Rebirth of the Viking King

Before the fleet set sail, Jerome and all the believers in the Hanshui Village Cathedral held high a white cross and transported it to Loki's three-masted ship docked at the dock.

"The Holy Cross is a holy relic of the Holy Bishop, and opening up territories and promoting doctrines for the Holy Lord Christ has always been one of the important ways for the Holy Bishop's Church to demonstrate its strength."

"Although our church is small in size, the belief of all believers in dispelling the darkness for the Holy Lord is no less than that of large churches! All the believers of 'Hanshui Village Evangelical Church' participated in the process of making this cross. Eventually, this cross will be carried on the backs of the 'Lawrence Nightingale' brothers and inserted into the land of the new world!"

On the deck of the three-masted ship, Jerome solemnly handed the cross to Lawrence. This is a divinely chosen person under the path of Holy Light. He holds the position of ship's doctor in the fleet, and is also the only monk in the Holy Bishop's Church who follows the fleet on expeditions.

The height of the cross is about 1.8 meters, and the entire body is made of century-old pine wood. After Lawrence took the cross, he tied it with a foot of white cloth on his back. During the rest of the journey, until he discovered the New World, he would carry the cross behind him and try to prevent the cross from touching the ground in advance.

Loki stood aside and did not interfere too much. Religion is all about freedom. It only roughly stipulates that everyone has the right to believe freely, and they are left to fiddle with the rest.

What's more, in the battle to defend Hanshui Village, Jerome made the first contribution to the continuation of the village. Not to mention a cross, even if he wanted to insert 10 crosses, Loki was not going to make any objections.

After the cross was loaded onto the ship, the last items on board were Emma Waldorf's 10 large boxes. After carrying Emma's 10 large boxes onto the ship, the waterline of the ship has reached a very dangerous situation.

The Viking crew respected the ancient Scandinavian custom of smearing animal blood on the prow image of the ship before setting sail. In their perception, every ship is alive. The purpose of applying animal blood is to allow the ship to fully feed, so that the ship can remain strong and stable in the vast sea.

All the villagers in Hanshui Village also spontaneously went out to see the warriors off. After the battle with Foggy Duck Town, the reputations of "Blood Axe" Loki and "White Robe" Jerome spread throughout the valley.

There is no doubt that Loki is a different lord than others.

The last time he went to sea, he did not use it for enjoyment, but used all the income to build the village.

When the village was in danger, he did not abandon the people and run away. Instead, they took up arms and fought bloody battles. The Viking people in the Middle Ages may have been ignorant, but they still knew whether their lords were good or bad to them.

Everyone stood neatly on the shore, with their index fingers bent and tapping their foreheads. Jerome led the monks to pray devoutly on the shore, and waited until the two ships were small on the horizon before leaving silently.

After setting out to sea, Loki immediately felt the slowness of the ship.

The last time they went to sea, the three-masted ship only carried 10 Viking warriors and very limited food. This time, however, both ships were fully loaded. Although the sea breeze in spring was quite strong, the heavy ships caused the sailing speed to slow down a lot.

According to Rocky's calculation, the ship's speed at this time may only be 15-20 kilometers per hour.

Slow sailing is not just one aspect. What's even worse is that he doesn't know the specific location of the island "Iceland".

According to the vague world map in the brain. Even if Iceland is farther from Scandinavia than England, it's not that far away. It won't be twice as far away. Therefore, based on the ship's speed, I should have discovered this island within 4-5 days after setting sail. If nothing is found, the ship must have strayed off course.

Four days later, Loki walked out of the captain's cabin and found that his breath could already exhale white breath. This shows that as the dimension increases, it has approached the Arctic Circle. If Iceland exists in this plane, it should be in this area.

Loki made a prompt decision and ordered the ship to turn westward. After sailing for three days, it then turned back and searched along a serpentine route. It was the only way Loki could think of. The mast of the three-masted ship is only more than 20 meters high. Standing on the mast, the lookout can only clearly see the scenery within 5 kilometers at most.

At this time, he really hoped to have a Chosen One under the Halloran Temple, the "Eagle Path", under his command. They control falcons and are said to be able to see things at altitudes of thousands of meters. Letting such people act as scouts is simply more powerful than the group of sword cultivators in the Eastern Tang Dynasty.

After three days, no land was found, but the climate gradually became warmer. Loki looked at Si Nan in the building speechlessly, feeling that this thing was not as useful as what was said in popular science programs. If the ship bumps slightly in the sea, the spoon-shaped Sinan will swing around, greatly disturbing the direction. Sometimes it even points in the completely opposite direction.

If you want to guide your way, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west during the day, and the North Star at night is the most useful.

After turning around and driving in the opposite direction, we searched for Rocky again and sailed for four full days. We didn't see any land except icebergs and rocks along the way.

This made him involuntarily doubt the memory in his mind.

Iceland is not a small place on the map like Hainan Island, Taiwan and other places. That is a country whose total land area is no less than that of my own country. Such a large island is docked on the sea. If you search along the serpentine route, you should not be able to find it.

Could it be that Iceland in this plane does not exist? ?

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Compared with the anxious Loki, the happiest person on the ship is the newly boarded Emma Waldorf.

As an explorer and biologist. The happiest thing for her is discovering creatures she has never seen before.

Her hometown, Constantinople, is located at the intersection of Eurasia, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. The climate there is warm and the environment is pleasant, which is very different from the bitter cold of Scandinavia.

The creatures growing in it have no resemblance to them at all.

Loki's two ships didn't carry many women on board. So Emma and Aunt Valrhona lived in the same room. The 19-year-old girl immediately gained the favor of all the crew members with the large number of luxury goods she carried with her.

Iberian smoked ham from the Iberian Peninsula, wine from France, rich Burgundy cheese, spices and tea from the Eastern Tang Dynasty. The girl did not keep them for herself, but shared them selflessly. To everyone on board. Ten large boxes of supplies were all eaten within a week.

But she asked Aunt Favna to capture many large creatures that were born in this cold water. There are things as small as glowing fish and shrimps, as large as seals lying on ice floes, walruses, long-horned whales, etc.

After catching these creatures, she would carefully observe their shape and living habits, and would spend most of her time drawing them on papyrus with charcoal. From the morphology of ethnic groups to the internal organs and stomach, everything is drawn with precise proportions and packaged in a book.

Loki found that this person was like the obsessive programmers he had seen in his previous life. As long as she was in working mode, she could not eat or drink, day or night. On several occasions, he even leaned half of his body over the side of the ship just to catch seabirds inhabiting the ice floes.

After several short conversations, Loki understood why the girl was so desperate.

[Royal Academy of Sciences of Constantinople], these words may sound very advanced to a modern person. However, in the ignorant medieval times, the Academy of Sciences still belonged to the lower class.

At this time, the Academy of Sciences was far from being called an enemy in the eyes of the behemoth Holy Episcopal Church. In the eyes of the masses, most of the blind believers who are willing to believe in "Socrates" are lunatics. The consequence of this is that the influence of the word "science" is extremely limited. Many of the exploration activities of the Academy of Sciences came from the search for the "Lord of the Old Ones" by the Holy Bishop Church.

Scientists humbly won the opportunity to follow the Crusaders and conduct research. Many mortal bachelors without any armed capabilities died on the road of exploration one after another.

"My seniors all begged the Holy Legion so that they were willing to take these 'useless cannon fodder' with them. My starting point is already much better than theirs."

"At least I grew up in a wealthy family. My parents are from prominent families in Constantinople. Relying on the family's reputation, if I don't do anything, there will be a lot of people who can do what I want."

"Compared with the seniors who died in humble circumstances, what reason do I have for not fighting my best as Tianhu started?"