You and me under the world tree

Chapter 22: Won't Break Your Word

Right in front of the seemingly silly and naive giant, Hodder roughly summarized the ins and outs of the whole thing.

Of course, with his character, of course he wouldn't say anything: Howler didn't believe me, so I had to prove this bullshit to her.

From childhood to adulthood, he has a deep understanding of the importance of 'discourse'.

From actions to details, if you control every detail well, you can create the "image" you want, and even induce the other party to think in the direction you want to a certain extent.

This is how it is now. According to Huo De, he seemed to have given up on Huo Le and began to be in a "dilemma", but Huo De intentionally or unintentionally tied his position with Huo Le and the people in the abandoned port. .

In his words, he even completely ignored his own purpose, portraying himself as a 'good-hearted person' who wanted to help Hewale.

Generally speaking, his rhetoric is invincible.

And more importantly, this kind of thing is not made up by him.

All the residents in the abandoned port know the identity of Hewale, and know that she has been doing her best to find her father's remains and the magic sword.

Some of the elders took it for granted that Her Royal Highness should find the Nation-Suppressing Demon Sword that was handed down back home.

What's more, they are not only supportive, if He Huale gives up, these old people will be chattering instead.

In such an environment, even though Heras was just a giant with amnesia, he always regarded Hewale as a big sister after all.

There is no reason for him not to know about Herwaller's thoughts, wishes, and even obsessions.

Under such circumstances, Heras, who showed a silly and scheming look, had no reason to disagree.

Hodder really thought so, but then he was slapped in the face.

When Huo De and Heras finished explaining these, the simple-minded giant Heras just shook his head.

"What Eldest Sister can't find, Heras can't find either."

Perhaps it was because the eldest sister who picked him up in a coma was stronger than him, but the upright fellow Heras said all of a sudden.

Not even the slightest thought of trying.

Even though Huo De tried to share some of his plans and guesses with this fool, he still did not agree.

"Ye Mengjia is very dangerous, Heras doesn't want to provoke him."

"We can communicate, he can communicate."

"It's a monster, a huge... brutal monster."

So here comes the question, does Heras have his own narrow-mindedness, or is it because he doesn't know anything, but is influenced by the words of others in the abandoned port, so he even thinks that Yermungandr is suppressed by the king of gods? Behemoth?

About this point, I am afraid that few people understand, let alone know.

In short, when Huo De felt egg pain, no matter how much he persuaded there, Heras would not be moved.

Then, Huo De realized: In the final analysis, it was because Heras himself had the most basic vigilance.

He doesn't know who the sage Hodder and Siegfried are, and he doesn't even know who the Icelandic princess Hilda is.

A map of Midgard lay before him, which the giant could not quite make out.

In the cognition of this fellow Heras, Hodder and his party are standard outsiders.

In this regard, it is inevitable that he does not have any trust.

So in this way, this task seems to be stuck like this?

For a moment, a thought like this did flash through Hodder's heart.

He even wanted to scold his mother.

You must know that he is not just living the plot, he has to explore various ways to advance the plot as much as possible.

As a result, he spent a long time there as a BB, and Heras, a foolish man, didn't trust him. As a result, he didn't even have a task similar to 'gaining trust'.

The mission symbol hovering over Heras's head is always that daily.

So is this road blocked?

Assuming that someone wants to take the initiative to open the clues of the Demon Sword Tyrfing through a similar route, instead of following the plot step by step, will he be stuck here?

You know, not everyone can 'tie' the princess of Iceland together.

Hodder was just thinking about it from the perspective of a normal player.

And a normal, mature game company cannot design missions and plots that lead nowhere.

So there must be a way to break the game!

Otherwise, a few more days to gain reputation?

If the prestige here is above respect, and the attitude of the NPCs here can undergo a qualitative change towards him as a player, maybe everything will be different.

However, the prestige gained in daily tasks is limited after all.

Three fixed daily tasks plus odd refreshments, these things add up to at least a week.

no time to test...

After all, this is a game, and he still needs a college diploma, so he must spend time preparing for the defense.

And Huo De's goal is to quickly advance the plot in the shortest possible time. As for the content of the strategy and plot analysis, this kind of thing can naturally be done.

If he was stuck at the bottleneck, he estimated that he could only say 'maybe' or 'possible'.

Then, just as Heras continued to grind his head down on the large bone in his hand, Hodder left.

The extremely gloomy warriors in the dark environment wandered around the surrounding area of ​​the abandoned port.

Then, at this moment, he felt that someone around him seemed to be staring at him.

Just when he moved his gaze over, what he saw was the woman in leather armor.

Ragotha, Daughter of the Shield, wife of Battle Commander Ragnar, is now pregnant.

According to the words of the players who have studied the prototypes of character design in the forum, their first child 'Ivar' should be the famous...or the notorious Ivar the Boneless.

If this is the case, it means that their children will not be much healthy, at least lower body paralysis is certain.

After all, Hodder himself is not a European player, and he doesn't have much feeling for the legendary character designed after the Viking King.

What is more in his heart is sympathy, whether it is for Ragoza or Ragnar, or even for their unborn child.

After all, under this worldview, sick and weak children have almost no means of survival, let alone immobile characters.

What would happen to a Viking king who was famous in reality but was born with defects in the background of mythology?

No one knows this.

Maybe their kids will achieve something later on, though?

In the end, Huo De still shook off those thoughts in his mind, he just stared at the woman in front of him.

"Are you following me?"

"Yes."

Facing the sage's questioning, Lagoza did not deny it.

After all, the title 'Sage of Volsunger' is too intimidating, and there is no benefit in lying here.

"I delivered lunch to our Highness before, but her complexion is not very good."

You people here are all pale...

Huo De actually wanted to say that, after all, he was inexplicably feeling a little irritable now.

But he just stood there.

"So you just want to see what I'm doing?"

"Of course, but now it seems that you are doing a good thing, just a little..."

"crazy?"

Ragoza didn't answer, but nodded.

In fact, she had just arrived here not long ago, and she didn't hear much—at least she didn't hear what Hodder had chatted with Heras before.

However, she heard the point: the sage wanted to call Jormungandr in the language of the giants in Hellas.

"Anyway, you always think so." Looking at the hesitation on Lagoza's face, Hodder finally just shook his head, "I will act alone next."

This unfathomable man walked directly towards the abandoned port along the road, but when he came to Lagoza, he paused for a while.

"But I won't break my promise, I said, I will prove to her that I am right."

Chapter 23: Hide and See

"Is that what he said?"

In the ship of giants, when Lagosa faithfully reported what she had seen and heard to her loyal Highness the Princess, Hewale couldn't help frowning.

Compared with the obviously polished words that Hodder explained to Heras, Ragoza was much more straightforward.

As a Shield Maiden, her job is not to think.

She is her master, her allegiance to Her Majesty: Hewale's eyes.

So, what she has to do is to relay what she has seen and heard.

Therefore, in front of Hewale, she uttered all the actions and conversations between the two parties, which of course included Heras' rejection and Hodder's final reaction.

"That's it, Your Highness, he finally asked me to tell you that he said he would not break his promise, and he would prove to you that he was right."

After Ragoza finished speaking, she raised her lowered head and stared at Hewale's face.

At this moment, the Pirate Queen seemed to have no other expressions.

The scars on her face didn't twist or squirm in any way, she just sat on her 'throne' with her eyes closed.

It looked as if he was closing his eyes and resting his mind, but Lagoza didn't dare to make wild guesses about the specifics.

"Your Highness?"

"Ok?"

"The sage of Volsung..."

"Let him go."

In the end, Hewale just said so.

"Anyway, we don't have any right to restrict what he can do."

After all, it's just an alliance.

Herwalla was not the kind of woman who would put herself in the inferior position, and that seemingly naive warrior Siegfried could not be inferior to these pirates.

As for the sage Huo De, let alone.

The relationship between them is pure mutual help.

In order to continue to survive, the pirates headed by He Huale urgently need to make changes, and stepping out of the northern seas is only the first step.

The Volsung family needed an army, an army that could provide assistance at the beginning and be stationed in the port.

Moreover, Hewale is quite sober, so she is very clear that in this seemingly equal transaction and cooperation, the North Wind Pirates she leads are actually at a disadvantage.

It is impossible for them to take advantage.

The reason is also quite simple, for these groups who urgently need to change, cleanse and return to the Atrium Continent, now can be said to be the last chance.

And when the Volsung family is restored and the Netherlands forms an alliance with Iceland, it is foreseeable that they will not have any chance.

Therefore, for them, the invitation from the sage, the descendant of the Volsung family, was a life-saving straw, and they had to grasp it.

But at the same time, for the Volsung family who invited them, the North Wind Pirates were not the only choice—at least in the eyes of Hewale and most people.

There are really too many means of restoring the country, and the so-called 'army' is not just them.

And as soon as he thought of this, He Huale felt his head hurt.

Maybe it's because the education of her mother and those veterans has been deeply ingrained in her mind.

Even though her desire for the throne is not too great, she still feels uncomfortable if she is so subordinate and restricted.