Heimskringla is the 100th chapter of the "Shuumatsu no Valkyrie: Record of Ragnarok" manga series.
Summary[]
The warriors of Thor, Odin and Heracles rush forth from Loki. Heimdall is about to tell them to wait when he begins to wonder if this is against the rules as the fight is starting as a 4v1 when it should be a 1v1. Heimdall comes to the conclusion that this is completely fine since there's no better alternative he can come up with. Having thought through of all that in 0.5 seconds, Heimdall officially signals the start of the fight. He recounts how Thor, Odin and even Heracles, who should've gone to Niflhel, all appeared from the black mist that Loki summoned and they are now gunning it straight for Simo Häyhä.
Ares cries at seeing the copy of Heracles
Getting excited, Shiva questions if this is real and Aphrodite is surprised the fight's beginning like this. Humans question if this is an illusion and even the Gods don't entirely agree with each other on if the ones summoned are real or just a trick. As they come up to the forest, Thor imbues Mjölnir with lightning and swings, destroying many of the trees in his surrounding area. Heracles follows up by swinging his club, demolishing most of the trees that's straight ahead of him. Remarking on how they're toppling the forest and advancing easily, Heimdall says the three Gods may be illusions but they are certainly not mere "tricks"; they are the real thing, through and through. Seeing Heracles displayed on the monitor, Ares bursts into tears. Also seeing him on her TV, Hlökk initially complains that 4v1 is against the rules before she begins to question how Heracles can be there when he's supposed to be dead, only for Jack the Ripper to cut her off. Using his right eye to see the color of the soul of Heracles that Loki brought forth, Jack calls it unforgivable.
Loki puts on a ring
As the three Gods make their way through the forest, Heimdall is about to relay what Simo's response is, only to notice he's gone from where he was situated and seemingly disappeared into thin air. Guessing he has holed up somewhere in the forest since he is a sniper, Heimdall questions if Simo's plan is to shoot a single surefire kill shot. Remarking on how Humanity's greatest sniper would be good at hide-and-seek, Loki recognizes he won't be able to find him like this and guesses he has no choice. He brings out a ring from his back pocket and wears it on his right ring finger. Loki decides to up the ante and swipes his right hand, dispersing a large black mist that envelops the entire village he's in. Within the mist, Heimdall is just able to make out even more body doubles of Thor, Odin and Heracles appearing.
Musashi, Hrist and Kojiro taken aback by Loki's power
By the time the mist clears, Heimdall counts over a hundred replicas, exclaiming there's too many to count. Floating in the air, Loki orders his troops to go. The army of the three Gods swarm the forest and Musashi Miyamoto questions how Loki is doing this, speculating if it's some kind of ninjutsu. With Hrist left in disbelief as well, Kojiro Sasaki admits he doesn't understand what's going on but he knows at this point, no matter where Simo hides, it's only a matter of time until he's found. As he summons another Gjallarhorn from black mist coming out of his left hand, Loki directly calls out to Simo and asks if he's surprised, tauntingly claiming to be good at playing hide-and-seek too.
Loki explains how his power, Heimskringla, works
While his replicas continue to tear up the forest, Loki insists they'll find Simo but before he is sent to Niflhel, he promises to explain this nightmare to him since games should be fair. In his new position, Simo remains unfazed, deciding to hear him out. Loki reveals his power is Heimskringla: the power to copy anything. Walking over and grabbing a nearby squirrel, Loki gives a demonstration. By using the power of his fingertips (referred to as The Consuming One), he can input whatever he touches. After touching the squirrel with his right fingertips, Loki's right palm exudes black mist as he states he can then output the same thing using the power of his palms (referred to as the Seed of Trickery). Holding the real squirrel in his left hand and its recreation on his right, Loki says once he's touched something, whether it's things, Humans or even Gods, he is able to recreate them as many times as he wants.
Zeus believes Loki has an ulterior motive
Dispelling the recreated squirrel to hold up his right hand, Loki adds the ring he's wearing is a Divine Weapon, Andvaranaut. Generally, Loki is only able to send out up to five copies of each of his recreations but when wearing Andvaranaut, he can make an infinite amount of copies. The Humans are shocked and label that as cheating. Widely smiling, Loki tells Simo that, while this spacious battleground may look like it gives the sniper the advantage, in truth, it gives Loki an advantage too as he can just overwhelm him with numbers. Loki asks Simo on what he thinks, guessing this makes this a much more fair game.
But Loki then brings up to himself that the more copies he makes, the further each of their power gets divided, calling that the weakness. As Simo and Jack think about what he just said, Loki realizes he spoke into the Gjallarhorn while saying that but plays it off as if it isn't an issue that Simo knows his weakness since it'll be easy to kill a weak little Human like him. Ares calls him a clumsy idiot for bragging so much, exasperated at how Loki gave away his weakness. But Hermes notes aloud that Loki wouldn't make a mistake like that as he's not like Ares, much to the surprise of Ares that Hermes would say that of him. Zeus agrees Loki isn't as careless as Ares and assumes he has an ulterior motive. Hermes begins to ponder what motive Loki could have to reveal his weakness and also to pick this battleground. Nodding, Ares claims he was thinking it must be a trick too but when Hermes ignores him, Ares sits back down on his seat next to Zeus.
Loki gloats over how no-one can escape him
Zeus and Hermes' reading of the situation was correct. Within his explanation, Loki had slipped in a small bluff. The input and output abilities of Heimskringla, and the fact that the more copies he makes, the weaker each one gets, was all true. The lie is Loki implied each copy's power is uniformly distributed. The truth is, Loki can freely control the distribution and is able to decide how the power is divided between each copy. Amongst the gigantic army, Loki slipped in a single copy of Thor that possessed a larger concentration of power than the rest.
That way, if Simo took down one of the weak copies with a single shot, he'd assume the rest were all like that and let his guard down. On the other hand, if he happened to shoot the strongest copy and wasn't able to take it down, he'd assume the rest were also that strong, putting pressure on him. On this chaotic battlefield, against an army who looked the same but had vastly different power levels, Loki's aim was to unsettle Simo Häyhä: it was a trap in which he had hidden a surefire way to kill him. Buddha comments this is how Loki fights and as she watches on, Loki swears he will make Brunhilde regret this, smiling about how no-one can escape from the palm of his hands.
Simo uses Ilmatar to mow down the army of Gods
Heimdall points out the army of the copied three Gods are all trampling through the forest like nothing, calling their advance unstoppable. Suddenly, a gunshot rang out and the army of Gods looked towards the flash of light that it came from. In that moment, that single gunshot shook the atmosphere, leading to the audience witnessing an unbelievable miracle. Simo fired a single bullet from his beloved Mosin-Nagant rifle, that has a firing speed of 810m/s. The bullet that he fired moved twice as fast as the speed of sound and as it travelled through the air, the bullet began shining before splitting itself up into smaller pieces. As if a bed of infinite flowers bloomed all at once, the army of Gods were caught in a hailstorm of small bullets, each of the copies being destroyed, one after another. Even the strong Thor copy is destroyed, much to Loki's shock.
At the end, the ground was covered in the bloody flowers of the three Gods' corpses. Shiva, Zeus, Hermes, Ares, Jack, Hlökk, Aphrodite and Buddha are all stunned by what happened while the real Thor smiles. As the dead copies all vanish, with only a handful of them left alive, Loki grits his teeth at how the vast bulk of his copies were taken down in an instant, even the strong one, and guesses this is the power of the fighter Brunhilde chose to defeat him. The name of the attack Simo used was known as Ilmatar.
As he begins bleeding through his mask, Simo counts this as "Yksi," meaning "One."
Characters in Order of Appearance[]
- Loki
- Heimdall
- Simo Häyhä
- Shiva
- Aphrodite
- Ares
- Hermes
- Hlökk
- Jack the Ripper
- Musashi Miyamoto
- Kojiro Sasaki
- Hrist (No lines)
- Zeus
- Buddha
- Brunhilde (No lines)
- Thor (No lines)
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| Chapters & Volumes | |
|---|---|
| Volume 1 | 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 |
| Volume 2 | 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 |
| Volume 3 | 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 |
| Volume 4 | 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 |
| Volume 5 | 19 • 20 • 21 |
| Volume 6 | 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 |
| Volume 7 | 26 • 27 • 28 • 29 |
| Volume 8 | 30 • 31 • 32 • 33 |
| Volume 9 | 34 • 35 • 36 • 37 |
| Volume 10 | 38 • 39 • 40 • 41 |
| Volume 11 | 42 • 43 • 44 • 45 |
| Volume 12 | 46 • 47 • 48 • 49 |
| Volume 13 | 50 • 51 • 52 • 53 |
| Volume 14 | 54 • 55 • 56 • 57 |
| Volume 15 | 58 • 59 • 60 • 61 • B1 |
| Volume 16 | 62 • 63 • 64 • 65 • 66 |
| Volume 17 | 67 • 68 • 69 • 70 • B2 |
| Volume 18 | 71 • 72 • 73 • 74 • B3 |
| Volume 19 | 75 • 76 • 77 • 78 |
| Volume 20 | 79 • 80 • 81 • 82 |
| Volume 21 | 83 • 84 • 85 • 86 |
| Volume 22 | 87 • 88 • 89 • 90 • B4 |
| Volume 23 | 91 • 92 • 93 • 94 • B5 |
| Volume 24 | 95 • 96 • 97 • 98 • B6 |
| Volume 25 | 99 • 100 • 101 • 102 |
| List of Rounds (Manga) | |
|---|---|
| 1. Lü Bu vs. Thor | 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 |
| 2. Adam vs. Zeus | 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 |
| 3. Kojiro Sasaki vs. Poseidon | 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 |
| 4. Jack the Ripper vs. Heracles | 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 • 29 • 30 |
| 5. Raiden Tameemon vs. Shiva | 31 • 32 • 33 • 34 • 35 • 36 • 37 • 38 • 39 • 40 • 41 • 42 |
| 6. Buddha vs. Bishamonten/Zerofuku/Hajun | 43 • 44 • 45 • 46 • 47 • 48 • 49 • 50 • 51 • 52 • 53 • 54 |
| 7. Qin Shi Huang vs. Hades | 55 • 56 • 57 • 58 • 59 • 60 • 61 • 62 • 63 • 64 • 65 |
| 8. Nikola Tesla vs. Beelzebub | 66 • 67 • 68 • 69 • 70 • 71 • 72 • 73 • 74 • 75 • 76 • 77 |
| 9. Leonidas vs. Apollo | 78 • 79 • 80 • 81 • 82 • 83 • 84 |
| 10. Soji Okita vs. Susano'o no Mikoto | 84 • 86 • 87 • 88 • 89 • 90 • 91 • 92 • 93 • 94 • 95 • 96 |
| 11. Simo Häyhä vs. Loki | 98 • 99 • 100 • 101 • 102 • 103 • 104 • 105 • 106 • 107 • 108 |