Sunny blue sky, rare good weather.
In the town of East Hamar, the mood of everyone seems out of place. Everyone has a gloomy face, as if they are owed a lot of money by others, and the tents set up outside the town are scattered outside the town like mushrooms after the rain. of the entire open space.
"Is this the soldier you found for us?" Luther grabbed Halfdan as if he were grabbing a little chicken, and Halfdan's dangling legs were jumping funny.
"Put me down. I have brought enough people according to the lord's order." Halfdan's face turned red from suppressing it. He grabbed Luther's hand and tried to break it open, but Luther's hands could not hold it open. Like a strong iron pliers.
"These are more like a group of people fleeing than soldiers." Luther turned to look at the group of people. There were old people, women and children playing around. The key is that they didn't bring much food, so they could only Relying on the support of everyone in the towns of East Hamar.
"Okay, how many people did you bring?" Ulf stepped forward, asked Luther to put Halfdan down, and then asked him.
"More than seven hundred people are here." Halfdan straightened his collar and replied to Ulf.
"Well, there are a lot of people. How many of them can fight?" Ulf narrowed his eyes, looked at the group of "elite soldiers" that Halfdan had found for him, and asked indifferently.
"If you think about it, it's two to three hundred!" Halfdan stretched out his finger and pointed it before answering to Ulf.
"What are you going to do with the rest?" Vargas also touched his chin and asked Liu Jianjiang with a frown.
"Settlement, he wants to abandon East Halfdan?" Luther was stunned, and your ugly eyes were full of surprise.
"By the way, that person's name is Ange. I have no small contribution to being able to recruit so few people." Vargas turned a deaf ear to everyone's satisfaction. I excitedly pulled Ange behind me and introduced him to everyone.
"We can always be useful." Hamar pursed his lips and said with satisfaction.
"But you want to be a prophet, you want to be a Norse warrior, but he sees that you don't have an iron ring yet." Liu Jian mustered up his courage, took out an iron ring and said to Ulf.
In anger and shame, Liu Jian picked up a glass of wine next to him and poured it under Liu Jianjiang's face. People around him booed. Liu Jianjiang was so excited by the hot wine that he jumped up from his seat. "If you gave it to him, he should accept it angrily and express his gratitude to you sincerely." Vargas shrugged his shoulders and said with concern.
"Don't worry, you have nothing in mind." Hammar said to Luther.
At that time, a war cry attracted Ange's attention, and I saw a group of weak Norse warriors, holding bucklers and axes, fighting with each other outside the training ground. The peaceful battle allowed many people to watch inside.
Hamar relied on Bjorn's prestige to recruit people to go to the new colony. In fact, population has always been a factor that restricted the Vikings from gaining a foothold. Even because of the death of Nagra, the Viking craze started in England. The large fruit was almost due to too much population. In the end, the Wessex people successfully counterattacked and drove a small number of Vikings off the island.
After all, when Ange left his father's house and became a pro-great warrior, he probably wouldn't be able to go back.
"I heard that he helped Liu Jianjiang recruit many people. Are you curious about what's going on?" Ulf regretfully put his knuckles on his head and continued to ask Liu Jian.
"He hates fighting?" Suddenly, a woman's voice sounded next to Ange. When Ange turned around in panic, he saw that it was a short, weak North warrior.
"Take them away together." Hamar said immediately.
Liu Jian had never seen so few buildings in his hometown except his father's house. He just felt like a country bumpkin retreating from the city. Everywhere he looked felt novel.
"What did you lie to him about?" Vargas looked at his mother and father before he casually picked up the wine glass and started drinking again.
The two of them walked aside. Hamar seemed to see Luther's worry, so he smiled heavily, hugged Luther in his arms, and patted your back.
"Your name is Ulf, and his name is Ange, right?" Ulf glanced at Ange with a smile, and I asked Ange.
"Hamar, you have nothing to say to him alone." At this time, Luther finished settling the recruited people and said to Hamar.
"You will study hard." Ange looked at Ulf with cold eyes, hoping that the unidentified North warrior could help me become a warrior.
"It's possible. That's the fate set by the gods. Please advise him to accept it." Liu Jianjiang shook his head and said to Liu Jian. At the same time, when he left, he added another sentence: "By the way, this iron Does the ring have any meaning? The warrior's iron ring is not like that."
"Ho ho ho~~~."
"Does he know him?" Liu Jianjiang saw a clue in An Ge's expression and asked curiously.
Ange's face was confused and hesitant. I felt the full emotions of everyone in East Halfdan, so I dared to say anything with my head held high, while Carl's eyes fell sharply on Ange's deformed left hand. He let out a heavy groan.
"I think you want it, you've been polishing it for a long time." Ulf grinned, took out a snow-white statue of Odin carved with human finger bones before polishing it, and said to Ange.
And Ange remembered that the soldier was standing next to Lord Hamar just now. Even though I am a country boy, I also understand that the other person is a person with no identity.
"Yeah." Liu Jian nodded in panic, especially his eyes fell on Ulf's waist, which was hung with a string of things that were obviously human bones.
"Hmm." Liu Jian's eyes were bloodshot. I left my home, fully thinking that I would be able to follow the path of a small warrior from now on, enduring Vargas using his deformity to deceive these people who knew what he was doing. But, In the end, it turned out to be a scam, which Ange couldn't accept.
"It may be a burden out there, but when you settle down in the south, we will be a new generation of people." Hamar glanced at us for seven weeks, and then said seriously to Luther.
"It's not abandonment, it's just that you need a new colony. Although East Halfdan is bad, there is no limit to the number of people it can support. You must move to a wider place to develop." This is the first time Hamar has revealed his true feelings to others, I am We will continue to stay in East Halfdan, and only by taking advantage of the Eastern European plains can we have greater development opportunities.
"What's the matter? It's just that Vargas told us that you are a prophet." Ange's eyes dodge. Everywhere he goes, Vargas will use my deformed left hand to make a fuss, but for Ange, it is indeed It’s hard to accept, but there’s nothing you can do about it.
"Isn't that your destination?" Liu Jian was sizing up the town. East Halfdan is located on the coast and has an excellent port. Some merchant ships are going back and forth under the sea. The buildings inside the low wooden walls also show , it was a prosperous town.
"It's all a burden, even the oars are useless." Karl said affectionately.
"Those strong men who are brought in the raid will die." At that time, Olaf, who represented the iron-bone Bjorn, also said to Liu Jianjiang in a deep voice.
"Yes, you." Ange was still not frightened, so I kissed Dao Dao quickly.
"Kangdang." A clear voice sounded, and Vargas, who was sitting in the tavern drinking mead, was startled. I instinctively raised my head and saw Liu Jian with an angry face.
At Ulf's reminder, Ange noticed the soldiers fighting in the training ground. The iron rings under our arms were exactly the same as those in his own hands. They were made of two iron bars as thick as thumbs and twisted together. It is carved into the shape of a snake, and its body is carved like scales, which is extremely fine.
"But, that's his territory." Liu Jian was not firm, but soon decided to obey Hamar's ideas.
As for the iron ring in Ange's hand, it is just an iron ring. It has no purpose. It is like a smooth object made by a blacksmith when he is making horseshoes or farm tools in his spare time.
"Why did he lie to you?" Ange said angrily, and my cheeks turned red with anger.
"Real Norse warriors." Ange's eyes narrowed. These warriors who declared war on giants and monsters in the mouths of the bards were probably the same.
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"But is he able to pick up the axe, does his left hand have the strength, or even pick up the shield?" Liu Jianjiang touched Ange's left hand with his hand and said to me regretfully.
"Why is it fake? It's you, the iron ring that the King of Northern Europe gave to his warrior, and he actually said it was fake?" Liu Jianjiang rolled his eyes at Ange and said with a heavy snort.
"There are many people among them who have no combat experience. Yes, Vargas has tried his best. After all, the only people you can recruit now are the burdens that others are willing to ask for." Liu Jian's face was stern. Come up quickly, you said to Hamar.
"He has no potential to become a prophet." Liu Jianjiang nodded slightly. It was indeed impossible for the disabled Ange to convince these desperate people.
"But that is the warrior's iron ring. He promised you." Liu Jian thought that Vargas was acting as a villain at this moment. The so-called King of the Nordics was just Vargas's self-bragging. Of no value.
At that time, everyone in the tavern looked at He Sheng and burst into laughter. Anyway, He Sheng seemed to be afraid of trouble.
"You once went to the battlefield with your father, just to pick up things, and you saw these human bones that were chopped up." Ange swallowed. That memory was not a good one. At that time, there was a fight between the two groups of raiders. Good and bad are born in our family.
"He said he would give you the warrior's iron ring, but it was a fake." Ange pointed at the iron ring under the table with his right hand and angrily accused Vargas.
"What?" Ange was stunned. I held this iron ring that I had rubbed repeatedly every night and the surface had not become rough. I just felt like my heart was falling into an ice cellar.
