, so Li You judged that it should be feasible to have it use Heimdall's eyes. So he experimented briefly, and it worked.

Of course, it's not that simple in practice. Li You tried several methods before he was able to do it, and the effect he can currently achieve is far less than what Heimdall himself used.

However, after testing confirmed that the method was feasible, Li You then prepared to completely absorb the power of this eye, at which point he would possess vision no weaker than Heimdall's.

However, this was what he would have to do after this trip. Li You had reached the limit of how long he could control this eye, so he dispelled the illusory image, and Heimdall's eye returned to his hand.

Meanwhile, the battle on the other side of the square was still ongoing.

Once the pomelo took to the air, it simply stopped coming down and flew around, constantly spewing out breath, launching a rain of thorny arrows, or summoning vine spikes from the ground to launch attacks.

Nidhogg was not to be outdone. Although its previous killing moves were dodged, it continued to launch attacks by spewing out orbs of light condensed from the World Tree from its tail and mouth.

These orbs of light were generated by the power of the realm within Nidhogg's body, and they could cause significant damage even to Yuzu. So Yuzu flew around, trying to avoid these attacks.

Yuzu dodged most of Nidhogg's attacks, but conversely, Nidhogg also dodged most of Yuzu's attacks by using short-range Boundary Movement.

Clearly, if this continues, it will go on indefinitely, with no clear winner.

In fact, Nidhogg had already decided to back down and had no desire to get entangled with Yuzu.

After all, even if it's not very smart, after fighting for so long against an opponent whose size and strength are no less than its own, and whose various moves are extremely threatening, it knows that it will be difficult to defeat the opponent.

Moreover, with Nidhogg's innate keen senses, it could sense that there was still an unused, even more terrifying power within Yuzu.

However, it could also sense that right next to it, another group of people were destroying the roots of the World Tree.

This made it unwilling to leave.

Although he was at a disadvantage, Nidhogg still had one last move.

With a whooshing sound, Yuzu once again soared through the air, dodging Nidhogg's triple barrage of light orbs. Then, his massive body expanded, and the thorns growing from his back stood up, shooting out like missiles, transforming into a dense barrage that pressed down on Nidhogg!
However, this was exactly what Nidhogg had been waiting for. It instantly propped itself up, and the area between its lower abdomen and tail suddenly opened up, revealing its stomach!

The inside of Nidhogg's stomach was not the red of flesh and blood, but a shimmering indigo blue like his skin.

After it opened its stomach, a huge suction force was released instantly. Then, a large number of rubble scattered on the ground and the thorns of the grapefruit falling from the air were all drawn by this suction force and swept into Nidhogg's stomach!

Yuzu was taken aback, because even he felt a strong suction force. Fortunately, he only swayed and then used his strength to rise into the air, so he wouldn't actually be pulled in.

But by this time, Nidhogg had finished absorbing the rubble. Its large stomach opened and swallowed almost all the rubble and the thorns that Yuzu had fired earlier!
Then, in the next moment, Nidhogg suddenly opened its mouth and wrapped the thorns and stones that it had just swallowed in its stomach with indigo light, and then shot them out at an extremely fast speed, like a cannon shot, towards the grapefruit in the air!
"Boom boom boom——"

The relentless and extremely fast attacks were so intense that even Yuzu couldn't dodge them all. She was hit several times in a short while, and the wooden skin covering her body was torn in several places.

Nidhogg wasn't finished yet. After a series of continuous spews, it puffed out its neck and, with even greater speed than before, spat out a "cannonball" that was a mixture of rocks and thorns, flashing with a dazzling indigo light!
"boom--!!"

(End of this chapter)