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The God of Chaos looked down into the entire world of Yggdrasil with a pleasant smile.
The enormous world tree towered upwards into the skies, covering the vastness of the world with its enormous branches.
It was located in the middle of all continents, right in the middle of the oceans. It was a mystical place that not all races could easily access.
He suddenly sat down over one of its branches, as his darkness suddenly began to seep within its branch, infecting it with the power of chaos.
“Hm…”
He quickly stopped infecting the branch as his darkness went back to his body. He had done this without realizing it. Sometimes he had to be careful.
“Now, now… I wonder what my precious little children are doing…” he said with a smile.
He wasn’t looking exactly at Hel or his other two children, Fenrir and Jormungandr, but he was looking at something even further away from the place where they lived, in the underground depths of Helheim, but above the surface, where the fragments of evil had spread after their fragmentation.
Loki was a god of trickery. He enjoyed doing pranks and scheming, weaving countless cunning schemes while planning what to do with others. His goals were unknown to most people, but those that knew him well could easily tell he was up for the ride.
He wanted a fun time.
Of course, there was another meaning to his actions, a much noble one.
To stop stagnation.
He wanted mortals to continue fighting for survival and growing from each of their experiences.
In a world without dungeons or monsters, what else would there be for these people than everything easily accessible?
As the god of chaos, a primordial element of the universe, he couldn’t let them simply stagnate like the God of Light desired and fought back against his own father’s desires.
Many gods agreed with his decision, and Odin couldn’t do much against him either. The gods disliked fighting one another unless they posed a threat to the gods themselves, but none of Loki’s antics ever made any threat to the gods. It was just a challenge to mortals.
And it wasn’t as if the challenges and trials were not without rewards. Monsters brought their meat, pelt, bones, and materials to the mortals, which the mortals used to advance their technology, to eat, to survive, and to build better places, make new armor, and weapons, and fight back more efficiently.
Magic Crystals were an abundant resource that was used daily in several types of ways and had become a staple for the society of the world. This resource was brought to the world through the power of the God of Chaos, of course.
Loki smiled pleasantly as he noticed the several auras of darkness leaking from within.
Although the fragments of evil had been sealed, other catastrophes were slowly growing…
And even then, these fragments of evil… one of them which was closely related with the girl that had become troublesome for Odin, was being, as of now, played with by mortals.
“These mortals are really stepping out of their boundaries, even more than the Vampires… But even then, does Odin realize they’re moving the strings behind most of the Albraun Kingdom? Well, this is not even the main Empire of where the church dominates, so I suppose he seems to not care as much, despite playing around with such a dangerous power…” sighed Loki.
The Fragments of Evil contained incredible power within them, merely extracting the growths coming from a sealed fragment brought to humans and the Vampires behind them a series of new materials and tools to play around with. Maria had already faced several foes that were using them for evil…
Even Takeshi and Laura, who were created as chimeras capable of harboring the power made out of materials grown from the sealed fragment of evil, were a mere experiment for what they were planning. Even the black potions that could bring great power to those that drank them but turned them insane, or Cursed Weapons made of these materials, which contained great power… it was all slowly escalating out of control with each new invention.
“Humans,… you shouldn’t really mess around with these fragments. You’re only going to worsen the situation for you more than anything… *Sigh*… Oh well, I know that my daughter’s herald was specifically made to deal with them… as the one from the family that was tasked to defend and protect this fragment from being used for vile purposes… I have great expectations that you might resolve the conflict… but if not, well… I have already prepared and orchestrated several other calamities to befall over those that dare to disobey the will of the Gods…” laughed Loki.
He looked into the several spots of darkness, and as he quickly smiled, a sickly and rather sadistic smile surged on his beautiful and feminine face.
His eyes shone with bright crimson-red light as he looked down into Midgard.
Within this place, there was a large foggy forest filled with spiders.
And within this forest, there was a large dungeon that extended underground…
In there, a Calamity was slowly growing.
“Hm… She had gotten in its way… I wonder if the two will clash? It would certainly be a sight to see! Oooh! I am getting pumped up! But will Hel be angry if she dies? Ah… Well, if she’s smart enough, she’ll evade this. Nobody that is sane enough would battle something so strong unless they got a death wish… Well, she’s already dead, hahaha!”
The God of Chaos laughed carefreely while sitting over the branch of the world tree. A gigantic squirrel wandered around the branches, noticing the insane man laughing while sitting on a branch.
“Oi! Why are you in here, huma- Aaaaan?!”
The squirrel was about to tell him to get out of the tree before it actually realized it was a God…
“Hm~? Oh, little squirrel… What are you up to today~?” laughed Loki.
“L-Lord Loki! I-It is nice to meet you… My name is Ratatoskr, by the way… Haha…” the squirrel sighed.
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