Devouring World Dragon

Chapter 31 Undersea Volcano
"damn it……"

When Thor realized he seemed to be lost, his displeasure intensified. At that moment, the enormous octopus swimming beside him tentatively extended its long, thick tentacles, as if it regarded Thor as food and was about to devour him.

However, Thor, who was in a bad mood, was not in a good mood, or rather, Thor, who had a violent temper, rarely had a good temper.

"Humph!"

Thor glanced at the foolish octopus who was oblivious to its own mortality, snorted coldly, and without even moving, an astonishingly fierce burst of lightning erupted from his body. In the pitch-black seabed, the dazzling lightning suddenly burst forth like a small sun, illuminating the seabed for several kilometers around. The lingering dazzling light could not dissipate for a long time. Before the foolish octopus could even make a move, it was directly electrocuted into a charred mess.

However, a complaining voice immediately came from beside Thor.

"Don't be so impulsive. Let me ask you a question."

As he spoke, he reached out a hand and easily and steadily held the little octopus soul that had emerged from the charred remains of the octopus in his palm.

Loki glanced at Thor beside him, then turned to the tiny octopus spirit in his palm and murmured something. The octopus, which looked no bigger than his palm, mostly just waved its tentacles randomly, only occasionally waving them rhythmically, as if responding to Loki's words.

After a long while, Loki closed his palm, and the little octopus's soul turned into fragments of light, falling towards the Land of Death at the bottom of the World Tree.

"This little guy is really stupid, he doesn't know anything when asked. But the only thing we can be sure of is that we won't be able to find Jormungandr within a radius of about ten kilometers around here."

Loki scratched his head in frustration.

"What should I do?"

Thor looked at Loki and asked.

Loki thought for a moment, then asked tentatively.

"How about we ask the sea god Aegir again..."

"Absolutely not!"

However, upon hearing this, Thor reacted as if he had been stung by a scorpion, and flew into a rage, shouting fiercely.

After that, no matter how Loki tried to persuade him, Thor resolutely refused to call on the old sea god to guide him again. The reason was simple: if people knew that he, Thor, the God of Thunder, the strongest god in the heavens, had gotten lost, wouldn't he be laughed at to death?

Thor, who was extremely concerned with his image, obviously could not accept this situation and naturally opposed it firmly.

However, Loki didn't care at all. He was used to being dissolute and had done all sorts of things.

However, Loki didn't care, but Thor did. Helpless, Loki had no choice but to continue wandering around the seabed with Thor, occasionally catching a few sea creatures to ask them questions, hoping to find some clues.

According to Loki, that's it.

"We should be close to our destination. If we look around a bit more, it shouldn't be too hard to find it."

And so, the two searched the seabed for another ten days or so, but they still couldn't find any clues. Along the way, apart from the occasional huge underwater canyon, they couldn't even see any small mountains. It was all monotonous and discouraging.

However, it wasn't entirely without discoveries.

……

"Boom, boom, boom!!!!"

In the pitch-black depths of the sea, a tiny flame burned before Loki and Thor, accompanied by a deep, resonant rumble like a subwoofer, so loud that the seawater trembled.

"what is that?"

Looking at the flickering light, Thor murmured in confusion, while Loki beside him also wore a puzzled expression.

"Let's take a closer look."

Loki suggested.

The two continued walking, and after walking for quite some time, they finally approached the place where the firelight was located...

A massive, active underwater volcano.

Under their gaze, a low mountain peak sat on the seabed, its center seemingly broken off, spewing countless streams of gas and molten lava upwards. The gas rubbed violently against the seawater, generating intense heat that combined with the lava to create sparks of flame. These sparks of molten lava shone brilliantly within the gas columns.

Because of the large amount of air ejected, even though Loki and Thor were standing quite far away, they could clearly feel the heavy, oppressive feeling of the seawater being pushed aside. The vibrating gas and seawater together created this deep, rumbling sound from the seabed.

“It’s really surprising.”

Thor, who had never seen such a scene before, looked at the strange sight before him and exclaimed in amazement.

However, Loki looked at the underwater volcano with a hint of doubt on his face. He glanced around, then looked in another direction, his eyes gradually sharpening. In that direction, though faint, a small flame could be seen.

"Is there...an underwater volcano there too?"

He murmured to himself, his eyes filled with even more doubt.

"Let's go over and take a look."

At Loki's suggestion, the two walked together toward another fire.

Another half day passed. When the two arrived at the spot of the fire, they saw an almost identical underwater volcano, so similar that it was as if it had been copied.

Do all underwater volcanoes look like this?

Thor looked at Loki and asked curiously.

Loki shook his head.

"I don't know either, I've never seen it before."

However, Loki's confusion grew more and more intense, yet he couldn't quite put his finger on it; he just felt that something was amiss.

"Two identical underwater volcanoes..."

Loki was deep in thought, and just then, in front of Loki and Thor, the volcano gradually stopped erupting, and the column of gas it was spewing out slowly weakened.

As the flames gradually faded, the dark seabed, briefly illuminated by the burning lava erupting from the underwater volcano, gradually sank back into darkness.

Meanwhile, under Loki's watchful gaze, the distant flame gradually dimmed and went out.

Loki vaguely sensed that something was wrong, as if he had thought of something, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

Then, a large amount of seawater began to be sucked in by the "volcano." The enormous suction force created a crazy whirlpool in the nearby seawater, making the two gods somewhat unsteady on their feet.

This enormous suction force is like a huge hole suddenly appearing in the seabed.

"Wait, do you mean..."

Loki suddenly seemed to realize something, his face filled with surprise, and then he suddenly flew upwards.

"you……"

Thor hurriedly spoke, but Loki completely ignored his reaction and flew straight up into the distance, making it impossible for him to hear what he was saying. Thor could only follow closely behind.

Loki finally stopped after flying for a long time.

"Loki, what's wrong..."

Thor, having caught up with Loki, looked at him, about to speak, when he noticed Loki's gaze fixed on the seabed below, his surprise turning to astonishment. Thor couldn't help but follow his gaze...

A startling scene unfolded.

Under Thor's watchful gaze, the head of a colossal creature, vaguely discernible, appeared on the seabed...

No, it should be said that it has always been there, but Thor and Loki have always been walking on its head without realizing it.

Those "undersea canyons" they often encountered on their journey were not canyons at all... they were clearly faults formed when the scales of a colossal creature overlapped.

The two “undersea volcanoes” that the two mistook for underwater volcanoes were not underwater volcanoes at all... but rather the nostrils of a colossal creature in its slumber. With each breath it took while asleep, it inhaled large amounts of seawater and then exhaled thick columns of air as powerful as tornadoes.

Before this colossal being, the two deities appeared so insignificant, not even worthy of being called dust.

"It...has become even larger."

Thor, dumbfounded, muttered to himself.

He had seen this behemoth before. Although in his memory it was already unimaginably large, now it seemed to have become even larger. As far as the eye could see, even with Thor's divine eyesight, it was difficult to see the behemoth's full appearance. At most, he could only make out a vague outline of a snake's head.

"No wonder the sea god Egil only told us which sea area to go to, but not exactly where... because the entire seabed is simply its head."

"We spent more than ten days, but we still haven't managed to get out from under its head... We've only... crossed a dozen or so scales on its head..."

Gazing into the distance, at the indistinct, massive, and seemingly indistinct snake eyes hidden in the dark depths of the sea, Loki murmured in astonishment.

(End of this chapter)