Chapter 1290
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Chapter 1290 Method of Separation?
“I… only saw a corner.”
Skadi said seriously, “Big brother, you’re different from others. Your past and future are both missing a corner… not the kind covered by mist, but truly missing a corner, so even if I see your future, it might not necessarily come true.”
Missing a corner?
Lin Qiye originally thought that Urd’s “past with a hidden corner” was simply because of the existence of the Gods’ Mental Hospital, but now it seems there might be other reasons?
What was special about him that could cause both his past and future to be missing a corner? Something even the three goddesses couldn’t see?
Lin Qiye pondered for a long time but couldn’t find an answer, so he temporarily put this question aside and continued asking, “It’s okay, you can tell me about the corner you saw.”
“Big brother… do you really want to hear it?”
“Am I not allowed to?”
“You can, it’s just…” Skadi seemed to recall something, her lips slightly pursed, “It’s just, not very good…”
“How is it not good?”
“I saw you crying.”
“Crying?”
“Yes, crying in a very large, beautiful palace with many red decorations and many seats, though no one was sitting in them… You stood at the entrance of the palace, looking at the sky, crying so sadly, as if your eyes had gone blind from crying…”
After hearing Skadi’s description, Lin Qiye fell into deep confusion.
Himself in a red palace, crying until blind?
This…
In all his life, Lin Qiye rarely cried. He remembered the most recent time he cried fiercely was when Zhao Kongcheng died in his arms… What could possibly happen in the future to make him cry so sadly? To the point of crying himself blind?
Was she really talking about him?
Following behind Skadi, Lin Qiye felt a heaviness in his heart.
Before long, Lin Qiye saw the holy spring Skadi had mentioned. Rather than a spring, it was more like a pure white stream gushing from underground.
The spring water flowed vigorously down a long riverbed, eventually merging with a rushing river on the other side of the mountain, running through all of Asgard.
Lin Qiye recognized that rushing river—it was the sacred river spoken of by the Norse gods, and the only source of water for their daily lives.
At the edge of the crystal-clear white spring, Bragi was lying quietly on a huge rock, with the goddesses of “Past” and “Present” standing on either side, looking at him with solemn expressions.
The spring water crashed against the rocks along the shore, countless droplets splashing up and falling around Bragi. His eyelashes, hanging with a few drops of mist, trembled slightly as he slowly opened his eyes…
Bragi’s hollow gaze looked at the dim sky through the gaps in the leaves above, motionless like a corpse.
After who knows how long, a faint murmur finally emerged from his throat:
“Idunn…”
Seeing Bragi awaken, Lin Qiye quickly walked to him, “Bragi, you’re awake?”
Bragi’s scattered pupils gradually focused. His face showed pain and struggle as he slowly sat up from the rock, speaking in a dazed manner:
“Lin Qiye… Idunn… she’s really dead… I saw with my own eyes how she cut out her heart and placed it in my body… Her blood flowed on the floor, nourishing a room full of golden buds…”
“Bragi! She’s not dead!” Lin Qiye said earnestly, “Have you forgotten all those letters you wrote to each other? If she were truly dead, who wrote those letters? There couldn’t possibly be a second Idunn who knows so much about your past. Though she lost her body, her soul has always been with you.
Between you and her, there’s only half a heart chamber.”
Finally, some light returned to Bragi’s eyes. He lowered his head, absently touching the right side of his chest.
“She… has always been by my side?”
“She has always been by your side!” Lin Qiye said with certainty.
“Then when can I see her again?”
Lin Qiye’s open mouth suddenly stopped in mid-air.
Idunn and Bragi’s souls shared one body, indeed close at hand, but this also meant that unless Idunn’s soul was separated and revived, they could never meet again… and achieving this was almost impossible.
“We can help you.”
At this moment, Verdandi, who had been silent at the side, suddenly spoke, “We have a way to separate Idunn’s soul from yours, allowing you to reunite.”
Hearing this, both Lin Qiye and Bragi turned their heads sharply toward her.
“Really?!” The light finally appeared in Bragi’s desolate eyes. He scrambled up from the rock regardless of everything else, rushed to Verdandi, and grabbed her like the last straw of hope.
“You can really bring my wife back to life?!”
Seeing Bragi’s extremely excited expression, Verdandi was silent for a moment, then nodded, “Yes, it’s possible.
Theoretically, if we find a temporary vessel for Idunn’s soul, then use Urd’s and my laws to separate her from your body and store her in it, then reshape her divine form using Asgard’s essence, and guide her soul into it, she might be reborn.”
Hearing this, joy also appeared in Lin Qiye’s eyes.
He hadn’t expected that the problem troubling him and Merlin for so long would find a solution with the three Norns.
If they could revive Idunn and reunite her with Bragi, that would be the best outcome!
“Please! I really beg you!” The fire of hope completely reignited in Bragi’s eyes, “Three goddesses, if you help me revive my wife, I’ll do anything…”
“Idunn is my friend. We would help her with all our might even without your plea,” Verdandi said.
She turned and stepped down from the huge rock, and after thinking for a moment, still said, “However, doing this carries significant risks, and even we don’t have much confidence… you should prepare yourself mentally.
Follow me.”
Verdandi and Urd led the ecstatic Bragi to a spacious cave. With a wave of her hand, Verdandi created a divine barrier at the entrance, completely sealing it from the outside world.
Lin Qiye and Si Xiaonan, who were about to follow them in, were blocked outside.
“The process of extracting a soul is very dangerous. Please wait outside for a while.”
Verdandi stood in the dim entrance of the cave and slowly spoke to those outside.
Seeing this, Lin Qiye raised an eyebrow but didn’t insist, nodding and retreating outside the cave.
Time passed minute by minute.
Outside the silent cave, Lin Qiye, Si Xiaonan, and Skadi waited in silence.
He stood up from the huge rock and anxiously paced back and forth at the entrance, occasionally glancing inside, but it remained quiet with no sound coming out.
If the two goddesses failed, would it affect Idunn inside Bragi’s body?
Surely not…
Lin Qiye very much wanted to enter the cave to see how things were progressing, but with Verdandi’s barrier in place, even his spiritual power couldn’t extend inside, leaving him to worry helplessly outside.
After much internal struggle, Lin Qiye temporarily removed the disguise magic on his body, and a golden domain opened beneath his feet.
“Qiye, what are you doing?” Si Xiaonan asked in confusion when she saw this familiar golden light.
“It’s ‘Miracle,'” Lin Qiye took a deep breath, “Although I can’t help, I can at least create a ‘Miracle’ in this area. If something truly irreparable happens, perhaps ‘Miracle’ might help…”
This was all Lin Qiye could do in the current situation.
By the huge rock, Skadi, holding Mumu, saw this scene and opened her mouth as if wanting to say something, but then silently lowered her head…
“What’s wrong, Skadi?”
Lin Qiye noticed Skadi’s unusual behavior and asked with confusion.
Skadi looked at the cave, hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke haltingly:
“Actually… big brother doesn’t need to be so nervous, this soul separation can’t possibly succeed…”
Hearing these words, Lin Qiye’s heart sank!
“What do you mean?” He quickly walked to Skadi and asked anxiously.
Skadi spoke softly: “No matter how hard my two sisters try, they won’t be able to separate Sister Idunn’s soul…
Because in that body, from beginning to end,
There has only ever been Brother Bragi’s soul…”
