Rise of Rurik

The saint's body will eventually turn into ashes. This night, many people recalled all the past about Veria, and recalled everything the old priest had done for the tribe. They repeatedly kept vigil for Veria until dawn.

At dawn, the noise of Roseburg still woke up the entire tribe.

Rurik didn't want to care about those rumors that were some and not for the time being. After all, he came back by himself, and any rumors were self-defeating.

He must use some kind of tough method to deter the conspirators in the tribe, as well as some deep-rooted guys.

He boasted that he must take certain measures at the first time, bringing a different starting point to the "post-Villiam era".

At dawn, Otto woke up early, with a heavy heart and a sad mood.

Nia tried her best to remain calm, but she burst into tears inadvertently.

Rurik had already woken up and stayed at home temporarily with his parents, wives and concubines, eating jerky and wheat cakes.

Everyone remained silent until Rurik said something astonishing: "I will take immediate action, and the longhouse will be demolished today."

Nia was taken aback: "What did you say?"

"Tear down the sacrificial longhouse."

The son's face was solemn, he didn't seem to be talking nonsense. Niya almost instinctively discouraged: "Don't be delusional, that's a sanctuary. You can't do that."

"No! The priest's house is holy because of Veria, and when she is dead, there is no meaning there."

"But……"

"Let him do it." Otto stopped his wife.

"You! Otto, have you two discussed it?"

"That's right, I'll do it right away." Say it, Rurik quickly ate the wheat cake, stood up suddenly, and walked out of the house in the surprise of his mother and daughters.

The temperature outside is still below freezing point. Although it is close to March, the ice layer of the sea does not show any sign of thawing. Those who cut the ice to make breathing holes to catch seals and fish should still use an axe to cut out half a meter carefully. of ice.

It is at this low temperature that a large number of people have appeared outdoors. Dressed in thick leather coats and plush hats, they spontaneously moved to the sacrificial longhouse.

Rurik took the mercenary men who were standing guard and came to his mercenary camp, and ordered the sleeping mercenary soldiers to gather at a fast speed.

"Are you all here? Yevro, take a count."

After a while, Yevluo completed the statistical task and reported cautiously: "All one hundred and fifty brothers are here."

"Very good! You are all my cronies," Rurik shouted. "Bring an axe? Prepare some twine? Come with me! Remember, what I tell you to do? Guilty, you will be killed!"

The cold didn't wake everyone up? Instead, it was Rurik's serious and terrifying order, which made everyone's heart beat faster.

A mighty army marching to the sacrificial longhouse? All this happened under Otto's watch and permission.

There are people standing on both sides of the winding road? Everyone is confused, and they don't know what Rurik-sama wants to move out of the mercenary army.

The earth was shaking, and at this moment the priestesses in the chief priest's house noticed the strangeness.

Rumia, she just guarded Veria's gray body until now? Tears come to her eyes when she thinks of the past few years.

The body has been placed in the lobby of the longhouse? A large number of oil lamps are arranged around the body,

Set off a strong sense of ceremony.

It's very noisy outside.

"Go and see, is the person carrying the body here?" She greeted casually, but Rurik hurriedly pushed open the curtain and entered.

"Rurik, you're here!" Rumia immediately greeted her.

"Is everything all right?" Rurik asked casually with a sullen face.

"It's all right. The ceremony is about to start?"

"Yes! You..." Rurik looked around? He ordered solemnly: "Rumia, come here? Stand beside me. I will arrange for the staff to remove all the objects in the longhouse."

"Ah? What are you...what are you doing?" Rumia just felt inexplicable? Of course, the body is going to be moved to the final cremation altar, but should other objects be buried with it?

Rurik sighed deeply? Looking at Rumia sincerely: "This longhouse was built for Veria? This place is no longer sacred? It has no meaning. Now, I will tear it down."

"Tear it down?" Rumia was stunned, and the other priests were at a loss.

Rurik's words were not finished yet. As a group of mercenaries rolled up their sackcloth sleeves and entered the "sanctuary" with serious faces, the priestesses instantly understood that Rurik's words were true, and they began to accuse one after another. Mortals broke into the sanctuary.

"This place is no longer sacred! You women..." Rurik scolded angrily and pointed: "You priestesses, you have been assisting Veria to serve Odin, and now Veria is a Valkyrie, what about you? There is no need for you to continue to exist."

After saying that, Rurik made a gesture, and Yevlo brought his men with sharp blades and came aggressively. In fact, Rurik was thinking about dismissing the priestess at first. He thought about it later, and under Otto's suggestion, he decided to kill the killer.

They easily arrested all the ordinary priestesses present, grabbed their arms one by one, and pressed them to kneel on the ground.

The priestesses wailed in horror. They didn't know what happened and they were struggling to beg for mercy, but it was a pity that any struggle was meaningless.

Rumia approached Rurik in panic: "You! They... what are you going to do to them?"

Rurik's eyes were extremely resolute, he didn't speak, he just stretched out his right fist to signal "do it".

I saw that the mercenary soldiers took out the hemp rope and hanged the priestess who were kneeling on the ground.

"Oh! How can this be..." For a moment, Rumia's forehead was full of sweat, and she looked into Rurik's eyes and begged: "Why kill them? They are priestesses! Today's ceremony..."

"I won't need them anymore!" Rurik suddenly hugged Rumia in his arms, grabbed her tightly, put his mouth to her ear, and whispered coldly: "You are our high priest, you It's my woman, you must lie beside me every night from now on, not in this longhouse. There will be no longhouse in the future! These priestesses and the whole longhouse will be buried with Veria! I Some new priestesses will be reassigned to be your assistants, and I will build a permanent temple, with statues of gods. Now, close your eyes and think about nothing."

Of all the priestesses, only Parla survived. Of course, that woman was expelled by the group of hanged priestesses early on, and it has nothing to do with the sacrificial group. She has become a master of soap making and created a lot of wealth for her master. For this kind of woman, Rurik will not only do no harm, but will continue to give her a heavy responsibility.

Seeing the terrifying death scene before him, Rurik's heart was touched a little, and that was all.

None of the summer priestesses in the longhouse survived, and they were given "bloodless executions", one by one lying down beside Veria's body.

This is one of the funeral rites of the Vikings.

When some tribal leaders died, their female slaves were buried with them. In the same way, the high priest of Rose died, what reason did her ordinary priests have to continue to live?

"My lord, it's all done." Yevro asked solemnly and with some trepidation, "what's next?"

"Use leather to pick up these bodies and carry them out, and then remove all the coins. You have finished moving the things in the room, and wait for my order to demolish the house."

The mercenaries are on the move!

Outdoor mercenaries lined up as a wall to prevent the gathered Rus people from walking around. The people had different opinions. They saw with their own eyes that Lord Rurik's men entered the longhouse, and when they were surprised, they saw those people come out carrying some strange things.

Do not! That's actually human! It's a dead man! Those drooping braids are...

People realize in shock that a large number of priestesses...dead?

The scene was very noisy for a time, but Otto was not surprised at all. He pushed away the crowd and raised his arms: "Don't be surprised! These dead priestesses are willing to be buried with Veria. Their souls have entered Asgard, and they will continue to assist our Valkyrie there! Sperosville!"

Otto roared like this, and everyone's mood calmed down a little.

Suddenly someone questioned: "Where is our new high priest? Where is Lord Rurik's Rumia?"

Just then, Rumia, wearing a helmet with antlers, walked out of the high priest's house that was waiting to be demolished with Willia's jewel-encrusted wooden staff.

She is much shorter than the average Ross woman, and her current height is exactly the same as that of Villa's death. Many people almost lost their eyes, and were surprised that a Villa was resurrected.

"Me! High Priest Rumia, all the rituals today and in the future will be sacrificed by me. All the new lower priests are born! I am the servant of Lord Rurik, and all the new lower priests are Rurik. Your lord's servant!"

Rumia has understood everything, she happily accepted her new mission, and she lost her thoughts about this long priest's house and everything in it for a moment. According to the words of Rurik's assault teaching, she informally announced to the people outdoors that all future sacrifices will only obey the orders of Rurik, the son of God.

The Ross tribe does have ambitious people, but there are very few such people. Most of the tribe, especially the women whose husbands and sons died, ordinary families, and orphans from all over the country, fully supported all Rurik's propositions, and hoped that Rurik would control more power and wealth. , so that you can drink more soup.

They watched in astonishment as the body of the priestess buried with them was removed, and then they were speechless at the large number of money suitcases.

Rurik himself held the precious parchment, a "Roman relic", even though its title was "Exodus". In addition, all the wooden documents engraved on the past of the Rus were bundled with hemp ropes and carried out.

Rurik finally appeared, no one noticed the book he was holding, and hundreds of pairs of eyes were staring at the sacred object raised by the eight people behind!

It's Willia's body!

Otto gave an order: "To our High Priest of Veria, kneel down!"

Both men and women of the Rus knelt down on one knee, and Otto also went up to him and became the coffin bearer of Villa.

This withered tree-like old woman did her best for the Ross tribe. At this moment, she was lying peacefully on the wooden bed, covered with a snow-white polar bear skin, just like the surrounding world and the frozen sea, pure white.

The team slowly walked towards the towering cremation altar, and all the Ross tribesmen along the way had kneeled to bid farewell to the holy corpse of Veria.

Gould, the fat big businessman, knelt down with his family.

The family of shipbuilders, the Hortra family, knelt down with his friends.

The Foldgen family, the masters of the tailor's workshop, knelt down.

A large number of businessmen knelt down.

There are also the old Eric family from Denmark and the travelers from the Balmerk tribe from afar, who are guests and kneel for the high priest who died of Ross.

Their kneeling came from the heart, such as Biyonni, but he learned that the high priest of Ross died at the age of eighty with a high collar, and he immediately believed the fact that the high priest ascended to heaven and became a Valkyrie. In Biyonni's concept, no mortal can live to be eighty years old, so the old woman who was lifted up by Duke Ross himself must be truly sacred.

The high priest's house has become empty, all the useful things have been removed, and the rest is the demolition work.

In the end, the Ross people voluntarily obeyed this order. They brought various tools and quickly turned the old longhouse into ruins.

A lot of old building wood will be turned into fuel for the wooden platform, only the fifty or so oak beams that are thirty meters long have collapsed! The thickest and most important of these, the oak beam, Rurik did not hesitate to use as the keel of a new ship.

The golden light of the sun shone on the whole white world. In the days when Rurik was no longer a clan, the smithy of Clavathon, for the sake of quick money, let Lilia continue to make some dark-colored lenses while nursing the child. Today, 200 Rus people wear sunglasses, and the sun in the snow is no longer dazzling, so they have been standing in front of the pyre full of wood blocks for a long time.

It was they, this group of people wearing sunglasses, who assisted Rurik's elite mercenaries to move the remains of the buried lower priestess to the pyre. At this moment, they saw the hideous face of the priestess and the severe streak on her neck.

They were never willing, but were killed!

who did it? Otto must have ordered it. .

However, this is their destiny! Sooner or later they will be buried with Willia.

In the end, Villa's body was placed on the top of the pyre, and then a large amount of hot seal grease began to be sprinkled on the pyre at the bottom of the table. In order to burn faster and more fully, Rurik could only do this.

This is a large-scale cremation, burning the deceased to ashes, and it will take a day and a night at the earliest. Rurik just wants to end this sooner than later...

The sun is finally about to rise to the sky, and the time for sacrifice is now.

The high priest Rumia appeared wearing an antler helmet, and the so-called lower priestess who followed behind were actually a group of girls? !

Do not! These girls all wear unique silver ornaments, each with a different gold coat of arms on each one hanging on their chests. Where are they lower-level priestesses, everyone knows that they are a group of slaves that Otto brought from Novgorod to Rurik, and now their exact identities are the wives and concubines of Lord Rurik.

Rumia has the largest silver jewelry, and the discerning eye can see that this small woman has an extremely noble position among wives and concubines, and she is also the new high priest.

Soon, more children appeared!

A large number of boys held "spears", which were essentially very long wooden sticks, each with a white cloth tied to it. They were Rurik-trained, food-supplied children, and future warriors loyal to Rurik personally. Farewell to the high priest Willia will be a special trial in their lives.

They lined up in a neat line during the training, and they came all dressed up, forming a matrix one after another, standing around the wooden platform, which greatly enhanced the seriousness of the ceremony with absolute neatness.

Another group of girls appeared. Two hundred girls around the age of ten were also all white. They tied white cloth strips on their foreheads, each carrying bows tied with white cloth strips, with quivers and bags hanging from hemp ropes around their waists. There are a few arrows stuck in it.

The final funeral is now finally ready to begin!

As many as ten reindeer were sacrificed and stabbed to death by Rurik with a sword, and the deer carcasses were dragged directly onto the ice. A group of strong men cut out ice caves and let all the deer blood flow into the ocean.

Under the gaze of as many as 8,000 pairs of eyes, Rumia shouted loudly: "O God of the Sea! Please accept our sacrifices! Let the remains of Sperosville on earth be returned to the sea!"

These reindeer are not dedicated to Odin, but to the sea. As for the deer carcasses, it is natural that they will become human food, especially as a reward for the men who participate in the sacrificial activities.

Rumia began to sing the ancient sacrificial prayers of the Roth tribe, and some of the older people finally realized that this girl was singing the prayers that turned into great people when they died. People listened to Rumia's solo singing in silence, followed by a large number of girls' choruses, especially the Rus' war song "Holy War". The battle song is for Odin! The Rus believed that one of Odin's incarnations was the sun.

At noon, Rurik washed his hands covered in deer blood, and stood on a high place, holding up a flaming pine torch, and shouting loudly: "Russian! Year has done her holy mission! Odin is her father, she was a Valkyrie, and now Odin has taken her away! Sperosville! Our Valkyrie! She is watching us from heaven Move! Odin is watching our move!"

"Me! Rurik! I am also a descendant of Odin! I am your greatest leader, Odin protects me from invincibility! Odin protects me from wind, snow and heat! I will lead you to glory, all surrender Ross and those who ally with Ross will be honored by Odin! Now, let me open a new era!"

At this point, according to Rurik's previous arrangement, the boys and girls began to rhythmically shout Ulla.

The Voice of Ulla, Rurik wanted it to be a Viking battle cry unique to the Rus.

Rurik endured the pain of his throat, approached the pyre with a solemn expression, and threw the torch with all his might.

The flames touched the flammable seal oil and burned quickly, and the charcoal in the pyre had long since soaked in the grease. Almost in an instant, a terrifying column of fire shot straight into the sky.

Rurik felt the terrifying heat, and the onlookers retreated subconsciously. Rurik squinted and raised his head, watching Veria's body engulfed in yellow flames...

The flames startled everyone, no matter whether everyone reacted or not, Rurik announced in public that his era had officially arrived! The so-called Veria was chosen by Odin, and Rurik was the second. Those who identify Rurik as a holy one have greatly strengthened their faith based on today's rituals. As for the careerists, some people began to waver.

Rurik didn't expect a group of guys who questioned their status to change their views quickly. He believed that at least those guys knew what it meant to be vicious.

His estimate was correct. The Rus people cannot tolerate that their leader is not a fierce and fierce warrior. Now everyone is soberly aware that, although Rurik is still an immature (less than twelve years old) child, he already has the mentality of a warrior, Next, everyone just has to wait a little longer for this child to grow into a man stronger than his father.

The fire burned for three whole days, and everything finally turned to ashes.

The last skeleton of Veriad was also turned into powder in the flames, and all the ashes were mixed together and sent to the sea by the Rus.

The cremation altar has completely disappeared, and a permanent temple will be built on top of the black relics it left behind, and that's what happens later.