The capital of King Ella Cornelius Scipio of Sweden, like Ragnar, was located in Gotland.
This is a medium-sized island, surrounded by water. From here, you can quickly reach any city on the Swedish coast by water.
During Ragnar's reign, Gotland stood like a huge and formidable throne in the east of Sweden, with the sun breaking through the night every day. Affected by this, there are very few ships traveling here. Even if they have to pass through Gotland by water, sailors always subconsciously keep the ships far away from this island, which is directly controlled by the Pirate King.
However, after Ella became King of Sweden, the number of fleets traveling to and from Gotland increased. The group of people following Harald totaled 300 people, loading more than a dozen ships, but they were mixed among the passing ships, but they were not very noticeable.
Harald did not have the courage to go into full-scale war with the legendary King of Sweden. But he still had the courage to surprise the Swedish king's capital and kidnap the Swedish king directly to Hestein.
Harald heard that there were many fire-breathing warships under the command of the King of Sweden, guarding the four sides of Gotland like fire-breathing beasts. He did not dare to expose himself at sea, so he asked the soldiers to put away the flags, put on linen clothes on their armors, and then disrupted the formation of the ships, scattered them, and blended sparsely into the passing fleet.
Relying on these disguises, they managed to avoid people's eyes and landed on the land of Gotland without arousing alarm.
"Look, you all say that the King of Sweden is full of tricks, but we got ashore so easily! Let me tell you, the King of Sweden is just a deceiver!"
Harald shouted triumphantly to boost the morale of the soldiers.
After Ragnar's defeat, Harald converted to Ares. Compared to Tyr, the God of War, who is unknown where he is, Ares, the God of War, as mentioned by the Seven Hills Empire, is running directly in the sky and can be directly seen every night. Probably for this reason, the intensity of the protection he received was much stronger than when he believed in Tyr. Although he has not touched the edge of "elf level", he is still the strongest among "natural level".
As long as he landed on land, he could easily make a hole in the wooden walls of the northern tribes.
However, unlike Sealand, the capital of Hestein, Ragnar paid great attention to his own security. During his time in power, in addition to the outermost city wall, Gotland also built a new city wall on the inside to protect Ragnar. Gona's court. Although the lord of Gotland is now replaced by Ella, the two existing city walls must have remained untouched.
So Harald made this plan: first break the troops into pieces, disperse them and blend into the city of Gotland, and then secretly gather them together, use Harald's magic to open a hole in a vital part of the inner city wall, and from A surprise attack was launched there to capture the King of Sweden alive.
However, plans never keep up with changes.
When he saw that there was not a low wooden wall outside Gotland, but a huge stone wall, Harald, who was thinking about the surprise attack, almost cursed.
The gatehouse in the middle of the wall is like a giant looking down at the pedestrians coming and going. On both sides of the gatehouse are solid arrow towers lined up one after another.
Harald felt a strong sense of oppression under the excessively high stone wall. He wiped his eyes more than once, wondering if he was in the wrong place - with the city wall in front of him, even if he told Harald that this was Cordoba or Paris, he was willing to believe it.
If the crowds coming and going hadn't squeezed him into the city involuntarily, he would probably have been doubting his life under the city for a whole day.
In Gotland, Harald saw another monster-like instrument. It consists of many pulleys, with a thick boom extending from the front end.
A huge stone is hanging on the crane arm. Harald stood there stupidly, watching the five soldiers vigorously turning a winch under the instrument, lifting the stone that used to take dozens of people to move high into the air.
At first, he thought that these five soldiers were all natural-level protected ones, but after asking about them, he found out that their most powerful magic levels were only entry-level. What’s amazing is this instrument, its name is the winch crane.
This is an instrument that has been used by the Seven Hills Empire six to seven hundred years ago. It can exponentially reduce the effort required to lift heavy objects. It is no wonder that the King of Sweden can build such a city wall.
As for the tribes in the north, the prestige brought by building such a wall has far exceeded any stone statues and monuments.
In the center of Gotland City, Harald discovered another pool that sprayed water outward. He thought there was a water monster in the pool and did not dare to approach it for a long time.
But when he saw pedestrians coming and going without fear at all, he plucked up the courage to ask the pedestrians. After asking, I found out that this thing is called a fountain, and it was made by the King of Sweden when he was designing water pipes for Gotland.
Harald asked again what a water pipe was. The passers-by explained hesitantly for a long time before Harald roughly understood that there was now a simple water supply system buried underground in Gotland City. People did not need to be old anymore. I ran as far as the river to get water.
But no one can explain clearly the principle of spraying water. He had to think that there was indeed a water monster under the pool, but it had been subdued by the King of Sweden and would not come out to hurt anyone.
Perhaps compared to the big cities of the Seven Hills Empire, Gotland still seems very simple. But walking on that spacious street, Harald had truly felt the oppression from civilization—the technology of the Seven Hills Empire was thousands of years more advanced than the Scandinavian tribes.
The small castle that protects the residence of the King of Sweden is indeed made of stone. To blast through such a city wall requires at least "elf" level strength.
With Harald's level of magic, there was no way he could complete the planned surprise attack.
While Harald was standing under the stone wall in a daze, a lord he was familiar with walked out of it.
His name is Glahid, and he is a knight under Alfred, the "King of Knights". Because of his military exploits during the retreat from Uppland, he was granted a fief by the King of Sweden, and is now a lord directly loyal to the King of Sweden.
Grahid's fiefdom is near Harald's capital, and Harald has met him several times while hunting.
Glahid saw Harald from a distance and greeted him cheerfully: "Harald? Weren't you summoned by the King of Heroes? Why are you here?"
Harald felt a little embarrassed and replied hesitantly: "Well...because the King of Sweden did not arrive on time, the King of Heroes sent me over to check on the situation."
"You are also here to see the King of Sweden? Unfortunately, she seems to be not in Sweden now."
Glahid walked to Harald and patted Harald's shoulder affectionately: "This is a rare opportunity. Now that we are here, let's take a bath together."
"Taking a bath together? You? With me?" Harald avoided Glahid's hand as if he was electrocuted. He didn't know that Glahid had this hobby.
"You haven't seen the public baths in Gotland, have you? They can accommodate 200 people bathing together at the same time!"
"Two hundred people taking a bath together?" A horrific scene appeared in Harald's mind.
Glahid noticed that Harald was a little surprised, so he explained with a smile: "Ah, this seems to be a habit from the Seven Hills Empire. The first thing the Swedish king did when he came to Gotland was to build this public bath. Now Gothic People in Lan have regarded it as a social place, and they like to go there whether they are talking about things or taking a rest."
"But why is it a bathhouse..."
"Isn't it weird? In the original words of the King of Sweden: 'Without baths, civilization will perish!'"
"I...I still don't have to use it."
Harald pushed Glahid away and ran away in panic.
