You and me under the world tree

The tracking magic derived from the No.14 rune can track the location of a thing. For example, now, Laijin has used this magic to track Hodder's location - he is in the hotel.

However, this 'tracking' is not tracking certain characters, but the rune engraved by the person concerned, which means that if there is no contact before, this tracking magic will not take effect.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of tracking rune will be engraved on important equipment - for example, Siegfried's holy sword Gulam is very precious, in order to prevent it from being lost, there are tracking words on it.

However, under normal circumstances, this thing is actually quite tasteless, and it can also be covered by space-related runes such as storage magic, and sometimes it cannot be tracked.

So in the hands of Huo De and his party, the so-called tracking magic is more like a communication tool, at most, they can be taken out from time to time to tell the other party where they are.

And that's how it is now, when Lakin and Siegfried walked into the hotel, they happened to see the man in the cloak playing with the rune stone in his hand.

His attire is somewhat similar to Siegfried's—anyway, it's a second-hand cloak he found somewhere and a suit of battle armor.

Sage Hodder, this man has never changed his battle uniform until now, and has been wearing the Dutch frontier armor that symbolizes the Volsung family.

In Lai Jin's impression, although the sage's armor was as new as it was, he had been wearing it for a long time after constant repairs and knocks.

20 years or 30 years?

Anyway, he changed into this clothes shortly after rescuing Lai Jin.

He wears this armor to stand alongside the Volsungers, he wears this armor to strategize on the battlefield, he wears this armor to die for Siegmund, and finally, he wears this armor to kill the young Siegfried all the way back to the royal city of the Netherlands.

It seems to have witnessed his life. Although it is simple, it is full of honor.

And until now, he refused to take it off.

Lai Jin knew that this battle armor, which symbolized the glory of the sage's life, had one last thing to do: to help Siegfried ascend to the throne.

This man has already tied himself firmly with the Volsung family...

"Well, are you here?"

In the end, Hodder stopped kneading the rune stone in his hand after seeing a big and a small one walking into the main entrance of the hotel.

He didn't know how much drama Lai Jin had in his heart. The rune stone in his hand was actually a quest item to open this quest scene, and the hint given to him by the quest was related to this.

[Take out the rune stone (1/1)]

【Wait for Siegfried and them (1/1)】

And now these tasks have been completed, although the two of them haven't spoken yet, a golden exclamation mark appeared on Siegfried's head.

[Mission: Return of the Descendants]

[Introduction: Although it is only a few days for you, but it is more than a year for Ziegfried, let's test him now]

[Mission Objective: Ask Siegfried about his travels (0/1)]

The objective of the mission emerged, and Huo De couldn't help being taken aback when he saw this.

It is true to say that, in the last few days of the fifteen-day daily mission, Hodder will not see Siegfried, because according to the setting, he has already run away to travel alone.

In the game setting, this journey is more than a year.

After experiencing the wind, food, dew, and wind and rain, the current Siegfried seems to have matured a lot, with such a sense of vicissitudes.

But so what?

"Let's talk in detail in the room."

"Okay, uncle." This mature man still showed a trace of honesty in front of Huo De, he was still that Siegfried after all.

"Boss! Boss! Serve us a jug of mead and roast a lamb!"

Finally, Lakin's words came to a close.

…………

Although it is a common law in the whole world to never tire of eating fine stew, but the dishes in border towns don't pay much attention to refinement.

The people who live here are generally not noble guys, not to mention that there is only one big kitchen in the small town of Strath, and the owner of the tavern and the hotel is alone.

In short, they don't cut the whole roasted lamb into a shape suitable for eating, but lift the whole lamb onto the table.

The entire room is quite large, and the roasted lamb and spirits can be placed there, so it doesn't matter.

It could be seen that Lai Jin seemed very happy at the moment, he directly waved all the hotel staff out, and then happily used space magic to take out the bone cutter and began to cut the meat.

"I paid for it! So I eat two lamb shanks!" he exclaimed after cutting off all four lamb shanks.

His voice was quite sharp and piercing, and when he made the sound, he had already taken a bite out of each of the two lamb legs.

There was a crisp sound from the crispy sheepskin that was baked just right, and the old dwarf ate with a mouthful of oil, and the stubble was stained with gravy.

However, Huo De didn't care about it. Compared with Laijin's bold and unrestrained way of eating, he just took out a knife and slowly cut the leg of lamb, cutting the leg meat into pieces.

This is his personal eating habit, because it doesn't need to be full of food, but Siegfried is different.

To be honest, when he is traveling and wandering alone, he can also eat better when he enters the city. Usually, he just starts to talk when he is in a hurry, and this time is no exception.

"Roast lamb, to be honest, I didn't see a sheep for a while." Just biting the leg of lamb, Siegfried said, "When I first walked north, eating fish almost made me vomit. "

From the border of the Netherlands to the Kingdom of Denmark, of course it is along the coast. Of course, the only thing Siegfried can eat on this road is fish.

"Small villages are generally more hospitable. They will provide some easy-to-carry fresh herring and homemade cans to the adventurers who help them. If you don't have time, you can eat it raw."

"Yes." As soon as he mentioned this, Siegfried's expression became lifeless, "Remove the head and bone, smear the sauce and cheese and bite it off, it's good as a snack, but I can't hold back eating it .”

That must have been a hard life for Siegfried, let alone canned herring.

"It wasn't until I went to Wartooth King City in Denmark that I had a good meal."

He seemed full of resentment, but at this moment, Hodder had to ask one thing.

"In Denmark, I remember that the ruler is still the old Elf."

"Yes, King Elf, but recently, he seems to be sick. It is his son who takes care of government affairs instead: Losger, he is still a teenager, and he handles government affairs with the help of several ministers and his mother."

When talking about these things, Siegfried didn't change his face, as if there was nothing special about it.

However, Hodder had to continue to ask about this aspect:

"Have you ever visited King Elf?"

Chapter 13: Siegfried's History of Blood and Tears

After all, Hodder had to ask about one thing, because Denmark was a very sensitive country for Siegfried.

King Elf's wife: Queen Theotis is Siegfried's biological mother. With this relationship, Siegfried's feelings for Denmark can be said to be quite complicated.

Moreover, although Hodder's tone was very calm, and the question was beating around the bush, Siegfried could still see what his uncle wanted to ask.

"No, I didn't visit them, I just lived in 'Voltus' for a while, and looked at the soldiers, customs, and army there."

In the end, the young soldier's eyelids drooped. It was true that he had matured during the journey, but he didn't mean to hide his emotions and thoughts at this moment.

Clearly, things in Denmark don't appeal much to him, and he doesn't even want to talk about it.

"I don't think there is a need for me to visit." He just said, "Volsong's descendant, Siegfried, died in battle on the Gothic border. This is something that the entire Midgard knows."

However, not many people are willing to verify the authenticity of this news.

"No one has asked the king of the Netherlands for a corpse, let alone worshiped it, including Theotis, my mother."

"Theotis is cowardly."

"That's not a reason."

Sure enough, he minded.

No, it's better to say that minding is normal.

Everyone has a slight expectation for their parents who are connected by blood. This has nothing to do with status, but just an inexplicable emotion that exists.

Siegfried was like this. Even though he hadn't been in Denmark since he could remember, and even though he didn't have much memory of his biological mother, he still had the slightest expectation.

However, this expectation was shattered...

The 'death' of Siegfried, the descendant of Volsunger, did not cause any ups and downs. She was still the beautiful queen of Denmark, and she gave birth to a seemingly talented son for King Elf.

Living a happy life every day, she never came to worship or beg for her son's body for a year.

"My mother's elder brother, Gripper of Greenland, once asked Legney for the body, saying that my body could not be in the territory of the enemy."

Iceland's King Griple...

If Siegfried hadn't been chilled before, then the actions of Theotis' elder brother, the old but wise king known as the 'Wise Old Man' directly shattered Siegfried's last hope.

As an uncle, he can still make a sound, why can't Theotis?

That's what Siegfried is thinking now

A little bit of personal bias, a little bit of anger, so his thinking is biased.

Of course Theotis loved Siegfried, otherwise she would not have made up her mind to give birth to the child at that time.

But her temperament is too cowardly. In other players' plots, she had to send her child away because she was frightened by King Elf.

But in Hodder's mission line, because she hesitated about revenge, Hodder took away the young Siegfried without hesitation.

"You have no reason to ask anyone to give you more love than herself." Looking at Siegfried's depressed expression, Hod spoke slowly.

This sentence seems to be adding insult to injury, but it is not.

"The reason why maternal love is noble is that some mothers give all their love to their children, but this does not mean that all mothers in the world are like this."

"I know."

After all, the current Siegfried is not that inexperienced young man, he answered quite simply.

"In my travels I have seen great mothers who protected their children from robbers, and women who abandoned their children and husbands just to join noble families."

One of the purposes of traveling is this. Siegfried will observe all kinds of situations in the world during his travels - not those nobles who like to pretend to be themselves, but common people.

All emotions and life styles can be found in the lives of civilians. It is much better to observe this frequently than to overlook something from a high place.

"Because I have seen a lot, I know that some things are taken for granted."

But Siegfried still couldn't let himself stay out of certain things after all, and the prejudice against Theotis in his heart could not disappear.

As long as he thought of the graceful and luxurious woman he had seen from afar, he couldn't help feeling a little angry in his heart.

So at this moment, he couldn't help biting the leg of lamb vigorously.

However, that doesn't mean hate.

"This is actually a very cold thinking logic. Since she didn't admit it, then I won't recognize her—it's not necessary."

This topic ended here, neither Hodder nor Siegfried wanted to talk about it, so Hodder finally changed the subject.

"Have you ever been to Iceland?"

"No, I don't want to take a boat. It's a waste of time. Although Grani can fly on the water, it's too conspicuous." Siegfried answered very simply, but he hesitated behind.

This is normal. Most people have no ghosts in their hearts, and even expect to be watched by the gods and Valkyrie, so no matter what they do, they will not hide it.

But Huo De and his party are different. In order to avoid the gaze of the gods, they pretended to be "death" and disturbed the Nine Realms.

When recasting the holy sword of Gulam, the two rune masters Hodder and Lakin even jointly inspected the entire holy sword to confirm that there were no runes left by the gods on it.

That's right, after the so-called Holy Sword of God's Wrath was recast, even the runes were re-engraved by Hodder and the others, which is far from the original one.

Wearing a black cloak and armoring Galani to hide the girl's beautiful navy-blue skin were all necessary disguises.

Even when traveling, he only swung the sword, never using the power of the sword itself-he only used it once, and that was in the Iron Forest a few weeks ago, where even the gods could not see Before the steel forest, he displayed the power of this sword.

"Griple is a famous wise man, I was afraid he would see something, so I didn't visit Hiccup~"

Finally, after finishing eating the leg of lamb, he let out a long breath, and even hiccupped when he spoke.

"Gitland and Norway are the ends of my travels, Scandinavia, where I made many friends."

Then, Siegfried's complexion turned ugly.

"It's not very suitable for growing food and vegetables there, the staple food is still..."

"fish."

"Yes, the prince over there invited me to eat his canned herring, I..."

It seems that this is a history of blood and tears.

Chapter 14: Cheese and Herring