The Sage of Einar

Gerd, who was working hard to complete his quota of normal steel bolts, looked at the hourglass on his watch and sighed in relief.

'I only have to work one more hour and I can sleep until 7 in the morning.'

As he worked and handed the steel bolts to an assistant, he watched a young man enter the workshop whom he could recognize as his replacement.

"You come early Hugh."

Hugh just sighed a little."I didn't want to be late for my shift. I just hope things get better.

Working at this rate is quite stressful. Sometimes I wake up at night a little worried because I feel like I won't be on time. "

Gerd just laughed. "Don't worry about that. You won't be late, but we all have that concern as a group of Christian fanatics from the church of Rome.

They are heading to our sacred island with the intention of killing us and raping our women and daughters.

We have to work to be able to have enough weapons to fight them; we do not deserve to live in fear.

I don't know about you, but I would rather die than allow Christians to enter our land; it is a price that I am willing to pay.

Also, if I die in Valhalla, things will be much better. "

Hugh sighed and looked at Gerd. "I suppose that for you is Valhalla to us Nordic Christians, it seems to us that heaven will be our eternal resting place.

But I think it's better than living a life of oppression. You know, when I lived in a small village in a small kingdom.

My life was horrible. First, the count charged us for anything, while the church took away our little money that we had to get forgiveness.

It is because of that one day I lost everything and ended up being sold, but fortunately I came to this place, which is a true paradise.

I don't suffer from hunger and I was able to start a family, not to mention that things are very nice as there are no nobles.

Even if there were, they have no power, so they cannot force us to do absolutely nothing. 

I was able to know freedom, and I am willing to fight to be able to maintain it. Believe me, that when one lives in shit and knows the true fullness.

I will fight to keep this freedom and that which ... "

At that moment the noise of an alarm could be heard, so Gerd smiled and wiped his sweat before handing the hammer to Hugh.

"It was a good talk and I would like to stay longer, but I am quite tired.

These days have been quite complex. "

Hugh just laughed and accepted the hammer. "Rest good Gerd, tomorrow is going to be a pretty tough day."

Gerd just nodded and left his workshop, where he could see thousands of people who, like him, had finished their shift.

So they went home to rest because they were quite tired.

They all had on their faces a feeling of exhaustion from work and the little break, but despite that, there were smiles on their faces.

Well, they all knew that everything they did was beneficial for the country because they were about to face the greatest threat.

While this was happening in the capital, Asgard, large-scale construction of towers and small fortresses was taking place in the unpopulated part of the island to the southeast.

The fortresses were at every kilometer and would function as a safeguard point to support the defensive towers of the coast.

Not only that, trench lines began to be built to safely cross the place as hundreds of meters of barbed wire were placed daily.

As some wooden skewers were placed, to be able to resist any landing.

Unlike any northern area, Einar gave priority to developing the defense of the southern area of ​​the island.

Because he was sure that the attacks would arrive in that area, he did not leave the northern region unprotected, but the entire bulk of the 30,000 soldiers and militias would be in that place.

Not only that, but he began to create traps in the forests to emulate the traps that the Vietcong used during the Vietnam War.

They might seem like simple traps, but the damage they could do was horrible, not to mention that holes were being dug to transport troops.

Those in charge of teaching forest fighting were the special forces who had been receiving training from Einar.

Although they were not professionals, if they could teach the basics to the soldiers and volunteers so that they will fight in the forests as in the mountains.

For Einar knew that if he lost the war on the coast, the battle would be fought in the forest, as it was in the mountains.

It would be a hellish confrontation in that case because the resources would not be many, but in the end they would end up winning because without Einar's technology to be able to fish in the form of trawling.

It would be impossible for them to get so much food, but that would be the last thing Einar would do, as victory would be too costly.

One of the many who were in the southeast area was Morgan, who, because of his knowledge of construction and arts, was in charge of supervising the construction of the defensive towers.

Following the model created by Einar, although he respect him structurally as an artist, he added some accessories that made the towers look more medieval.

Because he felt that the original towers did not have a form of construction that was pleasing to the eye, it was better that the enemies and the soldiers who will inhabit them could enjoy the view.

Einar knew about the changes Morgan was making but did not intervene because he was not altering the structure, but only changed the exterior.

They were also at war and did not have enough qualified manpower to be able to build the towers and fortresses in the same way.

Perhaps in the future, citizens will talk about the architecture of the Einar period, but he was not interested in knowing what they would say.

Well, there would always be people who would question how he did it so they would create theories such as he was a magician or that the aliens helped him.

Regardless of that, as long as the structures functioned, and the citizens did not stop fighting, Einar was sure that he could win the war on the coast.