The Greece Antagonist-Chapter 995 - 87 Ragnarök, the Cataclysm of All Things!

Several tens of days later, in the Fire Country.

Red lava broke through the crust and outlined a huge Three-Branch Rune on the wilderness.

It consists of three intersecting arcs, symbolizing the Trinity and the universal laws of past, present, and future eternity.

At this moment, the Norn Three Goddesses, who manage the fate of the Nordic World, each stood at a corner of the Three-Branch Rune, like three towering trees spreading infinite roots of fate into the Fire Country and absorbing all variables within this land, congregating them at the Three-Branch Rune.

After an unknown period of time, a mass of flame, like liquid gold, formed at the center of the Array, burning continuously without emitting any heat.

Without heat, there was no consumption, naturally possessing the characteristic of never extinguishing.

The Three Fates slowly opened their eyes, looking at the golden flame trapped at the center of the Array, and wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads, sighing in relief.

They had finally found it—[Eternal Fire]!

Next, it was time to test its effects.

Now, Goddess Belldandy and her elder sister Urd, along with their younger sister Scouty, exchanged glances and stepped into the center of the Array.

Immediately, Urd and Scouty activated the Power of Fate, driving the [Eternal Fire] into Belldandy’s body, attempting to break the rule-bound contract that shackled Belldandy’s spirit using the cleansing power of the [Eternal Fire].

The golden flames, fueled by her Divine Blood and Divinity, quickly surged upon Belldandy and then assaulted the chains of rules growing in her spiritual world time and again.

Once... twice... thrice...

Until after hundreds of times, the rule chains hidden within Belldandy’s spiritual world were not only unbroken by the Eternal Fire, but had become even more rigid under the scorching flames, proliferating continuously and almost filling her entire Heart Image Space.

The more it burned, the more it grew, the harder it got?

It was truly baffling!

Seeing this, Urd and Scouty, who were maintaining the Array from the periphery, were utterly shocked.

Just a simple rule contract, how could it not break! We refuse to believe it!

Immediately, the two sisters fiercely decided to pour their Powers of Fate into the Array.

With the absorption of immense Divine Power, Belldandy’s [Eternal Fire] suddenly leapt up several meters, completely igniting her Divine Blood, Divinity, body, and her entire spiritual world.

The golden furious flames washed over the wildly growing contractual chains in Belldandy’s Heart Image Space, like merciless iron hands tearing these obstructions apart one by one.

But at the same time, a bone-piercing, excruciating pain flowed back through the resonance of the Three-Branch Rune, surging into the bodies of Urd and Scouty.

"Thump! Thump!"

The two Fate Goddesses, as if struck by lightning, simultaneously spewed a mouthful of Golden Blood, their faces pale as paper, their skulls buzzing, and their souls also experiencing burning agony.

What was even more fatal was that the torn contract chains did not dissipate; instead, like tenaciously alive earthworms, they spread through the Fate Power meeting from three sides, from inside Belldandy towards the Heart Image Spaces of Urd and Scouty.

This is bad!

Belldandy suddenly opened her eyes, forcefully severing the divine resonance between her and her sisters.

For a moment, tremendous Divine Power erupted without an outlet, causing a terrifying spatial storm in Belldandy’s Heart Image Space.

"Thump!"

Belldandy, also suffering from the backlash, spewed a mouthful of Golden Blood, collapsing to the ground with a pale face.

Seeing this, Urd struggled to get up, disbelief on her face:

"It makes no sense! Just a contractual chain created from a bet, how could it be so rigid? Impossible to destroy, impossible to change, impossible to cleanse, even we, as Fate Goddesses, cannot defy it!"

"Right, it’s weird! I clearly remember putting insurance on it for elder sister. If both sides push hard, the effects should counteract each other, so how could it become even tighter with opposition? Now, it even backlashes through elder sister onto us?"

Scouty, scratching her head, was similarly perplexed.

At this moment, Urd and Belldandy both looked toward their youngest sister Scouty, with a faint gaze:

"Insurance?"

"Hedging?"

~~

Half an hour later.

With her head full of thoughts, Scouty, squatting on the ground while holding her head, complained pitifully:

"Can you blame me? How would I know that guy was the one you made the bet with!"

"You’re still talking!"

Urd’s face turned livid, her frustration evident as she raised her fist,

"If it weren’t for you abandoning us, disappearing for hundreds of years, causing the [Great Chorale] to remain unwritten, and the fate trajectory in chaos. How could we have been chasing you around Midgard, and how could we have encountered that guy!"

"Don’t always shift the blame onto me; it’s not like I didn’t sneak to Midgard to see you! You were having a good time on Heather Island!"

Scouty, while throwing punches, protestively and resentfully retorted,

"Moreover, it was clearly because you drank too much and insisted on making that bet. I was just trying to help and accidentally trusted the wrong person; at most I can be considered an accomplice. If someone should be held accountable, it shouldn’t start with me!"

"Bringing up old grievances, are you? Then what about him being your fiancé?"

Urd, unwilling to show weakness, frowned and snorted coldly,

"If you had obediently listened to the Father God’s arrangements, anchored his future, and we had supported him from the sidelines, guiding him to fulfill the mission of Ragnarök, would there have been so many complications? Belldandy got tangled up with him clearly to fill the void for you!"

Scouty, somewhat indignant, said: "You have the nerve to blame me! If it wasn’t for you dragging our elder sister along and forcibly using the Power of Fate of the ’Past’ and ’Present’, casting that outsider as the protagonist to calculate and continue writing the ’Future’ of Ragnarök, how could things have spiraled out of control?"

"The ’Protagonist’ and ’Script’ were ordained by the Father God! This was supposed to be your responsibility, yet you ran off! If it weren’t for me and Belldandy continuing to write the Great Chorale, the Father God would have awoken by now, and the ’Final Chapter’ would have arrived sooner, at which point you would have been the first to be held to account. Where would you find the opportunity to argue with us here?"

"So, you admit you also have a responsibility in this matter?"

"You!"

Urd’s chest heaved with anger as she raised her hand, about to throw a few punches at Scouty.

Scouty, also unwilling to show weakness, rolled up her sleeves, ready to claw and bite.

Seeing their perennially incompatible eldest sister and youngest sister about to fight again, Belldandy quickly stepped over, pulled the two apart, and said:

"It has nothing to do with you; continuing to write the Great Chorale was my own request, and becoming the ’Prize’ was also me running into our elder sister. The situation turning out this way is all my fault!"

Hearing Belldandy take the blame voluntarily, the two feuding sisters immediately shook their heads and protested:

"What does this have to do with you, elder sister? It’s all that Loki’s fault!"

"Exactly! That fellow is too cunning, deceiving me with a bet while pretending to be someone else on Heather Island!"

"When we were in Dwarf Country, he even acted like he was very familiar with you, elder sister, deceiving my feelings!"

"And in Etheregar City, he promised a fair duel, yet he played dirty!"

As Scouty and Urd talked more and more, they gradually reached a consensus and began to jointly denounce the morally bankrupt god of deception:

"Despicable!"

"Shameless!"

After a thorough reckoning between the three sisters, Luo En’s identity inevitably came to light.

As an outsider who had successively deceived three Fate Goddesses, he was undoubtedly the most fitting target.

And watching as the eldest sister and youngest sister turned the blame outward together, Belldandy couldn’t help but laugh and cry at the same time and reminded them reluctantly:

"Let’s not worry about whose fault it is first; we’ve messed things up. Because of that person, multiple ’Variables’ (Xili, Celebrian, Lafei, etc.) have emerged in the Nine Great Kingdoms, and the original definitive future in the Great Chorale has become blurred, with even the ’Fate’ we control increasingly spiraling out of control. If this continues, we won’t be able to hide it for long, and the Father God will soon notice and awaken from his slumber. By then..."

As they spoke, the three sisters looked at each other and shivered together, as a deep fear of the Father God welled up in their hearts.

Born in the Nordic world of ice and fire, the concept of ’Mercy’ and ’Kindness’ has never existed in the origin of Olvir.

In order to surpass the ’Origin’ and ascend the steps to ’Above the Gods’, everything is meant to be his foundation.

Even his so-called daughters are no exception.

This is exactly why he could unblinkingly assign Scouty to that outsider called ’Loki’ and command her to play the role of a guide, completing the script of the final Chapter.

In the script decided upon by the Father God, it ends with merely eight characters:

—Ragnarök, the demise of everything!

Belldandy took a deep breath and solemnly reminded her sisters:

"We must sever this contract before the Father God discovers us, take back control of ’Fate’, and set everything back on the right path. Otherwise, once the Father God awakes, our troubles will be immense!"

Thinking of that dreadful consequence, Urd and Scouty immediately lost their mood to bicker about who was right or wrong and quickly calmed down to explore how to break the rule contract on Belldandy.

Meanwhile, in a certain place in the Fire Country.

Yemengarde carefully poked its head out from Luo En’s embrace, its eyes gleaming with resentful light.

It was sleeping soundly in the castle, eating good meat, drinking fine wine, being waited upon; the days were more comfortable than in Etheregar City.

Yet before it could enjoy a few peaceful days, it was dragged out of its cat den by Skadi due to collateral damage, swept out the door, and ended up travelling thousands of miles to Muspelheim to eat volcanic ash.

What happened to the promised full belly, the promised luxury?

Big liar!

Seemingly hearing Yemengarde’s inner complaints, Luo En reached out and stroked its head, enticingly said:

"Once we’re done here, I’ll treat you to a whole roasted lamb! Thor’s lamb, huh!"

Yemengarde, unable to resist, swallowed its saliva.

The taste was too unforgettable.

"And also, I heard that the woman who previously used you as a human shield is in the Fire Country; don’t you want to find her and get some revenge?"

Hearing the demon’s whispers, Yemengarde immediately leaped from Luo En’s embrace and, following that barely discernible scent, headed straight to a particular place.