Hero? I'm just here to borrow power!

Unless Bai Ye actively cancels this time-stopping effect on Odin's death state, he will never be able to be resurrected.

Bai Ye put away the transformation system panel and sat up on the hard bed in his cramped little room.

A pleasant text message notification sound rang out.

Bai Ye took out his phone, an old iPhone 3G. To him, it was an antique model, but in this era, it was just right.

The sender's name was "Potato Chips," and the text message read: "Knight, come to the Westin Hotel tonight. I've sent you the address. The boss has a mission for you."

"Knight" is Bai Ye's code name, and this guy nicknamed "Potato Chips" is, in a sense, Bai Ye's colleague. The "boss" she refers to is naturally Bai Ye's employer in this world.

After all, my main task in this world right now is to slay dragons, so finding a reliable employer can save me a lot of effort in gathering intelligence.

However, Bai Ye did not reply to the other party's text message.

That's always been his style.

From the beginning, there was no superior-subordinate relationship between him and this so-called "boss". Their employment relationship was more like that of Erlang Shen in the Heavenly Court, who obeyed orders but not summons.

If he wants to go, he will go; but if he has other more important things to do, then standing up his boss is perfectly acceptable.

Then, he opened the equally old laptop on the table and skillfully logged onto a foreign website called "Hunter".

This website is hidden deep within the internet; it's a gray platform that specifically caters to bounty hunters and mercenaries seeking commissions.

From hiring hitmen to exploring ancient tombs, the range of commissions on the website is astonishing. However, unlike the real world, this world is clearly inhabited by supernatural forces. Therefore, this can be considered a gray area where the secular world and the "real world" intersect.

After Bai Ye came to this world, he also accepted several commissions to explore ancient ruins on this platform.

However, not many of these so-called ruins actually contain the legacy of the dragon race. Therefore, apart from a very few tombs containing "alchemical weapons" that might have some low-level dead servants as guards, the other ruins are quite safe. At most, there might be some small mechanisms or traps. Even if Bai Ye doesn't transform, his "superhuman" ability will allow him to get through unscathed.

But Bai Ye's purpose in accepting these bounty hunter missions was clearly not because he was after the meager reward.

Through his identity as a bounty hunter, he met several extremely wealthy employers.

Although he never revealed his true identity, Bai Ye was able to deduce from the details of the tasks they entrusted to him that they were the Gattuso family from Italy and the Hebihachi family from Japan.

However, Bai Ye's online appearance this time was not to find them.

He clicked on a user's name in the website's temporary chat history, whose contact was "Tang".

The other party was not online, but there was a clear message in the chat history that they had sent not long ago.

"Hey! Brother Bai Ye! I really owe you a lot for helping me out in that pyramid last time! Otherwise, I would have been in real trouble! I'm back now! Whenever you have time to come to America, I'll take you on a Greyhound ride and get hot dogs! All you can eat!"

Although it was just text, seeing this string of exclamation marks, Bai Ye could almost picture that useless foreigner with droopy eyebrows, a face covered in dirt, yet with a look of relief after surviving a disaster, enthusiastically thanking him in a string of Chinese with a thick American accent.

"You're welcome."

Bai Ye tapped on the keyboard and typed back only these three short words.

#I accidentally fell asleep, so today's update will be a little late, sorry#

The Tide of the Black Moon: Chapter 69 Fenrir and Jormungandr

Bai Ye left his cramped little house.

Even with the meager salary he occasionally earns as a bounty hunter, he wouldn't need to live in this dilapidated neighborhood near the subway station, a place that looks like a scar on the city.

He chose to live here for only one reason.

Here, it connects to a Nibelungen region.

Nibelungen is a fictional space created through alchemy, where the internal space is infinitely folded, and the flow of time is so slow relative to the outside world that it is almost stopped. However, this space is real; it is modified from real space through powerful incantations.

As long as one can cross that invisible material interface, one can enter this hidden world. However, for ordinary people, crossing the material interface is an almost impossible task.

Three years ago, on that stormy night, Odin created a grand Nibelungen on the viaduct, attempting to ambush Chu Tianjiao and obtain an important item he was carrying.

At that time, the key element to cross that Nibelungen interface was "water." Only by penetrating the folded boundary between the water surface and the real world could one forcibly enter that realm without Odin's permission.

This is why Odin's appearance is always accompanied by storms.

Bai Ye didn't figure out the way to enter the Nibelungen at first, which prevented him from intervening in the battle when Chu Zihang and Chu Tianjiao encountered Odin.

But he did not give up, wielding the power of Kamen Rider Chronos. Instead, he used the power of this legendary Kamen Rider to forcibly stop time on the overpass for an hour, and only then did he find a way to enter that realm of death within the frozen time.

That said, at this moment, Bai Ye was in a completely different Nibelungen.

He stood at the entrance of the subway station. If his perspective could rise a little higher and penetrate the impenetrable darkness, he would be able to see countless rusty rails, like the webs spun by giant spiders, endlessly crisscrossing and paralleling in this underground space.

There were no trains rushing by, and no passengers hurrying along.

Here, there are only dark tunnels, seemingly leading to the depths of hell, connecting to an unknown, dark end.

Bai Ye slowly stepped forward.

As his footsteps echoed rhythmically on the rusty rails, he reached the end of the underground railway, the very end of Nibelungen.

It was an enormous, dark void that seemed to devour all light.

With a light leap, Bai Ye jumped from the high platform and landed in the bottomless abyss. Thanks to the "superhuman physique" bestowed upon him by the Heavenly Tyrant, his feet landed on the cinders at the bottom of the abyss as lightly as a cat, without making a sound.

He took a few more steps forward until a dim yellow light suddenly lit up in front of him.

No, that wasn't a lamp.

Because lights don't look at people.

Those were golden eyes that exuded supreme majesty!

The owner of these golden eyes is a real dragon!

A massive body, as large as a mountain, slowly emerged from the darkness.

The creature was clearly a reptile, but it was far more beautiful than any reptile known to humankind in the world.

Its long neck was almost twenty meters long, like a giant serpent, full of dark and profound beauty. Its ancient and solemn body was covered with bluish-black scales, like those polished from obsidian. As it moved, these scales opened and closed in turn, making a chilling sound like countless swords rubbing against metal.

That majestic dragon face, covered with ferocious bony protrusions, exuded the majesty of a monarch.

It looked down at the white night with a gaze that could make any mortal tremble, but that domineering majesty lasted for less than half a second before vanishing.

"elder brother."

A deep, muffled voice rang out. The voice sounded like a five-year-old child whining, or a loyal little dog trying to please its owner.

It lowered its enormous head, as if imitating a human, curtsying to Bai Ye; or perhaps it was just an oversized puppy wanting to get closer to its "older brother".

But Bai Ye knew that the seemingly adorable dragon in front of him was not a puppy.

It is the Dragon King.

Fenrir, one of the twin kings of the earth and mountains.

Bai Ye knew very well that all he needed to do now was transform into Kamen Rider Chronos and kick the dragon in front of him to pieces during the time freeze, and he could easily obtain a thousand exchange points.

very easy.

But Bai Ye didn't do that. At least, not now.

"You're here again."

A cold, clear voice rang out from the dragon's back.

Bai Ye looked up and saw a white figure.

The light was extremely dim deep within the Nibelungen, but because of his "super-physical body," Bai Ye's five senses were incredibly strong, and the darkness could not hinder his vision.

Therefore, he was able to clearly see the figure on the dragon's back.

She was a girl as radiant and dazzling as a summer lotus.

She was radiant and gentle, with clear eyes, long eyelashes, and adorable cheeks with a touch of baby fat. Her skin was fair and translucent, her figure slender and graceful, and her long, black hair was tied into a high ponytail. Her fluffy bangs seemed to be shrouded in a layer of mist in the dim light.

If we hadn't met her in this godforsaken place, we would probably have thought she was a cute and lively girl who would be the darling of any crowd, no matter where she went.

However, even in the darkness, Bai Ye could see a burning gold gleam deep within her eyes, a glimmer no less powerful than that of the Dragon King Fenrir.

Although she appears in human form, her identity is beyond question.

One of the twin kings of the earth and mountains, Jormungandr, the dragon king.

Is there anything wrong with visiting one's "younger brother"?

Bai Ye smiled gently, then reached out and lightly stroked the dragon king Fenrir's head, which was as hard as iron and covered with ferocious bony protrusions.

The other creature let out a satisfied "woof," then flapped its jet-black, demon-like wings.

The wings end in incredibly sharp claws, yet this giant reptile moves with remarkable precision.

With its sharp claws, it carefully picked up a bag of yellow Lay's potato chips from the darkness, and then presented it to Bai Ye as if it were a treasure.

"Brother, have some potato chips."

"Potato chips are the best."

Fenrir's voice was undoubtedly very deep, possessing the majesty of a king from birth. However, at this moment, its tone was endearing, like a five-year-old child sharing a favorite snack with his favorite older brother.

With a "whoosh," Jormungandr's figure also landed lightly on Fenrir's broad dragon back.

"Younger brother? He's prey, isn't he?" The girl in the white dress stared coldly at Bai Ye with her ever-burning golden eyes.

"You're just here to make sure that your prey hasn't been hunted down by someone else beforehand."

Bai Ye remained noncommittal in the face of the girl's hostile words.

Instead, he accepted the bag of potato chips that Fenrir offered him.

With a "rip," Bai Ye tore open the yellow bag of potato chips, took out a whole chip, and waved it in front of Fenrir.

Fenrir immediately and very cooperatively opened its gaping maw, which was larger than Bai Ye's entire body, and accepted Bai Ye's feeding.

"If you insist on interpreting it that way, that's fine too," Bai Ye said calmly, popping a potato chip into Fenrir's mouth.

“If one day you really have to walk down that dead end with no way out, I will kill you with my own hands.”

"Just like how I killed Odin."

Black Moon Tide: Chapter 70 World Deviation Value

Bai Ye met these two dragon kings a year ago.

He obtained a vague clue about the Nibelungen through a deal with his mysterious "boss".

Having seen through the death realm constructed by Odin, he eventually found a way to force his way into Nibelungen after some time.

Upon entering this eternal underground labyrinth, the first person he encountered was Deadpool.

Those were the Dragon King's guards, completely different from the inferior items he had encountered in those so-called ancient ruins when he was a bounty hunter. These things were high-level items that the system could determine were worth 5 exchange points.

The White Nights did not let their cold lives go to waste, but transformed them into warm exchange points.

Then he encountered Fenrir, the Dragon King.

The enormous creature, which was about thirty or forty meters tall and as huge as a mountain, did not show the slightest hostility when it encountered Bai Ye. On the contrary, it showed great curiosity about Bai Ye, this uninvited guest who had suddenly barged in.

After all, despite being the noble king of the earth and mountains, its intelligence is only that of a human child of less than five years old.

Although it was actually a little angry that its Dead Servants, who had been treated as toys, had been destroyed by Bai Ye in no time, for some reason, it felt a strange sense of closeness to the faint aura emanating from Bai Ye.

It asked Bai Ye's identity in a muffled voice and warmly invited him to come to its lair to eat potato chips and watch TV.

Indeed, despite being in such a gloomy and terrifying Nibelungen, this behemoth's lair was not only piled high with various flavors of potato chips and other snacks that humans love, but also contained an old-fashioned 18-inch black and white television that could only receive static.

Until another figure appeared.

The girl named Jormungandr rushed to the deepest part of the labyrinth after the White Night forcibly invaded the Nibelungen she had built for her adopted brothers.

Before Bai Ye, she unhesitatingly displayed the Dragon King's power.

Fenrir, who was initially very friendly to Bai Ye, also attacked Bai Ye because of his unconditional trust in his "sister".

However, they all fell in an instant.

Jormungandr didn't even know how she lost to him. She only remembered that after she chanted the incantation, the man moved.

No, he didn't even move.

His body had been covered by a green armor at some point.

All she remembered was the way that man looked down at her through the compound eyes of his armor.

"So weak."

After saying that, she and Fenrir collapsed to the ground, completely unable to move, not even having the strength to lift a finger.

Only then did Jormungandr finally understand what that strangely familiar aura on Bai Ye was.