Rebirth of the Viking King

Opening the door, an even more earthy scene came. There was actually a small buffet hidden in the carriage! Among them were roasted leg of lamb, stewed beef with potatoes, braised pork elbow and a plate of fried rice. The whole carriage was filled with the smell of food.

Emma frowned and sat in the corner with disgust. After Loki sat across from her, he obviously had no intention of grabbing food with his hands on the bumpy carriage. The O'Sullivan family is obviously still receiving Loki the same way they treat ordinary Viking lords.

These lords with brains full of muscles could not imagine anything else to enjoy except "eating meat".

The journey that followed was quite embarrassing.

Emma is obviously still bitter about Loki letting Youmu go. This girl, who was born into a wealthy family in Constantinople, didn't know much about the world. She naively thought that this young man could have a better life by following her.

But she is not the Chosen One, and she has no idea how tempting the Sequence 2 "Sun Sacrifice" is to those high-level Chosen Ones. Not to mention that the Waldorf family is a business family, even if they are the king of Byzantium.

In front of the powerful ancient gods, there are still not many practical bargaining chips.

Fortunately, the two of them are not related, and in Loki's eyes, Emma is only equivalent to the balance of 300 "gold dinar coins". For Loki, after today's goodbye, the two of them have never met again, and there is nothing that needs special explanation.

The two of them entered the embassy area in silence.

The Legation Quarter is the most exquisite area of ​​the Conqueror's Fortress. The exquisite gardens in the castle were divided into several sections by the Viking kings, including the Tang Dynasty's glazed tile palace, the Arabs' Temple of Fire, the Byzantine Church of the Holy Mother, and the Water Garden built by the French, etc.

Although Scandinavia is wild and primitive, when it comes to envoys from all over the world, there are no fewer in the palace than those from those big countries.

The reason is simple: the "pillar industry" of the Conqueror's Fortress is to send Viking mercenaries to collect commissions from these financial owners and fight for them in battles.

Viking mercenaries are called different names around the world. In Constantinople, they were called the "Varyag Guards", in France, they were called the "Northern Tribes"; in the Arab Empire, they and the Slavs were also called "White Ghosts".

Many royal nobles tend to hire Viking mercenaries as personal guards.

1. They have a single belief and are extremely difficult to be controlled by other local beliefs, and will not participate in local factional disputes.

2. These mercenaries are not afraid of death during the battle, and are even proud of death. On the battlefield, their fighting power is much higher than any other army based on their bloody courage.

3. Vikings are generally uneducated and simple-minded. They rarely do anything to backfire on their master. "Whoever has breasts is a mother" is a sacred truth for these mercenaries.

As long as you make me money, I will definitely work for you.

The O'Sullivan family has been able to stand in the Conqueror's Fortress for nearly a hundred years, relying on the large amount of money brought by Viking mercenaries. The Conqueror's Fortress houses the Mercenary Academy. Viking farmers and hunters who had no food at home and could not make ends meet could send their children to academies to be trained as mercenaries.

O'Sullivan will buy potions for them.

After the Viking teenagers are promoted to the Chosen Ones, he will also invite the top technical and tactical teachers from all over the world for them to receive the strongest fighting training of this era.

To be fair, Loki didn't like this way of making money.

Selling one's own subjects and letting them lose their lives for the inexplicable fights of other lords can be summed up in two words: selling people.

No matter in any dynasty, "selling people" is a shameful behavior for the Chinese people. After the O'Sullivan family's mercenary business has shed all its outer skin, it is essentially a human-selling business that drinks human blood.

If he gathers all these mercenaries to form an army under his own name, he can completely capture a large area of ​​territory and seek a better living environment for his vassals. But he would rather choose to make friends with these powerful countries by "selling people". He would only bully the poor and weak Slavs in the east from time to time.

No matter how you look at it, this is not the work of a hero.

All the way through the garden of the embassy district, the sunlight disappeared, and the carriage drove into the gloomy gate of Wang Gong. In terms of scale, the outer gate of the castle is quite similar to those huge giant ruins in the "Sinking City". The carriage drives in a row of towering porches, with a visual height of at least 10 meters.

Slender Gothic columns support the arc-shaped dome. Sunlight shines on the wall of the porch, and mottled murals can be vaguely seen on the dome. The details of the mural have become dull due to its age, and some of the wall coverings have fallen off. However, if you look closely, you can still see that it is a wide mural of a giant fighting a dragon.

The mural is nearly 50 meters long and stretches almost the entire length of the porch.

After passing the first-floor porch, the carriage entered a spiraling curve. Looking through the curved doorway to the outer wall on the other side of the castle, Loki saw a huge red dragon again.

The color of this dragon is very close to the boulders on the outer wall of the "Conqueror's Fortress". It grabbed the outer wall of the castle with the two claws on its wings and two thick hind legs, and twisted its head back to make a roaring expression.

I don’t know what happened, but the dragon was frozen in this moment at the moment of death. Like the black dragon on the city wall, the red dragon's skin has also been dried. At this time, illuminated by the setting sun, it looks like a soapstone hanging on the outer wall of the castle.

"Sister Emma, ​​you know a lot about the Royal Academy. Do dragons still exist in countries like France, Visigoth, and Byzantium in the Western Continent?"

"snort!"

Emma snorted coldly and turned her head to the side in anger.

As a straight man who has lived two lives, Loki found that the stubborn disease of "straight man" will not change at all with age and experience. He really didn't know how to deal with this situation. He could only laugh twice, turn around and continue to look at the scenery outside the carriage.

In the huge rotating porch, several people walked higher and higher. It wasn't until it was nearly twenty or thirty stories high that the carriage resumed driving smoothly. Loki finally understood why Mohlantin sent out a carriage to greet him. If you use your legs to walk this journey, it will take at least half a day.

Finally, the carriage stopped.

As the driver opened the door and put down the pedals, Loki stepped out of the carriage and saw a royal garden built high in the sky! Taking a bird's eye view into the distance, he could see houses the size of matchboxes below his feet, neat streets, and ships passing by on the sea beyond.

The gardens are planted with carefully constructed flowers, trees and marble statues of various gods in the Hall of Valor. The majestic central axis leads to a red three-story palace. The top floor of the palace was even made entirely of shining glass.

An old butler dressed in exquisite clothes stood on the other side of the carriage and waited respectfully.

"My king 'Ivar O'Sullivan' and the eldest princess 'Mehlantine O'Sullivan' are waiting for you two in the 'Light Touch Hall' with other nobles."

"Two distinguished guests, please come with me."