Chapter 816: 804 (2/2)
”Well, you understand the cost of such favor, don't you?”
”I swear upon my honor that I will try and convince Balder to spend the evening with you.”
”Hmmm~ Good enough. Come on, bring him in. Maybe Amora will find him interesting.”
”She's here?” Brunnhilde furrowed her brows.
”Ah, I remember that Asgard does not connect with mortals. Amora loves to watch mortals' sources of entertainment and she gets a good connection here. Come on now, chop-chop!”
The crow flapped its wings before exploding in purple smoke.
”Whatever happens, do not interact with Amora,” Brunnhilde stated softly as she got onto Aragorn once again.
”Understood.”
Nikshrat stated before going quiet.
It won't be long before the group enters Asgard through his location and it seemed like they might just control this Nornheim in a single sweep.
Soon, the surroundings started to change and Nikshrat felt that the only reason they could enter the inner points of Nornheim was due to Karnilla's approval. Magical seals were laid down on the marsh which only served to muddle the visitors.
'Karnilla... the so-called goddess of magic and the queen of Norns. Nornheim is also supposed to be the place of residence for the three sisters of Norn and that just happens to be the limits of my knowledge of this location.
Still, what makes this place dangerous isn't its surroundings but Karnilla and the sisters themselves. This place is completely different from Hel.'
Nikshrat observed his surroundings with the cloth still wrapped around his eyes. In fact, although he coveted women and wanted to take as many to create a society in the Dream Core, he also started to feel fascinated by various locations he had gone through.
How amazing it would be if he actually took the Ark of Heven into the Dream Core? A flying city exclusively for Angels. He wouldn't have to spend a dime on the infrastructure. Just as this thought stumbled into his mind, it began to grow.
'That's right... what's stopping me from taking this Ark away?'
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”Ah... so this is what's stopping me,” Nik looked at the dome surrounding the Ark. At first glance, the dome looked like a protective bubble around the Heven's Ark but in fact, it was an extension of the curse set by the sisters of Norn. Not only their curse, but also the curse planted onto the Ark by the mighty Odin himself.
By now, Nik knew that a true rank 6 individual will have its soul unshackled enough so that the living being can finally interact with its soul. And with that, a unique energy belonging only to that person is revealed. No two person will have the same soul energy even if their elements and affinities are the same.
But, at rank 6, the soul energy is not easily replenishable. That is what made Nik's discovery of fusing two or more souls into a mass of pure energy so great. It could recover soul energy. But that isn't the point.
Odin exhausted his soul energy once he exiled Heven and its Angels. In doing so, he created a pit for himself that later came to be known as the Odin sleep.
But while this dome couldn't stop Nik from plundering the Angels and storing them in Heven, it did stop Nik from plundering the Ark itself, and right now, he had no means of actually moving against the curse set by a rank 6 individual.
In fact, his own body was cursed and marked by Nirdai, Khooni, and Mirage and even Purification and Devour couldn't take care of it despite these two skills originating from a beyonder/ravager bloodline. Maybe, at greater strength, it could, but in terms of actual shackles, Nik was still a rank 2 living being.
”Well, no worries,” Nik snickered to himself. His thoughts once again fell on the technique left by the sisters of norn but his mind kept urging him not to be impatient. After all, he needed to prepare a great location and situation for such a demanding breakthrough.
And he needed a proper audience that could understand his true glory by then.