I Don't Agree to the Terms-Chapter 1148 - 603: Wisdom Giant Mimir

Nidhogg struggled continuously in Gu Shanhai's grasp.

"Indeed, it's more like a venomous serpent. Calling it a dragon is likely because of its wings." Gu Shanhai had always been curious about Nidhogg's species, having many names like Giant Snake, Venomous Serpent, Poison Dragon, Black Dragon, and more. To Gu Shanhai, it leaned more towards a venomous serpent, though Poison Dragon was also fitting because it was indeed very poisonous.

"Do you know where you were born from?" Gu Shanhai looked at the Poison Dragon Nidhogg, which he had shrunk down to the size of an eel, and directly asked.

It's strange how the World Tree would allow the Poison Dragon Nidhogg to grow. Oh, wait, actually, it's not really laissez-faire, as Nidhogg has a nemesis in the eagle Vidofnir. They hold grudges against each other because a squirrel named Ratatosk often spreads words of envy between them.

Due to communication problems, they often ended up in battles.

If the eagle Vidofnir had been more capable and killed the Poison Dragon Nidhogg, there would be no follow-up issues.

Unfortunately, not only did it fail to kill it, but due to Ragnarok, both of them seemed to have died.

Regarding Gu Shanhai's question, the Poison Dragon Nidhogg was a little bewildered. How was it born? It had no idea about these things. Since its birth, it had been gnawing at the World Tree, with no experience of striving or evolving from a small venomous serpent to a large dragon. From the moment it was born, it was already the Poison Dragon Nidhogg.

Before, it gnawed on the World Tree, and after Ragnarok, it feasted on corpses, a top glutton indeed.

Gu Shanhai could see Nidhogg's confusion. He understood now that this creature was likely also of the inherently sacred type, born of heaven and earth, and its pursuit shaped by the world.

And with that, any doubts vanished.

Even a Primordial Spirit like this on the All Ghosts Survival Platform in the Ghost World could be so pitfall-laden, driven by fate to destroy the world it inhabited by its instincts to eat, was not an issue.

Moreover, Gu Shanhai suspected that the roots of the World Tree were Nidhogg's food. If it didn't eat them, it would starve to death.

Gu Shanhai wasn't thinking of justifying Nidhogg, but rather wondering how to consume such a large snake after studying it, or perhaps to let it go and raise it?

If comparing size, it surely can't match Ymir, but the problem is Ymir is already dead. Besides, in terms of rarity, Ymir's corpse is definitely more valuable than Nidhogg, as Ymir could encircle the entire world and even kill Thunder God Thor.

Nidhogg had achievements, and not small ones, as it gnawed at the World Tree. But those were passive strengths, with no frontal combat prowess.

So naturally, Gu Shanhai valued Ymir more.

"So, what use do you have?" Gu Shanhai asked.

He hoped the Poison Dragon Nidhogg could offer some value beyond research purposes.

The Poison Dragon Nidhogg became increasingly bewildered. How could it know what value it possessed?

Gnawing at the World Tree? That was already done, and there was no extra World Tree for it to gnaw on. Even if there was one, it wouldn't be given to it.

It knew the value of the World Tree.

"I know the whereabouts of Wisdom Giant Mimir's head. Do you need that information?" After a long silence, the Poison Dragon Nidhogg finally spoke.

"I do need it, but why would I have you tell me?" Gu Shanhai gathered, from the Poison Dragon Nidhogg's words, that Mimir might still be alive, so there was no need for Nidhogg to tell him. He could find it himself.

"What do you want?" The Poison Dragon Nidhogg didn't know what to say for a moment.

It had no wealth, nor anything Gu Shanhai needed.

"Doesn't seem like I want anything." Gu Shanhai pondered for a moment. Even the Poison Dragon Nidhogg was his, so anything it had would also be his.

At that moment, the Poison Dragon Nidhogg fell silent, seemingly having no answer.

It had seen many mortals from Midgard but had never met anyone as unique as Gu Shanhai.

"It seems there's nothing more you want to say, what a pity." Gu Shanhai sighed, then knocked it unconscious, stuffing it back inside.

He had already learned Mimir's whereabouts through Nidhogg's memory and soon found Mimir's location.

Whether Mimir was dead or alive, Nidhogg wasn't really sure, but one thing was certain: Mimir eventually returned to the location of the Spring of Knowledge and Wisdom.

From Nidhogg's memory, he saw Mimir reduced to just a head, lying lonely, buried with the collapsed roots of the World Tree at the location of the Spring of Knowledge and Wisdom.

Gu Shanhai quickly reached the location where the Spring of Knowledge and Wisdom was now entirely covered, turned into a ruin.

The spring that once imbued people with knowledge and wisdom had long evaporated in the sea of flames.

Following the deduced location, he quickly unearthed the head buried in the soil.

Mimir was already on the brink of death, visibly fading. Gu Shanhai hurriedly cast a healing spell, pulling him back from the edge of death.

"It's you," Mimir suddenly spoke.

"Do you know me?" Gu Shanhai asked in return.

"I saw your form in the Spring of Knowledge and Wisdom, but back then, you didn't look like this." Mimir spoke cryptically.

"Are you referring to the World Tree?" Gu Shanhai didn't think it was the Spring of Knowledge and Wisdom; he felt it was due to the World Tree.

"Yes, it's Yuktrahil, who created the Spring of Knowledge and Wisdom," Mimir replied.

Yuktrahil is the name of the World Tree.

"Interesting. So you didn't expect me to come here either," Gu Shanhai asked curiously.

Mimir was silent for a moment before speaking again, "No, I just saw your silhouette. I never thought I would encounter you."

"However, from the Spring of Knowledge and Wisdom, I saw your form traversing the entire river of time." Mimir, because of losing his body and left with only a head, seemed to undergo some changes, allowing him to see the past and future through the World Tree and the Spring of Knowledge and Wisdom.

This caused the pupils in Gu Shanhai's eyes to shrink.

"Traversing the river of time? Can you tell me how you did it?" Gu Shanhai knew that if Mimir wasn't lying, then he had likely perfected the technique of memory projection into the past, continuously overlaying the timeline, using this third timeline as an anchor.

"I don't know. Your silhouette is terrifying, and I dare not get close." Mimir wasn't lying; he knew Gu Shanhai was extraordinary.

"I see, that's a shame." Gu Shanhai believed Mimir was telling the truth. With Mimir's power, the other party could not possibly deceive him.

"So, do you have any plans now?" Gu Shanhai asked.

"May I ask if you know the origin of Yuktrahil?" Mimir inquired.

"Why do you want to know about this?" Gu Shanhai was a bit puzzled, wondering why he suddenly wanted to know about it.

It's certain that the beings in the void are much stronger than this Northern European mythological world, which might have been deliberately guided into existence.

As for whether the transmigrator seniors or rebirth masters, Gu Shanhai didn't care.

"Because I want to know the origin of everything. I think you might know, right?" Mimir expressed some hope.

Gu Shanhai suspected that, at the moment the World Tree burned, Mimir must have seen something extraordinary.

"I don't know." Gu Shanhai chose to lie. Given Mimir's situation, truly knowing the truth would lead to madness, at best, and if it were noticed, it would cause the timeline to shift again.

Within Gu Shanhai's level, he could change the timeline indirectly, but for those beings in the void, time and the world are like clay for them to mold at will.

If Gu Shanhai could break through his current bottleneck and reach transcendence, perhaps he could possess such power; though he wasn't entirely sure.

"That's really a pity," Mimir said somewhat regretfully.

He didn't doubt Gu Shanhai was lying, in Mimir's eyes, Gu Shanhai had no reason to deceive him.

"Knowing too much is not necessarily a good thing," Gu Shanhai stated calmly.

Gu Shanhai quickly finished examining Mimir's head.

The other hadn't died but had indeed encountered a nameless existence in the void, accepting some corruption, a pollution he couldn't resolve.

Thus, he was essentially a disaster, the best approach was to eliminate him directly.

Due to this corruption's presence, Gu Shanhai dared not perform a Soul Search, fearing seeing something he shouldn't, which wouldn't bode well.

After all, his backing, "First Era," hadn't yet manifested; he couldn't find anyone to stand up for him.

"Of course, I know, I absolutely know."

"The world is about to collapse. Can you save this world?"

Mimir asked with a somewhat peculiar tone.

"No, judging by your expression, you seem to have a way," Gu Shanhai's expression remained unchanged, though internally he had a hunch, might Mimir's method be the Dual-star Celestial Body?

"Before I was evaporated by the flames at the Spring of Knowledge and Wisdom, I absorbed all the steam. Yuktrahil provided me a way to maintain the world, letting it survive, even if only as fragments," Mimir stated.

Gu Shanhai now had another doubt. In the original timeline, he didn't come to save Mimir, lining logically to inevitably die.

And if Mimir died, who proposed and executed maintaining the world's community through the Dual-star Celestial Body?