Seeing Vali's crazed state, Bragi had no time to think. His figure flashed, and he darted away once more!
Vali, wrapped in flesh tumors, missed again without surprise.
Before being corrupted, Vali had only been a Lesser God. Though he could once defeat three Bragis with one hand, Bragi was no longer the man he had been.
Bragi had barely adapted to his inexplicably surging speed. He seized the back of Vali's neck and pinned him firmly in place.
"What are you talking about? Whose voice is driving you insane? There are clearly only the two of us here..."
Before Bragi could finish speaking, a fist-sized flesh tumor suddenly swelled from beneath his palm on the back of Vali's neck. A savage crack burst open across its surface, and countless scarlet worms wriggled out, forming a huge mouth that bit toward Bragi's hand.
Bragi cried out and abruptly released his grip, narrowly avoiding the attack.
"Hehehe..."
A bizarre laugh came from Vali's throat as his pain-filled eyes slowly closed.
The worm eyes squirming all over his body seemed to come alive, turning simultaneously to lock onto Bragi in the distance!
As Vali raised a hand, the earth beneath their feet visibly began to turn to sand. The dry air swept up hazy yellow dust, which lunged at Bragi's body like countless giant hands!
Bragi dodged the flying sand while staring at Vali's savage, eerie smile, his heart sinking at once.
Though he did not know what had happened to Vali, he was certain that this Norse God, cackling so sinisterly before him, was not the Vali he knew... The strange worm eyes on his body were controlling him!
Gritting his teeth, Bragi removed the harp from his back. His fingers plucked the strings, and a hurried melody rang out.
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