The "Invincible" was defeated.
When the people of Scandinavia finally recovered from the fear caused by the total solar eclipse, they received such news.
At first, everyone laughed at it. But as time went by, defeated troops began to appear in various villages one after another. Covered in dirt, they limped to the stone in front of the village and sat down. They were shocked and told the story of the war to the surrounding villagers: Odin had died in the battle, and Loki sent his followers to The sun devours. Fenrir, Jormungandr and Nidhogg have all woken up. With trembling voices, they described in particular detail the nail boat they had seen with their own eyes, and the group of devils who got off the nail boat and used human heads as weapons.
If such a story were told by only one or two people, they would probably be laughed off.
However, the number of the defeated army was nearly ten thousand. Each one of them was crazy and told similar stories. At the end of each story, they all repeated the same sentence:
"The Twilight of the Gods has arrived."
Panic spread among all the tribes in the north. When the news reached Siful, which had been shrouded in black mist by Sigurd and dispersed by Halfdan with flashes of light, the lord there, Harald "The Wild Hair", was suspicious and ran outside the city to try Tyr. of protection. He is a "natural" person protected by Tyr. There is a half-human-high boulder outside the city, and he often lifts it for exercise. However, this time, his face turned red and he was unable to lift the boulder. He even fell because his foot slipped.
Harald is not the only one who has become weak. As this terrible rumor spreads, the strength of all the protected people in this group of northern tribes has become worse than before.
For this reason, Hestein went to Ella with his eyes wide open and complained: "It's all your fault for playing Twilight of the Gods! Well, all our protections have become weaker!"
However, Ella's reaction was just scratching her head and saying: Has the protection become weaker? Otherwise, will you convert to the gods of our Seven Hills Empire? "
Hestein's eyes widened even more: "Convert to your god??? Even if I agree, the priests in the territory will not agree!"
Amy listened and laughed: "Priest? How many divisions do they have?"
Forest near Uppland.
Glahid led several English knights and Sealand pirates, and tortured the two unlucky men who fell into the trap in various ways, and finally convinced that the words that came out of their mouths were true: Scipio is true Ragnar has been defeated.
They were left behind by Ella. Under the command of Glahid, they made full use of woods and traps. Although they suffered heavy losses, they miraculously survived in the enemy's hinterland. They even managed to pick up some of the archers who ran out of Upland.
"Did you hear that? You are about to become little lords."
With a smile on his face, Glahid patted the shoulders of the survivors all the way, regardless of whether they were knights from England or pirates from Zealand. In these few days of survival, they have already formed a deep friendship.
"However, there is one more thing I want to do, and I hope you can accompany me to complete it."
To the dozen surviving warriors and the hundreds of archers rescued by them, Glahid said amazing words: "Follow me back to Upland and seize our ship!"
In fact, people in Zealand didn't have much expectation that Ella would win.
In the past few days when Hestein sent troops, they each packed their luggage and planned their way out in the future. Bags of grain and pieces of bacon had been carried to the ship in advance, so that if news of the failure came, they could set off immediately and evacuate Zealand.
However, what came back to Zealand was the news of victory. When people were sure that the soldier who sent the message was right, a loud cheering burst out. The people receded like a tide, and then quickly gathered again - bringing with them meat and wine brought from the ships. They lit a bonfire in the center of Zealand and celebrated for three days. The poets wrote an epic poem praising Ella on the spot and sang it day and night in the ears of the drunken people.
The people of Zealand are celebrating, but in Gotland, the capital of Ragnar, there is a completely opposite scene.
Hestein was personally leading the infantry to attack this last fortress. Ella and Alfred led the navy to support Hestein.
This time, Ella’s trebuchet didn’t just throw one shot and run away. It continued to throw stones at the Gotland city wall, and almost every shot could make a hole in the weak wooden wall. Hestein led his soldiers and rushed straight in through the opening, effortlessly occupying the tattered city wall.
However, the defenders relied on the inner fortress for their last desperate resistance - until a wolf howl sounded in the city, and Fenrir appeared on the streets of Gotland carrying Ella and Amy.
"It's Scipio...Scipio is here in person!"
Panic shouts soon spread throughout the defenders. Ella wanted to use a speech to persuade those people to stop making fearless resistance, but she just cleared her throat in front of the castle and before she could speak, a white flag was raised on the castle. The defenders threw away their weapons with a clatter, and squatted down in front of Ella one by one, holding their heads. On the contrary, Ella was a little confused.
It didn’t take long for what happened in the Pirate Kingdom to spread all the way to the Alemanni Federation.
"Have you heard? The Pirate Kingdom has changed hands."
In the streets and alleys of the Alemannic Federation, you can hear people talking about this topic everywhere.
Of course, there are people outside the situation. A middle-aged man emerged from the dark cabin. His hair was dirty and in clumps, like a pile of black cotton pieces covering his head. As soon as he came out, he waved his ruler and shouted to the people gathered in the yard: "I have told you so many times, don't touch the circle I drew on the ground! If you break it, I will curse each of your caravans." All met the pirates of the Pirate Kingdom!”
People seemed to have become accustomed to his complaints and ignored him. A younger man in the crowd shouted to him: "Gottfried, did you know that Ragnar of the Pirate Kingdom died in the battle!"
"That Ragnar is dead? Who did it?"
Gottfried hit his head with a ruler, seemingly forgetting that the circle he had painstakingly drawn on the ground was being stepped on by a group of people.
"I heard that it seems to be called Scipio!"
"Scipio? Isn't that the royal family of the Seven Hills Empire? You have to make your story more realistic!"
"Hmm...actually I'm not sure. Because everyone prefers to call her by her nickname than by her name..."
"What nickname?"
"Because she miraculously defeated the 'Invincible' Ragnar and returned triumphantly from the mortal war. So people now call her like this - 'The Triumphant'."
