"Baldur, you idiot!" The Lord of the Forest let out a frenzied roar.
At that moment, Baldur also realized just how grave a mistake he had made, because what appeared beside Li was his nightmare!
"Hela, you called us out for such weaklings? You really are getting more and more useless." A deep, resonant voice rang out, filled with an unfathomable mystique, as though it were the voice of a god.
"Don't say that about Hela. There's a human here too. I haven't eaten a human in thirty million years. I can hardly wait to taste him!" Another voice burst into unrestrained laughter.
"Enough. I only want to find the one who hurt us the last time Hela summoned us. That tiny human actually dared to yell at me and tell us to get lost? Little one, hurry up and tell me where he is!" A third voice spoke.
Cold sweat slowly trickled down Baldur's face. He truly remembered that level of terror.
Because that terrifying spiritual pressure in the air belonged to the being that had kept devouring his flesh.
"No need to look." A voice sounded. Li slowly climbed to his feet, and beside him stood a young girl. She wore a mask that concealed most of her face. "The person you're talking about isn't here. And you can't touch this human beside me either. Setting aside the fact that he's my friend, he's at least the one who summoned you here. If you kill him, don't even think about going back." Hela spoke with such calmness as she touched the mask on her face, a cold smile curling at her lips.
"Eat him? I don't want to. You used to feed us humans all the time, and I've eaten so many that they make me sick. Mm-hmm,