Of all the ancient "gods" who had once been active on Earth, Odin's lineage was the last to perish. They were like the final movement of the Mythical Era, and the collapse of Yggdrasil more than two thousand years ago had been the last scene of that age.
The Ragnarök of the Norse gods was also the Ragnarök of the entire Mythical Era. When the Demon Hunter's beam cannons tore through the skies of Asgard, and the entire Nine Kingdoms came crashing down, the history of alien races ruling the Human world truly and utterly came to an end.
Under Anthony's control, the spherical craft shifted into low-speed hovering mode and slowly cruised over the torn earth of Asgard. The detection array at the bottom of the craft emitted a faint blue glow as it swept across the devastated land, searching for any abnormal energy reactions.
Onboard the craft, Vivian was recounting to Anthony and Galadriel how this place had been destroyed by war, drawing on human legends and her own memories: "There were omens even before Ragnarök arrived. In the years before the war began, Yggdrasil had already begun to decay. The climate across the Nine Kingdoms fell out of balance, bringing several consecutive winters. After that, the magic used by the Aesir and Vanir gods began to fail one after another, and their contractual connection with Yggdrasil was severed for unknown reasons. All kinds of spells and oaths throughout the Nine Kingdoms were broken. The races living there began blaming one another, and then, under the instigation of people with ulterior motives, war erupted across the mortal world. Those wars further damaged the balance of the various kingdoms."
The craft passed over the wreckage of the Temple Cluster's walls. The towering walls and grand buildings of Asgard were