Warhammer 40 A New Hope

"Remember, this belongs to someone else~" Leman Russ shouted at the portal that had not yet completely closed. "Send it over~ It belongs to someone else~"

After doing all this, Leman Russ filled Sindri's cup with mead.

"Come on! Let's continue drinking!"

...the next day...

"This is the first time I know that dwarves actually like disinfectant alcohol."

As a dwarf, Sindri is a germaphobe, which makes him wear gloves everywhere. He cannot accept dirty places.

According to him, it was Fei who used a kind of magic to let him see the countless microorganisms around him, which made him like this, but only he knew what happened.

It was also because of this that after Leman Russ separated from Sindri, the other party did not ask for a bottle of good wine or some rare forging materials like ordinary dwarves would, but instead asked him for the disinfectant alcohol that he mentioned in his words, which can kill most harmful microorganisms.

Sindri accepted Leman Russ for the time being. As mentioned before, perhaps there was something wrong, but Sindri couldn't tell. Besides, the other party didn't do anything to harm the interests of him and his friends. However, this did not mean that he no longer doubted Leman Russ. There was nothing he could do about it.

After saying goodbye to Sindri, we continued up the mountain road. There was already snow under our feet and the temperature had dropped a lot.

This mountain is already the highest mountain in the realm of Midgard, but compared to the Nine Realms, it is just a small one.

The tree that wrapped around Mimir's headless body was not far away, and the stone gate at the highest peak of Jotunheim where Mimir stood for Kratos and Atreus was also there.

"If Magnus knew about this, he would probably come here with his legs tumbling." Leman Russ muttered. "Let me see the process... remote scanning, then trying to take the branches, obtain a small amount of Mimir's body tissue, take pictures..."

Just as Leman Russ was watching the action that the Mechanical God was about to give him, the substitute giant wolf that was climbing with him suddenly growled in one direction.

Leman Russ also noticed this and slowly placed his right hand on the handle of his axe.

"Odin said Mimir ran away, so he asked me to come and take a look." A thin figure came out and said. "I originally thought there would be no gain..."

"It doesn't look like it."

Balder walked out from the side with a look of disdain and said to Leman Russ who was on full alert.

"I don't care if you know where Mimir's head is, and I don't care why you're here."

"All I know is that I have to take you back to report to my superiors!"

607. Acupuncture

It is actually quite reasonable for Baldur to appear here. After all, before Kratos rescued Mimir, he brought two "pendants" (Thor's two sons, the god of courage and Hercules) to find Mimir, trying to get the whereabouts of Kratos and others from him. Of course, Mimir did not tell them (he himself did not know).

During their conversation, Mimir also said that Odin would not let Mimir go free, and his wisdom was a big threat to his rule, which also reflected Odin's importance to Mimir.

Then, as soon as they left, Kratos and Atreus cut off Mimir's head and took it away. Odin could not have been unaware of this.

He immediately summoned Balder and others who had gone to find Mimir before. After getting their answer that they had not done anything to Mimir, he ordered Balder to go and find Mimir.

As Odin's loyal 'hound', this is not easy, after all, he can't even find where Kratos is now.

Thinking of trying his luck, Balder once again came to the top of the mountain where Mimir was imprisoned, and happened to run into Leman Russ.

Just like he said, he didn't care whether Leman Russ was related to this or knew about Mimir, he would take him to task!

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In terms of size, Leman Russ is much taller than Baldur, but Leman Russ knows about Baldur's existence.

Although in the eyes of some primarchs who are proficient in combat, Balder's fighting is basically relying on his powerful immortality to throw a punch, even so, they have to admit that such a Balder is a considerable threat.

Meeting Balder here was somewhat unexpected for Leman Russ, but soon an expression of excitement filled his face.

When Zhang Yi decided to send Leman Russ to this world to carry out the mission, he repeatedly told him not to confront some Nordic gods head-on unless it was absolutely necessary, but now it seemed that the time had come when it was "a last resort".

As the "Husky" among many Primarchs, it is impossible to say that Leman Russ is completely uninterested in challenging these gods that originally existed only in mythology. If Zhang Yi had not repeatedly emphasized this to him, and O'Neill had not told him to be careful, do you believe that he would dare to rush to Asgard with a bunch of cubs?

And now, he finally has the chance to try these gods!

At this time, Balder, who was more than a head shorter than Leman Russ, walked in front of him and looked at the target in front of him with disdain in his eyes.

"Do you want to come with me obediently, or do you want me to beat you up and drag you away?!"

"I've always wanted to try what the so-called God of Light Balder can do!"

boom!

The skinny-looking Balder knocked Leman Russ, who was much bigger than him, back several steps with one punch. The giant wolf Spike beside him opened its mouth wide and bit towards Balder.

The giant wolf, which was much larger than Leman Russ, knocked Balder back quite a distance, but in the end he managed to stand firm against the attacking giant mouth and pushed back step by step.

"You're not good enough, you little puppy!"

After saying that, Balder headbutted the bloody mouth in front of him, but just when Balder was about to hit the giant wolf, it suddenly dissipated like smoke.

Just like the dark elf soldiers who besieged the giant wolf, Balder was unable to react to the sudden change, and then the double-edged axe that hit his upper body interrupted his daze.

"What are you talking about? God?!" Leman Russ, holding the Axe of Winter, said with an unruly smile to Balder, who had a cut on his body. "You can't take me away just like this!"

After saying that, Leman Russ swung the double-edged axe in his hand violently, and threw Balder on it over his shoulder, throwing him to the ground, but then he was kicked away.

The wound caused by the Winter Axe infected with the venom of the World Serpent was healing rapidly. As he knew, except for mistletoe and a few special things, nothing could really hurt him.

The giant wolf that had been broken up by Balder before now transformed into countless smaller wolves, which attacked him from all directions, biting his arms and torso, and kept dragging, trying to tear a piece of flesh from his body.

Balder, who was protected by magic, didn't care about it at all. He just waved his arms casually and threw away several ferocious wolves that were biting him. The attacks of these beasts couldn't even make him feel any pain... ?

Thinking of this, Bud was suddenly stunned, because in his memory, he had felt the pain like this not long ago, but when he recalled it carefully, he could not remember it.

[Axe of Winter] came flying at him, and Balder left the meeting and swung his left fist to knock it away. Leman Russ stood up again, caught the double-edged axe that was knocked back, fell from the air, and chopped it down with all his strength with the battle axe in his hand.

Balder crossed his hands and grabbed the axe blade, withstanding the heavy blow from Leman Russ who fell from the sky, and began to slowly push the axe blade back.

"You've grown so big for nothing! You big fool!" Balder taunted. "I'll break your limbs later to let you know the consequences of defying the gods!"

“I don’t believe in God!”

As he spoke, Leman Russ took out an injection syringe filled with a thick dark green liquid from his waist and injected it directly into Balder's body with brute force. The next moment, he was pushed out by Balder.

"You want to use poison? This is a stupid choice." Balder said as he pulled out the needle from his body. "I have never seen any poison that can have any effect on me..."

Balder suddenly stopped talking halfway because he saw the dense runes on his body flashing blue-green light, and at the same time, groups of green liquid were being discharged from his body. Most importantly, he felt weak.

"What... happened?" Balder murmured, feeling his weak body.

[Regeneration Ampoule], this is the [Singularity Technology] from [K Company] in the Moon Plane World. On the surface, it is a green liquid that can heal almost all injuries as long as the person is not dead and has a brain. It is claimed to be a nanorobot.

But in fact, this is the diluted product of tears shed by the eye-shaped being that one of the founders of [K Company] turned into (he went hiking in the suburbs with another founder, and then he looked at the starry sky and said something, and then he turned into a big eyeball). Its function itself is not the kind of healing that it appears to be, but...

According to the subconscious of the organism, the injector is restored to the state in the subconscious.

A sufficiently diluted [Regeneration Ampoule] will restore the body of the injector to a normal, healthy state through his subconscious mind, but once the concentration exceeds the standard, what will happen to the injector? Will he turn directly into a baby, or into a group of discrete cells?

It has been documented that direct contact with large amounts of undiluted tears will cause the subject to melt instantly - he will become part of the pool of tears.

Now let's get back to the topic. For Balder, is his body in his subconscious mind the state that was not blessed by his mother, which felt pain, fatigue, and could feel things in the outside world? Or is it the current state where he can't feel anything but won't get hurt or die?

The protection Freya gave him was working. It undoubtedly took priority over the high-concentration [Regeneration Ampoule] as an 'outsider'. They were maintaining Balder's current state and her protection of her child, while the injected high-concentration [Regeneration Ampoule] was restoring his body according to the ideas in Balder's deep subconscious mind, restoring it to its original fragile but normal state.

The two forces collided in Balder's body, causing him to become weak, and Leman Russ naturally would not miss this good opportunity.

Once again, the battle axe in Leman Russ's hand hit Balder, knocking him to the ground in his weakened state, but Freya's protection magic was still working, although the wound healed more slowly.

Balder tried to punch Leman Russ in front of him again, but was bitten by the giant wolf that appeared again. After being thrown to the ground repeatedly, he was thrown in front of Leman Russ.

"Your magic will protect you, right?" Leman Russ chopped Balder's body with his axe again, widening the wound. "If time wasn't tight, I would really like to try to see if I can heal you by chopping you into pieces."

"you...!"

Leman Russ struck with all his might, severing Balder's head. The runes on Balder's body lit up, keeping his head connected to his body.

"Ah, what a troublesome magic." Leman Russ, who saw this scene, said. "But at least he lost consciousness."

After saying this, Leman Russ fumbled around his body, took out the last high-concentration [Regeneration Ampoule] from his body, and injected it into Balder's body to further delay his recovery time.

"If I can get that pool of undiluted [Regeneration Ampoule], I can try to see how much dose it takes to turn this damn thing into a pool of green liquid." Leman Russ said as he picked up Balder, who had temporarily lost his ability to move. "Or maybe try that [Demon Spirit]?"

Leman Russ reached the top, glanced at the clouds below, and then threw Balder down.

Leman Russ watched the body fall into the abyss, his stand-in, the giant wolf, standing beside him, watching the enemy disappear from sight.

"Now that we're done with the fight, let's get back to work." Leman Russ patted the giant wolf beside him, as if talking to himself. "If we don't complete the task, a certain 'red birdman' will be in trouble again."

"By the way, did I forget to take a sample from Balder?"

608. See you again

Baldur's mission failed, as he failed to capture Leman Russ, who happened to appear at the top of the mountain, and was temporarily incapacitated by him.

Afterwards, the raven representing Odin's eye flew here and tried to find some traces, but he was too late. Leman Russ had completed sampling and recording of various things here and left the top of the mountain.

But the raven was still keen enough to discover some traces of extraction on the tree where Mimir was and on his body.

This unusual situation aroused Odin's vigilance. It was something he had never seen before - someone was studying... the gods?

Odin had this thought for only a moment, and then he cleared the idea from his mind because it was too shocking and vulgar.

Because this means that every existence in the Nine Realms that can be called a god may be the target of these people!

This is impossible! This means they will stand against all gods!

But this also made Odin realize that in addition to them and Kratos, there is a third-party force here.

Who could this be?

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Kratos and Freya parted ways unhappily. As mentioned before, Kratos cannot accept gods yet.

After they left Freya's residence, they learned from Mimir, who was left with only one head, that in order to find the way to Jotunheim, they first needed to find a chisel that could engrave the mark of the kingdom of Jotunheim, then engrave this mark on a special gate (the one at the top of the mountain), and then use it to open the passage to Jotunheim that had been closed.

First, they had to get the special chisel, which had to be taken from the body of the dead giant stonemason Thormur, who was killed by Thor while searching for his son - during the battle with Thor, Thormur fell headfirst on his own chisel.

After several days of trekking, Kratos, under the guidance of Mimir, arrived at the place where Thormur fell, a place covered with ice and snow.

As mentioned before, the real Midgard is much larger than it is in the game, and the same is true for Thormur's ice-covered corpse.

This area was not peaceful. A large number of monsters attacked Kratos and others who had just landed, but without exception, all of them became ghosts under Kratos' axe.

The last ancient icy corpse fell under Kratos' repeated swings of the axe, and they successfully reached the magic chisel covered by a thick layer of ice.

DUANG!

Seeing the target, Kratos chopped the transparent ice with his axe, but it only left a faint white mark on it.

"Are you kidding me, brother? Even Thor, holding Mjolnir, can't break through this thick ice in one go." Mimir, who was hanging on Kratos' back, said. "You have to think of another way to get down."

"If Uncle Leman Russ were here, he might be able to blast through the ice." Atreus said, and Kratos looked over. "I saw him use something very powerful. It exploded and turned those dark elves into ashes."

"Oh, this sounds like some kind of dangerous explosive magic item. The Leman Russ you mentioned actually has that kind of thing?" Mimir asked.

“Is this kind of thing rare?”

"As far as I know, there are many types of things that can do that, but if you want to have enough of them to blast through the ice, I think only the dwarves can mass-produce them."

"You mean Sindri and Brokk?"

"Not them, I mean the other part." Mimir said. "Except for a very small number of dwarves, the vast majority of dwarves work under Odin for some reason."

"Odin deceived them and made the dwarves pollute their own kingdom, the land of Svartalfheim, making it impossible to grow food there. In this way, he controlled the vast majority of the dwarves."

"Not only are dwarves capable of forging excellent weapons, they are also capable of mass-producing some simple, uncomplicated items, such as the explosive magic items you mentioned."

"You mean to say that Master Leman Russ might be Odin's subordinate?"

"I don't know, because I haven't met the Leman Russ you mentioned face to face, and I also said that the dwarves are only capable of mass-producing such items. There are many similar things."

"Oh~"

"Alright." Kratos interrupted the two men's conversation. "We need to focus on going in now."

"As you say, brother."

. . . . . .

A group of Undead warriors were wandering aimlessly on the shore when a group of Reavers suddenly appeared, attacked them, turned them into fragments on the ground, and then took up their weapons.

In this land of ice and snow, no one has an easy life. Even the undead warriors have to worry about being frozen by a blizzard, not to mention these flesh-and-blood plunderers.

At this moment, a patrolling raider suddenly raised his head and looked into the distance. He seemed to hear a faint sound of a trombone.

The plunderer stepped forward, trying to hear more clearly, but the next moment, a long ship made entirely of magical energy suddenly appeared and crushed over him.

[The Fang of the Sea] was a trophy captured in the Middle Ages. It originally belonged to Ulfric the Wanderer of the Norscan faction, but was later captured by the Lizardmen. After a long and complicated purification ceremony and a series of transformations, he was handed over to Leman Russ, who had been complaining about not having a ship.