# 1257
Chapter 1257: Wish, Mumu
Surrounded by these twelve Corpse-Mountain Cities of Destruction, Hodr's figure appeared fragile and insignificant.
Hodr's face turned pale!
Twelve?!!
There were actually twelve of these monsters?!
Sensing the terrifying fluctuations emanating from the twelve Corpse-Mountain Cities, Hodr gritted his teeth and prepared to break through the encirclement.
But in the next instant, endless waves of skeletal remains surged forth from within the corpse mountains, flooding his form from all directions. From a distance, one could only see a pale, massive sphere rising from the ground, completely sealing off Hodr's retreat!
Immediately after, bursts of explosions and tremors echoed from within the pale bone sphere. Twelve Corpse-Mountain Cities closed in on Hodr, as if intending to tear apart heaven and earth.
The violent gusts of air howled, ruffling Lin Qiye's clothes who was dozens of kilometers away.
He sensed the world-destroying aura of the twelve Corpse-Mountain Cities and could basically conclude that Hodr's chances of survival were extremely slim.
Even if Hodr was a Chief God, in a one-on-one situation, he might be able to forcefully kill one Corpse-Mountain City, but under such a terrifying assault, he absolutely had no ability to fight back. The only suspense now was whether these Corpse-Mountain Cities possessed law-based powers.
If they did, Hodr would be dead beyond doubt. If they didn't, he could only cling to life in a half-dead state.
"What exactly are these things..." Lin Qiye furrowed his brow.
The same question also arose in the hearts of Thor and Tyr on the battlefield.
"Loki! What did you do?!"
Thor witnessed Hodr's form being engulfed, the thunder light flickering around him growing increasingly brilliant. He turned to look at Loki standing before the skeletal palace and roared.
Loki glanced at the twelve Corpse-Mountain Cities with a hint of surprise, shrugged his shoulders:
"I didn't plan to use them against you. That idiot walked into his own death."
Thor's eyes were filled with murderous intent. Coming to the underworld this time was originally to rescue Sif, but now he'd landed Hodr in a life-threatening situation as well. His chest heaved violently, and his hatred for Loki reached an unprecedented peak!
"Loki, you asked for this!" Thor bellowed, "【Royal Scepter】!"
Clang——!!
At the corner of the chaotic battlefield's edge, the bleeding 22号—whose seven orifices were streaming blood from the divine war's aftermath—clenched his jaw and smashed the dark golden 【Royal Scepter】 onto the ground!
A golden ripple instantly swept across the battlefield, catching both Loki and Hela off guard and covering them both.
Two thick streams of divine power extended from their bodies, piercing through the airborne gravel, and flew directly toward the 【Royal Scepter】 in 22号's hand.
As this flood of divine power surged into the 【Royal Scepter】, it emitted dazzling brilliance. 22号 groaned, a large amount of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth. The hand gripping the 【Royal Scepter】 quickly released!
He had used the 【Royal Scepter】 to commandeer the divine power of Loki and Hela, but the divine power of those two Chief Gods was far too great. If he, like he had done inside the King's Treasury, tried to forcibly channel this divine power into himself, he would probably explode and die within two seconds.
His human body simply couldn't withstand such vast divine power. He could only rely on the 【Royal Scepter】 itself to temporarily lock it away.
But the 【Royal Scepter】 itself was merely a "transfer station" for commandeering energy. If there was no vessel to channel the energy it had plundered, the upper limit of what it could absorb would be greatly reduced. This meant that Loki and Hela couldn't be completely drained of divine power.
Nevertheless, half of Loki and Hela's divine power had been forcibly extracted.
In such a perilous divine war, this was already enough to reverse the tide of battle.
"The King's 【Royal Scepter】? You actually found the King's Treasury?!" When Loki saw this, his expression changed drastically.
Before Loki could retreat, Thor transformed into a bolt of lightning and flashed before him, his right fist clenched tight with blinding electric sparks, and slammed it into Loki's chest!
As this punch landed, even the surrounding space slightly warped, and thunder roared like tides echoing across the heavens!
As the thunder light struck, Loki's form flew backward like a black dot, crashing into the skeletal palace behind him and causing it to tremble violently. Loki vomited a mouthful of blood, and wisps of black threads interwove between his palms.
But after losing his divine power, the formation speed of "Trickery" had noticeably decreased. Before Loki could disappear, Thor flashed before him once more, his thunderous fists raining down like a storm!
In a deafening roar, Loki's "Trickery" finally took shape. He vanished and reappeared on the other side of the skeletal palace.
His chest had visibly caved in, half his body was scorched black by the lightning, and his limbs were twisted awkwardly. He looked completely disheveled.
"Hela! Kill that agent!" Loki rasped.
The Underworld Queen Hela narrowed her eyes. While engaged in combat with the one-armed war god Tyr, she turned her gaze to 22号, who was guarding the 【Royal Scepter】 nearby.
With a lift of her fingertip, the skeletal palace behind her trembled violently. On the pale palace roof, a pair of sky-obscuring bone wings slowly unfurled, and an ear-piercing dragon's roar echoed across the sky!
The roof of the skeletal palace had transformed into a massive bone dragon, spreading its wings and soaring into the air with a howl!
Within the bone dragon's hollow eye sockets, two clusters of eerie green flames flickered slightly. Black underworld death energy drifted with the flapping of the bone wings. Its objective was very clear—to charge directly toward 22号, who was guarding the 【Royal Scepter】!
22号's face instantly turned ashen.
In that life-or-death moment, 22号 couldn't worry about anything else. He directly stripped off his outer garment, wrapped it around the 【Royal Scepter】, and bolted in a certain direction!
22号's speed, while not slow, was far inferior compared to the Underworld Bone Dragon. The distance between them shrank little by little. 22号's heart burned with anxiety. He shouted toward a certain figure getting closer ahead:
"Miles! Save me!"
Lin Qiye: ???
22号's chosen escape route was precisely where Lin Qiye was located.
Watching the twelve Corpse-Mountain Cities in the distance, Lin Qiye watched as 22号 charged directly toward him with the Underworld Bone Dragon. He couldn't help but curse internally.
You brought this trouble upon yourself, and you still want to drag me into it?!
"Don't come here!!"
Lin Qiye shouted immediately, turned his hand to summon Mumu, and quickly strapped it onto his back.
Just as it was summoned, the bewildered Mumu tilted its head, its hollow eyes filled with great confusion.
Lin Qiye slapped its head:
"Move!"
The bandages on Mumu's back quickly unwound, revealing a flame thrower. A fierce stream of fire erupted, propelling Lin Qiye's body to skim across the ground between the jumbled boulders!
While the flame thrower's speed was not slow, it was clearly no match for the Underworld Bone Dragon or 22号. However, Lin Qiye summoning Mumu wasn't solely for escape.
"Mumu." Lin Qiye spoke quietly while flying.
"Eek——?"
"Wish—locate Sif!"