Chapter 16: Adventure Time in Niflheim!

Chapter 16: Adventure Time in Niflheim!

Here is the new chapter!

Thanks for waiting!

*Any images in this chapter don't belong to me! It belongs to their respective artists/creators!

One of you, readers, called my attention to the character designs...

And he commented that the options I offer you are nothing like the designs of the DxD world... And this reader is absolutely right.

This was a big mistake on my part and it will be difficult to 'fix' it.

So as a 'solution', THERE WILL BE NO MORE POLLS!

Character designs, as much as they don't look like the designs in the DxD world, will still be available in the auxiliary chapter in case some of you (readers) want to know what the characters 'look like' in MY view.

You can then adopt whatever design you prefer on the character from my fanfic.

I'm sorry if I displeased some of you with the design options in the polls, as they didn't look like characters from the DxD world.

From now on, the only images that there will be in the chapters will be of simple things like: locations, weapons, and animals.

So, without further ado, enjoy the chapter!

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- Timeskip: 1 week.

- Location: Migar Underground (Midgard) / Niavellir.

Pov Third-person..

A person walked slowly through an underground cave of Migar (Midgard), known as Niavellir.

That person was Loki.

Who was he looking for? The renegade dwarf from the kingdom of Niavellir... Responsible for forging one of the most feared swords in the Norse pantheon... The famous Dinsleif.

Loki walked through the darkness until he reached an area on the edge of the Niavellir realm and began to hear the sounds of a hammer.

Loki, knowing he had found who he was looking for... He just smiled.

A short time later, a dwarf could be seen working...until he stopped working and looked towards the shadows.

"... What you want?" asked the dwarf.

And then from the shadows... Loki appeared.

"...Hello Dinn... You are a very hard dwarf to find... I came here to offer your chance for redemption" said Loki with a smile.

"... You speak about redemption... What do you have in mind?" asked the dwarf, now called Dinn.

Loki then started talking.

"Well what's the biggest redemption for a dwarf? 'Make the impossible possible', right? That's your code" said Loki.

"...I don't deserve to live by such a code... Not anymore..." explained Dinn, sighing in sadness.

"... Are you sure about that?" asked Loki.

Loki then proceeded to walk around Dann's makeshift forge.

"Looks like you still live by this code, even if you say such words of regret," Loki said, pointing to some swords and armor in a corner.

"...I'm still a dwarf...I'm not forging for redemption... I'm forging because it's in my blood, I forge to not forget WHO I am and WHERE I came from..." replied Dann, narrowing his eyes towards Loki.

"Oh? I see~... But have you thought about going home? To your dwarf brothers?" asked Loki curiously.

The question seemed to get a reaction from Dainn.

"...Every day..." replied Dainn softly, looking at the ground.

"So here's your opportunity... If you forge two unique items... I will convince Odin to talk to Hreidmar, your leader, to accept you again..." said Loki with a smile.

This seemed to have caught Dainn's attention... But he was still hesitating.

"My exile doesn't have many resourcesonly the basics like gold, silver, and obsidian" said Dann.

"*sigh* I just wish the 'personification' of fury wouldn't have to get stuck in the river of 'turbulence'" I said regretfully.

"You can say that again..." said Sif.

When we approached the famous river of reincarnation, or river of 'turbulence', called Gjll (Gioll), we could see the bridge that crossed the river, that divided the lands of the living from the lands of the dead, the bridge was called Gjarllarbr, and had as a guard a Jotun, who was the 'personification' of fury, called Mgur (Modgud).

"Stop right there! No living will cross the bridge of the dead without my permission!" shouted a voice.

We looked towards the voice... And we saw a fully armed warrior.

The 'personification' of fury, and the only guard of Gjarllarbr... Mgur (Modgud).

"Mgur (Modgud), it's been a while" I said with a nervous smile.

She seemed to recognize me from my last visit.

"You! Do you know the problems you caused?! Because of you, Nhggr came out of his lair in Nstrnd earlier and made a big mess!" she yelled pointing at me.

... In my defense, it's hard to find a Draugr when it's an appetizer of Niflheim's dragon-snake.

"Thor... What did you do?" whispered Sif in my direction.

"...I think you already know, but it's quite difficult to find a Draugr far from Nstrnd without Nhggr having devoured it... For every 1000 Draugr that appear in Nstrnd, only 1 manages to get out of there and wander in the forest of the dead ... So I thought it best to go straight to the source, but it looks like Nhggr thought I was just another Draugr... Let's just say I made him have a toothache he'll never forget..." I explained whispering to Sif.

"What do you want now Aesir?!" asked Mgur (Modgud), rudely.

"We'd like to cross-" I didn't even get a chance to finish as I was interrupted by the angry Mgur.

"No! I won't allow you to cross Gjarllarbr! You're just going to cause more trouble again!" said Mogur.

"*sigh* Alright... While I find your anger at me understandable, I really need to cross this bridge... So... What do you want for allowing us to cross Gjarllarbr?" I asked.

I really didn't want to cause too much trouble, she's just trying to do her job...

I offered something because Mgur, as much as she was the 'personification' of fury, she was known to be very bipolar...

On the one hand, she was quite easy to annoy, on the other hand, she was...

"Hmm... Maybe there's something you can do... What's your profession?" said Mgur, in consideration.

She was quite calm when she wasn't angry...

In short... She was a little crazy, and sometimes she said nonsense... Like now.

"... My profession?" I asked, unsure of how to respond.

"Yes...I need an animal tamer right now...You see, the water of Hvergelmir is being defiled by 2 creatures...Get rid of them and I'll let you through whenever you like" explained Mgur.

Strange... As far as I know, Nhggr is the only thing that dips into Hvergelmir, aiming to gnaw on one of the three roots of Yggdrasil, and the only root that extends to Niflheim.

Nhggr feeds on 'life' from the root of Yggdrasil and 'death' from the bodies of Draugr.

"You said, 2 creatures... What are they? And how has Nhggr not killed them yet?" I asked.

"Unfortunately, the 2 creatures are faster than Nhggr, and... when they start to run, the sound of drums resounds in the sky... They started drinking Hvergelmir's water some time ago... I just found out when Nhggr once returned from Hvergelmir extremely angry, so I went to investigate... I was surprised to find those two things..." said Mgur, with a grimace of anger.

"...You couldn't even capture them or kill them?" asked Sif in surprise.

Mgur's grimace seemed to have worsened.

"I already told you Those things are MUCH faster than Nhggr. In fact, Nhggr didn't make any scratches on them... When I went to investigate, I could only get their glimpse before they started running," explained Mgur.

"Have you seen them? Then What do these creatures look like?" asked Sif.

Mgur seemed to be... Embarrassed?

"They aregoats," replied Mgur.

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