Rebirth of the Viking King

When the hunters from Hanshui Village returned to the coast, more than thirty slender long boats were neatly lined up on the shore. On the beach, a dozen tall Viking warriors wearing fine steel armor guarded the ship.

These Viking warriors look ordinary. But in fact, they are the chosen ones who practice the "Sea Giant" sequence in the Hall of Valor, and they are precious combat forces that Duke Bernard is reluctant to use on weekdays.

In order to train these dozen 'chosen ones', he needs to select hundreds of strong warriors from the residents of the territory and spend a lot of money to send them to the Hall of Valor in the mountains. After a long period of practice, fighting and praying, the "Storm Acolyte" who guards the temple will be given the magic potion to enter the "Sea Giant Path".

But getting the potion is just the beginning.

‘Sea Giant’ is the one with the most powerful physical combat power among the eight upgrade paths in the Hall of Valor. After drinking the potion, nearly 70% of the Viking warriors were unable to resist the violent impact of the potion on their bodies and would explode and die! The remaining 30% of the potion will completely transform their bodies! Their height will exceed two meters, and their strength will become greater than ordinary people.

Duke Bernard only left a dozen or so men to guard the ship, which was enough to ensure no worries. The leader is none other than the guard captain who has reached the level of Sequence Seven ‘Wave Breaker’: Blind Mountain Blood Pigeon.

He is also the young city lord of "Blood Pigeon Town", the largest village in the "River Valley".

"Brother Blind Mountain, thank you for your hard work!" Loki looked up at his tall figure of two and a half meters, took out a small money bag from his arms and threw it over.

This is the established rule among Viking raiders. The returning pirates wanted a share of the money from the guards guarding the ship. Blind Mountain grabbed it, laughed, weighed it twice and threw it back to Loki.

"My brother Loki! Who doesn't know that the hunting ground in Hanshui Village is the poorest mountain tribe! Others robbed rich peasants and nobles, but you robbed exiles and savages."

"It's not easy to earn a few pieces of silver. You'd better keep it for yourself!"

The corner of his mouth raised, Loki showed a kind smile, "A few broken silver cars are of no use to me, but Brother Blind Mountain has collected enough money. It is more important to go to the Hall of Valor as soon as possible to exchange for the Sequence 6 'Wind Warrior' potion!"

Loki, a young man from the Red Kingdom, is a deep-rooted atheist. In his opinion, Odin, Loki, and Valkyrie are all pyramid schemes made up by the Storm Acolytes of the Hall of Valor. Drinking a magic potion to gain strength is like nonsense.

You know, those who enter the temple are all children aged twelve or thirteen. As long as teenagers of this age are given sufficient nutrition, the Viking genes will give them "tall bodies" and "powerful strength", and there is no need to drink the "magic potion" that is as dangerous as poison.

Loki walked to Blind Mountain and stuffed the animal skin money bag into his pocket. By the way, he also took out a large bag of spirits from the carriage behind him and handed it over.

Blind Mountain Blood Pigeon is one of Loki's few brothers in this cold world. Normally, he treats Loki well.

Blood Pigeon Town and Hanshui Village are only separated by a not-too-deep canyon. As a "Sea People" among the Vikings, Blind Mountain serves as the hunting captain of the Blood Pigeon tribe and has never crossed the border into the forest area of ​​Hanshui Village for many years. In bad years, they will even intentionally or unintentionally drive some of their endless prey into the forest area of ​​Hanshui Village for Hanshui hunters to hunt.

Next, Loki wants to find a passage to the English Islands, and strong and loyal thugs are essential.

Blind Mountain·Blood Pigeon was the first candidate on his list.

"There are still two days until the return day. In so many years, I have only seen late pirates. It is rare to see pirates like you who come back two days early." After accepting the money, Blind Mountain carried it with one hand. He grabbed three animal skin bags filled with grain and helped them load them onto the ship.

"There are still two days left, why don't we catch a shark and give it a tooth ceremony?" After all the goods were loaded onto the long boat, Blind Mountain stood on the shore and looked at the setting sun gradually setting on the horizon, lighting the campfire next to him.

"No, the family is full of old, weak, women and children. We should go back with food earlier so that the women in the village can feel at ease earlier!"

"But, if you don't have navigators under the 'Sailor' path, aren't you afraid of getting lost in the dark sea?"

"Don't worry, my brother, it's not like only the Chosen One knows how to sail! Clear the sky tonight and the stars will show me the way home!"

The starry sky in the other world is no different from before the time travel. According to what we learned in junior high school geography textbooks, the two stars in the dipper direction of the Big Dipper always point to the North Star.

The direction of Polaris is true north.

What's more, the Baltic Sea is an inland sea and its diameter is not very wide. Even if you sail a long boat against the wind, you will definitely be able to reach the other side of the inland sea within two days. Compared with the sea, what really scares Loki is Duke Bernard's well-equipped private army.

Having a missionary with brown hair and black eyes in his team is really too weird, and Duke Bernard is a man with a mind as fine as a hair. If Old Walder attracts his attention, it will be very troublesome for him to explain. . What if this old guy falls into the hands of the Duke and reveals the Chinese book full of maps?

If I lose the map, I'm afraid that I will really lose all my money at that time!

As long as you can pry open Old Wade's mouth and control the westbound route, gold and silver treasures will be at your fingertips!

Just as dusk fell, a group of hunters from Hanshui Village set off on time.

Nearly five hundred pounds of corn, quinoa, potatoes and sweet potatoes. More than fifty pieces of dried bacon and salted fish, a dozen bags of spirits, more than twenty kilograms of pig iron, about five kilograms of copper blocks, less than a kilogram of broken silver, plus two black goats, seven or eight old hens, three big geese

6 women of childbearing age and 8 children under 10 years old.

This is all the harvest of the Hanshui Village hunters in this round of autumn robbery.

He secretly glanced at the ancient book in his arms, and then looked at the old priest Waldloki, who was held in his hand like an animal, lying comfortably on the top of the longboat.

Strange powers and chaotic gods are all feudal superstition, and only the word "knowledge" is his true belief. Nearly twenty years later, he finally obtained the first piece of knowledge on this alien continent!

This is the real reward of this plundering trip to the sea!

**

After boarding the land, returning the ship, and then driving the carriage on the rugged mountain road for nearly ten days, Loki finally returned to Hanshui Village where he was raised.

This is a small village with mountains and sea at its back. Under the towering snow-capped mountains shrouded in mist, dozens of families surround a huge wooden castle. The castle is small in size, covering an area of ​​about one thousand square meters, with three floors above ground and two floors underground, with a total of about fifty rooms.

This is Loki's home and the only property left to him by his dead father.

Although the castle is entirely made of wood, the material selected is iron pine at the foot of the snow-capped mountains, which is strong and durable. In winter, the thick wooden wall, which is half a meter thick, is enough to withstand the severe cold of -50 degrees below zero. In the event of an invasion by a foreign enemy, the village wall can also withstand the onslaught of ordinary siege equipment.

Since becoming an adult, Loki has used the remaining knowledge in his mind to make various improvements to Hanshui Village.

First, he directed the tribesmen to dig up the cold and hard frozen soil with hoes, turning the wooden houses originally built on the ground into a pyramid-shaped "Cahon" that was half above ground and half underground. The Vikings are generally 1.89 meters tall, but Cahon's door height is only 1.2 meters.

This brings two benefits: 1. Minimize the heat dissipation area of ​​the door and redundant building outer walls to further increase the indoor temperature in winter. 2. One meter and two meters is the height that pigs, sheep and other small livestock that cannot withstand the cold can enter the house.

If humanoids want to enter the house, they can only crawl in.

It may be inconvenient to go out in normal times, but this design is very effective when the village defends against foreign enemies. When the villagers of Hanshui Village guard their homes, no matter whether the intruder crawls in with his head or legs first, even a weak woman holding a big ax and guarding the door is enough to guard the door.

The quickest way to break through Cahon is to throw a torch from outside the door in, but no Viking would do that. Ninety percent of the wars in Scandinavia are for the purpose of plundering survival resources. The houses burned by the fire were all destroyed, and nothing was left of steel, gold, silver, or food.

"Cahon" is nearly invincible against bandits.

In the past two years, there have been many wars in Duke Bernard's fiefdom, but the number of invaders traveling long distances to plunder Hanshui Village has become less and less. It is an open secret throughout most of Scandinavia that poverty is extremely poor here and it is very hard to fight.

Not only that, Loki also built the first public bath in this wild land.

He burned and smashed all the ancestral statues and tablets in the cave at the bottom of the castle, dug three feet into the ground to lead to the natural hot springs deeper underground, and used the underground hot springs as the source, supplemented by water purification devices made of plant ash and charcoal. A public bath with an area of ​​more than 200 square meters was built on the ground floor.

The men's and women's baths are separated, and the baths are open all day.

Relying on this large bathhouse, which symbolizes civilization, the disease rate among the villagers in Hanshui Village is extremely low. In this era when medicines are scarce and treatment relies on bloodletting, a single flu can take away half of a village's young labor force.

The large bath ensures that residents can clean away the bacteria attached to the body surface on a daily basis, not to mention taking a bath to get rid of the fatigue of several days of hunting.

There are also various time-saving initiatives in the village. For example, the chef in the castle will collect flour from the whole village, and then make a unified fire to make bread for the whole village.

This avoids wasting a lot of time by going from house to house to light the stove and bake the dough. Women could have more time to fish, raise chickens, and grow wheat, while men could focus on hunting. It eliminates the need to cut down trees and chop firewood every day.

Secondly, the few acres of thin land outside the village were sown with his advanced "Long Plowing Planting Method", which doubled the yield compared with the traditional "populating seeds directly into the ground".

With so many time traveler ideas, all the villagers in Hanshui Village couldn't help but give him a thumbs up, praising his father for not naming him wrong. Loki is really as wise as the god in the Hall of Valor.

However, even so, Hanshui Village still only has 42 households and a population of more than 170 people.

The reason is simple: it's too poor here.