You and me under the world tree

Therefore, the map it simulates does not say that it is completely restored at 1:1, but it definitely exceeds the artificial limit. If it is a seamless large map where the kingdoms coexist, if you want to run from the main city of one kingdom to the main city of another City, it is impossible to do it without 20 days, and even riding a mount can only shorten the time by half.

Although there is no need for Huode to take Lakin and the others to other places now, but if you want to reach the border from King Volsung City - if you don't stop and run directly on horseback, you will have to spend four or five God, and this mission seems to be clearly aimed at this.

Did I trigger some incredible mission...

Staring at the taboo of 'Netherlands', Huo De couldn't help but feel a little pain in his head.

"Okay, okay, I've packed everything!" Just when Huo De fell into the kind of deep-headed contemplation, Lakin ran out of his room just right, his voice was like a public Like a duck, it will attract the attention of others no matter where it is.

But when Huo De put his eyes on him and behind him, the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching.

Although Lakin himself seemed to be fine, he didn't even carry other items on him, and he was still wearing plain clothes, but there was nothing left in the room behind him:

Originally, looking at the inside of the door from Hodder's perspective, he could at least see some Nordic-style arrangements, such as shields and swords hanging on the walls, wooden wardrobes, and other things. It's not that Hodder has never entered Lakin's room to visit the decorations, and Lakin's aesthetics like a nouveau riche deeply shocked him.

Different from Siegfried's plain and even bookish room layout, Lakin, the sarcastic dwarf, seems to have inherited their usual traits of being greedy for money and even showing off. You can also see some carved gold castings at the entrance, but these are now gone. up.

"emmmmmm..."

Then, under Hodder's watchful eyes, Lakin suddenly stopped at the door of his house. He looked carefully at his wooden door, and then, under the stunned gazes of Siegfried and Hodder, he suddenly swung his ax It hit it.

"Wait a moment?!!"

'boom'

Although Lai Jin is not an excellent fighter, but this dwarf's forging skills are really good. The hand ax he forged just split open the wooden door, and then closed the door with storage magic. Thoroughly explained what is called 'close the door'.

"Siegfried, don't be dazed. If there is anything you want to take away, please pack it quickly. I will take your door too."

But that's obviously not the case now, is it? !

"What are you doing with a door?"

"Be firewood on the road." Facing Huo De's slightly weak voice, Lai Jin said plausibly.

His kind of greed is engraved in his bones, and Hodder has nothing to say about the reason in his tone, but fortunately, Lakin is not the kind of fool, he is greedy, but also divided Knowing the priorities, most of the things he collected were property, that is, things to be used on the road.

As for the rest...

"It's a pity that I sold these good things, and I can't sell them for a while." Lai Jin said, and then he turned his eyes to the sage standing beside him, "Hodder, next Are we going straight to Grinheim? It will take at least ten days on foot."

"horse riding……"

"Horses... shall we go to the stables outside the city to buy two now?"

Lakin first made such a proposal. Although he never bought Midgard horses or other mounts because he didn't go out very much, his money was actually enough, and Hodder followed suit. Players with NPC thinking would not object to anything at this moment, but at the next moment, Lai Jin suddenly rejected his previous proposal.

"No, no, it always feels like something is missing." Lai Jin said suddenly, his eyes suddenly turned to the north. In the north of the city of Volsung, which is the residence of the king, "two years ago, on the anniversary of Legni's accession to the throne, the Valkyries came to congratulate him, and then gave him a gift in the name of Odin. A gallant horse! That horse is said to be a descendant of the eight-legged horse Sleipnir! It's called Grani!"

It was obvious that the dwarf was thinking something wrong, but at the end, he suddenly looked distressed.

"But that horse has a bad temper, no one can tame it, and it doesn't seem to have much time now..."

"Okay, that's the horse. Where is it now?" Just when Lakin was about to give up, Hodder's words made him a little dazed.

"Are you sure? The protoss horse is quite ferocious. Are you sure you can tame it?"

Huo De just looked at him like this and didn't answer, but Lai Jin couldn't help but a slightly cruel smile appeared on the corner of Lai Jin's mouth, and he felt that he understood what he meant.

After all, in the final analysis, Hodder has hated Legney and the Hengding family for a long time. Now that he has such an opportunity, how can he let it go?

Compared to these, whether or not the divine horse Grani can be tamed is not very important...

Chapter 43: The True Stealth Master

Lakin thinks so, taming Grani is the best thing, and it doesn't matter if you don't have it. The important thing is to make a big fuss here before leaving the Volsung King City. He himself has such an idea , and he believed Hodder had the same idea.

This man has kept his promise for 20 years, and he is at least 80 years old, which can be called an advanced age for human beings. There must be a strong hatred in the heart of such a person. Hengding of the clan, for the current leader of the Hengding clan, Legney, he will definitely try to find trouble.

The divine horse Grani is only the first step...

After reaching a consensus in this regard, they began to split up—Hodder acted alone, while Lai Jin and Siegfried went to a stable outside the royal city that belonged to the Hengding royal family.

Although during this process, Lakin once raised objections - in the eyes of this old dwarf, Siegfried has no talent for horse training at all, let alone talent, he has never been exposed to such things since he was a child , even if Hodder taught him 'riding'.

But after Huo De said that he was going to the palace in the north of the royal city, Lai Jin had no objection. After all, compared with the heavily guarded palace, the horse farm was safer and easy to cause damage.

And Huo De's reason here is simpler, it's just that the system gave him a vague branch line, this branch line is located under the task [not a long journey], it is a small goal included in the big task:

【Buy time to escape (0/1)】

And there are a series of small goals, such as destroying the palace, such as looting the treasure house, killing people is also counted, and even a progress bar is given, as long as the progress bar is full.

Lakin thought he didn't have Hodder's fighting power, so it's better to take it easy in this regard, but from his point of view, he felt it was necessary to remind him a few words.

"Legni destroyed the former palace and built a new palace on top of the wreckage. It is different from the place in your impression."

Although Huo De wanted to complain at the time: I know this better than you, because when the major version was updated and [Song of the Nibelungen] was launched, the new palace had caused strong complaints, and the rhythm on the forum was constant. In short, most players didn't like the fact that Legney took control of the Netherlands-although these people were also very popular because of the quest line or other rewards.

But of course he would not say these words, and the answer to Lakin was of course:

"I see."

To be honest, not many players know what the internal environment of the palace built by Legni is, because even players who do Legni’s quest line there rarely get the chance to enter the palace. Generally speaking, it is the palace The mission issued by the previous courtiers or guards, so on the "Nine Realms" forum

, until now there is no complete drawing about the interior of the palace.

And under the protection of the system, if the player has the idea of ​​forcibly breaking into the palace, he will even be sent directly to the door. This is actually the usual method of the game system, and I don't know why.

But it doesn't matter, for Huo De, it is not difficult to enter this strange and strange palace. Although there is no way to enter the main entrance, he can choose some unconventional paths—such as secret passages.

There are 10 secret passages in the original Volsung Palace—the player thinks so, but in fact, Hod, who has filled up his reputation, knows that the original palace has at least 30 secret passages, but among them , There are only 15 real intercommunicating passages, and the rest are considered dead ends, basically used to deceive the enemy. These secret passages were originally designed to deal with the enemies who invaded the palace, but they were not very useful in the end.

But thankfully it didn't come in handy...

As far as Huo De knows and the information provided by the player, the secret passage can lead to the inside, because when the player is preparing to invade in the secret passage, the system still sends him to the gate of the palace halfway through the run, so some people speculate The system must have considered the secret passage as part of the palace, otherwise there would be no need to spend so much trouble.

Then, just as Hodder was standing in the street, looking at the palace to the north and thinking about the complete invasion plan, he suddenly saw a wisp of white flying towards the palace.

"Ok?"

After all, Huo De has already maxed out the life skills of hunting, and his eyes quickly caught the flying white, which is a flying figure, and the speed is very fast.

"Valkyrie..."

The residence of these women is not here...

Thinking of this, Huo De set his sights on the Valkyries in front of the main entrance. These Valkyries wore masks that covered their faces, so they couldn't see the specific appearance clearly.

Could it be that the Valkyrie came to change shifts with her partner?

"Do not……"

The Valkyrie didn't stop there. After stopping in front of her two companions, she quickly walked into the palace gate and entered the palace. It seemed that there was something urgent.

Seeing this, Huo De suddenly set his sights on his task interface...

He still remembers that the game "Nine Realms" is very "logic". After hacking all the coup d'étatists to death within an hour, there was no "duang" and a large number of pursuers refreshed. In this mission in the Netherlands, it is impossible for Legney to know about Siegfried for no reason. where.

That is to say...

"We are under no obligation to report this to Legney."

"Sure enough, that woman is still untrustworthy after all." Thinking of Sigrun's artificial expression and the words in his mouth, Hodder's eyes gradually became cold.

Whether it is from the player's perspective or from other perspectives, Hodder doesn't like being played. This is not a problem of substitution, but pure disgust.

In the past, he really liked the existence of the 'Valkyrie', and even had a good relationship with a Valkyrie, but then everything changed. What happened to the Siegmund family made him really not like it.

So he finally decided to give up the so-called stealth plan. After all, things like secret ways can be used at any time. Now he wants to use the stealth skills displayed by a real master assassin. One thing the famous assassin did, and that was one of Hodder's idols.

His name is Nie Zheng, and his stealth method of assassination is called 'White Rainbow Penetrating the Sun'!

Chapter 44: Within the Rules

Jaxed didn't like that man named Huo De, he didn't like it from the very beginning, because he didn't have the gods in God's Domain, and there was no Valkyrie in his eyes, he always had that cold look, turning all Everything is hidden under the armor.

The main theme of Midgard is war, which will never change, because only the real battlefield can shape the warrior, and the best can go to Valhalla to drink with the gods. This is problematic, even if Jaxide herself is a princess from a kingdom, and her country has been fighting for years, she thinks so.

The gods of Asgard have such a high reputation in Midgard, but among them, Hodder is a different kind. After the Valkyrie supports Siegmund and his sons and persuades him to go to war At that time, he was the first to raise an objection.

At the meeting before the war with the Hengding family more than 20 years ago, he did not agree with the outbreak of conflict with the Hengding family. There is blood feud between them, and war is absolutely inevitable, but he also proposes to use a diplomatic tactic.

For example, to disintegrate the internal alliance of the Hengding family through the method of "combining vertical and horizontal alliances". He tried to persuade Siegmund that war is only the last resort, and the purpose is to grab benefits and should not be based in the Netherlands. In case of instability, declare war directly.

But he failed in the end. At that time, Siegmund had a strong desire to expand. Except for his disciple, Helji, who was in his youth at the time, no one agreed with Hodder's ideas. Germany denounced as cowardly.

He talked about the country and the people all day long, saying that wanton wars would cause these people to lose their homes, and he also tried to use Siegmund's sister to say that hatred and hatred would make people lose their minds, and Siegmund would lose his mind in When you become famous, you make countless enemies.

To put it bluntly, he just wanted to prevent the outbreak of war...

"Coward..." Thinking of this, Jaxide couldn't help but gritted his teeth.

War is the most glorious thing in Midgard. Regardless of men or women, countless people are eager to go to the battlefield and prove their bravery. The best can enter Valhalla and share the glory with the gods until the end of the dusk, but he tries to persuade others to refuse. This honor.

Which one of those heroes didn't sing and celebrate in Valhalla's Palace of Heroes, and which one didn't get Odin's favor?

Compared with these noble warriors, the man named Huoder always looked sinister. He never celebrated the victory. Every time after defeating the enemy, he would always stand on the battlefield like a sculpture for a long time. Doing other things, just watching the entire battlefield, sometimes even bending down, touching the bodies of the dead with their hands.

If Siegmund was disqualified from entering Valhalla because of his incest with his sister and being disgusted by Frigga, then the man named Hod was rejected by her and some other Valkyries from the very beginning. He is considered unworthy to enter the Hall of Heroic Spirits.

Such a person is not even worthy of being bathed in the glory of a great god, but only worthy of mold in a dark corner!

Many Valkyries think so, and most of the Valkyries stationed here in the Netherlands have such an attitude towards Hodder.

But, this is the kind of person, such a man who was branded as a 'coward' defeated them before the king's city, and left no room, one sword and one cast could take away the lives of the Valkyries, including Sigrun The Valkyries including her were beaten back to the Hall of Valor without any resistance to wait for their rebirth.

In fact, it was also the first time Jaxide saw his terrifying fighting power fully unleashed. Although the rune sword was only mortal, it could drink blood freely.

But even so...

"call……"

Depression and anger filled Jaxide's heart like this. Whenever she thought of that figure, she would feel a dull pain in her chest.

There is no word that can accurately describe her current mood. If she really wanted to say it, the closest word would be 'hate'. The conflicts and contempt that had gradually accumulated from the very beginning made her feel bad for Hodder, a 'coward who doesn't like war. 'There is a feeling of disgust, and this feeling of hatred has completely turned into hatred along with the sword 20 years ago.

It is also for this reason that she is here now...

Although she also doesn't like Legney, the warriors of the Hengding clan died in the war with Helgi and the others, and the brave ones were taken to Valhalla, and the remaining Legney was just Pick the tallest among the dwarfs.

He may have been extremely brave when he was young, but that was just a thing of the past. Since he conquered the once prosperous Kingdom of the Netherlands, he has lost his aggressiveness. Several heirs are also quite incompetent.

But even so, the god still protected him, and still let the Valkyrie assist him—because the god still cared about him, she had to maintain the respect on the surface, and then stopped in front of the palace and walked into the palace.

As for the meaning of the gods of the Upper Realm, it is also very clear, that is, a typical pig raising-Legni is just a target, and the gods have already chosen Siegmund's posthumous son: Siegfried, after all, there is blood flowing in his body. Volsung's blood, and this blood is destined to be extraordinary.

However, whether or not she can swallow this enemy depends on Siegfried's personal ability, and based on personal grievances, Jaxed doesn't mind causing them some trouble, so she temporarily left Siegrun's team and transferred to Siegfried. Head back here.

"If you die under the siege and interception of the pursuers, you can't blame me, can you?"

"Yes."

Then suddenly, the dull and hoarse voice from behind made her tense up.

Hid her perception?

After all, she is a Valkyrie. Although she was surprised that her extremely human senses were concealed like this, she still called out her weapon in an instant at the next moment—it was a long spear, but it hadn't yet She turned around, and before she even opened her powerful wings, she felt her shoulders being pressed down.

'ZiZiZiZi'

Her magnificent shoulder armor was instantly frozen by the cold hand guard, and the icy tingling sensation was directly buckled on her flesh, and she could even see the ice slag on the shoulder armor.

But before she could really cry out, she felt a pain in her back.

"Pfft"

The gap between the wings used to fly was pierced directly, and her whole body was skewered like a skewer, and only after seeing the familiar rune blade did she realize who was behind her .

"It's nothing if I killed you here, isn't it?"

Backstab execution, this blow completely emptied her blood tank.

"Hod... you..."

Jaxed desperately wanted to turn around, but she couldn't see anything, because at the next moment, the soldier who walked in openly drew out his sword blade, and then flicked it casually, drying the blood.

But the Valkyrie's vitality is tenacious after all. Although this blow emptied her blood tank, I don't know if it was necessary for the plot. When he turned around, what he saw was a scene of flames soaring into the sky, and there were corpses along the way, including the soldiers of the Hengding clan and the Valkyrie who was in charge of guarding the palace.

Just like 20 years ago...

Since this man was able to slaughter the Valkyrie before the royal city at that time, and then led the young child to break through the heavily guarded Danish royal palace by himself, no one can stop him now.

"You..." Staring at the man, Jaxide could only be helpless and furious now, but before she could utter the words in her mouth, Huo De swung his second sword, and the sharp rune sword directly slashed away. her head.