Vikings: Journey of the Juggernaut

Chapter 159 Hammer Rayleigh, the Name of the Skull Splitter

Western Territory, Taghwan Port.

"Go to the Central Crocodile City. If you want to make money, get on the ship. For 5 iron coins per person, the ship is about to leave." On a passenger ship filled with supplies, the middle-aged captain shouted loudly to the mercenaries and coolies surrounding the dock. shouted.

"Is Crocodile City easy to make money?" asked a young mercenary with knife-shaped war patterns painted on his eyes.

Captain David replied kindly: "Of course, in winter like this, it is easy to freeze to death in the North Sea when traveling to Western Europe. You can only earn a little pocket money by transporting goods at the port. If you want to make big money, Crocodile City is the most suitable place for you right now."

"Then I'll go." The young mercenary readily took out 5 Western Territory Iron Coins, which he earned from unloading goods here before.

Some old mercenaries who were carrying goods around shook their heads. It is true that Crocodile City can make money, but that is only for strong warriors. Most of the mercenaries who went there could only be reduced to doing work worse than coolies, or died on the red clay battlefield.

But they don't dare to destroy Earl Hurricane's business, and there is no way they can stop it.

"Were you a noble before?" Captain David asked one more question when he saw the knife-marked mercenary hanging a sword on his waist.

"My grandfather was a great nobleman, and my father has fallen into poverty. When it comes to my generation, the only thing left is this family sword."

A sigh flashed across the eyes of the sword-marked mercenary, and then a bright light came out, "I will definitely restore the glory of the family."

"Good ambition, I hope you can succeed." David secretly despised him in his heart. He had seen many young people like this in his life. In the end, all of them would either remain in poverty or die in unknown circumstances and be buried in the wilderness.

After all, those who can succeed in a career are rare, and they will not belong to the stupid young people in front of them.

……

The transport ship traveled for three sand clocks, followed a narrow strait for about half a sand clock, and arrived at the port of Crocodile City.

The port soldiers and coolies came up to receive the supplies with ease. Captain David talked to the soldier captain: "There are only five this time."

"Yeah." The soldier captain settled the money for these five people.

Captain David signaled the five young mercenaries to disembark: "I wish you guys a lot of money here."

Then return to the ship and sail away.

"Welcome to Crocodile City. The rules here are that before you can become a warrior, you must work here for three months."

The soldier captain continued to the five young mercenaries, "Of course, if you have outstanding records in the past, such as killing famous figures, you can directly become a warrior here, right?"

The five people shook their heads in unison.

A young mercenary asked: "I wonder what kind of work we need to do?"

"If you don't have special talents, you can only do menial tasks such as cleaning up garbage in the city and carrying corpses."

The soldier captain continued, "If you are strong, you can also become a coolie in building city walls and carrying supplies, or you can do high-quality work such as blacksmithing."

"I want to be a coolie." The mercenary said.

"Go and fight three bags of supplies." The soldier captain gestured at the supplies that had just been carried off the ship.

"Three bags?" The mercenary was stunned when he saw that he had to fight against three bags of wheat that were as big as human bodies.

"Go." The soldier captain urged.

The mercenary looked embarrassed: "I'm afraid I can't do it."

"You're entertaining me, right?" The soldier captain kicked the guy to the ground and started beating him.

Suddenly, the mercenary's screams came from the scene: "Stop fighting, I want to go back..."

"Can not go back."

The soldier captain kicked him a few more times. After the beating, he motioned to the soldiers beside him and said, "Let this man pick up the dung."

The two soldiers immediately pulled the mercenary away who was crying bitterly, and threatened him fiercely:

"I dare to cry and beat you to death."

"It's your turn, you also want to choose?" The captain looked at the remaining four people.

"We're left to our own devices."

After the scene just now, the three of them no longer dared to choose by themselves.

"Very good." The captain looked at the knife pattern mercenary, "What about you?"

"I'm okay at blacksmithing. I want to go blacksmithing," Reilly replied.

"If the blacksmith didn't want you, your fate would be the same as the one just now, are you sure?"

"Ah."

"Okay, you follow me." The soldier captain took a look at this mercenary. He was much stronger than himself, with a sword hanging from his waist and strong eyes. He was obviously different from the other scoundrels.

He said to the soldier again: "Take the other three people to clean up the garbage."

After speaking, he walked towards the city gate.

Rayleigh was also looking at the city. The city wall was built to be as tall as a man. He could see coolies working on the city wall, which seemed to be being raised.

Not long after entering the city gate, the sound of blacksmithing could be heard one after another. Looking over with eagle eyes, more than twenty blacksmith shops could be seen at a glance.

The soldier captain said: "This is Blacksmith Street. Go and ask if anyone wants you."

Reilly asked, "Which one is the best?"

My family's long sword has been repaired and scarred after so many years of fighting. I can take advantage of this time to recast the family's long sword.

The captain replied: "All blacksmith shops belong to the hill lords, and each one is similar. If you can become a senior blacksmith, you can also run a blacksmith shop independently."

"Oh." Rayleigh walked to the first blacksmith shop and saw only one mature blacksmith and one young blacksmith, and asked, "Do they still accept people here?"

"Try your strength." The strong blacksmith handed over a big hammer and gestured to hit the red iron block in his hand.

Rayleigh took the sledgehammer, felt a little heavy, and raised it with one hand——

"Use both hands..." As soon as the middle-aged blacksmith finished speaking, he saw the young mercenary in front of him holding a sledgehammer in one hand and smashing it down.

bang——

Mars is shining!

The young blacksmith was very shocked. He was stunned for a while and said: "You are qualified, stay."

What a strength! !

The soldier captain also expressed emotion. He had brought people here before, but not everyone could knock down this big hammer with one hand. It's difficult to knock it down with both hands.

"My name is Delph, and this is my disciple Finn. I wonder what you call him?" asked the blacksmith in his prime.

"My name is Renn, from the West." Lei Li used a pseudonym. When he saw the young strong man named Finn showing an honest smile to him, he felt a little satisfied. The atmosphere of this blacksmith shop seemed good.

"You know how to sword?" Tie Jian, a man in his prime, noticed the young mercenary's sword.

"Yeah." Raleigh nodded.

"I used to use a sword, and I was pretty good at it. Unfortunately, I got injured and changed my profession to a blacksmith." A flash of glorious memories of his career as a warrior flashed through the eyes of the young blacksmith, and he continued, "I'll teach you how to use them someday."

"Okay." Eagle Eyes noticed that the blacksmith used a prosthetic leg on one foot.

Flexibility is very important when using a sword. If you lose one foot, it is obvious that your sword skills will be greatly reduced.

As for teaching yourself two skills, it can only be treated as a joke.

……

After Reilly settled down in this blacksmith shop, more than a month passed in the blink of an eye. I also have a basic understanding of Crocodile City.

The three giants of Crocodile City are: Hill Master Olev, who is in charge of Blacksmith Street and city security, Raging Wolf Gamda, who is in charge of material transportation and logistics support, and Blood Ax Mongo, who is in charge of Shield Maiden Lane.

There is no doubt that Olev, who possesses the two important weapons of security and arms, and is a member of the Niugui tribe, nicknamed the "Hill Master", is the well-deserved Lord of Crocodile City.

It can even be said that whether it is material transportation or Shield Maiden Lane, they can be taken back by it at any time. The reason why they are given out is obviously to attract other mercenary forces to join Crocodile City.

The angry wolf Gamda is a remnant of the giant wolf tribe. He has outstanding captains such as the female wolf Teresa and the wolf warrior Willot under his banner.

Wolf Fighter Willot's fame is the same as when he was in Fern Strait. With his extraordinary appearance and young and powerful strength, he is the dream lover of countless women in Shield Maiden Lane in this city. His reputation is only among the three giants. Down.

As for the Shield Maiden Lane controlled by Blood Ax Mengge, it is not a place for training Shield Maidens, but a street that provides entertainment for the warriors. In this bitter cold place on the border, if there were no women for entertainment, the more than 500 soldiers and mercenaries here would probably go crazy.

Shield Girl Lane is also the gold-selling cave for the warriors of this city.

The third giant of Crocodile City, the leader of Shield Girl Lane, is the most frequently replaced giant. Blood Ax Mengge relied on challenging the previous generation of Shield Girl Alley bosses and defeating them to gain the position of the third giant.

This Firebird Captain was able to escape from the slave ships that attacked Croft and Swalei in the past. This shows that his strength is probably not weaker than that of elite berserkers like Victor and Sophia, and he is not easy to deal with. .

The core of this city is the red clay battlefield——

The red clay battlefield is the site between Crocodile City and the barrier city of the Nine Snakes tribe on the opposite side, less than two to three hundred meters apart.

Nowadays, there is no large-scale war between Niu Gui and Jiu Snake. Both sides are fighting on this battlefield to consume each other's strength.

The rules of the clay battlefield are extremely free. You can choose to fight alone, fight more than one person, fight in groups, or fight more than one person. As long as both sides are willing, they can fight in any way. The trophies are everything on the slain person, such as weapons, armor, and money.

The implicit rule is that you can't force a fight if you don't want to.

At this time, Rayleigh was standing on the red clay city wall, responsible for returning the repaired sword.

Willot took the sword and looked at the person in front of him: "Have I seen you somewhere?"

Rayleigh shook his head, and the call from a mercenary from the Barrier City under the city wall kept coming to his ears:

"Anyone who is no more than twenty years old is coming to compete with me in swordsmanship. It's a pure swordsmanship competition. Those holding shields should not come down, and those holding axes and hammers should not come down. It's a pure swordsmanship competition. Is there anyone in Crocodile City? To be able to stand up and fight with me..."

"Maybe I remembered it wrong." Willot couldn't remember it for a moment. After giving the money, he signaled that the young blacksmith could leave.

Rayleigh turned around and stepped forward, and the curses of the mercenaries from the fortress city continued to be heard in his ears:

"There is no one in this rubbish crocodile city who can fight me. Hey, the one with the sword is you. See if you are the most powerful, come out and fight me."

Everyone in the city was full of angry looks. The guy below was nicknamed "Zui Jian". He was quite powerful, and he was extremely cautious. He would not fight this one, and he would not fight that one. He also specially selected those who could not be older than him, and could not take them. Shield... has a particularly bad mouth, which has disgusted Crocodile City for several months.

Crocodile City and Barrier City have been at odds for so many years. The implicit rules of abiding by the principle of voluntary combat are jointly maintained by the lords of both sides. The city gates are also controlled by soldiers. There is really nothing they can do to take down the guy below.

Look at this moment, inviting a little blacksmith who doesn't know how to fight is extremely shameless. He is a scum who only picks weak people to bully.

"The little blacksmith with the sword and hammer hanging, what about you? Stop for me, you useless thing. If you dare to come out and fight, I allow you to use the hammer. If you don't dare, go back to your mother's belly. Don't Don't let me see you, a loser, wandering on the city wall again..." Dorn kept spitting out the fragrance.

Rayleigh stopped and glanced at the figure about fifty meters away below.

Seeing this scene, Willot shouted: "Blacksmith, can you fight? If you win, I will personally reward you with 30 silver coins."

"Probably not. Dorne from the Barrier City can be considered a genius."

"Little blacksmith, go down and kill him. If you die in battle, we will collect your body and give your family a generous reward."

Several mercenaries on the city wall spoke one after another.

'Zui Jian' saw the little blacksmith stop and provoked him again: "Little blacksmith, you are so cowardly. Is it because your elder sister or younger sister is serving men in Shield Girl Lane and raising a waste like you..."

"Dorne, you can come back. You are such a bastard. You talked nonsense there and didn't start the fight for a long time." The Nine Snakes soldiers on the barrier city could no longer stand it, and a distant voice came over.

"How am I going to go down and fight?" Rayleigh looked around.

"Go out directly from the city gate below. You have to be careful. For your age, the opponent is not weak." The guard captain gestured and the soldiers below opened the city gate.

Rayleigh walked down the stone stairs. Compared to the city walls on both sides, which were only about two meters high, the red clay city wall facing the barrier city was more than four meters high.

"You're still too young and you'll go out as soon as you get excited."

"Yes, many young warriors died in Dorne's hands in this way before."

Some mercenaries on the city wall shook their heads when they saw the young blacksmith being so careless, probably one of them was going to give away another person's head to add to the opponent's record.

In sight, the little blacksmith walked towards the other party with a hammer in his hand. His steps were steady and he was not in a hurry.

"Boy, you fell into the trap. It's your first time to fight. It's a pity that you only have one chance to fight." Dorn smiled, and this became another stepping stone on his road to fame.

Seeing this mute thing walking over without replying, Dorn also lost interest in teasing him, pulled out his long sword, and started to sprint.

Ten steps... five steps... three steps...

Reaching the attack range of the long sword, he stabbed the young blacksmith in the face with an extremely fast sword.

when--

Rayleigh's right hand scabbard deflected the long sword attack. The huge force caused the opponent to lose balance instantly, and the hammer in his left hand was already smashed.

There was a loud bang, and the head of the person in front of him exploded.

When the blood rain is over, step forward to pick up the opponent's sword, find a bag of silver coins, and then return towards the red clay city wall.

The eyes of everyone on the city wall were completely dull.

Dorn, the talkative swordsman who had disgusted Crocodile City for several months, was easily solved by a young blacksmith——

I have to admire the wisdom of the young blacksmith. I never expected that he would calmly walk over with a hammer, but during the fight, he suddenly blocked Dorn's long sword with his sword. The swordsman was caught off guard and was killed. Killed with one hammer.

Of course, the little blacksmith in front of him was extremely powerful, being able to crush his head with a hammer.

After the city wall was quiet for a short moment, the soldiers shouted in unison:

"Skull Splitter!"

"Skull Splitter!"

The deafening sound spread straight to the barrier city on the opposite side.

(End of this chapter)