Rebirth of the Viking King

The building boat slowly approached the port of Hanshui Village. When they were about to dock a few hundred meters away, with a soft crashing sound, a row of spikes suddenly rose from the water behind the boat.

That was a common method used by the Vikings to block rivers.

Ships surrounded by temporary embankments made of old vines and wood thorns will be like turtles in an urn, unable to retreat into the sea.

After the spiked dam was raised, the many ambushes in the ambush village no longer hid themselves, and they filed out of the cold water castle one after another.

The leader is Bernard, the Duke of River Valley.

From the appearance, he is not young anymore. In order to hide his true age, Bernard shaved off all the gray hair on his head, revealing three scratches across his face. The scratches stretched from his mouth to his eyes and then to his forehead.

It is said that this was a wound left when he fought with a brown bear when he was young.

This sad wound coupled with his sinister eyes like a poisonous snake made him look dangerous all the time. Being surrounded by a group of God's Chosen Ones, he walked out and waved gently.

Two huge crosses were pushed out from the back of the room by the slaves.

On these two crosses were tied two bloody men covered in blood. That is the carpenter in the village: Sanji Marash; and his father: Gol Marash.

"Boss, what did I say? When this old boy entered the city, I noticed something was wrong! When he left the city, I found that his ruts were deeper than when he entered the city!"

"Think about it, he went to the city to sell goods, why was the carriage three times heavier when he left the city than when he entered the city?!"

"And he doesn't get out early or late, but he waits for the light to get out of the city in the dark. If I hadn't gotten up early to pee, I might not have been able to see him!"

It was the gatekeeper guarding the gates of Storm's End who tipped off the Duke. He followed the Duke step by step, foaming at the mouth and continuing to express his feelings.

"At that time, I felt that there must be something fishy in this old boy's car! Then the younger one followed him all the way, lurking at the entrance of Hanshui Village. Early the next morning, I saw a large ship setting off from the bay in front of their door!

"This is what I saw with my eyes, and it's all true! Look, they are really back today, aren't they!"

Duke Bernard waved his hand gently to shoo away the flies around him. The reason why this person is so active is because he is also burdened with a lot of pressure.

Shortly after Loki set sail, he ran back to Storm's End to report to the Duke. The Duke immediately arrested Sanghi and Gore and his son, and flogged them for more than ten days in a row! The two men's bodies were completely bruised and bruised, but they did not confess a single word!

Many vassals around Bernard have tactfully reminded him not to do anything wrong. This may be a personal grudge between the little guard and the Marash family.

Such words made the loyal gatekeeper feel like a lump in his throat and made him feel very uncomfortable.

And today, Loki's return ship finally appeared!

He could prove his loyalty to his lord by simply removing the anchor from the ship that bore the mark of the Forge of Marash.

He does not just make random accusations and wrongfully accuse others.

The ship slowly docked. Loki led the people around him to walk down the building. He saw Lord Bernard standing not far away with an angry look on his face. He smiled and opened his arms. He was about to say a few words to the Duke. Next to him, from Blood Pigeon Town, Blind Mountain·Blood Pigeon stood up and shook his head gently at him.

"Loki, you are so brave!" Another noble next to Bernard yelled at him. That was another neighbor of Loki, Swain Gonk, the lord of Mistduck Town.

"If you get a ship without reporting it to the lord, if you go out to sea privately, you will be thrown into a pit of snakes and be devoured by thousands of snakes! Don't you know this?!"

"Haha" Loki, who had just got off the boat, looked relaxed and without any psychological pressure.

"My dear Duke Bernard, is it difficult for you to treat a loyal subordinate like this?"

"And why are my villagers whipped for no reason?"

"You still have the nerve to ask why?!" The informant guard stood up first. "You ordered Sanchi to go to Storm's End to buy an anchor, but I saw it all! Why did you buy an anchor for nothing? Isn't it just to build a ship privately and go to sea?"

"What the fuck"

Loki walked up to the guard with a look of grief and anger: "Lord, this is the most ridiculous slander this year! You said I bought an anchor? How about you and I making a bet?"

"If there is an anchor made by old man Marashi on the ship, I can commit suicide immediately and give Hanshui Village to you! But if there is no anchor"

"I need you to cut out the heart and stew it into soup, and let my Marash and his sons replenish it!"

"How about it! Do you dare to bet!"

Loki's cold and serious face instantly calmed everyone present. Seeing that he was upright and placed such a heavy bet, the city gate guard also became a little hesitant, and only then did he realize that the ship in front of him seemed different from the one he saw going out to sea that day.

Could it be that I'm hallucinating?

The hesitation of his subordinates made Duke Bernard feel a little embarrassed. He asked his subordinates to control all the crew members who came off Loki's ship, and then signaled the blind mountain next to him to lead people to rush into the building and search carefully.

After a while, the warriors from Blind Mountain and Blood Pigeon Village came up carrying a huge wooden anchor.

"My lord, this is the only anchor found in the ship."

The expressions of the warriors around Bernard collectively became a little amused. Most of them had been to the Conqueror's Fortress and had seen the Chinese tower ships.

Only the Tang people used ironwood as anchors, a material that did not exist in Scandinavia.

The city gate guard's expression changed instantly, but the facts were before his eyes, and he couldn't find any room for explanation for a while.

Unfortunately, Loki had no intention of letting him go.

"Lord, I want to ask you." He stretched out a finger and pointed angrily at the dying Sanchi on the cross, "Is this a resident of my river valley?"

Duke Bernard's face was stiff and he did not answer the question.

"According to Viking etiquette, if you harm my tribe for no reason, I have the right to challenge the perpetrator to a duel! Now I want to ask, who just injured my tribe, please stand up right now!"

Loki's eyes burned with the flames of battle, and he slowly pulled out the blood-colored stone ax from behind and put it gently on his shoulder. A faint blood-colored mist seeped out from his body surface, and in just a few seconds, almost his entire body turned blood-red.

That was a sign that the blood was rushing rapidly, which meant that the head of the Stalag family was fully prepared for battle.

Everyone in the field turned their heads to Duke Bernard opposite Loki. And he himself took a step back slightly

When he was young, he was a respectable Viking warrior, but as he grew older and his status improved, he had not personally picked up a weapon to fight for many years.

Although he was still the Chosen One under the "Berserker" path, facing Loki who was full of fighting spirit, he still subconsciously wanted to escape.

What's even more deceptive is the whistleblower.

"My Lord Duke, what are you afraid of! Pick up the ax and fight him! Let this guy see who is the best warrior in the river valley!"

He danced around like a noisy toad and shouted, causing all the guards around him to cast hopeful glances at him. The Vikings were martial artists, and everyone was looking forward to a bloody gladiatorial battle.

In particular, one of the two parties fighting was a duke and the other was a noble.

Thinking about this kind of scene will make your blood boil!

The more heated the crowd became, the more Duke Bernard felt that he could not take action. When he had nothing, he picked up an ax and fought without fear, because he had nothing to fear losing.

Now that he has everything he needs, he cannot lose and cannot afford to lose.

Pulling out the golden ax stuck in his waist, Bernard raised the knife and dropped it! However, the ax was not directed at Loki, but at the city gate guard who had his back turned to him.

After a muffled sound, thick blood splashed on the ground. The city gate guard's eyes widened in disbelief, but he immediately stopped breathing.

After Duke Bernard expressed his stance, Loki, who had red eyes, kept adjusting his breathing and finally woke up from his bloodthirsty fighting spirit. He just saw Sanchi and his son hanging on a cross covered in blood. For a moment, he really lost control.

"Lord, I found an unmanned empty ship on the sea. I'm not sure whether this ship can be driven, so a few days ago I led a few tribesmen to go out to sea and sail around. When I came back, I wanted to ask him immediately. You report.”

"As you can see, there is no loot on the ship, and there are only about a dozen people from our clan who went to sea. A few days ago, Sanji went home to visit relatives and see his old father. He didn't buy anything from the blacksmith shop!"

"Sword, anchor, nothing!"

"Hanshui Village is a small village, and I have absolutely no intention of plundering it privately. And as you know, with just a dozen of us, we can barely manage to pilot this building ship!"

"Is it possible that we can still go to the Slavic lands and rob them?!"

Duke Bernard didn't know what to say after repeated questioning. He looked at Loki with a pair of sinister eyes like venomous snakes. Loki looked at him without fear. The morning wind stopped and the air between them solidified like glue.

For a long while, no one said another word.