You and me under the world tree

Undead?

"Oooo!"

Of course Hodder and King Legney rushed straight into the sky in one breath.

At this moment, the king was still roaring.

Perhaps it was because he had shouted at the top of his lungs before, but at this moment, his angry howls seemed a little lacking in confidence.

Like an out-of-pitch musical instrument, it has no effect other than making people feel upset.

At the same time, his attack actually didn't have any real effect on Hodder.

At most, it suppressed Hodder on the surface for a while, leaving him no time to do other things besides defense.

And from the beginning to the present, the sage has just been waiting.

Waiting for the right moment...

"Humph!"

In the end, under Legney's melee attack like a storm, Hodder directly grabbed a gap.

His hands grabbed Legney's arm, and then he fell down directly in a wrestling manner.

It seemed that this was to throw him back into the palace, but soon, a rune appeared directly below him.

The breeze thus formed a barrier, and Legni's fall from top to bottom directly landed on the barrier of wind that could be seen slightly with the naked eye.

And soon, the falling sage also directly stepped on the king's body.

'click'

Under the trampling of the boots, the king's blackened breastplate seemed to be showing signs of shattering at this moment.

Whether it was the black mist of death or his own armor, there were signs of collapse at this moment.

At the same time, in Huo De's eyes, his blood bar was only a little bit left.

Although it may be because of the buff cursed by the Lao Shizi on his body, his blood volume is slowly recovering.

But for a while, there was no big storm.

"uncle!"

In the end, under Siegfried's call, Hodder casually threw the guy into the vestibule.

"Get out of the way! This guy Legney has necromantic magic! He has colluded with those dark wizards!"

Then, the matter is so qualitative, at least in the mouth of the sage.

And in the eyes of others, King Hendin looked so evil.

He was surrounded by black mist, and his face even looked like a zombie.

"Don't touch him, don't get close, or you'll be cursed!"

Chapter 63: Rumors

In the end, the war was completely over.

That night, the Volsunger clan's army quickly cleaned up the entire city. Although there was no way to repair the city walls in a short period of time, the entire city basically returned to normal order.

At the same time, these fighters did not stay inside the city.

To avoid any confusion in the hearts of the people, and to demonstrate the benevolence of the new king, under the command of Siegfried, Lord of Armies, most of the soldiers, led by Hagen, withdrew from the royal city.

They will be stationed near the ancient city of Skywrath King, and continue their counting work.

They need to count and report the real number of casualties within a short period of time. As for Hagen himself, he needs to summarize this.

As for the rest of the fighters, under the leadership of Ragnar, the leader of the abandoned city, they were successfully stationed in the camp inside the royal city.

They have thus taken over the security management of Skywrath City.

And it was during this process that a piece of news spread: the leader of the Hengding clan, the false king who had ruled the Netherlands for more than 20 years, had an inexplicable relationship with the necromancers who were shouting and beating everyone. relation.

In the world of Atrium, the dead have an incomparably noble meaning.

It has nothing to do with will or anything else. This is a concept that is mainly recognized by humans in the atrium, including some dwarves, elves, and giants.

In the final analysis, it is because human beings are a mortal race, they do not have a long life like other races, and even once achieved immortality.

For them, life is extremely short, and accidents happen frequently.

Relatives, friends, lovers...

When a person passes away, they have no way to express their friendship to themselves, they can only spend this kind of thought on the things behind him.

Funerals and cemeteries...

This is the death culture developed by human beings.

From the perspective of human beings, regardless of whether life was rich or difficult during life, a tranquility must be maintained after death.

Even without the intervention of the gods, as intelligent beings, human beings have a natural aversion to the blasphemers who drive death.

Therefore, the power to play with the dead and drive death without authorization must be absolutely rejected.

This is a tradition that has nothing to do with the gods, at least in the eyes of humans themselves.

For those gods who seem to be immortal and have powerful power, they can't say that they reject human funeral culture, but they definitely don't understand it.

However, let’s not talk about how it was before.

At least for the current gods, this spontaneous rejection of human beings is actually a good thing.

So gradually, starting from human spontaneity, with the help of various forces, the various countries in the atrium formed the current funeral culture.

Maybe slightly different from place to place, but they all hate 'necronomicon culture'.

So, one can imagine what kind of scene it will be when such rumors start to reverberate in Wangcheng.

The people don't know what the truth is, because they have never seen it with their own eyes, and Legni himself has never been a very good king.

Suspicion, high taxes, and repeated defeats in foreign wars have already caused the old king who has ruled for more than [-] years to lose popular support.

Even if he was a hero, so what?

Do people care about legends of heroes?

Of course they cared, after all, that was what they used to talk about in the tavern after a hard day's work.

But, that's about it.

Compared with those illusory legends, they are more concerned about their three meals a day and safety issues.

Siegfried had already spent five months paving the way to the throne, and his accumulated reputation would not allow him to be stained in any way.

Therefore, when this news came out, Legney's reputation, which was already scarce, became negative in an instant.

It is worth mentioning that Hagen originally wanted to increase the fire in this regard and release some news, but Hodder stopped him.

Although the young man from Tronpage is usually calm enough to be a trustworthy figure whether on the battlefield or in the court, he is too young after all.

He could see the benefits of this rumor to Ziegfeld, but he didn't know how to restrain himself, instead he seemed a little radical.

In this case, what he considered was to increase the strength of the rumors.

But this is a sign of inexperience, so Hodder stopped this in time.

The so-called rumors must be false and true, true and false, seven parts of the false and three parts of the truth can make people curious and doubtful but can't tell the truth from the false.

Moreover, just because they can't tell the truth from the false, when the rumors spread, the folk meddlers will naturally start endless reverie.

a month...

It has been a month since Siegfried captured the royal city. Without stopping it, rumors among the people became more and more widespread, and even went to other kingdoms along with the caravans.

In the end, the rumors have been completely distorted by the people's embellishments and associations.

In this way, his image evolved from a tyrant to a tyrant who colluded with black wizards, and even said that he was a follower of Hela, the queen of death.

In the end, the rumors were completely fixed on Legney himself.

Although Siegfried, as an official, did not mention this directly, the folks gave an answer to Siegmund's unbelievable defeat: he was entrapped by necromancer magic.

And then the Hending family conspiracy theories started to reverberate.

More than 20 years have passed, and those who started with Legney were either dealt with by him who was extremely suspicious, or they simply retired and left nothing to do with the world.

Therefore, basically no one knew the inside story at that time, and the most widely circulated version is the current version.

Legend has it that the Queen of the Undead in Helheim has been competing with Asgard for the souls of the warriors. However, due to the power of the gods, the Queen dared not make a fuss on the surface, so she began to develop her beliefs behind her back.

Unable to resist the temptation, Legney joins an organization composed of necromancers.

These evil wizards helped him unify the Hengding clan, and he rewarded him by collecting heroic souls for the queen.

And Siegmund is the victim...

No one admitted this, but no one denied it, because Siegmund himself was indeed not in Asgard, let alone Valhalla.

Although the gods and the Valkyrie have a set of official rhetoric, there are always folks who watch the excitement and don't think it's a big deal.

Now that Legney's stain is extremely strong, no one cares about Siegmund's incest with his sister.

And more importantly, some people even linked his identity with the current war.

It is said that it is precisely because Legney needs to continuously provide the queen with the heroic souls of the soldiers, so the war is not stopped, and the people are not taken seriously.

And finally, the years pass.

When Siegfried finished dealing with those tedious matters and began to formally put the matter of enthronement on the agenda, the trial against the former king also began.

"Understood, Hagen."

Facing the bustling crowd who were loudly denouncing the false king, Huo De spoke.

"The people don't know the truth, but they are really suspicious. They will spontaneously complete the rumors and complete the story automatically. We don't need and can't intervene."

Chapter 64: Judgment Ritual!

Legney needs to be judged.

This was Hodder's proposal, but no one objected to it.

According to the words of the sage, that is, Legney himself is useless, and the Hengding family is no longer as important as it was when King Hengding was leading it.

In the past, the sage might still have to take King Hengding as a hostage and provoke a series of infighting.

But now there is no need for these. Anyway, after this wave of public opinion sent to the door, the Hengding family can't even revive.

Because now that the scope of such rumors is expanding, the Hengding family led by Legney has become a rat that shouts and beats in the street, and the soldiers who once served for it are even ashamed of it.

But for the newborn Volsung family headed by Siegfried, Legney has only one role left.

Liquidate...

Liquidate hatred, liquidate interests.

In short, everyone needs to be informed about Legney's evil deeds, so this trial is necessary.

Legney of the Hengding family, he will be nailed to the pillar of shame in the end, and he will never stand up again.

In contrast, the Volsung family will do everything they can to stand on an invincible commanding height.

"call……"

Finally, after talking with Hagen, Hodder turned his attention to the surrounding area.

The location of the trial was placed in the center of the royal capital, so it was surrounded by people.

Most of these were civilians, and even though they couldn't get close and were firmly blocked by the defense line formed by soldiers, the excited voices of the group had never been lowered in any way.

It can be seen that these people have a heartfelt aversion to the false king.

It is worth mentioning that some of these residents are from the interior of the royal city, but the other part comes from the surrounding villages.

Families in those villages had young men who had been called, and these young men were the source of the bodies of the 'Heroes'.

Originally, this is not a big problem. Even if the magic of "Heroic Spirits Come to the World" is debunked or even fully disclosed, it will only make the relationship between Legni and the gods closer.

After all, he was supposed to be the first king to drive the heroes of Valhalla.