Ikuta was surprised to see how they were following him . He tries to see the reason recalling the documentaries he watched about survival behaviours ' eating all the fruits in a tree for basic survival to store food but if you can't eat all the fruit , you say around it '
He figured that the monsters had enough cognitive ability to understand that Ikuta was the one who made the water " Okay you can follow me , but I'm not sure if you understand " Ikuta turned to see that the monsters were keeping their distance and even watching each other .
Their forms were too different from each other for him to see to classify each one of them . Ikuta remembered what Vedrfolnir and his father said about Midgard being the only place that houses life .
' why did dad say that but why did Vedrfolnir say that ? Or did he just learn that there are monsters ? '
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Ryela was having a big headache after she learned about the suicide of a cultist and the disappearance of the mimic whose body was no longer found ' And it's not even that big but this guy ' she looked at the profile of Richard ' He was a worker at a mental asylum but he had derailed out of his normal habits '
Ryela couldn't help but think of Ikuta since he knew a thing about controlling cultists ' I haven't been able to get in touch with him with his new position ' now that Ikuta is no longer controlling the cultist Ryela couldn't talk to him at all .
' It's not like I can confirm he was involved . Someone did try to assassinate him but they avoided getting into further details . But it's weird someone tried to assassinate him when all the kid did was just inherit it and didn't even stop the donations to children's hospitals and insurance companies '
Ryela looks up on the news hearing that Ikuta is departing for Niflheim with unknown reason .
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Ikuta snaps a picture of Niflheim as a globe with his camera " It works really well " he was satisfied to see it and used the seeing dark spell on his camera and pointed it at the monsters taking a photo before doing the same to the spring of water .
He sat down and pasted the picture of Niflheim beside the entries describing how he hiked the tallest mountain where he used platforms to hop out of Niflheim to get the right direction towards Ginnungagap's rocks and described it as chaotic because the gravity was completely different in every platform .
He continues to venture with the monsters following him . He described how the rock's formation reveals its gravity , picturing the rocks a flat surface and beneath the rocks were stalactites .
He also mentioned that there might've been water around the areas and wondered if it might've been Eikthyrnir . He also continues to shoot out some water of lifeforce increasing the number of monsters following him .
Writing the behaviors of the monsters down in the journal , he finally arrives at Jotunheim and it is also lit but less blue than Niflheim and felt some of Niflheim's frost in here albeit in less amount as the rest of the atmosphere had less colder mana and air .
He turned to see the monsters keeping their distance from Jotunheim remembering how far he had to go from Niflheim to see any marks of monsters being around .
" Okay I'll leave you all with plenty of water " he poured lifeforce out of his hands in an area and left to go to Jotunheim ' So there is one ? ' Ikuta jumped into Jotunheim and fell into the globe .
He used his affinity to control the surrounding frost to slow his descent and when he reached the ground he felt more burden on his body " The gravity is different "
He writes it down remembering that Niflheim probably had the same thing but is confused about how he was less affected and guessed it might be because that Niflheim was smaller .
' It's weird the primordial realm of ice is smaller than Jotunheim ' he walks along the paths following the map and finally reaches Mimisbrunnr " Wow that was fast " He recalled how he hiked the mountain until lunch and even arrived at Mimisbrunnr before dinner .
He takes out some food and starts eating them . Looking at the rations he bought he thought of giving them to the monsters to see if they like it or not ' No it doesn't even taste good ' he sat beside the well and yawned .
" Hooaahhh I'm sure it won't be a problem to go to sleep now " he used the console to construct a dome and pulled out his sleeping blanket throwing his hair back .
" I miss my bed " He went to sleep and thought ' I should check on why there's light on Jotunheim and Niflheim maybe there's light in the other realms too '
He fell asleep and the next morning he stretched up , he looked at Mimisbrunnr remembering what Vedrfolnir told him about the well " Knowledge is very interconnected but it can disconnect from others and reconnect with other fields of knowledge it's why the spring never froze even in Jotunheim "
" So how am I going to remove the forbidden knowledge ? " " I do not know " " What ? " " That's just it for me , I know the consequences of learning , so I have no idea what the solution is but since you said that you have forbidden knowledge I decided to use you as a solution "
Ikuta was surprised to hear that Vedrfolnir expected Ikuta to do everything but didn't complain since he also knew the consequences of forbidden knowledge " Fine I'll figure something out "
He stared at the water not knowing how to fix Mimisbrunnr or even purify it so he first decided to start by constructing the knowledge " Vedrfolnir told me I can control the knowledge if I have a set of understanding that connected them "
Ikuta looked at the pond remembering more of what Vedrfolnir said " The only reason why it's water is that nobody is there to organize it , you may try to construct the web of knowledge together however it will be hard to do so but you may try someting else "
Ikuta reached down and thought of one thing first " You can try to pull the strand of Yggdrasil's memories and you would be able to freeze it that way because it would be a line instead of a web of knowledge the well is composed of knowledge Yggdrasil has which means it's also her memories and then all you have to do is remove the forbidden knowledge that will try to stick to it "
He grabbed hold of the end of a line and pulled it out of the wellspring . He kept pulling and pulling out the memories freezing according to their chronological order .
A noticeably foreign wisp floats on the surface and Ikuta quickly uses the console to freeze it . He finds another one freezing that too , he keeps freezing more of the forbidden knowledge , which is increasing in size and numbers but varied in colors .
He pulled out more and finally saw one last forbidden knowledge and quickly froze it knowing what this one was " Wow " He looked at the tall straight stick with thorns protruding out in different lengths .
" This is beautiful " he looked closely at the beginning point he was holding to see images and eventually tiny thorns protruding out , he turned to the end of the stick which he swung pretty far and looked at the cold cracked end .
" That last memory must be dad " he created a construct of a giant ice cube and let the memories melt to store properly and turned to the forbidden knowledge " That last one was definitely a memory of dad so I'll keep it away "
Ikuta put this forbidden knowledge aside pretending to make an excuse counting on Vedrfolnir complimenting his idea of avoiding the forbidden knowledge that was at Yggdrasil's death " I might have to go refill the water I'm not sure how many monsters there are around "
Looks at the emptied wellspring to see Odin's eye somehow still there amongst the frozen forbidden knowledge . Ikuta was wondering why it even was there and felt disgusted about picking it . He still had to do it and used a spoon but felt disgusted when he poked it with it .
He made sure to keep the forbidden knowledge about his father in a secured place and put the purified Mimisbrunnr inside his backpack making sure to keep the console beside it so that it doesn't spill out . He then turns to the direction he came remembering what Vedrfolnir told him about .
" The realms are like planets so you have to predict the right path to get out unless you wanna run through the globe which is just not a good idea " Ikuta checks the map that shows revolving planets letting him see the white planet of Jotunheim and blue ice globe of Niflheim .
He remembered how Odin could see far and turned to look at the eye as it was set ablaze . He remembered that Odin's eyehole was set ablaze and felt less disgusted seeing it . But the fire of Odin's eye also set ablaze the Niflheim frost Ikuta used to freeze the rest of the forbidden knowledge .
" Uhoh " the eye soaked in the small puddle of forbidden knowledge and Ikuta was worried about what would happen next . He vigilantly watched the forbidden knowledge burned into Odin's eye ' It's like watching soup boil '
Odin's eye's flame finally changed into a mix of color matching the colors of the other forbidden knowledge in the pond . Ikuta used a jar to stuff it inside and looked at Odin's flaming eye .
" what should I do with this " he goes to look at the map planning his route remembering how Ezio would always tell him to take his time when he did the same in their party games .
" Vedrfolnir made a very nice map " he liked how he was able to tell how much the realm was rotating and planned to head back to the spring just right ' I'll have to stay here for a while but I could use it to investigate the light ' he checked on the monsters drinking water .
There was more and he found some other monsters that were confused about the emptiness in the areas around Ikuta and found themselves at the spring of water .
" This is cool " he was glad the amount of life force he placed was enough now " Let's search for why there is light " he set the time up and decided to turn to the only place that could get him the information . He zooms in on the map to look around searching for where the light is the brightest .
He felt like when he was a kid exploring the outside world using online maps to see things . And he was good at it it was almost like he was exploring Jotunheim through the map and had no problem with using it ' I don't even have to use mana thanks to this '
He took his time and finally found where the light was ridiculously bright and used dark flames , teleporting in front of a tall ice ' This light is so bright '
He used the seeing dark to see only black and white . He looked at the mountain and decided to finally get the answer and made it crumble by absorbing the Niflheim that allowed the ice to crumble .
As it crumbled he looked up to see the peak still present and the white light that was hidden inside the glacier . The white light beamed the peak's crystals colouring it with many colors but the rainbow was scattered through the complicated structure of the prism and threw themselves out of Jotunheim .
" What ? " The peak's prism fell and Ikuta quickly dodged it and grabbed what he saw was left of the white light and still able to emit a faint light .
" What's this ? " he looked at the prism beside him wondering what this giant prism was and remembered the eye of Odin wondering if he could get an answer through it ' I already got the worst forbidden knowledge of them all so it's okay if I get more '
He opened the jar and looked at the eye with nothing between them only for it to burn brightly and make him squint his eyes at the brightness that penetrated his seeing dark spell ' Ahh what is this ? '
His eyes could still see that everything was in black and white yet the flame on Odin's eye was colored . Ikuta rubbed his eyes to open it again seeing some visions of what it was ' A rainbow bridge ? '
He stopped seeing the visions turning to the eye " So it answers too " Ikuta was confused about how Odin's eye would be answering him but figured it might be useful . He turned to see that the map had glowing colors and unrolled it surprised to see what had happened .
He saw a clear red light in Muspelheim , orange in Helheim , yellow in Alfheim , Green in Vanaheim , blue in Niflheim , Indigo in Nidavellir and violet at Svartalheim " So this prism is supposed to make the bifrost , but why is it messed up ? "
He turned to Odin's eye which set ablaze again giving him numerous visions and telling him more about what Odin knew " Ow " He rubbed his eyes and looked at Odin's eye and decided to just hold it .
He grabbed the eye and held it up very close to examine it as the eye ignited with flames that spread to his body " OW " He remembers his first time taking the hot steaming water into his body that gradually increased in temperature but the flame the eye scorched him was instantly hot .
' What is this ? ' Ikuta tried to understand why the eye was ablaze , he watched it come closer to his eye remembering what happened to Odin after he gorged his eye out in some stories which explained a brightly glowing light .
' This fire must be it but why is it in the eye too ? ' Ikuta remembers how the light filled the scar in Odin's eye " Are you supposed to find Odin ? " he asked but had no answer . Odin's eye touched Ikuta's skin burning at the eye's touch .
He could feel that the eye was trying to fit itself into Ikuta but without an empty eyehole it had to make one " Owow " Ikuta saw visions of other forbidden knowledge and quickly stabilizes his body remembering the training he had endured to be able to utilize more of his body's functions .
" this might pop my eye out " He quickly used the lifeforce and the spell that brings flesh to the bones and focused on using it to create another eyehole so that Odin's eye wouldn't pop his eyeball out .
Creating another eyehole was easy with Odin's eye scorching his skin Ikuta used white magic to heal his scars and finally he completely had Odin's eye under his left " Hah " Ikuta rubbed his extra eye feeling how weird it felt and snapped a picture of himself to see that there was no scars .
" how do I hide this ? " Ikuta imagined Ezio in the potential future calling him a cheater because he has Odin's eye . He sighed and accessed the memories inside Odin's eye checking to see that the giant prism was part of the Bifrost bridge and the white light acted as the fuel of sorts .
" then these lights must be the colors of the rainbow " Ikuta looked at the map seeing each realm radiating with different colors with only Nidavellir and Svartalheim having two for having two kinds of names as realms .
" Oh man I'll probably have to get to this place so should I try to make the bifrost while I'm at it ? " He shook his head knowing it would be pointless to do so , he didn't have any information or preparation for the rest of the realms not to mention one of them was Helheim the underworld .
" Plus having another eye makes me dizzy " he decided he should just head back and leave looking for the lights later taking the white light and the prism . He first went to sleep to rest for the day since the dizziness of having another eye was disorienting .
After breakfast , he headed for the moutain , after lunch hiked the mountain and returned to Ginnungagap , but with another eye , his balance was shaken and he tripped into the wellspring .
" Ouch " the monsters didn't try to tackle him as they still saw him as the tree full of fruits plus they were very full but still able to move agilely because they controlled their eating " I need to get used to this extra eye .
He left the spring turning back to think how Jotunheim was where the primary functions of the Bifrost fell into and headed to Niflheim " How do I bring you guys back ? " He asked he still had time until the mountain came but he didn't have an idea on how to bring them .
" I could make a bridge for them " He thinks about the tallest peak and left more lifeforce water for any other monsters who are hungry . He went to sleep by the monsters knowing he still had plenty of things prepared for a week and he had only been out for three days and this was just his third night .
As he rested , Vedrfolnir was worried at what he just saw " Vedrfolnir what are you doing ? " Nidhogg asked " Watching and I think I saw a rainbow at Jotunheim "
" What was that Rainbow ? " Nidhogg asked " It must be the Bifrost that spread the lights throughout the realms I'll have to plan it out and ask Young master the details of his journey I'm sure he'll be writing about the rainbow plus that map is very enchanted even better than my eyes as of now "
" Maybe you should go to a doctor for your eye and check on how great you are at spreading false information " Ratatoskr said .
" It's not my fault people had different interpretations of the gods moreover the names were from an old language " Yukina was just drinking lifeforce from the abyss since Ikuta was two far away for her to get it directly from him .
Ikuta woke up with a punch of monsters staring at him " Hmm this feels sort of nice " He stretched and got up " Okay I have plenty of batteries in my backpack I can use them to make the mountain taller this way they will have a way to follow me . "
He jumped into Niflheim and started to scale a mountain seeing the small portal in the distance and remembered the phone that Petra gave him " Hello Petra ? " Petra was surprised to hear it and quickly answered .
" Young master ? " " Can you make the beacon area bigger I have a lot of things I'm bringing back " Petra was excited wondering what Ikuta had found in the realms and quickly prepared to accommodate whatever he bought .
Ikuta finished drawing the runes needed to lengthen the height of the mountain " Okay now the duchess has done this before when she made the midnight mansion realm all I have to do is extend it which will be a little bit hard "
The Niflheim runes started absorbing all the batteries' mana and the dark mana was being made at an incredible rate . Both frost and darkness worked together to create black thorns that started piercing Niflheim's skies and reached the end .
Petra took some escorts and contracted adventurers to help carry whatever Ikuta has " He's only been gone for three days and he already came back "
" Will Young master even have a lot with him " " I'm not sure but " She recalls Vedrfolnir who showed great knowledge and assumed Ikuta might've bought something great .
They were just facing in front hoping to see a silhouette of Ikuta but they saw a noticeable darkness in the realm where every site was lit " Hmm ? "
They looked at the giant thorn that was protruding out of the tallest mountain that was far from the portal but was still seen because of the direction the portal was facing .
" What is that ? " they looked at the thorn poking out past the sky unable to see the pointy end and through the atmosphere of Niflheim they watch the thorn somehow increasing in thickness slightly or rather they would describe it as tiny insects crawling on a stick .
" hello young master " Ikuta answered the phone " Hello ? " " What did you bring ? " " I bought a lot of things but the biggest thing I bought was monsters in Ginnungagap , you don't have to worry about them I made sure they are well fed so they won't try to eat anyone "
Petra was shocked to hear that he found life in the yawning void and used a megaphone " LISTEN UP , the young master brought some monsters with him according to what he told me through the phone they are supposed to be docile so all of you will have to draw back your weapons and do not try to kill it "
Petra had heard of tamers' stories and understood that Ikuta maybe acting the same " Also is there some lunch can you buy me a lot ? " " Understood " she gave this task to someone else and waited for the horde of monsters to come .
She watched the frost clear up seeing Ikuta approaching fast , the adventurer remembered the nightmares when dungeon breaks occurred but since this was outside they could just destroy the portal and sacrifice their lives for the family they still had .
But there was no need to worry about such things when Ikuta stop in his tracks causing the monsters to stop too " I'm back is there enough space outside for them ? " Petra took a deep breath inside the spell formation that was keeping the beacon area around the portal warm .
" I believe we don't young master perhaps you may explain the situation to me so that we can accommodate them " " Of course here I wrote all about my adventures here " Petra wondered if there was something she shouldn't know looking at the extra eye Ikuta has .
" That might be inside this journal is it not ? " Petra whispered " It is in the journal can you find a way to hide it ? " " I'll try young master , but first please cover it up " Petra handed him a cloth which he used to hide his extra eye .
" Is there anything you need so that the monsters can stay in here ? " " Yep I just have to stay here , they will follow me around " " Okay then Young master we'll have people set up some tents for you as for your companies ? "
" Don't worry they're still full I gave them a lot to drink " Petra knew there was no such thing as lots of water inside Ikuta's bag so she dismissed it as something else and read the journal .
Ikuta ate his lunch at Niflheim while the monsters just watched him , without having to worry about his time management because of the movement of the worlds Ikuta tasted the joy of home advantages .
Petra finished the book wondering how much of this she should reveal ' I'm well aware that young master has some great advantages but I don't even know any of them but the training method of treating your body like an ecosystem to alleviate its overall abilities '
She almost fainted when she learned that he had a map that told him what Niflheim looked like outside and the positioning as well as the accuracy of the data it was better than any online maps , it was basically a map that lets you see everything else .
' And then there's the fact that he extracted forbidden knowledge and Mimisbrunnr , found the Bifrost and got Odin's eye ' Petra contemplates wondering how she should go with this .
' But with this journal , I can simply say that he left on an adventure , our adventurers will surely shut up about his extra eye , we could just make up a story and say he was just shy about it fearing the judgment of others and never mention it was Odin's sacrificed eye '
She turned to the monsters ' And as for the monsters , I'll just say that he felt sorry and fed them ... wait then how do I explain how he managed to breathe outside in space ? '
... ' no wait I could just say that he had an oxygen tank in his backpack , I never revealed what I prepared and we have some oxygen tanks I just have to pretend I took some out of the stock and changed the inventory '
She had gone through a hectic emotional roller coaster trying to ensure she didn't cause mass panic by revealing all of the journal's contents and going to Ikuta to ask if he likes the story she made that avoided revealing contents that brings trouble to Ikuta " That sounds nice "
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